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Reporter good morning to you. The fbi activity that you were talking about a short time ago was taken place just a mile away from where we are standing. Investigators have been there for the past several hours. Theyre very interested in a local restaurant there. Law enforcement officials tell nbc news theyre 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 pack, opened it up, and looked inside and thought they saw a bomb. That is when they notified authorities who cleared this area, including a local plane station. Police moved in, then the explosion happened. The overnight blast sent shock waves through elizabeth, new jersey. Police startled, the public rat the back packs suddenly exploding. Hours later, heavily armed fbi agents arrived at this nearby home, Officials Say all part of the investigation. Back at the crime scene, the mayor says the bomb squad accidently triggered the blast. It was not a controlled explosion. That occurred when they were cutting it in order to make it safe. Reporter just before 9 00 p. M. Sunday, investigators say two men discovered the back pack in a trash can. Few hundred feet outside a neighborhood bar. Police shut down the adjacent train station. Suspending commuter traffic for hours a danger to the public soon became clear. Only one of five devices exploded. Thankfully, no one hurt, but the blast, powerful enough to kill. The loss of life could have been tremendous. The people who were doing this, they have no value on human life and it is difficult to understand their rational. Shortly before the explosion, just ten miles away, investigators stopped a vehicle of interest near the verrazano bridge, five people were taken in for questioning in connection to the terror investigation. No charges have been filed yet. The blast in new jersey comes after a powerful explosion in manhattan injuring 29 saturday night. Seaside park, new jersey, a bomb went off before a 5k. Theyre concerned an active terror cell with multipliers could be at work in new york and new jersey. Three explosions over the last 48 hours that could have all been deadly. Investigators may be looking for similarities like a similar trigger shared between all police will step up their presence all across the city. Matt and savannah, an hour away from here, the investigation, the heavy fbi presence continues at that residence so close by. Back to you guys. Thank you very much. Several different scenes working here. Now to the weekend explosion that rocked the manhattan neighborhood and what investigators are learning about that incident. Richard engel is there. Good morning. Reporter good morning 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 yorks bustling in 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. Reporter investigators are searching for connections and think they have found a key link. The detonators used for all three devices, city officials tell nbc news, were old style flip cell phones. The similarity suggests that the responsible. But who and why . A bomb exploding in new york is obviously an act of terrorism, but it is 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 the biggest explosion hit new york city at 8 30 saturday night on a crowded street with lots of and people screaming and people 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 were 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. We need to shut down this run. Shut down this run. Speak t s reporter in addition to those being questioned by the fbi, there was 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 at the scene. Lets turn to justice correspondent pete williams. He has been working his sources. Lets talk about the five people officials confident or optimistic that they have somebody involved in this or at least connected to it . Reporter i would say agnostic about that. That is up in the air. The people captured near the bridge are being questioned. It was a combination of factors that led to the 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 bomb. Obviously the bombers thought the phones would be blown up but one of the devices in new york and the jersey did not go off. Police and federal agents identified another man from the Surveillance Video, one theyre actively searching for right now. And were talking or were hearing this morning about active terror cells operating in new jersey and new york. Are Law Enforcement officials that youre talking about giving you any more information about what they may or may not know about that group . Reporter well, i think that is a developing picture. Best way to say it is theyre following a lead. They have reasons that theyre following the lead. The 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 found overnight in new jersey are similar to the device that was left in the trash can saturday in seaside park. There is that connection. And that device, in turn, has, r has similarities to the ones in new york, so this is moving really, very quickly. All right. Pete, thank you very much. Bill bratton is the former Police Commissioner for new york city. He retired on friday. We have shawn henry, former executive assistant at the fbi. He is now president of crowd strike. Good morning to both of you. Commissioner, you just left the job on friday. One presumes youre pretty plugged in. Were talking about four they are indeed connected and 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 the new York City Police officer two years ago, the device that blew up on saturday night, 29 injuries, would have to be deemed a successful and they used the term terrorist is appropriate. We clearly indicate it was an act of terrorism. The Law Enforcement guys have a lot to work