Least one state as they intensify their search for the individual or individuals behind the now ten potential bombs sent to two former president s. Other prominent democrats and former cia director john brennan care of cnn. According to Law Enforcement officials, it is believed that several of the packages passed through a mail facility just outside miami. Youre looking at live pictures of this facility where police are currently inside the Distribution Center. This facility handles incoming and outgoing mail from and to south florida. As for the devices, cnn is learning authorities are trying to determine why none of the bombs went off. Were they, in fact, designed to detonate, or were they designed simply to terrorize, to strike fear in the hearts of the people they were targeting . Including president and former first lady obama, president and former secretary of state clinton, congresswoman maxine waters, former cia director brennan, cnns new york headquarters, former attorney general eric holder, and in addition, today, authorities also intercepting or retrieving three packages, two meant for Vice President joe biden at two separate locations in delaware, and one for actor Robert De Niro received at his production companys office in new york city. All those i mentioned have been frequent targets of President Trump on twitter and on the campaign trail through rhetoric and while the devices sent to those individuals did not detonate, the fbi made it clear today they believe the threat is real. They warned there still could be devices out there and those devices should be considered dangerous. The president speaking just moments ago, he did not address the matter, and so far hes declined to call these bombs an act of domestic terrorism. Instead, hes doubled down on twitter, blaming the media for the nations incivility. He wrote, a very big part in the anger we see today in our society is caused by the purposefully false and inaccurate reporting of the Mainstream Media that i refer to as fake news. Mainstream media must clean up its act fast. Jim sciutto is live in washington. What else are we learning about where these bombs may have originated . Reporter the essential question from the beginning of this is who sent them, what person or persons, and a big part of that equation is where, where did they come from, because that provides a clue, helps lead them to the origin of these passages and today, we got that first clue, that is, the state of florida and this Mail Processing facility and thats why you see that Law Enforcement presence there now. Doesnt mean that the package or the person or the perpetrator lived around there, even necessarily in the state of florida, but its a good chance, because that processes mail for a number of locations around that area, that thats at least where these packages, at least several of these packages may have started. They still have a long way to go in determining who it is, but it moves them at least a step closer today. And jim, on some of these packages, there is, i guess, a key clue that appears to be missing. What is that . Well, its the postmark, and thats something we noticed from the very beginning as we saw images provided by Law Enforcement of these packages. They all had those six American Flag stamps on them. What they didnt have was the postmark that you see after they get processed through the facility, except one of them. One of our colleagues here noticed that there was sort of the edge of a postmark on one. Theres a possible explanation here that a thick envelope like that cant go through the machine to get that stamp that youll see on a letter, for instance. But again, we now know, based on that focus on that facility that at least three or four of them were processed through a center to prove that they went through the mail because there was some question as to whether some of these were hand delivered. For instance, the one that came to cnn offices in new york, that one, at least the final mile of it, it was delivered by a courier, but that is a courier that regularly does this for the post office, so it does appear that at least several of them went through the mail system and now theyre looking as to whether the origin of that was and the florida facility, at least a clue as to where that might be. All right, jim sciutto, thanks so much. Outfront now, former assistant director for the investigation with u. S. Marshals, art roderick, former cia operative bob bayer, juliet and former supervisor max. Investigators already think they know where at least some of the packages originated in florida. Big lead . Its a very big lead, and i think, you know, we have to we saw the presser earlier with commissioner from nypd, and we have to listen to what he says. Its really a lot what he doesnt say. I mean, theres really only a couple reasons why Law Enforcement would release information to the public and one is because theres a Public Safety issue. We have that here. I mean, theyve released numerous photographs of all these devices. The second reason is, because they need help on a possible lead. Theyre not going to release any information based on actionable, viable leads. Theyre going to work those out until the bitter end. Were not going to know about it. We might know about it at the end but were not going to know about the real, actionable stuff that theyre doing. Its