. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. we continue following the breaking news of saturday night's explosion in new york city. i'm george howell. >> i'm natalie allen. 29 people were wounded from a blast in maine's chelsea neighborhood. police say they have video of the exploeks and will be using to it investigate. >> we can show you this video from msnbc. it purports to be surveillance footage from that blast from a nearby fitness center. into at the reverberation from the explosion. >> the explosion happened at 23rd street and sixth avenue at

8:40 in the evening local time there in new york. there are reports it came from in or near a dumpster. there is so much we don't know. new york mayor bill deblasio says early indications are the blast was intentional. here's more of what he told reporters saturday night. >> we also want to be up front saying that there is no evidence at this point of a terror connection to this incident. this is preliminary information. it's something we will be investigating very carefully, but there is thou evidence at this point of a terror connection. there is no specific and credible threat against new york city at this point in time from any terror organization. >> at this point we still don't know what exactly caused the explosion in new york. cnn has learned from multiple law enforcement sources a suspicious device was found at a second site in chelsea. >> that caused another fleury of

activity. you are seeing the device. it appears to be a pressure cooker rigged with wiring and duct tape. it was found a few blocks away on west 27th street. none of the officials we spoke with would say what was inside it. >> cnn has been covering this story for hours. we have a team of correspondents covering the story. jean casarez at the he site of the first explosion. jean, what more are you hearing from investigators about what happened there? >> reporter: well, this is a very active crime scene. i'm right here on 23rd street. if you look mind my right shoulder about one block away that is exactly where the crime scene processing is going on right now. it was the dumpster, in the dumpster, outside the dumpster. they are not specific right now except to say it was an explosion. and we do know that 29 people were injured. and they were injured with by products of whatever exploded.

one puncture wound. 24 people have been taken to the hospital. one is in very serious condition, they said, at theist press conference. that may be critical. but it was extremely serious is how it was worded. and they did say there was no specific threat of terrorism, that they did not believe anything at this point points to trip. but they also said that all of the anti-terrorism units are on the scene that new york has the finest and most sophisticated anti-terrorism units in the world, and they are right here. and i will tell you, we saw federal vehicles. we know every level of government is here investigating tonight to find out exactly who did this and what exactly it was. but the dumpster explosion did cause a fair number of injuries. some extremely significant. george? >> yeah, this is natalie. it is amazing what people are saying about this, how loud it was, people that were in that area and still it is a mystery,

why this area, why this neighborhood, kind of a non-descript block on a wayward sidewalk, just an any kind of sidewalk. >> you know, natalie that's a good way to put it. it is sort of non-descript. now, it is saturday night. everybody is out. it is a beautiful night. it's a nice temperature. nice -- fall is in the air. it was warmer earlier. and this is the chelsea area, a very popular area in new york city. but this is also an area, especially 23rd street here where there are businesses closed at this time. there are some residential but it's not as active as other areas that we do know. and 27th street the same thing, the secondary device location we are told. it is a not as active as other areas, but the fact is this is where it happened and police do have surveillance video. they are gathering more surveillance video. and that is helping them in

processing the scene right now. >> jean talk to us about the situation as far as people in that area. i know that alerts went out for many people, many residents there just to stay inside. are there new alerts coming out warning residents that you have heard of? >> reporter: the rain alert, i think you are going to go to richard quest for was 27th street for people to stay away from their window. but i can tell right here they never told us -- we can't get to where that dumpster site is but they did say that they searched the buildings surrounding where that dumpster was. they did not have to evacuate anyone. so we don't know if it was store fronts and businesses they were looking to see if there was any structural damage. so they have said that through the night they will give us more updates as they come because we don't have all the specific details that we really need and we really want at this point. george. >> jean casarez live for us. jean, thank you we'll stay in touch with you.

