university of south florida alum and kerry sanders is here with us today. ing to the states because of the hurricane. how are they going to vote? >> they're moving not only to the states but moving to florida. they have to understand the history of florida. there was a time there was one voting block they would try to woo would be the cuban vote. they would register as republicans. these voters moving to florida are all up for grabs. they are now at 1.2 million the large largest hispanic voting block in the state. >> reporter: from the strategy war rooms to florida streets. the chase is onto register the newest wave of voters. refugees from puerto rico fleeing hurricane maria's destruction. they are potentially powerful vote, a target of every campaign in the state right now. by birth right puerto rico are ls u.s. citizens. >> i'm a brown hispanic latino woman. i'm also a gray-- gay lhispanic latino woman in the united states. >> reporter: 22-year-old gia is with a nonpartisan organization. she says because puerto rico has its own political parties, few new

that's where all the mail comes in and out for all of south florida.ey evacuated all the workers, brought in their bomb-sniffing dogs with the fbi and miami-dade police and said it was a preliminary, tentative precautionary investigation, just to walk through everywhere and make sure there were no package bombs. they did find package number 11 addressed to cory booker that had not yet been sent from florida to his office or his residential address. after all this this morning, south florida's congresswoman debbie wasserman-schultz spoke about all of it. >> obviously being a representative of this community and being a person who is of this community raising my children in this community, it's gut wrenching. >> her name and her office address in sunrise, florida down the road was the returned a dress. obviously a bogus returned a dress on all of the bombs, most of them. that's why she received one of them on wednesday morning, which caused a scare in her office. we believe that was the one intended for eric holder, former a.g., which was sent back, retu

don't turn out. >> you have two major universities right along the corridor, the university of south florida, where we are today, and central florida in orlando. the lack of campaigning that i've seen from current candidates i think it's a mistake but at the same time, you know, this area is where they need to be. >> desantis is not coming out, gillum is not coming out, nelson is not coming out, scott is not coming out. they're not talking to voters directly here at the universities. would it make a difference if they did? >> i think it would. >> i think so. a one-on-one conversation with someone you're electing into the national level is super important. >> you're an opinion writer, an opinion editor. you say you're republican. you also say you're republican which is interesting because most editor in chiefs of newspapers don't reveal their affiliation or make a point not to be publicly affiliated or register independent. tell me about that choice and how that affects coverage and how it affects the perception of your paper? >> so i think that with media especially student media there's alw

make no mistake. >> reporter: federal investigators now chasing a lead in south florida. sources confirming to abc news authorities believe at least some of the packages went through a mail facility near miami. the devices now being analyzed at the fbi lab in quantico, virginia. all of them, abc is told, went through the u.s. postal service. >> we have over 600,000 postal employees out there right now, so we have their eyes and ears looking for these packages. >> reporter: the investigation widened thursday with law enforcement seizing several more packages bringing the total to ten. the latest intended recipients, actor robert de niro and former vice president joe biden. >> this division, this hatred, this ugliness, it has to end. >> reporter: sources tell abc news federal agents are painstakingly combing through the evidence, the digital clocks inside, the explosive powder, the tape, even the way the wiring is twisted. it could indicate whether the suspect is left or right-handed. as for if they believe the devices were actually meant to detonate or intended simply to s

we know additional authorities are being sent into south florida at this hour. victor, what do we know so far? >> reporter: david, for the first time tonight, we're learning of a new focus for investigators. multiple sources now tell aby news that federal authorities are chasing promising leads right here in south florida. right now, they're sending resources down to investigate. authorities are trying to figure out whether some of the devices sent to prominent democrats and others this week were built and possibly sent from here. all those packages had the same return address to south florida, right now, investigators don't have a suspect, but they are working around the clock. david? >> victor oquendo leading us off tonight on the breaking developments. victor, thank you. >>> this urgent hunt right now comes after a day of discoveries yet again, beginning before the sun even came up in new york city, sirens and real concern outside yet another location. and word as i mengtsed vice president biden targeted, as well. abc's gio benitez with how this all unfolded

all those packages had the same return address to south florida. right now, investigators don't have a suspect, but they are working around the clock. david? >> victor oquendo leading us off tonight on the breaking developments. victor, thank you. >>> this urgent hunt right now comes after a day of discoveries yet again, beginning before the sun even came up in new york city, sirens and real concern outside yet another location. and word, as i mentioned, vice president biden targeted, as well. abc's gio benitez with how this all unfolded today. >> reporter: before sunrise, this was the scene on the west side highway in new york city. a bomb containment vehicle carrying another suspected pipe bomb to a secure facility. inside that nypd truck, a potentially deadly device that arrived in a package, this time, addressed to robert de niro, an outspoken critic of president trump. tonight, that all-out manhunt, four more bombs discovered in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to ten. late today, the fbi warning. >> these devices should be considered dan

