he s working his sources on the phone right now. do you need a minute? okay. is jim maxwell with us, former bomb tech? jim, hi. what can you hi. what we have learned so far from these previous packages that we know this one is similar to is that some of the powder found in the one that actually made it in the cnn building earlier this week was a py pyropattern. what would you be looking for if you were with that team, with this containment vessel? well, the material is a general term. i ll give you an example. the material pulled from
no. i think what i am going to tell you is there is significant activity that s going on in south florida. the sorting facility certainly has changed everything. the fact they were able to locate where some of these packages were sent from has changed the game here. i think law enforcement is very confident in that they have some good, strong leads. we ll see what today brings. but this is going to step up whatever it is that law enforcement is trying to do in terms of apprehending someone. this perhaps could accelerate this. let s keep in mind also i m sorry. go ahead, jim. i was just going to say as we re watching the picture there, that is a familiar site on the streets of new york. nypd bomb squad truck there outside cnn offices a few days ago. i imagine what we re going to see very soon is that containment vessel looks like the back of a cement truck that has carried away these devices to safely carry them away to a
them just to see whether they would go off by accident, and they have not. so that tells us that perhaps not everything was done right or this person was a good enough bomb maker to know how not to set it off. again, these are the working theories they re going on at this point, but you pointed out the right thing at this point. what s your initial reading? a couple things. first of all, important to understand that there is a difference between a post office and a mail sorting facility. there are about 250 mail sorting facilities throughout the country. right. i believe there were three of them within 20 blocks of where we are right here in the cnn building. you mentioned the total containment vessel, which is the vehicle that the nypd is going to bring to take the device out, place it inside there. it looks like a white spear or orb and transport it up into the
moving in towards a person who is behind this, we don t know. but suffice it to say, there s a lot of activity ongoing in the south florida area. poppy, as i m looking at this total containment vessel, which as shimon pointed out, is towed by the emergency services unit of the new york police department, a couple important things to understand here for the viewers. the purpose of that device, that vessel, that white orb we re seeing on the screen right now, is to prevent the three things that a bomb does or could potentially do. the first is the overpressure. that thing is designed to keep that pressure and bleed it off safely. secondly, the shrapnel. we know there were glass fragments put in some of the devices. thirdly, the thermal effect, because bombs cause fires. i think this is, as shimon pointed out, this is a blessing to us in the fact that first, nobody is hurt, but secondarily, investigators now have 12 unexploded devices. typically what happens in investigations where ther
much. just in to cnn, and as you re watching, that s live pictures of a containment vessel carrying the suspected explosive device, a now familiar scene. we saw the same kind of vehicle pulling away from cnn on wednesday. another package delivered there. we understand that the new york police department is going to brief shortly with what they know at this point. and of course, we ll bring that to you live. meanwhile, i want to go to shimon prokupecz who has been on this since day one. you look at a picture of this package, virtually identical to the others sent, florida address, florida misspelled. the outside virtually identical. do police, do authorities have a sense of whether the inside contained the same kind of device? yes, they do. so based on the weight, obviously, the bomb squad has x-rayed the package and the belief is it s exactly or at least just to be safe similar to what we have seen in some of the