interesting that we have this florida lead. I think thats a very good lead. It sounds like some of those packages might have gone through that facility, but Law Enforcement is just not centering on florida. Theyre looking at other locations. Just one thing we know about. This is just one day after most of these packages were discovered. If we already know where they came from, how long until authorities will be able to figure out who they believe may have sent them . So, it probably will be relatively quick investigation only because this is so different from the times of the unabomber or earlier times. Theres so many ways to capture someone, either digitally or on camera or talking to people or theyve been online. So i dont want to put any time frame on it but obviously, the focus through the jttf is to, you know, sort of focus in and we possibly have a focus on florida. I think the most important thing i im looking for now in terms of the speed of the investigation is a simple answer to the question, were these bombs intended to detonate and fail, or were they never intending to detonate . That is a question that, to me, the nypd and the fbi clearly did not want to answer today. And the reason why thats relevant is then youre the scope of the investigation will change, because of that. And so, thats the question that i think that right now is the primary question from the outside as an analyst, looking at this. And max, you say that this package, which was sent to cnn, reminded you of the packages that were sent by the unabomber. What similarities did you notice . Well, very similar in the fact it had filament tape on it, excessive postage stamps on it. It was wrapped in either heavy wrapping paper or a heavy manila envelope. The way it was addressed with misspellings of two of the names, i believe. Very characteristic of bombs that the unabomber sent and reminded me a great deal about that. And i think we need to let the postal inspectors do their work, that postal processing facility, those packages came in there from elsewhere, from satellite postal facilities or from post office boxes sitting on the streets, and theres a great deal of work to be done, interviewing carriers who might recall such a package because theyve been trained in postal awareness programs with regard to what to look at and packages like that. And determine whether they entered the mail stream and then go out and determine if there are surveillance cameras in those areas and people, unabomb, postal workers at stations remembered them because of the excessive postage and the strapping tape and using that filament tape is a very future thing. It obviously is used was used by the unabomber to keep the firing train intact until the recipient opened the package at which time the firing train would be the electrical circuit would be complete and the package would detonate so theres a lot of similarities. And bob, there are at least ten potential bombs that we know of that were sent. Could one person have done this, or do you think theres probably more than one . Well, i think whats interesting is that some of these could have been hand delivered, and clearly, theyre running through a chronology. Soros was the first bomb. Supposedly that was hand delivered, put in his mailbox. Right. You look at florida. Thats a long way away, so going through chronology, theyre going through, for instance, telephone metadata. Theyre going through wifi cameras around the post office, and theyre putting this and theyre using software to combine this all and unless this guy was really, really good or these people, theyre going to come up with a clue and my guess is and im out on a limb it wont be long. Ten bombs around the country, theres just a lot of stuff out there. Unless hes truly has some sort of professional training. So, just to drill down on what you said, the idea that if he had a phone on him, not even that he made a call, but that he had a phone on him and then delivered it to soros house and to new york, youd be able to trace him. Absolutely. The gps locations, the time, the phone in front of the house within ten feet, and then other, you know, places he visited, and a lot of houses around there are going to have cameras out in the street and you put it all together, and you give the fbi enough time and atf and its amazing that they can reconstruct where these letters were sent from and, like i said, unless the guys really good, but i seriously doubt that. Art, tell us about your dry run theory. Well, i mean, you know, Law Enforcement, when they look at any of these types of highprofile cases, looks for the worst case scenario, and this particular case, we hope and pray that its just these ten and thats it. And its ended. Hopefully we can grab this individual here in the next 24 to 48 hours. But in past cases we have seen where terrorists or other individuals will go ahead and do a dry run and theyll be sitting back there taking notes on how Law Enforcements responding, whats being said in the press. I wouldnt be surprised if this individual is watching us right now and taking notes and checking off his checklist. Okay, i saw that they xrayed these devices, let me do something different. Instead of delivering them through the postal service, let me use another means of getting these devices to my targeted individuals. Lets hope that this is it, but i mean, we have