after 2:00 today a police officer was traveling in the 3 37b hundred block of east street northeast. the police officer was flagged down by a postal employee that works in this block at a united states postal facility. the employee indicated that they had a package that is described as similar in nature to the packages recovered yesterday in maryland. the package was not opened by the employee, however, the package had been described as popping, smoking and with a brief flash of fire and then it went out, extinguished itself. there is no injuries to any employees of the postal facilities. no injuries at all related to this incident, and at this time there is yog gone a joint investigation involving the metropolitan police department, the joint terrorism task force, both washington field office and baltimore field office, and a postal inspector s office. so that s our kind of opening statement and we ll try and
i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s follow the breaking news right now. you re look at live pictures from what is expected to be a news conference momentarily. the police chief here in the district of columbia, kathy lanier, speak wig reporters telling us about what s going on. an envelope igniting at a postal facility here in the national capital. this coming after apparently similar incidents at two state builtings in nearby maryland only yesterday. our nosh security contributor fran townsend joins us on the phone. i know you ve been working your sources, been trying to find out what s going on. what do you think about this? it looks ominous? reporter: it does look ominous, wolf and obviously what investigators will pru soup at the start these are in fact relates and look at all the similarities. they re work through that, then to see if they can discern any reason these would be independent. you worry about a copycat.
cloudy picture. the president says that the trend is clear that the economy is on the way back. but an ominous new prediction says it could take years, years to get back to normal. and a congressman who missed the mass swearing in ceremony, held their own, and did they violate the constitution as their colleagues were reading the constitution aloud? i m wolf blitzer, and you i m wolf blitzer, and you are in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com let s begin with the breaking news. police rush to a postal office in washington, d.c. the incident comes a day after mail devices ignited two maryland state offices not far away. the authorities say that the latest envelope was addressed to the homeland security secretary
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