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Now as you can see right now, the tunnel containment vessel vehicle is there in the bronx and figure out what to do with it next. >> its interesting, our pentagon has spent $20 billion to identify. how do they find improvised explosive devices? we have all kinds of technology and machines. how do they find improvised explosive devices after $20 billion our government concluded the single best way to do that is a dog. i have got to tell you, there arent enough dogs in airports and mail facilities...

Latest. brian: in fact, what we will do is split the screen with it remember how yesterdays started. well find out around 9:30 that something was going on with the clintons and it was screened out before had a chance to arrive. the day before it was george soros and they got to his mailbox with this package that didnt detonate nor do we believe blasting cap. yesterday afternoon we find out about the maxine waters package. we found out about the brennan package. we found out debbie wasserman schu...

Terrorize -- still is going to terrorize people no doubt about that. but there is something about this that makes absolutely no sense. you cant be amateurish but then have these devices, all of them not go off and nothing happen beforehand. brian: misspelled debbie wasserman schultzs last name. misspelled brennans last name. got the wrong network when it comes to brennan and no blasting cap in the package to cnn. steve: by the way what we are looking at now is looking at a police vehicle. we bel...

Were did he coys that means two things. one we had a witness there this morning who believed he heard something explode who says he was told by kids in the room that they saw a bomb that it went off and kids were injured. in the people people can mistake situations and cannot be what they seem in the moment. thats one issue. the second is the idea of federal charges for weapons of mass destruction. if they are all inert here is the question for you, they could not have gone of era off, would hav...

You about a person who would put out these sort of decoy devices, to use your term? >> there definitely appears to be some copycat similarities here. looks like he took pieces from recent shootings, even going as far back as columbine, which was 19 years ago, hard to believe, last month. four components to a bomb. you need a power supply, like a battery, which he didnt. you had to have explosive, pten or c-4, which are much more difficult to get. he did not have those either. then you have to ha...

Kind of signature that might correspondent to the signature of the other bombs. >> two things are important in doing the bombing investigations. the first part to your point, anderson, is the signature of the bomber. now, bombs are made up of components, usually a power supply like a battery. there may have been a blasting cap. theres usually some type of explosive, maybe shrapnel like nails, nuts and bolts, and then a switch. people have been erroneously stating all day that this is unibomber 2...

An incredible amount. knowing that this guy was moving this quickly, he was bound to make a mistake. >> you spoke about the evolution of the bombing techniques from the packages to the tripwire and then through fedex. what does that tell if you anything about the suspect, and in terms of tracking this suspect, did it make it look more difficult or easier? >> theres four basic opponents, you cant get around these. theres the power source which is usually a battery. an initiator which could be a b...

Them before they injure anybody else. obviously if you put anything in the mail, its a different type probably or a different type of concern. because theyre actively counting down and draining from the power source. still a big threat. >> dana: so the battery issue is important to figuring out how this came together, right? >> yeah, absolutely. when you hear the word "pipe bomb", that is a power trained time fuse president thats wile e coyote with a fuse. a blasting cap is not easy to get ahold...

Few weeks. you had the pocket package bombs set down there. you have this trip wire device on sunday. and both our affiliates are reporting that this fedex package bomb has shrapnel in it. what does that tell you, three different kinds of devices? >> were pretty four the first four devices were interrelated. if first one, i caution people in matters that involve the military and law enforcement investigations, early reports are often inaccurate. we have to be careful, but there does seem to be s...

These are three separate delivery systems. now, when it comes to bombs, every bomber has his own signature. and the device is basically made up of four components, a power source, which can be a battery, you have an initiator which can be a blasting cap, you have the actual explosives and then the shrapnel that could be part of it. and then you have the switch. the issue here is with bombs, which makes it so frightening, is the lethality of them. most people that come in contact with a bomb, mos...