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field office, some of their vehicles arrived here as well. no word yet from officials here as to whether they ll be giving any more information. whether there will be a press conference. certainly an uptick in activetive since we last talked. eric, i ll let you go to get nor information for me. i want to bring jeanne meserve back in with new information. jeanne, the floor is yours. reporter: brooke, this comes from a department of homeland security official saying initial reporting indicates this incident bears characteristics similar to the flaring packages at two maryland state facilities yesterday. no elaboration on that. we don t know if the similarities this official is referring to are simply the obvious ones, an envelope that flared, or whether there s something else here about the construction, about possible notes, about anything else that would appear to draw a connection. but once again, initial reporting indicates this incident bears characteristics similar to the flari
i think you heard it. i think the overall theme there is grateful. you heard from glad disscott. she is the well sister. her other sister jamie gravely ill in need of this kidney transplant. and so as far as their whole sentence being suspended by the mississippi governor, the one sister who is well will be giving her kidney or at least we re hope willing give the kidney to her other sister. so we re going to follow that story for you. we have marty savidge on the ground. first i want to get you back to d.c. we re getting reports according to d.c. metropolitan blees that this building, postal building in northeast washington, jeanne meserve said it was the 3300 block of v street and northeast. the whole building has been evacuated. two possible envelopes have been ignited. this is possibly significant of
inkrmp incin incinorate the cigars. reporter: the owner of the cigar shop around the corner said he could sell them in a flash. they would disappear quickly. my phone would be tied up from the moment i opened until i closed. reporter: there will be no savoring of the cigars. they will be destroyed in a blast furnace next month. as for the people who ordered these embargo items they will get a box. but they will get a notice that the product has been confiscated. as they say, close but nosey gar. back to you. thanks a lot, jeanne meserve. some good news that was a bit of a surprise even to the
bad news for serious cigar folks. shipment of illegal cigars is turning up by the thousands in chicago and being stopped dead in their tracks. senior homeland security correspondent jeanne meserve has details. reporter: a lot of cigar lovers will not get their christmas wish. you are looking at contraband. not drugs. not weapons. not terrorist bombs. but cuban cigars. seized by customs and border protection at chicago s o hare airport. george leon saw the first package last month as he screened incoming international mail. after that, they just kept on coming. bags worth just kept on coming down the line, okay. then before we knew it it was all spread out. reporter: they kept coming. for weeks. how many would you guess? we re estimating right now about 100,000.