SHOTLIST:

1. Various exteriors of hazardous materials team members in full gear

2. Wide shot President George W. Bush with children

3. SOUNDBITE (English) George W.Bush - U.S. President:

"We are still looking on that, we've all got different feelings about it. We are gathering as much information and as soon as we make definitive conclusions we'll share it with the American people."

4. Various exteriors of hazardous materials team members in full gear

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ari Fleischer - White House Press Secretary:

"The investigators at the FBI are very carefully exploring all the information they have about the anthrax attack on the country. I'm not at liberty to go beyond what I've said, I can just report to you the information that I've heard, I can't give you the scientific reasons behind it but you can assume that they are based on investigative and scientific reasons

6. Various of anthrax spores through a microscope

7. Various of lab personnel at work

8. Various of anthrax spores through a microscope

9. Various of anthrax letters

STORYLINE:

Anthrax spores that contaminated U.S. mail in October were apparently produced in the United States, the White House said Monday.

President George W. Bush said the government is mystified by the case.

Press secretary Ari Fleischer said the evidence is not conclusive but it is increasingly "looking like it was a domestic source." He said officials still did not know who delivered the anthrax.

Army officials are doubtful that potentially deadly anthrax in letters mailed to Congress originated at a military medical research center, even though spores in both places were a genetic match.

The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease obtained its supply from the Agriculture Department and shared it with five labs in the United States, Canada and Britain, spokesman Chuck Dasey said Sunday.

The Washington Post reported Sunday that the genetic makeup of the anthrax used in the letters mailed to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Sen. Patrick Leahy matched the anthrax in the Army's stockpile.

On Capitol Hill, meanwhile, technicians worked Monday to pump chlorine dioxide gas into portions of the ventilation system of the Hart Senate Office Building to kill anthrax spores still lingering there.

The Hart building has remained closed since Oct. 17, two days after an anthrax-filled letter was received in Daschle's office. The Environmental Protection Agency reported Friday that traces of anthrax remained after its initial fumigation efforts.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed 18 cases of anthrax infection nationwide _ 11 cases of inhalation anthrax and seven through the skin _ since the anthrax-by-mail attacks began in October. Five people have died, all from inhalation anthrax.

U.S. officials say systemic problems caused an Army bioterror facility to accidentally send live anthrax to other labs for more than a decade.

At a press briefing Thursday, Pentagon officials said half the lots of anthrax produced at the Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah contained live anthrax after attempts to kill the bacteria failed.

The Pentagon has ordered a new investigation to determine who at Dugway was responsible.

The problem was first identified in May, but the investigation provided new details that showed the problem goes back more than a decade.

The anthrax was supposed to have been killed with gamma rays before being shipped for use by commercial labs and government facilities.

No illnesses have been reported but 31 people have been given medications as a precaution.

U.S. officials say systemic problems caused an Army bioterror facility to accidentally send live anthrax to other labs for more than a decade.

At a press briefing Thursday, Pentagon officials said half the lots of anthrax produced at the Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah contained live anthrax after attempts to kill the bacteria failed.

The Pentagon has ordered a new investigation to determine who at Dugway was responsible.

The problem was first identified in May, but the investigation provided new details that showed the problem goes back more than a decade.

The anthrax was supposed to have been killed with gamma rays before being shipped for use by commercial labs and government facilities.

No illnesses have been reported but 31 people have been given medications as a precaution.

DEFENSE DEPARTMENT TELEVISION

Arlington, Virginia - July 23, 2015

1. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Work, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense:

"I've directed the secretary of the army to conduct a full accountability assessment of those responsible at Dugway Proving Grounds to include initiating a formal investigation of the specific actions that contributed to the unintended shipment of live anthrax spores."

++SOUNDBITES SEPARATED BY BLACK++

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Work, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense

"Until all of these recommendations are addressed in place and undersecretary Kendall has told me they've been addressed, I have directed a moratorium on -- a continued moratorium on the production, handling, testing and shipping of unactivated anthrax. That will continue."