>> we are just getting information we want to share with our viewers from our investigative team in new york. investigators are looking at surveillance video. we knew they had it. but it appears to show a person near where the explosion at the 23rd street location occurred. that's according to local and federal law enforcement officials. investigators are trying to determine if that individual is connected to this explosion. so that's the first time in hours covering this story that we have heard perhaps of a person of suspicion involved with this. >> right. early on investigators did say that it was intentional. now we are obviously connecting dots and learning maw. let's go the richard quest who is at the scene in new york, the second site just four blocks away. richard, what are you hearing there? >> reporter: what happened was several hours ago, just an hour or two after the first explosion that jean was talking about on 23rd street we became aware that there was a large scale police operation just four blocks further north at 27th street,

which is -- i'll go out this way actually. and you can see. that's 27th street. to give you an idea, 27th street is it is a very non-descript block between sixth and seventh. some apartment buildings, some new buildings. several small business, it's certainly by no means a major thoroughfare like 23rd or a seriously important street. but what they did fine was this pressure cooker. you have been showing the pictures now. we can show it again. this pressure cooker with wires coming out, a cell phone. but they have not said who wat in it. what we saw shortly after was a device or bomb containment unit arriving, which is a big drum on the back of a truck. that went down 27th street. and we believe -- we believe the devices that since been removed. >> richard, one other thing,

just to set the context and set the scene. it is a busy saturday night. a lot of people out. unga set to start soon. many people will be out there. >> the president's arriving tonight as well in new york city. >> a lot happening. help our viewers understand the context there. >> i'm one of those people. i was just down in the village mindsing my own village minding my own business having had dinner with friends and all of a sudden i heard a load of sirens, and went past me black limos -- black big cars, fire brigade and ambulances. my immediate thought because it's the united nations general assembly. limoville. the limos started and the entourages and motorcades started to come. and more and more started to coming up sixth avenue. it rapidly became clear 23rd street, four blocks that way and up here as well was something more serious.

what was the evening like? it was a perfect fall evening. as you can see, i've come straight from the scene from where i was earlier, short sleeves. it was a warm night. the streets were absolutely packed with people, which does not surprise me, having seen the evening that there were more than 20 injuries on 23rd street. because although 23rd street -- i mean it is a double -- it's two-way traffic. it is extremely busy. lots of restaurants, bars, pizzerias and those sort of things. and it would have been packed at the time. particularly at the corner where 125 23rd street is, which is where this took place. tonight, just to wrap on this point as i've walked around the area because police were then looking into every car, in every garbage can, on every corner to see if there were other devices, the streets, guys, were absolutely packed with people. >> and to that point, you know,

it's interesting no one was killed in this. one person is in critical condition. we're told the others do not have life threatening injuries. so that's amazing in and of itself. i want to ask you, richard, about this device, this pressure cooker, what do they plan to do with it. >> are they working on it there? are they removing it? do you have information on that? >> reporter: they have not confirmed that it's been removed, but sources have told cnn that it has been taken away. and that would certainly follow on from what we're seeing. about a couple of hours ago there were a lot more fire brigades. there were helicopters overhead. we saw the bomb containment device going -- the bomb containment unit going in there. quite a lot of the police have gone, quite a lot of the fire brigade have gone. the toward is it has been taken to the bronx, which is a bomb disposal unit where it can be safely defused and then

analyzed. but the truth of the matter, we know virtually nothing about this other than what you have seen, the pressure cooker, some wires coming out of it, oh, yes and one other fact. one other fact, the emergency warning that was sent out on the cell phone network to all people living in the area to stay away from the windows. and i can tell you there is a hotel down on 27th street. there is a hotel halfway down the block just opposite where the device was where all the residents of the hotel have been told to stay in and away from the windows. but those guests who were away from the hotel can't get back. so there are several people walking around these streets that are sort of befallen under -- let me read you that message. it was the emergency alert that came out an hour ago. it said suspicious package, residents on west 27th between sixth and seventh, stay away

