Nbc news exclusive. In a rare interview, amal clooney opens up about her latest fight for justice. We are aware of some of the risks involved. This morning, the target of her new mission and the threat shes facing because of it. And historic night. And the emmy goes to game of thrones. H home 12 emmys breaking an alltime record while the people versus o. J. Simpson wins big as well, with nine. And carson picks up an emmy for the voice. All the winners, the fashions, the surprises, and the jokes today, monday, september 19th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on this monday morning. And it is a busy one. We want to start with some breaking news overnight. Five explosive devices discovered in new jersey near a busy train station. This is just a day after a device exploded here in new york city. And this morning, police are searching this building in elizabeth, new jersey. They say it is in connection wi beginning with nbc National Correspondent miguel almaguer. Reporter good morning. That fbi activity that you were talking about a short time ago is taking place just a mile away from where we are standing. We can tell you investigators have been there for the past several hours. Theyre very interested in a local residence there. Law enforcement officials tell nbc news they are concerned an active terror cell may be working in this area. Suspicious device in this neighborhood after two men say they came across a back pam, opened it up, looked inside and thought they saw a bomb. Thats when they notified authorities who cleared this airy, including a local train station. When we arrived, police moved in. Then the explosion happened. The overnight blast sent shockwaves through elizabeth, new jersey. Police startled, the public rattled, the smell of gunfire in the air. A single devices inside suddenly exploding. Hours later, heavily armed fbi agents arrived at this nearby home. Officials say all part of their investigation. Back at the crime scene, the mayor says the bomb squad accidentally triggered the blast. It was not a controlled explosion that occurred when they were cutting in order to make it safe. Reporter just before 9 00 p. M. Sunday, investigators say two men discovered the backpack in a trash can. Few hundred feet outside a neighborhood bar. Police shut down the adjacent train station, suspending commuter traffic for hours. The danger to the public soon became clear. Only 1 after 5 devices exploded. Thankfully, no one hurt. But the blast, powerful enough to kill. The loss of life could have been tremendous. The people who are doing this, they have no value on human life and its really difficult to rational. Reporter shortly before the explosion, just ten miles away, investigators stopped a vehicle of interest. Five people taken in for questioning in connection to the terror investigation. No charges filed yet. The blast in new jersey comes after a powerful explosion in manhattan injuring 29 saturday night. Earlier saturday in seaside park, new jersey, an ied exploded along the route of a way. This morning, several Law Enforcement officials tell nbc news theyre concerned an active terror cell with multiple players could now be at work in new york and new jersey. Three explosions over the last 48 hours that could have all been deadly. As Police Continue to sweep this area for bomb fragments, we are told investigators may be looking for similarities like a similar trigger shared between all these meantime, police will step up their presence all across this city. Matt and savannah, just a mile away from here, that investigation and fbi presence continues at that residence so close by. Back to you guys. Miguel almaguer, thank you very much. We have several different scenes working here. Now to the weekend explosion that rocked a manhattan neighborhood. What investigators are learning about that incident. Nbcs Richard Engel is there. Richard, good morning. Reporter good morning, savannah. Bombers on the loose in the new york tristate area. But the picture emerging, at least from the incidents this weekend, is of a fairly amateurish attempt to carry out a coordinated attack that, thankfully, mostly went wrong. Security has been beefed up across new york this morning with more dogs, more armed guards, 1,000 more state police at new york bus and subway response to the three bombs found or exploded over the weekend. The first one in a new jersey trash can saturday morning, two in manhattan that evening. Everybody get off of the street get off the street reporter investigators are now searching for connections and think they have found a key link. The detonators used for all three devices, city officials tell nbc news, were oldstyle flip cell phones. The similarities suggest that may be responsible. But who, and why . A bomb exploding in new york is obviously an act of terrorism. But its not linked to international terrorism. We have a lot more work to do to be able to say what kind of motivation was behind this. Reporter biggest explosion hit new york city at 8 30 saturday night on a crowded street with lots of construction. I ran outside andaw were scared out of their wits. Reporter that bomb blew up in or under a metal dumpster which appears to have contained much of the shrapnel. No one was killed. 