breaking news out of washington, d.c. we don t know a whole lot, but here s what we do know and what you re looking at. this is live streaming video from the scene. 3300 block of v street northeast washington, d.c. a lot of flashing lights. a lot of police presence here, because metropolitan police are responding to one possibly two envelopes that have ignited inside this u.s. postal facility. the building has been evacuated, and it s significant also because of the timing. you think about what happened, breaking this time yesterday, you have two different instances in maryland. one in the capitol in annapolis just across from the state house where 50 people. evacuated after a package went off, zinged that employee s hands. minor injuries about the size of a vhs tape. smoke, a little flaming and a sulfuric smell. similar situation in hanover, maryland. minor injuries there after a
give us more information on what s happened. we flow has been at least one envelope that ignited inside of this u.s. postal facility. this is the northeast quadrant of washington, d.c. if you know this area, in is is 3300 block of v street, and aid cording to some of our sources, what happened was, one of the postal employees inside was handling some envelopes. tossed one envelope in a bin and then that envelope ignited and that employee started smelling smoke. entirely different from what we saw yesterday. obviously, timing very significant. one day after the two incidents yesterday we were reporting. one being in annapolis, in one of government buildings there, and then one at the mdot headquarter, maryland department of transportation headquarters in hanover, maryland. we re waiting for the news conference to happen. i have mike brooks sitting next to me, former terrorism tax force, d.c. police, you name it. you got it.
it. you know, you recall the unibomber case, ted kaczynski. more than a decade, took more than that, to track him down, because so many tense of thousands of packages and letters get placed in the mail system every single day from thousands of locations from mailboxes from postal facilities, from parcel commercial facilities. so the ability for someone to send something into the system, get in the system anonymously is very easy. so it s going to be very difficult in the case of all four of these packages to track back even where they were mailed from. hmm. that s a good point. and, you know, yesterday we listening to maryland state police, had a lead on the two situations in an nap liss and hanover. listening to him speak, talking about what happened according to that employee, the unlucky one who had to, you know, be on the receiving end of that incendiary device. he described a bit aflame and a
anthrax mail attacks in october of 2001. this is significant in and of itself but also significant given the fact we saw yesterday two split incidents. one in annapolis, maryland, at a government building and the other at the m dot headquarters in hanover, maryland. people in this building are, of course, evacuated simply because of the scare. is it connected? way too early to tell and tom fuentes on the phone with me, retired, cnn contributor. tom, what other questions would investigators have looking into this? as they re looking into this one possibly two devices? i think a very important question is who are these devices addressed to? yesterday you had devices that were intended for maryland state offices, but now today you have this going through a washington, d.c. mail facility. so was were these devices
security people, investigators. of course. that will take a look at any letters that, let s say, would come to governor o malley from yesterday. and they keep a letter file. the u.s. secret service does the same thing. the fbi does. they share information, and as we know, yesterday there was a hand written note. dan, let s pull that shot up, if we can. we have the pick color of the handwritten note. there s the picture of outside of that envelope. here s the outside of the envelope and this individual didn t actually handwrite it, but here is what was inside one of those envelopes, either from an nap liss or hanover. hanwriting is key. it says, report suspicious activity! total bull. you have created a self-fulfilling professorsprofe with an x.