of delaware. although we're not having pening statements, we will welcome a formal closing statement from each candidate. candidates have agreed to participate in this debate with audiences for the live here at the university of delaware campus. entered members mitchell hall understand thanksgiving is not a pep rally, there will be no cheering or ark mrauz, this debate is the not the audience. i will keep questions short and answer candidates to concisely. the candidates will answer in determined ey backstage with a predebate coin toss. irst question to senator carper, both candidates, senator first. will enter do you see the 2018 mid-term on presidentreferendum donald trump? sen. carper: i think it is an answer that we believe in checks balances in this country. the constitution, framers of the put together this system of checks and balances, judicial branch, legislative the idea we would not end up with one person being king. a lot of reed on things, one or two units within he legislative branch

delaware debates is also the supported the american cancer society and the university of delaware.s debate features candidates in the race for one of delaware's seat in the united states senate. the democratic party nominee is incumbent senator tom carper. running as the republican candidate for senate is robert arlette, and incumbent council member in suffolk county, delaware. welcome to both of you. both candidates have agreed to rules for the occasions. there will be no opening statements. i will begin with a question for both candidates. they have agreed to hold themselves to 92nd answers. second answers. we will include questions recorded by students at delaware state university and the university of delaware. although we will not have opening statements, we will welcome a formal closing statement from each candidate. the candidates on stage have also agreed to participate with some rules for the live audience here at the university of delaware campus. audience members have entered mitchell hall understanding this is not a pep rally. there will be no cheering or applause. this

on behalf of delaware public media and the university of delaware's center for political communicationlcome to delaware debates 2018. i'm ralph bag light or. ghter.ph beglei the democratic party nominee is incumbent senator tom carper. running as the republican candidate for senate is a robert and incumbent council member in suffolk county, delaware. there will be no opening statements. i will begin with a question for both candidates. holdhave agreed to themselves to 92nd answers. we will include questions recorded by students at delaware state university and the university of delaware. although we will not have opening statements, we will welcome a formal closing statement from each candidate. haveandidates on stage agreed to participate with some rules for the live audience here at the university of delaware campus. have entereders mitchell hall understanding this is not a cap rally. there will be no cheering or applause. this debate is about the candidates, not about the audience. i will keep questions short and ask candidates to answer concisely so we can cover a lot more ground.

live from mitchell hall at the university of delaware this is delaware debate. >> on behalf of delaware public media and the center for political communication welcome to delaware debates 2014, made possible with the financial support of the american cancer society cancer action network. this feature is candidates for one of delaware seats and the u.s. senate. the democratic party's nominee is incumbent senator tom carper. running as a republican senate from sussexlette county, delaware. both candidates have agreed to rules for the occasion, there will be no opening statements. i will begin with a question and the have agreed to hold themselves to 92nd answers. we will also include questions recorded by students. audience members have entered mitchell hall understanding that this is not a cap rally, note cheering or applause. this is about the candidates, not the audience. i will keep my answers -- questions short so we can cover ground tonight. the candidates will answer in the order they determine backstage with a pre-debate point toss. the first question goes to senator carper. do yo

we call it the delaware prosperity department. private sector and members of the general assembly working together to improve the in delaware.ate there are issues in washington, d.c. that are negatively affecting us, the tariffs and some of these battles around international trade are negatively affecting our community. that democratsea and republicans are at each other's throats all the time doesn't help the political climate in our state as well. we have always prided ourselves in the delaware way, which is democrats and republicans working together at the end of the day for the betterment of our state. about sportsurious betting. i sigh you taking a $10 bill and -- saw you taking a $10 bill and putting it down. >> i won on that. i bet on the phillies. we broke the losing streak. we have been doing pretty well. a little better than expected, , because some of the margins are tighter, but the in terms ofenario sports betting, it has been approved in pennsylvania and maryland as well, and we are small. we have seen it before where

