in the shreveport area. we don't know if this is that tornado. >> that's not an easy vehicle to operate when there are heavy, high winds. >> they seem to be quite entertained by it. the guy is applauding a tornado. >> you even see hail hitting the windshield, a ton of debris and super dark. >> they keep driving and everything does clear up. >> that's a heck of a training session. >> you can drive through a tornado, i think you'll be fine when it's a sunny day on the highway. >> on your resume it will look good. i can drive a semi through a tornado. >> when you leave a nightclub, you don't want to get into a fight. you want to get into a car and go home. that didn't happen to one guy in melbourne, australia. police release a video of a man in a nightclub. he was called over to a car. look what happens, a passenger gets out of the car and the guy punches him. >> that guy dropped quick. >> people immediately come to render him aid. he was knocked unconscious. watch what happened. the lights are on, they drive o

all of which were mailed from shreveport, louisiana.ate yesterday, the white house confirmed that earlier this month, it had received another letter containing ricin which came from spokane, washington, the orjen of several other ricin-laced letters, mailed to a c.i.a. building in d.c., as well as a judge, a military base and a post office in spokane. law enforcement does not believe the spokane letters are connected to the shreveport letters and warned that coverage of the plots may be spawning copy cats. the big question is why, the letter sent to mayor bloomberg and the director of the ill lien guns reads in part, you will have to kill mend my family before you get my guns. anyone who wants to come to my house will get shot in the face. the right to bear arms is my constitutional god-given right and i will exercise that right until the day i die. the dark, threatening language of the letters is rooted in profound fear of the state of the nation's gun laws and recent attempts to reform them in the name of public safety. stoking fear a

and among his targets, like one of the letters from shreveport, was president obama.hich means two different people in two different places, spokane and shreveport, louisiana, both sent ricin letters to the white house. the mailings were only a week apart. at the moment there is nothing known to connect the two different attacks, george. >> a little bit of an outbreak, i guess in part because ricin is so easy to make. >> it's easy to make but so far the stuff they found is not that toxic. and authorities say it really would not present real health hazard. but it is ricin and the person who sent it, obviously intended to cause harm. >> okay, brian. thanks very much. >>> now to the tornados that targeted oklahoma overnight. part of an outbreak in the last 24 hours. abc's ginger zee on the road there tracking them. and she joins us from outside tulsa in broken arrow, oklahoma. good morning, ginger. >> reporter: good morning, robin. the reported tornado that shredded this roof and a few others and threw pieces of a gas station way over here and through this field, it was

the only real clues, the substance of the text and that shreveport, louisiana post mark, and that's where the search now begins. >> thanks so much, brian ross. >>> late news tonight out of syria. the state department telling us that it is investigating reports an american citizen has been killed there. syrian television says a woman from michigan was killed by government troops, and that she was fighting with opposition forces. a still developing story. >>> next we bring you an update on that fiery crash in baltimore. a freight train that slammed into a garbage truck and redaled. -- derailed. federal investigators say that the truck unable to make it across the tracks in time has a poor safety record. the company that owns the truck had so many violations that trucks had to be ordered off the road. so it's unclear whether that safety record had anything to do with the crash. the owner of the company was driving that truck hit on tuesday, and he's in the hospital in serious condition tonight. >>> and now, to our latest in our "hidden america" series, looking in depth at people and places o

all letters were postmarked shreveport, louisiana. they were sent to three individuals at the forefront of the gun control debate, president obama, new york city mayor michael bloomberg and the head of the group he founded mayors against illegal guns. the third found today at the offsite white house mail processing facility, only the one letter sent to the gun control group was actually opened by the intendsed target. president obama and new york city's mayor never in any immediate danger. suzanne. >> and, deb, real quick here. do we have a sense of whether those responsible for these letters, are they in custody? do we know anything about the individuals or the organization? >> no, we don't. we know the jttf, the joint terrorism task force, is investigatoring. we're told they are on their way to shreveport, louisiana, where the postmarks are. otherwise i don't know. i've been inquiring to try to find out whether any one of interest has been questioned, not just sort of random people but somebody maybe at the center of all this. but r

