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Suffered miles per hour injunor. later on in the day at another fedex facility in the austin area, a package was intercepted and the atf, fbi and local police said the previous explosions along with the package intercepted today all appear to be connected. right now the breaking news, a neighborhood is evacuated for yet another explosion here in the austin area. we see some emergency vehicles rushing to the scene right now and we're trying to get more information. as we get it but what we're told is that the explosion may have happened at a restaurant. again, a man in his 30s is apparently tra...

Off on march 2nd. the package left on a porch exploded and that seemed like a bizarre stand alone story and it happened a third time then over this weekend a bomb was set off by a trip wire which made it seem like a different type of device, two people injured with the trip wire bomb then overnight in the predawn hours, there was an explosion of a package at a fedex facility and a second package at the same facility intercepted before it could explode. authorities believe those incidents are all related and we got word of another explosion tonight. again, this intriguing and interesting news j...

And the fbi confirmed that five explosions and one other package that was intercepted by authorities today is connected to the serial bomber that has been terrorizing the austin area so far. chris, this all began back on march 2nd with an explosion that killed a 39-year-old man. since then there have been a series of explosions. the first three of them were packages that were left on people's door steps quietly overnight. one of them also killing a 17-year-old boy. now, on sunday the investigation took a twist when the package that exploded late sunday, it was triggered boyy a trip wire. that'...

Forensics to find the bomber and what is going on. do we know anything how they linked the five bombs and concluded those were linked and whether this unexploded device has been key to their investigation? >> well, as you know, rachel, authorities have been tight lipped about the details but the fourth and fifth bomb at least is our understanding that it contained nails in order to inflict more damage. that's according to the fourth bomb, the trip wire bomb, we spoke with the grandfather of a victim that says that his grandson had nails in his and was seriously injured. in the fifth explosion,...

You step on a trip wire, and it sets it off, or just gets -- it explodes or detonates while at a facility, just being handled. authorities are very careful about that for a couple of reasons. first is, terrorism has a very distinct definition. it is violence or intimidation in the pursuit of political or social goals. we have to get into the mind set of the bomber here. that's very difficult to do at this early stage. why is that? well, crime scenes are difficult to process. post blast analysis involves harvesting evidence that oftentimes is destroyed in the blast. the other consideration here...