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Suspicious package delivered to a mail sorting facility six blocks from cnn. addressed to james clapper at cnn where he is a contributor here. given the prior package sent to john brennan and other targets, do you have any additional security that people have been putting around you, et cetera? have any other precautions been taken for you personally? >> well, i probably shouldn't comment on that right now. i'll probably pass on that. >> understood. thank you very, very much, director clapper. and jim, i think we're going to get a quick break in here as we gather more information. we'll be r...

The scene? >> reporter: well, it's a full emergency response here. we've got high ranking officials from the nypd, fdny, even some state police are here, john miller at the nypd is here as well. it's really sort of -- it's the nypd keeping everybody behind police tape away from the post office. the post office has been fully evacuated. if anybody leaves the surrounding buildings, they are escorted away for the time being until this package is in the containment vessel. >> bringing us the latest from the scene right there, bomb squad, containment vehicle for an explosive device closed off in ne...

Addressed to senator corey booker's camden office in new jersey. there is a police presence there. they are doing a sweep of the building to make sure there is nothing else there. there is no indication yet there is something dangerous there, there is another package there. but this is what we see that they do when they discover a package that has been addressed and that is intercepted on the way. in this case, i am told by sources that this package was intercepted in florida at that facility, the sorting facility, processing facility that the postal service operating there just north of miami...

Clapper. he is a contributor. like you say, all the hallmarks of these other packages we have seen. the six american flag stamps, the return address stamps, the yellow package with the bubble wrap inside. the next step, they will be in there. i'm sure they already made an assessment what's inside. is it identical. >> i wanted to tell your viewers some new information that we have. all mail that is destined for cnn as this package this morning was, is now being screened first at an off site location. it is not coming into our mail room. it is being screened first. it was screened there first. >...

To cnn certainly had that. we're also learning the president is being briefed on all of this this morning. let's go to a very active scene here in the middle of a busy new york city on a friday morning. national correspondent jason carroll is there. to locate you for our viewers, you are at 52nd street and eighth avenue. six blocks south of cnn. >> in fact, i can almost see our building from where i'm standing here on 52nd and eighth avenue. and just so you know, poppy, we're just now hearing that that suspicious package, again, located at the postal facility here on 52nd street and eighth ave...