Moments and 2 30 the Department Of Justice and Jeff Sessions and others at that point. You mentioned Kirstjen Nielsen and she will have commentary in the next hour, too. Sandra we look forward to that. Thats it from americas newsroom. , right now. Melissa fox news alert, President Trump will address the investigation into the mail bombs just moments from now. As fox news confirms, a man has been arrested in florida and connection to the devices, to cope more devices were found today. One in New York City. Addressed to former james clapper, and went to florida, addressed to senator cory booker. Catherine herridges live in washington, d. C. , right now with more as we watch the van of the suspect thats what youre seeing on your screen, they are it is being taken away to be examined. We wait for the president. You see that above us on the screen. Catherine, what you have . Thanks, melissa. They are very fluid moving quickly this morning. About an hour ago we confirmed through fox news that a male suspect had been arrested in florida in connection to the dozen suspicious packages sent to different parts of the United States. We also understand that they are considering whether other individuals were involved. At this point, the single arrested. The venue see there on the left, we believe blocks individual. The blue tarp has evidence. We were told after the reporting of my colleague, rick rosenthal, that the individual had lived in the New York City area. He is in his 50s. He was more recently living in florida and was already known to federal authorities and Law Enforcement authorities for prior terroristic threats. Terroristic threats under the law are threats to commit an act of violence against an individual, individuals, or
property. It can also encompass threats of a political nature to influence a branch of government. That something we will be watching forward to hear from the Attorney General about two and half hours from now. Now that we look back on the last 12 hours, it seems clear that the fbi investigation was moving very quickly and very aggressively. Some of our contacts here at fox news said that the bureau is being held little cagey and tightlived about the geographic location they were focused on with the bomber. But we knew from our own reporting that florida had become an area of interest. After that, there was a search of a postal facility just outside of miami, or the miami suburbs. There was a particular attention played too, as you expect, Security Camera video at the selfservice kiosk. Also, cctv footage at surrounding businesses, as well. Just to not draw to find a line under it, we have known for a reporting in the last 72 hours that they really has been a wealth of forensic evidence that was available to the fbi, and that has certainly facilitated this investigation. We were told this morning that, had advanced to the point where the fbi was reaching out to retailers to determine the point of purchase for elements s packages. Things like the Manila Envelope. Also, the pipes. Also, the explosive powder that was inside. Finally, what i would say is that there has been reporting sort of across the spectrum as to how dangerous these devices may or may not have been. I was told that some of the devices were considered so dangerous and unstable thats the key freeze here,
unstable that they were transported to quantico, virginia, the hub for the forensic analysis. Melissa catherine, thank you so much. We understand we will hear from the president and a short time. Will they reveal the identity of this man . Do you have any idea . I dont want to speculate, for folks at home. Typically, the identification of a suspect would come from the Attorney General or the fbi director. We are expecting a News Conference at the Justice Department just a couple of hours from now. Thats not to say we couldnt get an identification for the president , but that would not be typically how its done. It would usually be done by the Justice Department branch or arm of government, if you will. The president could speak to the larger issues as he has throughout the week about securing the country. Also, finding out who or what was responsible and bringing the
full force of the u. S. Justice system to bear on that individual or individuals. Harris the president has tweeted. He said i will be speaking at the young Black Leadership Summit in 15 minutes where i will address the investigation into the bond packages. So we know that will be coming up in the next minutes, because that wasnt that long ago. Catherine, you mention something that was the first time we have heard some detail about this. People have asked Why Didnt The packages exclude . Think of a board they didnt. Were talking, though, about some of them being so unstable they felt that they couldnt get to quantico with them. Thats an important individual n interesting detail. Speak of the information has been shifting a lot this week. I think its a reflection on how quickly investigations have been moving. You dont have a complete picture. The latest information i have this morning was that some of the devices were considered very dangerous and unstable. That is the the key descriptor
there, unstable. That they were destroyed instead of transported to quantico, virginia. Melissa what does unstable mean to you . We heard Rick Leventhal say that some of the didnt have triggering devices. That the powder and trigger could, with static electricity, blow up on its own. Again, i dont want to speculate. Its just too serious a discussion to do that. The description i was given was unstable. Melissa harris when youg yesterday with us on outnumbered and outnumbered overtime, you were just starting to learn that authorities were zeroing in on what parts the country. Later in the day we saw an arrival of the feds. That antiterrorism unit, we were learning, might include nypd. Then, of course, we saw today that it did. Maybe the connection might have been that this man had lived in