from the windows. although the buildings were not evacuated, people can't get back into hotels that are along there and residents can't get home. >> important the point out, richard, to our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. investigators still looking into this. no nexus in terrorism at this point. obviously the investigation continues. but our reporters continue to cover this live. jean casarez at the site of the explosion. richard quest where the second device was discovered. guys we'll stay in touch throughout the night. as we have been telling you, there was a news conference earlier. they didn't have a lot to say. they did want to let people know what they did have at this point. new york's fire commissioner also spoke earlier at the news conference in and out the street. >> he briefed them on the conditions of the 29 people who were wounded. natalie just talked about that. here's more. >> there were 29 injuries here, one considered serious. 24 of these people were transported to area hospitals

with various degrees of scrapes, abrasions from glass, from metal. thankfully, none of these are life threatening injuries, and the 24 patients that have been removed are not in a serious condition. other than the one patient with the puncture wound. >> here's the thing. this is the nypd that's dealing with this. these guys know what they are doing. they are on top of it. obviously as they put out information to let people understand what's happening they are doing it methodically, slowly, precisely. we will obviously learn more throughout the night. >> we should point out that it's the new police commissioner's first day on the job that this happened. >> what a first day. let's bring in steve moore via skype from los angeles. he is a cnn law enforcement contributor and former fbi supervisory special agent. good to have you with us. first read from what you understand, all the facts we know so far. what do you think? >> i think -- i think you have

got to consider the new jersey bombing earlier. you have got to consider the 24th street and the 27th street all connected. what's going to be interesting to me is to find out what the bomb residue -- what the bomb debris was from the -- from the blast at about 8:40 and have it compared to what we saw as the possible device on 24th. >> what do you make of it, steve, that they don't know -- they haven't said -- lets he say that -- about the genesis of the explosion. like you said, that we don't know much about the residue. we just heard the fire chief talking about metal and glass and abrasions with the victims. but don't know much more other than a mangled dumpster. >> yeah. and what's curious to me is that if you wanted casualties, you would keep it away from a dutchster. a dumpster, whether it's next to it or the ied is inside the

dumpster, it's going the restrict its explosive damage to civilians. so i'm wondering why it was near that dumpster. and sometimes you almost even wonder if this was a dry run, could i get to times square on a saturday night and put this into place? you just don't know. >> certainly. a lot of questions that will be asked in the coming hours and the coming days. steve if you could stan by, i want to show the viewers if we kpo ask the director to do so, to see that second device that was discovered. i just want to talk about it. from what you have seen, that second device, the image that we've received, from what you've seen there, talk to us about the sophistication here. >> you know, when i was in the southern philippines, we had a bomb put in our perimeter very similar to that. a different type of explosive but it had the same cell phone

duct taped to the top. one of the things that's interesting is if they can get that phone off of there without the device he can proceeding a lot of times people done buy brand-new phones to do this. they use old phones. and what we found in the philippines is we were able to pull that off and go through call records and the directory and it was a boone for us. so if this was intended to go off but didn't, that cell phone might be an immense intelligence coup. >> and i heard from our previous guests that have been on in the previous hours, you know, the question, could it be a hoax device? you know, coit be a decoy or just a hoax? there are all kinds of questions that obviously investigators will be looking into. >> steve, what do you think about the device itself? is this any kind of sophistication? is this anything someone could do pretty easily just from looking at it.

>> you know, the recipe for -- for a pressure cooker bomb has been on the enter -- not on the internet but it's been available since 1971 when the anarchist cookbook came out. so it doesn't mean it's necessarily related to terrorism. although al qaeda's magazine has put out several of these designs. it doesn't have to be sophisticated. that's why they put it out there. just about anybody can do it. >> steve, obviously, 29 people who have been injured. and from those 29 people, investigators will be able to determine the contents, what was in whatever that device was, whatever it was, that exploded. talk to us about that process and how they will gain new information and insight from it. >> that process is kind of gruesome. i've never dealt with it with patients who survived.

