catherine herridge is standing by, but we begin with brian enes in manhattan. reporter: i m in front of the tribeca film center a production company co-founded by robert deniro. i m also next to a restaurant co-owned by mr. deniro. at 5 a.m., nypd got a call from the mail room over a suspicious package that was addressed to deniro. that package was the nypd arrived on scene. they x-rayed that package and inside found a device. that device they thought needed to be moved so they put it inside a total containment vehicle, the same one we saw yesterday outside cnn and time warner building. they moved in suspicious package to the rodman neck facility where the where the new york city bomb squad is and where they ll be expecting the device. sources say the package sent to deniro an outspoken critic of the president looked identical to the nine others sent to
and when you came down, i was really struck by jake, you just saw continued increase in police presence. it went from a few vehicles outside, with the people on the ground to dozens of, you know, more than a dozen vehicles outside, and then when you saw that, it looks like a cement truck, like a small cement truck, that containment vehicle come in and see it get moved into your building, into the building, into where you work. it was a really striking moment, but they took it very seriously at one point, moving us back a block, moving us back even further when they needed to expand what they re calling the frozen zone, to make sure that that device could get out of the building and get out of manhattan as safely and quickly as possible. i have to tell you, they did it. i mean we re in manhattan, people want to get where they re going. but everyone understood, from the posture that you understood from the police and fdny who
the next few days, and we ll put the right people on it to make sure there s an apprehension made as quickly as possible. reporter: you described it as a live explosive, and also described as rudimentary, but functional device. rudimentary, yes, but could it have killed someone? we treated it as a live explosive device, capable of injuring or possibly killing someone. that s the way the bomb squad does their business. i give so much credit to the bomb squad detectives and just from your cameras alone, you see the bomb squad detective suited up, going in with the case, removing it, bringing it to the total containment vehicle, and bringing it to the bronx, of course we treat it as a live explosive device. reporter: commissioner, i know you have to go. you re very busy. we re going to bring in wolf blitzer. he has a question as well. thank you, kate. commissioner, what s your message to new yorkers tonight? my message to new york is
first to respond, the fbi will take the lead. its primary focus is preventing and investigating terror attacks and, of course, this device, described as a pipe bomb, could be described as a terror attack and appeared to be a legitimate threat, which is why i was transported by the nypd and a special truck known as a total containment vehicle to a facility in the bronx that is used to investigate and detonate suspicious packages and unexploded ordinances. in this case, they do not want to blow this up because it is evidence. the fbi will take possession and likely move it to quantico or they will examine every inch of it. what similarities does it have, not just to the other devices sent this week with devices found in past months and years, how sophisticated is it, was built from instructions on the internet or by someone with military training, and there is no doubt that there is already surveillance footage from facilities where devices were mailed from. one thing the fbi has proved
core, if the fuel rods continue to melt, then the core itself could collapse and a molten mass of radioactive metal could burn through the reactor vessel and drop into the concrete structure itself, the containment vessel, which is many feet thick of concrete. and hopefully, that concrete structure would contain this radioactive molten mass. but if there has been structural damage to the containment vehicle, you could see the entire facility itself collapse and all of this become exposed to the outside. these are some very, very grim scenarios. it sounds complicated. but is this something that could be solved by extra coolant fit could be flown in to help out with this? it s not a question of a coolant. the coolant here is water. we re looking at purified water. that covers the core.