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Packages now. >> we can say there has been significant progress in the investigation. its clear from what we know based on the presence in this sorting facility in florida, investigators are focussed on that area, focussed on the south florida area and they made prosome progress. but i can tell you in talking to folks, certainly throughout today already this morning and then even last night there was optimism in terms of where this investigation was heading and that investigators were feeling pr...

Terrorism for the nypd. he said were going to be following the same protocol we followed earlier this week. we bring everyone in. we isolate the package. and the package is removed. we saw that earlier when we brought in that special bomb vehicle earlier this week. we are going to be bringing that vehicle in on 52nd street which has been blocked off. john miller also telling me that they expect some time early this afternoon perhaps late this morning to have some sort of an update here with offi...

Locate these packages before theyre delivered and to alert authorities. and this is an example on the part of one postal worker who when she saw this, recognized it, froze it in the system, and was able to resolve that before it got delivered to a location in manhattan. very good work here. were not going to be able to take questions, but thank you very much. >> all right. there you have it, john miller and rodney harrison of the new york city police department. let me update you on what they sa...

A number of bombing. two weeks later they were copy cat bombers that didnt get the dent nay t de detonator right. bombers can make a mistake along the way it doesnt get the result they wanted, right? thats a possibility as well. >> fair point, jim. here is the thing that takes me to another realm, that these might be being sent just for message sake. there is 11 of them now. now, we have heard no reporting yet -- >> 12. >> 12, im sorry. we have heard there is not an initiator. and the type of sw...

Morning. they said what happened. they said it was calm and orderly. the word had spread throughout the facility that a package had been discovered. they asked everyone to evacuate. they went across the street here and were told simply just to wait. thats whats happening here at the scene. its a postal facility here in helds kitchen. thats what we call it here in new york city. six blocks south of cnn headquarters here in new york city where you have got investigators investigating yet another p...

Timer. so you would have to set a particular message. 10 seconds, two minutes, four hours, some type of delay on it. also the fact that there were stickers on it. >> guys, let me jump in. we have james clapper joining us on the phone. director clapper, thank you for being with us. im sure you have seen all of this, but this package, this 12th package was addressed to you. it was addressed to you here at cnn, where you are a contributor. two days ago you said that this was domestic terrorism, and...

>> recognize a package that postal workers across the country have been warned about and shown photographs of in the postal system here at radio station. that postal worker was able to notify the postal police on scene here who contacted the joint terrorism task force and nypd. this area was secured while emergency service and nypd bomb squad responded. the package was isolated in the post office. the bomb squad was able to use their equipment to conduct an x-ray inside they saw what appears to ...

Asked her what happened. she said we just heard that someone saw something. we were told to evacuate the building and we did it in an orderly fashion. i also had an opportunity to speak to john miller, the deputy with counterterrorism, and he said what theyre going to do is follow the same protocol they followed earlier this week. they bring in all the investigators and we have a myriad of investigators here from fbi, nypd, state police, bomb sniffing dogs, all here at the scene. they isolate th...

Same time. five or six at a time. something you can really key in on. but when we talk about forensics, its not just obviously dna and prints, which are the obvious links youre looking for, but also a very close examination of the components and tracing their origin. >> people, too. what did they know? did they see anybody buy this stuff. do they know someone talking about doing this kind of thing. im sure theyre canvassing for that kind of information and would welcome it if folks out there bel...

Blocks south of where you are at this postal facility where once again that suspicious package was discovered early this morning. this package addressed to former director of national intelligence james clapper. the package fitting a similar description to the packages that we have seen earlier this week with the vanilla envelopes with similar markings. i had an opportunity to speak with a postal worker at the f l facility. >> sorry to interrupt. we are seeing live picture there of ems workers b...