. >> reporter: rick smith is a former fbi special agent. he shared his theory on the second package at the burlingame facility. >> this would have to be a copycat, because the suspect's in jail. there's so much publicity when this happens that other people grab the same philosophy, want to do the same thing. >> reporter: he says in high-profile cases it's not that unusual, though the political nature is, he says agents will look at all angles. >> i'm sure they've asked him about that, if he has any confederates. >> a 56-year-old florida man was arrested. >> it wouldn't be hard to identify whether it's the same methodology, the same components by the serial numbers. >> reporter: styer released a statement, adding in part, these threats are not isolated but are part of the larger assault on the norms that uphold our democracy. smith says that agents are very experienced with packages like this, so he believe this is situation will be resolved quickly. christie smith, nbc bay area news. >> thank you, christie. people saw this today, a fire at

a plot that even makes former fbi agent rick smith marvel at the thieves's creativity. >> you have to give hem some credit for an in genius idea. >> reporter: it happened earlier this month. >> the police department received a report from a local shipping company that some high-end merchandise that was destined for a union square retailer had been stolen. >> reporter: that's all police will say. but a source with knowledge of the theft tells us how it went down. the shipping company is u.p.s. the retailer thepa ceived a someone who said he was from the louis vuitton school. thief said stop temporarily because the the basement area come by and pick up the shipments. for three days they made the pickups here at u.p.s. and then disappeared with hundreds of thousands of dollars of conveniencive louis vuitton products. by the end of the week they asked why deliveries had stopped. u.p.s. said it was because of the flooding. but, in fact, the basement was dry. and the store knew nothing about the pickups. smith, who is now a security consultant, said u.p.s. must have protocols which were not

was like a heist from a movie, a movie like "oceans 11," a plot that even makes former fbi agent rick smith the chooefs' creativity. >> you have to give them some credit for ingenious idea. >> reporter: it happened earlier this month. >> the police department received a report from a local shipping company that some high-end merchandise that was destined for a union square retailer had been stolen. >> reporter: that's all police will say. a source with knowledge of the theft tells us how it went down. the shipping company is ups. the retailer is louis vuitton store in union square. the ups center on potrero received a call from someone who said he was from the louis vuitton store. the caller reportedly asked ups to stop deliveries temporarily because its basement storage area was flooded and someone would come by and pick up its shipments. for three days a driver purporting to be from louis vuitton made the pickups and disappeared with hundreds of thousands of dollars of expensive products. by the end of the week, the store asked why its deliveries had stopped. ups said it was because of th

he says after that loss, sheriff laurie smith and her second in command, undersheriff rick sung met martinthis peet's coffee, trying to get him to publicly endorse her. >> she brought internal documents that have jobs for us to apply for and get. >> she also said well, you can do this one here, or, you know, whatever you apply to, give me a call, use my name and we'll get you there. >> after martin monica says laurie smith sent this text saying hi, martin, have i some info for your son. so do you have some time to meet again? also, thank you so much for endorsing me. but he is not endorsing laurie smith. >> it wasn't the right thing to do. i vote for people that i believe will do the correct job. >> former lieutenant for sheriff says he saw something in wrong with his meeting with rick sung at agave restaurant across from city hall. >> the sheriff would like to know if you would endorse her. >> he said sung made an offer he believed came on behalf of the sheriff. >> what if we brought you back as a captain. and i said, well, that's interesting. >> after that meeting, salcido sent a meeting

with me political reporter alan smith and political analyst rick tyler and former executive director of the new york state democratic party, bazell smiekle. president trump downplays the significance of climate change. here's what he said while visiting the wildfire zone in california. >> reporter: does seeing this devastation change your opinion at all on climate chang, mr. president? >> no, no. i have a strong opinion. we're going to have forests that are very safe. >> reporter: does the president's tune change now that his administration has released this report? >> highly doubtful. as we saw with trump this past week, any time a cold front comes in or significantly cold weather, he'll sarcastically tweet "where is all that global warming i've been hearing about?" his tune on climate change has been extremely consistent since before he was a candidate. now this report coming out, i would say the real bigger thing would be what democrats do in the house to make climate change a much more prominent issue during the last two years of president trump's administration. i man, really du

