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Through a bag of donations after of whats being described as an incendiary device going off. a package exploded at a fedex facility injuring one worker there. officials at fedex scrambled and they were able to find a second suspicious package which they removed from the sorting facility without incident. the two parcels are connected to the previous four explosions this month. thats where they got a rare break. now they have an unexploded device to examine for clues since everyone agrees that we...

Somebody in austin. the atf has not confirmed that to us yet, but, of course, theyre working with the fbi and the austin pd and local pd here to try to confirm this is indeed connected to that spate of bombings we have seen over the last 18 days in austin, which you mentioned is about 60 miles northeast of here. now, just after 6:00 a.m. this morning, a call came in from another fedex sorting facility near the airport in austin, that was of a suspicious package. no detonation, suspicious package...

Whom it may concern shooting. i think the way the police are handling this now in terms of any danger to anyone else, they dont believe it exists. >> tom fuentes, thank you for that. well monitor that breaking news there in maryland. >> students being evacuated from the school good news. to the other breaking news, out of austin, texas, police on the scene of a suspicious package, reported at a fedex facility in austin, texas. this is in addition to an overnight explosion at a separate fedex gro...

Familiar to me when following this one. mr. cavanaugh, its good to have ow on you on a non-breaking news day. i say this knocking on plastic here. >> right, chuck, its been rough on citizens for austin for sure in the last couple of weeks. >> lets talk about, the biggest news today is finding a package before its detonated, before its been delivered, and you say this is an important piece of investigative work, why? >> well, we dont know exactly how this package detonated in this sorting facilit...

That is a fedex drop-off center on brody lane. and that is where investigators believe that these two packages may have been dropped off at some point. were still working to fill in some of these details, but again, according to the source briefed on the investigation, what investigators are looking at right now is that this suspected bomber may have dropped off these two packages at this fedex drop-off center and they ended up at two fedex sorting facilities, and that they were each bound for a...

Their way out. many people are not working. we have lost count of those who stopped by with cameras or phones taking pictures. the u.p.s. driver, as well, police saying he did the right thing, instead of delivering that package, went back to the sorting facility. >> polo sandoval, thank you, in redlands, california. >> the picture in the sid owe is from the attack. a tragic scene in just minutes. 14 people killed, 21 others injured. listening to the police scanners during the shooting gives you ...

He returned to the sorting facility and the chief of police in san ber snnardino isolated t box until the box squad arrived to later determine it was simply clothes. again shl again, while the items in that box were of no threat, i think it really does highlight this level of vigilance and this morning, now that the sun is up over this community, people are out walking their dogs and seeing the boarded up door and window behind me, its a reminder that they have to be extra vigilant and they hope...

The former home of syed farook. he turned and went to the sorting facility. they found out it was simply clothing in there. we are trying to find out more about that to see if theres more to that story. they are waiting to hear back from the police. again, it shows people are on alert. according to police, the driver did the right thing. today, talking to people that keep walking by us, fred. a lot of them curious, they have a phone or camera in hand wanting to take a quick snapshot of what the ...

Screening facility which is something thats been set up for many, many years, to screen mail coming in to the white house for just these sorts of situations. accords to the u.s. secret service they did an initial biological testing on the nfl. that envelope. but earlier today they did testing on this envelope and returned what theyre calling a presumptive positive for cyanide. then that sample was transported to another facility to confirm the results. and at this point the secret service is say...

>> any idea how long it is going to get more testing? >> these things typically can happen in a couple of days. we should know in the next 24 to 48 hours. now the secret service is not commenting. they were glad to catch this when they did at this sorting facility. which is why it is there. it is interesting it was not initially testing positive but the envelope tested positive later today. well have to wait to see what the latest is on that. >> thankfully no one at the facility was exposed. p...