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Understanding how and why it happened, making sure that those who visit the park are really very safe. >> something that doesn't look like a prank, the ricin letters now to mayor bloomberg. that's sort of an interesting and frightening trend. you see these things kind of come up in twos and threes it feels like. what do you make of these letters to bloomberg and to also the person who runs as mayor against illegal guns and what kind of a serious threat that may be? >> the problem here is that the ricin recipe is basically the components of very easily obtained. it comes from caster -- ground u...

Letters are connected with no return address or senders' name the envelopes were postmarked shreveport, louisiana. investigators say two of the letters to bloomberg and the mayors against illegal guns have initially tested positive for ricin, the potentially deadly poison made from castor beans. a law enforcement official tells cnn the writers in those letters threatened you will have to kill me and my family before you get my guns. anyone wants to come to my house will get shot in the face. the right to bear arms is my constitutional, god given right. i will exercise that right until the day ...

Forensic analysis center and should be back in the next day or two. this is pictures of the one of the mail facilities where letters were received. the threats make it very clear. the new york city mayor michael bloomberg targeted because of vocal support of gun control. they believe they were written by the same person, posted from the same area and contained similar threats. the mayor was never in any threat and took the opportunity to reiterate the danger of gun violence. officers from the nypd are investigating. they are in the area where the letters were posteded. >> ricin keeps popping u...

They were postmarked in louisiana. the threatening letters tested positive for the poison ricin. here's abc's senior justice correspondent pierre thomas. >> reporter: someone who hates new york's mayor michael bloomberg and his stance supporting gun control has apparently sent him letters laced with the deadly poison ricin. ricin is derived from castor beans and can be deadly if inhaled or ingested. two letters were sent. one was detected in the new york mail facility. another letter was sent to washington, to an office associated with mayors against illegal guns. the anonymous letters threate...

Mayor michael bloomberg, and the head of his gun control group. in two of the letters, they threatened to shoot anyone who tried to confiscate his or her guns. "you'll have to kill me and my family before you get my guns." "anyone wants to come to my house will get shot in the face." "the right to bear arms is my constitutional god-given right and i'll exercise that right until the day i die." >> in the text of the letters themselves, in the greeting in the letter, it just says you. so we're assume thaing that the letters are the same, from the same machine or computer. >> reporter: police say...