pan retired lieutenant jose salcido tells me he saw something wrong in his meeting with smith's second in command rick song at a restaurant across from san jose city hall. >> sheriff would like to know if you would endorse her. >> he says song made an offer he believes came from the sheriff. >> at that time he offered what if we brought you back as aand interesting. >> aftersa li o sent an email to the district attorney requesting a confidential megardi unethical if not illegal actions by laurie smith during the current election cycle. i've experienced offers from sheriff in exchange for support and i'm aware of other candidates experiencing the same. john chase from the d.a. public integrity unit answered not everything unethical or even illegal is a criminal and later declined to investigate. >> he did he indicate that this is the just the way things. >> he says this is politics you've been in involved in politics lopping enough to know that it goes on all the time. i said well that doesn't make it right. >> john kmas declined an interview but sent a statement the promised promotions under the circu

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counted and she claims there might be some absentee votethat are routed. >> adam smith, over to you. a spokesman for rick the scot said this vase over. senator nelson has not conceded, though. where cowe stand right now? >> well, it doesn't even really matter if conceded yet. we have a law in florida, if the race isithin half a percentage point there has to be an hutomatic machine recount, and that seems to becase right now. rick scott leads by approaching 40,000 votes. and we still havene, appy, about 100,000 votes that haven't even been couedet, most of them in south florida. so we'll have a better handle on it by saturday. those votes will have to be counted. llot of those are mail ba that were turned in election day, or provisionall balots. and it's likely we'll still be within a he lf a percentint and there will be a machine recount. >> let's take a step back, though, often draw, i want to talk tow you about this how we get her in the first plaasce. thisgoing to be an uphill battle for stacey abrams. it's a deep-red state. there's a lot of history to be made if she won. did you expect it to be this

welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm julie banderas in for sandra smith. >> rick:sident is putting the southern border front and center this week authorizing troops to act like law enforcement and threatening to shut down the entire border if mexico doesn't do more to insure its side. he said with need to get funding for the wall. after 40 years of talk it is finally time for action. fix the border for once and for all now. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is reporting live from the pentagon on this. >> the deployment of 5900 u.s. troops to the border has led to a lot of lawyers going back and forth at the pentagon to determine exactly what those u.s. troops are allowed to do. senior military leaders visited troops at the border yesterday for thanksgiving. most of those unarmed troops have been simply laying down wire at the border and that job is almost complete. about 400 mps have been shifted from texas to california to protect the border patrol facing the possible arrival of more migrants. defense secretary mattis, who visited the border recentl

after numerous recounts, it went to rick scott, giving the republicans two seats for now. susan smith and mark espy were forced into a runoff. the president will hold two rallies on the eve of the runoff. joining us from hattiesburg, mississippi, vaughn hilliard. vaughn, you're back to your natural habitat of covering a senate race in the south with an unexpected twist. >> reporter: exactly. >> seucindy hyde-smith is more trouble than we thought because of those comments she made raising all those questions in the south about the terrible history around that. where do things stand, and does the espy campaign feel like they can pull this out? >> reporter: kasie, it's interesting, the air around here in mississippi is pretty similar to that of what we felt in alabama just about one year ago between doug jones and rory moore. you've got doug moore, a long-time congressman here, and with those recent comments you were just referring to from the republican cindy hyde-smith who was appointed that seat in the spring. the senior strategist for this campaign as well as mike espy and he said th