biden or the situation in newcastle, delaware. delaware is mr. biden's home state is. let's give you a closer look at the suspicious package sent to actor robert de niro. new york police responded to a building in the tribeca neighborhood. the tribeca film center and tribeca grill on greenwich are associated with de niro, outspoken critic of president trump. a bomb truck took that package away. that comes as two pipe bombs were discovered in los angeles last night addressed to democratic congresswoman maxine waters. on weapons, explosive devices were sent to the clintons, obamas, former attorney general eric holder, and the new york studios of cnn. >> it appears that an individual or individuals sent out multiple similar packages. >> we will not let terrorism win. not today, not ever. >> reporter: now, luckily, none of the devices detonated. they are being examined right now at an fbi lab in virginia. live in studio, cornell bernard, abc 7 news. >> thank you, cornell. a team of 20 atf agents will comb through piles of charred construction material searching for evidenc

in delaware scores of zero to 500 points. in south carolina excellent, good, average, below average, unsatisfactory. tell me your thoughts if you can succinctly about why you chose those labels and how you're avoiding the discouraging label of failing school. >> in our case we had several different conversations with our state board of education and brought in folks from an assessment perspective in looking at how would we define our particular schools. we were somewhat, on some fronts, criticized for having a feeling like a positive skewed one but i'll tell you from our schools, they know what excellent is, what great is, what good is and we're very worried about providing the resources and support for those schools that file a needs improvement. we had serious conversations about those labels and what they mean for the schools. >> we have a philosophy of the people by the people and for the people and our report card reflects that. we've held a number of community conversations throughout the state and our stakeholders have

a lot of shareholders will hate it and i think the delaware courts -- look, i see delaware in action. it's not legal to literally -- and i'll say it -- steal from your small investors when you control the company. it's not legal in delaware and i think the courts will say, hey, you're not being fair what they could do that would be fair, maybe, and we talk about that, would be, yeah, go do your ipo and go do your exchange but do it subject to a vote to shareholders at the very least this way you'll need full fairness. what full fairness means is you can't just rely, you have to prove what you're offering the shareholders is fair then we would go in-depth, which i'm sure they don't want to show what they're doing and what they're paying for dell or what they're saying dell is worth, they've already threatened, i've heard, from different shareholders that they say you have to be scared. we'll do a very small ipo and that's going to really screw you. i don't know what words they say. i haven't talked to them now they'll say in full fairness meaning you have to ask real experts to say wha

the delaware legislature. he had allies and delaware politics but was ultimately not able to get that through. he also very famously in 1862 called border state congressman together at the white house and made a speech where he told them you need to get on board with gradual emancipation and control the process yourself. if you control the process yourself, you can control how quickly it happens and get compensation if you leave this to chance and the fortunes of war there's no telling what might happen. lincoln on a few fronts is trying to push forward emancipation in the border states. in 1861 and 1862 and is totally frustrated , he finds very little support or sympathy for this. that had a big effect on him and his perception of what would have to be done about slavery. one of the ideas behind going at delaware is that delaware is basically a slave state in name only by 1861. the vast majority of african- americans in delaware are already free there's only a couple thousand slaves when the war begins. here

delaware educators are working to get it right for students. with support from the council of chief state school officers we're working to close gaps and to turn around schools and we're making sure that school improvement interventions do not result in unintended consequences for kids. most importantly, we're doing all of this by surrounding ourselves with stakeholders who are providing constant feedback to make sure that we get it right. from the beginning, the law rightly asks states to work closely with stakeholders and we embraced that opportunity involving a diverse group of stakeholders to both right our essa plan and implement the law. to help create the plan we brought together an essa advisory council whose members ran the gamut from the president of the state superintendent association to a tribe member from legislators and pta officers and from businessmen to the executive director of the latin american community center. these stakeholders made many of the critical decisions. one example can be seen in our statewide accountability s