to keep in mind, worst case scenario, and thats exactly what Law Enforcement is doing right now. Juliet, at this moment, based on what we know, how sophisticated a plot does this appear to be to you . So, theres two types of sophistication. So, one is on the technology side, the bomb making, and thats why im focused on this question, was this someone who didnt know how to make a bomb or who actually knew how to make a fake bomb. Those are different questions. But i agree with bob. As you know, this is not the person did not wake up one day and decide to do this. This is multiple states. You have to hunt down the addresses, get to the post offices, theres all sorts of courier deliberations, so this is someone who or people who meticulously planned this out over, you know, its not years, but its not days. And so but the good news, is in that planning, because this is so big, all sorts of vulnerabilities will be exposed. Did they talk to someone . Were they online . Were they looking at certain materials . Did they purchase, you know, a bunch of envelopes at the same time, you know, 20 envelopes . And so in some ways, the sort of breadth of this actually will expose a lot of vulnerabilities that im pretty confident will be sort of unearthed by Law Enforcement relatively quickly. Max, i want to follow up on something you said. You noted how both this bomber or bombers and the unabomber included misspellings in the envelope. Take a look at this one sent to cnn. Its Debbie Wasserman schultzs last name is missing an s. John brennan, its missing an n. Florida is misspelled. The unabomber, as we know, who was waging his own private war against technology, went to harvard, and was fancied himself quite brilliant. Did his misspellings, were they intentional so as to try to throw people off the track and do you think thats whats going on here . I have no idea if thats whats going on here, but i know that he did that intentionally and he wrote about doing it intentionally, and why he did that. The someone mentioned the acquiring of the addresses and the names. Most people dont know george soros home address or the clintons home address or what have you. Very important project thats probably going on right now is how did the this bomber acquire the addresses and where did those particular misspellings come from . Were those names misspelled in print somewhere . Were they misspelled on a blog somewhere . Why did the bomber use that . Was it a red herring or whatever to throw investigators off . But the fact of the matter is, you have to look at it regardless. And determine and run it out and put it to rest so that you can go on with the rest of the investigation. So, address acquiring the appropriate addresses to send these bombs should be an important part of the investigation, and im sure it is. In addition to other big mistakes, he got eric holders wrong address. Thats why the package was returned to Debbie Wasserman schultz in florida and john brennan is not a consultant for cnn. He works for a different network. Surely. In the unabombs case, he killed thomas mosesier in new jersey because he believed that his firm had done the exxonvaldez Publicity Campaign to clear up their reputation after that horrendous environmental spill. That was not the case. But he believed they did because he read it in a particular periodical. Interesting. Max noel, juliette, art, thank you so much. Outfront next, new details about what exactly is in the bombs. Small battery, digital clocks. Were they meant to explode . 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Reporter they were mostly delivered like this, in padded manila envelopes, printed address labels, the same printed return address of florida congresswoman Debbie Wasserman schultz and six American Flag forever stamps, all telltale signs of a suspicious package and perhaps meant to look that way. The initial examination, they are rudimentary, potentially destructive devices, according to the fbi. The nypd and the fbi were taking this seriously. We are treating them as live devices. Reporter but none actually exploded. A clue, say former investigators, who say despite handling by couriers, mail rooms, even returned by u. S. Mail, nothing exploded. I think they were made to be found and, again, just to deliver the message of fear and terror and to, you know, garnish attention. Reporter while investigators have released few details, the pictures and even xrays released do provide clues to several bomb and explosive experts talking to cnn, including former fbi hazardous device expert ray lopez. If hes trying to kill somebody, hes the worth bomber in the world. If hes trying to scare us, he did a very good job. Reporter the devices are made with pvc pipe. Packed are shrapnel, all easily available. The crude design also easily found on the internet. What is unique is just so many bombs or devices unexploded that will offer investigators lead after lead. Theyre going to have actual components in there that are undamaged by blast or heat, and theres Nothing Better for an investigator to get actual infact components. Theyre going to trace back the piping that was used, the wiring, the batteries. Reporter the envelopes, the stamps, the printing, the materials used all analyzed and potentially traced back to the exact location where they were purchased. Security cameras will be scoured and the suspect