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FOXNEWSW Outnumbered Overtime With Harris Faulkner October 24, 2018 17:00:00

Contained these suspected devices, there is also some kind of powder. That is being tested now downstairs. The mailroom area still being contained while we go through the various steps to test that, in a field test. Package it up safely for remova removal, and decon that area and anyone who came in contact with keep in mind, this happened a couple of hours ago, its still ongoing. [inaudible question] take a look at who was being targeted here right now, that is why we are doing this proactively, checking with security and making sure male rooms follow proper protocol. Thats where we are reaching out to the right people. [inaudible question] do you have a particular message for President Trump in light of what happened today . Look, i am going to Say Something. At a time when there is a lot of hatred and division it doesnt make sense to exacerbate it. Lets just say this to all Public Officials and all partisan affiliations, dont encourage violence. Dont encourage hatred and dont encourage a tax on media. You can disagree but you have to show respect for people and air your disagreements peacefully. Unfortunately this atmosphere of hatred is contributing to the choices people are making to turn to violence, there is no question about it and the way to stop that is to turn back the other way, bring down the temperature, and any messages about the use of violence against people we disagree with, and that has to start at the to top. Look, this is a political year, its a political season. We are weeks from an election and thats obviously in the air and that is an obvious fact. But weve been through Many Political seasons and we have political differences and that is actually good for democracy. What is not good is overheated rhetoric, extremism that pushes people to violence. And at the end of the day we may have political differences but this is one country where we are all americans, out of many one and keeping the debate and the dialogue civil is very, very important and for elected leaders who in many ways set the tone, it is especially importan important. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Right there. Reporter can you describe what the device looks like . So far the devices have been what appear to be a pipe bomb. If i could id like to make a statement, i know a lot of the public is scared and concerned and theres a lot of confusion surrounding this. I want to assure you the reason we are here is the totality of the federal, state, and local authorities will investigate this thoroughly and follow every lead and every we will turn over every rock, turn over every corner and talk to everybody we have two in order to mitigate this threat. The mission of the new York Joint Terrorism Task forces to protect the American People and uphold the constitutions. The utilization of violence in order to further ones own political agenda is unacceptable to us and we will not rest until we stop these hazardous devices from being mailed and bring the individual or individuals to justice. We have no better partners in the nypd, the new York State Police and the entirety of the joint Terrorism Task force. We will be on this until the day that we find this individual and bring them to justice. Id like to thank nypd and our partners on the task force as well as the United States Secret Service, the u. S. Capitol police, the Westchester County authorities for the cooperation and collaboration we have thus far. With that i will turn it back over for questions. Hold on a second. As youve heard there is a number of devices and pattern apparently to the number of devices. We wouldnt be at all surprised if more devices to show up. A device has been sent to my office in manhattan, which we were just informed about. And that device is also being handled. Again, this is a situation, a number of devices have been sent. They are being handled. We wouldnt be surprised if additional devices are sent and the device that is being identified and handled as we speak. [inaudible question] terrorism related, terrorism is an attempt to strike terror, and attempts to strike fear. Obviously these devices are an attempt to strike fear, hence terrorism. Are they domestic, are they international . These are questions i would have to be handled by the investigation but yes, it was a terrorist attempt, it was a Terrorist Attack and as you said, whats the intent . To strike fear. And when they strike fear they win, thats when they are effective. Who controls that . We control that. We control that. This is not the first time we have been through this. We have been through this many, many times. Literally, as i mentioned before, it goes back 25 years to the First World Trade Center bombing. This is new york. It is part of who we are and part we refuse to be intimidated. We refuse to allow them to make us afraid of going through our daily lives. We have the best Law Enforcement agencies, we are all working together, we are all here and we are going to go about our daily lives enjoying this beautiful city and state and we are not going to let them win, period. Was anything written on the packages . What was the Return Address . We are not going to go into what was written on the packages, it was consistent. I want to remind all new yorkers, any tips, any leads, call 911 or 1888nycsafe. Thank you. Harris that was our first News Conference since the device that was found at the Time Warner Center that kicked off the visuals you see on the left side of your screen, and evacuation of the Time Warner Center where the Cnn Media Outlet headquarters are in manhattan. You saw many of their producers and people behind the scenes. It read at the center of columbus circle, we knew other people evacuated from the Time Warner Center. No injuries in any of that evacuation and we want to say that because it can happen. Lets bring in David Lee Miller and go through that News Conference together. You were outside the Cnn Headquarters in manhattan. I believe that that is the first weve heard together that there was a white powdery substance found with this device. Thats correct, harris. Wed heard a number of new things during this News Conference or a short time ago. The mayor, the governor, the fbi, one of the headlines was that there appeared to be a white powder found along with this metal tube presumed to be a pipe bomb. Listen to the words of new york citys Police Commissioner james oneill. The device appeared to be alive explosive device. Nypd bomb squad responded, secured to the device and removed it for investigation. Additionally, there was an envelope containing a white powder discovered as part of that original packaging and we are in the middle of investigating that right now. 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 these suspicious packages a short time ago. The authority also mentioned all these packages appear to be similar into the governor went on to say that the person or persons behind them in his words are thugs, all of those who spoke today that made a point of saying that new york city is not going to be intimidated, whoever is behind this wants to terrorize people and they are not going to let that happen. Theres going to be increased vigilance but there is not going to be fear because of what has transpired over the last few hours. Lastly, harris, the device found here at the Time Warner Center, was relatively a crude device, a pipe bomb, but now it is more than three hours since this device was discovered at the mailroom here and you can see how much fear it has resulted in, how its caused this city to change its way of doing business. 