Bombs mail: FBI investigators check tracks in Florida

The FBI searched a mail facility near Miami, while investigators are trying to find who is behind a series of suspected packages of explosives.

Devices were sent to eight personalities, including former President Barack Obama and actor Robert De Niro.

Unnamed officials told the US media that investigators thought that at least one had been sent from Florida.

The FBI did not disclose any details of his investigation.

Similar packages were also sent to former Vice President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, among others.

The investigated postal facility is located in Opa-locka, where security images were examined. A bomb squad and a canine unit accompanied federal officials, Miami-Dade County police said.

• What we know about US bomb threats

Thursday night, the Time Warner Center in New York was evacuated after the announcement of the shipment of a suspicious package, but it was later declared false alarm. The building houses the CNN news network, which received one of the devices by mail the day before.

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Earlier, FBI deputy director William Sweeney confirmed that the white powder found in the package sent to CNN "did not present a biological threat".

Mr. Sweeney said that a thorough review of all parcels was underway at the FBI's Quantico, Virginia, laboratory outside of Washington DC.

New York Police Commissioner James O'Neill could not confirm if all the gear was destined to explode, but he said that the officers "treat them like suspected explosive devices".

"It must be taken with the utmost seriousness," he said. "As for a hoax, we do not treat it that way."

Mr O 'Neill added that the authorities "do not know at the moment" if there were additional devices in the mail. He added that the police worked with the postal service agents "to make sure that, if necessary, we identify them quickly".

On Thursday morning, the FBI announced that Mr. Biden had received two suspicious packages and that a similar package had been found in a New York restaurant owned by Mr. De Niro.

How did the bomb threat unfold?

The bomb alert series began on Monday when a suspected device was found in the mailbox of billionaire businessman George Soros, a major Party donor. Democrat.

Devices were sent to the following eight people, according to the FBI:

• Mr. Soros
• Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
• Former President Barack Obama
• Former Vice President Joe Biden
• Former CIA Director John Brennan, Head of CNN
• Former Attorney General Eric Holder
• California Democrat MP Maxine Waters
• Mr De Niro

None of the devices went off.

What happened to De Niro?

A suspected explosive device was discovered in a Manhattan building on Thursday morning local time. It houses the production company of Mr. De Niro and the restaurant Tribeca Grill.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio praised the "Really Safe Work of a Security Guard" who alerted the authorities.

According to the Associated Press, the security guard was at work Thursday and had seen a picture in a report of parcels received by others.

This person later recalled having noticed something similar in the building's mail room and immediately called the authorities who had removed the device at around 06:30 (10:30 GMT), AP reported.

CNN's New York office was evacuated Wednesday morning after the package sent to Mr. Brennan was found in his mailroom.

Why is it so political?

Everyone sent a package is known to be a critic of President Donald Trump.

The bombings also take place just under two weeks before the mid-term elections, with US policy heavily polarized.

On Wednesday, President Trump reacted to the announcement of suspicious packages calling for more civility in public life.

"People engaged in the political arena must stop treating political opponents as moral," he said at a protest in Wisconsin.

"Nobody should recklessly compare his political opponents to historical villains, which is often done."

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The President has made no specific reference to the recipients of the packages.

His critics have called his remarks hypocritical, as he often uses vicious language against his opponents and the press.

Former CIA director John Brennan tweeted Trump on Thursday: "Stop blaming others, look in the mirror, your incendiary rhetoric, insults, lies, and encouragement of physical violence. scandalous."

However, conservatives say that Democrats are to blame for the state of political speech in the United States.

They say that Democrats, including those who have been targeted by the bomb threat, have been encouraging the behavior of "angry mob".