the postal union says the letters were mailed 10 days ago on may 20th and shreveport has a large mail facility that hammondss letters for texas, louisiana and arkansas. there is a possibility that the letters may have come from one of those states that's all part of the investigation tonight, shep. >> shepard: eric, scientists consider ricin both a biological and chemical weapon. but they say because it is so so hard to distribute it it's effective against a large person. extreme weather report. report of a dozen tornadoes touching down in the heartland. oklahoma a state still devastated from last week's deadly twister. take a look at eerie storm clouds oklahoma city "studio b" this afternoon. same nasty weather slamming much of the plain states. we are hearing reports of two people hurt after a house was said to have been destroyed in western arkansas. those store still on the move. rick reichmuth on the extreme weather center. >> really active weather for us. we had yesterday, the day before and more night of it. two more nice after this even. you can see tornado watch boxes from wi

the ricin letters appear to have been sent with a shreveport, louisiana, postmark. shreveport postal center reportedly handles mail from louisiana but also from texas and arkansas. so conceivably the letter might have been mailed in any one of those states. this news, today, of course comes on the heels of the other ricin-laced letters that were sent to president obama and other public officials. last month the fbi arrested a mississippi martial arts instructor in connection with those letters. last week a washington state man was charged with threatening to kill a federal judge, also in a letter that was laced with ricin. and while we're on the subject, just yesterday a federal judge sentenced a north carolina man to prison for threatening president obama over twitter during the 2012 democratic national convention. the man admitted to using his twitter account to post five threats to president obama, including this one, plotting president obama's murder. i'm gonna assassinate president obama this evening and the secret service is going to be defenseless once i aim

other details this morning, they were printed from a computer and post marked may 20, in shreveport, louisiana. no word now on any potential suspects. the mayor says he is not angry. >> i appear not angry. there are people who i would argue do things that could be irrational or wrong. it is a very complex world out this and we have to deal with that. >> police say the people who initially came in contact with the letters shows no symptoms of exposure to the poison but three officers would later examined the new york letter did experience minor symptoms. the mayor of three port, -- of shreveport, louisiana, said the city is working with federal investigators to find out whoever is responsible. >> thank you, we take you for new jersey, where there is a bear, a black bear, a philadelphia suburb, and it looks like some sort of tranquilizer has been shot into the leg of the bear hang out in a tree. there have been several sightings the past week in that neighborhood so residents called again this morning after it was spotted. this is a condo complex is there are a lot of children and they

we have learned the letters were printed from a computer and postmarked may 20 in shreveport, louisiana, and the mayor saying the city is, working with federal investigators to find whoever is responsible. the mayor does not feel threatened. >> we take a lot of security measures. the men and women that on the mail, for example, even they are well trained and we have procedures for something like this. >> the people would initially came in contact with the letters showed no symptoms of exposure to the poison but three officers did experience minor sink temperatures. this morning, there no word on potential suspects. >> we will have to wait until july ten to find out if the new bay bridge will open on labor day week as scheduled or if it is delayed weeks or months. the transportation commission says crews will install large steel cables the next several weeks to fix the problem caused by 30 faulty bolts and they can determine when the new bridge will open. caltran revealed the new problem corrected office the years, the suspension deck was misaligned with another debbie a couple of inches

milwaukee, detroit, chicago, memphis, shreveport, on through dallas. for tornadoes. and that is not the only thing. strong winds, we saw some of that yesterday, large amounts of lightning, large hail, all of this still remains in the poishg. actually want to show you how big this debris ball is. look at the huge supercell. the debris ball, 2, 2 1/2 miles wide. we are talking about things ejected in the air over 20,000 feet. that is how powerful these storms are, and the threat is out there again today, whether you are inned moderate or slight risk area, anything, unfortunately, still possible. i am the bearer of bad days. a tough one out there. >> all right. thank you so much. the debris is simply everywhere. the corrugated metal. splinters, pieces of fence, littered everywhere, it's devastating. >> makes it very difficult to get through also. you have to remember, the search and rescue operations, all of the different delivery services, for help, have to deal with the roads. power lines that are down, gas mains that are open, those have to be managed

. >> the incident began just after the marathon bombings, in shreveport, louisiana. >> three days latera second letter arrived at the offices of the gun control organization founded by the mayor in washington d.c. and a third to president obama at an off-site mail facility. >>> the suspect shot by the fbi is questioning the details of his death. >> the man was believed to be an acquaintance of one of the boston bombing suspects. >> his father is talking about his son's death. >> i think if five men questioned my son and police officers and w m unarmed because he didn't have a gun, he couldn't attack or fight them, they were four or five of them all armed. >> even if he threatened them, couldn't they shot his leg? my son couldn't attack them. i don't know how they could shoot him like that. >> fbi report says that he lunged at an agent. >> a florida muslim group wants the shooting investigated. >>> a shooting in san jose, this time near a grade school. >> police say a young man waiting for a ride to work was gunned down, the fourth homicide in the week. >> we had four drive by shootings

