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Experienced sniper teams that the nypd has as part of emergency services. the strategic response group, they are part of normal control. the critical response command which are the heavy weapons tea teams, they have more of a counterterrorism mission. they are all part of the groups that train there as well as squads. so it is a very robust facility. and they can handle any sort of these type of devices. >> tom, thank you. and somebody who knows quite a bit about where this vehicle, where this b...

Odd shaped packages like these dont go through any kind of sorting machine. and in some cases they would be canceled or stamped with a postmark, hand-stamped, but in some cases they dont bother, they just push them through. so that is why you dont see cancellations or postmarked on all of these packages. but in any event, because of the postmarks and other reasons, they have been able to trace these packages to florida. and they are doing interviews with people in florida now, not just postal wo...

Intelligence james clapper. the other intercepted in florida. that one was addressed to new jersey democrat cory booker. all of these devices have been sent to prominent democrats. all of them critics at one point or another of president trump. the president so far only weighing in on twitter today about what he has called a quote, the bomb stuff. president trump will be speaking at an event later this hour. we will be watching, of course, for that. with me now to cover all of these late breakin...

A thursday night. well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york, day 644 of the trump administration. this scene may be symbolic of the mood on our country right now, at least some of the major cities as authorities hunt for whoever has sent parcels containing mail bombs. tonight in new york and l.a., police responded to calls for suspicious packages. all clear now, were happy to report at both locations. the california building they responded to houses some feder...

Biden. it was misaddressed and sent back to the bogus address. the first package was hand delivered monday to the new york estate of liberal george soros. >> and device intended for maxine watter was found at a mail facility. one sent to eric holder was missent to debby wasserman schultzs office. >> a source says the john brennan package contained a white substance. for the latest on what officials are looking for here, here is

Group specifically in that press conference we do know theyre looking for potentially one or more of these serial bombers there have been ten packages as you heard in that report that have been sent out none of them have been detonated but they are saying that theres no further credible source that information that would suggest that there are further packages out there but theyre ask you to yorkers and americans to remain vigilant theyre asking anyone with any information to report it to the au...

Of violence as a method of political intimidation, coercion or control. >> reporter: you can see how widespread the tartare, the home of george soros in new york city close to the home of bill and hillary clinton were package was addressed before being intercepted by the secret service tuesday. early yesterday morning the secret service intercepted a package addressed to the dc home of barack obama followed by the evacuation of the time warner ctr. and cnn in new york city caused by the package ...

Heres new york city mayor bill de blasio addressing reporters. >> this clearly is an act of terror, attempting to under mine our free press and leaders of this country through acts of violence. i want to make very clear that the people of new york city will not be intimidated. >> it was also confirmed last night that a second device addressed to congresswoman maxine waters was found at a mail facility in los angeles. earlier in the day it was discovered at a maryland mail facility. the devices w...

Addressed, it got returned or sent back to florida. now the fbi will take possession of the device and compare it to all the other ones that we have. at this point, chris, the fbi and experts handling this say all devices appear to be similar. they appear to be constructed the same and they believe again theyre that rudimentary, but they could have hurt someone. these are devices that could have harmed people. at least one of the devices thats been examined, by the way, appeared to be sh ards of...

At the building. theres the process by which this was delivered, through this messenger center by the courier. >> if you havent been around new york city much, its pretty amazing when you sigh couree con bicycles, cut through traffic, get through quickly. this is a legitimate courier. this is a courier service. so they should have some sort of trail as to who hired them for that service. is that the expectation? >> thats the expectation. and also the folks at cnn have that trail, too. when youre...