That. in their statement today, the police said the bombs appeared capable offic nighting just a small fire when opened. so it s not clear exactly what kind of damage this suspect wanted to try to achieve here. scotland yard said the bags were sent in small bags similar to ma little la envelopes. regardless of how small they are, you have to understand london is a city on edge, it s been struck by multiple deadly terrorist attacks over the past three years. officials here are on a constant state of near high alert. so today s events are likely to rattle them even more. let me ask you. are the police saying these are attempted attacks? reporter: well, they re calling them terrorism. they re bringing the counter terrorism force in there. they believe they are calling them bombs. they are referring to them as ieds, it is clear to police and everybody they made their statement to, they are treating