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Federal authorities investigate suspicious mailings sent to…

The FBI, Capitol Police and Postal Inspection Service are looking into letters reportedly holding suspicious substances, sent to congressional and election offices; the contents remain unclear.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe FBI, Capitol Police and the Postal Inspection Service are investigating suspicious mailings sent to congressional and secretary of state offices.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSkip Waverly is live at a mail facility.

  3. Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentI'm standing outside a mail facility, Hank. Behind me, investigators keep going in and out, and there's a very patient man who's been holding the door this whole time.

  4. Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentNewsmax reports the letters held suspicious substances, and what they are is still unclear.

  5. Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentNobody has told me to leave, which I'm treating as a sign I could handle a desk. I'm just saying.

  6. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNoted. What are people there saying?

  7. Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentI'm here with Mel Baptiste, who has sorted mail across the street for twenty-two years. Mel, how are people feeling?

  8. Mel BaptisteCareful. I've looked at every envelope sideways today, including my own electric bill, and honestly that one's always been threatening.

  9. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThanks, Skip. Before the top of the hour, why are so many grown kids heading back to their old bedrooms? And please, check your mail.

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