kerry sanders is in south florida. what are you learning? >> reporter: for the last two months, the suspect worked as a deejay at a strip club here in south florida. those who knew him well tell nbc news, above all else, he was obsessed with president trump. the portrait emerging of 56-year-old cesar sayoc jr. revealing a man obsessed with support for president trump. his tweeter feed showing him driving to trump rallies and posting crowd chants attacking cnn and cheering the president a the president spoke.go after many of the democrats who received devices saying of george soros, you will vanish, and attackingcongressw wasserman schultz. rochelle richi says he took it further contacting her on twitter. >> i received a tweet from this guy who was saying things such as, you know, make sure you hug your loved ones before you leave your home. >> reporter: sayoc has a history of arrests including making a bomb threat to florida power and light company in 2002 saying it would be worse than september 11th. ron lowie was sayoc's attorney then and

all those packages had the same return address to south florida.ndo there in miami. he mentioned the return address stickers on the packages. all of them included the name of congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz. >> she's the former head of the democratic national committee. for the first time since the plot started, we're hearing from wasserman schultz and former vice president joe biden, the target of two suspected explosive devices. biden saying the u.s. has to turn off this hate machine. >> my hope is this recent spat of these pipe bombs being mailed might wake everybody in my business up a little bit. we have to begin to put this country back together again. i've never, never, never, ever looked at a political opponent as an enemy. >> my brave staffers and i saw those weapons of hate. everyone in this room and so many others will always choose love, compassion and honest communication to make our world a better place. >> wasserman schultz was speaking at a campaign event for florida's democratic candidate for governor andrew gillum. she also

there are not climate deniers here in south florida. we care about the environment.ut immigration reform because we are a city of, a community of immigrants. many of our immigrants are under andorary effective status it is necessary to find a pathway to citizenship to all of the undocumented people that are here in south florida. we have consensus about that. it is not hard to represent the people of south florida because on the environment, without weapons ban, immigration, on education and health care, there is consensus in this community. david: those issues sound, if you excuse me, democratic issues. issues democrats represent and yet that district has been represented by republicans for 30 years. if the district changing? donna: the district is changing but it's representation was more of a moderate. she won with democratic votes. she could not have held his district without democratic votes. her positions on the issues were moderate. her problem was and the problem of any -- every south florida republican is their party did not respect them. when i say there is

he lived in south florida. what more do we know, or what more are be gathering at at ths point about anything on the premises? about him, but anything connected to him? >> i just want to stick with what i think we can say with confidence. they are treating that van, or that a vehicle, a crime scene evidence. we want to be able to do is determine whether he was building these devices in his home, may be in his van, and whether he had any kind of assistance from other individuals, either and knowingly or unknowingly. one of the reasons they secured the van -- if you think of it like a murder scene, if you will, you want to have everything attacked because you want to be able to have, number one, an effective chain of evidence for any prosecution. number two, you want to see if any of the devices removed in that vehicle. number three, whether any of the devices were even constructed in that vehicle. whether you are finding dna of others which can be explained away because of contact that he is having with other in

the arrest of this man on your screen, cesar sayoc, 56 years old in south florida. we are told he was from aventura florida which is a little weight out of plantation florida where you can see a lot of the activity with authority today. we saw them take a van from the location where the man on the left side of your screen lived and taken to fbi headquarters for forensics investigations in miramar florida. we thank you so very much for all the details. we want to now bring in catherine herridge has been the following from d.c. and there has been a quieting, if you will, from authorities the last 24 hours or so and from phil, we have learned that they are watching this man and they were following him and they were wanting him to see where he would go and what he would do. >> there is more evidence that really backs up that timeline. we were able to confirm earlier today that there are five sealed warrants in the southern district of new york, and they were logged yesterday by the feds. they would require probable cause, so evidence of a potential crime, and we are told

