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" ver algo erroneo y no decirlo te convierte en complice" las cartas eran firmadas con las inicales kc. los agentes federales tienen ya bajo arresto a keneth curtis de mississippi, acusado del envio de las cartas. aumentando la tension en el pais, las autoridades de prhoenix evacuaron hoy las oficinas del senador flakes al encontrar un paquete sospechoso... la presion fue tan fuerte que la policia del congreso debio evacuar hoy algunos edificios del senado por diferentes paquetes sospechosos recibidos en el correo... en san jose por ejemplo, con las banderas a media asta, la alcaldia aumenta su protocolo sde seguridad listo para ejecutar. entrevista norerto duenas que dependiendo la situacion de alerta que hay en el pais nosotros podemos implementarla rapidamente mientras tanto, ninguna alcaldia o departamento de policia del area de la bahia ha recibido ninguna corresponden cia en carta o paquete sospechosos pero han manifestado que mantienen su estricto control de seguridad, que se hace mas eficiente uniendo los esfuertos de las autoridades en cada ciudad... entrevista nosberto duenas

officials say signed with initials kc. nannette miranda has been looking at the security officers screen mail sent to our capitol and reports now from sacramento. >> this is where letters are sorted out by staff. >> at california state capitol they use these security procedures for mail coming into the governor's, state lawmakers and other leaders as feds do. tony beard says it's screened first for things like ricin and anthrax before mail ever gets to the capitol rail mail room. >> just technology but also a combination of skills we teach people. there are fbi protocols to follow. >> the procedures work with washington, d.c.. they were discovered in the off site location. the screening doesn't work that. is where training can provide protection. >> there is a fine line between threatening and having a right to disagree. >> nothing chemical has been detected in mail sent to late leaders. >> state senator has been targeted several times. reese yeently by an engineer who police say sent death threats to the san francisco dem

. >> he signed the letters, this is kc and i approve this message. that doesn't take a whole lot of heavy lifting to match up this guy whose name you just said in the initial kc. i think it's logical to find out that it's probably not ricin. it's probably another false positive. in this abundance of caution especially because of boston, you have to take these things serious. was there any connection between the two, likely not. >> i think somebody stirs up the nuts in cases like this because we had anthrax last time that got to talk brokaw and the former leader -- i forget his name. >> tom daschle. >> thank you, michael leiter and thank you clint and jonathan. >>> coming up, we're going to talk to deval patrick. we'll be right back. i don't make any decisions about who to hire without going to angie's list first. you'll find reviews on home repair to healthcare written by people just like you. with angie's list, i know who to call, and i know the results will be fantastic. angie's list -- reviews you can trust. >>> a graduate student from china study

i'm kc and i support this message. so again we don't no what is connected to what. >> well, he is an elvis impersonator. >> he is. >> they are so trustworthy. >> stephanie: oh boy. okay. you know, you said it -- you actually had a great tweet. you said it would be great if there was a news channel that speculate hours on end in lieu of hard facts. i don't know what they are trying to figure out, because they scheduled a press conference several times and canceled yesterday, they are trying to figure out whether to make this video public, right? >> yeah, and i think they should be allowed to take their sweet time in getting this right. i don't want them rushed -- and what i don't look forward to is those press conferences where reports -- you know, and this is not a -- no slight against reporters, but reporters acting too cute to try to get extra information out of the fbi. i trust we're going to get the information that we need and that once they actually have somebody, you know, we'll get the full story here. >> steph

both are signed, i am kc and i approve this message. >> reporter: investigators are giving few details about the case but wicker's colleague, senator claire mccaskill, says police have a suspect. she told reporters, quote, the person that is a suspect writes a lot of letters to members. but as far as the connection to the boston bombing, authorities say no. >> i would point to the statement by the fbi as you said that they have made that said they have no indication of a connection between the two. >> reporter: this is not the first ricin scare on capitol hill. in 2004, a letter sent to senate majority leader bill frist made it to the capital and senate office buildings were shut down for days. you may be wondering what is ricin? it is a poison found naturally in castor beans and in high doses it can be fatal if ingested or inhaled. lab tests on these letters are expected to take 24 to 48 hours. in the newsroom, anne makovec, kpix 5. >> is any of this affecting normal business at the capital today? >> reporter: there is a heavy police presence at the capital did you they are still doin

