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Are, wolf. but i think because you saw the bombings on monday and now these letters coming on tuesday that that is a question that a lot of people have. there's some similarity here. and we've heard our dana bash talking about this. she certainly went through this following 9/11 with the anthrax attacks that happened. some letters of which went to capitol hill -- or one letter went to capitol hill. and there was -- that was something that happened weeks after 9/11. and in this case though we're talking about just today. so it raises all of these questions about whether there may be connections...

>> that is the expectation, wolf. there have been no changes to his schedule. he is here at the white house today where he's had some meetings and been briefed on the latest in the boston bombings where he's really trying to carry on with at least some of the plans that he had in place for this week sort of signaling that what happened in boston on monday isn't going to stop him certainly and shouldn't stop americans from proceeding with their lives. he'll be hosting some bicyclists part of the wounded warrior project soldier ride. today, he'll be meeting with democratic senators offsite at a ...

Package delivered to our front office. there's no more information about this. but this is completely in keeping with what lisa desjardins reported a while ago. capitol police are talking to, questioning a suspect who came into the heart office building and potentially the same person came to this building to deliver a letter to the front office. when i say it's against protocol, it's because as we've been talking about with regard to the letters sent with what may be the poison ricin, that's all done at an offsite facility for this very reason. mail is not supposed to come directly to the cap...

Letters right now. they're all looking at anything that potentially could be suspicious including senator carl levin, the democratic senator from michigan, the chair of the senate armed services committee. what do we know about this particular letter, dana? >> we just got a statement from senator carl levin's office that a staffer in his saganaw, office, you see the pictures there from our affiliate, a suspicious letter that just looked a little odd. so this staffer contacted the local authorities and now they're investigating this particular letter. they don't have anymore information than th...

With ricin. first one went to senator roger wicker. that as we speak is being tested as a lab in ft. detrick, maryland. i was told by the chief law enforcement official here in the senate yesterday that he felt confident that it was actually ricin, but of course they're still doing other tests. separately of course we've been reporting as we heard from the white house press secretary similar kind of letter was addressed to the president. and it went to an offsite facility where the white house gets its mail. so there's testing also being done on that particular letter. now, separate from all t...