, and there seems to be the south florida area that seems to be the focus for right now. >> stands to reason, it would stand to reason they were mailed there, and for a while yesterday in some of the original reporting was that some were delivered by courier, and some organizations have a courier system that takes u.s. postal mail and deliver it, and we know they all came through the u.s. postal mail system. >> take this a clue, phase one is like you bump the puzzle pieces on the table, and then i remember being evacuated from the white house on nine hr9/11. a lot of false information out there, and stage two you are slowly getting information and you weed out the negative information, and i assume that quantico has come out, the besting facility has come out whether or not they see fingerprints on the weapon or tape, and this is going to take out the edge of the puzzle, and once you get bits and pieces, i am guessing over the next couple of days the acceleration will go to phase three. >> tell us what is going on at quantico with the bombs? >> well, no, it's interesting if you look a

his connections to south florida. really key elements that have built this case that have allowed prosecutors to file charges against him. he is quite an interesting guy, but we don't know much about him. he's a huge social media presence. plenty of video and facebook account and other social media accounts that law enforcement have been poring through. he has a criminal history and in his 50s. there is a lot that law enforcement knows that they are gathering and putting together as to motive and his mind set and things that may have caused him to do what he was doing and all of this hopefully we will learn more when the court documents get unseal and we can read through them and see exactly what law enforcement knows and how they put it together. as we know, this 2:30 press conference. >> i suspect we will learn a lot about this individual in the coming hours. thank you very much. several of the suspicious packages ended up in new york. that includes a package stopped by investigators in a mail sorting facility. that

resilience officer for the city of miami beach.so >> the l learned from after andrew created the south floridalding code really for wind, and that was adopted to the florida building code. kiw do we actually start l at flooding and sea level rise and look at our buildie and start to add more measures in there for adaptation for that? so i think that's something that pr can learn from the past and bring it into thent. >> reporter: miami beach is a seven square mile barrier island aythat sits low between bi bay and the atlantic ocean. >> that makes us beautiful but, we're vulnerable to flooding. we're obviously vulnerable to the effects of sea level rise. and nowadays, the typical rainstorms that we would get in south florida in the afternoons, seem to be getting more pronounced and stronger. >> reporter: and in the spring and fall, when the pull of the moon is strongest creating the highest tides of the year, the city must also contend with serious flooding beneath blue skies and sunshine. so they are bu the midst of ilding 80 stormwater pump stations to ep their feet dry. the pumps, along with

he had a job here in south florida and made money that way. and also most interesting i think is the fact that authorities say he lived out of his van. so he certainly wasn't paying apparently for housing because he had been kicked out of his parent's house. that picture of course, still has to be filled in a bit more. >> thank you, we appreciate it so much. >>> joining us now to talk more about this investigation and what comes next, cnn law enforcement reporter mark morales and former federal prosecutor elly honan. good morning to you. mark, let's start right there with this van and if he, as law enforcement officials say, lived in that van, this is just a trove of evidence moving forward, to try to build this case against sayoc. >> absolutely. investigators can have a field day with what is going on in there. but as far as what new york is concerned, the latest i'm hearing is so far there haven't been found packages in the overnight hours. that is always subject to change as we've seen the last few days. investigators are still very much tr

where it was manufactured. >> reporter: while the investigative energy is being focused tonight on south florida, the fbi and the new ork police are urging people tips if theyelve they know anything. >> thank you. let's get to kerry sanders at the mail facility in opa-locka, florida, near miami, where investigators are checking into whether some of the explosive packages were processed through there. kerry, what's the latest? >> reporter: well, lester, there are agents here from the department of homeland security as well as sniffer canines that have gone in. those dogs looking for, perhaps, a trail of evidence. the plan is to interview as many of the employees here to see if, for some reason, these packages may have stood out so that they can trace where they came from. this is a sorting facility simply for most of south florida for packages only. this is not the sort of post office where you drop off a package. so, it's unlikely that there's going to be any video evidence here of somebody who brought them to this location. lester? >> all right, kerry sanders in florida tonight. thanks. and wit

authorities say one fingerprint on one of the packages led them to this man, 56-year-old cesar sayoc in south florida. he is now linked to at least 14 explosive devices intercepted across the u.s. since monday. >> police also impounded his white van, that van covered with pro trump imagery as you see here. and negative images of many of his intended targets. here is everything we know so far from drew griffin. >> reporter: authorities have a suspect in custody they say is responsible for at least a dozen package bombs discovered all

were mailed from all the evidence that we see right now indicates that they came from here in south florida so what you have is with a dragnet is in could in place where law enforcement officials are looking at cameras they're looking at people have consensually went inside to a closed off as to get a better understanding of who if not more than one person may have been responsible for the same so a lot of resources being put into this investigation but how quickly can investigators find out as to who was behind these bombs there is you don't believe it or not it does not take days or weeks that give the information what they're going to do is they're going to take data in terms of where the packages were mailed from they're going to look at what's aerials that were made up of the bombs they're look for senior appearance and so i expect that we will probably gives a profile of the potential senator or soon there sometime within the next seventy two hours the site days this is a massive manhunt that has most of all u.s. agencies that are working together the sack that they've been able to ta

