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>> he has no interaction with other inmates. it is not plush. it is nothing. >> reporter: the intelligence community will conduct a review about how it handled information passed along by the russians about the older brother. diana and john. >> new developments in a high profile legal case. prosecutors found traces of ricin in the former martial arts studio owned by the suspect in the case. james everett dutschke has been charged with sending poison laced letters to president obama, a senator, a...

>> reporter: the surviving suspect, dzhokhar tsarnaev stopped cooperating with authorities days ago. he sits isolated in a tiny cell getting a taste of what a lifetime in federal prison would feel like. >> he has no interaction with other inmates. it is not plush. it is nothing. >> reporter: the intelligence community will conduct a review about how it handled information passed along by the russians about the older brother. >> new developments in a high profile legal case. prosecutors found tra...

Next few hours and days going through that complaint in detail. that probably would happen ahead of thursday. theres going to be a preliminary hearing in this case and a detention hearing as well. >> i want to bring paul into the conversation. we dont have the criminal complaint yet. i cant wait to take a look at it. at its surface, what do you see the charges mr. dutschke is going to face? >> he could be facing life in prison. hes charged right now, we believe, with possession of a biological w...

We understand the ricin preliminarily has determined to be low grade and not weaponized. does that mean that it cannot kill? >> no, it doesnt mean that at all. in fact even just natural caster beans chewed out in nature can kill. obviously the dosage makes the toxicity. theres no reason to believe that this guy didnt intend to murder somebody. >> if i had a letter with low-grade and not weapon aized ricesen and i handled it what happened in mississippi with the deputies down there, would i be at...

What form makes a big difference and whether its going to be terribly dangerous or not. ricin is a product within a caster bean which comes from the caster plant which is found in nature. if i put a bunch of caster beans on the table there would be ricin on the table. the question is how pure, how refined and in what constituency the powder was? was it light and fluffy so that it would easily float into the air and possibly be inhaled? or was it a more crude mix which, yes, is not a great thing ...

It. how significant does that seem to you? >> honestly, until we get the final results probably tomorrow morning, i would still not read much into it. these were tested twice in the field, first the automatic detector was set off, the field test was set off. that shows an element there and anybody can get them and be matched up. the lab tests show whether the caster beams in the match have been processed so it is actually the protein, the toxic protein, of ricin. and you have to figure out how m...

>> it does. and an entire country on edge. thank you very much, dana. with the very latest on that, im understanding there was just one person responsible, that person now arrested from the hometown of senator wickers, tupelo, mississippi, arrested for sending those ricin-laden letters. i want to bring in dr. sanjay gupta, along with retired colonel randall larson, a retired terror expert. obviously, what dana was talking about and capturing it so eloquently was just the fear that this creates. ...

Possible person of interest in the case. just a little background on this poison, ricin is a poison that is found naturally in caster beans, and any amount, an amount in fact the size of a head of a pin can kill an adult. there is no specific test for exposure and there is no antidote once exposed. there have been two cases recently the fbi discovered several vials of ricin in a motel room near the vegas strip in 2008 and in 2004 authorities discovered traces of the poison on a letter opening ma...

If its treat ned lab, if -- treated in a lab, made in a lab it can be highly, highly toxic but it has to be made by someone who knows what hes doing. i mean, caster beans become ricin but accrued form of it is not likely to do you a lot of harm. if it is refined and deliberately made into a powder that can be breathe ned or in jessed -- breathed in or in jessed or in skwrebgted into the system -- injected into the system you can die, because the problem with ricin is we dont have an antidote to ...

Cornyn republican. all suspicious packages all have been cleared as safe. the level of anxiety over our safety is peeking not too dissimilar to those extremely tense days following 9/11. remember the rumors anthrax is in your building? people running out of buildings? >> i had to self-medicate myself at every bar just to get over that. i have a problem covering these stories simply because ricin when -- whatever it is which i guess is a made from caster beans, i guess. anybody can generate this ...