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Members of the senate, members of the news media and others as well. that investigation never completely 100% satisfactory by any means. dana, standby. joe johns is our crime and justice correspondent. youre getting more information, joe, on whats going on. what are you picking up? >> dribs and drabs quite frankly, wolf. first were being told authorities letting people out of their offices in the hart building there on capitol hill on the senate side, but they have not been given the all clear s...

Connection now with what may be ricin-laced letters to members of senate and maybe to the president of the united states and what happened here on monday maybe. people are nervous and jittery even more so as a result of this for good reason. joe, standby. brianna keilar is over at the white house. are you getting more information over there on that letter? that suspicious letter that was addressed to the president, brianna? >> wolf, we dont have more information from the white house. we heard fr...

Was sent to capitol. can you clarify is that three facilities and letters total or just two? >> i would refer you to the fbi. my understanding what im aware of is the letter sent to the member of senate and a letter sent to the president. but there have been reports i think the fbi have said of other potential letters. i dont know if thats the case. i would refer you to the statement by the fbi. >> and given the number of letters and possible packages -- suspicious packages, is it concerning to ...

And they check it for this very reason, to screen it, to do scientific tests to make sure its safe to come here. it had a suspicious substance in it, we are told, wolf, by a law enforcement source that there are similarities to the letter sent to senator wicker. what exactly does that mean ive asked my sources, so far, wolf, inconclusive at this point. we do know there were some marks, i guess you could say identifying marks in the wicker letter, a postmark from memphis, tennessee. there was no ...

The white house complex. ensure that mail is screened at an offsite to theyre not a risk to people here and the public and those procedures have been in place for a long time. i would check with the fbi to see what assessments well make along the lines that youre asking, but again this is very early. >> one more. is this something that happens every so often and we just dont hear about it because theres not as much interest in this kind of thing? or is this an unusual occurrence? >> well, again,...

Are, wolf. but i think because you saw the bombings on monday and now these letters coming on tuesday that that is a question that a lot of people have. theres some similarity here. and weve heard our dana bash talking about this. she certainly went through this following 9/11 with the anthrax attacks that happened. some letters of which went to capitol hill -- or one letter went to capitol hill. and there was -- that was something that happened weeks after 9/11. and in this case though were tal...

>> that is the expectation, wolf. there have been no changes to his schedule. he is here at the white house today where hes had some meetings and been briefed on the latest in the boston bombings where hes really trying to carry on with at least some of the plans that he had in place for this week sort of signaling that what happened in boston on monday isnt going to stop him certainly and shouldnt stop americans from proceeding with their lives. hell be hosting some bicyclists part of the wound...

Package delivered to our front office. theres no more information about this. but this is completely in keeping with what lisa desjardins reported a while ago. capitol police are talking to, questioning a suspect who came into the heart office building and potentially the same person came to this building to deliver a letter to the front office. when i say its against protocol, its because as weve been talking about with regard to the letters sent with what may be the poison ricin, thats all don...

Letters right now. theyre all looking at anything that potentially could be suspicious including senator carl levin, the democratic senator from michigan, the chair of the senate armed services committee. what do we know about this particular letter, dana? >> we just got a statement from senator carl levins office that a staffer in his saganaw, office, you see the pictures there from our affiliate, a suspicious letter that just looked a little odd. so this staffer contacted the local authorities...

With ricin. first one went to senator roger wicker. that as we speak is being tested as a lab in ft. detrick, maryland. i was told by the chief law enforcement official here in the senate yesterday that he felt confident that it was actually ricin, but of course theyre still doing other tests. separately of course weve been reporting as we heard from the white house press secretary similar kind of letter was addressed to the president. and it went to an offsite facility where the white house get...