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Service and others to try to determine the extent to which precautions have been made, but that is part of the story. and its important to point that out because in 2001 it was postal workers who got sick with anthrax. as we move forward to try to determine whether this was in fact ricin, we also have to keep one eye on those government employees, those nameless government employees who could have handled these letters, wolf. >> and at least one, i believe, maybe a couple of those postal workers...

Markings that senator wickers office got, no return address, the fact it came from memphis, tennessee, were working on that as well. >> i think people will be looking at all sorts of suspicious looking letters that they get. a lot of us including you, dana, vividly remember the anthrax-laced letters that popped up right after 9/11 in 2001. just remind our viewers. you were working up on capitol hill. and i believe -- correct me if im wrong, dana, but as a result of youre being near some letters ...

Them somewhere else or turned out to be kind of nothing and it was a false alarm. well try to get sclarification on. but the incident and event thats been going on here in the senate complex appears to be over right now. >> people understandably, dana, are a little jittery. the staffers, the others, people who are working on the senate side, presumably on the house side as well but especially on the senate side of the u.s. capitol. >> oh, theres no question about it. there is definitely a differ...

Get these ricin results back from fort detrick in maryland some time this afternoon. we dont know how long that is. thats very significant. and also the business about the mail equipment is very significant as well. because, wolf, as you know back in 2001 there were many reports that because no senators got sick and no one in the offices got sick because none of these letters got through to the government offices they were intended for that everything was okay. and it absolutely wasnt the case w...

>> so many fears, so many suspicions only a couple days after the terrorist bombings here at the boston marathon and now these suspicious letters may be laced with this poison ricin, may be laced with this poison ricin reminds me, i assume a lot of our viewers out there, the anthrax-laced letters that occurred shortly after 9/11. it may simply be coincidental. we dont know. theres so much we dont know. were waiting for this white house briefing, jay carney, the white house press secretary suppos...

What were hearing today that went to the office of senator tom daschle, and reporters like us we run to the scene and we find out later that the letter was laced with anthrax. because of that many, many staffers on capitol hill, even senators had to take the antibiotic as did i. we all remember something similar happened at the offices of nbc in new york and elsewhere. turned out at the end of the day we found out much later that it was not a related incident to 9/11. but we didnt know that then...