>> reporter: dana, in is the fbi division hq for miami in south florida. it is here where right now cesar sayoc is believed to be being questioned and processed inside the heavily gated and facility. this is where the white van he was seen driving and arrested outside of at an auto zone parking lot in plantation, florida, which is just up the road 10 or 15 miles. that has also been taken inside the federal facility here to be processed for reams of evidence inside and outside of that van. the aerials from plantation of the auto zone, you can really see the van. before they put the blue tarp on it, you can see it was just covered in political bumper stickers and ideological sayings. some of it written out that you could see and read while you drive around the town. clearly, this man was very passionate about what he believed and wanted everybody to know that and convey some impression on everybody and influence other drivers around him. lot of people do that, not many of them -- 99% plus ever carry out any act of crime acting on those beliefs but that is wh

in the south florida area.re the arrest has taken place. one person is in custody. go ahead, jonathan. >> yeah. this is exactly what is the purpose of government, going after those who intend to do us harm. if i can just say, not amazon, not facebook, not google. those are the heroes of our age. these are the true villains, people who would commit or threaten to commit terrorism on our soil. hats off to law enforcement. doing a fabulous job to bring these criminals to justice. stuart: you got it. i will go back to my previous observation. i think i'm right in saying that seriously, just last week or the week before, you were saying that the bull run in the big techs is over. you got it right. >> yeah. well, so far. it's not because i hate america or even think the economy isn't strong, stuart. simply because this bull has run out of legs. as we talked about, weak earnings -- excuse me, good earnings, but weak stocks. the faang, the banks, these have been areas of the market that buoyed it for the better part of

authorities say leads are pointing to south florida as the suspected origin of someag. more address te president joe and actor robert deniro. maggie is joining us live in new york with the latest. >> reporter: you mentioned actor robert deniro. >> that package was sent to him behind me, where he had work space. earlier this neighborhood was on lockdown. the package has been removed the lockdown lifted. there is a heightened presence here throughout the city and that manhunt only continues. the nation remains on alert. >> very scary stuff in that we were hoping last night it was over. it wasn't. >> reporter: today authorities confirm more packages of pipe-like bombs. >> it's an effort, a terrorism it's violence. >> reporter: one addressed to robert deniro in his work space in manhattan, two others to vice president joe biden were es in delaware. >> we have employees up there. we have their eyes and ears. >> reporter: they say these are the latest in a string of dozen targets. hillary clinton, president mine packaging, the same fames. >> repor fbi releasing these as pen s

we're well covered in south florida. some pictures coming from outside debbie wasserman-schultz's office. this is, you know -- doesn't give you a lot. that's where it is. you can imagine tensions are high. there's great news within this. nobody has been hurt. sometimes with these crude devices, officials tell us, the thing you're most afraid of, in transition somebody will handle that thing and explode in their hands in a mail facility somewhere, in the back of a truck somewhere an assistant or a mail sorting personnel. that didn't happen in any cases. doesn't mean that the devices were so sophisticated that they wouldn't go off in transit? the early suggestion is no. were they such that they might not have detonated under any circumstances? we'll have to wait on that. on all of the addressees, regular target of the political right. that tells us nothing about the sender. just one of the facts that is long the way. phil keating is there on scene in sunrise, florida. phil, the word is, they believe there's a second suspic

you then realize the package was sent in south florida. who got that stuff in south florida? dna, whether they had dna initially or whether you have a criminal record of someone with that dna, it's all that stuff swirling and it comes together and gels so fast and here you go. >> i want to know why he was going to auto zone today. >> do we know if there was a connection? did he work there? >> no, he didn't work there. was he going there to buy more stuff to do this? it would be hard to believe he would given all the publicity about this now. we saw fbi agents inside the store interviewing people. i was wondering why he went there today. the other thing is we had heard honestly there would be an arrest coming soon. we thought it would be maybe later in the day. i wonder what happened and why they chose to arrest him at that time. >> maybe something will come out during this d.o.j. newser in just a second. take us inside. once he's at the facility in florida, you've got investigators sitting across the table, staring and wondering why and how and was anyone else involved, what

