The alarm went off as and were on air reporting the packages sent to the Clintons and Obamas. Time Warner Center – where CNN’s New York offices are located – was just evacuated. NYPD is responding to a suspicious device discovered in Time Warner Center, where CNN is based, in New York, according to a law enforcement source.ĬNN has evacuated its newsroom as a precaution.Īn NYPD source told CNN that the package sent to Time Warner had a device “constructed with a pipe and wires” and law enforcement “are treating the device as a real explosive.” Working with our law enforcement partners on the investigation. As this is an on-going investigation, we will have no further comment at this timeīREAKING: Secret Service intercepts suspicious packages addressed to the residences of former President Obama and former First Lady Hillary Clinton. We are aware of a suspicious package found in the vicinity of the Clinton residence in Chappaqua, NY, and our JTTF has engaged with our federal, state and local partners to investigate.
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The Secret Service has initiated a full scope criminal investigation that will leverage all available federal, state, and local resources to determine the source of the packages and identify those responsible. The protectees did not receive the packages nor were they at risk of receiving them. Both packages were intercepted prior to being delivered to their intended location. The packages were immediately identified during routine mail screening procedures as potential explosive devices and were appropriately handled as such. Early this morning, October 24, 2018, a second package addressed to the residence of Former President Barack Obama was intercepted by Secret Service personnel in Washington, DC. Late on October 23, 2018, the Secret Service recovered a single package addressed to Former First Lady Hillary Clinton in Westchester County, New York. The Secret Service released this statement: No other information was immediately known. Footage showed a Broward Sheriff’s Office bomb squad unit and firefighters responding to the building. Sunrise Police said they responded to the address of the office of the Democratic rep for Florida’s 23rd congressional district. Debbie Wasserman Schultz has evacuated due to a suspicious package.
President Donald Trump is receiving “ constant updates” from officials. Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-CA) have condemned the attempted attacks today. The package at CNN was meant for former CIA Director John Brennan. Statement on suspicious packages: /pYSbDvCvuk The NYPD has also sent out more patrols to other major newsrooms in New York City. Kamala Harris (D-CA) evacuated due to a package. A building in San Diego that has the San Diego Union-Tribune and an office for Sen. The package sent to Wasserman Schultz’s office meant for former Attorney General Eric Holder. Potentially explosive devices have been mailed to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, liberal billionaire George Soros, former FBI director John Brennan and Former Attorney General Eric Holder over the past few days. Bryan Paarmann says that “so far the devices have been what appear to be pipe bombs.” O’Neill said the package sent to CNN “appeared to be a live explosive device” and an envelope with “white powder was also discovered as part of the original packaging.”įBI Special Agent in Charge C. “We are extremely angry, upset, unhappy about what we witnessed this morning, and we will get to the bottom of it,” Trump said.ĭuring a press conference, New York Police Commissioner James P. The President spoke from TelePrompTer but added this line at the end - not on screen in front of him: “We will spare no resources or expense in this effort.” “The full weight of our government is being deployed to conduct this investigation,” Trump said. The President noted he had just concluded a briefing with the FBI, Department of Justice, Homeland Security Department and Secret Service. “This egregious conduct is abhorrent to everything we hold dear and sacred as Americans.” “It’s a very bipartisan statement,” he added. “We have to come together and send one very clear, strong, unmistakable message that threats or acts of political violence have no place in the United States of America.” “I just want to tell you that in these times, we have to unify,” Trump said at an unrelated opioid bill signing event at the White House.
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