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Activity as well. that is where we find kerry sanders who is in opa-locka. bring us up to speed on what you've seen in the last little bit. >> reporter: well, let me just confirm first of all that the fbi has discovered the bomb, number 11, which was headed to center cory booker at the facility right here where i'm standing. it was at around 11:00 last night when they decided to evacuate this gigantic facility here because of the discovery. the local miami-dade police department had bomb-sniffing dogs here and along with bomb technicians. and that package was taken out. they have resumed opera...

Blasting cap and put something together to make it look -- i talked to special agent bomb technicians from the fbi in quantico, those packages screamed for attention, like somebody wanted you to know there was a bomb there. >> let's put up the x-ray images of them. here they are. what does it tell you when you look at this. >> first of all, the package, right, so the packaging there. pvc pipe. there's two types of casing for this. one is pvc pipe, stuffed with nails or nuts or bolts or use a cast iron pipe. the package becomes a shrapnel. four components. a power supply, typically a battery, i...

Cases. officials are saying these were potential explosive devices. yesterday, they were saying they were bombs, so what's the difference? >> that's a really tough line to walk the fact of the matter is to make an explosionive device, it must have power, a power source, an explosive material, wires and a detonator a blasting cap. heat shock friction. that's what bomb technicians think about. that's what it takes to ignite one of these devices. some of that could be simply unscrewing the end of a pipe. right? the friction from unscrewing that pipe, that cap of the pipe can actually cause enough...

Here. there will be digit counsel -- exhaust. law enforcement professionals will be able to put together. >> especially the ones hand delivered by courier. i have to ask you, the question people have been asking me, they didn't go off. they didn't go off. was this intended to scare people or do you think the actual intent was to harm someone? >> it doesn't matter when you're investigating i'm sure. >> we're assuming this is terrorism. the purpose of terrorism is to do what? it's violence or intimidation to stoke fear for political or social gain. the fact that they didn't go off, one of two th...

To not call it a hoax device. only the people that have examined it and put hands on it, like you said earlier, are the ones that know if it is or not. it's a matter of safety, so the bomb technicians, rightly so, and anybody that encounters something like this or suspicious should treat it as such by not touching it, not handling it, because you just don't know. if we would start to report that this was a hoax device, then it might lull someone into a sense of complacency to not treat it accordingly, and based on what has been shown and based on past experience that i had with an actual devic...