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Into the investigative stages. the area will be cordoned off and meticulously pick up every piece of evidence, pak up every shell casing, every bit of trace evidence. any bit of information they can get from the scene and one of the things that they exploit is the telephone of the suspects. that gives a treasure trove of information. so that process has started and the suspect is in the hospital or the lockup and they'll be questioning him. >> ed, in terms of zooming out a little bit. you were the commissioner during the marathon bombing investigation in boston and massive investigations, how ...

>> it's much better. >> much better. >> and if he was sloppy at one point putting this thing together, there's maybe some trace evidence, latent prints. they will go through that to find something like that. plus, the device itself gives you some direction on what you think the motivation of this might be on the construction of the device. >> the -- i mean, phil, obviously, one looks at all the targets, or the intended targets. it would seem obvious what this person -- what they all have in common. we -- but we don't know what is in the mind of somebody else. somebody might have wanted to make...

Home instead senior care. apply today. police in miami-dade county are tweeting tonight about new activity at that miami-area mail facility. these are aerial images from our affiliate wplg. the tweet reads, our bomb squad and canine unit are providing assistance at our federal partners at the opa-locka mail facility as part of the ongoing investigation into suspicious packages located in other jurisdictions. this assistance is a precautionary measure. joining me again, michael o'neil, phil mudd and aissha rangap rangappa. just in terms of where -- i mean, with your expertise as you look at w...

Makes this guy tick, so to speak, differently than other people. >> dana: tell me about the van. the pictures of the van before the fbi covered it. this is evidence and that's why they needed to preserve it? >> yeah. they're not protecting his car from pigeons or rain. just like his house or anywhere else he might be affiliated with, they're taking that car. they'll do a very careful methodical search. not just to pull articles off the windows, but to see what else is in there, including trace evidence. there's hours of investigation going on with just that van by itself. >> dana: you worked a...

Cnn yesterday, this has to be taken with the utmost seriousness. as far as a hoax device, we're not treating it that way. >> two senior law enforcement officials tell nbc news that authorities are looking into whether some of the packages were mailed from florida. "the new york times" reports though investigators initially believed that some of the packages were delivered by hand or by courier, they have now concluded that all ten were likely sent through the mail, a person briefed on the matter says. there's some speculation because they didn't have a stamp franking on them but it's because t...