it is signed "i am kc and i approve this message." this is the letter that was in the envelope believed to also contain the poison ricin. there was a positive test for that initially. the senate sergeant in arms says he's confident that it ultimately will be proved positive as ricin. it's being tested in another lab as we speak. in fact, we expect to get formal results on that. >> all right. we're going to interrupt dana to bring john king back. john, you're working your sources and getting more information. exclusive reporting. what else are you learning? >> one of our sources from our national security contributor fran townsend, one source is a boston law enforcement source wlo tells me that an arrest has been made in the investigation. >> so the suspect that was identified has now been arrested? >> we would assume that. i've just been told that an arrest has been made. we know they have identified a suspect based on surveillance video and they were then taking the further steps in the investigation. just in to us and again, fran to

both letters are signed, i am kc and i approve this message. a third letter went to democratic senator carl levin's office in saginaw, michigan. a staffer who opened the letter there has been hospitalized protectively until tests are done. haz-mat teams searched jeff flake's office in phoenix but found nothing suspicious. >> we have had situations where there have been ricin scares. until this date there's never been any proved to have gone through the system. >> reporter: ricin, the poison made from castor beans was used by the soviets in 1978 to assassinate a bulgarian dissident in london by putting it on the tip of an umbrella and stabbing him in the leg. only a drop can kill in 36 to 48 hours. >> if you purify it, it can become much more lethal. in fact, deadly in very minute quantities. >> reporter: tonight federal officials say a suspect named paul kevin curtis has been arrested in mississippi and will be charged with sending the letterers. the fbi sees no relationship with the bombings in boston. still there is an eerie coincidence with

and one of it is -- part of it is i am kc and a prove this message. and the letters that were sent to the president, to senator wicker and to a local judge contained that very phrase. now, furthermore, the letters also contained information relating to missing pieces, and that is the name of a book that mr. curtis has written that details his involvement and his concerns about that particular industry. so, of course, initially everybody, you know who looks at that would think, well, kc, that's kevin curtis and that's exactly what happened. well, from that point forward then, the searches began and when i tell you they began, they began in earnest. there were countless agencies, officers, agents, at mr. curtis' home, searching his car, searching his former wife's home and searching his computers. and there is just simply nothing to link him to -- to these -- to this crime. >> christi, you think somebody was trying to frame him because the letter -- the language is menacing, right, it was an extraction of a quote that was, you know, if you see a wrong y

mess message reads to be wrong and not expose it is to be a silent partner to its continuance, i am kc ask a prove this message. >> boy like to congratulate for this threat. >> also senate staff was leader given an all clear but after the boston letters, nerves were frayed. >> panic over the packages appears to be growing. some members are reporting suspicious packages in local district offices. >> and coming up on abc 7 news at 5:00 we'll have a live report from sacramento. we'll see how mail is delivered and screened every day at the state capitol. >> thousands turned out in london to say goodbye to former british prime minister thatcher. a horse drawn carriage carried her casket. thatcher had been called iron lady. most cheered but some called the event a waste of money. the queen made a rare public appearance. and members of the reagan administration led the u.s. delegation. security was heightened because of the boston bombings. >> funeral services took place for a young u.s. diplomat killed delivering textbooks in southern afghanistan. the 25-year-old walking from a base to a nea

that he written for him and performed for a parsleyy and there was the threatening message saying i am kc and i approve this message. curtis said somebody may have tried to set him up. >> the person that did this knew i signed for 15 years, this is kc and i proved this video and i approved this message. >> yesterday agent searched the home of this man, james duchky and he said he nothing to do with the ricin letters but he has had a vendeta against him for years and it's unclear if there's a connection. cbc news, i'm mark strisin. >>> it's time to show you the headlines and the new york times says 70 people were killed in bangladesh and a building collapsed and hundreds have been rescued but others are still trapped in the rubl >>> $20 million have been given to help those in the marathon marathon and 11,000 have been given to repair or replace. the vote was shot up between the police and bombing suspect tamerlan tsarnaeu. >>> a journal said a man has been found in the water near a park and they don't know if it's missing student saneel and he was linked to the bombing because he resemble

