least there was a eradication of mail going on to the white house and other building. i looked at some things, it could make envelopes very brittle. paper would sometimes crumble. you d look at discs and things like that being mailed and they d be totally warped. i m not clear, to be perfectly frank, brooke, whether they are still doing that sort of irradiation or not of mail coming into federal buildings. apparently this particular building is specifically designed because of what happened. you were talking about the anthrax mail attacks in october of 01 and clearly it is serving its purpose. jeanne, i ll let you continue to get information. thank you for that update, and hopefully we ll get you back on. one more thought. go ahead, jeanne. reporter: we do have a little piece of new information from a law enforcement source. this source says that the envelope, and this is referenced to one envelope, was that ignited was not opened and did not go off, and in an employee s
are all kinds of violence, fears of moring, which being kidnapped. and actor matt dillon is working hard there he is. how are you doing? i m doing good, brooke. i ll talk to him a little bit about the don try.
employee s hands. it actually went off after that employee tossed that envelope into a bin, and according to jeanne meserve, there are similar circumstances. does that mean that the envelope looked alike or it had a similar sort of fiery flare and sulfuric smell? don t know. jeanne is working on that. i want to bring back in, mike brooks, your backyard, washington, d.c. talking about what investigators will glean from the evidence from one of these envelopes. what they ll do is, take this take the evidence from yesterday and from today. send it down to the fbi lab in quantico, the explosives lab. explosives examiners will take a look at this. as we talked about, they ll be looking for hairs and fibers, and one of the last places they send this is for fingerprint evidence. they sent it late because that usually make as mess of the evidence because of the different dyes and things they use to try to lift any prints off of that. one of the other things, too. keep in mind, most governm
tell me who you see and have you seen evacuations? sure, brooke. we re seeing a lot of police, fire, emergency, medical assistance, a lot of apparatuses here. the fbi and atf are on their ways. jeanne meserve reported. where we are, a fairly industrial and mixed use residential area. the scene i m shooting is at a budweiser distributesing plant. those two locations have not been evacuated where we are. that distribution, beer distributor, and the bank have not been evacuated and it looks like the building to the left of our shot has not been evacuated either. as we get probably a block and a half away right knew from that post office facility and it s tough to see. we haven t seen a lot of folks streaming out of there. things you typically see in an evacuation like that but we are seeing tons and tons of emergency personnel and police and fire right now.
determined to identify them guys. bring them in. they wasn t public yesterday. they re asking for your help, the public s help. not even a one day later, huge break in the case. casey wian joins us from monterrey park. this is a sick story. it has hardened investigators in california disgusted. what s the story? reporter: yeah, brooke, it s really disturbing. 13 dvds anonymously sent to the los angeles sheriff s department. they identified eight victims, developmentally disabled victims they believe in a residential care facility. they ve identified ten different suspects who sexually assaulted these victims and video taped it. as we mentioned the images were so disgusting that it sickened