And many of them have expensive cars, expensive homes and many of them end up dead if they dont comply as well. Thank you for the story. Appreciate it. And youre watching a special edition of newsroom on this christmas afternoon. Im bianna golodryga. We begin this hour with breaking news out of nashville. An explosion rocking that citys downtown early this morning. Take a look at these incredible pictures. Authorities say they responded to a shots fired call when they stumbled on an rv parked outside an at t transmission building. They encountered an rv that had a recording saying that a potential bomb would detonate within 15 minutes. Officers, upon hearing that, decided to evacuate the buildings nearby, so they began knocking on doors, making announcements, having Emergency Communications communicate with everyone to get people safe. Shortly after that, the rv exploded. This explosion has impacted 911 communications as has some Cell Phone Service as well. This is bystander video of w
Excessive tape, those are things to key in on. Every bomb maker, theyre just like bakers, they have their own special signature, how they crimp the wires, the tool marks, how they tape it up and type out the address. Thank you for your expertise. Were going to stand by, jim and i here. Were just about a block away from cnn, which is still closed because theyre looking at what that white powder could be. Well go back to the studio in d. C. I do want to reset what we know right now. Any moment now the president is expected to deliver a speech where hes likely to address these devices that have been sent to Public Officials and offices today. A pipe bomb appeared to be mailed to the Time Warner Center, which is where cnn is in new york. And there is white powder still
being tested in the mail room there. We have an image of a device addressed to former cia director john brenan. However, it was found there at Time Warner Center. Also targeted, former president obama, the clintons and forme
At the american airports, insiders whose back grounds are vetted by airports and not intelligence agencies as they are 99. 9 certain a bomb brought down metro jet a bomb suggested brought down by an airport insider. Saying for the first time that a terrorist attack may have brought down that flight tweeting that all russian flights to egypt are still suspended as reuters reports egyptian and russian investigators ignored the fbis offers for help in the metro jet investigation. Renee, what are you learning . Reporter what most people may not realize is that tsa depends on more than 400 airports and carriers to do criminal background checks for workers who get that secure access at airports nationwide. Airports collect, review and verify information. Tsa can only vet workers based on data it gets from airports. Now tonight there are concerns the current vetting process doesnt do enough to protect domestic flights from an insider threat. Officials i have spoken to today say not enough is
Trying to figure out what is happening in that townhouse there. At this hour you have atf here, you have fbi, local authority. Just to give you perspective. They moved us back a number of times. We are about a half mile from the townhouse in question right here. What is going on . They are attempting to issue a search warrant inside. We dont know who that is for specifically. What we do know is that it is tied in some way to the horrific shooting that took place not far from here this afternoon. What we also know is that theyre using a robot. A robot right now, as you know, they have used in situations like this before to go in, check the entirety of the house, see if there are any explosive devices. They are being extraordinarily cautious. They have also evacuated neighbors on either side of the townhouse, were told and everyone who lives in this neighborhood has been told to shelter in place and be careful, stay in their homes. You cannot get within a half mile of this house right no
His records are sealed . Let me ask you that. Can somebody tell me why . Why do you think they are . Im asking why youre not interested in them being sealed. Im asking you , will someone tell me, please, why you have not investigated that. I want to know. Why are you raising it . Because i want to know. You should want to know, too. Wait a minute. Hold on one minute. One second here. Now, youre saying that something that happened with the words a scholarship was offered is a big deal but the president of the United States academic records being sealed is not important . Tell me how theres equivalency there. Doesnt matter where it is. Thats a silly argument. Tell me how theres equivalency. Tell me how theres equivalence there. Somebody tell me, please. Because, you see, what youre not going to find with me is somebody whos just going to sit back and let you be completely unfair without letting the American People know whats going on. And the American People are waking up to your games.