however, the letters were signed i am kc and i approve of this message. because the envelopes and stamps were self-adhesive, they are not expected to reveal any dna evidence. >>> in the texas town of west, people raced to get items from their damaged homes before a curfew went into effect. president obama is scheduled to attend a funeral service for those who died. many of the dead were first responders. country star, willie nelson, who grew up just outside of west, promised to donate the proceeds of an upcoming concert to the town's volunteer fire squad. >>> people are angry that police did not act when a family of a 5-year-old girl did not report her missing. the police chief has admitted mistakes were made. there has been a dramatic rise in the cases against women and girls since a woman died after being raped. >>> in china, investigators tried to locate quake victims in hard to reach areas. the quake caused land slides that blocked many roads. at least 192 people died in that quake. 11,000 others were injured. chinese officials are refusing offers of

it ended, i am kc and i approve this message. john roberts is live in mississippi. what can we say about this now today, john? >> we're learning all kinds of things about this fella and the possibility as well learned in court, overhearing conversation between the u.s. attorney and the judge there may be -- not confirmed -- a fourth letter out there some one. kevin kurtis had the appears, official charges, threatening the life of the president. we overheard him say to his attorney, would never be involved in that. those charges, by the way, carry a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison and a half million dollar fine. what about the idea he was an elvis impersonator and trafficking in body parts? we do know he was a musician, and a decade ago senator wicker hired him for a party for a couple that was getting married. as for the body parts, that's something he has been crying to get senator wicker's attention as well. he claims in 1999, when doing work at a medical center, he uncovered a black market conspiracy to traffic in body parts. he sent many letters to wicker

the sign off read, i'm kc and i a prove of this message. of course that is a play on what politicians say the a the end of tv ads. investigators have put together a huge list of potential suspects. curtis had an unusual link to senator wicker, he had worked as an elvis impersonator and apparently performed at a party hosted by wicker years ago. he is still being held in a jail in mississippi. his lawyers are arguing that he should be allowed to be at his home until the trial is held. they say that the feds simply don't have enough evidence to link him to that crime, but the evidence could become public later today. jenna. jenna: we'll look for that development, heather, thank you. >> reporter: thanks. jon: some big problems happening now, flooding is causing huge troubles across the midwest. heavy rains last week causing the mississippi and other rivers to surge across six states causing at least three deaths. now we are looking ahead to yet another spring snowstorm. meteorologist janice dean is live in the fox extreme weather center. i gue

says both letters were signed by "kc" and contained ricin. >> the wife of an ex-judge has confessed to her role in the death of prosecutors in texas and accused her husband of being the triggerman and is held on $10 million bail and charged in connection with the shooting death of the d.a. and his wife and assistant prosecutor. eric williams has not been charged. >> millions of homeowners struggling with foreclosure are receiving checks to settle a $3.6 billion lawsuit against major banks. however, after all of their struggles, many of the checks bounced. 4.4 million homeowners will receive refunds. a settlement was reached with 13 companies last year. the checks just started going out to homeowners but now many say their banks would not cash them. federal regulators did not identify the problem but they said it has been fixed now and folks can cash the checks. so far, 50,000 homeowners have received payments ranging from $300 to $125,000 each. >> paying close attention to the forecast yesterday i told the kids today to wear shorts and short sleeves and this morning it is cold. >> exac

however, the letters were signed i am kc and i approve of this message. because the envelopes and stamps were self-adhesive, they are not expected to reveal any dna evidence. >>> in the texas town of west, people raced to get items from their damaged homes before a curfew went into effect. president obama is scheduled to attend a funeral service for those who died. many of the dead were first responders. country star, willie nelson, who grew up just outside of west, promised to donate the proceeds of an upcoming concert to the town's volunteer fire squad. >>> people are angry that police did not act when a family of a 5-year-old girl did not report her missing. the police chief has admitted mistakes were made. there has been a dramatic rise in the cases against women and girls since a woman died after being raped. >>> in china, investigators tried to locate quake victims in hard to reach areas. the quake caused land slides that blocked many roads. at least 192 people died in that quake. 11,000 others were injured. chinese officials are refusing offers of

