both state of maryland buildings. the department of transportation headquarters and a place where there are other senior maryland government officials. it is unclear what the motivation would be to target those two buildings. annapolis, about less than an hour s drive from washington, d.c. now you re looking at hanover there. and the the complex that houses the maryland department of transportation headquarters. so we have no information yet coming to us about what it is. now, let me tell you more okay. so we have been reporting, again, this is all very, very new information. we ve been reporting no injuries. there are conflicting reports now that a mailroom employee may have been injured. this is breaking news. we are working to clarify information as we go along. but this is this may have happened at the state house in annapolis. again, lots of conflicting nn i information. we first heard that it was at the state house, now we ve heard
the case. tell me what you know about jeffrey building. the office of homeland security is in the jeffrey building in annapolis. and the secretary of state for maryland is in the the jeffrey building. that s what we know right now. it may not be initial reports may not be that it is the state house building. we are understanding that it s the office of homeland security for maryland and the secretary of state. this is a building in annapolis. the one you re looking at now is not that one. the one you re looking at now is wbal, from our affiliate in baltimore, of hanover, maryland. it s the department of transportation headquarters. you can see emergency vehicles on the site. we ve seen the helicopter sort of tilt up and pan to the left to give us a sense of that building. but that s the information that we have. we re now looking at i m just going to push in and show you where hanover, maryland, is. that s hanover. that s not annapolis.
shepard: you know, it s very early and we don t know why someone who do this but we could have a whole list of possibilities and probably somewhere on the list they would check whether this is terror-related. no one has mentioned that. jonathan: no mention. but in itself it is an act of terrorism because you are by definition terrorizing those who receive the packages but whether it is an act of somebody with a domestic grudge against somebody specific in one of the, one or both of the offices, or, a grudge against the government in general, or whether it is somebody acting from an international base, all of that will have to be investigated and looked into in the coming hours and days. shepard: the first device went off at the mail room at the department of transportation headquarters at 1:00 o clock and 30 minutes later at 1:30 another package was reported at the
it safe. and the investigation here is continuing. employees went back into the building and were allowed back in here before 3:00 today. now, about 20 minutes after this incident occurred, about 12:45 at the maryland department of transportation headquarters new bwi airport, there was a state employee from the department of transportation going through mail in an answer room here. the office of the secretary of the maryland department of transportation, and a similar package was examined by that mailroom, or that employee and that employee opened the package and a similar reaction occurred. a flash of fire, smoke, and smell. the employee immediately dropped the package and emergency officials responded to that location. the headquarters was evacuated about 250 people evacuated from
devices so you have government offices in one building. the jeffrey building in downtown annapolis which they told us 20 minutes ago they now let the employees go back inside. and the other office we have been looking at for the better part of the day, the department of transportation, which was targeted, the second news conference we are waiting for, the it will be interesting to find out if the question is asked of the second box and package if this was a message in that and how the authorities respond to that. shepard: that will tell us more of how this will move forward and i will bring in our legal team. randy is with us and arthur, attorneys in the new york city area who have works these things in the past especially in the prosecutor s office for you, author, when you send something that sends a flash and smoke it sounds bombish to me. i might have thought bomb but incendiary device to the governor of state of maryland