++SOUNDBITES SEPARATED BY BLACK++

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Work, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense

"This review thought us lessons we needed to learn. We were quite frankly surprised by them. They identified institutional and procedural failures we urgently need to addressed. We are shocked by these failures. I want to stress to you that DoD takes full responsibility for these failures, we are implementing changes and recommending the establishment of procedures, processes and protocols that will prevent such a biohazard safety failure from ever happening again."

++SOUNDBITES SEPARATED BY BLACK++

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Work, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense

"There was no findings of malfeasance or wanton... you know, misuse of protocols. It was the protocols themselves that were at fault."

5. Wide of press conference

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Frank Kendall, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics

"But the thing that stood out from us at Dugway was that a fairly large proportion of the samples that they'd irradiated turned out to be positive in their testing -- about 20 percent in the records. That should have been a clear indication to people at Dugway that something was wrong. The number should have been much much lower than that."

7. Wide of press conference

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Frank Kendall, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics

"Too high a percentage of their batches were tested positive when they went through the verification. The review team asked them what that number was, the original answer they got was two or three percent. But the review team checked the records, and the records show that it was more like 20 percent. That's a significant difference. And one of the fundamental characteristics about anthrax and the spores and these treatments for spores is that it's a statistical process. And what you're doing is you're sampling a statistical process. And the technical leadership at Dugway should have understood that and because of that the implications are having that higher failure rate."

9. Wide of press conference

SHOTLIST: NB: no slate at the start of story

APTN - Washington DC

1. Police officers in front of Supreme Court building, pull out to wide shot of Supreme Court

2. Wide shot of US District Courthouse

3. Another shot of the US District Courthouse

4. Close shot of sign on Justice Department, pull out to wide shot of Justice Department building

5. Various shots of Landover, post office which handles Justice Department mail

6. Shot of the US Capitol building

7. Various shots of the Hart Senate office building

POOL - Washington DC

8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tommy Thompson, US Health and Human Services Secretary "The Cohen building has been presumptively positively tested for anthrax these past couple of days, and all of the individuals in the mail room are on antibiotics and we are letting all the individuals know, the mail rooms have been closed down. But presumptive positive means the environmental testing will now go through CDC labs in Atlanta, and that conclusion of that information will be sent back in the next 24 to 48 hours."

POOL - New York

9. Pan witnesses at New York terrorism hearing, stopping at Giuliani

10. Cutaway of hearing

11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rudolf Giuliani, New York Mayor "We've had thousands and thousands of people come through our emergency rooms in the last couple of weeks thinking that they might have anthrax or some other disease, and because of the exercises that were done three, four and five years ago, they're largely prepared for it. Just to digress for a moment, we're actually better prepared for the biological and chemical aspect of this, because that was anticipated, than we were for the World Trade Centre being taken down, which we were not anticipating."

12. Wide shot of hearing

STORYLINE:

The threat of anthrax has sent U-S Supreme Court justices off to an alternative courtroom as evidence of fresh contamination turned up at the U-S State Department and at least two more government buildings.

The discovery of anthrax last week in a remote mail site several blocks from the Supreme Court had already forced the closure of the main Supreme Court building.

The justices held court at a facility several blocks away while tests continued in their permanent quarters.

A court spokeswoman said the latest testing detected anthrax in only one place - a part of the basement mail room.

Tests elsewhere in the mail room and elsewhere in the building showed no evidence of contamination.

There were also positive tests on Monday for anthrax at a building that houses the Voice of America and the Food and Drug Administration, and the main State Department building.

One official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said two pieces of mail brought into the State Department mail room had tested positive.

The mail came directly from the central Brentwood mail processing facility in Washington.

The latest positive test results follow the discovery of anthrax at the Justice Department, where officials announced on Sunday night that several locations in an off-site facility that handles its mail had tested positive for anthrax.

The department's in-house mail rooms stopped receiving mail from the suburban Maryland location several days ago as a precaution.

No other Justice facility has tested positive for anthrax.

On Capitol Hill, the Hart Senate Office Building remained closed on Monday, but other Senate offices were open.