in delaware there is fbi activity on the ground in delaware at this moment. we're trying to get people there. we're trying to get pictures up to you to get the latest from that scene. in the meantime, when we woke up this morning in lower manhattan at the office of robert de niro there was a bomb discovered. that is a picture of the bomb right there. outside the offices of robert de ni niro, tell us what you are seeing. >> reporter: authorities say that bomb looks the same as the other packages on the outside. there is stamps on it. there is no postmark on it. it appears there were stamps put on it and it was delivered here. it was in the mail room of tribeca film productions. the bomb squad came down and already took it off to their place in the bronx where they will be studying that device. robert de niro released a statement saying the building was evacuated. everybody is safe. this is not what free speech should look like. obviously, robert de niro has been a frequent critic of the president. it should not come as a surprise the other targets of these bom

the fbi is telling us they are investigating something in delaware.cted to what we have seen over the last few days, bomb sent places. overnight we did know there was concern that a device had been sent to joe biden that lives in delaware, and now we are getting word of fbi activity in delaware and we will bring you the latest on that when we get more. also this morning the breaking news you are seeing on the screen right now, a bomb sent to the actor of robert de niro's office, and de niro has been critical of president trump and been the target of many of trump's words over the last several words. bombs have been sent to former president, barack obama, and secretary of state hillary clinton, and eric holder, and maxine waters, and john brennan sent a device here at cnn. we are following all the breaking news. we want to talk about what this all means for all of us. joining us now is congressman rodney davis of illinois, a republican who was on the baseball field more than a year ago when steve scalise and others were shot during softball practice, a

and earlier this week at a town hall in delaware, the delaware city fire company, someone i've known for decades got out of her car, came up to me, gave me a huge hug and weeping said, i never told my husband. i never told my son. and today i have. and in her voice there was both heavy emotion and an enormous sense of relief. and i have to say for me, a sense of great pain that i was wishing i could do nothing except sit and listen, to honor her story, to provide some sense of comfort and support and recognition. and yet had to move on to the town hall after a few moments. at a dinner here in washington just last night, someone shared with me an amazing story of her daughter's suffering and take hear a story of that power and pain in the midst of a social setting is both wonderful in that they are trusting with a story that they have held on to for so long and terrible in that it is a reminder of the ways in which we speak to each other of surviving assault in hush tones and in dark corners and on the internet and anonymously. whatever comes out this week, whatever comes out of the p

it was found at a postal facility in wilmington, delaware. the first was found at a postal facility in new castle, delaware, and had similar markings to others found during the past few days. in new york city, in fact, another suspicious package caused quite a frenzy a couple of hours ago. nbc news sources say the envelope was sent to a property owned by actor robert de niro. here's, in fact, a look at that package that was found earlier this morning. sources are saying it has similar markings as pipe bomb packages recently mailed nationwide. new york's governor says he is increasing security on his state's transit system in case the pipe bomb threats evolve into, quote, something else. extra measures are also being taken here in the bay area. >> bob redell outside of the b.a.r.t. station in warm springs. b.a.r.t. is taking similar precautions just to make sure people are safe. >> we did reach out to b.a.r.t. this morning and the transit agency assures us they received no specific threats against the transit system here, but in light of what'

this is wilmington, delaware. law enforcement officials say that a package was found this morning at a postal facility in new castle, delaware. that package was addressed to former vice president joe biden. a second package was found that was addressed to former vice president biden. that second package was found at a postal facility there in wilmington, and it would appear as if the bomb robot is wrapping up its work and heading back into the van there. that's the scene, a live look there above the scene in wilmington, delaware. joyce, ten packages sent at this point. we do not know if there are any more of these devices out there. how does law enforcement -- how does the law enforcement system jump into action? how is it organized to coordinate efforts across jurisdictions to find the source and figure out if any more pack an ages are out there? who's in charge now? joyce? >> not the first time we've had a situation where a bomber has been operating in multiple venues simultaneously. the joint terrorism task for

