in the mail system. so this may be one of those. at this point, the package was intercepted at a postal facility in atlanta. not at cnn center. jeff zucker, the president of the network, has told employees today that all mail headed to cnn center and other cnn buildings is being screened off site so this never posed any danger to employees there, but obviously, there s still possible danger to people who might be handling it, people at the postal facilities, people who might handle these packages. o again, the fbi is treating this with the same caution that it did all of the other 14 such packages that were intercepted last week. evan with the latest on that. thank you. meantime, the man authorities believe sent the package bombs last week is set to make his first court appearance just a short time from now. rosa flores is in miami outside the courthouse. what else can be expect this afternoon, rosa? well, erica, we re expecting a very short proceeding.
package bombs. but is his incendiary rhetoric fanning the flames of hatred? and bordering on escalation. the president uses the term invasion in connection with the would-be immigrants and is sending 5,000 active duty troops to the southern border. what are they guarding against? i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. with the nation rocked to its core by saturday s massacre of jewish worshippers in pittsburgh and the mailing of more than a dozen pipe bombs to top democrats and critics of president trump, two suspects made initial court appearances today as the white house ignores the president s latest inflammatory rhetoric and denies he s in any way stirring up hatred and violence. i ll speak with congressman mike doyle who represents the pittsburgh area where the synagogue attack took place. and our correspondents are
not understand the difference between we are angry about what this group is doing or how we re being perceived by this group, and we hate these people. that s the distinction that needs to be made. that s the distinction that we have made in politics for years. that you republicans, democrats, independents, whoever you are, socialists, you re wrong on this topic, but i will defend to my last breath your right to be wrong. that s where we have turned. somewhere instead it s become you hate america, you are bad people. you are not of us. and i cannot only disagree with you, i can hate you, and then somewhere on the fringe edge of that, i can shoot at you. that i don t know how we get back from. the man charged with sending more than a dozen package bombs to prominent critics of president trump will face a federal judge in miami tomorrow.
the authorities in atlanta are looking at the possibility that this could be yet one more of the bombs that were mailed by the suspect who is in custody here. now, our colleague at wnbc is telling us that his sources in law enforcement are telling them that they have recovered what appears to be a long list of people who this suspect here had and numbers into more than 100. a list of people who he may have decided to send other package bombs to. and so the authorities are proactively now reaching out to the people on that list to tell them they need to be very conscious and aware of the possibility that something may show up at their homes, at their offices that could be one of these package bombs. and, of course, as our colleague pete williams has reported, and the authorities are also telling me as they re investigating. they re trying to determine where it is that the suspect
the suspect is not talking to federal authorities. the federal authorities are saying it is possible there could be more of these package bombs still in the mail stream and they just have not surfaced yet. hallie. thank you for that report. we re going to stay tuned on that situation. president trump has ordered flags to be flown at half staff to honor the victims of the pittsburgh shooting. you can see it flying at half staff above the white house. governors around the country are doing the same at state buildings. that includes ohio governor john kasich who grew up outside of pittsburgh. thank you for being with us. you are a native son of pittsburgh. can you tell me about your reaction to what happened this weekend. where you are this morning? well, i m in columbus. i received an e-mail from one of