Good morning to you. Craig melvin from msnbc headquarters in New York City. We continue to follow this breaking news. Potential Explosive Devices mailed to President Obama and Hillary Clinton. As you see there, cnn reporters and others have been evacuated from their headquarters here in New York City. This is a live look outside the Time Warner Center here in New York City. The Secret Service confirming a criminal investigation into the Explosive Devices mailed to the two democrats a short time ago, they follow a similar discovery of a device found, a very similar device that was found monday in the mailbox of billionaire philanthropist george soros. Lets start with our nbc reporter tom winter, nbc Investigative Reporter ron allen has made his way to chappaqua. This is a suburb of New York City. This is where president clinton and Hillary Clinton live. Hans nichols is at the white house. Tom, let me start with you here in the studio. I understand that you have some new reporting on the
preed preadhesi preadhesive, but everything to investigate or thes has evidentiary value, and that is why they are being handled so carefully, because oftentimes if there is a suspicious device found they take a water can or something at it to disare rupt it, but they want to preserve as much evidence as they can. and john dean, our reporter from wnbc is telling me that the authorities in new york have k taken the device out of the cnn building and sent it to the facility at rodman s neck to be dealt with and render it safe so that they can preserve as much evidence as they can. all right. pete williams our justice correspondent there with new information as we continue to watch the scenes unfold. several scenes right now in new york city again. cnn and columbus circle, evacuated. outside of the clinton home in chappaqua with investigators on
whoever sent this thought that john brenan could be sent at cnn, because he has appeared there before, but he does not work at cnn and this is the envelope, and you can see the postal services forever stamps. what i was saying a moment ago, craig, is that it is going to be possible to trace these packages, because, just to go through this again, it is possible to trace virtually any piece of mail now. now, i think that everybody understand s ths that if you se package by the fedex or u.p.s., there s a system of tracking, and it is very easy to track that because there is a record made of it from the moment it is sent. it is not working quite the same if you drop something in the mail or stick something in a post box or take it down the post office and stick it in the slot, but when it goes through the postal service sorting machines, every little thing that goes through is
pete, thank you, police commissioner bratton as we look at the scene here in sunrise, florida, now, you can see the officials outside congressman deb wee w debb debbie wasserman s office, that office has been evacuated as they investigate what is now being described as a fifth possible pipe bomb device. as you watch this play out, you think what? in the case of cnn it s in a up in that building. they don t want to use the elevator to take it down, for example. part of the delay in new york city is the bomb squad working with atf determining how do they get that device out of the building, get it into one of the bomb containers. there would be great interest to analyze one of these devices intactcapability.
running the the dnc and a prominent fund r-raiser for democrats at some time, and her office, her sunrise office has been evacuated as the police officials there try and figure out precisely who is behind it, and what they are dealing with there. do i still have malcolm nance as well? malcolm, are you with me? yes. okay. ma malcolm, there is a lot that we don t know, and the chief question being who is behind it or what group might be behind this. and no one is claiming responsibili responsibility, so far. what do we know about the kind of person or people who send pipe bombs, malcolm? well, clint van zandt have given you some good point erers this. and every year, the bureau of tobacco and firearms make up a