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500 yards wide and long, like five football fields. thats where federal investigators expected the packages went through. the homeland security secretary said several bombs did go through the sorting facility. last night they brought in dog-sniffing teams with the miami-dade police and fbi and they did find package number 11 addressed to u.s. democratic senator cory booker. that had not yet gone out to bookers address. it was still being sorted and held here in miami-dade county. charles? >> tha...

Maybe we should check this u.s. post office sorting facility, may be the pieces of mail went through there. >> melissa: okay. phil, thank you for that. a couple minutes ago we were able to see a piece of the van and we are able to get a screen grab of it. we want to show you how much we could see from there. you can see how many stickers there are all over this van. i have no idea how you would even see out in order to be able to drive a lot of those have to do the president and the vice preside...

Inspire a great deal of fear. republicans arent immune to this either, but certainly a lot of people who have been outspoken about the president are really, real nervous today and deservedly so. this is designed to frighten and im afraid when we see a bomb truck going down the highway in new york, this is a vivid image that will stick with us for a while. >> andbratton understand that they have to go about their business. and we know in opa-locka, florida, investigators are zeroing in here on th...

Narrow down who may be responsible for this, its still a very, very big area with a huge population. and it doesnt preclude the possibility of somebody driving into the area, dropping the packages off and then leaving. but there have been bomb sniffing dogs here yesterday. there are federal agents here right now. and theyre trying to get to as much information on the lead that they have, which is -- at least we know some of the packages made their way through the sorting facility here in opa loc...

About the package sent to kamala harris in california. this morning two more suspicious packages were stopped by authorities. one was discovered at a sorting facility in florida addressed to cory booker. another in mid town manhattan be . that was address to james clapper. the total number of pipe bombs are 13. authorities had zeroed in on florida as a possible origin for each of the packages. at this hour postal inspectors are sifting through literally millions of pieces of mail searches for th...

Community of royal palm beach or whether its this facility here in opa-locka. bottom line is the fbi is still here. they have three shifts of employee, almost 600, that work here. the fbi is interviewing those employees that work on three different shifts. this is a real tough one because theyre trying to see with about half a million-plus packages that come through here every day whether an employee in that sea of packages maybe remembers seeing something, seeing that rather unique label that w...

So the fact that these were mailed may have investigators zero in using that data on where they were mailed from and maybe who mailed them. and an even more immediate level, though, i want to say if you think about this for a second, if all of these things were put through the mail, yes, that gives a lead in terms of figuring out who did this and catching them. >> that also means the men and women that work for the u.s. postal service. this bomber has already gone through them. right? we are tol...

Police department, bomb squad, is taking a look at just to make sure that the interior of that is not different in a way that could cause you harm to them or anybody else. so that is something that i really would like to -- were all trying to get a better handle on frankly. >> and i want to bring back kerry sanders at that sorting facility in opa-locka. give us an update where you are. >> reporter: im at the opa-locka mail sort facility. this is where several of the bombs have been found. this i...

And its a very busy post office. in fact, i walk this neighborhood all the time. you can see usually, certainly in the morning and then in the afternoon lots of mail trucks lined up there because it is a sorting facility. the stuff gets sorted, loaded into the trucks. i think you can see from the picture on the air right now what youre looking a in ing at residential building. >> that package, number 12, was intended for james clapper. the one were also speaking about this morning that was disco...

Find it. >> or maybe copycats are now doing the same thing to make things even more chaotic. >> exactly. >> jim this sorting facility down in florida, its the size of a football field. so even if were getting more and more information with each subsequent package, how difficult is this? i mean, thousands of packages go through this processing facility a day. >> yes, steph, i talked with some of my colleagues and atf yesterday and we talked just in general terms about the investigation. you know,...