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Life. to the fullest. the breaking news out of new york, just north of new york city, where a suspicious package described as an ied, an improvised explosive device, has been reportedly been found near hillary and bill clintons home. at the same time, a second suspicious package addressed to the residence of barack obama in washington, d.c., this coming from the u.s. secret service. shimon prokupecz joins us now. do we know, was the second package also a suspected explosive device, the one tar...

Very, very disturbing, this commonality, those where werelo attacked, all of whom have been very critical of president trump. >> thats right, wolf, we have a picture and an image of one of the devices thats been recovered. and what you can see is, clearly what scares is law enforcement officials who have been handling this is that it appears to be and they are treating it as a functional device, as the governor of new york and the mayor of new york just said, the one that was sent to the cnn bui...

>> that sounds like a fire alarm. well keep you posted on that. tom fuentes, if youre still hearing us here -- theyre connected now? >> reporter: a minute later, poppy harlow and jim sciutto were evacuating cnns new york headquarters, along with hundreds of employees, tourists and new yorkers were neighboring buildings. >> theres a fire alarm here. >> you might have heard it in the background. were going to find out what the latest is. >> well be right back. >> reporter: authorities responded qu...

The next few days, and well put the right people on it to make sure theres an apprehension made as quickly as possible. >> reporter: you described it as a live explosive, and also described as rudimentary, but functional device. rudimentary, yes, but could it have killed someone? >> we treated it as a live explosive device, capable of injuring or possibly killing someone. thats the way the bomb squad does their business. i give so much credit to the bomb squad detectives and just from your camer...

All the time, and that white powder turns out to be talcum powder or something. but theres anthrax sent to news organizations. i was in the news office when our office received an envelope that contained anthrax and it did affect a child of one of the workers there. as they did with the explosive device, theyre going to operate out an abundance of caution. >> all right, so i want you guys to stand by over there, because were getting a lot more information, even as we speak. walk us through, beca...

This country through acts of violence. >> reporter: the nypd says the live explosive device was discovered at the columbus circle. >> responding officers identified a device that appeared to be a live explosive device. additionally there was an envelope containing white powder that was discovered as part of that original packaging. >> reporter: it was addressed to former cia director john brennan who has appeared on cnn air but is not a cnn contributor. the package was one of many discovered in ...

York city. its interesting that the secret service is saying this morning that the packages were actually identified during routine mail screening. so i think at this point we dont know exactly how close to the residences the packages got. it was late last night the secret service is saying that a single package was addressed to our former first lady hillary clinton. then it was early this morning that mail screeners discovered a package to former president obama. they were intercepted at that p...

We still cant go back inside because safety comes first and they have to sweep very carefully floor by floor and make sure god forbid scary morning turned out the right way for us. >> as usual, your focus is the right way. your brorks the governor said it, use this as a cautionary warning for everyone. wlif spoke with him earlier, there was a press conference here laying out the latest that they knew. one of the things that we learned was this was a live explosive device they were looking at wit...

Once a suspicious package is determined or an actual explosive device, the fbi has jurisdiction if theres any potential harm or actual harm to a former president, former first lady, or two former presidents in this case. thats why they think its so coincidental. theyre small packages that were sent in the mail. beyond that, ive talked to officials at fbi headquarters. theyre not going to say anything at this point beyond that. the analysis will try to determine whether the explosives were actual...

That was addressed to the former cia director john brennan. there are other developments unfolding right now, i quickly want to go to our correspondents and our anchors who were at the c nrks nrknn bureau in new york harlow and jim sciuto were on air when these situations began to unfold. give us your reactions to what we just heard from law enforcement. >> there was a lot of news there, wolf. in that press conference. in that, first of all, there was a live explosive device september to septemb...