it was supposed to be delivered to his address in delaware. his home address in delaware, but it appears because of some problem, perhaps because of insufficient postage, it was returned to sender, and like the other packages, the return sender label was from debbie wasserman schultz, the congresswoman in florida. so the scramble went on for -- in the overnight hours as the postal service was trying to check to see whether it had made it back to florida or whether it was still in the system in delaware. so this morning, as you see the live pictures there from outside of wilmington, the postal service believes they now have the package in their hands. and the examination now begins to see whether or not it contains the same tell tale signals, signatures of a bomb, the mail bomb. it appears to be wrapped up in black tape with wires and perhaps may contain the same explosive that was found in other devices. and keep in mind, the work is still being done by the fbi at quantico lab. they're going to examine every single one of these bombs, and they

there were 2 new judges in delaware. they are trump nominees. they were confirmed nearly unanimously by the senate. and i think will serve admirably and long on our court. do i think it is fair to them to call them trumps judges with the opprobrium that that brings in my party? or for the other party to call them trump judges with the expectation that tells you the arc of their judicial service? no. we do wear red and blue jerseys and are elected as partisans. we work hard to know each other across that, but our judiciary has been affected by the way we behave and speak. i think we are at risk of losing that. so, jeff spoke early on in this exchange about the way the senate is different from the house. changing the rules on confirmation of judges. something democrats did for his dead republicans wallowed our -- did first and then republicans followed our lead. threshold,a 60 vote refusing to qualify nominees from the other party, part of lindsey graham's white-hot anger is because he voted for sotomayor and kagan and cannot believe it is legitim

postal facility in delaware. this one in wilmington. both of them addressed to vice president biden. these are not x-rays of the pictures to him. this, though, is, we're told, the package that was found in new castle. we're going by these awfully fast here. but they were looking for a package to biden because they had been told by the postal service that a postal worker thought -- remembered seeing one of these packages go through the system. they were looking for it as of late yesterday but they did not expect to find two. so now there are two recipients that we know of that have received two packages -- sorry, that two packages were addressed to them. neither of them were received. biden and two to maxine waters. one found at the sorting facility outside washington that screens mail for congress and the other attached -- or sent to her office in l.a. we're looking at what looks like a bomb robot being set up to perhaps deal with one of these devices so that it can be safely handled. this video says it's from ne

the live picture from delaware.latest suspicious device we believe may have been sent to joe biden. we sent out a push alert. be the first to learn about breaking news by downloading our abc 7 news app and especially ailing push alerts. >>> trying to identify a man driving around and exposing himself to women in a south san jose neighborhood. >> investigators believe a man resembling this sketch is involved in at least three indecent exposure cases. between september and october, a expose bay, a potentially hazardous situation avoid. firefighters found a big rig on berryessa avenue. the fire began underneath the truck and burned a hole into the the situation could have been much worse if the tanker was carrying flammable liquid. >>> your commute is a big part of the commitment to building a better bay area. >> it is no secret we have some of the worst traffic congestion in the area. once again the bay area has ranked the most dreadful commutes. interstate 80, the drive from highway 4 to the bay bridge toll plaza. am

out of new castle, delaware, responding to a postal facility. a man suited in gear. they say this is a suspicious package sent to former vice president joe biden. there's new activity under way in new york city as the search continues for that sender. we'll have more for you right here on "today in the bay." thank you for starting your morning right here with us. i'm marcus washington. >> i'm laura garcia. we'll get back to that breaking news. first, we'll take a look at traffic and weather. let's start out with the forecast. >> and the main issue for the bay area this morning will be the patchy dense fog we're seeing, especially for parts of the north bay around santa rosa into napa as well as the tri-valley where visibility has been cut down to a quarter mile or less. allow extra time this morning for that drive. our temperatures in morgan hill will be in the 50s. our temperatures warming up with our highs reaching into the low 80s inland. it will be a much warmer day. i'll have a look more -- a closer look at the microclimate. mike, you're seeing something in the

