arrived on the scene within moments, but one of the first responders was killed. sergeant ron healis, who was first through the front door. sergeant passed away at the hospital about an hour ago. i have nothing to lead me to believe or the fbi that there is any terrorism link here, but we certainly will look at that option. there are some initial reports that a smoke bomb might have been used. we have not done anything yet. we have called in our bomb team, and we are the area. but no confirmation that there was a small device. sandra: jonathan hunt is live in thousand oaks for us now this morning. jonathan, what s the latest? sandra, good morning. i have been speaking with two witnesses who were inside the borderline bar and grill.
hour ago. i only mentioned it might be terrorists because that s where we all go these days when we have multiple shootings. i have nothing to lead me to believe or the fbi that there is any terrorism link here but we certainly will look at that option. i m sorry? [ inaudible question ]. what do you thimean by devic? there s some initial reports that a smoke bomb might have been used. we have not found anything yet. we have called in our bomb team to go through and we have a couple of bomb dogs here that are checking the area. but we haven t found any other explosive device or confirmation that there was a smoke device. [ inaudible question ]. hindsight and speculation is pretty easy. you would think if someone throws a smoke device that it was a planned attack and not something spontaneous.
flat bed. could have been fbi, could be atf, holding that blue tarp down. clearly, the federal prosecutors did not want to have the television helicopter aerials getting details because that is evidence in what has been the nation s biggest crime case over the past 72 hours. last night in opa-locka, the mail processing facility, that is where the fbi, as well as the miami dade police department bomb team, including some bomb sniffing dogs showed up as a precautionary measure. clearly federal investigators either on wednesday or thursday suspected there could have been a strong reason to believe several of these packages went through that south florida facility. throughout this facility, which is enormous, five football fields large, that is where all mail coming into south florida and all mail going out from south florida goes through, gets
called 911. broward county sheriff office responded. the bomb team came out. inside they remain. we were forewarned by the sunrise police that they are in the process of rendering that device safe which arrived here via the u.s. postal service. could not say whether we might be hearing an explosion. but cautioning the media. her bomb text. saw the bomb truck go through 2 back of the building. as for this office part which we are in here, far side of western broward county, multiple office buildings have all been evacuated. they ve been evacuated since about 10:45, 11:00 a.m. today. my colleague at cnn who i speak with all the time on the
home in northeast austin. jim, tell me how investigators are going to be going about this? painstakingly forensic investigation. atf dispatched their national response team, that s the premier bomb team. i used to be on it and i directed it from washington. they are the cream of the crop for bomb investigation. the atf laboratory. the fbi is there too and austin pd bomb squad is very, very good. the talent is all there. they re going to process that scene and pick up the minute fragments of the bomb. they re going to put it together. this is everyday bred for atf, every special agent is trained in this extensively. and then we have experts on top of that. but there s also a white collar, heavy detective investigation going on by austin pd detectives. i m sure the rangers are there, fbi, and atf. we normally set up a joc, joint