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In the mail system. so this may be one of those. at this point, the package was intercepted at a postal facility in atlanta. not at cnn center. jeff zucker, the president of the network, has told employees today that all mail headed to cnn center and other cnn buildings is being screened off site so this never posed any danger to employees there, but obviously, theres still possible danger to people who might be handling it, people at the postal facilities, people who might handle these packages...

Package bombs. but is his incendiary rhetoric fanning the flames of hatred? and bordering on escalation. the president uses the term invasion in connection with the would-be immigrants and is sending 5,000 active duty troops to the southern border. what are they guarding against? im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." with the nation rocked to its core by saturdays massacre of jewish worshippers in pittsburgh and the mailing of more than a dozen pipe bombs to top democrats and critics o...

Not understand the difference between we are angry about what this group is doing or how were being perceived by this group, and we hate these people. thats the distinction that needs to be made. thats the distinction that we have made in politics for years. that you republicans, democrats, independents, whoever you are, socialists, youre wrong on this topic, but i will defend to my last breath your right to be wrong. thats where we have turned. somewhere instead its become you hate america, you...

The authorities in atlanta are looking at the possibility that this could be yet one more of the bombs that were mailed by the suspect who is in custody here. now, our colleague at wnbc is telling us that his sources in law enforcement are telling them that they have recovered what appears to be a long list of people who this suspect here had and numbers into more than 100. a list of people who he may have decided to send other package bombs to. and so the authorities are proactively now reachin...

The suspect is not talking to federal authorities. the federal authorities are saying it is possible there could be more of these package bombs still in the mail stream and they just have not surfaced yet. hallie. >> thank you for that report. were going to stay tuned on that situation. president trump has ordered flags to be flown at half staff to honor the victims of the pittsburgh shooting. you can see it flying at half staff above the white house. governors around the country are doing the s...

This will move forward, but at this point with sayoc, not saying anything to investigators. there really is no way to know if there are more that have been mailed and if there are more package bombs that are out there, and that, of course, would perhaps be the most immediate concern right now. >> for the people who thought they put this behind them last week, there are still investigators and security people looking out for more of the packages. kerry, thank you. a shooting that resulted in th...

Shooting suspect is do to court. the person suspected of mailing out more than a dozen pipe bombs is due to make his first court appearance. kerry sanders is joining us from miami. kerry, were learning more about how officials were able to track down this mail bomb suspect, right? >> reporter: its very interesting because you know when you get an active review of the procedures that police use, you begin to understand the technology they have. we understand from the 14 package bombs that were in...

Him from the gentlemens club were stunned by his arrest. >> he used to come in, bring in the two big duffel bags, everybody wondered why he was bringing in duffel bags to deejay and hindsight being 20-20, he could be making bombs in the deejay booth. >> he tried to persuade me how to vote. reporter: investigators believe sayoc most likely assembled all of the package bombs inside his van since he was living in the van, and the white van now in the possession of the fbi and we expect being thorou...

Is there? what profile are they able to draw up so far? >> no, youre right and if you contrast the two here, cesar sayoc, accused of the bombings, sending out the package bombs, he had many run-ins with the police over the years. he made a bomb threat over florida power and light at one point. bowers seems to have absolutely no contact with law enforcement. they said he was never on their radar before. he was a loner. neighbors say he never got out much. he seemed to have -- his life seems to ha...

Houses of worship into a battleground. this is a profound story that goes far beyond just quoting what the president says and asking whether he means it or doesnt. thats meaningless. we have an issue of profound racism going on in america. our institutions are under profound and fatal attack. media have to cover this story in an entirely different way and we have to get down to the harsh truth of whats happening. >> just spell that out a little bit more here. you look at what happened here in pi...