Explosion at Yale

There has been an explosion in the mail room of the Yale Law School. AP and NBC are reporting that it is a bomb, but that no one has been hurt, though part of the floor may have collapsed. President Bush has been in that area today, giving a commencement address at the Coast Guard school.

These details are likely to change as news becomes clearer, so don't be surprised if they do, but this is what information is available right now.

UPDATE 4:37pm: Now they are reporting that this is a "suspicious act" rather than definately a bomb, and in a first floor classroom, not the mail room (told you the details would change *g*). I'll update as I learn more - I'm just keeping the entry open so I can enter new information as I hear it. Oh, and the former profiler, Clint van Zant, that MSNBC uses, has already begun mentioning that, in the wake of the anthrax letters last year, there "are always concerns" about biological or chemical aspects of an attack. (Nah, no wild speculating there....)

UPDATE 4:43pm: The New Haven NBC station, WVIT, is running a banner saying that police have confirmed that this is a bomb.

UPDATE 4:50pm: CNN reports that, at this point, it is best to assume that Bush's being in the area (New London) on the same day that Yale was bombed is just a coincidence. They also say it's too soon to presume that it is related in any way to the raising of the threat level. On a side note, they are also reporting that tomorrow, the US Embassy in Oslo, Norway will be closed as a result of a threat made on a tape that the al-Jezeera news channel broadcast.

UPDATE 5:05pm: Links! MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, CBC, and the Google News page with links to many more stories. I probably won't post more on this for a while now - we've gotten the intial reports and are now going to be heading into the "mass confusion" phase of the story, where there will be equal parts speculation and actual reporting, so I'm going to wait for more facts to shake out before posting more.