. >> kc, i want to know, do you have the confidence and competitive spirit to win this competition? >> i don't know what you just said. >> where do you live, darling? >> me? i live in a basement. except there's no roof. >> uh-huh, okay. so you're talking about a hole. >> yeah. i live in a hole. >> see, that's pure country. >> oh, you love him, anyway, don't you? >> i do love him anyway. there was one other great, i love this skit when she played a woman version of the rutgers basketball coach. this was so funny. check it out. >> outside the lines obtained practice video showing exactly how far it has gone. throwing bricks at them. >> guess what, brick? >> threatening them with a baseball bat. >> you take that ball and hit it through that hole and i won't hit you with the bat. >> while they're on roller skates. >> come on. >> why would you throw a toaster at a player? >> because when someone blows by you, you're toast. when you get toast and you are toast, you get hit with a toaster. it's not like i drove a golf cart through practice. >> but she had. >> dribble, dribble, quick feet,

letters to be related post marks and targets and verbage out of memphis, tennessee and quote, i am kc and i approve this message. and senator carl levin says that his office in michigan, in saginaw, michigan, received a suspicious letter and everybody on high alert on capitol hill and taking these concerns very seriously. megyn. >> megyn: thank you, i want to tell our viewers as mike was delivering his report, two more, two more suspicious letters have been reported. we're going to find out whether this is reportable from me to you in terms of the names of the senators, the lawmakers targeted and i will bring that to you as soon as i can confirm that that is meant to be made publicly available, but the point is in the past 60 minutes, the number of lawmakers who have been reporting suspicious packages or items received in the mall has spiked. now, that doesn't mean anything, anything at all. the only two peeve confirmed are the ones you heard mike talk about and this could be abundance of caution, of course, the staffers who open up letters for the lawmakers are now going to be very c

both letters were signed, i am kc and i approved this message. the initial tests on the wicker letter were positive for ricin. we don't know what any test results were on the obama letter. both letters were intercepted before they reached their intended address, the u.s. capitol building and the white house. moments ago, senator minority leader mitch mcconnell says that means that security systems that have been put in place worked. >> i would like to recognize the postal and law enforcement officials for their excellent work in detecting and preventing this threat before it even reached the capitol. they proved the proactive measures we put in place do in fact work. >> reporter: and this fbi operations bulletin we have excuse i havely obtained that all exposed individuals are asymptomic which means they're not sick. that is good news because ricin poison can be deadly and there is no antidote for it. jon? jon: any idea who sent the letter? >> reporter: this bulletin says the fbi is following up on multiple leads about potential senders but their

but look what happens as this woman watches kc tv. they're god, she says, referring to north korea's trinity kim jong-un, his father and grandfather. but how can people think of him as a god? that's what you're taught since birth, says this defector, who escaped north korea ten years ago fleeing the brutal regime. they says it's been a long time since i last saw this, and i feel i'm getting emotional. i don't know how to express this. this is not a lie. this is not an act. it's real. if anything happens, north koreans will give up their lives. they will even jump into a fire. this is very powerful. even though you left ten years ago, this still has power over you. we watch a children's show that she final hi remembers, a good north korean cat defeating the south korean rat. and a war film that depicts the north koreans defeating americans. but if there's a revelation for this woman who fled north korea so long ago, it's this. you didn't know kim jong-un. do you feel the same love and devotion to him that you felt to kim jong-il, just

similar to that contained in the poison letters sent to the president and senator wicker and others i'm kc and i approve this message. i spoke with his brother last week who claims that kevin curtis was framed. that he suffers from by poll lab disorder and does subscribe to government conspiracy stories. big mistake in arresting him as all were dropped today. kevin curtis insisting he would never do anything like what he was charged with. listen. >> i love my country. and would never do anything to pose a threat to him or any other u.s. official. this past week has been a nightmare for myself and my family. my mother has suffered. as well as my children. i would like to get back to normal. >> so the question remains who did send those letters? today the fbi capital police and other law enforcement agencies searched the home of jay earth one time republican can indicate for state office. man who allegedly had email feud with curtis. he faces charges of child molestation says he let the fbi in today to clear his name. >> it just simply blows my mind that the paranoid antigovernment schizophr