the investigation the mercenaries were employed by spear operations group a company registered in delaware and founded by abraham golan gary an israeli security contractor who lives near pittsburgh golan admitted to buzz feed that there was a targeted assassination program in yemen i was running it we did it it was sanctioned by the u.a.e. within the coalition one of the targets of the controversial program was on soft i'll email a prominent local leader of the islamist political party allah is law and while the u.a.e. considers al is law to be a terrorist organization buzz feed reporter aram roston writes that many experts insist that al islam was one of those one of the whose members as one of nobel peace prize is no terror group they say it's a legitimate political party that threatens the u.a.e. not through violence but by speaking out against its ambitions in yemen these revelations have now brought the speculation of possible war crimes charges to the forefront because just security points out it is a crime for a u.s. citizen to commit certain violations of international humanitarian

this time at another facility in delaware, at a postal facility in wilmington, delaware. the earlier one we talked about a while ago was found early this morning in new castle, delaware. now we're told another one has been found. i think you're looking at the new castle pictures here. now we're told that they have found another device. similar to the others. also addressed to vice president biden. so former vice president biden. that would be two to him. that's not the only time that two packages were addressed to the same person. you may recall that authorities now say that two were addressed to congresswoman maxine waters. one at her office that was found at the off-site mail facility outside washington, d.c. where mail to congress is screened. and another at her office in l.a. so now two packages addressed to vice president biden. this brings us, the number of packages now to ten. >> packages to ten. pete, stay with us. clint, i want to go back to you. you were saying? >> yes, when we consider motive, we're trying to understand with this individual as pete has just tol

streets shut down in delaware and lower manhattan. we are going to get you up-to- date on the latest in this growing case of devices. >> reporter: and the city of san jose is putting its money where its mouth is. it's hiring homeless people to help clean up the city. we'll give you details on a new program that's launching today. >>> more suspicious packages have been discovered this morning in connection with the attempted bombings of democrats and media members. >> major new developments in the death of "washington post" journalist jamal khashoggi. >> and chevron agrees to a huge settlement in connection with a disastrous fire in the east bay. >> good morning, everyone. it is thursday, october 25th. i'm michelle griego. >> and i'm ken in just the past couple of hours. >> anne makovec has been following new developments all morning long. >> reporter: the concern is growing. we have now seen these packages being delivered from coast to coast. so let's get you up-to-date on all of the suspicious devices found at multiple locations cont

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and chris coons, democrat of delaware. they're here with jeff rosen. [applause] >> senators coons and flake, we invited you a month ok. -- a month ago. we are here to discuss gravely serious confess and that's the future of the senate as an institution and the future of the supreme court as an institution and how as you so eloquently said, senator flake, to prevent the country from tearing itself apart at a time when legitimacy of both those institutions is under siege. what would it take for the f.b.i. investigation to get you to consider voting against kavanaugh? >> chris? >> it almost worked. the state of play today is the investigation is ongoing. they interviewed the first four that were named, and have branched off from there, is my understanding, and are interviewing additional individuals, and does it should be. and i hope they follow leads that come from those first interviews. the agreement that we struck, the compromise we struck, which was limited by time, as chris outlined before we went outside, to one week, and then we limited the scope

brian: they're scrambling what is going on in delaware. we assume something to do with joe biden's address. this morning we wake up and find out that robert de niro's restaurant had package in it and we assume bomb-making materials inside. i know you have a schedule set up. do you want to announce anything that might be changing? >> i can tell you that the president has been briefed on both of these latest incidents by chief of staff kelly, and probably received further briefing later this morning. yesterday he was briefed by the united states secret service, the fbi, the department of justice and dhs heads. we're continuing to monitor this, look for ways to prevent it. frankly find out at the end of the day who is fully responsible for this. make sure that we bring justice to that individual or individuals. ainsley: there is a tweet from john brennan, response to the president, he is one of the ones that was supposed to get one of these packages, this is the one they sent to cnn he just tweeted this. stop blaming others. look in the mirro