new york. Whatever it was. As you are learning, this was eerie in zeroing in. Was florida early on . Based on information i was able to obtain along with our producer, we were told that florida it was described to us as a region of interest. That, in some ways, on its face, it is pretty selfexplanatory when you look at the big picture, here. A number of the devices i dont want to say originated, but im going to say at that point will be new is that they were coming to addresses in florida and, of course, the Return Address was this A Misspelling of Debbie Wasserman schultz. A member, the device sent to former Attorney General eric holder field to be delivered because the address was not correct or it just wasnt the right address for him. So we went back to congresswoman Debbie Wasserman schultzs office, and thats when it was we thought we had to packages, but in fact, there was one. On this point, of florida, we talked a bit about forensic profiling based on the evidence and individual. There is also some may call geographic profiling. I was talking about last hour. When you have different data points, so you know how many packages you have. You know geographically how they spread across United States. You also know the timing of when they have been discovered, and you can look back in some cases to when they were processed through postal facilities. You can triangulate that information using algorithms, and you can start to see areas where the suspect or suspects were likely operating out of in order to get the packages to all those destinations with the time frame that you have been able to identify. So you can translate that information down into areas wheu can really start to drill down. I think one of the things that we may find out today is that this investigation was really moving at a lightning pace, because of a number of factors. Not just the evidence, not just
what they were able to process. What they saw from cctv. But, now, Rick Leventhals information about this person being known to them thats a huge leg up in any investigation. Harris i had been reading about the mail center they were focused in on late yesterday, and into today. It handles hundreds of thousands of packages per day. They were looking at that, as well, in terms of that original or originbased information that they might get. Not saying they all came from there, but they were looking for that. Plantation, florida is where we were watching this. Catherine herridge is a long with Breaking News for us. Catherine, before he let you go, we can see on the lefthand side of the screen, live, is a tarp ed van. It was taken from the premises of the suspect. This 56 euro man. We dont know his name yet. We could learn that from the authorities coming up. The president is set to speak
within a short few minutes here, we are told. He lived in South Florida. What more do we know, or what more are be gathering at at ths point about anything on the premises . About him, but anything connected to him . I just want to stick with what i think we can say with confidence. They are treating that van, or that a vehicle, a crime scene evidence. We want to be able to do is determine whether he was building these devices in his home, may be in his van, and whether he had any kind of assistance from other individuals, either and knowingly or unknowingly. One of the reasons they secured the van if you think of it like a murder scene, if you will, you want to have everything attacked because you want to be able to have, number one, an effective chain of evidence for any prosecution. Number two, you want to see if any of the devices removed in that vehicle. Number three, whether any of the devices were even constructed in
that vehicle. Whether you are finding dna of others which can be explained away because of contact that he is having with other individuals, as opposed to individuals who were in some way part of wittingly or unwittingly inputting the devices together. This is like taking a piece of evidence from a crime scene. It just happens to be a huge piece of evidence. Its a vehicle. Harris one Law Enforcement official described to me yesterday that the bombs themselves anything this individual would have touched would be a forensic bonanza. Catherine herridge is always leaning on you for a great reporting today. Well bring you back as you learn more. Steve rogers is here. Steve, you work in counterintelligence in the state of new jersey. You have been with us on many occasions. Unfortunately, for these things. Today, though, good news none of these devices have exploded. No injuries at all, and they
have a suspect in all this. Yes, i will build a little timeline for you. President trumps quick decision to mobilize the full weight of the u. S. Governments Law Enforcement agencies resulted in what we have today. I will tell you why. He mobilize the atf, the fbi, Military Intelligence agencies, local state and county Law Enforcement. When Catherine Herridge said it was a Rapid Response very rapid all these agencies were brought together at all of these experts were able to use their skills and talents to bring us where we are today. Melissa i know you were a member of the Fbi Joint Terrorism Task force. Thats one of the reasons we always bring them on the situations and talk to you about this. You have a lot of insight. Looking at what we know so far, in terms of the devices, the event being driven a. Do you think someone else is behind this . Could one person could have