this certainly must have capitol hill on high alert, to say the least? >> reporter: what it points to is the level of scrutiny people are giving to anything that looks slightly out of the ordinary, which is what official have told the public to do. you have a senior united states senator putting out an official release, to say at his saginaw, michigan, office the staffer believed the letter appeared suspicious, it was not opened. the protocols set in places for congressionally offices were followed. so levin is making this news public. he said he is grateful for the authorities who are handling this and responding. what it does is that it puts another piece into what has been a complicated day. with two senate office buildings, there have been police activity where we see a suspicious letter, suspicious package being dealt with by authorities here. now, again, that is part of what is a sort of routine response when there's anything that seems out of splay place, so we don't want to raise alarm out of anything that's prupt, but because of the letter to ro

but mail headed to capitol hill, well, that's on hold this week. richard. >> tracie potts with the very latest on that developing story. thank you. also developing this morning, after a roller coaster day of reports on the investigation into the boston bombings, it appears authorities have pictures of their suspect now. the front page of this morning's "boston globe" proflames "authorities have image of bombing suspect." we also know the identity the third victim killed in the blast, 23-year-old lingzi lu. 29-year-old krystle campbell and richard martin were killed. >> reporter: good morning, richard. let's talk about the investigation first. the authorities have been vesting photographs, images from anybody in the public. it appears that is now paying off, perhaps the most successful images coming from a security camera at lord & taylor across the street from the finish line. but those images show what appears to be somebody taking duffel bags and placing them at the spot where the bomb exploded. so there's a major focus of attention on those pict

some letters of which went to capitol hill -- or one letter went to capitol hill.as -- 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 or whether it would be just really almost unbelievable coincidence at this point, wolf. this is a very serious deadly substance, ricin is, when you're talking about the wicker letter if the final designation is that that is what was in the letter. so this is, you know, very serious concern certainly for people working in these offsite mail facilities where they process these letters, wolf. >> and it's a deadly poison, ricin, we should point out as well. brianna, standby. dana bash is up on capitol hill with the latest. what about the evacuations of the office building and other buildings on capitol hill. precisely, dana, what do we know? why are people being told to evacuate those buildings? >> well, we don't know the answer to that yet. in terms of where i am in the russell office building, there sti

rick: the budget battle on capitol hill. as the president gets ready to unveil his plan he's taking heat not only from the right but from the left as well. also, new signs that korea is on the brink of all-out nuclear war, the warning just issued. while the north told foreigners to get out of south korea. and if north korea isn't enough to worry about what about an astroid wiping out the earth? nasa taking a page from the old west, considering a way to lasso the cosmic ball of destruction. it's all "happening now." rick: the lasso is coming up later. brand-new developments in the budget battle. hi, everybody, i'm rick folbaum in for jon scott. jenna: we've had a lit of positive, up lifting stories at the top of the show, didn't we. rick: sure did. jenna: we'll get to the bright and cheeree stuff in a little bit. glad you are with us. i'm jenna lee and we are live on capitol hill where lawmakers are returning to work from spring break, their spring break one day before the president releases his long awaited budget plan. ther

but there is great concern here on capitol hill for the safety of the members. good news is that the mail site is off-site from the capitol, and the good news is the process worked after 9/11, they were able to apprehend this toxic substance coming through and it didn't make it to capitol hill. jon: congressman michael mccaul of texas is the chairman of the house homeland security committee. congressman, we thank you for your expertise today on this very important topic. >> thanks for having me. jon: we are awaiting a briefing from the white house. once again a letter containing the deadly poison ricin was mailed to president obama, however, it was intercepted at a mail facility. one test has turned positive for ricin, we are awaiting confirmation in a second test. we are also awaiting the white house briefing, and here is jay carney the president's spokesman. let's listen to his opening statement. >> thank you for being here today. i know there are several matters that i'm sure you'll be interested in discussing today. a couple of issues that are under investiga

