lot of these activities on behalf of democrats outside of new york city. chappaqua, new york, the hillary and bill clinton residence. that package was delivered off site. similarly, the suspicious package delivered to the residence here in washington, d.c., of former president obama. that was found off site. a suspicious package addressed to the white house was intercepted at joint base bolling here in washington, d.c. poppy, how far away from time warner are you guys right now? so jim and i are all of our colleagues here are standing on the corner of 9th avenue and we are half a block away from they did not want us to stay anywhere near the building. they would not let us stay across the street.
can you hear us? yes, we are still here. thank you, guys, for kind of laying the land here. i want to reset before we turn things over to wolf blitzer. again, you guys are there outside of the time warner building. to be very clear, authorities found this suspicious item inside of the time warner building. according to shimon prokupecz, it was inside of the mail room. this is just one of five suspicious devices over the last 24 hours. i m going to hand things over to wolf blitzer, who s standing by now, to continue our coverage. disturbing information, very disturbing developments unfolding in multiple places right now. a suspicious package. looking at live pictures coming in from new york city. the time warner center, headquarters of cnn in new york. you re looking at poppy harlow and jim sciutto. they, together with all of our colleagues at cnn in new york city, have been evacuated from the time warner center. others have been evacuated as well.
that the nypd, the bomb squad, which is probably one of the best in the world, they believe that they have this under control and that this package, what s inside of it, isn t going to explode. but they obviously still are taking all sorts of precautions, which is why you re seeing both poppy and jim being moved back. streets around our building in new york on 58th street have been closed. they ve closed streets north and south of our building in new york. the fire department is there. they have ambulances there. all the as a precaution, just in case if something was to go wrong, they could immediately respond to that and treat people. the bomb squad, interestingly, they go in. they re very good at this. i bet, wolf, 100% that this morning the nypd bomb squad, the intelligence division there was being briefed probably in realtime on these other suspicious packages, these other devices that the secret service intercepted and probably as they were being briefed about this, this call came
officer, a detective from the nypd bomb squad. sometimes in some cases they walk it out and place it in there. we could see a robot place the package in there. normally that truck is what they use when they believe that they have something that is a real explosive, something that can explode. what they do is they place it in there. it s a secure chamber kind of so if it does explode, it explodes internally, does not harm anything outside of it. then they can drive it away to the randall s island, where the bomb squad is located and they can actually investigate and look at what s inside this package. it could be, wolf, that they re going to detonate this on site in that truck. we ll see what they decide to do here. also what we ll see is perhaps
with the bomb squad, have said the building should be evacuated. they re going to respond and investigate the package. obviously growing concern given all the news that we re reporting here this morning about explosive devices being sent to the former president, president obama, to hillary clinton. we also just moments ago reported that a fourth explosive device was sent to the white house and intercepted in a mail room. now authorities, as i ve been saying this morning, are increasingly concerned that there could be more packages, more explosive devices that were sent elsewhere, perhaps around the country, in other cities. so taking no precautions obviously taking overprecautions, i should say, in that they re now evacuating buildings. authorities in new york are certainly on heightened alert because some of these devices were sent to areas in new york. the nypd there has stepped up security around locations out of