potentially linked through possible fingerprints or dna he or she may have left behind on the unexploded devices. The New York Times reporting the pipes were equipped with a small battery, a digital clock as a timer, and an initiator, which causes the bomb to explode, according to a Law Enforcement official. Several experts tell cnn that timer is something youd see in a movie, not on a real bomb. And jake, ive talked to several former bomb investigator and Forensic Experts today. They all caution they havent inspected the devices themselves but based on the photos, the xrays, all but one think these devices are probably a hoax, not meant to go off. Investigators cant treat them with anything but the utmost seriousness. I did want to point out that on the device delivered to cnn, that symbol that looks like an isis flag, a Law Enforcement official telling cnn the image appears to be a spoof of an isis flag widely circulated on the internet. Fascinating. Drew griffin, thank you so much. Outfront now, ray lopez, who you just saw in drews piece, a team leader for the bomb squad and tina, a former atf explosives specialist. This is fascinating. You think these devices may not have actually been intended to explode. Why . Well, you can two reasons why. One, the bomber in this case or the individual in this case may have been actually looking for intelligence. And he could have sent these things out and actually, you know, taken notes as to how the Police Respond and how First Responders respond, which is very scary in and of itself. And secondly, it could have been just a hoax to scare, intimidate, terrorize, and eventually, you know, garnish attention to himself and to his cause. So when you say hoax, a fake device but still meant to scare people. Exactly. Exactly. And as the piece before mentioned, you have to take these things very seriously. You take them seriously all the way to the end. The Law Enforcement wouldnt answer questions about this earlier today. Tina, these devices reportedly had a small battery and a digital clock thats used as a timer and initiator. What might that tell you . Well, they certainly are elements that would comprise a live device, so that is something that we would look for and then we would treat it accordingly. So, i completely support what the authorities are saying in terms of using care and caution to not call it a hoax device. Only the people that have examined it and put hands on it, like you said earlier, are the ones that know if it is or not. Its a matter of safety, so the bomb technicians, rightly so, and anybody that encounters Something Like this or suspicious should treat it as such by not touching it, not handling it, because you just dont know. If we would start to report that this was a hoax device, then it might lull someone into a sense of complacency to not treat it accordingly, and based on what has been shown and based on past experience that i had with an actual device that had a timer on it that expired, it was just wired incorrectly. The bomb maker actually learned from his mistakes and did it differently the next time. So, we just dont know what the bombers intention was. Absolutely. Lets be very clear. Law enforcement says they are not saying that these are fake devices. They are saying theyre real. Were just talking about why they did not go off. And even if some of them did not go off and were not zpidesigned go off, that doesnt mean that one that somebody might encounter wouldnt go off. I dont want to lull anybody into a false sense of security. Ray, weve learned there was this parody isis flag on the device that was sent to cnn. What might what kind of clue would you get from that . It could be anything. It could be the bomber trying to mislead investigators to go down the road of, you know, islamic extremist somehow connected with this device. We dont know that. Thats something theyre going to have to work through. Could be a false flag. And tina, these parts are very common. How do you go about tracking where individual parts might come from . So, the good news is that i think as yall talked earlier, ray did too, about finding the device intact. So you can definitely exploit any of the identifying information thats on the pipe, on the battery, on the timer, and then investigators can use that actionable intelligence immediately versus having to wait for the lab to tell them what it is, if it had exploded. 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Tonight, President Trump digging in, according to people who have spoken with the president today, he believes its unjust for anyone to discuss the heated and often nasty rhetoric he uses about journalists and his opponents in the context of the current Law Enforcement investigation, that hes being unfairly linked to the pipe bombs delivered to some of his most frequent political targets and despite calls from democrats and republicans, the president has no plans to tone it down. Jeff, are those around the president okay with his response . Reporter jake, in a word, they are, and largely because theres nothing they can do about it. Its kind of a mixed school of thought here as we spent the day reporting this out and talking to a variety of people here at the white house and republicans who are allies of the president. Some believe he missed a moment here. Some sort of wondered 12 days before the midterm elections, if