you should take away the power from capitol hill the only reason there is lobbyist there is because so much of our economy and so much of our money is spent and controlled there if you decentralized power return to power to the states and the people there would be no reason to go to capitol hill but it's get back to this offer that yes but also we're kind of buried within what gary bauer saying is this whole austerity thing here in which we want austerity raise the medicare age raise the social security age way off government workers cut pensions are going to be austerity whether the things we're going to trillions more than we did is know years ago let me feel finished at the same time that where we're calling for all these things and future spending whatever you want to call them making we're also add at least one party is advocating for major tax cuts for billionaires so in this austerity era what do billionaires have to sacrifice name one thing other than maybe long wait times are good but this airport is what they have a half interest it's the real estate they can write the hom

not much from capitol hill police. they're investigating suspicious packages in two senate office buildings. the russell senate office building, the hart senate office buildings. people have been told to stay put ob to leave as a result of these suspicious materials that are there that have been found there. all of this raising enormous questions in the aftermath. clearly understandably nervous feelings as a result of what happened here in boston. dana bash is standing by. dana, i want to recap for our viewers what's going on who may just be tuning in in the united states or around the world right now. we all know what happened in boston. these two bombings at the end of the boston marathon, three people killed, nearly 200 people injured. in the aftermath of that we just got confirmation once again from the white house the president will be here in boston tomorrow attending an interfaith memorial service, a service honoring those who were injured. obviously honoring those who were killed as well. and we were told that

well capitol hill is on high alert the f.b.i. has confirmed suspicious letters containing a poisonous substance have been sent to both the white house and the congress and on the look containing the deadly poison raisen was also mailed to the office of the republican senator roger wicker of mississippi yesterday now today another uncle of laced with the poison was found a draft of the president himself and to talk more about this with me i was joined earlier by r.t. producer. r.t. correspondent kerry and boring i asked for the latest information on the situation . well marit a lot to talk about a lot of activity today on capitol hill the white house has confirmed today that a letter containing a suspicious substance in this case. was indeed mailed to the president just yesterday as you have just mentioned the f.b.i. reports of another envelope that was delivered to a member of capitol hill a member of congress are on capitol hill in this case it was republican senator roger wicker from mississippi those concerns continued on toda

mike emmanuel is live on capitol hill for a very busy day.what more do we know about the letters there, mike? >> bill, fox news has obtained an f.b.i. operations bull finish that ties these two letters together. it says it was determined they were related based on their u.s. government targets, the postmarks and identical language in them. both mailed on the same day, april 8. 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 capi

i believe we had some video of the fact that some garbage cans that are in and around the capitol hillhave been turned on their side, dismantled for obvious reasons. the other thing is that the mail facilities again are off site. mail is not supposed to come to the united states capitol. they have been closed down and people won't get mail until monday as they continue the investigation and continue to look around and make sure that there weren't any other letters that had traces of ricin or anything else as innthey're loog into what went to senator wicker of mississippi. >> we'll be back to you shortly. thank you so much. >>> now, everyone is an expert in poison so let's find out more about ricin and how it can be used as poison. just how dangerous is it? joining us from new york is leonard cole, an expert on bioterrorism and on terror medicine. and of course we still have with us former department of homeland security secretary tom ridge. i'll start with you, mr. cole. just explain to us, what is ricin and how difficult is it to make it? >> ricin is a by product of the caster bean wh

it's guaranteed. >> breaking news from capitol hill. we have learned that and on the look has been mailed to chiapas of a mississippi republican senator testing -- to a representative of a mississippi republican senator. thes not clear whether envelope was received at the capitol hill office or at a field office. we will continue to follow this story with updates as they occur. ♪ [ female announcer ] from meeting customer needs... to meeting patient needs... ♪ wirireless is limitless. ♪ anncr: and many of the tornado's victims are... without homes tonight. girl: first, i saw it on cable. then i read about it online. i found out how to help. i downloaded the info. i spoke up... and told my friends... and they told their friends... and together, we made a difference. anncr: and tornado relief has been pouring in from... across the country. girl: we might be hundreds of miles apart... but because we're connected, it's like we're all neighbor at your chevy dealer lately for good reason. like malibu ltz with chevrolet mylink. kbb called it o

