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Has responded to harvard to assist the cambridge police department. the fbi field office has sent bomb technicians to assist. right now unconfirmed, if anything, has been found. back to fox boston. >> a lot of insight on social media. we can learn some things about that. elizabeth has been monitoring stuff coming from the campus this morning. >> the difference this morning than on the average morning we're seeing on twitter through the banjo app is timeline exactly what was happening on the harvard university campus. imagine, eight or 9:00 a.m., getting ready to go to finals. you slap on your ...

Behind, back packs and such, so that is going to slow erchz down here. >> i'm to once again bring in michael leiter, former director of the national counterterrorism center. michael, again, we've been watching these tweets from the harvard crimson, one of them that two suspicious packages -- actually this is from whdh. two suspicious packages were found by the bomb squad. one is cleared, the other is being examined right now. i would think two might be a small number. they're really going through everything really closely, right? >> they are. and they will also now get a flood of reports, whic...

Device was built using an ammuniti ammunition cap, black powder and a fuse. cnn was told bomb technicians say the times square bomb was stronger than the device detonated during the boston marathon in terms of destructive capability. but unlike the bombs used in boston, it contained no shrapnel. after the recruitment center was targeted, a possible motive emerged as being military related. the nypd's matthew pontillo says that is just one theory. >> that military type ammunition came as a very, very common device available in hardware stores and army/navy stores. essentially a steel box. and i...

New york. how powerful was that device? >> according to our forensics people and our explosive experts it was powerful. and we're very concerned about a device like that going off in new york. >> reporter: the fbi says the device was built using an ammunition cam, black powder and a time fuse. a federal law enforcement source told cnn that bomb technicians say the times square bomb was stronger than the device detonated during the boston marathon, in terms of destructive capability. but up like the bombs used in boston, it contained no shrapnel. after the recruitment center was targeted a poss...

Could be linked to similar incidents, one in 2005 at the british consulate and another in 2007 at the mexican kol sul lat. in the times square case, the device was set off in the middle of this night, but no one was in injured. what is known is someone was seen riding on a bicycle before it was detonated. how powerful was that device? >> it was, according to our forensics people and our explosive experts, it was powerful and we're very concerned about a device like that going off in new york. >> reporter: the fbi said the device was used building an ammunition can, bylaw powder, and a time fus...