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might soon shoot at that get away car and it s not a bullet. good evening in for diane. it s great to have you on a thursday night. we begin with that scare playing out in atlanta tonight, the cdc asking how could this happen, one of their own workers making a huge and dangerous mistake, potentially exposing his co-workers to live anthrax. here s the latest at this hour. we re learning 75 cdc employees may have been exposed, those workers being treated at this hour. tonight there s now an investigate under way into how this happened. abc s chief medical editor, dr. richard besser who spent many years at the cdc got the call today, his source in the lab telling him he was, quote, devastated. so he lead off with dr. besser. reporter: the cdc is telling us tonight that something went terribly wrong. live anthrax was passed along to labs that weren t equipped to handle it. between june 6th and 13th, 75 people without the needed protective gear may have breathed it and become