0 arrested. >> don't listen to the judge in the courts and everything. you've got it, show it off. you only live once. >> it's a pretty inspirational message from a very unlikely place. that does it for us. 10:00 p.m. eastern, thanks for watching. "piers morgan live" starts now. >> welcome to our viewers in the states and around the world. breaking news, michael bloomberg gets a threatening letter which tests positive for ricin. is he being targeted for stands against guns? >> the letter was obviously referred to our anti gun efforts, and we're not going to walk away from those efforts. >> we'll have a live report and exclusive, watch as a tornado forms in kansas, it happened in a matter of minutes. you're watching tonight as more storms threaten tornado alley right now. half the country may be at risk. what's behind all this extreme weather? bill my, the science guy, debates skeptical environmentalist born longboring. and the man who joined the nra after sandy hook and says that president obama should be impeached for the irs scandal. wayne allen root, brace yourself. so i hope to get through tonight. i want to begin with breaking news, threatening letters sent to the mayor of new york. police say he mentioned his stand on gun control. joining me is cnn's deborah feyerick, national security analysts and leonard cole, an expert in bioterrorism and author of "the anthrax letters" two letters, one to mayor bloomberg, both threatening in tone. both of them laced with a quantity, not quite sure how much of ricin. both alluding to the gun control campaign, the mayor has been spearheading. >> correct. what we do know, the two letters, one of which was sent to d.c., the other to new york, both appear to have been written by the same person. shared the same postmark. also, they contain the same material. what police are describing as a pink, orange, oily substance. the letters threaten mayor bloomberg, but the mayor was never in any immediate danger. as a matter of fact, piers, initially each of the letters tested negative, but a second test showed trace amounts of ricin. the letters were then sent and are now being tested right now by the national bio forensic analysis center, and so we should have conclusive results, probably within the next day or two, piers. >> various members, three, i believe, of the nypd emergency services, were treated for exposure to the ricin. but they have been released, is that right? >> reporter: yes, exactly. they responded, with the emergency services unit. they were seen, the letters were opened, and then after about 24 hours, they came down with intestinal problems that are consistent with exposure to ricin. so they were being monitored, but it appears now that those symptoms, at least, have gone away, piers. >> deb, thanks very much. fran, let's talk about this. there has been a series of ricin attacks. how dangerous is this situation, how easy is it now to create a ricin scare? >> well, piers, we should start by reminding people, look, there have been inconsistent preliminary tests, typically inaccurate, which is why they sent it to the lab. the ricin is actually the recipe for it, is easily accessible on the internet. we found it all died related manuals before. because it's on the internet, this does not require -- making the basic components, they're easily accessible caster beans. the basic recipe is not so hard. what's it felt is weaponizing it. so it be aerosolized at the highest farm or used as a contact poison. sounds like this is what contact poison is what the individual who sent these letters was intending. but this is pretty crude. it doesn't sound like it was even very well done at that end. >> the fbi investigating now? >> the fbi is investigating it. they'll begin looking at the compound itself, confirming that the compound is the same in both letters. it came from the same batch, if you will. but they'll also look at forensics. they'll look for fingerprints that aren't accounted for on the envelope or the letter. they'll look for saliva, dna, hair, fingerprints, all of that. and they'll go through that in an effort to find the individual, which will then tell them what was the motive, was it indeed a political motive. >> how big a problem is it, fran, for the intelligence services in particular, and the fbi and the others in relation to the internet. because here you've got ricin, people can learn how to make deadly ricin from looking at the internet. we knew from the boston bombings that pressure cookers can be adapted to be hideously deadly bombs. guns can now be made on the internet. this is a whole new wave of terror through computers. >> well, it's the democratization, if you will, of terror weapons and means, right. so it's easier to find both the recipes, the manuals, all of that. and so it's a tremendous challenge. but you know, the fbi has got to balance that against the sort of basic freedoms of the internet. you know, your ability to go to a website or say things offensive to other people. when you -- the problem is, when do you cross the line, being nearly interested in looking at those sites to actually building a weapon. and the fbi's ability to interrupt that cycle, the operational cycle. and that's a real challenge. >> dr. cole, tell me about ricin. how lethal is it, compare it to something like anthrax. and the type that we're seeing in these letters that have been sent to the president, now the mayor of new york. how deadly could they be, potentially. in the wrong hands. >> worst-case scenario, it can be terribly deadly. tiny, tiny bits of dried powd powdered, ricin that would be inhaled, could be fatal within 24 hours. on the other hand, while it's readily available, as fran just mentioned, it's not so easy to purify or to get into a kind of composition that would be this light, fluffy powder composition. you can ingest it and also get very sick. i would question, though, the -- the comment that you made about just contact would be a danger. because it is not going to penetrate skin. conceivab conceivably, could get through an open sore or abrasion. compared to anthrax, as you suggest. a little bit of anthrax in the air inhaled would pose a larger danger. >> how easy is it, as fran was saying, these people are probably getting the information from the internet, manuals and so on. how easy is it for somebody, a regular joe in the street, to sit down, get on the computer, go to his local store, and create deadly ricin? >> unfortunately, it's easier than a lot of other potential bio agents. and that's because it comes from a caster bean, which is part of a naturally occurring caster plant. now, we're all familiar with caster oil. and ricin, among other byproducts of the production of caster oil, is readily available. but you still have to purify it from that. and it's not so clear that it would be easily put into a highly deadly form, even