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In long beach. police believe the victim and the suspect may be related if not just friends. two others were injured. it was a package bomb. it literally knocked this building off its foundation. the fbi and the atf did retrieve bomb components at the scene. >> the damage at the scene was extensive. it's hard to identify some of the pieces of the potential device. what we have located is items that are inconsistent with a business of that time. we sent them back to the laboratory in quantico in order to have trace evidence and other tests done right away. >> so the u.s. postal inspections serv...

Wondering what is going on. have they found this suspect yet? >> this is a fast moving investigation and they do have strong leads into what's not just the suspicious packet sent to that one base, suspicious packages sent to six different locations around d.c. over the last 24 hours. all of them with locations national security implications. all of these packages intercepted that facilities designed for this purpose, keep packages away from sense tifr sites like the white house. all of these packages were rendered safe, made sure they couldn't be harmful. all of them had thing in them that loo...

Suspicious packages were received at these mostly military or intelligence sites. also the sites that the secret service uses to screen mail for the white house and the secret service and the cia's mail sorting facility. the question is were any of these suspicious packages -- did any of them actually constitute a working explosive device. because some of them did contain explosive materials. and the best answer that i can give you, andrea, is the answer to that seems to be no. the fbi in a statement calls them potential destructive devices. but officials i have talked to today say they were a...

Behavior. >> we will hear from theresa may coming up in this hour. thanks to both of you. i want to get to that breaking news from washington, d.c., law enforcement officials telling nbc news one person now in custody after a series of suspicious packages, some containing bomb components, were sent to government addresses on the eastern seaboard, most of them in the washington area. the officials say the suspect was arrested in the pacific northwest and is likely to face charges later today. we're now told there were 12 devices in all sent to facility including the national defense university,...

Breathing a sigh of relief. but as you talked about, not ready to let their guard down just yet. agents are being very diligent in saying they got to stay alert for other possible packages. >> jay gray, thank you so much for your time today. appreciate it. >> jim cavanaugh is a retired agent in charge and msnbc contributor. nbc has new details about the bomb and jay mentioned the suspect used foreign and exotic batteries from asia. is that unusual? what does it tell you about what happened? >> the way this works, kasie, is in the kmant command post we take all those bomb components, plug them ...