Hi, everyone. Its 4 00 in new york. The breaking news today, federal Law Enforcement officials arrested a florida man suspected of orchestrating the mail bomb campaign against critics of donald trump. The arrest comes as three additional explosive devices were found. The new targets included senator kamala harris, senator cory booker, and James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence. The suspect, cesar sayoc, 56, is from aventura florida, just north of miami. Hes a registered republican, and a van covered with protrump stickers was also seized this morning. The president responded to news of the arrest at an event earlier today. These terrorizing acts are despicable and have no place in our country. No place. I have instructed authorities to spare no resource or expense in finding those responsible and
bringing them to swift and certain justice. And we will prosecute them, him, her, whoever it may be, to the fullest extent of the law. We must never allow Political Violen
Development that folks were hoping for. Thats an arrest in this. Of course, a lot of investigation to move forward. Are there others . Is this certainly the person . Those questions investigators working on right now. But our colleagues are going to continue to follow this throughout the day. We have our colleague kate bolduan coming up right now. Really appreciate it. Thanks so much. As you said, breaking news out this morning. And a new chapter begins. A man arrested in connection with these bomb packages. With these suspicious devices. 11th and 12th suspicious devices intercepted today. A lot to get to. Let me get to Shimon Prokupecz. You and the team have been iworking on this all morning. What do we have . We dont know who he is. We dont know anything about him. Heres the bottom line. Since last night, i would say, early last evening, we had heard there was significant progress made, and that they believed they had identified someone who
was responsible for this, or at least that
A synagogue in pittsburgh shooting is being investigated as a hate crime. Were expecting the police will update the public on the tragic events this morning in pittsburgh. Here in the meantime is what we do know where, that ten people were killed. Six others were injured, including among them, four police officers. The gunman is in custody and wounded and made antijewish remarks, comments during the shooting. He has been identified. He is 46yearold Robert Bowers. Cnn has learned that he frequently targeted jews on social media. Particularly on a platform called gab, posting just today cant sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics. Im going in. President trump has reacted to this shooting just moments ago. With one unified voice we condemn the historic evil of
antisemitism, and every other form of evil and, unfortunately, evil comes in many forms. We come together as one american people. All right. Lets get right to the scene, and our sonja mogi, who has just arrive