Good morning to you. Craig melvin from msnbc headquarters in New York City. We continue to follow this breaking news. Potential Explosive Devices mailed to President Obama and Hillary Clinton. As you see there, cnn reporters and others have been evacuated from their headquarters here in New York City. This is a live look outside the Time Warner Center here in New York City. The Secret Service confirming a criminal investigation into the Explosive Devices mailed to the two democrats a short time ago, they follow a similar discovery of a device found, a very similar device that was found monday in the mailbox of billionaire philanthropist george soros. Lets start with our nbc reporter tom winter, nbc Investigative Reporter ron allen has made his way to chappaqua. This is a suburb of New York City. This is where president clinton and Hillary Clinton live. Hans nichols is at the white house. Tom, let me start with you here in the studio. I understand that you have some new reporting on the
about that? to my knowledge, no. do i expect that we will hear more? yes. okay. when the first package was delivered to the soros home, i held my breath, because the question was, is this a one-off or is this the beginning of a pattern? i had the question answered at 1:00 in the morning when the next package arrived at the clinton residence. i actually fear now that we re feeding the beast, that this is getting such a reaction, such a response, it may actually be encouraging the person or the people who are actually doing this. but it s prudent and diligent to expect more. i think it s also practical to expect more. if you are fearful that there is a feeding of the beast, as you put it, what is the solution to that? two-fold. it s going to get the coverage it s going to get. we cannot allow them to succeed.
service and law enforcement that responded to the incidents. they worked tirelessly to keep our country and communities safe. i m forever grateful for their effort. the nypd has increased security in manhattan. we ve seen more police presence here and already very secure, shep. they own the entire culdesac here in chappaqua. there s an eight foot fence around, security detail posts outside of the home and the home next door they own as well. shepard: 20 minutes from there, the soros home in bedford, new york. the feds said they got a similar package. that s right. george soros, the billionaire donor has a home in katonah, new york. they received a package with the same number of postage stamps as the same package sent to the
sent to john brennan, former cia director, acting cia director john brennan who occasionally appears on that network. that device addressed to brennan. we ve got the devices that were intercepted by the secret service in washington, d.c., one of those devices sent to the home of former president obama in the northwestern part of d.c. there is the device that was intercepted by the secret service in chappaqua. that device sent to the home of president clinton, secretary clinton, and then two days ago the device that was sent to george soros, the billionaire philanthropist. that device just ten miles away, roughly, from where the clintons live in chappaqua. the person who discovered that device, the one who works at the soros home took it out to the woods there we re told, and now police are on the scene, the right side of your screen there. that is sunrise, florida. those are the offices of