rick scott, governor of florida, 50.2 for governor scott. 49.8 for bill nelson. and to the mississippi special election, theed that cochran seat, cindy hyde smith, current senator, 31.5%. 40.6 for mike especially pi, the democrat and republican chris mcdaniel at 16.4%. those races not decided. a dozen and a half or so house races not decided. let's look at a couple quickly before we get to your calls. to the 48th district. the overall look at the house at this hour, just about 5:00 eastern, 222 democrat seats. 19 republican leets. 218 needed for the majority. still a number to be decided. the 48th district in california is dana rohrabacher, and he is trailing in his race to holly ruda, 50.7, and congressman rohrabacher with 49.3. new jersey third, this is a race that may be decided by mail in allots, tom macarthur, 49.%. andy kim is 48.9. we'll tell you about that momentarily. one more in the house side, the utah fourth, this is mia love, the incumbent congresswoman, 48.7, she trails the democrat there, ben mcadams, 51.3. get to your calls and comments. we'll update you where we can can on those races and others as they come in. we're planning to also bring you

smith and democrat challenger mike espy both received under 50% of the vote. they face each other in a runoff set for november 27th. >>> in florida, that race has been called for republican governor rick scott over incumbent senator democrat bill nelson. if the final margin of victory surround half a percent, a recount would be triggered. 99% of the resinks counted. scott's lead is .4% as of right now. >>> gaining seats in the senate during a midterm election while losing house seats is extremely rare in american history, but president trump seems to have done exactly that. it's been done only, by the way, two previous times over the past 100 years, and for recent context, president obama lost nine senate seats in his first midterms in 2010. other top news tonight -- president trump's attorney general out at the president's any. request. jeff sessions resigned after a call from the president's chief of staff. fox news chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge joining us tonight. she has the story. catherine? reporter: thanks, lou, and good evening, jeff sessions left the justice department a short time ago. you will see the blog from justice department employees, and if you

rick scott. so that is a republican pickup in florida. but next week, there's one more. the mississippi u.s. senate runoff will happen between democrat mike espy and republican cindy hyde-smith. it is hard to imagine a state-wide race being competitive in the state of mississippi, right? but "the washington post" reports today that internal republican polls show that this race between mike espy and cindy hyde-smith is tightening. democrat mike espy is very well-known in the state of mississippi. he is a former congressman from mississippi. he was the secretary of agriculture in bill clinton's cabinet in clinton's second term. mississippi born and raised. and it does not hurt mike espy's chances that the person he is run against for this election just isn't that great at this. cindy hyde-smith has made a number of controversial and sort of inexplicable remarks since she's been heading towards this runoff with mike espy. but the thing to know heading into tomorrow night's debate is not just that she's said stuff that's gotten her in trouble, it's that after she says stuff that gets her in trouble, she doesn't seem capable of talking her way out of it. when it comes time to ans

smith. broward county missing the machine recount deadline by two minutes. it did not make the rick brings us to this morning's newsroom news feed. >> breaking news out of florida. time is up for the battleground state to finish their election results. >> unofficial results seem to indicate the governor's race seems settled by the senate race is headed to a recount. >> two counties had election problems. >> i believe strongly it wasn't not a human effort. it was mechanical. >> officials say a substantial number of ballots were not counted. >> because of that breakdown of the machines senator nelson suing for a hand recount of all ballots in palm beach county. >> bill nelson has to look in the mirror and ask himself if he would like to end his career dragging the entire state of florida through the courts for more time. >> the election disaster in florida just got worse with broward county missing the deadline to turn in their recount total by just two minutes. >> they were rejected by the florida secretary of state. that means the official results from the election, unofficial resul

smith. hour three begins now. >> jon: good to be with you today. i'm jon scott in for bill hemmer. senator bill nelson went into the recount 12,000 votes behind his republican challenger rickesident trump blasting the whole process pushing for the removal of broward county election supervisor snipes. you look at her past, she is a disaster. i won florida and that area, broward, didn't come in. peter dunbar, counsel to the republican party of florida in "america's newsroom" earlier. >> if you look at the ballots that are at issue. i do think it is important that all ballots be counted. the results might modify in small numbers but not enough at issue to make a change in either of those two races. >> jon: bret baier joins us, but first we want to check in with peter doocy in florida. what's the latest? >> jon, the latest is the recount is substantially lighter than the initial count up in palm beach county where the supervisor of elections said a substance number of ballots are missing from the second count. the official there, the superintendent of elections said they believe machines missed them and they think they've identified the crate that the ballots are in. the super