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Very serious, of course life-threatening potential disease here. infection here. that's an open question. were they handing this stuff after the discovery and why that delay before they were treated? it's a real problem, and it's one reason why they're investigating this closely. >> these live anthrax samples, they were sent through fedex, what was the theory behind that? >> well when if they're neutralized samples, they ship them with precautions that would make that safe but when they're live samples, it's a different story, of course you can ship live samples, but under a stricter protocol ...

Appreciate it. also breaking in national we have learned that more than two dozen lab workers including four in the united states are now being traded for exposure to the deadly bacteria anthrax an that bizarre blunder by the u.s. military. live anthrax samples, we told you yesterday, mistakenly shipped by fed eddex by an army lab in utah and shipped to a military base in south korea. while the pentagon is stressing, there is no threat to the general public it is still quite inexplicable how a potentially deadly bioweapon could have been handled, really carelessly. bring in cnn pentagon corr...

Anthrax samples to them and nine states over the last few days. 22 people being monitored in south korea join four workers in the u.s. who received preventive post exposure treatment, and a lab in maryland was the first to report receiving the live bacteria after handling the samples, and the question now is how could this have happened? >> that's a great question. that's why we brought in the center for disease control and their investigators. >> the centers for disease control now investigating as officials reveal the samples were shipped under less rigorous conditions since it was believed ...

Indicted. stand by on new charges against dennis hastert. they are accusing him of a cover-up and lying to the fbi. and person of interest. as police search for possible accomplices in the d.c. mansion murders, we're learning more about a key witness who is now under scrutiny. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." breaking now, as many as 26 people are being treated for possible exposure to the often deadly bacteria anthrax. an investigation now under way into the u.s. military's mishandling of live anthr...

Full statement in the coming hour. but what we know is that a pentagon lab in utah inadvertently shipped live anthrax to another lab. that lab has not been disclosed yet. that lab reported instead of receiving dead anthrax samples under a research program that it was supposed to get, it actually received live anthrax from the u.s. military lab. now, all of the labs in this program that have received these anthrax samples are going back to make sure they have essentially dead anthrax, no live agent. right now we're told thankfully no one is sick. but this has happened before. the cdc's been dow...