58th street, a major corridor at this hour still remains closed, Eighth Avenue in front of the Time Warner Center was never shut down, they want to as much as possible go about Business As Usual but the simple crew device has affected the lives at least in some way of hundreds of thousands, if not more, new yorkers. Harris youve heard leadership there that we will not be deterred, we will not be deterred. We are strong. I want to ask you one quick question, though. People watched the story unfold from across the nation now and in the last week or so we got that mass notification on our cell phones and here in new york millions of us getting an alert today. How much of that information has changed . Theres people still sheltering in place, what are people being told to do . Our phones for a while were alerting quite a bit. I have not seen any recent alerts but people were told to shelter in place, presumably because they were moving this explosive device. Now 58th street as i mentioned till is shut down, they cautioned people not to come to this area. Im going to pan around and let you take a look for yourself, this is the scene outside the Time Warner Center, Eighth Avenue. You can see the traffic continues to flow, a Police Barricade set up, yellow tape, lots of tourists. This is a pretty resilient city as you and i both know. As much as possible people are going around about their lives as much as usual. That said, the Time Warner Center is still shut down, the cnn facilities are still as best i know at this hour here not operational but that could change. Saying that a second or an additional sweep was taking place inside the building, we hear the phrase an abundance of caution. They found one device, they want to make sure there arent any others. Harris sitting alongside here on the mezzanine, a former fbi investigator and expert on security for highrisk building buildings, that would be a lot of buildings in new york city. One of the things people may not know, we will feather this out into other areas because florida has come on the landscape as well, d. C. And Upstate New York outside of new york city where devices have been found. I want to ask you about that but locally, the Time Warner Center is kind of iconic because there are two towers that sit on that property and from a distance, if you are a tourist, they are reminiscent of two other towers we know of in our history. When all of this was unfolding, you and i talked about that resilience coming through. This is a special type of crime scene here. Not just at time warner but when anything happens in new york. You can see the outpouring of all the officials here working together, highlighted in that press conference, working collectively, from various disciplines to handle these type of situations. On a positive note, sad note indeed that these things are happening but the fact that theyve been intercepted, that post9 11 world that people responsible for buildings, responsible for the security of high profile individuals have copies before they detonated, several state guards have been put in place to help people deal with that including here, there is a white powder. Harris i know psychologically what it is, is it anthrax, is it that, is it that . What is it really . How does it change the investigation and how they handle the scene . It certainly does change the way they handle the scene, you dont know what else will come in contact with whatever this powder is. They can use a quick test in the post9 11 world to see whether it is anthrax or some other chemical like that. You have to be concerned and that was one of the concerns they had, it goes off and it goes through the system. Harris we didnt know it right away, is there a reason you dont tell the public that . It may determine what the whole consistency is, is it one device, is it several . Are there other envelopes in this process that have contaminants in them . It piqued my interest because they were talking about evacuating, they evacuated the proximity building with some residential, highend residential apartments in it. I was thinking back, and explosive device by itself, its effect wouldve been minimized but if the powder and contaminant goes into convective system, that can be a problem for many people throughout a complex tied together through those hvac heating ventilation systems. Harris the kind of forensic observation people may not make right away, we didnt have that information contemporaneously. I want to talk about the facility where they take a bomb like this, a pipe device. You said its pretty rudimentary but that it can still do damage. They arent necessarily going to blow it up, you told me. They would rather not blow up the device if at all possible. To remove the detonator, to defuse it harris save the pieces and materials. Its a Treasure Trove of Forensic Evidence that can be used to hopefully quickly find out who or what individuals may be associated with this. You want to find out how its wired, where the wires come from, what kind of Detonation Device that is, what kind of Explosive Material is in there, where did the pipe come from . There are a number of leads that can come from examining that Forensic Evidence. Harris before i let you go, i appreciate you being with us this afternoon, we may come back to you. New york, d. C. , florida, this isnt just one crime scene. From what we were watching the News Conference together, there were so many similarities being even talked about openly from authorities among these devices. Why . It was mentioned in a press conference about the similarities. It does suggest that they may have all gone out at the same time by an individual, individuals who have a cooperative effort to do this and make sure they are all around the same time, give or take 24 hours depending on processing facilities. Thats something very important here because i think he saw the similarities we dont want to be confused by similarities to say theyre not going to try Something Different or elsewhere, it does suggest that maybe its contained within an individual or small group of people and may be able to mitigate any future incidents. Harris thank you very much for being with me. We are awaiting remarks from President Trump at the white house where we expect him to speak on the suspicious packages sent to former President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the miami office of democrat congresswoman Debbie Wasserman schultz. Vowed to hold anyone behind this accountable. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts has been with us covering this at the white house. John, this latest reaction we await is actually at a News Conference or a signing, if you will, for a Bill On Opioids but the president now expected to talk about this. Its an event thats going to happen at 2 00 this afternoon in the east room, a very ceremonial type of event, very formal but we do expect that the president will top his remarks with something about this. So far the only thing hes tweeted is that he agrees wholeheartedly with the tweet sent by the Vice President mike pence earlier today but a short time ago in scranton, pennsylvania, at a Campaign Event the Vice President did top his remarks with a reference to todays crisis. Listen to what he said. These cowardly acts are despicable and have no place in american society. I want to assure you we deployed the full resources of the fbi, the United States Secret Service and they are working very closely with Law Enforcement officials. We will continue to monitor these investigations and those responsible will be brought to justice. We are also hearing from the first ladys office, her spokeswoman with a statement a short time ago saying mrs. Trump condemns all forms of threat and violence and thanks Law Enforcement for their heroic efforts. We are hearing a lot of praise for the Secret Service today, its because any mail destined for the white house or what are called protect these do goes through a male Screening Facility. Thats just outside of downtown d. C. Here in washington. Thats where the suspicious package that was addressed to President Obama was found and was contained, never got anywhere near the former president s home and there is a facility in Westchester County which

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