he could have stepped into more of a president ial leadership role and talked about national security, sort of framed this as a security issue, but the president has not done that. Hes framed it as an antimedia issue. We saw that at the very beginning of the day, at 7 18 a. M. This morning, he tweeted out his only comment so far of the day about all of this was going after the media. He did not address this at all as he was talking in the this afternoon as he was talking about lowering Prescription Drug prices. He didnt talk about it elsewhere. So the question is, has he missed a moment . But the president believes that he is being unfairly linked to all of this. He believes that he, you know, his rhetoric is not to blame. So im told by a variety of people he is not going to change his posture on this at all. Hes not going to claim any personal responsibility for the rhetoric, of course, not the actual act of this suspect or suspects. We should make that clear. But hes not going to claim any responsibility for the rhetoric. But jake, my question is, as he goes into more campaign rallies, again, were 12 days out before this midterm elections, he has at least a dozen rallies between now and then. Will he change his tone . He did a bit last night, didnt talk about Hillary Clinton at all. Well see if he does that tomorrow night. Well be in charlotte at his rally in north carolina, seeing if he dials it back up. But jake, its an interesting point. Still tonight, hes not reached out to his predecessor, barack obama, or the clintons or anyone else who was affected by this. It seems unusual. The president s club, of course, very small, but as of now, the people around the president are just fine with how hes reacting, largely because he drives the train on all of this, jake. He sure does. Jeff zeleny at the white house, thanks so much. Outfront tonight, former republican congressman charlie dent from the great commonwealth of pennsylvania. National spokesperson for moveon. Org and stephen moore, a former senior economic adviser to the trump campaign. Congressman dent, let me start with you. The only person responsible for sending these bombs or whatever they are is the person who sent them. Period. Full stop. We have no idea what motivated this person and we have no idea if the president s heated rhetoric has anything to do with it at all. That said, did the president miss a moment here . I think so. Look, the president s job is to try to keep the country together, unite us, not divide us, and sometimes his rhetoric is very incendiary, very inflammatory and i think he missed that moment. On the teleprompter, he said the right thing. Off teleprompter is where he goes off the rails from time to time and i think thats the case and ive often felt that both he and Bernie Sanders, you know, when they campaigned for president , i felt that they both kind of spoke to an anger. Bernie, an economic anger, the banks, pharmaceutical companies, donald trump on the cultural side, its the immigrants, trade. So i think weve got this were just in a bad place in this country and as a small sea of conservatives, we should be more temperate. You know, were about order, discipline, stability, temperate statements, measured statements, incremental changes, and im afraid that, you know, when we talk about the incendiary comments, instability, chaos, dysfunction, thats bad for us. Stephen, i want to play something that the president said last night, campaigning in wisconsin. Those engaged in the political arena must stop treating political opponents as being morally defective. The language of moral condemnation and destructive routine, these are arguments and disagreements that have to stop. On the other hand, take a listen to some of the things that President Trump has said about the individuals who were apparently targeted. A very dishonest person, crooked Hillary Clinton. Good old maxine, low iq individual. No confidence in a guy like brennan. Holder is a hes got some problems. Sleepy joe biden. We call him 1 joe. And by the way, george soros declared 1. 5 billion. So, obviously, i mean, its a lovely sentiment that people, you know, we shouldnt use the language of moral condemnation and destruction and make it routine, but the president does. Well, look, i mean, i disagree with a little bit with charlie. I think he did seize the moment a little bit yesterday. And i think he did sound very diplomatic and tried to bring the country together. But look, this is a president , you know, who is a and he was the same way on the president ial campaign. This is a guy who is a counterpuncher, and politics is a contact sport. And you know, i know donald trump. When he gets attacked, he attacks back. He feels, and i think theres a lot of justification for this, that hes treated extremely unfairly by the media, and he goes after them. Just as an example this morning, maggie h Maggie Haberman from the New York Times, whos not an editorial writer, she covers the white house and she was on cnn and just trashed the president. And i think trump gets sick of that. What did she say that was factually inaccurate. She said what a horrible character he is and repeated all these allegations about how, oh, he tries to instigate violence and things like that. And its just i just i dont know what she said but a lot of times, people say things about President Trump that are