The Hart building houses Senate Majority Tom Daschle's office, where an employee opened a letter containing a highly potent form of anthrax three weeks ago.

Since then, two postal employees from a Washington facility that processed the letter have died.

In all, officials have counted 14 confirmed cases of anthrax in the last three weeks, including three deaths from the inhaled form of the disease.

In New York, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani testified at a field hearing of a House terrorism subcommittee.

Giuliani said his city was better prepared to deal with anthrax and other biological threats than it was to deal with attacks like the one on September 11 because New York law enforcement and emergency services have been trained to deal with biological terrorism for years.

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U.S. officials say systemic problems caused an Army bioterror facility to accidentally send live anthrax to other labs for more than a decade.

At a press briefing Thursday, Pentagon officials said half the lots of anthrax produced at the Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah contained live anthrax after attempts to kill the bacteria failed.

The Pentagon has ordered a new investigation to determine who at Dugway was responsible.

The problem was first identified in May, but the investigation provided new details that showed the problem goes back more than a decade.

The anthrax was supposed to have been killed with gamma rays before being shipped for use by commercial labs and government facilities.

No illnesses have been reported but 31 people have been given medications as a precaution.

FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus035234

U.S. officials say systemic problems caused an Army bioterror facility to accidentally send live anthrax to other labs for more than a decade.

At a press briefing Thursday, Pentagon officials said half the lots of anthrax produced at the Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah contained live anthrax after attempts to kill the bacteria failed.

The Pentagon has ordered a new investigation to determine who at Dugway was responsible.

The problem was first identified in May, but the investigation provided new details that showed the problem goes back more than a decade.

The anthrax was supposed to have been killed with gamma rays before being shipped for use by commercial labs and government facilities.

No illnesses have been reported but 31 people have been given medications as a precaution.

DEFENSE DEPARTMENT TELEVISION

Arlington, Virginia - July 23, 2015

++SOTS SEPARATED BY WHITE FLASH++

1. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Work, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense

"This review taught us lessons we needed to learn. We were quite frankly surprised by them. They identified institutional and procedural failures we urgently need to addressed. We are shocked by these failures. I want to stress to you that DoD takes full responsibility for these failures, we are implementing changes and recommending the establishment of procedures, processes and protocols that will prevent such a biohazard safety failure from ever happening again."

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Work, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense

"Until all of these recommendations are addressed in place and undersecretary Kendall has told me they've been addressed, I have directed a moratorium on -- a continued moratorium on the production, handling, testing and shipping of unactivated anthrax. That will continue."

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Work, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense

"There was no findings of malfeasance or wanton... you know, misuse of protocols. It was the protocols themselves that were at fault."

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Frank Kendall, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics

"But the thing that stood out from us at Dugway was that a fairly large proportion of the samples that they'd irradiated turned out to be positive in their testing -- about 20 percent in the records. That should have been a clear indication to people at Dugway that something was wrong. The number should have been much much lower than that."

SHOTLIST:

POOL - Washington, DC Oct. 25, 2001

1. Tom Ridge walks into White House briefing room

2. Cutaway of press

3. SOUNDBITE: (English) US Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge

"It shows that the anthrax in the letter received in Senator Tom Dachles office has some different characteristics. It is highly concentrated. It is pure and the spores are smaller, therefore they are more dangerous because they can be more easily absorbed in a persons respiratory system."

APTN - Washington, DC Oct. 23, 2001

4. Envelope of anthrax-laced letter sent to Senator Daschle

5. Shots of letters sent to Daschle and Tom Brokaw

POOL - Washington, DC Oct. 25, 2001

6. SOUNDBITE: (English) US Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge

"The DNA tests have also revealed that none of the Anthrax samples have been genetically altered which is very good news obviously because it means that the samples all respond to antibiotics, therefore people who have been exposed can be treated"