a big week onbe capitol hill for immigration reform. >> brian mooar has more on the story. >> advocates took their fight to week.pitol this past the fight over immigration reform is about to move to a new phase in the senate. marco rubio hit all the sunday talk shows. undocumented immigrants will have a path to a green card. >> it is a process that forces significanta fine. >> they have to maintain a job and pay taxes. toughestld get the enforcement measures in the history of the story. it.ot everybody is buying >> what will happen to working americans that have been unemployed at a high rate? >> democrats in the gang of eight will have some selling to do of their own. key senators are expected to get a briefing on monday. there will be a vote after the gun control votes. brian mooar, nbc news, washington. >> the world is keeping an open eye on north korea. there were military parades. the military has rebuffed the proposal by seoul. i believe that by making clear, china would join with others to try to make that policy will and implement it. all of our non- proliferation efforts will b

testifying on capitol hill yesterday homeland security's janet napolitano said a proposal being worked on would make the country safer, but some lawmakers aren't buying in. danielle nottingham reports. >> reporter: homeland security secretary janet napolitano arrived on chile to push for immigration reform. some republicans have suggested delaying a comprehensive reform bill to more closely examine national security after the boston bombing. the suspects immigrated legally to the u.s. more than a decade ago. napolitano testified federal authorities knew the older brother left for russia last january, but the system did not note his return six months later. >> there is something that we've got to know, that the right arm knows what the left arm is doing. >> reporter: senators are combing through a bipartisan proposal for sweeping immigration reform. the lawmakers who crafted the bill argue they will beef up national security because it modernizes the visa system. >> so if our bill were in law, it's a pretty safe guess authorities would have known when tsarnaev went to russia and when he

>> mime immanuel live on capitol hill.has now confirmed the arrest of one of the fbi's 10 most wanted fugitives. a washington or a former washington, d.c. school teacher had been on the run since 2008 when d.c. and maryland issued warrants for his arrest on charges he produced child pornography. he was arrested in the central american nation of nicaragua. federal law enforcement sources tell fox that authorities there will send him back to face charges here. five people are reported dead after a wild shootout in an apartment complex south of seattle. police say they responded south of the scene and opened fire on wounded man pulled a gun on the officers. that 28-year-old suspect died at the scene. cops report they found two more bodies in the parking lot and then two additional victims inside a couple of apartments. witnesses say the gun fight was straight out of of the wild weather west. >> there was a couple shots and then cops just came storming. it was like three at first and then one after another. and like a guy came

judging by what we hear on capitol hill, is it toofor the ? >> it could be. they are still optmistic inside of the white house that they can get gun control through congress and they admit they have lost momentum and the president is out here trying to get it back. >> as president obama continued the campaign for gun control colorado today. the they ocknowledged they may not get a watered down version. >> they decide they are going to block it they are going to do that. there are conses . if they make that decision. >> the political reality for the president. the stop in the denver academy for the speech on guns and yet his push for dramatic gun control is fading faste. >> there is no reason we can't do this, unless politics gets in the way. >> the problem is unnamed lawmakers back on capitol hill are getting cared and may not pass background checks let alone a ban on assault weapons. >> people in washington may be getting cold feet. >> republicans are largely opposing the measures. lawmakers with cold feet are largely democrats facing the voters in 2014 and

we're following capitol hill. let the debate begin. the senate holding the first vote on gun control legislation in a decade. >> i believe the government should focus on keeping firearms out of the hands of criminals and those with mental issues that could cause them to be a threat to our society. the government should not punish or harass law-abiding citizens in the exercise of their second amendment rights. >> we can all agree criminals and those adjudicated as mentally ill should not buy firearms. why should we not try to plug the loopholes in the laws that allow them to buy guns without background checks? stand up and be counted. >> is the senate easily cleared the 60-vote threshold to open debate on the gun control bill. the final tally, 68-31. this despite the nra's warning last night that it would rate lawmakers on procedural votes. something they don't normally do in the end. many republicans voted to move forward with the will including some surprises and plans of a gop filibuster ultimately failed. the white house welcomed to