devices addressed to former vice president biden and actor robert de niro intercepted in delaware and new york. the packages assumed lethal, recovered by bomb technicians and whisked away in special vehicles. tonight, investigators are making headway in tracing the mailings. our pete williams joins us with late details. pete, how quickly is this investigation moving? >> reporter: well, officials say tonight they're following several promising leads based on trying to track how the packages moved through the mail system, and one of their interests is now south florida. early this morning, new york police hauled away an eighth package similar to all the others, addressed to actor robert de niro and delivered to the building where his restaurant is located, then two more found in postal facilities in delaware, both addressed to former vice president joe biden. that brings the number of virtually identical packages to ten with two of them addressed to congresswoman maxine waters. investigators say they now believe all were sent through the mail, including the one found yesterday that was

in a remarkably fast-moving investigation that spanned from california to delaware, new york to florida, a fingerprint cracked the case leading to today's dramatic arrest of the prime suspect in the mailing of at least 14 pipe bombs that targeted prominent critics of president trump including two former presidents. today just hours after the discovery of four more suspicious devices, officials confirmed the arrest of a 56-year-old florida man who they say was behind the mailings. the fbi director making clear these were not hoax devices. the suspect's social media trail along with

and now we believe something sent to former vice president joe biden in delaware was trying to be confirmed about whether or

supreme court, the delaware superior court, the delaware court of chancery, to name a few. while the roles of those courts differ, the qualities i look for in my judicial nominees were similar. i look for men and women who are bright. i look for men and women who knew the law. i look for men and women who have good judgment, who are able and willing to make a decision, including difficult issues. i look for men and women with the strong work ethic. if i want to nominate, it's like watching them retire on the job. i look for nominees who are collegial, able to build consensus, and had a larger panel. but there were three qualities that were most important to me, three qualities. judicial temperament, impartiality, treating everyone before them fairly, not showing partiality. and finally, those three, judicial temperament, impartiality, and truthfulness. in fact, there was a time in my first term as governor, mr. president, i deny sitting justice of the escort the opportunity to serve an additional 12-year term because he lacked appropriate judicial temperament. i am told tha

my friend chris coons, the senator from delaware, is a liberal democrat. incidentally, when i say that senator coons is my friend, i don't mean it in a syrupy way that people call each other my dear friend in washington while gouging each other's eyes out. chris is my dear friend. i am grateful to know him. we are friends because we have worked together, and we have worked together because the constitutional framework that created our government ingeniously makes governing hard and compromise inevitable, f we are doing it right. it makes me have to consider what is best for the people of delaware, just as it makes chris responsive to what is best for the people of arizona. and it is when we try and avoid compromise and take partisan advantage and do things because we have the numbers, especially when we are as terribly and closely divided as we are now, that we begin to do serious damage to the country. i don't want to get too much into it here, but the compromise that chris and i struck on friday is one that i take seriously. and we did it because fairnes

beliefs later in the day the secret service says intercepted two more packages postal centers and delaware addressed to former vice president joe biden. other targets include accept the tree of state hillary clinton and former president barack obama. how the devices were all mailed and padded envelopes with six stamps the bombs described as crude by experts at a wednesday rally in wisconsin trump blamed the media and said of sympathizing with those targeted. the media also has a responsibility to set a civil tone i do stop the endless hostility and constant negative ad oftentimes false attacks and stories have to do. but former cia director john brennan to whom another bomb was sent said trumps rhetoric is to blame. unfortunately i think all trump too often has a pope to incite some of these feelings of anger it's not violence but when he points to actual violence or also talks about you know swinging at somebody from the press to the media. with the political climate charged ahead of men time elections security services are racing to find the mailbox. all right to use the abbey quote a si

