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>> oh, yeah. let's do it. absolutely. finally. >> let's get to it. >> let's go. >> not friday quite yet. we begin with the promising lead in the case of the poison letters. >> fbi agents are questioning someone they consider a person of interest from new boston, texas, the man's wife called authorities after she noticed something strange in her refrigerator. the latest ricin laced letter was addressed to president obama. with more, here is our chief investigative correspondent brian ross. >> reporter: the secret service says the third suspected ricin letter was intercepted at a screening facil...

Welcome back to "the lead." we're going to keep an eye on the tornado activity happening right now in oklahoma but for now we'll turn to some other national news. it happened, again, a suspicious letter mailed to president barack obama but intercepted at a screening facility before it got to the white house. a law enforcement source says the letter appears to be similar to two others mailed to new york city mayor michael bloomberg and the group mayors against illegal guns which bloomberg founded and cochairs. initial testing on those two letters not the one to obama came back positive for rici...

Guns group, that because of that heightened sense of awareness, officials were able to spot this additional letter that was mailed to president obama. and at this point it is too early to say according to these officials whether or not ricin was found in the letters sent to the president. that letter is going to be screened for analysis by the joint terrorism task force, as is always the case. and keep in mind a lot of times these letters can test positive at the screening facility, but they have to be sent through, i guess the laboratory that is used by law enforcement officials with the fbi,...

Facility, an off-site screening facility. that's where the third letter was found by secret service agents. >> when it comes to the letters, one came to a sorting facility to the mayor in manhattan and one at a sorting facility to the president but one was able to reach glaze, the chief lobbyist in washington, d.c., everyone is okay with reference to the fact or anyone who came in contact with these letters, correct? we don't have any information about people being affected by the ricin-laced letters? >> first of all, in terms of the offsite screening, how that third letter to the lobbyist got...

Substan substance, so that is the latest here from the white house. the briefing by jay kacarney is expected to start within the half hour, so he will undoubtedly get a number of questions about this. president obama scheduled to travel to boston tomorrow, but obviously, people here in d.c. on heightened alert. they have been ever since that bombing on tuesday and this just adding to this concern. >> kristen welker from the white house, jonathan dienst is sta standing by for us as well here in the studio. jonathan, what, if anything, can you add to this? what more with k you tell us about this...