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To take very seriously. when we got down here. i can say, though, we have noticed a change in the tension from the officers that i have been interacting with. were getting live pictures right now, were showing everyone. were showing you live pictures of the -- im just being told that we have live pictures of the suspicious device being remove and being take on to where it eventually will go. the screening facility. im just learning this from the control room as we speak and were looking at this ...

When they discover the suspicious packages. >> harris: john roberts, thank you. very much always for your reporting. the president, we await his remarks at that opioid revenge, likely to talk about whats happened today with suspicious packages found in different locations. lets bring in ted williams, a former detective with the washington, d.c., police department. this is not just in upstate new york, new york city, its also in your area of d.c. because of that main screening facility where pack...

98-1 it passed in the united states senate to address that epidemic. we have john roberts there at the white house for us. john? >> reporter: good afternoon to you, dana. we expect the president is going to make remarks about what has been going on at cnn and at the mail sorting facility, screening facility for the white house and up in westchester county and in florida. we just got confirmation from a source, the u.s. capitol police are investigating a suspicious package addressed to congress w...

>> these cowardly acts are despicable and have no place in american society. i want to assure you we deployed the full resources of the fbi, the united states secret service and they are working very closely with law enforcement officials. we will continue to monitor these investigations and those responsible will be brought to justice. >> we are also hearing from the first ladys office, her spokeswoman with a statement a short time ago saying "mrs. trump condemns all forms of threat and violenc...

Here outside the obamas neighborhood but thats not entirely unusual. im about four houses down from where the obamas live in the calorama neighborhood of washington, d.c. this is a normal part of life here in this neighborhood. this is what it is like to live next door to a former president of the united states. there is some increase in the amount of visible security here. again, thats not unusual in the obamas nabeighborhood. its important to point out that this device didnt get anywhere near ...

>> the fbi is taking a closer look at two pieces of mail that came to the pentagon that tested positive for ricin. >> they are trying to determine what they are dealing with. these two envelopes came in a postal service mail back apparently yesterday and initial testing and screening at the pentagon mail screening facility indicated that they tested positive for ricin. what we want to say is this screening facility is outside the pentagon and the two pieces of mail never entered the building. th...

The letter did contain the very same substance as two letters and sent to the pentagon yesterday and those letters tested positive for ricin. as you noted, the first letters were addressed to defense secretary james madison admiral john richardson. he is the chief of naval operations. they were intercepted in a male screening facility in the pentagon compound by the end envelopes did not enter their main pentagon building. tonight that mail facility remains under quarantine and there is still no...

A substance sent to the white house to confirm whether it is really cyanide. one previous round of tests came back positive for the poison. it was at a screening facility where white house mail is monitored. it was not inside the white house itself. the sender is known to the secret service and criminal charges depend whether the material is hazardous. they said he was down in the polls but a surprise in the israeli elections. despite the polls it appears benjamin netanyahu stays in office. hi...

>> oh, yeah. lets do it. absolutely. finally. >> lets get to it. >> lets go. >> not friday quite yet. we begin with the promising lead in the case of the poison letters. >> fbi agents are questioning someone they consider a person of interest from new boston, texas, the mans wife called authorities after she noticed something strange in her refrigerator. the latest ricin laced letter was addressed to president obama. with more, here is our chief investigative correspondent brian ross. >> reporte...

Its what investigators are calling the dark side of the gun control debate. a letter addressed to president obama threatening advocates of gun control was intercepted thursday at a washington, d.c. screening center. its not clear if that letter contained ricin but officials say its similar to ricin laced letters sent to mayor bloomberg intercepted at a new york screening facility. another was sent to bloombergs gun control group. investigators say all three were postmarked from shreveport, louis...