abundance of caution they re looking out for that, and calling it out for what it is, this was an instance of terrorism on the streets of new york city. and as our colleague jake tapper so aptly put it. an attempt at mass murder, because that is what it is. here at cnn and all of these other locations, we have but again, a live device, with white powder, made it to cnn, we know that the call to the nypd was made at 9:58 a.m., it was shortly after the top of the 10:00 a.m. hour that the alarm went offnd we immediately went off the air and came outside. what struck me is what we heard across the board from officials there. it was mayor de blasio, who at the beginning of that press conference saying this is terrorism, this is an effort to terrorize.
trying to get this device back to debbie wasserman schultz because the address was not correct to eric holder. there s been five devices found, and you heard the governor in new york saying there was another package that was sent to his office there in new york, they haven t confirmed yet that that one is related, as you just mentioned a few minutes ago, wolf, they re still trying to go through the scene there at cnn because of some suspicious powder inside the package that s now been taken to a facility there in new york to see if they can get any clues. every piece of this device is a clue, they re going to try to retrieve frimpingerprints, they going to see what sort of printing was on the label there.
has been discovered, the white powder, not determined if that is an actual threat but something they want to check out, how long and how will they determine if this is a fake powder or more concerning? they ll probably take this up to rodman s neck and do it there. i m not a chemist. there s three things this could be. one, it could still be an explosive. c-4 comes in a powdered form. it could be ricin and it could be anthrax. they d be able to that s and determine it right away. it could also be talcom powder. the other devices that we reported on previously were rudimentary but functional. you have now seen, i think guys in the control room, if we can pull it up on the screen what
that was addressed to the former cia director john brennan. there are other developments unfolding right now, i quickly want to go to our correspondents and our anchors who were at the c nrks nrknn bureau in new york harlow and jim sciuto were on air when these situations began to unfold. give us your reactions to what we just heard from law enforcement. there was a lot of news there, wolf. in that press conference. in that, first of all, there was a live explosive device september to september sent to cnn, something that made its way all the way to the mail room. and in addition to that explosive device, aroun envelop that contains white powder. the concern, what could that powder be, could it be biochemical weapons, something like that, so out of an
envelope with white powder. and we still don t know what that white powder is. we know a few things, there was white powder, and they re testing it. we just got an internal update because we re reporting on this story but also living it. we have heard at this point the sweep of the time-warner center, still continues, this is from internal communications, as a result it will take some time until we know about the safety of the building. we ll continue to keep you posted as we know more. there s still a lot of questions about safety, and that s why none of us are back inside of the building and we don t know when we will be. it s four hours since really the start of this and it s really abuzz of activity outside of where our office is, and this white powder, it adds a big question mark, right, because the explosive device that has been removed, the white powders they tested, it could be a fake, you have letters like this sent