over a thousand protesters swarmed capitol hill to call for immigration reform.ir leaders will meet with several members of the gang of eight, and they are demanding action. >> our communities are getting more and more frustrated and angry at politicians for delaying the progress, for politicians must choose people over politics. >> michael: they might not have to wait long. patrick leahy told univision that a deal is imminent. but there are several extremely controversial elements. like a system to monitor everyone who comes in and out of the country. but the most controversial part is border security. law enforcement must stop 90% of people illegally crossing the border. waiting until the border is more secure could create an indefinite debate for immigrants that are already here. and 11 million people in this country will still not have a path to citizenship. coming up in "the war room," the participate's bill has an olive branch or two, but progressives aren't happen. and we'll tell you what hand when rand paul went to a black college to discuss the history o

mike emanuel on capitol hill. the message from conservatives is clear here.s to be protect the borders first but these guys were legal. >> well that is true, shep. but on the issue of security, it is clear from the latest polling we are seeing that many americans are also concerned about security. the new fox news poll reveals 60% of those surveyed on security say measures at the border are not strict enough. while 32% say it's about right. that is an improvement over three years ago. meanwhile, the top committee republican on the senate judiciary committee say hammered security. >> we have a duty to protect the borders and the sovereignty of this country but i'm concerned that the bill we are discussing repeats the mistakes of the past and won't secure the border and stop the flow of illegal migration meanwhile the new fox news poll reveals 78% of those surveyed favor a path to citizenship for illegals if they meet requirements, which is a component of the bipartisan senate plan. that is up six points from february. shep? >> shepard: what about attitudes on

. >> casey uncovers capitol hill on abc news and robert fine man, an msnbc political analyst.me understand which way this is going. it went against the unsafety people. after manchin/toomey went down, assault weapons went down even more so. another vote on gun clips. what did that tell you about a potential future mood on gun safety, the fact that all three went down today? >> reporter: look, this was expected on the assault weapons and the clips but what i find interesting is the vote on the clips. it got six more votes in the senate than the assault weapons ban did and if you look at the folks different on those, it's folks from out west, democrats in colorado and new mexico. colorado, of course, passed a limit on high-capacity magazines. they've seen a lot of gun violence, aurora happened there. i've been talking to some senators up here, democrats who have said that it's this issue that might really come back to bite some of their colleagues over the years. they say that this clips argument like what happened in newtown where the parents are here saying, listen, if this gu

it's been an issue here on capitol hill. a testy exchange with one lawmaker saying they weren't given enough warning. >> we have been talking about reduction and available controller hours of 10% for months. >> but you didn't tell them which airports and which airlines. >> they should expect major impacts and facilities. >> if there is a deal and the air traffic controllers get back on the job, it may or may not include the 149 small towers scheduled to close in june. >> thank you so much for that. >>> new leads and new questions of security lapses this morning in the boston bombing case. the cia says it put the older brother, tamerlan tsarnaev on the watch list. his parents are returning to the u.s. to take his body home. his younger brother zdzhokhar i here. he was not given the right to remain silent until tuesday. they invoked the safety question. they can question a suspect without miranda if there's concern for the safety. >>> a sense of normalcy returns to boston on boylston street. the stretch of road was reopened fo

at sandy hook elementary school in newtown and in capitol hill. >> a lot at stake as this begins.he breaking details on those tornadoes overnight. abc's ginger zee right in the middle of the storm zone. sam starts us off with the big picture. >> none of the six reported tornadoes have been confirmed. it will take today for meet olthss to get in from the national weather service to find out. take a look at the damage. there is a lot of it. look at this long line of storms. taken a little time to get the spring storm season started. so much cold air on the map but now with record-breaking temperatures that's the line of storms that kicked up last night. severe storms rocked 11 states, some of the worst slammed into missouri with two reports of tornadoes. heavy damage in hazelwood 20 miles northwest of st. louis.

