courthouse in the city last year? yeah, in march. i think it was march 23rd a device was found outside the federal courthouse, which coincidentally is across the street from our office. but in that case they did not release the information for several days. they never issued photographs of the device. they did not come out with the same level of concern that they did with this device. is there any indication that you have now, either positive or negative indication that law enforcement sources think there s any connection between what appears to be this attempted bombing at the mlk day parade yesterday and any previous incident? well, publicly they are saying no. in fact, harold said they have no leads to any other incident at this time. but it is definitely something they look at, the fbi doesn t do anything without looking at its path. thomas clouse, one more question for you. has there been significant community response to this in spokane?
reporting on it for the spokesman review, is the community starting to become aware that this happened, has there been community response thus far? i m thinking especially in light of what happened in tucson? absolutely. it is just now beginning to sink in. we get a suspected explosive device alerts a lot. and almost the time they came out to be a bag with somebody s dirty laundry in it. but in this case, once it was learned it was a bomb, folks are starting to reflect and look at it and obviously it is starting to sink in. thomas clouse, our reporter for the spokesman review doing some very good detailed aggressive early reporting on this story. mr. clouse, thank you for helping us make this nationally known. thank you for joining us tonight. you bet, rachel. again, this device found at the outskirts or near the parade route of the mlk day parade yesterday in spokane, washington. not a suspicious package but the fbi reporting a potentially lethal device, the real deal. we ll b
maybe persons, responsible for what the fbi is now calling an attempt at domestic terrorism. want you to take a look at that picture, that s a backpack. someone left it on this metal bench where an mlk day parade was set to pass by. it reportedly had wires poking out of it that obviously aroused suspicion, enough so that police were alerted, called in. inside, they found a device wrapped in wires with a remote trigger device. here s what the fbi is saying. the unsung here roz in all of this, a lot of things fell into place to thwart that attack and avert tragedy, but it started with those three employee that s did the right thing. thomas klaus has been digging on the story for the spokesman review newspaper. he ll join me right after the break from spokane, washington. but first we ll get you a quick break in here. in fact, more from the tucson shooting, surveillance video, and we ll speak with this newspaper reporter. also we re getting word from