usually you x-ray the bodies and excise from the bodies pieces of the bomb debris. and using that, it's very important to find out whether you are dealing with thick galvanized metal, meaning a pipe bomb, or a thinner steel, which might indicate a pressure cooker. you are going to be able to get some down loads fairly quickly once you start getting this information. unfortunately, out of the bodies of the victims. >> steve moore, we thank you so much. as we learn more in the next few hours we hope to continue to talk with you since you are on the west coast. i do want to point out to our viewers the information that we have learned in the past few minutes that there is video surveillance apparently that they are looking at that shows a person near the explosion. and they are investigating that right now. >> we'll get more from investigators, surely n the coming hours. this is cnn. when we come back, we continue the breaking news coverage of the explosion saturday night in new york city.

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welcome back to cnn. you are watching breaking news coverage where we continue to follow the situation in new york city. at least 29 people there wounded after an explosion in the city's chelsea neighborhood. >> we have correspondents there on the scene working the story for us bringing us any more developments as they learn them because it's very much an active scene there in new york. we also want to bring you other stories, major stories that have broken in the past 24 hours from around the world. the u.n. security council wrapped up an emergency session a few hours ago. russia actually called the meeting after blaming the united states for an air strike that killed dozens of syrian regime forces near an airport. the united states said the strike was a mistake and they stopped it immediately after russian officials informed them of the error. but a spokeswoman for russia's

foreign ministry says they feel the strike suggests that the u.s. is defending isis. >> also new information on a story we are following. australia saying its aircraft were involved in the deadly air strike. they released a statement saying they were among a number of coalition partners that participated. they added they would never intentionally target a syrian military union and never aid isis. we are going to look at how countries in the region are reacting to the ire strike now. ben wedeman has been following that angle of the story and is live in istanbul for us. ben what are you hearing there? >> reporter: we understand this attack, this strike took place at about 5:00 p.m. local time yesterday by u.s., australian, and perhaps other coalition aircraft against what they thought was an isis unit in the area outside of deir al zour in

syria. there are scattered syrian outposts but by and large the area is controlled by isis. the strike went on for 24 minutes until the russians informed the u.s. forces in qatar they are striking syrian regime forces. the americans say they called off the strike as soon as possible. but the russians are reporting that 62 syrian regime soldiers were killed according to the syrian observatory for human rights, perhaps more than 80 were killed. and yes, as we see, this is causing a huge builow up in the u.n. security council where the united states has expressed its regret for intentional loss of life, but the russians are calling, blaming americans for a failure to coordinate, suggesting that the united states is supporting isis, and

certainly that's one of the conspiracy theories that's quite common in this part of the world. so there is going to be quite a mess to be sorted out on the ground as well as at the united nations. natalie. >> absolutely. we saw samantha power there. she did not minutes words when she spoke of her anger of this meeting called by the russians there on a saturday night. it should be an interesting week at the u.n. general assembly. but a little more -- you know the region so well, ben, reporting from there so long. deir al zour according to reports after the united states made this accidental bombing, isis rushed to take this area. what is the situation as far as syrian government, troops backed up by russia, and then you have got isis as well, and the u.s. overhead. >> yeah, deir al zour is a town on the euphrates river in the northeastern part of the

country. for instance the syrian government controls the airport and a few parts of deir al zour itself. by and large these are isolated outposts. i have met syrian soldiers who have served in that area. it is a veryite lated, dangerous part of the country where isis by and large runs the roost. however, you do have this complicated mix of forces in the area. in the air you have the russians, the americans, and the americans' coalition partners. in this case the australians. as well on the ground you have kurdish forces. you have isis. you have the syrian army and that's just the tip of the iceberg. >> absolutely. and all the while you have aleppo, which this standdown in the fighting was supposed to bring much needed aid to the people there. that has not happened. ben wedeman, we appreciate you. we will a talk with you again about this situation as it unfolds. we will have much more on the breaking news we are following here on cnn.

