and then, there s this. night of the voting dead. it has been established that persons who have recently died have been returning to life. tea party paranoia about voter fraud, reaching a whole new level. paranoia drives a lot of the politics there. show starts right now. well, politics and terror colliding once again in america, as americans get ready to head to the polls. let s first bring you a quick update on major developments in that attempt to mail two bomb from yemen to the united states. airlines confirming that one of two packages traveled on a passenger plane, not a cargo plane as first reported. meanwhile, a computer engineering student and her mother arrested in yemen,
stress this is early in the investigation and make sure this is not a wider plot. we ve seen this sort of thing play out before. let s not forget the president has a busy schedule this weekend. i ll get up early tomorrow to go with him to three different states. two of the cities will be chicago and philadelphia, they were cities under a higher state of alert today because of this but the white house is saying he s not planning to change any of those travel plans right now, larry. larry: ed henry, our senior white house correspondent at the white house. let s go to london. nic robertson, cnn senior international correspondent. nic, what s the latest from across the sea? well, we re hearing from the british home secretary saying that high level security meetings have been held here in britain and she s talked with her u.s. counterpart, homeland security chief janet napolitano and the suspect package is undergoing examination even now at a metropolitan police
scientific laboratory outside london. this is being handled here in britain by the counterterrorism police, part of the metropolitan police here in london. they handle all of the big counterterrorism issues in britain and the message that we re getting from british authorities is how much they re cooperating with the united states even according to one british intelligence source telling us they know the identity of the person who sent these packages because they can say for certain that he has known connections with terrorism. larry? larry: is it true that the two intercepted packages contain petn, is that what they re supposed to have? that s what we understand, larry. just to give you an idea of how damaging petn can be, a small amount, about 6 grams, enough to fit in the end of my pen here can blow a hole in a piece of metal twice the thickness of an aircraft fuselage. we don t know what was the
rehema? larry, officials confirm here earlier that there was no shipment coming from yemen towards the u.s. through dubai on emritz airlines flight ak-201 which was escorted by the u.s. fighters in the u.s. a suspicious shipment or package originating from yemen was discovered in dubai earlier tonight and it was found at a fedex cargo aircraft. the aviation officials said that this suspicious package has been sent to the lab to discover what s in this package. however, this happened many hours ago but so far there s not one statement that says what they found in this package. as we know, it s friday. the beginning of the weekend.
10:35 eastern time. the good news is the two explosive devices did not detonate but the concern here is that there could be more out there and that s why the president came out and wanted to directly address the american people and make sure everyone is vigilant. larry: these 13 more are on the u.p.s. and fedex planes? reporter: they re not sure where they are. that is one of the scary parts that they are trying to sift through. just a few days before the midterm elections, this year has been dominated on domestic issues, economy, health care, jobs and all of a sudden a chilling remind for this white house and for this country terror can hijack the agenda. they don t know where the packages are and the other significant piece is having potentially a connection to yemen where the packages started but potentially a connection to al qaeda in the arabian peninsula.