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Sanders, trying to get any information on whether the president has been briefed yet. so far, no information to that effect. intere there is no marine guard. we won't see him until 11:45 this morning when he will be hosting a young black leadership summit in the east room. if he were to make any public statement, it's likely it would occur at that time. it's obvious based on his comments over the last couple of days on twitter that he believes he's being unfairly even hostilely cast as a player in this whole situation that we're witnessing nationwide. this is what the president tweeted overnig...

Alert is at a very high state here in new york city because we already have been reporting about suspicious packages being found and people have been told to be on the lookout. so there was fear, right here on this corner where i'm standing at 52nd and 8th avenue, one of the busiest areas in the world, not just in the united states, and people were running, not knowing what was about to happen. right now, you can see that the police are still on the scene. fire trucks are here. the state police is here. the bomb squad is here. trying to figure out what in the world they have this time. it was ...

Not just the political leaders. that i worry whether the kind of basic respectful rule of law that has been the hallmark of our country, at least for some folks seems to be eroding. >> civility and decency are what we desperately need to bring back. want to bring rehema ellis into this conversation. she is on location at 52nd and 8th. that is just a few blocks from where we are. it was just a few days ago our colleagues at cnn office center was evacuated. these are massively crowded areas in new york city. >> i literally sprinted over here from our building. behind me about 50 yards behind me,...

State police are on scene as well. the whole area cordoned off. it is very frightening for people. what happened is, as you've been pointing out, they were sorting mail. the postal workers now it seems are on the front line of defense of all of this. they were sorting mail. they noticed something that was sus suspicion. they called authorities. it was addressed to james clapper, the former director of national intelligence. it was supposed to go to him at cnn and, again, another reason, i suspect, why postal inspectors were suspicious of what they saw. now on the scene, we'll probably be here ...

Get too overblown about it. to overwrought i guess is the right word, at this point. >> james clapper, the package is intended for him. >> one of the things we have to keep in mind is terrorism is very rare in the united states. it's obviously something for the people being targeted and certainly for the postal inspectors who have to handle mail that they don't know what's in it. what we have to do is ratchet down the fear. that's why i'm very troubled by the president's rhetoric, that blame als the victim, saying th cnn deserves some kind of retribution because that's going to escalate this c...