annapolis just yet. we have live pictures from hanover. that is the building right there, the maryland department of transportation headquarters on the right side of your screen. one of the two buildings in which a package has detonated. what we are hearing from government officials and through our cnn d.c. radio affiliate, wtop, is that there were blasts at both builds, but that no one was injured in either of the blasts. we re still trying to determine what exploded, what type of blasts they were, how big and how damaging they were. what we do understand is that nobody was injured in either of those those explosions. now, here is a picture. this is not these are not live tv pictures. we re looking at google earth here. these are pictures of annapolis. you see the state house right in the center there. all of those streets that go off of this. this explosion was at a building that is across the road from the state house. again, jim was just helping me out by letting me know where
room and to examine the package further, render it safe, and the investigation here is continuing. employees went back into the building, were allowed to go back into the building here before 3:00 today. 20 minutes after this incident occurred, about 12:45 at the maryland department of transportation headquarters in hanover, maryland, there was a state employee from the department of transportation going through mail in a room near the office of the secretary of the maryland department of transportation. a similar package was examined by that mailroom or that employee. that employee opened the package and a similar reaction occurred. a flash of fire, smoke, and some smell. the employee immediately dropped the package and emergency officials responded to that location. the headquarters was evacuated
the governor, there they received a package described as the size of a book. when the package was opened by a mailroom employee, it triggered a reaction involving smoke and a sulfur-like smell. the employee sustained minor sic singeing to his fingers but refused medical treatment. the employees of the building were immediately evacuated and reentered the building at 2:30 after the building was declared safe. then they talk about a similar incident at the mailroom of the maryland department of transportation. in that? stan instance, a similar thing occurred. the fbi and others are on the scene. they re all investigationing, trying to determine who might have been responsible for these packages. i just want to confirm what you re saying. is the one injury to the person s hands in the mailroom at that building in annapolis and then at the mdot facility,
garbage truck that took him to the landfaill? how did he get from one town to the next town? he didn t have his car with him. he was asking for transportation. we re talking about unexplained distances that he was able to travel. right now, police just don t have any answers about. we did learn this from talking with police spokes people today. and they told us, remember that videotape that you just saw, that surveillance video of him in the parking garage where he was in the wrong place looking for his car? it wasn t there. well, the next time he is sighted on tape is in another building that you talked about. in that tape, they say he changed. he is wearing different clothes. again, there s no explanation for how that happened. where he was in those 24 hours that transpired. and also in talking to his neighbors just down the street here, they say they re as baffled as anyone at the strange
including their own or shouldn t be there, including but then they they ll go more thoroughly from that to look the building over more carefully and make sure nothing else is going on. any activity is happening inside the building. tom, stand by for me. i m just now getting word, we re getting our first pictures from that jeffrey building in annapolis. if you re curious, you know, who whose offices are in this building in annapolis? annapolis is the capital of maryland. there s that round-about in annapolis. in the middle of that circle is the maryland state house. across the street, you have one of the side streets, it s francis street. that is where the state house office building, where one of these devices went off in a mailroom. it s the sxwrjeffrey building. you have the office of