Heightened security from dozens of local, federal agencies ahead of Super Bowl

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Santa Clara, California — Circling Levi's Stadium successful Santa Clara, California, connected Wednesday astatine an altitude of 500 feet, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection chopper was providing a bird's oculus presumption for the thousands of archetypal responders securing Super Bowl LX.

"Our main extremity up present is conscionable to marque definite everybody's safe," the aviator told CBS News, adding that the absorption is connected "any benignant of threats, immoderate benignant of convulsive acts oregon suspicious enactment going on." 

By being up successful the air, CBP has the quality to nonstop unrecorded video backmost to their bid centers beneath truthful responders connected the crushed cognize what they're dealing with.

Barricades are up, bomb-sniffing dogs are connected patrol and everyone entering the stadium country is screened astatine a checkpoint. The Federal Aviation Administration has besides issued a prohibition connected each drone flights implicit the Super Bowl.    

More than 35 local, authorities and national agencies person been moving for the past 18 months to hole for crippled day.

Heightened information    from dozens of local, national  agencies up  of Super Bowl An aerial presumption of Levi's Stadium successful Santa Clara, California, from a  U.S. Customs and Border Protection helicopter. Feb. 4, 2026.  CBS News

Cathy Lanier, the NFL's main information officer, said successful a quality league Tuesday that determination are nary known information threats astatine this clip to the Super Bowl. 

"We've had nary credible oregon circumstantial threats whatsoever," Lanier said. 

Lanier besides said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents would not beryllium moving the Super Bowl.

"There are nary planned ICE oregon migration enforcement operations that are scheduled astir the Super Bowl, oregon immoderate of the Super Bowl–related events," Lanier said.

Jeff Brannigan, supervisory peculiar cause with Homeland Security Investigations, which similar ICE and CBP is portion of the Department of Homeland Security, told CBS News that "the national instrumentality enforcement footprint for Super Bowl 60 is accordant with what it has been successful years past."

When pressed connected whether DHS volition person a relation arsenic portion of that footprint, Brannigan responded that "DHS instrumentality enforcement astatine ample is participating successful supporting the Super Bowl. The absorption of DHS instrumentality enforcement astatine the Super Bowl is information and security."

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