the south florida u.s. postal service sorting facility, that is where all mail going into south florida, broward, miami-dade and monroe counties and all mail going out of those counties to go elsewhere in the country goes through this place. 500 yards wide and long, like five football fields. that's where federal investigators expected the packages went through. the homeland security secretary said several bombs did go through the sorting facility. last night they brought in dog-sniffing teams with the miami-dade police and fbi and they did find package number 11 addressed to u.s. democratic senator cory booker. that had not yet gone out to booker's address. it was still being sorted and held here in miami-dade county. charles? >> thanks, phil. meanwhile, the fib director saying "we're not out of the woods yet." could there be more devices? here with us, agent dan ammons. it stands to reason that we should all be on guard and i think the fbi director really trying to drive home that point. >> that's absolut

so it's a little wider than south florida. >> it does anyway. you guys are stuck with me for the hour as this crowd is also stuck with me for the hour. we will talk about the democrats, who's running for governor, and who may many other democrats help will pull them over the finish line, including bill nelson. andrew gillum joins me next. we're just getting started on our road trip. it's tampa today. managing my type 2 diabetes wasn't my top priority. until i held her. i found my tresiba® reason. now i'm doing more to lower my a1c. once daily tresiba® controls blood sugar for 24 hours for powerful a1c reduction. tresiba® is a long-acting insulin used to control high blood sugar in adults with diabetes. don't use tresiba® to treat diabetic ketoacidosis, during episodes of low blood sugar, or if you are allergic to any of its ingredients. don't share needles or insulin pens. don't reuse needles. the most common side effect is low blood sugar, which may cause dizziness, sweating, confusion, and headache. check your blood sugar. low blood sugar can

you have south florida now, and there seems to be a key interest in that, it's real. you have been telling us that the post office doesn't deliver mail, they track it. so what is happening? >> if you look, we know one piece of this, and think of this as sort of overlaying bits of evidence, and the fbi knows something else, whether they did or did not find dna in the packages, and secret service and it's almost like a kaleidoscope, i expect authorities are making progress. when you take the layers, dna, the fact that the transit was in opa locka, and it slowly comes into focus and you are sitting there at 10:00 or 11:00 in the morning, and somebody walks in and says, game o. n, we got the. >> i worked at america's most wanted, and -- >> you are just like phil mudd. >> yeah, i, like you, and you, are optimist wreuith all of the clues we will be getting that phone call sooner than later. i think the president is depicting this as not a national emergency, and the bombs are only going to the people the president criticized, and it's not only for regular americans, and the

. >> with south florida's beaches under attack, there was only one place to turn, the finest detectiveser seen, but they didn't return our call so you get us. ♪ >> oh, there it is, a dead fish. pretty gross. >> yeah. what does it smell like to you? >> smells like dead fish. >> no, it's deeper. bag up that fish. >> i want to hang at the beach. >> you will wean we close the case. coming on. i hit up an expert who's been following the case closely. >> roy calls him an expert. i call him a guy standing between me and my vacation. >> we have an ecological meltdown happening in south florida. you've got fish kills, you've got toxic fumes so bad beachgoers can't breathe. >> whose fault is this? >> algae. >> algae? algae is everywhere. my friends at whole foods sprinkle algae on their smoothie. >> well, this is toxic algae. algae plaintiff late with phyt yens in the water and mix it just toxic for wildlife. >> right. case closed. let's go to the beach. thank you, mike. >> whoa, whoa, what are you doing? >> we found the killer. >> can you describe the algae? >> on the east coast we have blue gre

that was found south in opa-loc opa-locka, florida. on the left is the end of that press briefing. no questions taken from those officials who were filling us in, but we do know that this is a story that will continue to develop throughout the morning, and we are going to bring you the latest right here. for now i want to quickly turn back to somebody who has been watching this, congressman joe kennedy of massachusetts, somebody whose family, congressman, understands well the intersection of politics and violence, and it seems to be an intersection that, yet again, this country finds itself in today? >> yeah. obviously tragically so, and i guess first off, huge credit to law enforcement and the postal inspectors to all the work they have done to intercept these packages, and grateful to my colleagues and friends in government that everybody has been safe, and attribute that to the fact that our system is working and a pretty sad commentary on the fact that here we are today. >> congressman, when you look at the moment that we are in more broadly here, the political culture, there's

arrested in south florida. as this was unfolding, more bombs arriving in the mail. the fbi late today saying these are not hoax devices. tonight, the van, taken as evidence. covered with images supporting president trump, with targets on hillary clinton's face. former president obama, too. tonight, the one fingerprint that allegedly unlocked it all. what the suspect's social media posts reveal. and what we now know about the explosives. >>> also tonight, our cecilia vega asking the president a short time ago, what he made of the images on the side of that van. was he aware? if he'll be changing his rhetoric, after what the president tweeted at 3:0in

