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well be watching her. >> on a day where i needed it. thank you, my friend. thank you. >> and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. really happy to have you here. so have you watched the sopranos? if not, hit pause and watch all seasons and then come back in a couple weeks and start this again. the first season of the sopranos is 13 episodes long. the sopranos obviously is one of the greatest achievements ever in american drama, in contention for one of the greatest television...

May remember we went through something like this a couple weeks ago when someone was sending caster beans to the secretary of defense and one o the white house, one to the fbi director and so forth. all of that kind of thing is found at off site facilities. i think thats the good news and something to stress here. the secret service says they were never in danger. these folks were never in danger of receive issing these packages. the hazard is the people who handled them. the postal workers. >> ...

Theres still more breaking news tonight, the fbi is investigating three suspicious letters, one was sent to president trump, the other two to the pentagon. what have you learned? >> anderson, it appears that all these letters were connected. according to a law enforcement source. all the envelopes are similar, and they contain a ricin like substance. officials are not publicly labelling it ricin. the secret service has told cnn the letter addressed to president trump never actually even got on t...

One more note of the substance of these envelopes, it was a crude substance based on caster beans, which is used to make ricin, this official says if someone had ingested this substance, it likely would not have been fatal, it could have made them very ill, anderson. >> is there any response in the white house? >> they directed all our questions to the secret service, when they were initially reached with questions about this, at least one official in the white house press shop had not been awar...

Is charged with using a chemical weapon to kill his ex-wifes boyfriend. >> he hid a substance inside a scratch-and-sniff birthday card. dan quail of our philadelphia affiliate has the story. >> reporter: heavily armed squaut teams moved in to the eleanor apartments. the teams wore full biohazard suits in event there was more of the deadly ricin at the suspects apartment when they went in to get him. moments later authorities say 19-year-old nicholas todd hellman was arrested without incident and...

Authorities say he told them his intent was to scare his ex-girlfriend in hopes of reconciling their relationship. he told them he coated the letter with sodium hydroxide, used to extract ricin from caster beans. >> preliminary lab results on the white powder that was found in that correspondence did prove to be, to test positive for the toxin of ricin. >> reporter: neighbors here were absolutely stunned something like this could happen here in little old hatboro. >> thats really disturbing. i h...

Using a chemical weapon to kill his ex-girlfriends boyfriend. >> he hid a substance inside a scratch-and-sniff birthday card. dan from our philadelphia affiliate has the story. >> reporter: heavily armed s.w.a.t. teams moved in to the eleanor apartments. the teams wore full biohazard suits in event there was more of the deadly ricin at the suspects apartment when they went in to get him. moments later authorities say 19-year-old nicholas todd hellman was arrested without incident and very quietl...

Richardson met with authorities to say her husband had mailed three ricin-laced letters. the arrest warrant placed caster beans in the trunk of her husbands car to ensure that he would be apprehended. investigators descended on the couples home. from the beginning, investigators were suspicious of her story and now believe it was shannon richardson, not her husband, who mailed the letters, which contained an ominous threat. you will have to kill me and my family before you get my guns. the rig...

Suspicious substance in the family refrigerator but they wont tell us what was found. ricin is a by-product of caster beans. the richards sons have five kids. shes appeared in shows like walking dead and vampire diaries. he works at a army depot. the letters had low-levels of ricin. the poison was crudely made and poor quality. the letters from sent to new york mayor bloomberg and his group called mayors against illegal guns and president obama. all the letters sent from shreveport, laws louisia...