just factually true and people consider that to be editorializing. I watch cnn every night, you know, and look, every night, donald trump is a racist, hes a misogynist, hes a xenophobe, mentally unstable. All these things, and look, thats just an unfair thing to say about the president and yeah, if you call him those kinds of things, hes going to strike back. Well, all okay. Go ahead. So, first of all, let me just say that, yes, Bernie Sanders had a populist message and he did tap into some anger, but he never incited violence or praised violence, and he also is not the president of the United States. So thats number one. Number two, donald trump has the most powerful bully pulpit not just in the country but in the world, and he uses it to go after his political enemies, who he perceives to be his political enemies. He incites violence. He praises violence. And he does that every time hes at a rally, and he does it behind the president ial podium, behind the president ial seal and that is that matters. Yesterday, after the crisis that we had yesterday, most president s, both regardless of if they were republican or democrat, would have brought the country together. What does he do . He goes to a political rally where they are chanting, lock her up, and the next day, or even that night, i cant remember anymore, he attacks the media and then he makes himself a victim. This is not the behavior of the president of the United States. He is hes showing himself to be unfit to hold an incredibly powerful office. Speaking of by the way, thats an exact example of what im talking about. You said hes unfit for office. Yes, but i also laid out why he was i know but thats a pretty serious charge to say hes unfit for office. Yes, after i laid out why he was unfit for office. Can i just say that every president gets attacked. I mean, obama was called racist on fox news. George w. Bush was called racist by kanye west of all people. I dont think ive ever seen it anything like this. I mean, look, i didnt agree with very much of any of Barack Obamas policies but i was always very respectful. Im not talking about you. Anyway, i want to get your reaction because were talking about Bernie Sanders. Press secretary Sarah Sanders at the white house today said the president responsible. She said, quote, look, theres a big difference between comments made and actions taken. The president is certainly not responsible for sending suspicious packages to someone, no more than Bernie Sanders was responsible for a supporter of his shooting up a republican baseball field practice. Well, i agree. Bernie sanders is not responsible for Steve Scalise being shot, just as donald trump is not responsible for these pipe bombs. But what i would say, though, when youre the president of the United States, your words matter. I always thought when the president spoke, that was policy and with this president , that has not been the case. How many times does he Say Something only to be contradicted by staff. Ive heard this from foreign heads of state and others. Theyre not sure where the United States is on a given policy despite what the president has said. The president s words do matter on policy, just as they do with when he gets into the namecalling and the insults. Its simply not president ial. I dont think he should do it. It demeans the office, and frankly, it doesnt help. Look, see, i think youre right about that and Donald Trumps Approval Rating could go up, you know, substantially if he would do that. You know, i dont know if hes got it in him, but i think that thats what a lot of the American People want to see, and i did think yesterday he did a pretty good job of that when he responded. On the teleprompter. Final word. He ruined it after going to a rally and then the crowd was saying, lock her up. Maybe it wasnt such a great idea to do that. He always fails. Thats the thing. He has this moment and then usually its 24 hours. This time it was about 6 hours, and then he fails and he shows that hes not fit for the presidency. Im sorry. Its just beyond the fitness because i dont want you two to devolve into a thing on that. You agree that he initially handled it okay. Well, i wish he had mentioned president obama, president clinton and their families. I wish he had taken it a little bit further and actually called them. Theres more that he could have done but he fell flat. Charlie, thanks one and all. Outfront next, breaking news, cnn learning the miami dade bomb squad and k9 unit are going through that mail facility in florida. Well have the details and a member of trumps evangelical Advisory Council says the country is at a breaking point. What is his advice to the country and to the president . Stay with me. vo this is not a video game. This is not a screensaver. 