Manhattan turned into hell. But afterwards, even before the next tuesday rolled around, inside of a week of the 9 11 attacks happening, something else on a different scale started to happen all over the country. At first, we did not know if it was a second attack. To the offices of nbc news, abc news, cbs news, somebody mailed anthrax, potent an flax mailed to the News Organizations and the offices of two different United States senators. It was real anthrax and it was potent. Five people were killed by it. It did start right after the 9 11 attacks when the country was reeling. We didnt know if it was a second attack. Almost hard to explain that different dynamic and dimension of it. If you lived through it, you know it was a real fear. One of the things the u. S. Government did that thought that they could be a next target in what appeared to be an ongoing biowar Anthrax Attack. They began to stockpile an Ant Boughtic called cipro that you can take to fight an infection caused by some
Vaccinations are cancelled today. They are also going to be cancelled tomorrow. Based on what were seeing right now, we believe that tomorrow getting around the city will be difficult. It will be icy. It will be treacherous. We do not want seniors especially out in those conditions. There is some promising news when it comes to testing. The white house announcing it has awarded a massive contract to an Australian Company by the name of alume which makes athome covid test kit that tests with 95 accuratery in, get this, 125 minutes. And a critical meeting at the white house to discuss the financial crisis connected to this pandemic. Ten republican senators will discuss their counteroffer to his 1. 9 trillion relief plan but their proposals price tag is less than a third of the administrations package, and well talk much more on how soon struggling americans can get what they need from all of this. First to new york we go where cnn anchor and National Correspondent erica hill reports. The
jobs in and live in day in and day out. paul pelosi, he is the husband of speaker pelosi, was violently assaulted during an early morning break-in by an assailant who was reportedly searching for nancy pelosi. a source telling nbc news that mr. pelosi was home alone when the attacker broke in. the attacker was armed with a hammer. paul pelosi reportedly suffered multiple blows to the head and is currently in surgery. the speaker was in washington, d.c. at the time of the attack. as for the assailant, he is in the custody of the san francisco police department. officials say he will face a number of charges including attempted homicide. the motivation for the attack is still under investigation at this hour, but a look at his digital footprint reveals he posted a whole host of conspiracy theories including anti-establishment ideas as well as anti-semitism and vaccine conspiracies. this attack is raising questions about the security of our lawmakers and their families in this i
contained these suspected devices, there is also some kind of powder. that is being tested now downstairs. the mailroom area still being contained while we go through the various steps to test that, in a field test. package it up safely for remova removal, and decon that area and anyone who came in contact with keep in mind, this happened a couple of hours ago, it s still ongoing. [inaudible question] take a look at who was being targeted here right now, that is why we are doing this proactively, checking with security and making sure male rooms follow proper protocol. that s where we are reaching out to the right people. [inaudible question] do you have a particular message for president trump in light of what happened today? look, i am going to say something. at a time when there is a lot of hatred and division it doesn t make sense to exacerbate it. let s just say this to all public officials and all partisan affiliations, don t encourage violence. don t encourage hatre
which was, oddly, congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz s office in sunrise, florida. of course she didn t send that package. the exact same return address, we should note, was used for clinton s and obamas packages. devices were also sent to democratic congresswoman maxine waters on capitol hill. they re still trying to figure out if it s tied to these other incidents, as well as one sent to liberal billionaire and philanthropist george soros and to cnn s headquarters where it was addressed to john brennan, former cia director. this is the device that was sent to the time warner center. as i said, it was addressed to president obama s cia director, john brennan, a vocal critic of president trump. now the packages are being described as rudimentary but operative explosive devices, leading investigators to fear the intent was to kill and to kill a lot of people. no, thankfully, none of the devices went off and while we don t know the suspect or his or her or their motive, law enforc