they were signed, i am kc, and i approve this message. they have been traced to a man near tupelo, mississippi. the letters were intercepted yesterday before they could reach their intended targets. >>> there was a measure that failed for more strict background checks for gun control. it was opposed by the national rifle association. the president blasted congress for killing the bill calling it a shameful day for washington. >> there were no coherent arguments as to why we wouldn't do this. it came down to politics. the worry that that vocal minority of gun owners would come after them in future elections. and so they caved to the pressure. and they started looking for an excuse, any excuse, to vote no. >> the president pinned the blame on a small minority of republican senators. however, five democrats also opposed the plan. >>> the wife of a former texas justice of the peace has been charged in connection with the murders of two district attorneys. 46-year-old kim williams is also charged with the murder in the death of a prosecutor. h

they had a nexus to a letter kind kc and other letters sent to senators and congressmen and government officials. what i don't get is how did we get a search warrant? you need probable cause. not to say we have an interesting suspect. you need probable cause to substantiate something relative will be found in his house. he didn't do it. how did they swear out a warrant? >> shepard: they claimed they were framed but the dutschke guy. we wouldn't have been putting names and pictures out there except all this came from the fbi. >> exactly right. they have only themselves to blame. it's high profile and the public demands quick action. you have a biological weapon sent to the president. you have to act on it but quietly, professionally and make information known as needed in the investigation or when you make an arrest. >> shepard: they sent this to a local judge in north mississippi plus the mississippi senator, roger wicker and the president. they're going to find out. they're searching his tae kwon do studio. >> strang. >> now that alleged terror plot to attack a train in canada that go

both letters were signed i am kc, and i approve this message. later that day, the fbi arrested a man named paul kevin curtis at his home in corinth, mississippi. from the beginning, he wasn't a run of the mill suspect. he practices reflexology, runs a cleaning business, and is a professional celebrity impersonator specializing in elvis presley, one who performs under the stage name k.c. according to the mississippi paper "the clarion ledger" curtis has a three okay state of range and a seven-time world finalist in images of the king an impersonation contest in memphis. in fact k.c. is such a performer that senator roger wicker, recipient of one of the letters, hired him a decade ago to entertain at a party that he and his wife were hosting. of his performance, wicker said he was, quote, quite entertaining. after a week of investigation, the fbi said it could find no evident that k.c. was actually behind the plot. yesterday he was released from jail and charges were dropped. in a press conference that day, re reflected on his time in jail and ins

and both letters signed, quote, i am kc and i approve this message. today on capitol hill, the post master general talked about lessons learned from tainted mail scares 12 years ago. >> what we learned back then was the importance of having protocols in place where anything happens, we react. over the course of years, we've had some situations where there have been risin scares. until this date, there has never been any prove that had have gone through the system. >> law enforcement sources tell us they do have a person of interest, somebody who is known to be a frequent letter writer to officials here in washington, bill. >> bill: the anxiety is spreading far from capitol hill. where is this story going, mike? >> that's right, bill. texas senator john cornyn's staff is the latest to say they've called police to their office in dallas to check out a piece of mail. earlier in phoenix, arizona, republican senator jeff flake's office created quite a stir. it said it received two packages that were believed to be having a suspicious substance leaking out.

both letters we're told signed "i'm kc and i approve this message." the letters have been sent to labs for testing. there had been ricin false-positives in the past. anderson? >> joe, last night we were told one of the letters was addressed from memphis, tennessee, postmark from memphis, tennessee. obviously, no return address on that letter. do we know how authorities were able to zero in on this particular suspect so quickly? was it somebody who had sent letters in the past and were somehow known to them? >> anderson, it's not at all clear right now, at least to us. we do know that throughout this day, authorities had suggested to some of us off the record that they may have been closing in on a suspect. so it's been clear to us for a while now that they were looking at someone, why and how we haven't been able to determine just yet. >> joe, i appreciate all of the update. now let's go to the bombing investigation here. >>> it has been quite a day, as my colleagues, john king and susan candiotti, drew griffin know. start with drew at the hotel ballr