any more leads about where this source is in shreveport? >> no, the fbi joint terrorism task force, nypd and secret service in a full-court press trying to find out who sent these letters. very difficult. there's no signature other than the postmark where it came from and the time it was sent, may 20th. so they are hoping that maybe there's some dna or fingerprint on some of these letters that may provide them with a lead. right now they're working very hard trying to find who sent these letters. >> my sort of way that i keep my mind at ease when these things happen in my little world is people that make threats probably don't do it. people that do it aren't going to threaten you ahead of times. truly dangerous people attack. they don't scare. what do you make of this in terms of the psychology of someone who would send a letter like this? to hurt people, to scare them? what? >> law enforcement officials we spoke with are treating this very seriously. they think it's a lone nut who sent these letters, but look, the tests have come in prelim

>> all three letters were postmarked from the same place, shreveport, louisiana. but also, his gun control group were written by the same person because they contained the same language, the same threat. the writer says, "you will have to kill me and my family before you get my guns. anyone wants to come to my house will be shot in the face. the right to bear arms is my constitutional, god-given right. and i will exercise that right until the day i die." >> and then the person actually goes one step farther in referring to the risen-tainted envelopes says what's in this letter is nothing to what i've got planned for you. so, clearly, the joint terrorism task force is taking this extremely seriously. not only because there was the presence of risen, but because there's an additional threat on top of that. >> risen can be deadly if it's inhaled or ingested. one of the targets, the director of mayors against illegal guns, personally opened the letter. what do we know about his condition now? >> well, what we're being told, he is okay. he came into work on sunday and

pine bluff to shreveport are the areas of concern. so the worst it looks like it's over wrks but still some risk. >> when we're describing this as potentially a historic storm, we're keeping in mind including back in 1999. do we yet know if it is appropriate to call this a storm of historic proportions? >> anytime you get an ef 4, ef 5, it's historic. an ef-5, it's super historic. we've only had nine or ten of them since that one in 1999 in moore. that's the crazy thing i keep thinking about. the possibility that we could have two ef-5s in moore, oklahoma of all places in 14 years. where we've onlied had nine others in the 13w50ir country over 14 years. odds are astronomical. so, yes, this will be historic. and if it wasn't for the joplin one which was the most expensive ever, almost $3 billion about 158 lives lost there, if it wasn't for that one, we'd be saying i can't believe this happened. but we went through tuscaloosa and that whole event down there in alabama and thp entire event, 371 lives were lost in many different storms. s

smith and memphis where the heaviest rain and potential for severe weather will be dallas and shreveport. one thing that's going to stop the severe weather from being very severe in oklahoma is the fact that it's raining. yesterday at this same time it was sunny. we don't want the sun. the sun heats the ground. the ground is heating the air and that air is rising. rising air makes thunderstorms. we don't have that rising air today because we don't have a lot of sunshine. we do have showers and thunderstorms and lightning that may scare and make rescuers scatter but it won't be a tornadic day for oklahoma city today or moore. john? >> that is good news. i can tell you i feel the rain falling on me. we might see lightning. there is thunder. i don't know if you can hear thunder right now rumbling above me and there was lightning just a short time ago. doesn't seem too close. i promise you, i promise everyone including my wife and kids, we'll be careful out here and keep one eye on the weather as it develops. there are so many stories to tell you about in this town and one of the most intere

those letters were mailed from shreveport, louisiana, on may 20th and contain threats to the mayor overor isn't intimidated. >> there's 12,000 people that are going to get killed this year with guns and 19,000 are going to commit suicide with guns and we're not going to walk away from those efforts. i know i speak for all of the close to 1,000 mayors in the mayors coalition against guns. this is a scourge in the country we have to make sure we get under control and eliminate. >> last night in chicago, a city that's been racked by gun violence, president obama talked about his fight to pass universal background checks. >> we know that if we have some common sense laws that check to see if we're keeping guns out of the hands of criminals or folks who have significant mental illnesses, we know that that can reduce some -- some deaths. and we know that 90% of the american people and 80% of gun owners agree with us. why aren't we getting that done? >> speaking of agreement, there's a new poll out that shows the majority of voters in three

three letters were postmarked from shreveport, louisiana, this week containing threaten iing messagesledgelation, and two of the letters contained the deadly substance ricin. the man in question is a army veteran who works with the department of defense and has ties to shreveport. >>> crews are back out to look for a man who disappeared from his cupertino home. the is james norberg, and his wife says he suffers from a.l.s. is completely mute. last night, police used dogs to s s serch the santa vista park last nig night. >>> big changes in store for san jose police. they are going to step up force in the city to get a hand on the violence in the area. >> well, right now, unfortunately the city of san jose is on track to surpass last year's total of 46 murders. that is why this weekend at sjpd will be on the streets to try to curtail the gang violence. they will deploy a dozen additional officers each day which is a total of 29 metro officers on the streets saturday and sunday. sunday, 24 offers will be called back to duty and again, this is o.t. in response to what happened yesterday.

