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Delivered the suspicious letters or packages around the capitol complex. we're working to see if capitol police has more information. one piece of information as our viewers know and we heard from the white house spokesman, there's going to be a very big vote in the senate on background checks for guns in a little bit more than three hours. one of the chief sponsors of that, joe manchin, has an office in the hart building. and our producers and others watched him try to get into his office to work the phones and try to get other senators on board because it looks like this is going to fail. he...

Minutes of fame for this whole event. >> at some point we assume fbi and local law enforcement, boston police, will have a briefing here, a news conference. and we'll get some more information on what's going on. in the meantime we're working our sources to update you on the criminal investigation into the terrorist bombings that occurred here in boston on monday. we're watching what's happening here in boston, also in washington, d.c. right now a suspicious letter initially tested positive with the poison ricin addressed to the president of the united states coming a day after a similarly sus...

Members of the senate, members of the news media and others as well. that investigation never completely 100% satisfactory by any means. dana, standby. joe johns is our crime and justice correspondent. you're getting more information, joe, on what's going on. what are you picking up? >> dribs and drabs quite frankly, wolf. first we're being told authorities letting people out of their offices in the hart building there on capitol hill on the senate side, but they have not been given the all clear sign yet. so we don't know what all of that means at this time. we're also hearing from the fbi th...

Them somewhere else or turned out to be kind of nothing and it was a false alarm. we'll try to get sclarification on. but the incident and event that's 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, there's no question about it. there is definitely a different feel here. after 9/11 everybody in the country had the jitters. and you especially felt it he...

Shouldn't have gotten and it shouldn't have happened because that's not the protocol. the protocol is anything that's sealed needs to start at the offsite facility. so that's why a hazmat team has been here. that's why that particular as you can see down the hall right there, that hallway is closed off and we can't go down there. as you see i'm standing here, so they're not that concerned about the safety of others around this building. separately you just heard a little about a spokesman from the capitol police department, in the hart building there's also some activity going on. what they're...