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Package, change the bomb, improve the firing mechanism and go at this a different way? canning the place devices? different attacks? we're finding these, but we don't have him yet. or them. there may be more than one here as well. >> i want to mention robert de niro just put a statement out, writing, i thank god no one has been hurt and i thank the brave and resourceful security and law enforcement people for protecting us. there's something more powerful than bombs and that's your vote. people must vote. robert de niro received a package. it was someone from his office that actually alerted t...

State police are on scene as well. the whole area cordoned off. it is very frightening for people. what happened is, as you've been pointing out, they were sorting mail. the postal workers now it seems are on the front line of defense of all of this. they were sorting mail. they noticed something that was sus suspicion. they called authorities. it was addressed to james clapper, the former director of national intelligence. it was supposed to go to him at cnn and, again, another reason, i suspect, why postal inspectors were suspicious of what they saw. now on the scene, we'll probably be here ...

Find it. >> or maybe copycats are now doing the same thing to make things even more chaotic. >> exactly. >> jim this sorting facility down in florida, it's the size of a football field. so even if we're getting more and more information with each subsequent package, how difficult is this? i mean, thousands of packages go through this processing facility a day. >> yes, steph, i talked with some of my colleagues and atf yesterday and we talked just in general terms about the investigation. you know, what you got there at the facility is a lot of fbi agents, atf agents, postal inspectors, detecti...

And people standing around. at one point, as i've mentioned, it was pandemonium here. it's important to point out what the mayor of new york city said yesterday in the news conference. he said this indeed is terror. whether these devices explode or not, they have achieved their purpose of terrorizing people in this community. people were running away from this area. it was a scene of pandemonium earlier. when the fire trucks came through. because people, they are on edge. nerves are on edge. because this is now the second time in new york city in this area. we're at 52nd and 8th. the cnn offic...

Subsequently, about the same time, a mail sorting facility in new york city. that's certainly kind of the we were edge of midtown manhattan. at that point, officials immediately believed bomb squad personnel, senior bomb squad personnel immediately believed looking at yet another package that had all the hallmarks of the creepiest ones that had been found and confirmed to be tied to the same group. that package was addressed to james clapper. obviously former intelligence official in the u.s. government and somebody who has also been quite critical of the president. so you have right now we be...