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In such a moment like that. >> its 7:19 here on the east coast. 7:19 in new york city. thats a live picture over the bronx where an explosive devierks pipe bomb matching the ones found by nypd yesterday and addressed to two former presidents, a form attorney general and a sitting congresswoman now one addressed to actor robert de niro. device was found in lower manhattan. a call came into the nypd about 4:00 this morning from a worker at the building who says he saw the packages on tv yesterday ...

That sounds like a fire alarm here. well keep you posted on that. >> were going to jump in. 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 ...

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...

And with the president and first lady speaking out against this and others, too, all day long, youll hear from them in a moment, there is, tonight, no word on any motive. but there was an enormous law enforcement presence. the fbi, atf, secret service, all responding to this today, and tonight, what they have already learned about the devices and what could lead them to whoever sent them. heres abcs chief justice correspondent pierre thomas now. >> reporter: tonight, these photos, exclusively ob...

That sounds like a fire alarm here. well keep you posted on that. >> were going to jump in. 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 ...

Clinton did not receive their packages, nor were they at risk of receiving them. now the secret service and obviously the fbi and local officials in new york are all investigating this. now, whats interesting about this, jim, of course is this comes just days after a pipe bomb, what is suspected to be a pipe bomb was found at the home of george soros in bedford, new york, not far from the home of hillary clinton. so certainly something very concerning here is going on. the fbis joint terrorism t...

With the bomb squad, have said the building should be evacuated. theyre going to respond and investigate the package. obviously growing concern given all the news that were reporting here this morning about explosive devices being sent to the former president, president obama, to hillary clinton. we also just moments ago reported that a fourth explosive device was sent to the white house and intercepted in a mail room. now authorities, as ive been saying this morning, are increasingly concerned ...

I know this morning law enforcement officials were stepping up security, concern for this kind of situation. they are treating this as a real explosive device. im told by law enforcement officials in new york that the bomb squad there believes they have this under control. they will likely take this device, this suspicious package, and probably place it in a secure area. they have this truck that they bring in they they put it in, and they will probably detonate it. serious concern now here in n...

Once again, a very suspicious package that new york city police, law enforcement are involved in. jim sciutto and poppy harlow, i wonder if you can hear me. >> i can hear you, wolf. poppy it hear next to me. the police are doing their job. we tried to move a little closer to get a better look, but theyve asked us to move up to the corner, almost a block away from the entrance. you can hear behind us, wolf, this is another police emergency squad unit arriving. ive seen now two ambulances arriving...

>> apparently that may have not been linked to this. >> were all professionals. youre going to do your job, investigators are going to do their job. i think we can acknowledge that our country has been attacked. there was an intention and that was at a minimum to freak people out, potentially to kill people. >> but if youre just trying to freak someone out, you wouldnt send a live explosive device, right? >> you wouldnt think so. >> youd want to send something that would trigger to make sure it ...