as of now, there is nothing other than the fact that the letters were mailed from shreveport, louisiana on may 20th. that is really what they're working on. and the fbi in new orleans is helping out on that as well as the joint terrorism task force in new york and the secret service. >> we know that the letter mailed to michael bloomberg did not get to him. my understanding that the letter mailed to gun control advocate mark glaze did get to him. what do we know about how he's doing? >> we're told everyone who came in contact is fine. but that as a precaution, they're being monitored, checked out just in case. how did it get through to him? the letter was sent to a private consulting firm where he works. in addition to his efforts in campaigning for gun control laws while the mayor's office, the mail to city hall in new york and the mail to the white house gets screened at offsite facilities and other buildings. alert officials were able to stop and track the letters in advance. >> any reason to believe at this point there might be other letters like these out there? >> look, the concer

organization he heads which is mayors against illegal gun violence, those letters were mailed from shreveportana. it is not clear whether in fact the one received or sent to president obama was also sent from the same address. but officials are telling us that it does appear that the content, the tone of the letters and the message in the letters was similar. suzanne, michael. >> do we know about the letters that were sent to mayor bloomberg, the other two letters, whether or not they contained ricin? we've been talking about that throughout the morning. do we know in fact that's true? >> yes. initially there were tests done in the field. and those tested negative and then they were later tested and tested positive trace amounts of ricin. now we're being told that, yes, it was ricin that was in the letters, trace amounts. but still sufficient somebody clearly trying to either weaponize or trying to make people ill by including that in the letters that were sent, suzanne. >> what makes them think the letters that came from the mayor and also sent to the president were from the same people? is

investigators have not identified any suspects but we have learned the letters were postmarked in shreveport, louisiana, and the mayor says the city is working with federal agencies to find whoever sent the mail. the mayor is undaunted in his gun control efforts. he is unafraid of the threats. >> there are people who i would argue do things that could be irrationale, do things that are wrong, but it is a very complex world out there and we just have to deal with that. >> there have been several other attempted ricin attacks this year, a man was arrested for sending ricin-laced letters to president obama and a senator early this spring, and just last week, another man was charged with trying to use the poison to kill a federal judge. >> if you took a jacket with you this morning because of the chill, you will be ditching it this afternoon. >> and we can ditch it right now with warmer temperatures in the bay area and i will check with mike nicco on the roof, so, is it getting warm yet, mike? >> it is nice. there is a little bit of a breeze coming in off the bay rather than the ocean. that is w

both were mailed from shreveport, louisiana. they come after a similar came a month ago, ricin-laced letters sent to it the president, a mississippi senator, and a mississippi judge. a 41-year-old martial arts instructor was arrested on suspicion of sending those earlier letters. as of this morning, we don't know if the letters are links. richard? >> tracie potts in washington with the latest. thank you. >>> attorney general eric holder already under fire from republicans is now facing a new round of criticism. this time from the news media. the "new york times" is refusing to attend a scheduled meeting with the attorney general. editors say they won't go because the meet is off the record. the associated press says it will also pull out of the discussions unless the doj agrees to go on the record. reporter and lawmakers have been critical of the justice department's seizure of ap phone records as part of a leak investigation. holder testified before congress earlier this month where he denied any wrongdoing and cited national s

investigators say all three were postmarked from shreveport, louisiana, and mailed on may 20th. in an unrelated case the fbi said thursday a letter containing ricin was mailed to the president from spokane, washington. >>> syria says it has advanced missiles from russia and will respond in kind to future air attacks from neighbor israel. this as president obama meets with the nato secretary to discuss options on the civil war-stricken country. nbc's tracie potts joins us from washington. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, richard. a big part of that meeting will be the president and nato leaders, europeans trying to get together and figure out, can we get these two sides to sit down at the table and talk? there's a meeting in geneva, switzerland, next week as they again try to press the opposition leaders and bashar al assad's government to work this out, this civil war that's been going on and has been deadly for so long now. assad now insists that he's got weapons already in syria and more on the way from russia. and israel says that's a threat to them if, in fact, that'