29 were injured. All of them treated and released. The second device in new york was found just a few blocks away. It looked like a Pressure Cooker bomb that didnt go off. New york city officials tell nbc news they have video of someone suitcase and that later two people apparently innocently took the device out of the suitcase, didnt know what it was, left it, and walked off with the suitcase. And the bomb in the trash can in new jersey . It was timed to go off during a charity race to support u. S. Marines, but the race was delayed when the small pipe bomb partially exploded harming no one. Officials called the race off. Okay. By need to shut down this run. Shut down this reporter in addition to those being questioned by the fbi, there is also apparently Surveillance Video that may show the same man at the two locations here in new york city where a bomb exploded and the other device was found. Matt, savannah, back to you. Richard engel, thank you. Let us turn to nbcs justice correspondent, Pete Williams. Hes been working his sources this morning. Pete, lets talk about these five people detained. Officials confident or optimistic that theyve got someone either involved in this or at least connected to it . Id say agnostic about that. Thats up in the air. People captured near the bridge are being questioned now. We are told it is a combination of factors that led to their arrest, including the Surveillance Video from the new york bombing scenes and the cell phones that were used as timers and Power Sources in the bombs. Obviously the bombers thought those phones would be blown up. But one of the devices in new a park, new jersey did not go off. Were told that police and federal agents have identified another man from that Surveillance Video, one they are actively searching for right now. And were talking or heres hearing this morning about active terror cells operating in new jersey and new york. Are Law Enforcement officials that you are talking about giving you any more information about what they may or may not know about that group . Well, i think that is a is, theyre following a lead. They have reasons theyre following the lead. Evidence from the phones, the evidence from the Surveillance Video. Whether this is the actual cell, how many people are involved, we dont know. We do know, they tell us that the devices that were found overnight in new jersey are similar to the device that was left in the trash can saturday in seaside park. So there is that connection. And that device, in turn, has, has similarities to the ones in new york. So this is moving really very quickly. Pete, thank you very much. Bill bratton is the former Police Commissioner for new york city. He retired on friday. Weve also got sean henry, former assistant director of the fbi. Gentlemen, good morning. Commissioner, you just left the job on friday. One presumes youre still pretty plugged in. You are talking about four different incidents. Whats your sense of whether what this would mean in terms of a potential terror attack on the city and this area . First, since 9 11, this is only the second successful attack. The first was the hatchet attack on a new York City Police officer about two years ago. The device that blew up on saturday night that caused 29 injuries would have to be deemed a successful and i believe the use of the term terrorist is appropriate in this. I think we have enough information to clearly indicate it was an act of authorities have a lot to work with. These devices did not go off, and as a result they have the ability to move forward very quickly. I think you will see this come to resolution very quickly. As you left your post on friday, did your department have under surveillance an individual or individuals that you think theyre going back and looking at now in connection with these attacks . Okay. I wont speak to that. At any given time the joint york there is a separate one in new jersey those two are working very closely now. What was thought to be two separate unrelated incidents at this juncture, i think there is a strong belief that they are in fact connected. In terms of were the individual or individuals involved in this on the radar, that is part of the investigation moving forward so i cant speak to that, as you might expect. But again, my understanding and sense of this is that were going to see a lot of Movement Today on this matter. Lets go t there are a couple of ways to look at this. You could either say, all right, this was a botched attempt, something that went wrong, an attempted coordinated attack. Or perhaps even more disturbingly, you could consider it a dry run. When we should mention, of course, this is the week that World Leaders, including president obama, descend on this area. Yeah. Well, we had an explosion on saturday night in manhattan. Clearly that wasnt dry. Whether these events are forces in new york and new jersey will almost be working as one unit and will be collecting and sharing intelligence across each of those organizations. I think when you look at this investigation going forward, the biggest concern is there are people that are still out there. Nypd, one of the greatest counterterrorism units in the world, the fbi working with the joint Terrorism Task force, there is a lot of evidence in the terrorist explosive device analytic center, they will be able to collect a lot of information from these devices. Theyve looked at hundreds of thousands of devices in the last 12 years or so. Theyll look for signatures and i absolutely believe that they will be able to gather intelligence that will be actionable and lead to some furtherance of this investigation, savannah. Let me go to commissioner former commissioner bratton again. Savannah mentioned the timing of this. The u. N. , all these