from an internet exposure. a person has to be very willful, dedicated and have a little bit of brain power in order to create a deadly mix. >> fran, just ask you one more thing. before we do, i want to play the full quote from michael bloomberg about the gun aspect of this, his campaign. listen to this. >> in terms of why they have done it, i don't know. the letter was obviously referred to our anti gun efforts. but there's 12,000 people that are going to get killed this year with guns, 19,000 are going to commit suicide with guns, and we're not going to walk away from those efforts. and i know i speak for all of the -- close to 1,000 mayors in may er ers coalition against guns. we need to get under control and eliminate. >> because of this particular threat, apparently targeting politicians, mayors, because of their position on gun control, will the other thousand mayors who have been signing up to this, will they now have to be properly protected more than they are already? >> no question. look, all government agencies, both at the federal level and state and local levels, have protocols for screening mail. that's the good news here. those protocols actually worked. people identified something suspicious, called emergency services, and were able to sort of quarantine it, if you will, so so it wouldn't spread. i expect every state and local government and agency right now are going over protocols and refreshing people's preparedness to be on alert for it. >> thank you both very much indeed. want to turn now to our other big story tonight, extreme weather. chad myers is live for us in oklahoma. chasing storms today across the state. chad, what's the latest? >> well, it just started raining here, piers. but we do know that a lot of weather is still on the way here. behind me, right over my shoulder, an awful lot of lightning over the top of those silos there, the grain silos. let's just go from the start. that was yesterday. yesterday's storm was benefitting ton, kansas, a big white wedge tornado, on the ground for a long time, and even another storm around corning, kansas yesterday. the weather moved a little bit farther south into the west, over texas today. and we were in it. boy, we were in it with our hail. i'm surprised one thing -- one thing surprised me today, piers, is that all of the windows stayed in our vehicle. we got wailed on by this large hail for miles and miles and miles. it just wouldn't stop. and now we have at least the potential for a tornado, very close to the ground or even on the ground south of elk city headed to kordell. that's on the radar. we are not going to be out of this until the wee hours of the morning. and just like we had last week, where it was one day after another, tomorrow may, in fact, even be a more severe day than we have today. national weather service out of oklahoma city saying yes, we could even see tornados on the ground in oklahoma city, or at least close to oklahoma county tomorrow afternoon. so have to be on the guard, big cities, again, for tomorrow. today was a bad one. we saw wind gusts at least 80 miles per hour, dust flying through the sky. we had horses and cows running just running away from the storm. really nowhere to go, they're not going to run away from a 35-mile-an-hour storm. but it was a very rough day in western nebraska, kansas, oklahoma and texas, piers. >> chad, i've got a big debate coming after the break between two people on the opposite sides of the climate change debate. what is your view? you've been in this game a very long time. what is your view about the effect of a warmer globe, a warmer climate, if you like, on things like tornadoes, hurricanes and storms in general? do you believe it's getting worse? >> i believe it's getting more severe in both directions. the droughts are getting worse, the severe weather getting worse, maybe hurricanes getting worse, as well. and some days, in some years, no hurricanes at all. you can't really put it all into one pot and say this is changing the climate. because the word is climate. the word isn't weather. it isn't weather change. it's climate change. this is years and years and years of testing to make sure that this is right or wrong. and i believe, if you put more hot air into a hot air balloon, piers, it's going to go higher. if you put more hot air into the atmosphere, it's going to go higher. the storms are going to get higher. the air is going to get more humid. there will be more severe weather. >> does the nature of these storms at the moment -- i've been in america the last few years. it certainly seems to me there's an an escalation in the power. if you look at what happened in oklahoma last week, you look at hurricane sandy, here in new york. it just seems to me that the power of these things is increasing. but is that just a short-term situation? have we had these before in the last 30 years? >> we have had these before. what changed with sandy compared to let's say sandy hitting a 1930, we had a tripling of the population along the shore, so, yes, three times more people were hit. three times more homes or even more than that were hit. and you take even more, more 15, 20 years ago was just a sleepy little place. all those homes that were hit were all built within the past 20 or 30 years. we have put people in places that have more severe weather. and so we are seeing it. there's more news coverage of it, as well. and even if you think about the first half of this year, where i'm talking about extreme weather, i'm talking about climate both ways. we were in a tornado drought. we only had 250 tornadoes in a time that we should have had 500. so there we're below normal and all of a sudden, the switch turned on in the past two weeks, and we have ramped this back up. now we're not back to normal yet and we don't want to be. but it's on and off, it's hot and cold and it's not a weather change. it's climate change that we're talking about. >> chad myers, as always, thank you very much indeed. coming up, more on the one thing everyone is talking about. the weather, why it's so crazy. 90 degrees in new york tomorrow. bill nyi, the science guy. born longborg, who is to blame man or mother nature. and glenn close, ending the stigma of mental illness affecting her own family. woman: everyone in the nicu -- all the nurses wanted to watch him when he was there 118 days. everything that you thought was important to you changes in light of having a child that needs you every moment. i wouldn't trade him for the world. who matters most to you says the most about you. at massmutual we're owned by our policyowners, and they matter most to us. if you're caring for a child with special needs, our innovative special care program offers strategies that can help. since i've been using crest pro-health, i've noticed a huge improvement. 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