Morning. So thats the latest here. The nypd bomb squad is inside our offices at Columbus Circle. The package was addressed to 10 Columbus Circle. We dont know who specifically it was addressed to. It did arrive. It was received in the mail room of the building. The staff there alerted authorities, alerted Building Security to the device, and thats when the nypd responded. Obviously they became really concerned almost immediately. Shimon, just very briefly, what do we know about the package that was delivered to the Time Warner Center . Why was it suspicious . What raised the alarm bells . Right, wolf. So what raised the alarm bell is when they xrayed the package, they found what looked like metal material, perhaps a pipe bomb. Weve talked about other pipe bombs or other bombs inside Metal Construction that have
been delivered to other locations. That immediately had everyone concerned. Then also were being told that there were wires, what appeared to be wires inside this package. That
want anybody close to it at all, as they move it. i would note, kate, our cameraman is holding his camera, being held by four of our producers, walking it on the tripod down the block. that s how urgently they wanted us to move. i asked one of the nypd containment officers back there, why is this? he said so they can move it. one would infer meaning the device. i will also tell you from a detective at the nypd who i ve been speaking with, he just told me that the nypd also just sent out. what s called a heightened awareness message to all of their staff, all of the members of the nypd, just precautionary. he said it s just to tell us all to be on alert for suspicious items, obviously given what s transpired. that s what s happening internally at the nypd as they re dealing with this in realtime externally. we re a full two city blocks now from our headquarters there. again, just to reiterate, this device made it inside the building. they believe it to be an explosive device. they r
in. obviously no one is going anywhere any time soon. this is where we are right now, outside the time warner center. i want to go back over to washington and bring in shimon prokupecz. shimon, i have not been able to get a sense of timing here. obviously they have this under control. you don t sense anything is out of control. but i haven t been able to get a sense yet of the timing, where they are in terms of disposing of this device, clearing the area, clearing the building. what sense are you getting, shimon? yeah, i m talking to nypd officials there on the ground. the sense i m getting is they believe they do obviously have this under control. they don t think anything is about to explode. they re dealing with a very real situation, what they believe is explosives in this package. we re told that one of the things that s concerning
important to point out, kate, is there could be other device out there. that s what s got authorities really concerned. police across the country now looking at this carefully, studying to make sure there are no other devices being sent to anyone else. obviously the big thing here is this seems to be someone that s targeting political folks. that has authorities concerned. they re looking at other people in the political world who may be targeted, sending out word to be cautious. the nypd in new york stepping up security at certain areas. certainly the police here in washington, d.c., the secret service. so this is going to go on for quite some time. it s an ongoing situation, really an ongoing threat that we re all really under at this point and that authorities need to work through and figure out exactly who is sending these pipe bombs. on everyone s cell phone here
over the country to be cautious. what we expect here, wolf, just to quickly update folks on the scene there, is that the police, the nypd, is going to be removing this package, this explosive device they have found at our offices and put it in this truck that you re seeing on the right of our screen here. then it will be driven to the bronx, where it will likely be detonated. then they can really begin the investigation into exactly what this device is made of. but authorities in new york are extremely concerned. they know what they re dealing with. they say this seems to be similar to the other devices. so now the big thing here is just to try to remove this safely so no one gets hurt, wolf. and very, very important information we re now reporting, shimon. once again, i just want to update our viewers. the package that was delivered to the cnn new york bureau at the time warner center was actually addressed to former cia director john brennan. that according to city and local