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Safe procedure on it, try to open it without blowing up, safely -- make the device safe. then it will be sent to quaint quantico, where laboratory, forensics, can examine it for fingerprints, dna, mechanism, fusing and firing system and get that all going. >> as a reminder, you are looking -- this is an aerial shot of the postal facility where that package was delivered. it was intended for james clapper. he phoned in to our colleagues at cnn. lets listen to that. i think anyone who had been a c...

The post office remains closed. a couple u.s. postal inspections service team members are here. and this area is primarily residential. the homeowners are not allowed in their homes around the perimeter. and they had told us that it appears that they have linked this package to other devices but theyll need to look at forensics to see exactly what this device entails but we have confirmed a second package sent to a california politician and as you know authorities rendered a safe package sent to...

Pri privilege of working cases with them. they are like atf or dea agents. highly trained, professional, very good at what they do. a case like this something being sent through the mail, theyre the folks you want to turn to. >> of course, this means, barrett berger, these have all passed through the postal system putting a lot of those employees unknowingly at risk. you investigated some bombing cases, i know, during your time with the eastern district. i dont want this to be taken wrong. we ha...

Agencies who have been on the ground and working completely around the clock i am sure to go through the evidence as quickly as possible and get a suspect into custody, because that is the goal when you have a threat to life like this. and so there is now going to be some going back over the evidence in more detail i am sure. they want to make sure that they have a charge, and they have probable cause to hold someone and detain them because of the threat to life, and once you have that person in...

About them. i had the privilege of working cases with them. they are like atf or dea agents. highly trained, professional, and very, very good at what they do. if a case like this one involves something being september through the mail, theyre the folks you want to turn to. >> of course, this means, barrett berger, these have all passed through the postal system putting a lot of those employees unknowingly at risk. you investigated some bombing cases, i know, during your time with the eastern di...

Soros, theyve had that for two days now. i would hope that the forensics on that are well -- were well under way by today. so theyre going to have a head start there. as we know, there are cameras everywhere. perhaps soros has some surveillance cameras. i would guess so if it was his residence or business. and, you know, unexploded ordnance or unexploded device like this is a forensic bonanza. theres hairs, fibers, dna toolmarks, the materials can be traced back to the manufacturers, possibly ev...

Fortunate that these things never really initiated and caused any serious damage. i know its a traumatic event, but there is a good side to this, that these things did not go off. >> thank you for saying that. i appreciate that, jim. chris, you know the package that was sent to cnn, apparently delivered, you know, by courier. the package sent to soros was also delivered by hand. is that a big lead to investigators? >> i think so. and i think with respect to soros, theyve had that for two days no...

Themselves. >> i think it was you who tweeted earlier today, envelopes, packages, ieds are a treasure trove of forensics. what else can investigators determine from the packaging that was sent at the device. >> the amount of forensics are unbelievable. you look at chase evidence, how wires are crimped and cut, that traditional signature like you will see with all bomb makers. the other aspect here i heard nobody talk about is, theres no doubt in my mind coming from the protective intelligence fi...

Revealed they have reason to think there might be more packages out there. i would anticipate there are twoeds of this investigation, both trying to back track from the packages and what they know about the forensics of the device and separately from an investigative standpoint looking at existing cases they might have open or other ways that other investigations are indicating what direction they should go to find out who the persons are who are personal. >> there is an enormous manhunt under w...

Postal service and others are going to form a task force and theyre going to start hunting down the individual or individuals or group that caused this that sent these bombs. part of that is going to be looking at the forensics of the different devices. the envelopes. the stamps, whether they licked the stamps, whether there are forensics. like dna or hair. they can pull off the the envelopes. my point is, theres a huge digital and physical forensic trail that is left any time you do something l...