any reaction to the latest news that mike levine just brought to us? >> i think it's intriguing and tanks early. mike stepped with the appropriate amount of caution.' of either individual. that has not been made public on behalf of the fbi or police. i know there's a lot of stuff flying around the internet but nothing has been confirmed. i will tell you i keep coming back to the moment at 5:15 yesterday afternoon when the profile of suspect number 2 went out. you look and clearly you can see if you know this person you will identify them immediately. the fbi prepared themselves for several days once they go public with the information there will be a siege of information about this person's identity. maybe one person or a whole community knows him. >> he has been on the lose and has not been accounted for. >> when the press conference happened they gave out the film and video they were so dramatic and specific. if this guy is around they will find him. the public will find this guy. are you surprised that it happened this quickly? >> it is not over jus

wees work throw the information mike levine is with me. mike, your information has been inavailable. what can you report here tonight? >> the latest i am hearing, and perhaps it is stating the obvious, but federal law enforcement does believe what is going on around mit may be related to the bombings on monday. and i am being told local police in the boston area may have arrested someone with, quote, similar features as one of the suspects from the monday bombing. >> mike do you know if the features reflect suspect number one or suspect number two? >> i don't know that. continue. i'm sorry i interrupted you. >> i was just told how the situation unfolded tonight was earlier at a 7-eleven there was a carjacking or robbery and local police responded. when one of the officers got on the scene he was shot and i believe he has now died. there was a subsequent chase and while police were chasing the suspects, the suspect was throwing explosive devices at the chasing officers and that's how we got to where we are now. >> this campus police officer,

according to mike levine's superb sources at the fbi, the people involved are not the same people whose photographs we saw yesterday. it is deeply troubling if this is another nest of highly armed people. >> and if that is the case one could wonder how many people might have been involved if this does turn out to be somehow connected. >> well, you are right, marianne, and we just don't know that. right now the police are not concerned with patterns. they are concerned with fire power and they are determined to find that other individual if there is just one. and if it leads them to the bombers from the boston marathon , all the good. if it is unrelated and independent of that, and they still catch this guy, all the good. you have a neighborhood terrified and a massive amount of government fire power descending on this thaib in the middle of the night -- on this neighborhood in the middle night to keep this neighborhood safe and free, free from a monster with enough ammunition to kill innocents. the police are in the most dangerous of situations imaginable. they don't know what they are

>> that is what mike levine is hearing. that would make sense because both m.i.t. and harvard are obviously located in cambridge. these two young men being 19 years of age appeared very comfortable in a student environment in boston, and they have been here for over a year. >> jennifer, thank you. m.i.t. and harvard, they share a similar town and they share the same river. they are on opposite sides of the river, m.i.t. on the north side and harvard on the south side. we're watching screen left, watertown, massachusetts, ten miles from where we are, about ten miles from the m.i.t. campus. we're not quite sure what police activity is taking there but something is up there screen left. come out to me quickly here where we are in boylston. i want to give our viewers a better sense of the geography of where we are. behind this truck and down the street that would be boylston street. you go down two city blocks on the left-hand side is where both explosions occurred at 2:50 monday afternoon. the runners would have been going down boylston in that direction. at this poin

we see from mike levine and his federal sources that 11 ao*z 18 bryan stow dropped by the bank of america in watertown square and withdrew money. when you withdraw money from an atm that leaves evidence. if you go to a bank you'll be caught on security video. skrepjenna. skwro*pz it i-p -p. jon: it is ten minutes after the hour. there might be folks sitting down with their morning coffee and turning on the television set and finding out what an incredible turn of events has taken place in watertown, magazines mass where there have been gun battles. one police officer is dead, one other hospitalized, one of the suspects in the boston marathon bombing is dead and police are now pursuing his younger brother, identified as 19-year-old dzhokhar tsarnaev. now this case, because he is some kind of an immigrant from apparently chechnya has international implications. jennifer griffin is our national security correspondent joining us live from washington. what is the latest there, jennifer? >> reporter: jon, right now it looks like all of the effort right now is to try and find suspect number two

mike levin, f.b.i.telling us that unrelated bomb threat inside the courthouse in boston, no arrests have been made. nobody being brought to court, thinking it is just a prank. that news just breaking here on "studio b." in the meantime, we want to move away from boston and to the biological weapons scare in our nation's capitol. the f.b.i. and the secret service now investigating several suspicious letters that have preliminarily tested positive for the deadly poison known as risin. one was addressed to the president, at least one more addressed to a law maker on capitol hill. risin is a toxin made from castro bean. it's highly refined powder form that can cause severe illness or death if inhaled. there is no antidote for it. luckily risin poisoning is very rare, regardless, washington dv very much on edge, along with the rest of the country. here is what we know about this story. censors at the government's mail sorting center detecting risin in envelopes that someby sent to the president, as well as t

