give us more information on what s happened. we flow has been at least one envelope that ignited inside of this u.s. postal facility. this is the northeast quadrant of washington, d.c. if you know this area, in is is 3300 block of v street, and aid cording to some of our sources, what happened was, one of the postal employees inside was handling some envelopes. tossed one envelope in a bin and then that envelope ignited and that employee started smelling smoke. entirely different from what we saw yesterday. obviously, timing very significant. one day after the two incidents yesterday we were reporting. one being in annapolis, in one of government buildings there, and then one at the mdot headquarter, maryland department of transportation headquarters in hanover, maryland. we re waiting for the news conference to happen. i have mike brooks sitting next to me, former terrorism tax force, d.c. police, you name it. you got it.
meserve in washington. this is news to me. what do you know? well, those are the reports that we re getting brooke. that there s the possibility that one or two envelopes may have ignited at a postal screening facility here in washington. it s located on v street northeast. we re told that the metropolitan police, fire, and ems, as well as the fbi have responded to the scene to investigate this. at this point in time the buildsing has been evacuated but no reports of anyone being interested. this is of extreme interest in light of what happened yesterday in maryland where you had two packages which ignited. one at a state office building, the other at the headquarters for the maryland department of transportation. whether there s any connection between the two sets of incidences, we don t have any idea at this poemt in time. i told you just a few minutes ago we got a complete description of what the packages in maryland looked like and ha they did and what the note
sulfur smell, just like we heard from the incidents yesterday, but no one was injured in this. yesterday there were employees in the mailroom that had slight burns. important to point out, what happens you can help me do this in washington. where this is, v street northeast, this is far, far away from where tourists are, far from the national mall, far from monuments. right. between rhode island and new york avenue, people who travel to and from new york. up in that area, industrial. not too fracture the old main post office facility where the anthrax incident took place. this is key. why there is this facility in order to sort of work interference, if you will, for these people with nefarious intentions of sending these p k packa packages. right s the u.s. capitol, suspicious packages. i was on the team that responded to every suspicious package in d.c. when i was on the joint
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