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News justice correspondent, pete williams. thank you so much for being with us. it to get to the investigation and what we know, the latest on that, but first, i want to begin with these ricin reports. a letter sent to roger wicker did test positive. how serious should we take this? what are the odds of a false positive? id like to get a little context before we start ringing the alarm bell. >> lets understand what the results come from. all mail to the u.s. capitol is sent to an off sight facil...

Funeral saying it was too costly. thatcher died last monday. she was 87. the senate is on high alert this morning as capitol police and fbi investigate a suspicious letter addressed to one of its members. as abcs pierre thomas reports, field tests show the letter appears to be have been tainted with potentially fatal poison. >> reporter: sources are telling us a letter addressed to mississippi senator roger wicker tested positive for poison ricin in a field test at the senate mail office in la...

Where its tested for all kinds of things. the envelope was found, pulled out of the mail supply and a field test was done. it was also positive, but these tests i must say, are oftentimes wrong. weve had field tests on mail at the capitol that have tested positive for ricin. i remember one at a mail sorting machine that testing positive and it was paper dust from the mail machine. they take the material, they send it to a lab where its cultured and then theyll see if there is actually ricin and ...

Especially capitol hill, is processed and checked first at an off-site facility. this one happened to be in maryland. there was an automatic alarm that went off triggering the possibility of ricin. they did a field test there. it was positive. but i will say that these tests in the field are often give false positives. so theyve taken the envelope. theyve sent it to the fbi lab where they will now culture it to try to see if it really is ricin. we think that perhaps mail delivery to the hill has...

Never seen. the car of the future making the driver totally unnecessary. >> no hands. >> reporter: google is working on one, and the federal government is sponsoring a field test in ann arbor, michigan, with cars that automatically swerve past potential accidents and alert you to oncoming hazards. and now this at general motors test track, i sat in the drivers seat as this cadillac at high speeds stayed in its lane. at 60 miles an hour it stopped on its own even when a car driving 30 miles slowe...

>> no hands. >> reporter: googles working on one, and the federal governments sponsoring a field test in ann arbor, michigan, with cars that automatically swerve past potential accidents and alerts you to oncoming hazards. and now this at general motors test track, i sat in the drivers seat as this cadillac at high speeds stayed in its lane. at 60 miles an hour it stopped on its own even when a car driving 30 miles slower suddenly pulled in front of us. >> we can foresee the day when vehicles wi...

Marijuana, methamphetamine and heroin. >> stuff that these inmates will make money off it. narcotics is the number one thing. >> got a call from r & r, this was eyeglasses, its not an eyeglass box when she opened it up she noticed a black substance that could possibly be heroin. well nik test, field test to see fit comes back positive. we have them for different types, heroin, methamphetamines, marijuana. if its positive its going to turn bright yellow. its not turning any colors. its negative. ...

Was eyeglasses, its not an eyeglass box. and when the nurse opened it, she noticed a black substance that could possibly be heroin. well nik test, field test to see if it comes back positive. we have them for different types, heroin, methamphetamines, marijuana. if its positive its going to turn bright yellow. its not turning any colors. that means its negative. its not heroin. >> number one is information gathering. we read mail. we talk to the inmates. we talk to staff. listen to phone calls. ...

has cracked the code of the u.s. militarys all-important flying drones. the iranians have been dissecting the computer control system, the electronic brain on that unmanned drone they captured four months ago and now they say they have collected all sorts of presumably highly classified information about when and where that drone flew, how it was controlled and much, much more. but u.s. defense secretary leon panetta says the iranians are bluffing. >> i would seriously question their a...

militarys all-important flying drones. the iranians have been dissecting the computer control system, the electronic brain on that unmanned drone they captured four months ago and now they say they have collected all sorts of presumably highly classified information about when and where that drone flew, how it was controlled and much, much more. but u.s. defense secretary leon panetta says the iranians are bluffing. >> i would seriously question their ability to do what they say they h...