the north koreans denied any role in this. and the malaysian police have not gone so far as to say that the north koreans had any involvement in terms of orchestrating this from a governmental level, but the intelligence officials in south korea do believe that these orders came from kim jong un himself. matt, as you know, malaysian authorities have said that a nerve agent called vx is what killed kim jong-nam. experts say that even just a drop of vx is lethal. are malaysian officials certain that there is no more threat to the country from this nerve agent? reporter: what they say they are certain of is that there is no more threat inside terminal 2, the part of the airport where this attack actually took place. they sent in hazmat teams over the weekend. there was no contamination left over. they did not find anything. what they can be less certain of, though, is the threat to the rest of the country.
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we begin the coverage on this breaking story in seoul, south korea. 22 people exposed where you are. what treatment are they getting tonight? they re on antibiotics. some of them have been given vaccinations. we re told that thankfully currently none are showing signs of having been exposed and there is no threat to the public here. but this was a very serious situation as you can imagine. they were handling live anthrax. emergency services personnel moved in. they destroyed that sample of anthrax. hazmat teams came in to core don off the area and decontaminate the facility where this training was taking place. so i was actually just at this base a few weeks ago. i m trying to understand why was the defense department sending anthrax of any sort to a base in south korea. i know you ve got answers to that. the military says that it s routine training.
the surface, and that s what we re trying to do, to look inside the system and see what is down there. that will tell us about about the health of the overall system. she says she plans 22 dives in total over the next month, all over the gulf to get an idea how widespread the recovery or the lingering damage is. john roberts, thank you, sir. the number of people confirmed dead from the devastates mudslide in washington state has risen again. the number number is 27 people tied. that s according to an emergency management official on scene. the number of people reported missing has fallen from 30 yesterday to 22 today. as we reported yesterday, recovery teams have been wading through thick mud and what they call toxic sludge from sewage, propane, and other household chemicals. officials say hazmat teams are on scene now. the governor of washington, jay inslee, estimated the total damage has reached $10 million.
lou, your entire career. how marriage superior an event like this and it doesn t get any more major than the super bowl to have this kind of incident occur only a couple of days before? it s too commonplace, to be very candid with you, wolf. i think it s happening more and more frequently. but what s brought this to such attention is the fact that it s around the super bowl. i mean this is far more commonplace than the general public or the media realize. i mean this is a fairly common occurrence. substances are frequently sent to business establishments, sent to individuals at times, and they go through the process they re going through right now. hazmat teams, four enic investigations, it goes on and on from there. those of us who covered the anthrax letter threat more than a decade ago in washington and new york, we remember that very, very vividly. stand by. evan paris is joining us right
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