one in wilmington, one in new castle, both in delaware, at postal facilities. so there's that handled. secondly, the de niro one that was actually delivered probably yesterday, an official who worked at the building remembered overnight seeing it after looking at news reports that showed packages like this and said i think we've got one, so there's that. the florida connection is -- they've been saying this now for -- well, almost 24 hours, that a strong possibility is that these packages were being mailed from florida based on their ability to try to track the packages backwards. so you've got a forward-looking investigation of trying to exploit how the bombs were made and a backward looking one, trying to trace back how they got there. my colleague from w nbc in new york had an important piece of information a moment ago. because cnn was saying they weren't all mailed because there's was delivered by a courier. it turns out, according to the people he's talked to, yes, it was brought to the cnn headquarters by courier but had been delivered to an offsite faci

steve: new castle, delaware.re, he didn't know -- let's watch. >> that's crazy. we live in a crazy world. it is nonsense that they do things like this. it is just for attention. you know, we shouldn't have to be like this. steve: sounds as if a night package has been addressed to the vice president. they did a sweep of his home yesterday in delaware and they could not find, you know, that package. as it turns out it was still at the post office. there it is right there with postage due, with a debbie wasserman schultz return address and with the vice president's address. we blurred it out at the bottom. let's bring in retired u.s. marine corps bomb technician, joey jones. what do you make of what we've seen so far regarding these devices? >> well we're seeing devices that look like bombs but may not function as bombs. the one picture we have there is a timepiece, a clock, some sort of visual clock on the outside of the bomb, if you're saying hey make something we think it is a bomb, that sounds pretty smart. you

it's coming out of newt castle, delaware. police are investigating a suspicious package sent to former vice president joe biden. we've seen the robots go in. we'll continue to follow this on a busy breaking news morning. >>> first, want to say good morning and thanks for joining us. i'm laura garcia. >> i'm marcus washington. there's a lot going on this morning. we're actually learning here at home, b.a.r.t. is on high alert with extra patrols. right now we want to continue with that. we'll get to that in a moment. we want to go over to meteorologist kari hall, who has a better look at what we can expect this morning. a foggy morning. >> look at this view. this is the tri-valley. you'll have some low visibility as you head out. so, if you're just waking up and you need to be driving to work, hurry up and get ready so you can slow down on the roads this morning because we are going to see this lingering into the morning hours. as you get ready for school in livermore, we'll see the patchy dense fog as you walk the kids to scho

devices addressed to vice president biden and actor robert de niro intercepted in new york and delaware. the packages assumed lethal uncovered by bomb technicians and whisked away. they are making headway tracing the mailings. pete williams jones us with la details. pete, how quickly is this investigate moving? >> officials are following several promising les acking how the packages move through the mailystem and one of the interests is south florida early this morning, new york police haud away an eighth package addressed to actor robert de niro and delivered to the building where his restaurant is located and two more found in postal facilities in delaware addressed to former president joe biden. that brings the number of virtually identical packages to ten. with two of them addressed to congresswoman maxine waters. they believe all were sent to the mail, including the one found yesterday delivered by to cnn. w soe postmarked, that's important evidence suggesting some may have been mailed from the same state, florida. investigators are working to narrow down which post office there wa

prominent trump critic robert de niro and not long after that, a package at a postal facility in delaware addressed to former vice president joe biden, and separate package was also found in wilmington, delaware, addressed to him. and so the packages are now to 10, and sent to clintons, obama, former c can ia director john brenn brennan, former attorney general eric holder, joe biden, and with two to maxine waters. and after saying that we should come together, the president is blaming the media. and we have pete williams and nbc national correspondent pete alex s alexander, and msnbc security analyst shawn henry a former fbi executive drirector, and good t have all of you here. pete, i want to start with with the big picture, and what do we know about the big picture of what is standing right now including everything that has unfolded over the last several hours? >> well, the investigators would very much like to get to the manhunt stage, but so far, they don't have a man to hunt. we are told that there is no clear suspect yet in these investigations, but there is great optimism for seve

