We have cnns anna coren in hong kong and we have tom fuentes. How seriously is the white house treating these threats, michelle . Reporter we know theyre treating it seriously as they have any threats concerning ambassadors over the last few months with the other incidents weve seen most recently the attack of the u. S. Ambassador to south korea earlier this month, but on this case i mean its interesting because these Death Threats happened by phone from an englishspeaking man to the embassy in tokyo happened last month allegedly. Were only now hearing about this starting in the asian press. So the white house is not confirming these threats. Neither is the National Security council. Neither is the u. S. Embassy although we are expecting to hear something soon from the u. S. State department. These threats by this man allegedly were threatening the life of Carolyn Kennedy as well as a u. S. Consul general also in japan although based in okinawa. We dont expect the threats to affect the