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Powder and little glass shards to act as shrapnel. this is an investigate lead to try to figure out where it came from because many times it will have a bar code on it and that will help them find out perhaps where it was sold. so there's lots of investigative detail here to be looked at and the optimism is pretty high they'll be able to find a suspect soon. >> garrett what can you tell us about the two devices that were sent to the former vice president? >> well, as pete was just laying out, they bear all these same hallmarks of the devices we've seen delivered across the northeast in the las...

To this, in that they're going after someone who is not political. he's not like a george soros, where he has been giving lots of money or has been active in campaigns and certainly he's not a former elected official or elected official. now the universe begins to expand. and the challenge here, of course, and the concern is that the individuals formerly targeted had some type of protections associated with them, secret service protection or the mail going to a separate sorting facility. if you sent it to individuals, obviously, as we saw in the austin bombing cases, they don't have the abilit...

So clearly however this was delivered to the scene and building, you know, if you read in a little bit to this, it had to be brought to this courier in new york. that's a big clue that someone perhaps in new york is walking around with these devices, that's how they're being delivered. we're told that the device that was delivered to george soros' home was also personally delivered and put in the mailbox. authorities there do not believe that device was mailed. so that could be an immense, immense clue here for authorities as they try to figure out who is behind this. it seems the other device...

>> no further information about what that white powder might be. we were told that the explosive device was taken to an and whye facility in the bronx. there is no specific, credible, additional threat to new york city but with that aside, and abundance of caution, there's going to be beefed up security throughout the city at high profile locations including other media offices and hubs of mass transportation. we heard a few moments ago, andrew cuomo saying that his office also received one of these suspicious packages a short time ago. the authority also mentioned all these packages appear to...

New york and perhaps to potentially at debbie wasserman schultz office, these would have been other types of employees. just a shout out to them as well. this really puts a fine point on if you are coming into contact with packages for anybody, we lean on you first as that kind of filter, if you will. >> i thought it was really interesting what the nypd was saying in that they had nypd officers, experts at cnn at the time this package was discovered telling people who were in the mail sorting facility, i worked in that building for four years back when i was with our now competitor and they ha...