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did at postal centers in delaware the incidents come just one day after the f.b.i. revealed it had intercepted at least seven hundred bombs some of them sent to other leading democrats including former president barack obama and former secretary of state hillary clinton and didn't use the abir who have a son is in new york city right outside robert de niro's restaurant in trite becca who has also been targeted abbi what have you learned have there been new developments. well at this time right now new york police have confirmed that the device that was found here via cloying in the very early hours of this morning has now been traced safely transported to a facility in the bronx and now the employee found this package and recognized right away that it looked very similar to the packages that you see on top of it and yesterday it was the same the law envelope the same markings the same spelling mistake even so he called the police right away and now of course it's in the bronx and they will examine this package to see frank similarities to the other packages that the

as we all know he lives in the state of delaware.al police responding to a povertial facility in new castle, delaware, perhaps tracking yet another package. mr. mayor as you said we don't know where the end of this is. we may find more packages somewhere in the povertial system, maybe left in post offices. how does the nypd handle that? what do you do with the prospect of there could be many more of these floating out there? >> i think first thing is not to allow a culture of fear. we want to educate people. this is happening, they can be part of protecting themselves and everyone around them. we want everyone to participate. we're not going to allow a culture of fear. this can be handled. what these individuals or individual has done is created a clear pattern. not a lot of subterfuge here. we know what they are doing. people can see it, address it and be ready for it. it may go on for days or weeks. we can't be scared of that. we have to recognize that one thing very clear. nypd and our federal and state partners overwhelmingly, ov

without going to everyone of you appeared in delaware, if you have someone standing on asphalt for morehan 15 minutes, it lose all their votes. you've been skin a lot longer than that and i don't want to keep the going. i will be brief and straight to the point. the fact of the matter is all of your candidates have something in common. they have all gotten to speak so i won't go through it all. they have character. say, theywhat they say what they mean, and they do what they say they're going to do. that's the single most significant thing that's missing in washington, d.c. now. i've been around a long time. the fact of the matter is there is a lot to describe this slate, but each one of them, their lives have been shaped by service. they know what it is like to come from a family figuring out how to pay the rent, figuring out how to pay the mortgage, finding out if there is enough left. i ride home on amtrak all the time to wilmington, delaware, and i look out the window to see the houses i grew up in, split-level homes, 3000 square feet, four kids, grandfather living with them, mom an

they were located in delaware post offices. those were the targets and that timeline is running from monday to today. let's take a look at what was inside these packages. the bombs that were inside the packages were all slightly different. the devices that were sent to soros and john brennan and the obamas and the clintons were, the fbi said, pipe bombs. they were basic, but functional. one contained glass when the bomb went off. they were unstable and could have been set off simply by handling them. that means they had the ability to do real harm and damage to whatever room they were in. whatever people were around. let's look at the packages. all the pictures are almost identic identical. they are manila envelopes with padding on the inside. lots of misspellings. john brennan's name is misspelled and debbie wassermann schultz's name is misspelled. there is no indication that he is involved, but given how many of the envelopes have been found with the bombs intact, none have gone off. there is quite a bit to go off of as they

[applause] chris coons, senator all of delaware. [laughter] [applause] >> we invited you to this event a month ago. for justifyingch our conversation this morning. to discuss gravely serious questions, and that is the future of the senate and institutions and the future of the supreme court as an institution and how as you so elegantly said, senator flake, to prevent the country from tearing itself apart at a time when legitimacy of both of the institutions are under siege. i am required by my editor to ask the question to start us off , what is the state of play today, and what would it take for the fbi investigation to reveal for you to consider voting against brett kavanaugh? sen. flake: chris? it almost worked. thithe investigation is ongoing. firstnterviewed the fie that were named and they are moving on from there. that is as it should be. i hope they follow leads that come from those first interviews. the agreement we struck him of the compromise we struck, something that was limited by time as chris outlined in his speech fo