then it went on to say i am kc and i approve this message. even though they didn't have a return stamp they knew it was from memphis, tennessee and are hoping at least this message will give them more clues. >> we'll stay on top of this with you. dr. sanjay gupta is here our chief medical correspondent. ricin is a deadly poison. i remember in 2001 anthrax another deadly poison wound up killing some people and those letters laced with anthrax. tell us what ricin can do. >> ricin, anthrax is a bacteria and ricin is a type of protein essentially. what it does is it sort of kills at the cellular level. so if you put it into your stomach for example, it'll kill some of the cells along your stomach lining, your intestinal lining. if you breathe it in, it sort of does the same thing in your lungs. it doesn't happen right away, wolf. it usually happens within a few hours someone starts to get sick. >> can it kill you? >> definitely. it is a very lethal -- if given in the right doses. one thing i'll point out though when you talk about breathing it in

i am kc and i approve this message. part of his initials are, in fact, k.c. his name is paul kevin curtis, and he is from mississippi, just north of tupalo, mississippi. we do not know anything about him yet or the evidence against him other than the fact he has been arrested. in terms of what was in the letters, what substance was in the letters, federal officials tell nbc news tonight that initial lab tests of the letters, lab tests, not the field tests, the initial follow-up lab tests were inconclusive. there was some level of ricin measured in the lab tests, but the exact potency is as yet unclear, they say more tests are needed. joining us now to help us understand what this means is michael leiter. he's an nbc news national security analyst. mr. leiter, thank you for joining us. >> good to be here, rachel. >> we know the letters contained some amount of ricin. they do not know the potency of it. how significant does that seem to you? >> honestly, until we get the final results probably tomorrow morning, i would still not read much into it. these were te

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. >> bill: this is kc and i approve this message. and up in boston, no matter what you've been led to believe by cnn, no arrests have been made but there has been a lot of progress in the investigation. you wouldn't know that by watching cnn yesterday. they got -- they had to be out there. they had to get ahead of the story. they had to make things happen with breaking news! >> announcer: this is cnn's breaking news. >> wolf, we have information. an arrest has been made in the investigation. >> identified has now been arrested. >> i was told by a boston law enforcement source, we've got him. >> bill: we got him john king said and not only that, he even identified -- not identified, he described, he described this mystery man who had been arrested. >> federal law enforcement source says an arrest has been made based on two different videos showing a video of the suspect. a dark-skinned male placing a package at the second explosion site and backing away. >> bill: you know he had to be a dark-skinned man. right? exactly. john king. wro

both letters signed i am kc, and i approve this message. identical letters sent to wicker, republican of mississippi, and president obama according to the fbi bulletin obtained by fox news. >> richard, we're reminded of the anthrax attack days after 9/11. i'm not suggesting a connection then or a connection now between boston and ricen, but the timing, the coi understand dense of that timing strikes me as very, very interesting indeed. rich edson with the latest there. appreciate it. thank you very much, indeed, sir. back with more after this message. ♪ friday night, buddy. you are gonna need a wingman. and my cash back keeps the party going. but my airline miles take it worldwide. [ male announcer ] it shouldn't be this hard. with creditcards.com, it's easy to search hundreds of cards and apply online. creditcards.com. but i see a world bursting with opportunity,ople nervous. with ideas, with ambition. i'm thinking about china, brazil, india. the world's a big place. i want to be a part of it. ishares international etfs. emerging markets

for survivors continues after an explosion tore through a fertilizer plant in the town of west texas, kc stiegel live on the scene, bring us up-to-date. >> good to see you. this is 20 miles north of waco, 80 miles south of dallas. we are not allowed close to this because it is a dangerous and fluid situation, camped in the media staging area. and preliminary sweeps of all of the homes and businesses in this huge swaths of what is being referred to as the blast zone. there are no reports of additional survivors. on the flip side there are no reports of additional fatalities. we know that 160 plus people went to area hospitals, we're hearing for as many as 15 people have lost their lives so here's what crews are doing. they are going through this five block area to the fertilizer plant and combing through the rubble again, using canines, classifying this as a search and rescue operation and atf investigators are on their way to the small farming community to lead the charge and work to figure out what caused the deadly blast. the concussion could be felt 80 miles away in parts of dallas. c