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>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. welcome back to our breaking news coverage of an explosion in new york. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm natalie allen along with george howell here for you. here's what we know a device found a few streets from the explosion earlier at 8:40. this is the device. it appears to be a pressure cooker. sources say wires coming out of it were attached to a cell

phone. police say the bomb squad has now safely removed it. >> new york's mayor saying the explosion saturday night appears to be intentional of the at least 289 people wounded there. and authorities are urging anyone with information, anyone that might have seen anything to come forward. >> apparently, as we have been reporting, in the video surveillance they have they do see someone that looks suspicion. they are checking into that. that's the first we have heard of a person of suspicion in all the hours we have been covering the story. we have heard from a man who was in the area with his family. so many people out and about. >> saturday night. >> beautiful night in new york city. he talked about what occurred. we spoke with ryan mcmillan by phone. here it is. >> i was on the corner of 23rd and sixth with my wife and two daughters and we were just about to go on the subway. and we were loitering trying to figure out whether we should go to the subway or have my

daughter go to the bathroom and there was a huge explosion. the back window of a suv pop out. we ran up sixth avenue. none of us were rock knocked to the ground. it was obviously very shocking but it didn't feel like -- there were no fires or anything like that. it was a huge noise and we could sort of feel the blast but -- it was mostly just shock. and we just ran, and people were screaming and running up the block. definitely shocking. >> so many of the eyewitnesss or people there were telling us how loud this was and reports that people could hear it in hoboken new jersey, that's across the hudson from this area around chelsea. a significant something or other. we still don't know what the source of it. >> we were saying, i mean it is a busy saturday night in new york. and keep in mind the weather plays into it. it's been really warm in new

york. the weather excellent today. soman people outside. that's the concern. when you have something like this happen in a city with so many people out on the streets. i was in that very neighborhood a few days ago. tons of people out. that's the concerning thing as investigators try to get to the bottom of it. >> the good news no one seriously injured at all except for one person. we don't know anything about their condition but we will be checking in with the hospital. >> hearts and prayers going out for their quick recovery. arily lewis told cnn earlier why new yorkers are on edge when they get word of something like this. >> it's the kind thing that when new yorkers hear these kind of things some of the calls might seem humorous to non-new yorkers. but as new yorkers we would understand this. people call in and said i heard the explosion and i went out ott deli. hey, it is a dumpster fire, you

see them around the at this all the time. new yorkers can be blase because the city is so busy and noisy. for something like this to happen in chelsea. chelsea is not one of those areas where you expect to hear this kind of i think this. further downt downtown, the world trade center has been a terrorist center. mid town, everybody a trying to get into times square not just on new year's eve but lots of other nights as well. it's unusual for what truly is an residential neighborhood. we know about it as an arts district or a place where lots of things go on. there are a lot of brownstones there, lot of people who live there. >> people who live there. unga going on. fashion week in play as well. lots of things happening. so a lot of people on the streets. thankful news, 29 people injured but we know that no one was killed. one person you mentioned in critical. and the hope is that person will get better.

no life tleping injuries. >> right, rachel crane has been following this angle for us. she is outside bellevue hospital in new york city and joins us on the phone. rachel, have you heard anything more about the wounded? who are these people? has anyone been let go from the hospital? are they all still in the hospital? what do you know. >> george and natalie, nine of those 29 blast victims were transported here to bellevue hospital. hospital officials tell us that many of those victims at this point have in fact been released and that none of them had life threatening injuries. we had a chance to speak with a couple that were victims of the blast just as they were being discharged from the hospital. they described the scene. they said that they were driving their car in the area when all of a sudden the explosion occurred. that's when their car was lifted up by the force of that blast and the whole left side damaged. both of them were transported

here to bellevue. and they said they are incredibly lucky to be alive. >> i can tell you vaguely what i remember. i was driving the car. next you know i felt an explosion, the car tilted over halfway and came back down. what happened was i blacked out. next thing i know i'm in an ambulance. >> what about you? what do you remember? >> everything was so sudden and fast. it was more of a shock that i remember. >> how are you doing now? >> pain. you know, a little traumatized. just thought about that i was close to not actually seeing my son again. that was the scariest part of the night for me. >> george and natalie, you hear him say he was worried about not seeing his son again. clearly worried for his life. now, as i pointed out, hospital officials have told us several of those nine blast victims had been released from the hospital.