dol this caused mark what is the profile, generally . I believe this is one person. Because of the quickness of the devices that were mailed, he could have had them pilot. Every day, may 1, male and other, male another. Just a crazed individual who decided to take this action, for whatever reason. Believe me, the motive is going to be very important. Police are going to find the motive from this individual. But i believe it is one person. By the way, they are rudimentary devices. They were never meant to blow u up. It was made for fear. Harris the new reporting from catherine as they were dangerous and unstable. We always err on the side of caution. On the scene, if they believe there was a possibly something to happen, lets err on the side of safety. Thats why they say it was unstable. Be one all right, we are all checking our devices right now. We are still working to confirm. Always most comfortable with resources, police got two on the name. A second federal source
identifying suspected arrest as caesar of aventura, florida. As we look at this, we have been looking at notes for about an hour now because he been coming in. We have been waiting for a strangulation of confirmation. This is a singular source close to the white house, first. And now a source the federal level saying that caesar say out, 56 years old as Catherine Herridge was telling us, known to authorities. Why is that so important at this point . That information that the police have on them, they like to be him great he had to be in a database paid somewhere in the radar. Maybe perhaps he was arrested for a terrorist threats. Maybe in the past he had something to do with devices. Thats why it is very important. A very important components. Melissa catherine said he did have a history of terroristic threats. How do you define that in general . See what he did with these
bomb devices . Thats terroristic threats. He could have a history of doing Something Like that. Arrested, may be served some time. We will find out. Release. Sometimes you define a person who commits terroristic threats, who commits active terror like this. Even a verbal threat. If the person believes that this individual will kill you or harm you, you charge them with terroristic threats. Hes on the radar. Melissa the biggest concern right now would be, are there more devices out there . That would be the value of interviewing him immediately and trying to figure that out. What do you think are the odds of that, and how do we know for sure . We wont know for sure, but im sure we will tomorrow or the next day. If he did have more devices and he believed that the police were getting closer, he could have dumped them in the mail rep for the Police Arrived on the scene. Harris we will be able to look at things before we necessarily share them without
attribution to our audience, but just from what we are knowing about him, his connections to the northern part of the east coast, its interesting because of your background. We saw that nypd jacket on the ground. We knew there were people from this area. This metro area, who had gone down. Would it necessarily be that he lived a new art, to get that kind of or is it because some of these packages went there . He could have traveled to new york, and traveled back. We dont know. The point is, the police are certainly going to ask those questions, and they are going to do a lot of investigating. Melissa im going to put on hold for a quick second. Catherine herridge has new information. We want to get it from her right away. Along with my colleague we have been able to confirm that there were five penned Register Warrants launch with the Southern District of florida, and the date is yesterday. That is an investigative device that allows the fbi to see exactly what numbers are coming from your telephone. Whether it is a land line, whether it is a cell phone. This helps them understand your web of contacts. It also helps them understand who you were in touch with at the time that the devices were mailed. Before and after. These were under seal, but we were told that the registers were for cesar sayoc. I want to draw your attention to the timing. This Pen Register Information absolutely backs up what Rick Leventhal was saying earlier, which is that they had the suspect on the radar for at least 24 hours. I can tell you for my own experience, you have to have sufficient evidence to show probable cause to get a pen register, so that takes us back as early as october 24th. Much earlier this week. Again, more evidence of how quickly this investigation was
going. They had five penned Register Warrants. They were sealed in the Southern District of new york. We have confirmed that they were for cesar sayoc, suspect of these suspicious packages. Allows them just to see the nus called by the individual and received by the individual. This goes with the effort to determine whether it was a lone actor or whether other individuals were involved, willingly or unwillingly. Harris we will go back, this van is headed someplace. The fbi office in miramar, florida is where we are told they are taking that suspects van. Phil keating is on the ground there. Phil . Harris, this is the spot. The headquarters of the fbi Miami Division where we believe the suspect is probably already inside being processed, finger printed, perhaps read his Miranda Rights and further questioned on this investigatio
investigation. National interest. We believe that the convoy of about five or six unmarked suvs belonging to the fbi which is escorting the tow truck upon which is the suspects van, which was put onto the flatbed tow truck implantation. Thats really just five or 10 miles due north and northeast of us. Right now, according to the Heli