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and into a containment van and ultimately taken care of. but we re left with a lot of questions as we close the show this morning. that does it for us for now. stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. we begin with that very breaking news. two more packages found this morning. one addressed to senator cory booker and another to former director of national intelligence james clapper. nbc s investigative reporter tom winters joins me now via phone. tom we re up to 12 potentially suspicious packages. walk us through this. shortly after 8:00 a.m. this morning, we first got word the package that was addressed to cory booker but was found at a mail facility in south florida, at that time, we understood it, the package was addressed to booker in camden, new jersey. the package obviously does not appear to have ever made its way there. they were able to get subsequently, about the same time, a mail sorting facility in new york city. that s certainly kind of the we were e ....
and so how did this happen? it s basically climate change impacting people s livelihoods. there was a huge dump of snow late in the snow season. there were very high temperatures early in the summer season and there was rain, and that all combined to basically raise the yellowstone to levels never recorded before, and they had they reckon about three months of worth of water barreled down here in the course of just three days. now, where i m standing, jim, if you pan over, i think we ve all seen the pictures of that house floating away. that house used to be here, and it is no longer. i don t want to get any closer to there because the river is running underneath us now. they are going to lose more. all of this was actually predicted by a u.s. geological survey study last year in montana that said there would be more rain, there would be earlier heavier snow melt, basically this would happen and it just has, and this is also not over even for now. there s about 12 inches of the snow ....
They are dating it to the late 70s, early 80s based on the clothing the corpse is wearing which they traced to lines, shoots and clothing, i should say they traced to lines sold in kmart back in the mid to late 1970s. when the body was dumped, it would have been pretty much somewhere in the middle of lake mead, but levels have fallen so far that what was once the middle of the lake is now the shoreline. if you pan over, you can see just how far the water level has fallen. that change in color, the line, that is where the water level was and should be. and you see where the water level is now. it has fallen dramatically. now, you mentioned that other body that was found this past weekend, a skeleton, a human skeleton. police right now tell us they are not treating that as susp suspicious. and there are a lot of accidents on this lake. it is windy. ....
And you can see the flashing lights on an nypd police vehicle right now. it s pretty much right across from the entrance to this facility. there s been a lot of coming and going of vehicles. including a tcb vehicle. it looks like a small cement truck mixer. we ve seen in the past that vehicle has been used to transport the suspicious package to a location where they can examine it a little further and then of course like the other packages it would be sent down to the fbi headquarters for analysis in quantico, virginia. but it is very quiet. if you pan over, let me give you a little color here, stephanie. there s a coffee cart over here. and they re not doing any work at this hour. because no one can get down this street. coming back in to see the fact that a lot of officers are here. trucks are coming. new york city police of course. state police. the bomb squad. we ve got ambulances around. ....
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