News coverage here in New York City now. Craig melvin at msnbc headquarters. The nation on high alert, on high alert over a domestic tryst terrorist whos been waging war through the u. S. Mail all week. Pete williams just a few moments ago reporting that a person has been taken into custody at this point, a person were told perhaps in his 50s taken into custody in florida for questioning in connection with the mail bombs that have been sent to prominent americans all over this country over the past few days. Details as to this persons connection right now, those Details Remain unclear. This coming as two more explosive devices were discovered today, a total of 12 devices have now been sent, 12 explosive devices. Today one package found at a new york postal facility on the west side of manhattan. That one was addressed to former director of national
intelligence James Clapper. The other intercepted in florida. That one was addressed to new jersey democrat cory booker. All of these devic
authorities. craig. plantation, florida, and again, this is broward county. kerry sanders there for us. and let see do i have do we have pete? do i have pete? i don t have pete. and let s see if we can get tom winter back as well for a few moments here. and looks like some new information. and clint van zandt is still with me. clint, in terms of, and again, we don t want to get too far ahead of the investigation obviously, and we learn some more at 2:30, but based on what we have been able to confirm, and based on these sticker rs that are reportedly on this white van, what do you make of the kind of of suspect that we are dealing with here? again, we are always looking for the motivation, and of course, we don t need motivation to charge someone with a crime, but we are always interested in it. you know the old phrase, if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, and from the stickers
be brought before a federal judge for what we call an initial appearance. at some point if they have the right person, and i presume they do, federal prosecutors will present the case to a grand jury for an indictment. as we re having this conversation, we continue to watch this white van covered in a blue tarp now. this has actually all happened fairly quickly over the past five, ten minutes. law enforcement officials appear to be working to secure that tarp to the van. our local affiliate there, wtvj reporting that this van belongs to the suspect, also reporting that the van is covered in bumper stickers, covered in trump paraphernalia, if you will, including stickers of the presidential seal. again, it would appear as if this van is now going to be towed away and become a part of this investigation. pete williams, our justice correspondent watching all of
real benefit of in criminal cases that we ve seen before of communications usually comes from seizing the devices, being able to look at the cell phone, look at the laptop computers or the personal computers and do a much more detailed check that way. so probably very little has been learned from that, although i m sure they ve made some effort. well, we while we ve bee having this conversation, we ve been watching dozens of fbi agents work to secure this white van in plantation, florida. before they covered it in that blue tarp, we were able to get a pretty good look at the van, and we could tell that it was covered in bumper stickers, other stickers as well. we could not see precisely what those stickers were, but our eyes on the ground, our reporters on the ground there reported with wtvj telling us that the windows on the suspect s truck are quote, completely covered with pictures
county. it s less than ten miles away from fort lauderdale. you continue to see this white van. we re told this is a van that belongs to the suspect, this man in his 50s has been arrested in connection to the dozen bombs that were mailed to prominent democrats over the past five days. the right side of your screen we have frozen an image from the van. you can see stickers that are on the left side of the skrvan. we re told that there s stickers on the back as well. i am not going to try and decipher precisely what s on these stickers, what s on these butch bumper stickers. based on where i m sitting there s an elephant and there also appears to be a picture of the president of the united states, donald trump. those are the only two stickers i can make out. we are scheduled to hear from the president roughly 15 minutes