Good evening. And we begin with that developing story tonight, the pentagon acknowledging a major mistake. Sending live anthrax from a facility in utah. They sent samples to nine states, one even sent overseas to south korea. They thought that the samples, the spores, were dead, but tonight, one of those samples was, in fact, live anthrax. And now, the urgent effort to test the others. The pentagon saying there is no risk to the general public. Dr. Besser is standing by. But we begin with abcs senior justice correspondent Pierre Thomas. Reporter tonight, state Health Departments are racing to make sure no one has been contaminated by anthrax accidentally shipped from a military weapons facility. And the centers for Disease Control is on the ground in utah, working to find out how and why the pentagon shipped commercially live anthrax spores from a facility in utah to labs in nine states and another in south korea. So far, Health Officials say the risk for exposure to the deadly biologi
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