we're told that these are just postmarked may 20th out of shreveport, louisiana.again, confirmed yesterday with the mayor and this anti-gun or gun control lobbyist and now a third letter intercepted by the secret service on its way to the white house found ot a sorting facility, an off-site screening facility. that's where the third letter was found by secret service agents. >> when it comes to the letters, one came to a sorting facility to the mayor in manhattan and one at a sorting facility to the president but one was able to reach glaze, the chief lobbyist in washington, d.c., everyone is okay with reference to the fact or anyone who came in contact with these letters, correct? we don't have any information about people being affected by the ricin-laced letters? >> first of all, in terms of the offsite screening, how that third letter to the lobbyist got through was that it was sent to his private office. he works as a consultant in a private firm and that's how that letter got through. in terms of illnesses, there are no civilian illnesses. the police departm

. >> reporter: cbs news has learned both letters were postmarked on may 20th from shreveport, louisiana, with no return address. they each contained a pink- orange oily substance that tested positive for the.ricin. the letters contain threats against the mayor and his gun control efforts. one of the letters arrived at the city hall mail facility in lower manhattan. three investigators who had contact with the letter came down with minor symptoms of ricin poisoning, similar to a stomach bug, but they're okay now. the other letter turned up two days later in washington, d.c. at the offices of "mayors against illegal guns" which bloomberg helped start. that envelope was addressed to the group's director, mark lathe. he opened it but was not poisoned. investigators are not saying if the latest letters are linked to several other recent ricin attacks. marlie hall for cbs news, new york. >> in the past month, other ricin-laced letters have been sent to president obama, a u.s. senator and two judges. two arrests have been made in those cases. >>> a violent night in san jose, four separate shoo

it was post marked shreveport, louisiana, the same post mark on letters sent to michael bloomberg and his gun control group recently. >>> some new funding will help 280 homeless veterans get off the streets. more than 3 million dollars will go to 6 bay area housing agencies in the form of housing vouchers with the vouchers veterans pay 30% of their income toward register housing and the government makes up the difference. they also provide support services and case management. >> one of the most troubled neighborhoods have a message for police. find out what they want to say. >> it is going to warm up, steve will be here with the details for your neighborhood. >>> plus you may have seen the photos earlier today. now we have the first video of the new big baby at a local zoo. >>> bay area -- bay bridge traffic on the upper deck was slow all morning because of a motorcycle crash that was reported just before 6:30. chp says the motorcyclist lost control and fell off his bike in the fast lane near treasure island, that rider was injured but no other cars were involved, the back up made a

authorities have identified three similar ricin-laced letters postmarked shreveport, louisiana, one sent to president obama at the white house and another to new york city mayor bloomberg and another to an antigun lobby group in washington, dc. investigators say there was a low level of to bit and the work of an amateur. >> college students are joining president obama at the white house today calling on congress to stop federally subsidized student loan rates from doubling on july 1. today's white house event marks the beginning of a public campaign by the president to tend country rates or to find a long-term compromise that avoids the scheduled rate increase. president obama has proposed linking the rates to the financial markets and house republicans passed a similar map but it sets a cap. >> coming up, the ad that has medical groups demanding an investigation. >> you can get a free pet this weekend. >> what would you do, kristen, if you found $10,000? the search that led a 10-year old to >> if you have been thinking of adding a measure furry friend to the family this weekend could an

tainted with the poison ricin sent to president obama and new york mayor michael bloomberg, sent from shreveportlouisiana, an hour and a half away from where the texas man lives, another man is under arrest in washington state for sending more tainted mail, at least 4 envelopes were post marked in spokane, including one addressed to president obama. three of the letters contain the poison ricin. >>> the santa clara county district attorney has charged two with grand theft and fraud. they are unrelated. they are both accused of charging the state for home healthcare while the patients were actually being taken care of in nursing homes. each could face more than three years in prison. they are scheduled for arraignment june 13th. >>> danville police are looking for a man who robbed a subway sandwich shop yesterday afternoon. this is a picture from san ramon police in an earlier robbery case. investigators believe the same man committed both robberies. yesterday's hold up happened at 5:20 p.m. in the rose garden shopping center on camino ramon, the man is in his early 20s, 5'5," 130 pounds. >>> the