>> a letter went to president obama, this is from the justice producer, fox news' mike levine, in thewickers that had preliminary tested positive for ricen. they are going through that. the analysis of the second letter sent to president obama is unknown. the bulletin goes on to say that both envelopes were postmarked out of memphis tennessee, april 8th, 2013, and enclosed in the letters, had identical language saying to see a wrong and not expose it is become a silent partner to its continuance. 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

mike levine sailed he was on a very large watch list not a terror watch list that doesn't have a wholeing here, bob is are we doing what we need to be doing in terms of keeping track of people who have been on the radar in this country, or are we throwing up our hands and saying we can't find anything on them so we are done with that. >> this is the third time the fbi has let people slip through their fingers. they interviewed the guy before he went to russia. then he went to russia in an area near chechnya and he was there for six months. at that point it would seem to me it would trigger something, somewhere along the line. martha: you would think. >> this guy has been an increased threat as a potential terrorist, not a terrorist but an increased threat and therefore he should be watched. i think it was a terrible mistake by somebody. martha: i can't figure out -- what do you have a terror watch list for if this guy is not on it if he's not on it who is on it? >> let me echo the reason he's able to freely travel back and forth is because he was a legal resident and not being able to

the justice department spoke with our producer mike levine, they looked at security video. this is video not yet been released. don't get confused by what you see on the screen. you see people react to the blast. most people turn in the direction of the blast. the tsnaraev brothers do not. that set up red flags. that got law enforcement zeroing on the two brothers. bill: mike, we're trying to piece this together as best we can but what can you tell us about the reports that the fbi is questioning him today from his hospital bed? >> reporter: all of that goes back to a "usa today" report citing anonymous sources. the sourcing is not as tight as i would like but certainly a significant development. we know he has been sedated. he has a injury to his neck or jaw, a bullet wound to his neck or jaw that prevented him from communicating. 9 report says he was roused back to consciousness and providing things in writing and providing substantive answers to questions. we know from the information he is providing that indicates there is not a larger network and not a second wave of b

bill: bret as you're talking, mike levine, justice department sends this out. according to u.s. official, attorney general holder, fbi director mueller are headed to the white house now, perhaps, headed to the white house to believe the president on latest developments related to the boston bombings. bret, thank you. stand by in washington, d.c. when there are developments out of washington we'll bring you back. screen left is watertown, massachusetts. that along elm street. could be any street in america. just about every town in america has an elm street in it, including watertown, massachusetts where the focus of the country has now been placed. we wait for a briefing here. the latest word out of there. and here in boston as well. martha? martha: if you're just joining us there are a number of big developments in the search and the second suspect in the boston marathon bombing. here is what we know right now. one officer from m.i.t. was shot to death by these suspects as he sat in his patrol car. another transit officer was wounded trying to apprehend these subjects. we under

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mike? >> that's right. two senators home offices. two of them are getting some closer scrutiny. senator carl levin, democrat of michigan says he got a suspicious letter to his saginaw, michigan office and an older staff is in the hospital tonight as a precaution though has no symptoms. texas republican senator john cornyn's office says it received a suspicious letter at its dallas office that was tested and turned over to a possession inspector. a top senate leader says so far the system has 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 that the proactive measures we put in place do, in fact, work. >> everybody is being extra cautious cautious. nobody up here wants to be wrong. bill? >> bill: indeed. thank you, mike. mike emanuel on the hill tonight. we are watching those developments in the ricin matter. certainly the fallout here in boston after marathon attacks on monday. we're waiting for a news conference. as i mentioned, if it happens tonight you wi

michigan office of carl levin and we should also point out that ricin, while poisonous is for the like anthrax. anthrax can be terribly, terribly dangerous. i wanted to bring in mike at leiter in as well. from your assessment and your sources, how is this proceeding, the fbi 2,000 tips, getting pictures, putting together the pieces of what these bombs were, what they were made of, how far have they gotten, do you know? >> i think they're doing quite well. we're not yet 48 hours in. we're getting there now, and they now have a pretty good idea about these devices. they know how many, they have a sense of how they were carried to the side, so that's a huge piece. from surveillance cameras that were in place from the city of boston, businesses in the area, and of course all of the photos and surveillance movies that people got on that you are iphones and everything else. there's been an enormous amount of work. with the central be gens agencies, they're seeing if they can -- or human intelligence to point in the direction. all of those things are think over the coming days and weeks will sloely by correlated. i think if things go well, they could -- in the come days.