available. susan candiotti has been reporting on this story for us. what s the latest, susan? what else are you hearing? well, of course, as you indicated, they d be doing field tests right now. that s normally what would be happening at this time once they have the letters in hand. as you said, we re talking about six letters that were sent to various locations in new jersey including three hotels near the super bowl, and as you said, an additional litter sent to the office of former mayor rudy giuliani in midtown manhattan. so at this time we re talking about a suspicious white powdery substance. that s how it s being described to us. a younld have the joint terrorism task force responding, of course, to the scene at this time. they re calling this a routine matter that they would be looking into under any circumstance but especially now with heightened attention, let s say to put it mildly, around the super bowl that s happening on
they ve been enormous. this is what happens really at every super bowl. i ve seen them, covered many of them. of course, however, this is the largest metropolitan area you can imagine with really so many wide-ranging venues. you ve gotten a venue 12, 15 miles away from times square in new york where so many activities are going on and you have a well ordained team of federal, state, and local agencies who have gone through this drill before but now on a much broader scale, so they are well equipped. they have said repeatedly to respond to this kind of thing. and at this moment, wolf, no one is raising any alarms. they re doing what they re supposed to do as things come up. at this point, they re calling it, in their words, a routine matter as they respond to this. it doesn t mean they another concerned about it. it doesn t mean they re throwing all their effort into it. but they re obviously responding as they would to any kind of
happened on monday at a gas station in a town near mexico city. officials with the international atomic energy agency are reporting now that the truck was delivering a load of cobalt 60 from a hospital in tijuana to a storage center for radioactive waste. a sort of routine matter. the doctors say they use cobalt 60 to treat cancer, but the experts are saying in theory terrorists could potentially use it to make a so-called dirty bomb which uses conventional explosives to spread radiation. those same authorities say this image shows workers preparing to transport the shipment of cobalt 60. the u.n. warns that the substance would be extremely dangerous. and that s a quote, if someone were to damage it or remove it from the protective casing. casey ste gal live in our newsroom in dallas. who knows if the people who got the truck had any clue what was in the back of the truck. maybe they just wanted the truck. but now they have cobalt 60. how dangerous is it?
spread to half of the country. it s been linked to ground turkey. what you need to know about this recallo keep your family safe. i m ashe velshi. burning up another day of searing heat. it s already proving deadly on this american morning. good morning to you. are you awake yet? you will be. happy thursday. it s august 4th. this is american morning. there s a lot going on today. we should get right to it. i want to talk first about the heat. heat is on congress to finish their business as we ve been reporting. they ve left washington without resolving a dispute over funding the federal aviation administration. that s resulted in tens of thousands of american workers not getting a paycheck today. on last night s in the arena with tom foreman, one worker voiced his frustration. running ourselves into debt, selling assets. unlike our congressmen and senators who are on vacation. nice congressional junket. i m sitting here watching the grass grow. watching
coronary arteries. the former president s in very good spirits. he will continue to focus on the work of his foundation and haiti s relief and long oh term recovery efforts down there. apparently based upon your reporting and ors, he s going to be quite vigorous in his activities. and the secretary of state hillary clinton is now headed to new york city, as you would expect. she s not changing her plans because of this? it doesn t appear as that. she s headed up to new york city presumably to be with him. on the way to qatar. great reporting from everybody. it looks like it s not an urgent situation. a routine matter for people who have heart disease. you have to do this once in a while, get some stents put in. that s what the former president did today, after experiencing chest pains over the past couple of days. the nbc reporters are staying throughout this story. much more on former president clinton who has been hospitalized up in new york. probably spend the night ther