an employee sort of tossed it into a bin. want to go to jeanne meserve in washington. what are you learning? reporter: well, we ve just heard from a government official that the package in the singular in this particular communication, but that the package was addressed to janet napolitano. that is the second of homeland security. very interesting development here. yet the maryland packages which we don t know for sure if they re connected but are hearing from several sources that the initial indication is that there is similarity between the two. those packages yesterday were addressed to the governor of maryland and the maryland department of transportation, and the theorizing by officials was that this was somebody who was aggravated about the signs over the highway that say, report suspicious activity. in, indeed, this package is related to those, this addressed to janet napolitano may indicate that the individual or individuals responsible for these packages, if they are one
here on out? actually they have a lot of evidence to work with. because these things didn t totally destruct, there s potential for a lot of forensic information to be gleaned from this. they haven t told us how the devices worked, what their component was, they ll try to figure out how they were assembled. where they were bought. these things had addresses on them, what appeared to be bogus, return addresses. one of them had stamps on them. there could be dna or something like that there. they ve been taken down to tbi lab in quantico for a closer look. in addition the postal service investigators are trying to figure out where it was mail and what route it took to the state of maryland. there s still a lot to be done by they do have a fair amount of material to work with. that s a great thing. jeanne meserve out of washington. jeanne, thank you. you bet. millions of people in sudan expected to walk to the polls next week, actually sunday, to vote on inpen deps, but there
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
try capzasin-hp. it penetrates deep to block pain signals for hours of relief. capzasin-hp. take the pain out of arthritis. okay. just to bring you back up to speed, these are live streaming pictures of a u.s. postal facility in northeast d.c. the 3300 block if you re familiar of v street and we re just getting little bits and pieces of information in. we know according to jeanne meserve, our homeland security correspondent and a couple other folks from cnn there are at least one envelope, and jeanne actually just got this in. it didn t actually go off in an employee s hands, per se, as was the situation yesterday in maryland, but according to her source, that employee sort of tossed the envelope into a bin