all three, investigators say, were post marked in shreveport, louisiana, and mailed ten days ago on may 20th, and all contained a material that initial tests say was a form of the deadly poison called ricin, made from the beans or seeds of the castor plant. those same beans are the source of castor oil, widely used in making medicines, but if correctly processed, they can also yield a deadly poison for which there is no known anecdote. >> it basically will deploy the tissues that it touches. so, if you inhale it, it would give you lung damage. if you ingest it, it would give you damage to your gut. >> reporter: a month ago, federal prosecutors charged a mississippi man, james everett dutschke, with mailing letters of ricin to president obama and a senator of mississippi. both were stopped at mail screening centers. and the fbi arrested a man in spokane, washington, last week, accusing him of sending threatening letters containing ricin to a federal judge there. as for the potential penalties for sending letters containing ricin, the mississippi man faces a biological weapons charge. it

shrevepo shreveport, louisiana. we'll have wet weather today. there's some of the rainfall now. heavy rain from greenville, mississippi, to joust south of memphis. rainy and stormry for areas in the tennessee valley. the northern plains. a decent day from d.c. to new england. as we go through the week end, the northern plains best chance of severe weather, then the mid-atlantic, i think, from virginia, north carolina, to d.c., rain could move in saturday and be with you all day sunday. >> oh, that's too bad. >>> paging chad ocho cinco johnson, if you're watching, the police want a word with you. >>> and lottery fever sweeps the nation. we'll by a ticket. >>> and pat robertson's bizarre advice for a woman whose husband cheated on her. "first look" is back in three minutes. >>> when i was going to school, there were demonstrations against the vietnam war, forced busing for racial equality. we had big issues but we got through them because we believed. we had people inside that building that cared about kids. public education, teachers, an american value. t sneeze... ♪ [ sneezes ]

little rock, shreveport, waco.ll could have long-running tornadoes involved in these powerful storms. into the northeast, there's some humid air. and that little cutoff line where it's wet, damp and rainy, a little bit to the north. portland, 55. look at the big difference between that and new york city at 82 degrees. >> our hearts are with everyone here. and we talked to so many people. we spent the night, walking through and surveying the damaged areas here in moore. and we are live this morning in moore, oklahoma. let's go back to new york with josh, robin, george and lara. >> okay, sam, we'll be back to you in a little bit for much more on that tornado. >>> now we'll shift gears to that billion-dollar deal for our news partners at yahoo! that could change the way we use the internet. there is marissa mayer and david karp, the man who brought us tumblr. no company can pay to be on angie's list, so you can trust what you're reading. angie's list is like having thousands of close neighbors where i can go ask for p

investigators say all three were postmarked from shreveport, louisiana, and mailed on may 20th. in an unrelated case, the fbi said thursday a letter containing ricin was mailed to president obama from spokane, washington. >>> now to what's being called a problem with no good options. syria and what to do about continued fighting. president obama meets with nato secretary-general today as the u.s. grapples with how to respond to the ongoing civil war. tracie potts joins us live from washington with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this morning there is news from syria's president that missiles from russia that had been contracted and promised three years ago are now in the process of being delivered. in fact, he says the first shipment is already there. the state department can't confirm this, but if, in fact, that's the case, it escalates the situation and raises more questions about whether or not the u.s. should be arming the other side, the opposition, that's what john mccain has said. monday when he went on a secret mission into syria, he met with the opp

both letters were postmarked from shreveport, louisiana. >>> investigators in contra costa county say there may be more victims of a former high school football coach accused of a long list of sex crimes against children. 51-year-old barron edwards was arrested last week. he was formally charged tuesday. he coached the varsity football team at kennedy high school in richmond from 2004-'05. investigators are urging other victims to come forward. >>> a wanted sex offender from san jose is behind bars this morning. thousands of miles away from home. 34-year-old nigel garcia was arrested in north carolina last week. police say he had been living under a different name for about two years working as a mechanic and volunteering as a youth baseball coach. he even has a wife and young daughter in north carolina. garcia was wanted in san jose because police say he never registered as a sex offender. garcia is expected to be extradited back to california. >>> oakland police have boarded up a warehouse with a pot grow inside that caught fire early this morning. investigators say the marijuana gr

