Pipe Bomb Device News Today

Good morning to you. Craig melvin from msnbc headquarters in New York City. We continue to follow this breaking news. Potential Explosive Devices mailed to President Obama and Hillary Clinton. As you see there, cnn reporters and others have been evacuated from their headquarters here in New York City. This is a live look outside the Time Warner Center here in New York City. The Secret Service confirming a criminal investigation into the Explosive Devices mailed to the two democrats a short time ...

Thats being tested now down stairs so the mail room area is contained while we go through the various steps to test that. On a field test. Package it up safely for removal and decon that area and anybody that came in contact with it. Im going to take just keep in mind it happened a couple of hours ago and still ongoing and going to take some questions and not going too deep into it. Yes . Can you talk about how concerned you are the connection of these targets . People who have been criticized b...

Many times through all of the history about the different devices and how they were designed, this is a run of the mill pipe bomb device and design. so why didnt it go off? its not terribly sophisticated -- didnt have a sophisticated timer tied to a cell phone. we dont see that. the last piece is so we see a lot of similarities on the packages themselves. but theres a question out there as to how they were delivered. we assume that you take -- someone went to a mail facility. put these in. and t...

>> pete, thank you, police commissioner bratton as we look at the scene here in sunrise, florida, now, you can see the officials outside congressman deb wee w debb debbie wassermans office, that office has been evacuated as they investigate what is now being described as a fifth possible pipe bomb device. as you watch this play out, you think what? >> in the case of cnn its in a -- up in that building. they dont want to use the elevator to take it down, for example. part of the delay in new york...

Protect anyone threatened by these cowards. its clear from this morning that here at the white house theyre in a crisis mode. theyre trying to stay in front of this story and letting everyone know the president has been briefed. >> hans nichols there on duty for us at the white house. clint watts is with me here in new york city as well. clint msnbcs national security analyst, former fbi special agent, joint terrorism task force. we do not know a great deal right now, clint. we just know that th...

Rizwan farook traveled to saudi arabia and just now the saudi arabian embassy confirming that, that he spent nine days in that country in 2014. the fbi saying theyre still investigating other potential travel by the couple. the fbi also talked about that pipe bomb device left behind in the conference room and analyzing the suspects computers and phones as kerry was just talking about. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams has been following the investigation closely. what are you hearing ...

Lets bring in nbcs blake mccoy. what do you have? >> we do know a pipe bomb device was found in the building inside that conference center. apparently three pipe bombs bound together that had a radio transmission attached to it that would have set off the bomb. we know the bomb did not go off. they were unsuccessful if they tried. we have also been talking a lot about the fact that he was at the party, left and came back. this is what the police chief has to say about that. >> there was a county...

>> were leaning towards a pipe bomb device but i dont have any other information right now. >> [ inaudible ]. >> i gave you everything we had in the vehicle. >> is it possible [ inaudible ]. >> i cant understand you. >> at some point, we will allow the media in to get closer shots of building. until were at that point, im