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Grand Junction Police arrested a man early Saturday morning with blasting caps, a sawed-off shotgun and other peoples credit cards.

All items were rendered safe by bomb squad members. Sheriff Class in a Facebook post said to not touch or move items that are believed to be explosive. "In situations like this, if you ever find items that you believe to be explosive or not even sure what they are, please do not touch or move them. Contact your local authorities and let those with experience take care of those items so no one gets hurt. Thank you to the members of the Bomb Squad that assisted with this today. Your help is alway...

We have never had this before in this country. >> just a reminder, people have died within the last year receiving bombs in the mail, fedex in austin, texas. ultimately, the person that carried that out was caught because of the surveillance footage around where he was when he mailed these. thats the type of thing they will be looking at now. >> i have to continue to believe that we are getting very close. the news last night they reported on, they were looking at the mail facility down in flori...

Blasting cap and put something together to make it look -- i talked to special agent bomb technicians from the fbi in quantico, those packages screamed for attention, like somebody wanted you to know there was a bomb there. >> lets put up the x-ray images of them. here they are. what does it tell you when you look at this. >> first of all, the package, right, so the packaging there. pvc pipe. theres two types of casing for this. one is pvc pipe, stuffed with nails or nuts or bolts or use a cast ...

Cases. officials are saying these were potential explosive devices. yesterday, they were saying they were bombs, so whats the difference? >> thats a really tough line to walk the fact of the matter is to make an explosionive device, it must have power, a power source, an explosive material, wires and a detonator a blasting cap. heat shock friction. thats what bomb technicians think about. thats what it takes to ignite one of these devices. some of that could be simply unscrewing the end of a pip...

One of the things im hearing from guys now, yes, they look like bombs. yes, there is a mode of sophistication, but it doesnt mean they are functional bombs or just meant to look like functional bombs, help me understand that. >> theres four component parts of a bomb. power supply, which is generally a battery. an initiator, which is a blasting cap, explosives. could be c 4. and a switch. a switch that was used in austin was a trip wire. it can be a key or cell phone. >> why is this the most impo...

There was a bomb there. >> lets put up the x-ray images of them. here they are. what does it tell you when you look at this. >> first of all, the package, right, so the packaging there. pvc pipe. theres two types of casing for this. one is pvc pipe, stuffed with nails or nuts or bolts or use a cast iron pipe. the package becomes a shrapnel. four components. a power supply, typically a battery, initiator, typically a blasting cap, the shrapnel, the things stuffed inside of it and fourth would be ...

Here. there will be digit counsel -- exhaust. law enforcement professionals will be able to put together. >> especially the ones hand delivered by courier. i have to ask you, the question people have been asking me, they didnt go off. they didnt go off. was this intended to scare people or do you think the actual intent was to harm someone? >> it doesnt matter when youre investigating im sure. >> were assuming this is terrorism. the purpose of terrorism is to do what? its violence or intimidatio...

The package, thats not necessarily a direction to tell you who was involved. while were talking, please put back up the images of what we got today, the new images of the bombs on the inside fp if on the inside of the bomb you see things. one of the things im hearing from guys now, yes, they look like bombs. yes, there is a mode of sophistication, but it doesnt mean they are functional bombs or just meant to look like functional bombs, help me understand that. >> theres four component parts of a...

One reported by the "new york post" today, they said there was no blasting cap in that. im wondering whether any other ones that potentially could have detonated? you do you know, dan? >> thats the key question. obviously, brian, the key component of an explosive device is an explosive. if you dont have black powder, you dont have an explosive. the use of pvc, you know, again, speaks to just such an amateurish approach, this has to be intentionally amateurish. it doesnt make any sense. ainsley: ...