we spoke to another young woman who was a blast victim who said that she was in shock, she just wanted to go home and go to sleep but that it all happened so fast she could hardly recall it. we also have seen a heightened security presence here all evening outside of bellevue hospital. heavily armed officers. they were also checking every single ambulance that was coming into the hospital, checking those ambulances by those armed guards. clearly all of new york city, including bellevue hospital, on heightened alert. natalie and george. >> interesting developments. amazing when you hear the people talk about this explosion, lifting their car up. that you have people -- people have already walked out of the hospital there tonight. do you know anything about any other victims who were taken elsewhere, rachel? or the person who is in critical? >> you know, we have not yet

learned any deals about the person who is in critical condition. they were not transported here to bellevue. we do know that. and as far as other victims here at bellevue, we only spoke to three of those nine victims, two of which you just heard from yourself, and then the other young woman that i spoke of. but as i pointed out, the hospital official telling us that most of those nine blast victims have at this point been released from the hospital. so clearly, their injuries not too serious. >> 29 people wounded. of those 29, nine sent to bellevue. and according to our rachel crane, most have been released. and again, the good news here, most of them non-life threatening. >> fantastic news, you know, for something like this. and then we have a second device and people talking about feeling it and hearing it. it was so loud. i want to read one quote from somebody interviewed by the "new york times." they were on a roof top, lets a see, two blocks away, they say, quote, we felt the shock waves

go through your bodies. >> my goodness. >> that says what people experience there had in the area. >> rachel, you know, the interview that you had with the man was just concerned you know, to see his son, i mean that tells the story. i mean, people were just going about their day. then all of a sudden, this just happened. >> yes. you are correct. he actually described the scene. he had just dropped his son off. he was driving with his pregnant girlfriend. i don't know if you could see in the frame there, she is in fact pregnant. she said that the baby was all right. of course this couple here not expecting their evening to end like this. both in shock. both just saying that they wanted to go home and go to sleep. they were picked up by family members and they said they were looking forward to a good night's rest. >> rachel crane at bellevue following the story for us. rachel thank you so much. you are watching cnn continuing coverage of the situation in new york. an explosion that happened just off 23rd street.

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we will finn to bring you developments in the new york city explosion story. we are also following other development and stories as well. this one is from minnesota. a suspect is dead after going on the a stabbing spree at a shopping mall in minnesota several hours ago. police in the city of st. cloud say multiple victims have been wounded from that. eight were transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. witnesses say the suspect entered the shopping mall, made reference to allah and asked at least one person if they were muslim before he assaulted them. an offduty police officer shot and killed the suspect.

we'll continue to bring you anything more about that suspect if we learn it in the next few hours we are on. turning now to the race for the u.s. president. both hillary clinton and president barack obama were featured guests at gala in washington, d.c. saturday night. mr. obama delivered one of the most impassioned speeches of his presidency urging african-american voters not to turn their back on hillary clinton. >> president obama delivering a rallying cry to black voters during a speech saturday night in washington in some of the strongest language he has used yet acknowledging he is not on the ballot but his legacy s. he delivered a blistering attack against trump and said it would be a personal insult to his legacy if donald trump was elected. >> my name may not be on the ballot but our progress is on the ballot. tolerance is on the ballot, democracy is on the ballot. and after we have achieved historic turnout in 2008 and