one particular 2002 arrest was for making a bomb threat to a utility down in south florida.o he had a pretty extensive criminal record, which was a huge help when the fbi was doing -- began doing the investigation. one of the things that happened certainly by yesterday, they had identified a fingerprint on one of the devices that was being sent to maxine waters, a congress woman. secondly, they found dna belonging to this man also on one of the maxine waters' bombs and one being sent to former president barack obama. those two things they were able to go back to the state of florida where they found -- obviously they had his fingerprints on record and they were able to identify him fairly quickly, certainly by last night. >> he has a court date set for monday, right? had. >> he has a court date, federal charges he is facing in miami. he has to first get removed from the state of florida. we'll see whether or not he fights that or not, but it is pretty routine in normal circumstances before he goes to new york to face charges there. >> five federal charges, potentially 48 yea

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authorities in south florida have arrested this man, 56-year-old who allegedly sent more than a dozen potentially explosive guys to prominent democrats and others. they say a fingerprints led them to cesar sayoc who has a lengthy criminal record. police also impounded his van, you see it there with many stickers -- covered with blow trump -- pro trump images. >> president praised law enforcement and called the acts despicable and he also urged unity and the end of what he calls personal destruction and also criticized the media for how it has covered his rhetoric and response to the attempted bombings. >>> the saudi foreign minister says suspects held for the killing of jamal khashoggi are being prosecuted in saudi arabia. the turkish president says he wants the 18 suspects handed over to turkey. turkey says that khashoggi was murdered at the saudi consulate in istanbul. >>> again, the suspected bombmaker now in federal custody. he has worked as a pizza delivery man in ft. lauderdale until last january. >> after the arrest on friday, his boston at the restaurant spoke to our colleague

the squalls over the florida keys and south florida as well.orida, you don't have to worry about the direct strike. you will have to deal with heavy rainfall. the center of circulation with the strongest winds. by wednesday, 110. 111 is a category three. that will happen by the time we get to wednesday afternoon. i'll zoom in closer. once it moves north and east, you don't have to worry about it. it will be rain. watch the clock at wednesday at 4:00 p.m. this is an estimate. we will not tell you this is exactly when it makes landfall. this is a cone. if this were to move further west, i would be concerned because of the right quad because that is the zone where it goes into homes. we hope this stays further east and it continues moving up. hurricane watches from the alabama and florida border to cedar key. that is the pink and yellow you see. tropical storm watches as well. two days to prepare if you are in the area. this is a potentially major hurricane making landfall on wednesday afternoon. >> ivan, thank you for that. that's your weather. >

agencies that are working together the sac that they've been able to target here to south florida indicates that they have more information that they have not shared with the public as to do and keep their lots of conspiracy theories online about who might be responsible what is your assessment. well that is correct and it's no secret that the u.s. that we're in a hyper partisan cyril some political climate to date all of the rhetoric this cap and that's demagoguing issue is coming from the far right here in america part of the news this is something democrats cooked up as you indicated at the top of the segment there we are two weeks away from an important midterm elections that are going to decide whether or not us president donald trump is going to maintain a republican house in a republican it's senate building forty four is the next three years so there's a lot at stake here politically and unfortunately we have elements of america's far right that are putting information out there is simply not true the other point that i will make so this is the big question that investigators are lo

to tell the store it was sold in or manufactured. >> while the investigative ergy is focused on south florida, the fbi and police are urging tipeople to call i if they know anything to crack the case. >> pete williams, thank you. let's get to kerry sanders at the mail facility in flida ar miami where investigators are checking into whether some of the explosive packages were pressed there. >> reporter: there is sniffer canines looking for a trail of evidence. the plan so to interview as many of the employees here to see if for some reason the packages may have stood out so they can trace where they came from. this is a sorting facility simply for most of south floridr ckages only, this is not the post office where you drop off a package. it's unlikely there wille any video evidence here of somebody that brought them to this location. lester? >> kerry sanders in florida tonight, thanks. >>> with no suspect in custody and concern spreading from coast-to, cities are on high alert. new york beefing up subway and airport patrols. nbc national correspomiguel almaguer has more on the latest targets

at a strip club in south florida. those who knew hwe tell nbc news, above all else, he was obsessed with president trump. the portrait emerging of 56-ar-old cesar sayoc, jr revealing a it man obsessed w support for president trump. his tweeter feed showing him driving to trump rallies and posting chants attacking cnn and cheering the president on in this selfie video and another recorded athe esident spoke. online, sayoc would go after democrats that received devices saying of george soros you will vanish and attacking congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz. rochelle richy say he took it further contacting her on twitter. >> i reived a tweet from this guy who was saying things such as, you know, make sure you hug your loved omnes before you leave your h >> reporter: sayoc has a history of arrests including a bomb threat to florida power and licot any saying it would be worse than september 11. ron lowie was sayoc's attorney then and said his climate made the phone that when his power was cut off. >> he's not like you

