{"id":382912,"date":"2018-10-30T03:56:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T02:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-new-suspicious-package-sent-to-cnn\/"},"modified":"2018-10-30T03:56:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T02:56:43","slug":"presstv-new-suspicious-package-sent-to-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-new-suspicious-package-sent-to-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-New suspicious package sent to CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A new suspicious package, similar to previous mail bombs sent to various politicians and media figures over the last week, has been intercepted while addressed to CNN&#8217;s worldwide headquarters in Atlanta, only\u00a0three days after alleged culprit Cesar Sayoc was arrested.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A downtown Atlanta\u00a0post office was evacuated and surrounding streets were\u00a0closed off after officers responded to a call about a suspicious package at 9:38 am local time, according to the Atlanta Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The package was investigated by a bomb squad dispatched to the site and is to be sent to an\u00a0FBI laboratory for further analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the suspicious parcel prompted CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker to relieve staffers in a Monday morning memo, declaring that the package &#8220;was intercepted at an Atlanta post office,&#8221; and that &#8220;there is no imminent danger to the CNN Center.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNNPR\/status\/1056913518367260674\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Another suspicious package addressed to CNN has been intercepted. This time in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/30\/578487\/New-Mail-Bomb\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new suspicious package, similar to previous mail bombs sent to various politicians and media figures over the last week, has been intercepted while addressed to CNN&#8217;s worldwide headquarters in Atlanta, only\u00a0three days after alleged culprit Cesar Sayoc was arrested. A downtown Atlanta\u00a0post office was evacuated and surrounding streets were\u00a0closed off after officers responded to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}