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That sorts the mail for the white house and for the former presidents, and i think that's where that confusion came from. we only know of these four at this point. it bears emphasis that the packages addressed to the clintons and the obamas never got anywhere near their houses. all mail sent to people protected by the secret service, current and former federal officials, is screened at an off site facility. in other words, it may be addressed to an address in washington, d.c., but the postal service doesn't just deliver it there. it's diverted. it goes through a mail screening facility. that's...

Packages, are generally screens before they are delivered to their final destination. we don't know if this was a mail screening facility on the base where the happened, but typically, people can't really suddenly open mail. it has to go through some type of screening situation. i think you're seeing news video there now. this is something that is along some major commuting routes that people transit every day here in the metropolitan, washington area. what goes on here, it is adjacent, by the way, to arlington national cemetery. you find a lot of various local military activity there's. not e...

Back with presumptive positive. they traced the return to address to an address that has sent previous letters to the white house. so let's talk about the background of what they've sent to the white house. >> reporter: he is someone known to the secret service. according to brian leery, the spokesperson with the secret service, officials at the white house mail screening facility located here in washington, d.c. received an envelope on monday that was suspicious. it was negative tor toxic chemicals but on tuesday, according to larry, the chemical testing returned a presumptive positive for cy...

Guess which was yesterday, an envelope was received at the white house, there was a mail screening facility which was something that's been set up just for these types of situations. this was many, many years ago, but it is to screen mail coming into the white house for just these sorts of situations. accords to the u.s. secret service they did an initial biological testing on the nfl. envelope. but earlier today they did testing on this envelope and returned what they're calling a presumptive positive for cyanide. then that sample was transported to another facility to confirm the results. an...

Tokyo police say they have received calls in english from a source threatening to kill kennedy and similar ones targeting the counsel general there. no motive is known. we'll bring you the latest as we get it. another fox news alert to bring you. a letter bound for the white house had more than a note inside of it. it tested positive for cyanide. fortunately it never made it past that mail screening facility that gets the mail before the white house does. that letter is undergoing further testing. no suspect has been named at this time. there are reports that the return address on that envel...