in the last 24 hours, we saw they started focusing on south florida. they were able to identify anderson. a lot of these packages, most appeared to have come from one specific area. that opa-locka facility where a lot of them were processed before they were shipped. so a lot of police work and just the fact this guy made a few mistakes and he had such an extensive rap sheet were key here. >> what exactly is he being charged with? >> he has five federal charges. in the southern district of new york. he is facing instate transportation of an explosive, illegal mailing of explosives, threats against former presidents and other persons, threatening interstate communications, assaulting current and former officers. all of which he could face 48 years in prison. >> is the fbi concerned he have other packages out there? >> certainly the they are concerned. as we were reporting on his arrest we kept hearing about new packages showing up today. one that was being mailed to the democratic donor in san francisco, in the san francisco area. and another one to sena

and yesterday we learned that investigators centered in on south florida. side the u.s. mail facility in opa-locka, florida, near miami where there was a search overnight that found that package that was addressed to senator cory booker of new jersey. manny, what can you tell us? >> that's right, norah, for the last 24 hours law enforcement officials have been telling cbs news that they were zeroing in on florida and we found them at this processing center where they were conducting a sweep and that's revealed, the latest package that you talked about, the one addressed to senator booker which we're told has been rendered safe. this isn't a facility where someone can drop off packages, this is a processing center. everything here appears calm. it looks like workers are able to go in and out so the threat appears to be no longer happening in this area. but clearly just about half an hour from now is where police are concentrating all their efforts right now as they have secured at least one arrest in connection with this case. >> we've been saying all morning

in the last 24 hours, we saw they started focusing on south florida. they were able to identify anderson. a lot of these packages, most appeared to have come from one specific area. that opa-locka facility where a lot of them were processed before they were shipped. so a lot of police work and just the fact this guy made a few mistakes and he had such an extensive rap sheet were key here. >> what exactly is he being charged with? >> he has five federal charges. in the southern district of new york. he is facing instate transportation of an explosive, illegal mailing of explosives, threats against former presidents and other persons, threatening interstate communications, assaulting current and former officers. all of which he could face 48 years in prison. >> is the fbi concerned he have other packages out there? >> certainly the they are concerned. as we were reporting on his arrest we kept hearing about new packages showing up today. one that was being mailed to the democratic donor in san francisco, in the san francisco area. and another one to sena

i think what i am going to tell you is there is significant activity that's going on in south florida. the sorting facility certainly has changed everything. the fact they were able to locate where some of these packages were sent from has changed the game here. i think law enforcement is very confident in that they have some good, strong leads. we'll see what today brings. but this is going to step up whatever it is that law enforcement is trying to do in terms of apprehending someone. this perhaps could accelerate this. >> let's keep in mind also -- i'm sorry. go ahead, jim. >> i was just going to say as we're watching the picture there, that is a familiar site on the streets of new york. nypd bomb squad truck there outside cnn offices a few days ago. i imagine what we're going to see very soon is that containment vessel looks like the back of a cement truck that has carried away these devices to safely carry them away to a location just north of manhattan where they could investigate and glean whatever intelligence they can from it. if you are still with us, i just want to ask this

investigators have zeroed in on this postal sorting facility here in south florida. overnight, an 11th package found here in florida. this one, addressed to senator cory booker, the new jersey senator. this as we have also confirmed a 12th package was found at a post office in new york this morning. that one addressed to former director of national intelligence, james clapper. all of this sparking real concerns there could still be more packages out there. >> reporter: this morning, the urgent manhunt shifting to florida as the search intensifies for the perpetrator behind the ten suspected explosive devices that were sent to high-profile targets around the country. bomb squads armed with canine units descending on this postal facility just north of miami as homeland security secretary nielsen confirms that at least some of the devices were shipped from florida. >> some of the packages went through the mail. they originated, some of them, from florida. >> reporter: officials concerned there could be more out there. >> we don't know at this time, but with the postal se

away, president trump continues to crisscross the country and after the arrest of a suspect in south florida, the president is wrestling with his rhetoric. >> end the politics of personal destruction. the media has a major role to play, whether they want to or not. >> meanwhile, some of president trump's supporters are waving false flags. >> so you don't think this guy actually sent these bombs to all of these? >> no. probably not. >> and storming battleground states, obama, sitting on what they say is hypocrisies. >> hillary's e-mails. terrible. they didn't actually care about it. because if they did, they'd be up and arms right now about the fact that the chinese are listening to our president's unsecured iphone. >> it's saturday, october 27th as we learn more from law enforcement about a man and his van. >> the van, the creepy van. he had pictures of trump all over it. make america great and pictures of hillary and other democrats with their faces in cross hairs. is it okay to call this one deplorable? >> and on monday the suspect face as federal judge in miami. he's been charged with sen

