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How dangerous is this situation, how easy is it now to create a ricin scare? >> well, piers, we should start by reminding people, look, there have been inconsistent preliminary tests, typically inaccurate, which is why they sent it to the lab. the ricin is actually the recipe for it, is easily accessible on the internet. we found it all died related manuals before. because it's on the internet, this does not require -- making the basic components, they're easily accessible caster beans. the basic recipe is not so hard. what's it felt is weaponizing it. so it be aerosolized at the highest farm ...

Messages that mentions libya or benghazi from september the 11th, the day of the attack, until november the 7th, the day after the election. rnc officials say they want to know whether campaign staffers helped edit the so-called talking points about the attack. the once u.n. ambassador susan rice used on sunday shows five days later. political detractors say is little more than a fishing expedition. waiting for confirmation on fbi threatening letter somebody went to the contained the poison ricin. mail screeners intercepted the letter and similar to letters addressed to the new york city mayor...

See the joint terrorism task force is investigating this is because that's where the federal government coordinates with state and locals and pulls all the federal resources together including cia intelligence and other resources. >> how hard is it to get hold of ricin and how difficult is it to weaponize it? turn it into a weapon? >> it's really not that difficult to get hold of ricin. there are people who can purify it. it comes from what is known as caster beans. so it's a naturally occurring poison. does it have to be purified. and it can be concentrated. it can be delivered in a variety o...

Learning that they are doing better. ricin is a toxic substance found in caster beans. and it recently turned up in letters sent to president obama, a u.s. senator, and a judge in mississippi. no word of any suspects in this latest case but police say the letters threaten mayor bloomberg over his calls for stricter gun laws. eric shawn tracking developments now live in the newsroom. eric? >> harris, if you inhale ricin, you can die. and somebody apparently objects so strongly to mayor michael bloomberg's push to stricter gun laws police say those letters laced are ricin were sent to the mayor ...

Good morning. i'm diana perez. >> i'm john muller. here are the top headlines we are following this morning on "world news now." >> relatives of the dead boston marathon bombing suspect will claim his body now that his wife agreed to release it. tamerlan tsarnaev's body has been at medical examiner's since his death. president obama said until there is proof that syria used chemical weapons he will not consider military action. during his news conference yesterday, the president said he will push to close guantanamo bay. investigators in mississippi found traces of ricin in items that susp...