Later tonight in wisconsin and well see what and if that event is affected throughout the day. A statement from Sarah Sanders and i imagine well see the president in front of a camera soon. Mcconnell condemns the acts of terrorism today. Thats it for us from americas newsroom. Outnumbered now melissa fox news alert, a fullscale criminal investigation underway. Right now on your screen we are watching a suspicious device in transit. It was removed from the Time Warner Center which has a cnn New York City offices. We are awaiting a News Conference with the new York City Police department. This is after the Secret Service intercepted twos Position Packages carrying potential Explosive Devices. One was addressed to Hillary Clinton at her Westchester County, new york home. The other two former
president barack obama in washington, d. C. Both were intercepted prior to delivery to those locations. As the Time Warner Center in New York City hosts the cnn offices was evacuated after a suspiciou
Good morning to you. Craig melvin from msnbc headquarters in New York City. We continue to follow this breaking news. Potential Explosive Devices mailed to President Obama and Hillary Clinton. As you see there, cnn reporters and others have been evacuated from their headquarters here in New York City. This is a live look outside the Time Warner Center here in New York City. The Secret Service confirming a criminal investigation into the Explosive Devices mailed to the two democrats a short time ago, they follow a similar discovery of a device found, a very similar device that was found monday in the mailbox of billionaire philanthropist george soros. Lets start with our nbc reporter tom winter, nbc Investigative Reporter ron allen has made his way to chappaqua. This is a suburb of New York City. This is where president clinton and Hillary Clinton live. Hans nichols is at the white house. Tom, let me start with you here in the studio. I understand that you have some new reporting on the
been described to us as a pipe bomb-type device. they have left with that. it has arrived now at the nypd facility, at the tip of a park. if you re watching, that s less than the 30 minute drive from the city. that s where the bomb squad is headquartered. there s too a shooting range there. if they are going to detonate and try to save forensics from that device, it may be where they you choose to do that. anyway, we are waiting. while people might want to shelter in places, they might to want to make shelter. they want to start a news conference and be able to talk without distraction and having to keep up with other people who are on, quite literally now, what is a crime scene that we are watching unfold. melissa? melissa: on a national level, we know that the secret service and the fbi are working together on the collection of all of these different devices that we have heard about. we know here in new york city it is the new york bomb squad.
pipe bomb-type device that was addressed to john brennan, the former cia director who regularly appeared on cnn, that was also an envelope in that package containing a white powder. the power itself is now being examined. just down the street from where i am standing, shepard, there s a massive vehicle from the new york city department of environmental protection. they are on the scene here making sure that no one is hurt. but this is still very much an ongoing crime scene. 58th street, on the west side of new york city at this hour, wednesday afternoon remains still shut down. shepard? shepard: the package with postage and dropped off by a courier in the mail room. there s alerts at other cnn newsrooms out of an abundance of caution. that s right. that s the phrase that we ve
pipe bomb type device, we re told that if we can go back to it just for a second, we re told that the device itself did contain explosive powder, but whether it would work, how it was designed to work, what this thing is here, whether this is a timer, is it a motion device, is it something to be triggered when the package was opened, that is all to be determined. but this law enforcement official says is what was in these envelopes that was sent to these we know of at least four, possibly five, and the reason we say possibly five is that we re told that authorities are looking at a suspicious package thank you, grif, of the office of congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz of florida, and whether this could be another of these devices.