>>> an alleged serial bomber is in custody in south florida. >> 56-year-old cesar sayoc, they have confirmed at least one of his fingerprints from one of the envelopes. >> we are also learning as well about the political agenda that he plastered all over the van he was actually living in. >> it was covered in photos of president trump, and vice president pens. >> this is a sad result of someone who is very sick, didn't get the help, became a loaner, and then found a cause. he found a father in trump. >> we must unify as a nation. we have seen an effort by the media in recent hours to use the sinister actions of one individual to score political points against me. >> calling them enemies of the people, and then suddenly pretending that you're concerned about civility. come on. >>> good saturday morning to you, after a four-day nationwide manhunt, federal agents say they have arrested the map who sent more than a -- man who sent more than a dozen mail bombs to prominent democratic figures and trump critics. >> 56-year-old cesar sayoc told investigators he didn't want to hurt anyone but the fbi

the other thing there seems to be a large focus now on the south florida area by authorities looking for leads, trying to figure out if the person who sent these is from the south florida area. >> person or persons. >> person or persons. and i can tell you, anderson, authorities tonight are optimistic. earlier today, yesterday, we weren't getting the same kind of optimism from them, but there seems to have been some developments in this investigation that has authorities thinking that, you know, they may be making some significant moves here, that they may have a break here. and certainly now they know where some of these packages came through. >> the fbi and authorities have kept a pretty tight lid on what they know about the devices themselves, were there explosives inside, were they capable of detonating. we don't really know much about the details of the devices. >> no. and usually we tend to know more about these devices. for whatever reason, in this case, the fbi and nypd have not been releasing a lot of information. we did ask those questions at the press conference. of course

of south florida, of the miami area. so that was very, very helpful.forensics work was going on in quantico, in new york, to examine these packages, to look at the ones that did not -- that had not been detonated by the bomb squad. and with that, they were able to put together a lot of clues. there's a lot we're going to learn in the coming hours, i expect. but this suspect now is in the custody of the fbi. they're going to talk to him, try to see whether he can maybe explain himself, explain why he was doing this, how he put it together. there's a lot here yet to come in the coming hours from the fbi. >> james had a comment. >> a huge thing from evan's reporting. huge distinction from an investigative detention and maybe you're going to hold somebody, and what evan is describing which is an arrest which indicates there was probable cause that they had enough evidence to suggest that beyond a reasonable doubt, this person was involved. >> you need a warrant for that. >> huge distinction. >> need a judge to approve a warrant. >> right, and i think james

did they come to south florida to drop these off? i think this is one of the first clues we're getting as they try to narrow down where this originated from, where the packages originated from. postal service is going to be a key part of this investigation. i think you're beginning to see a little bit of that. >> we are. shimon, officials say there could be more packages out there, similar to these other ten. what are you hearing? >> always a concern that there could be more here, especially in this case. but i just left the press conference where the police commissioner was, folks from the postal inspectors are there, but they did say that within the last several hours, during this day at least, they have not found any new packages, you know, since this morning we had the two relating to the former vice president joe biden, they have not found anything new. they are concerned that perhaps packages may just have not entered their system yet, but still searching. they're still searching through their system, they're warned their clerk

the justice department confirms federal authorities have arrested a man in south florida in connection to the explosive packages sent across the country. that arrest a bit earlier today and now a dozen packages in total sent to political operatives and opponents of the president and cnn. a news conference led by the attorney general here at 2:30 h here eastern time. in new york, tracking this investigation, i want to start with you. we don't have her at the moment. there she is. sorry about that. give us the latest on what we know in terms of the arrest, the investigation, and why. what led authorities to this man? >> the arrest unfolding just before 11:00 as we were getting ready to go on air around 11:00. more like 10:30 or so. the fbi authorities in miami, the joint terrorism task force, all of them working this for the last 24 hours. tracking this individual. they tracked him to this area in plantation outside an auto zone where they took him into custody. we don't know if he was taken into custody without incident. we don't have detail surrounding the arrest. we know there have be