authorities believe all three were sent by the same person on may 20th, from shreveport, louisiana.the letters say, quote, you will have to kill me and my family before you get my guns. anyone wants to come to my house will get shot innb the face. >>> is she being framed or a drug smuggler? an arizona mother of seven is behind bars tonight in a mexican jail. she's finally been able to speak to the media. she says she's innocent. yanira maldonado has been in jail for the last nine days. she was born in mexico but now an american citizen, said she was set up. along with her husband, she was returning to her phoenix area home after attending a funeral across the border. the bus she was on stopped at a military checkpoint and police say they found 12 pounds of marijuana underneath her seat. >> i need to be back home with my family, and my children. and my loving husband. >> her husband and seven children. mexican military officials with are supposed to testify in court today regarding this case. but they never showed up. meanwhile, maldonado's attorney is hopeful surveillance video fro

both were mailed that from shreveport, louisiana on may 20th. ricin-laced letters tent to the president, a mississippi senator and a mississippi judge were sent a month ago. a man was arrested on suspicion of sending those earlier letters. there's no word if the earlier letters and the latest ones are linke linked. >> mara? >> thank you very much. >> attorney general eric holder already under fire from republicans is facing a new round of criticism from the news media. the new york times is refusing a scheduled meeting with him, they say because it's off the record. reporter and lawmakers have been critical of the justice department's seizure of ap phone records as part of a leak investigation. holder testified before congress earlier this month where he denied any wrongdoing and cited national security as the reason for that search. >>> a possible game changer in pakistani taliban leadership and influence. intelligence officials say a u.s. drone strike killed the number two leader. the white house will not confirm the reports. but press secreta

. >> law enforcement sources said the letters were postmarked from shreveport, louisiana. >>> attorney general eric holder is trying to make amends with the media, but his efforts are being met with resistance. the request from president obama for holder to meet with journalists this week. however the "new york times," associated press and huffington post will not attend because the justice department asked for the meeting to be off the record. holder is also under heavy criticism from lawmakers who believe he may have committed perjury during his may 15th testimony on capitol hill. >> with regard to the potential prosecution of the press force disclosed material, that's not something i have been involved in, heard of or think is a wise policy. >> just days after making that statement we learned holder personally signed off on a warrant names fox news reporter james rosen a criminal co-conspirator in a criminal leak case. yesterday the white house press secretary jay carney rejected claims that holder misled congress, adding the president has confidence in holder's abilities as attorne

new boston is about an hour and a half from shreveport, louisiana, where two of the letters were postmarked. thursday the government confirmed a third letter. this one, a letter to president obama, is being tested for ricin. it was intercepted at a military base here in washington, d.c., where all of the white house mail is screened. sources tell cbs news the letter had the same markings as the two letters sent to new york mayor michael bloomberg and to his washington, d.c.-based gun control group. the letter arrived in a white business envelope with no return address. the letter was unsigned and contained oily orange stains which tested positive for ricin. >> there's different ways of deducing it, and i don't want to speculate for what this way was, but this was a gooey substance. >> the letter to bloomberg also contained a threat. it read, you will have to kill me and my family before you get my guns. anyone who wants to come to my house will get shot in the face. what's in this letter is nothing compared to what i've got prepared for you. ricin is made from caster beans and can be lethal

. >>> take a look at this, damage around shreveport, louisiana, after severe weather moved in yesterday afternoon. the sky grew dark as it was hit with torrential rain, powerful winds. a hotel and several homes damaged, trees and power lines came crashing down and thousands without electricity. >>> more of the same for louisiana on the roadways this morning. driving almost everywhere in the southeast is going to be a little tricky thanks to hail, heavy winds and possible tornadoes once again. also, plan on wet roadways from st. louis to the great lakes and west into the dakotas and if you're flying, airport delays are possible in memphis, minneapolis, new orleans, chicago and charlotte. >>> well, we're hearing for the first time from that philadelphia mother whose baby rolled on to subway tracks while trapped a stroller. this happened wednesday. the stroller, you're about to see it, falls on to the tracks at one of the elevated stations. so tough to watch. her 14-month-old daughter is doing fine. she says the stroller rolled away when she turned around to look at a clock. >> she's a lot

the letters were postmarked on may 20 from shreveport, louisiana, with no return address. they each contained a pink- orange oily substance that tested positive for the poison ricin. >> there are different ways of producing it. and i don't want to speculate as to what this way was but it was a gooey substance. >> reporter: president obama a u.s. senator and two judges have all been targeted with ricin letters in the last month. investigators are not saying if the latest letters are linked to those attacks. danielle nottingham, cbs news, the white house. >> three officers who had contact with the letter sent to mayor bloomberg came down with minor ricin poisoning symptoms. they are similar to a stomach bug. doctors say they are okay now. >>> this is a look at the dark sky near oklahoma city. storm clouds have been building swirling all afternoon bringing heavy rain, high winds and that lightning. tornado warnings have been issued. our chief meteorologist paul deanno keeping an "eye on the storm" and ours. >> things very calm around here but in the midwest it's anything but.

