sulpher into someone s hands and this is serious. you will take that, like. and now over to trace. anything from the news conference jump out to be besides those items, trace? trace: the location of the offices we talked about, we talked this is the governor s homeland security office, also inside the jeffrey building in downtown annapolis, maryland. all of the mail the governor would get would go through this office and this particular package was actually addressed to the governor. he also said, on the outside you mention a stamp, those were christmas stamps that were placed on there. the question is, would that make it more . comforting for the governor to open? what was the intent here? and as you pointed out which we all asked, what was the message inside that box? they said they could not comment. we asked earlier, again, they said they could not comment on what was actually inside these, along with the in sendary
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
as situations arrive. there are new details on the mysterious death of a former pentagon aide, john wheeler. police now say he somehow changed his clothes between the two times he appeared on surveillance video before someone murdered him. he was disheveled when he was seen walking around wearing one shoe and carrying the other. we are told his car was parked in another lot not far from the garage and investigators say they have surveillance video from another building in downtown wilmington and on that video he is wearing different clothes. we are also hearing from a witness who claims he spoke with this man, wheeler, who served under both bush administrations and the reagan administration, and spoke to him less than 24 hours before we know worries found his body in a landfill. our senior correspondent is in wilmington, delaware. what are you learning? reporter: that person told me that he had blood shot eyes, super blood shot eyes and, in
spotted in the morris building? we do not know at this time. reporter: the missing 14 hours before his death they do not know. shepard: do we know if there is a link between the arson attempts we have reported on here before and the murder? reporter: no, we don t. that s a really strange twist. the wheelers home is across from another home that is being built and they were suing their neighbors. they have had three lawsuits and police are investigating whether wheeler may have put some device s in front of that new home that is being built, owned by a couple right across the street from the wheeler s house in delaware. two weeks ago there was a court hearing, in which a judge denied the wheeler s attempt to try and stop that work. the spokesman for the couple would have no comment when he was asked if there is a link between the murder and potential dispute with the building and