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Good morning to you. Craig melvin from msnbc headquarters in New York City. We continue to follow this breaking news. Potential Explosive Devices mailed to President Obama and Hillary Clinton. As you see there, cnn reporters and others have been evacuated from their headquarters here in New York City. This is a live look outside the Time Warner Center here in New York City. The Secret Service confirming a criminal investigation into the Explosive Devices mailed to the two democrats a short time ago, they follow a similar discovery of a device found, a very similar device that was found monday ...

Thats being tested now down stairs so the mail room area is contained while we go through the various steps to test that. On a field test. Package it up safely for removal and decon that area and anybody that came in contact with it. Im going to take just keep in mind it happened a couple of hours ago and still ongoing and going to take some questions and not going too deep into it. Yes . Can you talk about how concerned you are the connection of these targets . People who have been criticized by the president well, take a look at whos being targeted here and thats why were doing it proactivel...

Isolate a fingerprint on the envelope of one of the packages that was addressed to congresswoman maxine waters. the one that was intercepted at a congressional screening, mail screening facility in maryland. that fingerprint, they say, matched a fingerprint belonging to sayoc. his fingerprints were in the federal database because he has a criminal past in florida. secondly, they say, they found dna material on devices inside some of the packages, which they describe as a potential match to his dna, which they also have because of the previous criminal conviction in florida. so based on that, t...

President's home to intercept something like this? >> former presidents and their spouses are entitled to lifetime secret service protection. they have full-time protection details with them at all hours of the day. also in this example you see some of the other safeguards that come with that protection in the form of offsite mail screening, which identified these packages, which were addressed to the former presidents. so the men and women of the secret service did what they do best and they keep all their protectees safe. in this case it was the men and the women assigned to the mail screeni...

One of the devices was addressed to the obamas here in the northwest washington, d.c. but likewise never got near the obama's home and intercepted at a mail screening facility. they don't come out and check their mail like we do. their mail is screened offsite and intercepted. you can see the barricades here. the obama house about four houses back over my left shoulder here. most of this already existed here. this is sort of normal in this neighborhood. this is probably the second most well watched, well guarded neighborhood in all of washington, d.c. after that around the white house. you hav...