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Authorities believe the facility processed several packages with potential bombs, the same ones that were delivered to top political targets of President Trump, highprofile democrats, two former president s, and cnn. Lets go right to rosa flores in miami. What do you know about this sweep taking place there . Reporter well, jake, what i can tell you is that according to miami dade police, they say that they are on scene as a precautionary measure, that they are working with their federal partners on this Ongoing Investigation regarding the suspicious packages. Now, i was just at the facility in the last few hours, and i can tell you that outside outside the facility, i should say. I can tell you that i talked to several employees as they were leaving or arriving in the facility and they said they hadnt seen a bomb squad, they hadnt seen canines at the facility before but heres what they had seen. At least 20 inspectors inside investigating, talking to their managers. They also had what they called a service talk where all of the employees received information regarding these suspicious packages. They were shown the pictures that we have been showing on cnn of what those packages looked like. Their managers telling them to be very careful and to follow the protocols that theyre trained for to handle these dangerous packages and we should add that theres about four facilities in south florida that process mail. Three of them are for domestic mail. The opalocka facility is one of those facilities, and employees there saying, many of them that i talked to, saying they didnt actually know that this facility had actually processed these bombs and these suspicious packages, and jake, most of them saying that theyre just hoping that everybody stays safe. One woman saying that she just wanted to go home safely to her three grand babies. Again, people are counting their blessings, jake. Rosa, thanks so much. Outfront now is democratic congressman from florida, nanettediaz. As a member of the committee, have you learned anything tonight about this mail facility sweep . Have they told you anything about it . We dont have anything new. I know what you know. I think first we should thank First Responders. We should thank postal workers and Law Enforcement for being on top of this and doing everything they can to try to find this person and put a stop to it right away. All of this comes as officials have made it very clear today theyre not ruling out the possibility there are more explosive devices out there. Take a listen. Any reason to believe there may be other packages like this . We dont know at this time. I would assume its not the end, which is the safe assumption. Do you know anything about any more bombs that might be out there or any assumption about how many there might be . We cant confirm whether there are or not. I think what is a good thing to do is to tell the american public, if you see something suspicious, call it in. We have to remain vigilant, especially at a time where were continuing to see breaking news and new devices, new mail being put out there, so we should all be vigilant around this time, but we dont have any confirmation of how many devices are out there still, if there are any, or if this is it. So, one of the questions that i get from the public, from viewers, is, we see Law Enforcement asking for help, and we dont know much more in terms of leads other than this mail facility in florida. Should we assume that theres a lot more out there that the investigators know that we dont . Or theyre asking us for help, does that indicate that theyre really they dont have much to go on . Well, i think you always have investigators asking for help, because theyre always trying to find different leads, additional information. I dont think we can assume that they know less or they know more. I think its the public is a tool to aid them in investigating. And so if you see anything, i think thats why its important that they speak up, they Say Something, you know, you see your post person delivering something that looks suspicious, you know, i would certainly Say Something. But i dont think we should assume anything from what were hearing. Homeland security Kirstjen Nielsen has been at the border for several days, preparing for the arrival of this caravan full of migrants. Are you surprised shes not in washington, d. C. , at her office helping to lead the response to this serial bomb maker or bomb makers on the loose . I am. Frankly, here we have an act of terrorism where people are certainly concerned, inciting some fear, and its a huge concern for me and the American People. Instead, what we have is a secretary down at the south border really just doing more of what the president s doing and making the immigration issue political. I think this is a time where the country needs to come together. We can start with the president not just unifying people but staying there. Stop blaming the media, which is what he does all the time. Stop using divisive language and lets get down to the bottom of whats happening and stop what is happening and lets catch this person and focus on that, which is the real congresswoman, thank you so much for your time. We appreciate it. Outfront next, President Trump says its time to put our differences aside. Then he attacks the media. Is the president capable of unifying the nation . Stay with us. Your company is constantly evolving. And the decisions you make have far reaching implications. 