2012, especially in the african-american community, i will consider it a personal insult, an insult to my legacy, if this community lets down its guard and files activate itself in this election. do you want to give me a good send off? go vote! >> reporter: the president has often criticized donald trump but not in these strong of terms. he also said that trump is simply wrong about the history of the country. he talked about his birth certificate but he also talked about more and said that black voters in particular need to rally to hillary clinton's side. for her part, hillary clinton also on stage at the deny he. she came to the president's aid talking about his birth certificate. >> even when hateful non-sense is thrown their way, barack,ish

innel, their two beautiful daughters, have represented our country with class, grace, and integrity. mr. president, not only do we know you are an american. you are a great american! >> president obama and hillary clinton talked back stage. there is no question that he is going to be one of the biggest components in her final election strategy here in the next 50 days. he made that case clear to black voters. and he is going to go across the country campaigning for the month of october. jeff zeleny, cnn, washington. let's talk about these latest political developments from the campaign trail. what a week it has been. and it marches on here. cnn senior political analyst ron brown steen joins us live from los angeles. ron nice to see you. a few things we want to talk about. i first want to start with what we just saw from a fired up president barack obama. and that speech he gave to the black caucus meeting. what do you make of that? >> not surprisingly, he was spird up.

donald trump spent years trying to delegit myself him as personal. this is personal. i was at the white house correspondent dinner a few years ago where he did his extended riff on donald trump and it was lacerating. he has faced an extraordinary series of challenges during his presidency from voices on the right who question not only his policies but his fundamental legitimacy as president. and donald trump was at the forefront of that. it is a not shocking he is personally engaged in this to a remarkable extent. any outgoing president wants to be succeeded by a president from their own part. but it has been tough since world war ii, since world war ii, george h.w. bush in 1988 was the only third term same party president in the white house. it is uphill when you look at it that way. >> and the race is tightening if

you believe the poll of the polls that are out there. no matter the birther thing that he tried to finally put down this week. hillary clinton not being forthcoming about her illness. and could there also be a reason that trump has also been trying to court the black vote that had obama as passionate as he was there, saying do not abandon hillary clinton. >> yeah, what hillary clinton needs -- i don't think trump has had a lot of success in making inroads in the african-american community after the history of his involvement in the birther effort and of course the other controversies that shadowed him and his father and their company about racial discrimination. i don't think he is a credible voice in the black community. i think more of what he has been doing as outreach is reassure the large number of college educated white voters who now tell pollsters they believe he is racially biased, 60% from the different polls from different

organizations. for hillary clinton the issue in the african-american is not margin as it is enthusiasm and turn out, particularly wrong among young african-american volters. she fared even more poorly in 2016 against bernie sanders and if you look at kind of the major components of the obama coalition in 2012 it is among me l millennials where she has fallen off as well. >> with the race tightening what is going through her mind right now as far as what she needs to do as she marches forward with this and in advance of the first debate? >> she needs to deal with the doubts the public has about her. the striking thing about this race is whoever is in the headlines, i think kind of confirming what we know, whoever

is in the headlines more suffers. the race has tightened because hillary clinton has come down not because donald trump has come up. the two north stars of the race remain unchanged this week in the polling. and that is roughly 60% of americans say donald trump is unqualified but a higher number don't believe that hillary clinton is honest and trust worthy. but what she above all has to do is give people a positive reason to vote for her, to convince them that she has an agenda and her priorities are such that she will make a difference in their own lives. too many view her as someone who is a calculating politician and in many ways the portrait that bernie sanders painted of her in the primaries. >> she has her work cut out for her and donald trump as well.

we will be talking with you again thanks so much. we'll take a short break and continue with our story out of new york still developing this hour. i have asthma...

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this is cnn breaking news. >> 3:00 a.m. on the east coast welcome to viewers in the united states and around the world. we continue to follow the breaking news on cnn. an explosion being investigated in new york city. >> we had one explosion and two suspicious devices now. police have video of the explosion and this they