praises, "to see a wrong and not expose it is to be a silent party in the continue wans, signed i am kc, and i approve this message." two letters intercepted, one on the way to the white house to the president, intercepted before it got here, one to senator roger wicker, prelim tear tested positive for ricin, and the fbi going through that. the one suspicious package and two suspicious enveloped found and investigated in the senate office buildings as we speak. cheryl: we are getting a message, calling, obviously, in the bureau in washington, and she's saying -- she talked with a staffer at senator richard shelby's office says, quote, a suspicious package delivered to the front office and everyone investigating. everyone is okay, i don't know if you see the headlines, but fox news channel over there with more details. dennis: rich, do you know how it is they screened packages and found them before they got to the destination? that's preemptive work there. >> right. well, it could be something as simple as them opening the package and spilling oh. we don't know how the process has gone.

the letters that were sent all contained the line i'm kc, and i approved this message. curtis had written wicker in the past and lives in the same postal area as the one where the letters were posted from. his family says he has a history of mental illness, but that hearing has been canceled as we wait for that news conference scheduled for 5 p.m. central time. jon: strange developments there. rick folbaum, thanks. jenna: well, the canadian authorities halting a major terror plot targeting a passenger train arresting two suspects following a cross-border investigation in coordination, i should say, with homeland security and the fbi. scott weber served as senior council, former homeland security secretary michael chertoff. you know, scott, when we hear about these plots foiled, it almost seems that they sort of wash over us. that's good it didn't happen, glad they got those guys, but how serious should we consider that canada got these guys that were allegedly going to blow up a bridge with a passenger train going over it? >> very serious. and unfortunately, we become d

>> and you have to remember, megyn, that all these ricin letters reportedly were signed i am kc and i approve this message. of course, kevin curtis, the elvis impersonator that you mentioned was the first person arrested in this case and now all the charges against kevin curtis have now been dropped. though they may reinstate them, they say, if they get some more evidence. now they are focused on another man, his name is everett dusky. last night for the second time they searched his home in a week. they spent more than eight hours in the home in the woods surrounding the home. he says he is isn't. he doesn't know much more he can take on this thing but dusky and kevin curtis have had this ongoing feud for years over comments that dusky apparently made years ago and kevin curtis says he has no idea why dusky stocks him and hates him to this day. the mississippi judge that you mentioned that got the ricin letter her name is sadie holiday. she also knows everett dusky. he ran against her son for state representative several years ago and he lost and the family accused dusky of making di

kevin curtis has been identified as being tied to the ricin letters with his infamous signoff, i am kc, and i approve this message. a few suspicious packages still remain on capitol hill which have not yet been tied to curtis. >>> and another tragedy in the u.s. last night, a blast went off at a fertilizer plant in west, texas. the department of safety reports about 100 injuries and many confirmed fatalities. significant damage was reported to structures several blocks away, including 50 to 75 homes. the blast was reportly heard more than 45 miles away. texas governor rick perry said the investigation is ongoing and is they're gathering information. terrible. >>> apple shares dropped to a 16-month low amissed concerns over suppliers. we'll have an analysis of that situation at 10:30 cet. >>> coming up on the program, italy's lawmakers are continuing to vote for the new president. stay tuned and we'll bring the latest information out of italy. >>> morgan stanley takes its turn on reporting today. we'll have expert analysis out of cincinnati. >>> and president putin threatening to fire m

in court because there was a letter that had his sort of phraseology, had his initials saying, i am kc and i approve of this letter, so they took him in. but to their credit -- they had urgent circumstances, so i understand them taking him in quickly 'cause this was a threat on the life of the president of the united states and a federal judge. but to their credit, they released him quickly and i think they feel they've got the right guy now. but we'll have to wait and see. >> megyn: sure, they do believe that, mark. i had a ricin expert on the set here last week while they will the elvis guy in jail and say how does a man who may not be fully there, mentally, i don't know how they put it, but something like he has bipolar disorder. i can't remember what it was, but there were some mental issues, who makes his living as an elvis impersonator, make a poison that can kill the president of the united states, ricin in his living room? well, unlike curtis, dutschke's apparently is actually a member of mensa. john roberts validated that. >> that's going to help. what's going to really hurt,

