suspicious package delivered to a mail sorting facility six blocks from cnn. addressed to james clapper at cnn where he is a contributor here. given the prior package sent to john brennan and other targets, do you have any additional security that people have been putting around you, et cetera? have any other precautions been taken for you personally? well, i probably shouldn t comment on that right now. i ll probably pass on that. understood. thank you very, very much, director clapper. and jim, i think we re going to get a quick break in here as we gather more information. we ll be right back. we re going to stay on it. am i willing to pay the price for loving you?. you ll make my morning, but ruin my day. complicated relationship with milk? pour on the lactaid. it s delicious 100% real milk,
the scene? reporter: well, it s a full emergency response here. we ve got high ranking officials from the nypd, fdny, even some state police are here, john miller at the nypd is here as well. it s really sort of it s the nypd keeping everybody behind police tape away from the post office. the post office has been fully evacuated. if anybody leaves the surrounding buildings, they are escorted away for the time being until this package is in the containment vessel. bringing us the latest from the scene right there, bomb squad, containment vehicle for an explosive device closed off in new york, the 12th package now sent. this one as we have been saying, we see it there to james
addressed to senator corey booker s camden office in new jersey. there is a police presence there. they are doing a sweep of the building to make sure there is nothing else there. there is no indication yet there is something dangerous there, there is another package there. but this is what we see that they do when they discover a package that has been addressed and that is intercepted on the way. in this case, i am told by sources that this package was intercepted in florida at that facility, the sorting facility, processing facility that the postal service operating there just north of miami. i think the fact that they were able to isolate or at least find a nexus or commonality to this facility which collects mail from a certain part of the miami area really is a huge break-through in this
clapper. he is a contributor. like you say, all the hallmarks of these other packages we have seen. the six american flag stamps, the return address stamps, the yellow package with the bubble wrap inside. the next step, they will be in there. i m sure they already made an assessment what s inside. is it identical. i wanted to tell your viewers some new information that we have. all mail that is destined for cnn as this package this morning was, is now being screened first at an off site location. it is not coming into our mail room. it is being screened first. it was screened there first. here is the thing that i want to know. we want to know when did they receive this, when did this sorting facility receive this? why this is important is so the
to cnn certainly had that. we re also learning the president is being briefed on all of this this morning. let s go to a very active scene here in the middle of a busy new york city on a friday morning. national correspondent jason carroll is there. to locate you for our viewers, you are at 52nd street and eighth avenue. six blocks south of cnn. in fact, i can almost see our building from where i m standing here on 52nd and eighth avenue. and just so you know, poppy, we re just now hearing that that suspicious package, again, located at the postal facility here on 52nd street and eighth avenue, that suspicious package expected to be moved very shortly is what we re hearing. moved very much in a similar way that we saw earlier this week from the package that was removed from the cnn building, and that special vehicle that can hold explosive devices. again, this package discovered called in early this morning here from this postal facility. i spoke to a postal worker here,