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His message is Love Thy Neighbor as thyself. Is he also talking to President Trump. Pastor, thanks for joining us. Do you think our country is at a breaking point. Why . I do, jake. First of all, i want to say thank god that everybody is safe. Thank god that you wonderful people at cnn are alive and well. Were praying for you. Its a lot of pressure that you can feel even coming in the studio, a lot of security presence. So, you know, we need to be praying. We need to its just reached a point, the anger, the rage, the words that are being spoken back and forth, theres enough blame to go around for all the incivility that were looking at. Its time to realize its not winding down, its winding up. If it dont stop we can control this. The bible says blessed are the peacemakers, and im calling for peacemaking. Scripture says come, let us sit down and reason together. If there was ever a time where we needed to define some middle ground, youre not my enemy if you believe differently politically than me. I refuse to make you my enemy. I would hope that you extend that same invitation to me. Im ready to see it change. Im so thankful president obama is alive and well, and Hillary Clinton and president clinton and all the people who have lived the horror the last 24 hours. So im thankful that we dont have flags at halfmast today. I am too, pastor. Im afraid i have to break into this. We have breaking news. Were hearing about evacuations at a restaurant that is part of the Time Warner Center in new york city where cnn is located. Miguel marquez is out front right now. What can you tell us . Reporter these are the shops at columbus circle. Cnn is just behind us, all of this area was evacuated yesterday. It is happening again, in the middle of the dinner rush essentially. The entire mall area has been evacuated again. This sounds like, from nypd and initial accounts, it is out of an abundance of caution. There was a suspicious package seen in the mall, and they decided to, out of complete caution, have everybody move out. You can see here in the street just how Many Police Officers have shown up, Emergency Services units is also on its way, which would be used in the event that there was some sort of device that they needed to move out of here. So nypd jumping on these things very quickly. People obviously on edge. We were actually eating in a restaurant just a little while ago, and there was a backpack next to us that no one was claiming. There was a bit of concern in the restaurant. I dont think it was that backpack that caused this stir. But there was a lot of concern about finding the owner of that backpack in the restaurant that we were in. But clearly people in new york on edge tonight, and not taking any chances. Jake . Miguel, were told that the new York Police Department Energy Service unit has just been requested to the premises to where you are. Now, youre at 1 columbus circle. There are restaurants in there. Its a mall. That entire area has been evacuated . I mean, there are luxury apartments on the top of that. Have they been evacuated, as well, or just the mall area . Reporter i dont think that the apartments on top have been evacuated. You can see even on the ground floor here, people are still milling around, waiting. Police have now moved people off the upper floors. The fourth floor, the third floor and second floor. We were on the third floor eating, and they seem to be mostly concerned with the upper floors. There are now no civilians on the second floor where there were some just a moment ago. It is a cold night in new york, so people are staying inside. But now you can see policeside o move out. There is also security for the mall itself, the shops here who are asking people if they dont work here if they dont belong here, if they could move on. But literally, it was seconds that diners had to evacuate the restaurant there. It is not clear that many of them were able to get their personal effects before leaving the building. It was not a rush for the exits, though. It was an orderly exit. People walked down the stairs. It wasnt as though they felt they were in imminent danger. We have dogs now coming in, sniffer dogs in the event that there is something serious here. Whatever the package is, whatever that set all of this off. They want to have all the means necessary to deal with it, to indicate whether it is a device that they have to be worried about, and also have the specialized truck and the equipment here to neutralize it, and then move it to wherever they need to. Jake . Miguel, thanks so much. In the 30 seconds we have left, based on how the police are going in there with the bomb sniffing dogs, how seriously do you think theyre take thing in obviously quite seriously. We talked about this yesterday. All the suspicious packages were going to be reported over the next 24 to 48 hours. This someone of these reports right now. Hopefully it turns out to be nothing. But thank goodness people are hyper vigilant about this type of stuff. We were interviewing a pastor about Love Thy Neighbor and we have to interrupt because of a bomb scare. Thanks for joining us. Ac 360 starts now. Good evening. Thank you very much for joining us. Well keep an eye on whats going on from the building not far from where im sitting. Well bring you anything significant as we get a bigger picture. There is more breaking news tonight in a terror attack still being investigated as we speak. Today, the fbi said theyre treating the devices that were sent as real, and not hoax devices. We still dont know if they were capable of detonating, but we do know that whoever sent them is still on the loose. Were learning far more tonight about the pieces of this plot, and well bring you all of it. We
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