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
here are almost worthless. these houses haven t been smashed by war. they ve been destroyed by the poverty conflict brings. torn down and sold as recycled bricks and tiles locals tell us the houses sell for about $70. this is the end of the street. now, just down there is the checkpoint and beyond that is rebel-held territory. in the last hour or so we ve heard at least eight explosions. [ explosions ] lily is 3. she s out amid the shelling with her mom lending a hand. playing with a family pup through a gate riddled with shrap until holes from a shell that landed before she was born. her parents tell her the latest barrage is thunder, but it is something to worry about.
sum are ri of all of the explosives sent around the united states, and pipe bombs are one of the smaller number of explosives that are used. most of the containers are five gallon drums of explosives, but the kind here, pipe bombs, they are generally for the amateurs who want to build an explosive device and have a relatively good payload and they use the black powder that you can buy for reloading the bullets for guys who shoot. so this type of the explosive payload in there they enhance it by putting in ball bearings in there, but general ly the pipe itself is the shrap nell anel af the come poe nentponents, and ye initiator that will flash it,