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Chappaq chappaqua. ron, we'll check in with you in just a moment. let me bring in now our justice correspondent, pete williams there in washington, d.c. pete you've been working the phones, talking to your sources. what more do we know at this point? >> well, i think one thing to emphasize here is that the assumption has to be made in all these cases that these devices could be fully functional, so they're treating them as such. that's the normal approach, that's the normal protocol for whenever a suspicious device like this is found that looks like it could be a working device. that has to be...

Working device, we don't know. perhaps we'll learn more when he shows up in court this afternoon. now another of these packages turned up this morning, again, at secret service mail sorting facility on one of the military bases and the fbi in a statement says that they can't be sure whether all of these have come through the system or still are coming, so they're saying they urge people to remain vigilant. several good news stories here, andrea. one is the speed with which an arrest was made. secondly, this is just a reminder of the fact that ever since the anthrax mail attacks of 2001, all th...

Was components, possibly just a detonator that explode in that test, but the critical thing here is it really put the mark on the wall that north korea was going after hydrogen bomb technology. it's going to be so important that the intelligence community looks at this image on the screen that you see of un with his scientists and other officials at this supposed hydrogen bomb device. it's going to be to look at it in trying to determine is it real. is this an actual working device to go back and look at any imagery, any electronic data from various plants and facilities, any air samplings, an...

Which means that everything came into play, bringing together a terrorist correctly, it could have been a one-man correctly, or a five-man correctly. we don't know. putting a bomb into an actual working device. based on the number of victors even if it's a crowd in a dense area like that, if the bomb is weak, you're going to have a lot of injuries. you're not going to have a lot of deaths. you usually have one or two deaths. if the bomb is very strong and professionally done, that's where you get casualties like this where you have a lot of immediate victims around the have had bomber. >> malc...

You could be asked to turn on your phone, show them it is a working device. open up your laptop. power it up. other electronics as well. even after you go through screening, you could be asked as you are boarding to step aside and show the devices again. so you should be prepared for that. also we're told potentially more screening when you get to the gate on shoes. this is all stepped up as there are new concerns, growing concerns -- nothing specific -- but that bomb makers have very determined to get new technologies out there on to airplanes. so this is american officials at tsa trying to m...