As CNN hosts Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciuttoreported on bomb threats madeagainstHillary Clintonand former PresidentBarack Obama, the journalists were forced to abruptly end theirbroadcast due to the discovery of a possible explosive deviceat CNN’s own headquarters in New York City.
“Excuse me, that sounds like a fire alarm here. We’ll keep you posted on that,” Sciutto told a guest in the clip, letting out a nervous laugh. He halted the broadcast about one minute later, saying, “There’s a fire alarm here. You might have heard it in the background. We’re gonna find out what the latest is here.”
Though the reporters were forced out of their newsroom due to the bomb scare, they picked up where they left off, reporting live on the streets of New York City.
“CNN’s @jimsciutto and @PoppyHarlowCNN, who were anchoring when the CNN New York bureau was evacuated, are now safely outside, reporting via cellphone on the law enforcement response due to a suspicious device at the Time Warner Center, where CNN is based,” the network said in a tweet.
A similar possible bomb was discovered on Wednesday at CNN’s offices in Manhattan. The three bombs were all reportedly made from pipe and wires, according to CNN. And intelligence officials have said that the packages sent to Clinton and Obama were “nearly identical.”
The Time Warner Center offices reopened around 3:30 p.m. ET and employees were returning to the building, NY1’s Van Tieu reported.
Donald Trumpaddressed the suspicious packages during an opioids event at the White House on Wednesday, saying that the safety of the nation is his “highest and absolute priority.”
“I just want to tell you that in these times we have to unify, we have to come together and send one very clear, strong, unmistakable message that acts or threats of political violence of any kind have no place in the United States of America,” he said, according toCNN.
The Wednesday morning bomb scares come two days after another explosive device was found at the New York suburb home of billionaire Democrat philanthropist George Soros. Sources familiar with the investigation told theWashington Postthat law enforcement officials intercepted a similarly-constructed package addressed to former attorney general Eric Holder Jr.
Meanwhile, a senior Democratic aide said officials at a Capitol Hill sorting facility found a suspicious package sent to Rep. Maxine Waters, according to thePost. It is unclear whether the package contained a bomb.
Little information about the possible explosive devices have been made public, but photos of the package sent to CNN have appeared online. And an official close to the investigation told thePostthat the devices are “sophisticated, not amateur.”
source: people.com