with. The devices did not go off. As a result, they have the ability to move forward very quickly. I think well see this come to a resolution 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 . I wont speak to that. One in new jersey, theyre 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 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 well see a lot of Movement Today on this matter. Lets go to shawn henry. Look at this. You can either say, all right, this was a botched attempt, something that went wrong, an attempted coordinated attempt. Or disturbingly, consider it a dry run. We should mention, of course, this is the week that World Leaders, including president president descend on this area. We had an explosion on saturday night in manhattan. Clearly that wasnt dry. Whether these events are both of the joint Terrorism Forces in new york and new jersey will be working almost as one unit and they will be collecting and sharing intelligence across each of those organizations, specifically to identify that. I think when you look at this investigation going forward, savannah, the biggest concern is, there are people that are still out there. Nypd, one of the greatest Counter Terrorism units in the world, the fbi working with the joint Terrorism Task force as the commissioner just said, there is a lot of evidence, terrorists explosive device analytic center, theyll be able to gather a lot of information from the devices. Theyve looked at hundreds of thousands of devices in the last 12 years or so. They will 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 or former commissioner bratton again. Savannah mentioned the timing of descended on new york. Are you confident that enough is being done to secure this city during this very challenging week . Sure. This is an event we have a lot of experience with over the last year, 18 months in new york city, we have beefed up our Counter Terrorism capabilities by an additional almost 1,300 officers. The governor has assigned additional personnel and the transportation areas. The event reenforces is what weve been saying. It is not a matter of if, it is just a matter of when. Unfortunately, the reality of our world today is that these events are probably going to become common which is unfortunate. I 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 five pipe bombs discovered by two Homeless People that went, saw the devices and immediately contacted officials. So important. Former commissioner bill bratton. Shawn henry in washington. Thank you so much. In the wake of both 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 clinton is in philadelphia this morning speaking to young voters at temple university. With several World Leaders at the United Nations general assembly, including the president. Donald trump also plans to sit down with the egyptian president. Before that, he is holding a rally in florida. That is his third visit to the state in less than two weeks. Lets bring in the National CorrespondentPeter Alexander at trump tower a few blocks from us. Good morning to you. Hey matt and savannah. But the responses this weekend, really offering a real time point and Counter Point with Hillary Clinton and donald trump demonstrating very different strategies and styles on issues of National Security. After the explosions, the sharp contrast from the candidates responses. Just before i got off the plane, a bomb went off in new york. Donald trump quickly to react, even before new York City Police had identified what happened. Nobody knows exa going on, but boy, we are living in a time, we better get very tough. Reporter later toning his tweets. Warmest regards, best wishes and condolences to their families. Hillary clintons initial response more measured. I think it is always wiser to wait until you have information before making conclusions. Condemning the apparent terror attacks. The nation remains bitterly divided. Many thinking clinton would be a better commanderinchief but trump is more trusts in terror. He is fighting off criticism from robert gates, the former defense secretary under president obama and bush. In an op ad, saying clinton would a drels her trust worthiness with voters beyond repair and unfit to be commanderinchief. Believe me, im so much better at what he is doing than he is. As trump tries to bury five years of birtherism, he is facing fall out. How and will will donald trump conclude that the president was born in the united states. Youll have to ask him. And claims of lacking enthusiasm, president obama is 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 send off . Go vote. As president obama tries to unify democrats, there are new rifts this morning among republicans. The the rnc chairman Reince Priebus this morning saying it is time for Donald Trumps former primary opponent to come on board and have trouble ahead of them in future elections if they dont. Ted cruz, jeb bush, john kasich have all yet to endorse trump. Thank you very much. Back this morning and all of the correspondents in the new york area have given a weather report. It is raining. It is and up and down the east coast. We really do need this rain. Some areas in extreme drought throughout the northeast. New england to charlotte, youre julia still going to be pumping in the next needed rain. Heaviest rain will be along the southeastern and mid atlantic coast. Front pushes south. Moisture comes up to the north. It will taper off in the northeast and hang around down through the south. Look at the rain fall amounts. The heaviest from 3 to 5 inches over the next three days from raleigh to Cape Hatteras but upwards of one to two inches along northeast and new england coast. 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