mike emanuel has this live from capitol hill.t really sounds like these families from newtown, connecticut were a big part of this. >> shep, no question. most people up here think they have been huge. they have been all over capitol hill all this week. in fact, after the successful vote, president obama from his desk in the oval office called some of the newtown families to share the news. white house aides say on such a tough issue they are grateful for the help. >> there is no more effective advocate for this legislation than a parent who has lost a child and we think that they played a really important role this week, which is why the president called them today after the vote to congratulate them not that -- this is just the beginning of the process. but that they should understand that they had a big impact and that he wanted to congratulate them on that. >> so you have got the newtown families pushing for action. you have got the nra on the other side pushing against new gun laws. pressure is building, shep. shep ship you h

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. >> ifill: and we turn now to a story adding to what was already a tense day on capitol hill. hari is back with our look. >> sreenivasan: in washington and around the country authorities chased reports of suspicious letters and packages today. at the u.s. capitol, police briefly evacuated parts of two senate office buildings, but they offered little information. >> capitol police responded to a suspicious envelope. we're now conducting an investigation. >> sreenivasan: in all, there were three questionable packages, including one sent to alabama republican richard shelby. and at the white house, the secret service intercepted a letter. >> there was a letter sent to, addressed to, the president that at a offsite mail facility was noticed to have contained a suspicious substance and tests were undertaken. >> sreenivasan: new accounts said the letter tested positive- - initially-- for ricin, a deadly poison. so did a letter to mississippi republican roger wicker that surfaced yesterday at a senate mail facility in maryland. but officials cautioned, initial tests are often wrong, a

came under attack from republicans on capitol hill who argued that the air traffic controller furloughstured crisis. nbc's tom costello is at reagan national airport again for us tonight. tom, good evening. >> reporter: hi, brian. the airlines are now suing to try to put air traffic controllers back in the tower. and the white house today said it is open to signing legislation that would give the f.a.a. the flexibility to cut its budget elsewhere so it doesn't have to furlough controllers. >> reporter: with 1500 fewer air traffic controllers watching the nation's skies every day, it's been four days of late arrivals and departures. according to the f.a.a., 400 delays on sunday. 1200 on monday. just over a thousand on tuesday and more today. >> a shocking lapse of management. >> reporter: the anger boiled over on capitol hill this morning where republicans accused the f.a.a. chief and the white house of playing politics with the furloughs. >> you didn't forewarn us that this was coming. you didn't ask advice about how we should handle it. >> reporter: in fact, two months ago the transpor

so the-called gang of eight will roll out its immigration bill on capitol hill. lawmakers say the bill will be filed today but without fanfare out of respect for the victims and families for the explosions in boston. it will place the 11 million people in the country illegally on a path to citizenship. part of the bill would take steps to secure the border. it would also create a new illegal immigration system that would offer merritt visas to the tens of thousands of high-tech and low skilled workers that u.s. employers want to hire. >>> in the meantime, former congresswoman, gabby giffords, returning to capitol hill receiving a plaque honoring a former aide who died during the shooting in tucson back in 2011. the gunman also killed five others and seriously wounded giffords during a town hall meeting. she has since been in the forefront l forefront lob bying congress to enforce stronger gun laows. one senate aide said there are now talks of altering the plan to offer exceptions for gun buyers that live hundreds of miles from licensed firearm dealers >>> here at

ashley: rich edson on capitol hill, thank you very much. talk to congressman charlie dent who actually questioned faa administrator michael huerta. we'll get it from the horse's mouth and what his take was on that. moving money around, that is all it takes. it is just a shell game. tracy: we don't do that every day, right? let's make money. charles payne is looking at retailer zumiez. the stock is up 41% year-to-date. charles, thank the teeny boppers. ashley: thanks their parents. >> exactly. there you go. i think we talked about this before. they do skateboard and snowboard and stuff. tracy: yeah. >> one of these stores they would do so much better if they taught the kids that work there how to work. that is different story. last time they had four registers but three of the people behind the counter, one register trying to figure out how to operate it. the line was out the door. sooner or later that stuff comes back to haunt you. meantime time week ago same store sales came out up 8%. we might be a at reflection point. i like earnings est

