who have been signing up to this, will they now have to be properly protected more than they are already? no question. look, all government agencies, both at the federal level and state and local levels, have protocols for screening mail. that s the good news here. those protocols actually worked. people identified something suspicious, called emergency services, and were able to sort of quarantine it, if you will, so it wouldn t spread. i expect every state and local government and agency right now are going over protocols and refreshing people s preparedness to be on alert for it. thank you both very much indeed. want to turn now to our other big story tonight, extreme weather. chad myers is live for us in watonga, oklahoma. chasing storms today across the state. chad, what s the latest? well, it just started raining here, piers. but we do know that a lot of weather is still on the way here. behind me, right over my shoulder, an awful lot of lightning over the top of those
no question. look, all government agencies, both at the federal level and state and local levels, have protocols for screening mail. that s the good news here. those protocols actually worked. people identified something suspicious, called emergency services, and were able to sort of quarantine it, if you will, so it wouldn t spread. i expect every state and local government and agency right now are going over protocols and refreshing people s preparedness to be on alert for it. thank you both very much indeed. want to turn now to our other big story tonight, extreme weather. chad myers is live for us in watonga, oklahoma. chasing storms today across the state. chad, what s the latest? well, it just started raining here, piers. but we do know that a lot of weather is still on the way here. behind me, right over my shoulder, an awful lot of lightning over the top of those silos there, the grain silos. let s just go from the start.
will the other thousand mayors who have been signing up to this, will they now have to be properly protected more than they are already? no question. look, all government agencies, both at the federal level and state and local levels, have protocols for screening mail. that s the good news here. those protocols actually worked. people identified something suspicious, called emergency services, and were able to sort of quarantine it, if you will, so so it wouldn t spread. i expect every state and local government and agency right now are going over protocols and refreshing people s preparedness to be on alert for it. thank you both very much indeed. want to turn now to our other big story tonight, extreme weather. chad myers is live for us in oklahoma. chasing storms today across the state. chad, what s the latest? well, it just started raining here, piers. but we do know that a lot of weather is still on the way here. behind me, right over my
we understand that it was, as you said, a ch 53 c stallion. marine helicopter, we do not know how many people were on board. but nato officials now confirming those six dead. we don t know how many more were on board besides that they are also reporting, shep, that there was no reported enemy activity in the area or at the time. but that obviously will be a focus of this investigation as it always is, was this pilot error? was it mechanical failure or was it indeed enemy activity that brought down this chopper somewhere in southern afghanistan, shep. shepard: all right, updates from jonathan hunt in the newsroom as warranted. meanwhile a copy of al qaeda s english language magazine somehow found its way into the prison at guantanamo bay. a troubling admission, no doubt, from a government prosecutor during a hearing there this week. and we re told it came out right in the middle of arguments over screening mail that comes in for high value detainees. they call the magazine