s deafened simmons is in washington and a correspondent james rhino's on the story forward tonight in manhattan to both of you gentlemen good to see you stefan let me start with you we saw there the first lady malani of trump she was actually the first person in the white house to speak in to condemn what happened today she would she spoke before the u.s. president i mean that struck all of us as being very unusual how did you read. exactly the same it was absolutely unusual i can't recall any. former president democratic or republican who would have or has in fact in similar situations or remotely similar situations handled that the same way in all fairness though this was a free organized event the targeted destruction and this the first lady and the president wanted to talk about the opiate crisis in the u.s. and what the administration does to battle it but there is no observer here in washington there's no one in the political establishment who was not a little bit surprised about this and then everybody. came to the conclusion though that the president was ready then spoke said

right that was the mayor of new york city de blasio speaking there i'm joined now by correspondent james rhino he has been covering this story for us all day in manhattan james it's good to see you let's let's talk about what we saw happening today have been the shock came with reports about these suspicious packages and then it came to the time warner building but as soon as it happened almost as fast as it happened it was also over it seems. chaos and confusion. of power an earlier this morning about ten am local time just after that explosive device was discovered in the mail room of the time warner center in the c.n.n. offices right behind me over here. have as you say subsided throughout the day here we are several hours off. the discovery and the building has now been totally reopened office workers have gone back up stairs interoffice the shopping mall which was closed for a number of hours behind me just a tad has also reopened. fire trucks and chemical weapons. and so on throughout the day doing that was doing their investigations i think the fact you can see behind me now we've got a