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later tonight in wisconsin and we ll see what and if that event is affected throughout the day. a statement from sarah sanders and i imagine we ll see the president in front of a camera soon. mcconnell condemns the acts of terrorism today. that s it for us from america s newsroom. outnumbered now melissa: fox news alert, a full-scale 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 two s 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 eva ....
the scene with one of the pipe-style devices sent to the clinton home, and obama home as well, and investigators confirm it has been sent there, and now we are also informed that debbie wassermann schultz office is evacuated as well in sunrise, florida. and now we go to andrea mitchell. we continue the breaking coverage of suspicious packages sent to the chappaqua home of bill and hillary clinton and the washington, d.c., home of barack and michelle obama, and the packages to the clintons and the obamas were flagged in routine screenings before they reached oo either home. in new york, the law enforcement and the first responders are responding to the the evacuation of cnn headquarters in time warner headquarters in manhattan. cnn reports that pipe wires were hanging out of it, and this is one day after investigators found an explosive device at the billionaire philanthropist, and long time democratic contributor george soros who has been the victim of right wing conspiracy ....
Explosion. second is we understand from law enforcement that this was a rented vehicle by a person who had their own car. so he rents a vehicle and then fills it with these canisters. once again, there might be an innocent explanation or nonnefarious explanation for this, but it certainly is odd enough behavior that you would put these pieces together. the third is of course an investigation is being led by the joint terrorism task force up in new york. that is likely due to the fact that there was this kind of explosives as well as the rental and then they will determine essentially who the person is who was driving the car and what the motive if there is a potential understanding of what the motive may be. what is the location outside this concert tell you about it? so it is what we would call a soft target by a hard target. the concert hall primarily, sophisticated one like this, will have extensive security in ....
Things that would wound, maim or injure, which gives you a sense of what the design was or motive was and it s important to note that as there is this ongoing manhunt and there s an ongoing developing situation, and breaking news in lower manhattan, what appears to be a real situation, a suspicious device there, and law enforcement authorities saying this is being treated as a situation with similarities to what we saw yesterday. we will have the latest for you after the break. ....
What we are being told, both jim and i, there are similarities in the in what police have been dealing with in the other packages, the stamping, and same return address? same return address. debbie wasserman schultz office. this is similar to what law enforcement has been dealing with in the last three days, and this is serious. this is what law enforcement was concerned about, and here we are, another situation which obviously has everybody concerned, parts of lower manhattan now closed because of this. a similar reaction, bomb squad, containment vessel, and similarities between the packages that have been sent prior. we won t know the full details until they open it up, right? ....