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Activity as well. that is where we find kerry sanders who is in opa-locka. bring us up to speed on what youve seen in the last little bit. >> reporter: well, let me just confirm first of all that the fbi has discovered the bomb, number 11, which was headed to center cory booker at the facility right here where im standing. it was at around 11:00 last night when they decided to evacuate this gigantic facility here because of the discovery. the local miami-dade police department had bomb-sniffing ...

In, my colleague on the phone with us. you are basically on the scene. tell us what its like there. >> i actually just live in that neighborhood which is hells kitchen, and i just wanted to give people sort of a sense of what thats like. because its a little bit different than we saw yield where you had just a sorting facility. this is -- if this is the post office thats on 52nd street between 8th and 9th avenues in new york, it is both a working post office and a sorting facility. the other thi...

At an even more immediate level, though, i want to say, think about this for a second. if all these things were put through the mail, yes, that gives a lead in terms of figuring out who did this and catching them. but that also means that the men and women who work for the u.s. postal service, this bomber has already gone through them, right? were told these are explosive devices packed with explosive powder, right? pipe bombs, packed with explosive powder, pvc pipes, these things appear to have...

To cory booker was able to be picked up. >> and weve been talking for the last few you minutes about what were seeing in new york because it is in our backyard. but there is that other scene unfolding in florida, the suspicious package addressed to new jersey democratic senator cory booker. it was discovered at a postal facility in the city of opa-locka, florida, that is near miami. on thursday investigators said they believed some of the bombs sent this week could have passed dl through that fa...

Hillary clinton, barack obama, maxine waters, john brennan and cnn. no one was hurt. it henry is tracking the investigation. politicians score political points over an act of terror. we begin the search for a suspect. we have team coverage tonight.he the latest reaction from the president tonight, jackie heinrich with more on how the scene looks but first ed henry is digging into the evidence. >> reporter: the fbi confirming a second suspicious package was sent to maxine waters forcing evacuatio...

Powder and little glass shards to act as shrapnel. this is an investigate lead to try to figure out where it came from because many times it will have a bar code on it and that will help them find out perhaps where it was sold. so theres lots of investigative detail here to be looked at and the optimism is pretty high theyll be able to find a suspect soon. >> garrett what can you tell us about the two devices that were sent to the former vice president? >> well, as pete was just laying out, they...

To this, in that theyre going after someone who is not political. hes not like a george soros, where he has been giving lots of money or has been active in campaigns and certainly hes not a former elected official or elected official. now the universe begins to expand. and the challenge here, of course, and the concern is that the individuals formerly targeted had some type of protections associated with them, secret service protection or the mail going to a separate sorting facility. if you sen...

So clearly however this was delivered to the scene and building, you know, if you read in a little bit to this, it had to be brought to this courier in new york. thats a big clue that someone perhaps in new york is walking around with these devices, thats how theyre being delivered. were told that the device that was delivered to george soros home was also personally delivered and put in the mailbox. authorities there do not believe that device was mailed. so that could be an immense, immense cl...

>> no further information about what that white powder might be. we were told that the explosive device was taken to an and whye facility in the bronx. there is no specific, credible, additional threat to new york city but with that aside, and abundance of caution, theres going to be beefed up security throughout the city at high profile locations including other media offices and hubs of mass transportation. we heard a few moments ago, andrew cuomo saying that his office also received one of th...

New york and perhaps to potentially at debbie wasserman schultz office, these would have been other types of employees. just a shout out to them as well. this really puts a fine point on if you are coming into contact with packages for anybody, we lean on you first as that kind of filter, if you will. >> i thought it was really interesting what the nypd was saying in that they had nypd officers, experts at cnn at the time this package was discovered telling people who were in the mail sorting fa...