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General public and no personnel have shown any signs of possible exposure. >> reporter: the potentially deadly brew came from a batch of anthrax produced more than a year ago. at the time it was radiated to kill any active spores. only last week a civilian lab in maryland discovered it received live anthrax. all samples same from the same stock. odds are high other labs received the deadly bacteria. exposure to anthrax can be fatal. everyone in that delivery chain will be under intense medical s...

Investigation. interestingly enough however, and a lot of people find this strange, the cdc is collecting samples from 18 different sites in the united states potentially deadly samples live samples of anthrax which will be shipped commercially via fedex to the cdc in atlanta. thats how much confidence cdc has in their system. thomas? >> nbc news chief pentagon correspondent, jim miklaszewski. thank you. earlier today, it was the embattled president of the organization that governs world socce...

Anthrax that were supposed to be inactive samples. they were actually live. 22 shipments across the united states and to a base in south korea. some were sent via fedex. four lab workers here in the united states and as many as 22 people overseas are getting post-exposure or preventive treatment. the cdc is also investigating. we got sean kauffman joining me. welcome. >> thank you, brooke. >> i also should add youre a bio safety expert. you were part of the cdc response team during the 2001 anth...

And no explanation why it took them so long to go public. >> shouldnt the samples of anthrax, shouldnt they have been dead? what happened there? >> its the crux of the matter. its not the first time this happened and the centers for the disease control had a similar situation less than a year ago, and when the samples are shipped they are shipped as live or dead, and they were supposed to be dead and they are supposed to be aradiated to a point where they are dead spores but when they were recei...

I meant to say that. switch today and get the no mistake guarantee. comcast business. built for business. almost exactly a year ago, the centers for disease control did something terrifying. last summer, the cdc sent live anthrax bacteria to laboratories around the country by accident. they meant to deactivate those samples of anthrax, but they didnt by mistake. and it was only three luck that nobody contracted anthrax out of that. today, another part of our government has confirmed that they,...

President obama spoke about the disaster during a visit to the national hurricane center in florida. >> theres going to be a lot of rebuilding. and we as a nation are going to have to help the same way we do any time that folks are affected by these natural disasters. and so we will stay in close coordination with them to make sure that our response is quick, itll cut through bureaucracy, and that were helping them recover. >> to put this disaster to perspective, the houston chronicle is reporti...

Scrambling to try to figure out how this could have happened. our chief national correspondent is covering the story for us jim, first of all, whats the timeline for how this was reported? >> remarkably long timeline wolf. thats one of the issues here. the first shipments went out in march of last year. over the course of 14 months, you have them moving around to places they shouldnt have because they were meant to be neutralized samples of anthrax, at least some of them turned out to be live. a...

>> there is a protocol for live samples and these were believed not to be live and the protocol they were shipped under that there is no risk to be a risk to the public but this is raising questions at the highest levels of the pentagon and there is an investigation under way to see how this happened. >> thanks. and from bad bacteria to big bucks, a new kind of identity theft that you need to know about on top of a similar crime in the headlines. cyber crooks stealing tax returns and sources t...

Active flax accidentalanthrax accidentally shipped to korea. the samples originated at a lab in utah. four lab workers in the united states and at least 22 overseas are being treated for anthrax exposure. officials say the public is not at any risk though. world soccer fifa opens its annual meeting. the president sepp blatter set to speak moments from now addressing the group for the first time since officials were arrested yesterday. meantime vladimir putin is stepping into the fray defending...

Come over and fight the fight or be a lone wolf here in the united states. so budgets are the big thing. states dont have the budgets right now. >> thats an issue. general tata thank you. a pleasure sir. coming up, live anthrax samples shipped by the military through fedex. were hearing now at least four lab workers are receiving post-exposure treatment. well talk with someone who responded to the deadly anthrax attacks in 2001 talk about why this happened how this happened. also the video t...