shreveport is certainly going to face some of these thunderstorms tonight, austin, texas, memphis tennessee, as well. tornado watches. >> jim cantore, thank you for being part of the coverage. >> always, always. >> we'll take a break in our coverage. when we come back, we're going to talk more about this building code and shelter issue here in this devastated town of moore, oklahoma. >>> welcome back. here in the state of oklahoma, the expression "this hard land" comes to mind, and it's true in more ways than one. when you think about it, the national conference of tornado preparation is held in oklahoma city, and they do that every year for a reason. this weather is a surprise to no one, and for the most part they're ready for it when it comes. but nationwide, especially people on both coasts are asking why aren't there more shelters, cellars, basements? why aren't there more safe houses within houses across this region given the weather here? our report on that tonight from nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: yet another devastating tornado, and so many people are asking, why aren't there mo

worth area, tyler, shreveport, texarkana, little rock. this area of moderate risk, possibilities of tornados today, affects 9.5 million people are at risk of seeing dangerous weather today. >> yesterday, in 1999, it was a series of tornados. this was one huge tornado. >> yeah, the one that went through moore in '99 was a single tornado. this one was very similar to that but a little wider. that's why it actually affected so much larger of an'. the outbreak in the southeast in 2011 that killed over 300 people, that was like dozens and dozens of twisters. >> bill, thank you very much. you've been up all night doing weather reports for us. there's iconic images of these trains and i want to show you what seems to be one of them. both of the new york tabloid newspapers have this image and that is near what was plaza towers elementary school. it's one of the sites of the worst damage of the storm. at least seven children reportedly killed there. by some estimates that number could climb a whole loot higher. crews search for missing children th

. >> host: first call for kathleen sharp comes from david in shreveport, louisiana. david, go ahead, please. >> caller: yes, how you doing, kathleen? my mother was -- [inaudible] we think to her death with heart problems. we live in the south. women like to take -- i'd really like to take more responsibility for my health, i'm on a lot of medication. [inaudible] what would you suggest for people like me that live in the south that may not have many alternatives for going to a type of doctor, what would you suggest? [inaudible] >> host: go ahead. >> guest: well, i applaud you for taking responsibility for your own health and trying to get off of all those medications. one of the things i would do is try to go online, although i have to tell you that a lot of times we're not able to find out all the information that we need by going online. i would try simple things. i didn't quite understand, and forgive me, what your ailments are, but exercise, you know, great healthy food, getting off the couch, walking around. the simple sort of time-honored things that for centuri

. >> reporter: authorities identified three similar ricin-laced letters sent to this shreveport, louisiana, post office, one to new york city mayor michael bloomberg, another to the director of his anti-gun lobby in washington and a third to president obama. >> he said, anyone who comes for my guns will be shot in the face. >> reporter: images of one letter obtained exclusively by abc news shows it was postmarked on may 20th, the typed message inside splattered with pinkish orange globs said to be ricin, but investigators say the substance had a low level of toxicity, apparently the work of an amateur. >> ricin is made from castor beans, and what happens is they don't follow the recipe correctly. they don't really know what they're doing. >> reporter: there have been six confirmed ricin-laced letters sent to public figures so far this year. none has killed or seriously harmed recipients or the postal workers who delivered them, but the latest cases have rattled nerves. >> we're all on the line already. this is starting to get scary. >> reporter: investigators believe the latest ricin lette

." >> reporter: a copy of the letter obtained by abc news shows it was postmarked in shreveport, louisianacompared to what i have got planned for you." the colored stain seen here are said to be remnants of the ricin. >> there are people who do things that may be irrational, do things that are wrong, but it is a very complex world out there. we just have to deal with that. >> reporter: the u.s. mail has been flooded with some 54,000 threatening letters, with unknown substances in the last dozen years. almost all of them hoaxes. but this year, there have now been at least six letters sent to public figures confirmed by the fbi as containing ricin. >> if it is the real stuff and you get enough into your system, it is lethal. there is no antidote for it. >> reporter: in the most famous case, a kgb agent operating in london in 1978 killed a soviet defector by injecting ricin into him from the tip of an umbrella. u.s. officials say al qaeda continues to try to find a way to use ricin in terror attacks. but for all of that no one in the u.s. has ever died or been seriously harmed from ricin mail