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
most information as to whether it s connected to something else is the detonator. that s where you kind of see the craft of the bomb-maker, just in the way the fuse, the detonator, is made, developed, or whether there is a consistent flaw across the devices which explains why they haven t detonated. then there is the obvious, which is fingerprints, as well as dna. this fbi bomb lab in huntsville, alabama has a giant repository of ied components. they tag all of them, and they often are able to make arrests and prosecutions over time by making that link either with the components or the dna. or, the fingerprints. it can be if i could, it can be a pretty quick process, but you re talking about multiple devices. there would have to be a lot of commonality in order to identify
martha: perhaps. it one of the things that s come up today is the fact that u.s. officials according to the reports in the new york times leaked some of the information of the detonator, the photos of the backpack, all surfaced and that theresa may and other british officials are very unhappy. they feel that there were leaks that should never have happened from u.s. intelligence officials. can you comment on that? i can. it i knew theresa may when she was what they called home secretary. i talked to a british official that works closely with her there, a very upset about the fact most of all that the suspects name was released. when that s released, anyone connected and i think in this case, not being a lone wolf, you have other conspirators involved in a network, a cell if you will were tied to this individual so once that name is released, and the others will either do one or two things. go underground and hide or try to get out of the country or
the actual evidence that would lead to the person or persons involved. this suggests a slightly higher level of them what was first thought yesterday and if so, does that narrow down the net of potential suspects? it does. the black powder, the acetone, peroxide, you don t want to let it get went. absolutely right. you want to protect the explosives, the detonator. when this bomb went off, talked to a couple of people and their first reaction was what is happening to people coming back from afghanistan? they are terrified that american soldiers with four or five to worse will come back and be resentful of being dismissed and all of this. it was a strange way to look at it.