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Good evening, everyone, i'm erin burnett in boston and we begin out front tonight with breaking news, a possible suspect in the boston bombings. here's what we know at this moment. according to sources who talked to cnn, authorities have a poss based upon analysis of video of a department store, lord & taylor department stores right near the second blast. federal investigators have made in their words significant progress in the case. the possible suspect is being described as a male who was wearing a white baseball cap backwards, a light colored hoodie and a black jacket. we're awaiting an fb...

>> there has been an arrest, so you probably aren't aware of in mississippi, there's been an arrest in the ricin case according to two federal law enforcement officials here at cnn. they the arrest was in the tupelo, mississippi area.ell us this? >> yeah, i knew they had a suspect in this case, and i'm glad to see they have been able to apprehend and arrest this individual. and i would again make the assertion that it really has no relation to t boston bombings, it's very reminisce end of the anthrax attacks after 9/11. it's very dangerous when you have people sending poison to federal officer...

Fbi profiler, mike sullivan and former acting director of the atf in the conversation here with john and myself. mike, let me ask you what do you make of what john's reporting on here, that their possible second suspect. when you put all that together, what do you take away? >> okay, i can't hear me. let me go to you, john douglas, former fbi profiler. when you listened to what john was saying, right now there's a fast and furious scramble tonight whether to find this person or arrest this person, perhaps another suspect. who do you think this person is? >> well, that's a really the most diffi...

And that's one we're concerned about. that one -- that's not contagious. small pox, which is contagious and deadly, those are the two thankfully, that's the two pathogens we're most prepared to respond to that we have worked on very hard since 9/11 and the am amerthax case. >> but. >> it is a big but, because we don't talk about these things enough, unless something like this happens. and i think if you start talking with people at e cdc who say, look -- and colonel larson for that matter, how prepared are we, how much have we done to be able to protect not only communities but the country as ...

Delayed? >> eno, i don't. and as i have been saying for a long time, this surveillance video now we know from lord and taylor, and private videos, it's going to be one of the keys to this case. in addition to the forensics on the bomb it, which is being evaluated at quantico as we speak. and we hope that those results will come out shortly. but as for the delay of the press conference, i don't know. i did come out earlier when there were reports of a suspect in custody confirming that that was not true. >> confirming that was not true. and what is it that your latest understand on that is over...