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Theres some talk in law enforcement circles in recent days about the dogs being pets for the women. that has not been confirmed, fleshed out. that is something were still looking into but that is another possibility. >> ed, tell me, in terms of the overall investigation, they have dna tested him in the state and federally now. theyve obviously had a week or so or more inside the house itself. is the belief of the investigators and the police now that the more they dig into this, the more likely ...

Theres some talk in law days about the dogs being pets for the women. that has not been confirmed, fleshed out. that is something were still looking into but that is another possibility. >> ed, tell me, in terms of the overall investigation, they have dna tested him in the state and federally now. theyve obviously had a week or so or more inside the house itself. is the belief of the investigators and the police now that the more they dig into this, the more likely it is that he just had these t...

That is something were still looking into but that is another possibility. >> ed, tell me, in terms of the overall investigation, they have dna tested him in the state and federally now. theyve obviously had a week or so or more inside the house itself. is the belief of the investigators and the police now that the more they dig into this, the more likely it is that he just had these three women, that was what he concentrated on, there may not be other crimes outside of that? >> reporter: thats ...

Her client has nothing to do with the letters. we have not been able to make contact with her today. we are still working to get. additional details. when we have those, well bring them to you. carol? >> thank you so much. for more information on the investigation, we turn now to law enforcement analyst and former fbi assistant director tom fe wen tez. this guy was not a suspect. at least as far as we knew. apparently he had a grudge against the original person arrested. >> apparently so. when t...

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 ...

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...

The office buildings in 2001 all mail goes offsite for testing. in other words, if this was a tainted letter. it was caught in the system that worked. and apparently it tested positive. and then it was sent to a lab. now, we are being told that senators are behind closed doors at this hour being briefed not about boston but about this letter addressed to senator roger wicker. and we are getting more details by the moment. we are going to talk about boston in a minute. but, with this breaking new...

Have confirmed there are some similarities between two letters, the letter that was sent to the senate, also, the letter sent to the white house. jonathan dienst is standing by right here. results again may be available by late today at the earliest, we understand. >> thats right. they discovered these letters yes and the official lab tests take about 24 hours for that kind of test to be done, but preliminary field testing on both the letters to senator wickers office and to the white house, bot...

The office buildings in 2001 all mail goes offsite for testing. in other words, if this was a tainted letter. it was caught in the system that worked. and apparently it tested positive. and then it was sent to a lab. now, we are being told that senators are behind closed doors at this hour being briefed not about boston but about this letter addressed to senator roger wicker. and we are getting more details by the moment. we are going to talk about boston in a minute. but, with this breaking new...