injuring a 75-year-old woman. in each case the box was sitting outside the victim s house, exploded when it was picked up or opened. a loud, loud boom. next thing i knew i thought avalanche with my neighbor on it. reporter: wasn t until the two latest explosions yesterday police began investigating a connection along with the fbi and atf. none of the packages were delivered through a mail service. the recipients were or are either black or hispanic. the motive is unknown. the devices are sophisticated, whoever is creating them is no amateur. it takes a certain level of skill to build a device like this and deploy it to your intended target without having it explode in the process. a certain skill goes along with what these individuals are doing. reporter: this week is austin
it is not time to panic, but it is time to be vigilant and pay attention. we should pull together as a city in a community and solve this. martha: chief joins us tonight exclusively on the the story and his first televised interview, he will be here in just a moment. we will go to trace gallagher who has a story. martha, at 6:45 this morning, 17-year-old boy found a package and brought it inside the kitchen to open where it exploded. killing him and injuring a 40-year-old woman, it is unclear if that was his mom. here s a neighbor describing what it sounded like. there was just a loud, loud boom. and i cannot figure out what it was but i thought it was my heater exploding or something like that. it was very loud. very loud and very powerful. and very similar to the package bomb that killed the 39-year-old man on march the second. just as police were investigating the parallels of the first two bombs come a third
there was an explosion. they know that. they believe that the injuries, according to the nypd, were limited to him. cnn s jason carroll live on the scene. he joins us on the phone. what are you seeing? what are you hearing? reporter: well, chris, i m standing right in front of port authority on 30, 41st, and 8th avenue. what they ve done along 8th avenue is they set up a number of frozen zones leading all the way up here into the scene. one mta employee describes it this way. she was downstairs, underthe ground in that large area you were talking about. she heard a loud boom. she said everyone immediately started running. in fact, she said she left her coat, she left her cell phone. she ran into one of our producers, gave our producer her phone our our producer gave her his phone so she could call home and let everyone know that she was okay. she was clearly very, very shaken and got out. what i m seeing here is block by
your day with us, let s get started with at fox news alert, the death toll rising in a horrific military plane crash. 16 people reported that after a marine corps refueling plane spiraled out of control crashing into a field in mississippi. kelly wright joins us with the latest on a terrible story this morning. reporter: a horrible tragedy especially for the marine corps. military plane experienced a mishap before going down. no other details at this time are being released but here is what we know right now about this tragic crash taking place at 4:00 pm monday. one person on the ground reported hearing a loud boom, then looking up to the sky to see a large plume of smoke and the plane began corkscrew into the ground, 16 people confirmed that after the plane crashed in mississippi, about 100 miles north of jackson.
here, right? the bridge has not come down. we got the explosions. you still see the smoke there on the water. we were expecting the bridge to be blown up on the water but the bridge is still standing. we ve got it from another vantage point. this is actually a better angle. i ll warn you it s coming, right? i ll tell you what you hear here is the explosion and then the sound cuts off on the camera because of the big loud boom. but watch it from this angle. ready? three, two, one. that s where the sound cuts out. see, it s still going. big explosion. see all that junk fly off the bridge and into the poor arkansas river. the birds take off. see, here are the birds, right? then they re like, ooh, fly over the other direction. but the bridge is still there. after the explosion this was the arkansas highway department that was in charge of imploding this bridge today.