on the newshour tonight, we get the latest from capitol hill as senators kick off an extended period of debate over gun legislation. >> brown: then, medicare and social security face changes in the president's new budget. we debate the potential impact. >> woodruff: education correspondent john merrow reports on a rise in high school graduation rates, but the numbers raise questions and

now in terms of how this is played out on capitol hill and other areas, let's talk about immigration, obviously, it will be debated to a larger degree. this is how the bombing events in boston played out in that hearing against senator schumer and grassly. >> i say that particularly those who point out the terrible tragedy in boston as i would say a excuse for not doing a bill or delaying it many months or years. >> i never said get i never said that! >> reporter: so there you see it, a little bit of back and forth there about how the boston bombing parlays into an immigration bill. the main story here, though, is that we've sort of gotten past the initial arrests in this story. now, we're going to go into the all out investigation on capitol hill, something that usually brings to the public forefront a lot more details. >> all right, lou russert reporting from boston, thank you so much. >>> well, in the midst of the boston terror attack, we are learning of another terror plot. this one was thwarted troubling nonetheless. nbc news learned trains from the u.s. to canada were among the

capitol hill. laurene powell jobs, wife of the late steve jobs is an intensely private person. but with the film maker, davis guggenheim, she went to washington this week to push for immigration reform, especially on behalf of young undocumented immigrants. guggenheim is the man behind oscar winning film "an inconvenient truth" and "waiting for superman." he and powell jobs screened the film for congress. it is called "the dream is now." >> i'm undocumented. >> i'm undocumented. >> i'm undocumented, unafraid and unashamed. >> there is movement on both sides. there is enough acknowledgment that this is a time when we can get serious legislation passed. so that's why we are willing to raise our voices to pledge so much time and passion and energy towards helping in any way we can to get this done. >> do you care how they come to it?

because you do cover capitol hill.tion to your hard reporting, you also keep a look at sort of the comical side of capitol hill and what better comedy in recent years than anthony weiner. >> speaking of hard reporting. >> oh, wow! wow. peter! >> come on. >> no, no, it's true. >> bill: he decided he's going to come back. we know -- >> he's going to come over and over -- stop! [ laughter ] >> bill: going to have a political comeback. >> see, there's nothing you can do. you're stuck between a rock and a hard place. >> that, too. >> bill: so we know that he plans a political revival because he's back on twitter. >> he is. verified right away. >> bill: david letterman last night had a little fun with this unusual way of tweeting. >> here's the only good news we've had in a week. anthony weiner is running for mayor of new york city. [ applause ] >> he announced it earlier today in his underpants. >> i'm sure he did. >> bill: we know he would have to go there right? how does anthony weiner know people want him to run for mayo

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we are following a developing story on capitol hill. we learned the plans to unveil an immigration reform bill are on hold because of yesterday's tragedy in boston. a group of senators were supposed to roll out that proposal today but many of its members say that the rollout can wait out of respect to the victims in boston. the senators tell us the measure will create way for millions of undocumented immigrants to become citizens and he will boost security at that time borders and create work visas for thousands of foreign workers. >>> and right now the white house is calling senators to build support for gun control measure. several republicans now say they won't vote for the bill which would expand background checks. its supporters need some of the republican onboard if the bill has any chance of passing. the democrats and republicans who crafted it say that they may be willing to accept changes to their plans if it helps it to pass. >> former congresswoman gabby giffords is back on capitol hill today. she is here in washington for th

we definitely know that there topic this week on capitol hill when it comes to the gun debate. >> it could be at -- a vote could be as early as tuesday for handguns on background checks and extending the rules so that they will cover online sales, differing gun shows, closing the gun show loophole. tricks say that it is a watered- down bill to the police won't nor the records immediately at their disposal. they would have to go to a dealer to get them. at the same time, this might be the deal that could actually get through. >> i was on capitol hill when many of the families of the newtown bee comes with air. they were visiting -- newtown victims or their -- newtown victims were there. it seemed like it was a momentum changer. >> absolutely. they made very emotional visits. the families are insisting on meeting with the senators themselves. they aren't settling for meeting with staff and may be a pop in a handshake from senator. one senator was actually late half an hour to 40 minutes for dinner with brock obama because he was meeting with the newtown families. and he said you made t

