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Very much early in the investigative stage. but what we saw there is the balance of law enforcement officers have to do. on one hand, the assistant director to the fbi indicated they dont want to disclose information which is true, right? you want to protect the integrity of the ongoing investigation, but shows the importance of the media and getting information because but for the coverage, the security officer who worked for mr. de niro, would not have found that device, he saw the picture on ...

All to know so that were dealing with the known, not speculating and dealing with the unknown as to whether or not these defenses were supposed to be a mass murder incident or hoax devices. >> it is still early going and im sure the government knows a lot and just arent sharing it with us, or the authorities. one con it and projectiles, glass shards. from what you know about -- whats your assessment of the devices themselves? >> well, i think this is the real deal. law enforcement knows a hoax d...

Do not inadvertently disclose information that could adversely impact our investigation or a future prosecution. the public understands the need for there level of operational security. for that reason i will not be able to answer specific questions on what we know. at various time over the last few days, ten suspicious packages were located at locations in new york, maryland, florida, delaware and los angeles. law enforcement responded and each package was collected by experts and examinations ...

Potential explosive device. they did not go off, as the others. so obviously, these are similar stories here. and no injuries reported. we need to confirm all of that. that is just coming into our newsroom. what more can you confirm for what i just told you? >> none of this is surprising. it appears as though this person was putting these in the mail chain a few days ago. some, perhaps the george soros package, and maybe the robert de niro package were hand-delivered through the use of some sort...

Steve: brian, remember, one of the anthrax packages actually came into our building, the building that we are sitting in right now, and i remember of the woman was featured on the front page of the "new york post." she was infected or she was injured by the anthrax. ainsley: hey, dan, we are looking right now at live pictures. you can see all of the lights that are flashing. this is the facility up in the bronx where they have taken that suspicious package that they retrieved from the tribeca ar...

Was almost exactly like the package that they were showing on tv and he took a fiffirmativ steps for us to take it away. >> do you recall an explosive device or simply a device? what is the proper terminology? >> i would say its a suspected explosive device. >> [inaudible]. >> im not going to talk about intent. if you were the bomb squad, how would you treat it? back row. devices inside the same? were you able to get forensic

Newsroom got some phone calls from employees here at this facility telling us they were being evacuated because of a suspicious package that was found here that was addressed to maxine waters. let me give you a life look at the scene right here. lapds bomb squad is on scene right here. we understand they have the robot out and from people watching our shop dell my chopper i understand some of the technicians have gone inside to take x-rays of the device which is still inside the building. weve b...

>> im a little confused on -- as a clarification, are you referring to the white powder that was found in the package mailed to cnn or is this powder that was in the device. >> this is the powder that was found yesterday with the packaging yesterday. so its not biological. its still being subjected to further testing. right here. >> the officer, the retired officer who found the package at de niros property? >> ill say that i would like to thank him for doing his job correctly. he saw on the new...

Theres a fire alarm here. >> you might have heard it in the background. were going to find out what the latest is here at cnn. were going to be right back. >> luckily, the best police department in the world quickly responded. the nypd bomb squad was quickly on the scene. here is how the new york city police commissioner described what was inside the package sent to cnn. >> responding officers identified a device that appeared to be a live explosive device. additionally, there was an envelope ka...

They certainly contain all the components necessary for a bomb. we heard the police commissioner say explosive device and other law enforcement. as they look, and this really will be up to the fbi, bomb techs and the lab as they go through it along with the nypd bomb squad theyre going to examine to see if they were actually operational. none of them, as you said, exploded and they contained all of the ingredients. >> thats key. there was a question of, were these fakes or a prank? we do know th...