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FBI Agents Investigating Bombing at Yale Law School

Aired May 22, 2003 - 05:38   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: FBI agents are investigating a bombing at Yale Law School.
CNN's Maria Hinojosa reports officials don't believe the blast was set of by a terror group.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

MARIA HINOJOSA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Just before eight o'clock tonight, a group of FBI agents walked right behind us, which is right off to the side here is where the Yale campus begins. Now, what we do know is that at 4:40 today there was an explosion in a classroom that had earlier been administering exams. This is in the law school of Yale University.

There were no injuries. Federal anti-terrorism experts here are saying that this has nothing to do with any possible terrorist attacks.

We do know that they were also searching the surrounding area to make sure that there were no other possible devices anywhere else on the campus, and they have found that that is not the case.

There was no structural damage to the law school, but a wall dividing this classroom from another classroom did come down. Now, some of the eyewitnesses said that what they felt and saw felt almost like an earthquake.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We heard a really very, very loud kind of shaking kind of sound and we didn't -- it sounded like it was outside of the building somewhere. But then everyone told us to leave and so we all kind of ran out.

HINOJOSA: President Bush was in Connecticut today, about 51 miles away from here, speaking at the Coast Guard graduation in New London, Connecticut. The Bush's daughter, Barbara, attends Yale University, but we are told was not on campus today when this happened. Also, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton attended the Yale University Law School. We also know that in 1993, this is where the Unabomber struck with a letter bomb that left a man here partially blinded and deaf in one ear.

Reporting from New Haven, Connecticut, Maria Hinojosa.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

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Aired May 22, 2003 - 05:38   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: FBI agents are investigating a bombing at Yale Law School.
CNN's Maria Hinojosa reports officials don't believe the blast was set of by a terror group.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

MARIA HINOJOSA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Just before eight o'clock tonight, a group of FBI agents walked right behind us, which is right off to the side here is where the Yale campus begins. Now, what we do know is that at 4:40 today there was an explosion in a classroom that had earlier been administering exams. This is in the law school of Yale University.

There were no injuries. Federal anti-terrorism experts here are saying that this has nothing to do with any possible terrorist attacks.

We do know that they were also searching the surrounding area to make sure that there were no other possible devices anywhere else on the campus, and they have found that that is not the case.

There was no structural damage to the law school, but a wall dividing this classroom from another classroom did come down. Now, some of the eyewitnesses said that what they felt and saw felt almost like an earthquake.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We heard a really very, very loud kind of shaking kind of sound and we didn't -- it sounded like it was outside of the building somewhere. But then everyone told us to leave and so we all kind of ran out.

HINOJOSA: President Bush was in Connecticut today, about 51 miles away from here, speaking at the Coast Guard graduation in New London, Connecticut. The Bush's daughter, Barbara, attends Yale University, but we are told was not on campus today when this happened. Also, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton attended the Yale University Law School. We also know that in 1993, this is where the Unabomber struck with a letter bomb that left a man here partially blinded and deaf in one ear.

Reporting from New Haven, Connecticut, Maria Hinojosa.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COSTELLO: And she'll join us live in the next hour of DAYBREAK. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com