News coverage here in New York City now. Craig melvin at msnbc headquarters. The nation on high alert, on high alert over a domestic tryst terrorist whos been waging war through the u. S. Mail all week. Pete williams just a few moments ago reporting that a person has been taken into custody at this point, a person were told perhaps in his 50s taken into custody in florida for questioning in connection with the mail bombs that have been sent to prominent americans all over this country over the past few days. Details as to this persons connection right now, those Details Remain unclear. This coming as two more explosive devices were discovered today, a total of 12 devices have now been sent, 12 explosive devices. Today one package found at a new york postal facility on the west side of manhattan. That one was addressed to former director of national
intelligence James Clapper. The other intercepted in florida. That one was addressed to new jersey democrat cory booker. All of these devic
maybe a scooter or something that someone who needs to get around if the they are slightly disabled, and it is hard to tell, because it had some black over it, but that is what it appears to be. and you can tell by the traffic whizzing by here in the last minute and a half, they decided to reopen the road, and the van is cleared, and the person as we know is in custody, and the authorities are moving forward with what appears to be a very significant development in this ongoing case. it is unclear whether this is a single person or whether this is somebody who may be connected to others, and all sorts of things that we will get answer s s to later this a afternoon when we hear from the department of justice. but at this point, very swift work quite frankly by the authorities to close in on what may be the person responsible for sending these packages through the mail and package bombs quite frankly that while none exploded were all intended, it appears according to the
sometimes when you don t deserve it. a baltimore intersection, this driver has clearly stopped but the unmanned speed camera cites the car. brake lights on, traffic whizzing in front of it for going 38 miles an hour in a 25-mile-an-hour zone. a costly mistake at 40 bucks a ticket. among the documented 10% speed error rates in baltimore. some off by 50% according to an audit leaked to the baltimore sun that has the city council investigating. nationwide, about half the states use cameras, cheaper and easier than radar guns. but class action suits in high ohio and new york attack their reliability. california stopped issuing camera tickets all together. this maryland driver videotaped his speed 10 miles below the limit. the speed camera ticketed him for ten miles over. the car with the speed camera was approximately right here reporter: this school teacher got five tickets leaving her maryland school. i was clocked at 51 miles an hour.