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>> any idea what he is saying. >> no. >> heres the translation, regular sandbags are heavy, peytons are lighter making them easier to carry because they are filled with chemicals and salt and only expand when doused with water and less water gets through the cracks. >> when you add it to water it expands. >> whoa. >> reporter: like any scientist, peyton knows that field tests are a must. im safe behind your barrier here. >> reporter: engineers say peytons invention is a real deal. >> he would be...

Analyst and former homeland security adviser fran townsend. also on the phone, dr. sanjay gupta. they mentioned the gun debate, the joint terrorism task force is investigating. it could be more of a political threat than a terror threat, really. >> thats right, anderson, but as youve mentioned, thats not really at the moment the most relevant piece to the investigators. they dont much care about motive at the moment. they want to know who. and so, to determine the who, they will look for the for...

Homeland security adviser fran townsend sits on the cia and external advisory panels, and dr. sanjay gupta. fran, we have reports the letters mentioned the gun control debate over the joint terrorism task force investigating. it could be more of a political threat than a terror threat. >> thats right, anderson. as you mentioned, thats not really at the moment the most relevant piece to the investigators. they dont much care about motive at the moment. they want to know who. and so to determine t...

>> mayor, is this because of your outspokenness about guns and your thoughts about that? >> well, there was a letter that threatened us. the letter was obviously referred to our anti-gun efforts, but theres 12,000 people that are killed this year with guns, 19,000 are going to commit suicide with guns, were not going to walk away from those efforts. i know i speak for close to a thousand mayors, this is something we need to get under control and eliminate. >> do you feel threatened? >> no, i don...

Commit suicide with guns, were not going to walk away from those efforts. i know i speak for close to a thousand mayors, this is something we need to get under control and eliminate. >> do you feel threatened? >> no, i dont feel threatened. >> jonathan dean joins me now. you cover stories in new york that involve any traces of terrorism in any way. whats the latest we know about this? >> what makes this case concerning is that the lab tests came back, not only field tests but lab tests for the n...

One measure of the intensity of the last weeks news cycle has been one of the stories that essentially got kicked out of leading news all together was that somebody sent a deadly poison ricin to the white house and to a u.s. senator and mississippi judge. not that a threat was made but the actual poison was mailed in letters and sent to those recipients. the letters tested positive for ricin both in field tests and in subsequent lab tests. the main reason i think that story got lost is because o...

The u.s. postal service®, no business too small. one measure of the intensity of the last weeks news cycle has been one of the stories that essentially got kicked out of leading news all together was that somebody sent a deadly poison ricin to the white house and to a u.s. senator and mississippi judge. not that a threat was made but the actual poison was mailed in letters and sent to those recipients. the letters tested positive for ricin both in field tests and in subsequent lab tests. the ...

Joe, you have some news on the arrest. what are you hearing, what is the latest? >> reporter: anderson, this is an individual from tupelo, mississippi, were told, the home state of senator roger wicker. actually, his hometown, as well. hes one of the people who got one of the mailings. we know of two suspicious letters, a lot of confusion at the united states capitol today. a mail delivery to the capitol has been stopped, while authorities try to figure all of it out. of the suspicious letters t...

Republican senator roger wicker. it was a letter that tested positive in preliminary tests for the poison thats called ricin. after testing positive in a field test on site, that letter has now been sent to a military lab in maryland. field tests for ricin are, apparently, somewhat notorious for false positives, which is why the more advanced lab testing is now needed. in addition to that letter to senator wicker yesterday, we now know a basically identical letter was also sent to the white hous...

Have been something we may not have learned about but because of what happened in boston everybody is on higher alert? >> i remember vividly i got sworn in on october 8th by then there had been several anthrax attacks and several thereafter. one of the first problems we had was the fact the field tests were inferior and a lot of false positives. horrible hoaxes. i would like to think in intervening ten years the fields tests and it seems from what i heard that field tests that said envelopes con...