Development that folks were hoping for. Thats an arrest in this. Of course, a lot of investigation to move forward. Are there others . Is this certainly the person . Those questions investigators working on right now. But our colleagues are going to continue to follow this throughout the day. We have our colleague kate bolduan coming up right now. Really appreciate it. Thanks so much. As you said, breaking news out this morning. And a new chapter begins. A man arrested in connection with these bomb packages. With these suspicious devices. 11th and 12th suspicious devices intercepted today. A lot to get to. Let me get to Shimon Prokupecz. You and the team have been iworking on this all morning. What do we have . We dont know who he is. We dont know anything about him. Heres the bottom line. Since last night, i would say, early last evening, we had heard there was significant progress made, and that they believed they had identified someone who
was responsible for this, or at least that
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james, let me start with you, the putenshthral are more pack nls out there. sure. across the country there are 250 mail sorting facilities. so they go to a regional sorting facility. there s a number of them in manhattan. i think another daw or so. i think there s an all hands on deck to check and make sure nothing was missed. we owe great kudos for law enforcement. the unibomber case, 17 years. eveern this past march the serial bomber took 18 days. they did this in a matter of a couple of days. yes, the forensic part of this. police science has come a long way since we started moving in this direction. but law enforcement did an
unlikely he could have sent anything in the last 24 hours because they would have intercepted it, maybe allowed him to do the mailing but they would have intercepted it and not let it get to its destination. it could be that he mailed these before the surveillance started two days ago, three days ago. look, the bottom line is the fact they re finding more is frightening because the authorities yesterday were saying they thought they had this contained, that they had searched sorting facilities, postal facilities, and they thought they had found everything. right, because the question becomes, shimon, and maybe there will be some clarity come 2:30 when the attorney general we re expected to hear from, but are they finding these packages because now there s so much consistency and similarities between the packages and everyone is on high alert, or are they just now turning up? it could be both. it could be a matter of timing. obviously, mail is promised at various speed depending on