By KATE WILTROUT, MATTHEW ROY AND TIM MCGLONE, The Virginian-Pilot
December 30, 2004

NORFOLK -� FBI agents and members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force responded to the scene of a reported bomb threat near Norfolk Naval Station shortly after noon today, but there�s no indication that the incident is a genuine terrorist threat, an FBI spokesman said.

�We�re evaluating and assessing the situation,� said Phil Mann, an FBI spokesman. �We have no indication that anybody�s been harmed.�

Two Hampton Roads Transit buses were stopped on Hampton Boulevard near the naval station after a bomb threat was phoned in this morning, officials said. Police have erected barricades on Hampton at Greenbrier Avenue blocking traffic to the base.

Jim Brantley, a public affairs officer for the Navy�s Fleet Forces Command, which is headquartered at the naval station, said at about 12:25 p.m. that Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams and civilian police teams were getting ready to inspect the buses. Passengers have been taken off the buses, which were directed to Fleet Park, a Navy park located outside the gates of the largest naval station in the world.