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Viewers who might be tuning in just now what exactly we know about this suspicious letter addressed to the president? >> reporter: this letter, wolf, went to an offsite mail facility. as you see on capitol hill, the white house does the same thing when it comes to mail. you send a letter to the president, it doesn't go obviously directly to the white house for precaution. it goes to an offsite mail facility at an undisclosed location where it is screened, scientifically tested to make sure it is safe so that it can come here to the white house. according to the secret service, because this is ...

Preliminary test. the envelope addressed to, again, the white house, was quarantined and is part of now a coordinated investigation headed up by the fbi. this statement notes that operations here at the white house were in no way impacted. it never reached any area that touches the president in any way. the statement also adds that filters at a second government mail screening facility -- filters, also tested positive for ricin this morning on a preliminary basis. now, i've been previously told that preliminary tests as we know sometimes test positive and then you find out a negative test late...

Everyone is on high alert, and that's appropriate. if there is one letter, it's very common for other people to want to get engaged with the criminal schism. so if you remember 9/11 was followed by anthrax. they were not connected. two very different groups of people. someone may have saw this happen, want today get involved, and started releasing letters. we don't know what this is, so i like to wait because we don't know when they were delivered. were they delivered after or before the boston bombing, and could they be related. >> that's a good point, it is hauntingly similar, but it was day...

Positive for. so we're digging and trying to get more information on it, brooke. i want to welcome in our viewers from around the world and all over the u.s. right now, we have a great deal of breaking news coming into cnn right now. the area behind us fill very much a crime scene. while that is going on, the nation is very much focused on that, there is other breaking news out of washington where we learned overnight a letter addressed to senator roger wicker tested positive for ricin, and also there is a suspicious letter addressed to president at the white house. it was picked up at a fac...

Bombs not just how they were made but who made have made them. >> doug luzader we just don't know who yet. all mail delivery to the u.s. senate has been stopped this after a letter containing the potentially deadly poison ri ricin was sent to a u.s. senator. peter doocy is outside of the senate mail facility. good morning, peter. >> good morning patti ann. the suspect levtter never made t to roger whittaker's office. the building behind me tested positive for ricin poison. advanced testing is being done to determine if the substance in question is the deadly ricin poison for which there is n...