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,
package, there was an initial flash of fire and smoke and a smell that emanated from that reaction. again, we are waiting for the fire marshal in hanover, maryland, to step forth and speak, give a news conference there on the situation. we will bring that to you live on cnn. meantime, let s move on and talk about remember just not too long ago, juan williams, the then-senior news analyst for npr, remember he was fired, caused all kinds of controversy and then a review was launched into the facts and circumstances leading to his termination n light of that review, npr senior vice president for news, ellen weis wiese has resigned. she was with npr 14 years. president obama introduced william daley of the chicago dail his as his new chief of staff. there he was, the former commerce secretary comes over from the investment bank,
of fire, saw some smoke, and it was a bit of a sulfuric smell. caused that employee s fingers to singe a bit. didn t go to the hospital. no major injuries there. the mailroom was quarantined. they sent one of those robots in to check out that package and it was rendered safe. about 50 different employees work in that building there in annapolis. they ve been able to go back in. a different in annapolis a bit of a different situation in hanover, remind you that we are waiting for a news conference there held from the state fire marshal, but what the maryland state police spokesperson did say about the hanover situation with is that incendiary device in a mailroom at the maryland department of transportation headquarters went off all of 20 minutes later at 12:45 eastern today in a mailroom, similar situation, flash, smoke, sulfuric smell. that headquarters has been evacuated, it was a bunch of people, 250 people and they apparently have still not been