joining me now from capitol hill, congressman bill flores. the explosion happened in his district. congressman, first let me say, our thoughts and prayers are with everyone in west right now, and i know you've been in touch with local authorities. what can you tell us. >> well, chris, i want to start by saying that the terrorist attack in boston and the tragedy in west remind us of the risk that modern life presents, and i'd ask all americans to pray for these two communities and to hug your families a little tighter tonight before you put them to bed. i can tell you this. when we got the first news of the incident we reached out to the county judge scott felton and also to the county sheriff in mckellenan county, pernell mcnamara and asked them for help. let them know if they needed help in federal assistance and we followed up by senator cornyn's office and senator cruz's office, and i got off the phone a few minutes ago with governor perry. he says he's ready to respond whenever the local community tells us that they need that help, so he will call theme a. we've alerted fema so

every precaution was taken here on capitol hill. in many senators' offices around the country to make sure anything funny in the mail was double-checked, bill. >> bill: thank you, mike. good work. mike emanuel with the breaking news from capitol hill tonight. we're awaiting more developments out of tupelo, mississippi with the latest on this. there was a lot of news to follow as you can clearly see from the past 47 minutes. and there are developments here in boston that we will bring you in a matter of moments as our coverage citizen -- continues here on the boston bombings here on "the fox report." shoot. now with the share everything plan from verizon, connect your camera, along with your smartphone and tablet. all your devices connected by one simple plan on the powerful network. record video. connect more. so you can do more. the share everything plan from verizon. add additional devices like the samsung galaxy camera for $5 monthly access. >> bill: back to the breaking news now, there has been an arrest in the ricin scare that

response militarily so far has been minimal, but the republicans on capitol hill want the u.s. to do more. they don't agree on exactly what, but they say inaction on the part of the u.s. is dangerous. rebel troops battled government forces in damascus on sunday near a complex that has been linked to syrian chemical weapons programs. >> there are a number of caches of these chemical weapons. they cannot fall into the hands of the jihadists. >> reporter: many of the rebel fighters are affiliated with al qaeda groups and there's a big concern here in the u.s. that the weapons will fall into the wrong hands. >> the next bomb that goes off in america may not have nails and glass in it. >> lawmakers on capitol hill are pushing president obama to take action now to remove syrian president bashir al assad from power and to have a secular power take over. >> there's two wars to fight. one is a bad guy who's dangerous to the word and the second is going to be between the majority of syrians and radical islamists who have poured into syria. >> reporter: the state of state wants a no-fly z

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one member of the house homeland security committee now telling us on capitol hill that they've been briefed by law enforcement sources who call this a sophisticated, coordinated, planned attack. let's talk about the video that we just saw, tom fuentes, former fbi assistant director is here, cnn contributor. this video, it may have been unsophisticated bomb, but it looked horrific, tom. >> looks horrific, but this video, i think, is pretty similar to the ones that we've already seen, just have better sound quality and you can hear the screams and explosions. >> the smoke was permeating the whole area and you heard the explosions within a few seconds apart. >> again, that would be amplified because it's surrounded by tall buildings. that would help contain that in a confined area, as opposed to a

their staffs are remaining on edge today as more suspicious letters have been discovered at a capitol hillnator bob menendez joins me from the hill. we know this is an off-site facility, with screening providers put in place after the anthrax attacks post-9/11. what do we know about the suspicious letters and what are you being told? >> i don't know much more than that, andrea, other than that obviously from years ago when anthrax became a deadly weapon laced in a letter, that we've got these off-site facilities that do screens. that's been a saving grace, obviously in this set of circumstances. i've always concerned about her of our district office that don't go through the same process, but we have some very good men and women working off-site and were able to catch it. >> senator, the story of the day up there is obviously the gun compromise, why do we think it's failing. joe martialing says he thinking they short of the votes to stop the filibuster. it doesn't seem as though enough republicans are coming over. what is so difficult about this compromise procedure, which is not the unive

