who is this guy? well, he is 40 years old. his name is matt muffley. he was flying, anderson, from the airport in northeastern pennsylvania on a flight to orlando, according to the f.b.i. he checked the bag, and in the routine screening that was happening by the tsa, they found explosives in this checked bag. according to the f.b.i., this is what they found. they found powder that was in a plastic wrap. they found fuses. the powder appears to be from commercial-grade fireworks, and so the question is, you know, what was he doing with this? the airport tried to page him while he was still at the airport. he left. and he was later arrested later that evening on monday. by the f.b.i. now, the court documents that were released today by the u.s. attorney in philadelphia don t mention any indication of extremism or his ties to terrorist groups or anything like that. this is something obviously the f.b.i. was focused on over the last couple of days. nothing like that appears t
explosives aboard and a legion flight from lehigh valley from pennsylvania to florida. evan perez joins us now from stanford, florida. evan, who is this guy? he s 40 years old. his name is matt mott free. and he was flying, anderson, from lehigh valley airport, which is in northeastern pennsylvania on a flight to orlando. according to the fbi, he checked a bag and in the routine screening that was happening by the tsa, they found explosives in this checked bag. according to the fbi, this is what they found they found powder. that was in a plastic wrap. they found fuses. the powder appears to be from commercial grade fireworks. and so, the question is, what was he doing with this? the airport tried to page him. while he was still at the airport he left. and he was later arrested later that evening on monday by the fbi. the court documents that were released today by the u.s. attorney in philadelphia, don t mention any indication of extremism or his ties to terrorist groups
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Contained these suspected devices, there is also some kind of powder. That is being tested now downstairs. The mailroom area still being contained while we go through the various steps to test that, in a field test. Package it up safely for remova removal, and decon that area and anyone who came in contact with keep in mind, this happened a couple of hours ago, its still ongoing. [inaudible question] take a look at who was being targeted here right now, that is why we are doing this proactively, checking with security and making sure male rooms follow proper protocol. Thats where we are reaching out to the right people. [inaudible question] do you have a particular message for President Trump in light of what happened today . Look, i am going to Say Something. At a time when there is a lot of hatred and division it doesnt make sense to exacerbate it. Lets just say this to all Public Officials and all partisan affiliations, dont encourage violence. Dont encourage hatred and dont encoura
could have gotten caught at the airport in the airport process seems to have stood up and worked as intended, which is definitely a good sign. and what damage could these items have done to a plane had they ignited? what does it say about intent, if anything? well, if the items had ignited, it could do great damage to a plane. any fire could bring down the plane. it could put a hole in the wall of the plane. terrorists, not saying this gentleman was one, explosives correctly placed in an airplane can bring the plane down. however, the placement and the items in the bag does not suggest that any of them were connected with any detonation device. there was no timing device. there was no trigger device. sometimes they are linked to cell phones or other things. there wasn t a device that could set them off. however, that is not to diminish the fact that anything explosive or flammable in the luggage could be extremely dangerous in the cargo-hold and could bring down the plane.