12th Package News Today

And into a containment van and ultimately taken care of. But were left with a lot of questions as we close the show this morning. That does it for us for now. Stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. We begin with that very breaking news. Two more packages found this morning. One addressed to senator cory booker and another to former director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Nbcs Investigative Reporter tom winters joins me now via phone. Tom were up to 12 potentially suspicious pa...

Doesnt have a Mailing Address of somebody you know because of those false alarms inhibit Law Enforcements ability to actually focus their resources, is actually reach out and find information that will help you make more informed decisions. Michael, tom, thank you so much. Im signing off right now. And i hand off to Hallie Jackson who picks up our breaking News Coverage right now. We are sticking with that story. For the third day this week, we are leading with Breaking News, two more suspicious...

Discovered today. 12 in total now this week. the 11th addressed to corey booker. that found in a mail facility in florida. these are pictures you are seeing here live found in midtown manhattan haddressed to james clapper with the address of the cnn headquarters in new york. what you are seeing there is a picture that might be familiar to you that. is a containment vessel the nypd brings in to place the vessel. now its arrived again for this package. our jason carol is on the scene now in midtow...

Identifying whos behind this. i dont want you in public to get into details that you cant share, but i just wonder what you can say about what gives you that confidence and what has turned in the last number of hours, because as poppy was saying earlier, yesterday, we were hearing no hard leads, but now the language coming from law enforcement and yourself has changed. what can you tell us? >> well, every time there is a package sent, you have a new piece of evidence, right? and the fbis ability...

Matter how good he is, no matter what he was wearing, if he was wearing gloves, no matter how careful he was, he definitely made some mistakes. he likely made some mistakes. think thats what law enforcement is probably capitalizing on behind the scenes. theres hundreds and hundreds of agents from the fbi, from the atf, from the postal service inspection service that have been working on this, and they have been working overnight trying to do exactly that, to capitalize on the mistakes that this ...

Suspicious package delivered to a mail sorting facility six blocks from cnn. addressed to james clapper at cnn where he is a contributor here. given the prior package sent to john brennan and other targets, do you have any additional security that people have been putting around you, et cetera? have any other precautions been taken for you personally? >> well, i probably shouldnt comment on that right now. ill probably pass on that. >> understood. thank you very, very much, director clapper. a...

The scene? >> reporter: well, its a full emergency response here. weve got high ranking officials from the nypd, fdny, even some state police are here, john miller at the nypd is here as well. its really sort of -- its the nypd keeping everybody behind police tape away from the post office. the post office has been fully evacuated. if anybody leaves the surrounding buildings, they are escorted away for the time being until this package is in the containment vessel. >> bringing us the latest from...

Addressed to senator corey bookers camden office in new jersey. there is a police presence there. they are doing a sweep of the building to make sure there is nothing else there. there is no indication yet there is something dangerous there, there is another package there. but this is what we see that they do when they discover a package that has been addressed and that is intercepted on the way. in this case, i am told by sources that this package was intercepted in florida at that facility, th...

Clapper. he is a contributor. like you say, all the hallmarks of these other packages we have seen. the six american flag stamps, the return address stamps, the yellow package with the bubble wrap inside. the next step, they will be in there. im sure they already made an assessment whats inside. is it identical. >> i wanted to tell your viewers some new information that we have. all mail that is destined for cnn as this package this morning was, is now being screened first at an off site locatio...

To cnn certainly had that. were also learning the president is being briefed on all of this this morning. lets go to a very active scene here in the middle of a busy new york city on a friday morning. national correspondent jason carroll is there. to locate you for our viewers, you are at 52nd street and eighth avenue. six blocks south of cnn. >> in fact, i can almost see our building from where im standing here on 52nd and eighth avenue. and just so you know, poppy, were just now hearing that t...