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With these two packages. however, they did ignite. these devices went off. we re told that flames were emitted. one individual was trying to deal with one of the packages and did at least one person sustained injuries. those were burns to their hands. this is a maryland incident. the maryland state police are taking the lead. the fbi is also responding. the department of homeland security says it is aware. it s closely monitoring reports, but at this point, this is a maryland state incident at this point. these two devices, the only ones we ve heard about so far, ali. okay. stand by. let s bring fran townsend in, joining us from new york. fran, what i haven t told our viewers is that the jeffrey building, the one in annapolis, housed homeland security and it housed the secretary of state. the other building was the in hanover, maryland, was the ....
Issues, but he s a grown-up and that s what they need in the white house. all right. well, we ll watch it all unfold. gloria, thank you very much. great to have you here. your next political update is just an hour away. i want to bring in tom f fuentes to cover this news in maryland. two explosions in two mailrooms of two government buildings. tom fuentes is a security correspondent and contributor for cnn, former fbi. tom, what do you make of what we ve heard so far? hi, ali. i agree what fran townsend and jeanne meserve has reported. it s very early in the investigation to determine what type of attack or who might have been behind it. obviously no one has claimed credit yet that we know of. and at this point, it will be the forensic work to determine how the bomb was put together, if it was a bomb that didn t work or was it an incendiary-type device that someone concocted at home and tried to detonate to cause an ....
Just got of a briefing with the state department. and he is saying that there are conflicting media reports swirling around and that the u.s. state department has tried to get clarification. they ve reached out to the iranians, to the swiss, those are our protective power for the united states, since we don t have relations. they re not getting anything directly from them yet. they ve talked to the armenians who are part of story says the woman walked over the border from armenia into iran and then was arrested. but the armenians still haven t said anything. and then there are other reports, a lot of them, that say she didn t get in there in the first place because she never got a visa. and there are even reports that she had a microphone in her teeth. wow. so this is one of the more bizarre stories. again it may be bogus, a lot of confusion. but so far, absolutely no confirmation from the state department. tell us about the three hikers. the one was released, two of ....
What we re pointing at at the moment or if that is the building that we re talking about. most of the emergencies most of the emergency vehicles seem to be centered around something closer than than building where where the explosion may have taken place. you can see there where hanover and annapolis are. annapol annapolis, obviously the state capital. we re moving in there. all right. so that is the okay. so that is the building that we were looking at right there, the large pibuilding. that s the maryland department of transportation headquarters in hanover, maryland. we re taking a look now through street view to get a sense of what it is. that s the building. we were looking at it. that s the building. it does appear that there s no activity at the building. there were a lot of emergency vehicles parked some distance away from that building. again, officials are telling us there were two blasts, two different government buildings in maryland, but that there were no injuries i ....
Daley. to step into the breach and lead us through a very difficult time. and i also ask pete to help us think about how the white house should be structured and run over the next two years. thanks in no small part to his efforts, a period that everybody thought would be one of retrenchment turned out to be one of great progress for our country. and pete s leadership is all the more remarkable when you consider that when i first met him and asked him to lead my senate staff, he told me in that gruff voice of his that his strong inclination was to leave government. so the reason everybody is applauding is because they ve heard him say that every day for the last six years. and yet each time i have asked him to accept one more ....