dignitaries from around the world descending enforcement officials or agents have been brought to bear here, including National Guard troops. Are you confident that enough is being done to secure this city during this very challenging week. Oh, sure. This is an event we have a lot of experience with. Over the last year, 18 months in new york city weve beefed up counterterrorism capabilities by an additional almost 1,3 m00 officer. The issue here, however, what weve been saying, that it is not a matter of if, its just a matter of when. And unfortunately, reality of our world today is that these events are probably going to become more common which is unfortunate. But i would point out that the second device was discovered by a woman who reported it. See something, say something. We cannot emphasize that enough. Dont live in fear, but you have pipe bombs discovered by two, we hear Homeless People who actually went, saw the devices and immediately contacted officials. So important. Thank you both very much. In the wake of both of these incidents or all of these incidents, both president ial candidates are now speaking out about national security. With the election only 50 days away. Here is the state of the race. Hillary clintons in philadelphia this morning. Shes speaking to young voters at temple university. To meet with several World Leaders at the United Nations general assembly, including the president of egypt. Donald trump also plans to sit down with the egyptian leader today to discuss Foreign Policy matters. Before that, hes holding a rally in florida. This is his third visit to that state in less than two weeks. Let us bring in nbc National Correspondent peter alexander. Hes at trump tower just a few blocks from us here in new york. Peter, good morning to you. Reporter hey, matt and savannah, good morning to you. Debate. But their responses this weekend really offered a realtime point and counterpoint with Hillary Clinton and donald trump demonstrating very different strategies and styles on issues of national security. After the explosions, a sharp contrast in the candidates responses. Just before i got off the plane, a bomb went off in new york. Reporter donald trump quick to react, even before new York City Police had identified what happened. Nobody knows going on. But, boy, we are living in a time. We better get very tough, folks. Reporter later turning heads with the tone of his tweets expressing warmest regards, best wishes and condolences to the new york bombing victims and their families. Hillary clintons initial response, more measured. I think its always wiser to wait until you have information before making conclusions. Urging americans to choose resolve over fear. The nation remains bitterly divided. More people believe clinton would make a better commander in chief, but trumps more trusted on terror. Still, hes spending a fierce criticism from another leading republican, robert gates, the former defense secretary under president s obama and bush. In an oped, gates calling on clinton to address her troer trustworthiness deficit with voters but slamming trump arguing he is beyond unfit to be commander in chief. Robert gates, believe me, i am so much better at what hes doing than he is, you wont even believe it. Reporter as trump tries to bury five years of birtherism, his Campaign Still facing a fallout of a claim that was widely viewed as racist. How and when did donald trump conclude that the president was born in the United States . Youll have to ask him a that. Thats a personal decision. Reporter with concerns of lagging enthusiasm for clinton among democrats, president obama i will consider it a personal insult, an insult to my legacy if this community lets down its guard and fails to activate itself in this election you want to give me a good sendoff . Go vote reporter as president obama tries to unify democrats, there are new rifts this morning among republicans. The rnc chairman, reince priebus, this weekend saying that it is time for Donald Trumps former primary opponents to come on board and campaign, suggesting they could have trouble ahead of them in future elections if they dont. Ted cruz, jeb bush, john kasich have all yet to endorse trump. Savannah and matt . Peter, thank you very much. Als back this morning. All of our correspondents in the new york area have given a weather report. Its raining. Guys, we really need this rain. Extreme drought in some areas throughout the northeast. 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Plenty of sunshine this morning. Its already humid. It will feel stem steamy all day with a high of 90. Pockets of storms developing. Along i75 a 40 chance. Storms will push further inland into polk and hyland county, a 50 later today. Similar tomorrow, 89 degrees also with a 40 rain chance. 30 on wednesday. And thats your latest weather. Gis thank you very much. More developments overnight in that bombing in manhattan. At least five detaped by the fbi. More on the latest of this investigation. An nbc exclusive amal clooney opening up about the target of her new legal fight. Ma polo. Marco. Polo. Marco. Marco . Marco . But its not a game when our senator doesnt show up. Im Patrick Murphy. Solving problems means showing up. Showing independence. And working together. Its why i worked to protect Womens Health care and worked with both parties to stop cuts to medicare. Im Patrick Murphy and i approve this message because florida needs a fulltime senator. Marco . 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