Amerthax Case News Today

Good evening, everyone, im erin burnett in boston and we begin out front tonight with breaking news, a possible suspect in the boston bombings. heres what we know at this moment. according to sources who talked to cnn, authorities have a poss based upon analysis of video of a department store, lord & taylor department stores right near the second blast. federal investigators have made in their words significant progress in the case. the possible suspect is being described as a male who was weari...

>> there has been an arrest, so you probably arent aware of in mississippi, theres been an arrest in the ricin case according to two federal law enforcement officials here at cnn. they the arrest was in the tupelo, mississippi area.ell us this? >> yeah, i knew they had a suspect in this case, and im glad to see they have been able to apprehend and arrest this individual. and i would again make the assertion that it really has no relation to t boston bombings, its very reminisce end of the anthra...

Fbi profiler, mike sullivan and former acting director of the atf in the conversation here with john and myself. mike, let me ask you what do you make of what johns reporting on here, that their possible second suspect. when you put all that together, what do you take away? >> okay, i cant hear me. let me go to you, john douglas, former fbi profiler. when you listened to what john was saying, right now theres a fast and furious scramble tonight whether to find this person or arrest this person, ...

And thats one were concerned about. that one -- thats not contagious. small pox, which is contagious and deadly, those are the two thankfully, thats the two pathogens were most prepared to respond to that we have worked on very hard since 9/11 and the am amerthax case. >> but. >> it is a big but, because we dont talk about these things enough, unless something like this happens. and i think if you start talking with people at e cdc who say, look -- and colonel larson for that matter, how prepare...

Delayed? >> eno, i dont. and as i have been saying for a long time, this surveillance video now we know from lord and taylor, and private videos, its going to be one of the keys to this case. in addition to the forensics on the bomb it, which is being evaluated at quantico as we speak. and we hope that those results will come out shortly. but as for the delay of the press conference, i dont know. i did come out earlier when there were reports of a suspect in custody confirming that that was not ...

The security is very high right now to protect the members of congress. were very concerned about these packages. after 9/11, we implemented a procedu procedure that changed the way mail gets to the -- >> let me ask you another question about the situation in boston. just in terms of whether the suspects, the people that they talking, looking at right now in some of those photos, can you tell me whether theyre confident, whether youre confident from your briefings that that person or those peopl...

You remember the saudi suspect kind of washed out. so the perpetrators are still out there, and every day that passes, the case becomes a little bit colder and more difficult to piece together. but ill remind your viewers, though, the 93 world trade center center bombing case was masterfully put together by the fbi and the u.s. attorneys office where they pieced together this forensics from the bombing device at the world trade center and were able to attribute that back to the terrorists, that ...

Wait for multiple cases to try and tie in, if theres other cases that will happen in the future. so its really, really a difficult case. >> and what does that lead you to believe in terms of people have wondered, that kind of quote unquote lone wolf nature of this type of person. you have to say somebody is this persons wife, this persons sister, this persons daughter, this persons friend, this persons co-worker. has anyone done anything unusual na you know this person. when law enforcement is r...