phrase "to see a wrong and not expose it is to be a silent partner to the cons wans," both signed, "i am kc, and i approve this message." the white house and officials contessing to work on, basically, much like federal authorities are to figure out what happened in boston, what's going on with the letters. back to you. lori: to reiterate, rich; right, no connection yet determined between boston and the letters. scary stuff this week. thank yous. >> yeah. melissa: despite unexpectsedly bullish report from the eia, where does it go from here? let's ask john kingston, director of news at plat. you know the report at first glance looks bullish, and it did not work out that way. >> no, got the report last night, considered a little less definitive, but that jumped, and we have two steps, and no way oil rises in the face of everything else going on. there is a correlation that's not a one for one, and it doesn't go off track between gold and oil. you can imagine what gold is doing to oil. there's a correlation too between the dollar and oil in the short term. the dollar getting better against th

but look what happens as this woman watches kc tv. they're god, she says, referring to north korea's trinity kim jong-un, his father and grandfather. but how can people think of him as a god? that's what you're taught since birth, says this defector, who escaped north korea ten years ago fleeing the brutal regime. they says it's been a long time since i last saw this, and i feel i'm getting emotional. i don't know how to express this. this is not a lie. this is not an act. it's real. if anything happens, north koreans will give up their lives. they will even jump into a fire. this is very powerful. even though you left ten years ago, this still has power over you. we watch a children's show that she final hi remembers, a good north korean cat defeating the south korean rat. and a war film that depicts the north koreans defeating americans. but if there's a revelation for this woman who fled north korea so long ago, it's this. you didn't know kim jong-un. do you feel the same love and devotion to him that you felt to kim jong-il, just

. >> kc. >> there was a lot of speculation that these ricin letters sent to the senator, obama. we were told by senators who have been briefed by the fbi that there wasn't enough information earlier this week, but it would appear now absolutely not related. this was a man they would to be sort of mentally disturbed in mississippi, had been an elvis em person ateim /* impersonator. >> which is the definition of mentally disturbed. >> convinced of this come perspiracy theory, that he had unearthed at a hospital where he was cleaning and had been obsessed with that. that seems to be what motivated him in his version of reality. >> bill: the way mail is handled, it does not go directly to senate or house office buildings. it does not go directly to the white house. it goes to screening centers outside of washington. so the idea that he could time -- mail a letter in memphis? >> or through memphis, right. >> it would get here on the same day as the boston marathon bombings was absurd. >> it takes a long time because of that. >> post anthrax they test batches of mail to make sure they

welcome to the one and only television channel available in north korea, korean central television kc tv. the images run to from the weird and ridiculous to unbelievable and out landish propaganda. look what happens as she watches it. >> their god, she says referring to north korea's trinity, kim jong-un, his father and grandfather. >> how can people think of him as a god. that's what they're taught since birth said this did he if he can tore who fleed ten years ago fleeing the regime. she says it has been a long time since i last saw this and i feel i am getting emotional. i don't know how to express this. ♪ this is not a lie. this is not an act. it is real. if anything happens, north koreans will give up their lives. they will even jump into a fire. >> this is very powerful, even though you left ten years ago, this still has power over you. we watch a children's show she remembers, the good north korean cat defeating the south korean rat. and a war film that depicts the north koreans defeating americans. if there is a revelation for this woman that fled north korea so long ago, it

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wrong and not expose it is to become a silent partner to its contin continuance and it is signed, i am kc and i approve this message. we don't have a suspect as a result of that, but that's the peculiar content of the letter and that provides some kind of lead for investigators, though it doesn't tell you and i as lay people a whole lot. i can add for you that the white house has a very broad perimeter around it and in doubt i imagine that has something to do with both boston and this letter. >> jessica, the letter, as i recall, that was sent to senator wicker, was mailed from memphis or post marked from memphis, tennessee. do we know if the same letter that was sent to the white house was also post marked from memphis? >> reporter: nair not explicitly saying that but say they're very similar and they have the same -- i mean, they have the same language and contents. so you can only conclude that, yes, if you're a logical person, you have to conclude they come from the same source, they're they're not saying that it was, they didn't draw that conclusion for us. >> all right. dana bash is

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