not capitol hill. i recognize the importance of talking here, and that's why i'm doing this, for god's sake. but it's not just an audience of 100 something people in seiu who have to be reached. it's the grassroots the politicians who are being pushed in the other direction and that has begun in academia, campuses, churches, and unions, and a bunch of places where the discourse has changed in many respect but has not yet percolated up to the political level where we live in an unreality zone. unfarm. and before you can get that i think you have top get to the grassroots. >> lady in the second row? >> wait for the microphone. >> i'm glad you mentioned hack -- academia. now that i've been here two years, i'm worried that on campuses they're not changing so much. there's a lot more interest in the arab world but there's less willingness, at least from my vantage point or what i hear or see to reflect on american foreign policy. what do we do about that? >> yeah. okay. >> gentleman in the second row. >> fr

i always tell my friends, i went from capitol hill where hello mr. chairman would you like a drink mr. chairman to no you're not getting second round of oatmeal, scum bag, move on. different attitude in prison. when i went in, i immediately met some people and i got to be frank about this, i became friends more with the people who were in there for drug offenses than the white collar people. i became more friends. first of all, they didn't whine as much about prison. they were more street savvy. they would never had a chance to meet a member of congress. a lot to share. light of minorities, african- americans and latinos, said we would never had an opportunity to meet you in congress. i would answer questions in some of the classrooms and talk to them about jobs and resumes. i received a lot back from them. but the first initial part is terrifying for anyone, especially myself because i went from a lawmaker to a law breaker. some people in prison said, you made the law to put me in here. you did that to me. of course, you try to say you broke the law

it's the sort of opportunism you can expect on capitol hill. when farea was speaking to the subcommittee in the senate, it's the same thing. it's a really self referential vapid thing. to watch lindsey graham lecture farea al-muslimi what's going on in yemen and to kind of badger him whether there's a conflict there and what's possible in terms of picking stuff up, like, you know, even if i was a u.s. senator, i'd like to think i'd differ to a man who grew up in this village, as he so eloquently stated himself, has nothing but love for this country, that some of our security objectives could be achieved there. >> i think this has been my issue from the beginning and was part of my reluctance about the stand with rand stuff, was that the grandstanding here and the sort of opportunism of this has been really hard to take. i want to just play a little sample of what the questions at the subcommittee looked like yesterday, because it was not a really impressive display. take a look. >> i'd like to begin by posing to each of you the hypothetical tha

in response to the question op capitol hill, i think before you do capitol hill, you need grassroots. i have no objection to spending time in washington. i come here all the time. not my favorite sigh, but, you know, i come here all the time, not to capitol hill, but, you know, e recognize the importance of talking here. that's why i'm doing this gar god's sakes, but it's not just an audience of 100-something people in sciu who need to be reached, but the grassroots and politicians pushed in the direction, and that's begun in places on camp david academia, , churches, unions, a bunch of places where the discourse changed in many republics or beginning to change, but it's not yet percolated up to the political level where we live in an unreality zone, unfortunately, and before you can get to that, you have to get to the grassroots. >> lady in the second row. >> uh-huh, wait for the microphone. >> [inaudible] >> now that i'm teaching in dc and been here for duoyears, at least on campuses, they are in the changing so much. there's a lot more interest in the arab world, but there's less w

mike emanuel with the news live on capitol hill. any plans for more fictions?crats here on capitol hill and the white house are calling this measure a band-aid that doesn't address the broader automatic spending cuts. you can expect they'll push for more solutions like this one, addressing air travel. >> you could have thrown in members of congress who need flights home also. but the fact is the delays are -- are a problem for not just business travelers and members of congress, but for many americans, and that's a real negative consequence. reporter: arizona republican senator john mccain would also like a fix for defense saying, quote, it is shameful for us to make allowances for the faa while doing nothing to stop the draconian cuts decimating our military today and putting our nation's security in danger. so they are leaving town on a week's recess, lawmakers, but you can expect this will be a hot topic when they return in a week. >> greg: aren't some republicans say, the faa already had flexibility to accomplish this. reporter: that is right. they say they