APTN - Washington, DC Oct. 25, 2001

7. Exterior shots of the US State Department

8. Shots of congressional staff waiting in line to get into their buildings

9. Close up shot of a "Welcome Back" flyer

10. Staffers walking inside a House of Representatives' office building

11. Capitol police checking car trunk

12. Wide shot of Hart Senate office building through a fence

13. Close shot of sign outside Hart Senate Office building

14. Police tape outside Hart building

15. Lieutenant Dan Nichols and Dr John Eisold, Capitol Physician, walk to microphones outside Capitol

16. Cutaway of press

17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Dan Nichols, Capitol Police Spokesman:

"One of the environmental samples taken from the Hart Senate Office building came back as positive. The swab sample was taken from the first floor freight elevator bank in the Hart Senate Office building, which is in the Southwest quadrant of the building. The investigators have told me that this is a trace sample, which means we're determining how that sample came to be, we're following the course of the letter, but it was a smaller type sample."

18. Cutaway of press

19. Wide shot of Dr John Eisold at presser

20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. John Eisold, Capitol Physician:

"The clinical situation will tell us everything we need to know. I have good reason to believe that this person will turn out to be fine, will not be another index case."

21. People walking to work in front of Capitol

APTN - New York, NY Oct. 25, 2001

21. New York postal employees leaving post office with Cipro

22. Flag at half mast above NY's main post office

23. Flag draped from Post office edifice

24. SOUNDBITE: (English) Danette Chavis, New York Postal Employee

"Of course we're concerned. They put out a lot of memos saying that they care about our

safety. But what they did there shows that they really don't. We get the impression that their main concern is the mail. They don't want to alarm us because they don't want us to not come to work."

25. Postal workers coming out of office

26. Exterior of main post office

STORYLINE:

Concern in the United States over anthrax continued to grow Thursday.

In a recent development, U-S Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge told reporters that anthrax contained in a letter mailed to U-S Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle had different characteristics than the samples found in New York and Florida.

Ridge said the anthrax that fell from the Daschle letter was highly concentrated and pure, and potentially more dangerous because it was made to be more easily absorbed by its victims.

But Ridge said additional testing had confirmed the anthrax found in the letters to Daschle, New York and Florida were from the same strain, and had not been altered genetically.

As such all samples respond to antibiotics.

The Homeland Security Director also announced that the Postal Service had begun environmental testing at 200 facilities along the Eastern Seaboard, supplemented by precautionary spot checks elsewhere around the United States.

He said authorities were prepared to issue masks and gloves for its 800-thousand employees and was testing ways to sterilise the nation's mail.

Meantime, the Postal Service in New York is offering antibiotics to 7-thousand employees at six postal facilities, where five anthrax cases have been confirmed.

The Anthrax Scare

The anthrax scare in the United States was not over either. In May, the U-S Federal Reserve reported about 20 pieces of mail tested positive for traces of anthrax in an initial screening. The tainted mail was discovered as part of routine mail testing by the Federal Reserve in a mobile trailer stationed in a courtyard at the Federal Reserve's main buildings in downtown Washington. Fed spokesman David Skidmore said some of the mail was addressed to Chairman Alan Greenspan as well as other officials.

Five people died and 13 others were sickened in autumn 2001 when anthrax-laden letters were mailed to NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw, the New York Post and the Washington, D.C., offices of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Senator Patrick Leahy. A year later, the FBI had yet to name a suspect.

(a)

Washington DC - May 7, 2002

Exterior view of Federal Reserve

(a)

File

Close up slide of anthrax bacteria

Close up film of antrax

Workers sorting mail

Various (Richard Reid/The Pipe-bomber/ Moussaoui /Lindh/Lockerbie)

In January, US authorities declared a further victory in the war against terrorism when shoebomber Richard Reid was indicted on eight charges. The British-born man was alleged to have tried to blow up an American Airlines flight using a bomb concealed in his shoes.

Authorities also caught up with Luke Helder, suspected of planting bombs in mailboxes across the United States. The FBI says Helder placed 18 bombs in mailboxes in five states along with anti-government messages. Six people were injured in the attacks. 21-year-old Helder had six bombs with him when he was arrested. Federal government officials described the crimes as 'acts of domestic terrorism.'

From the point of view of the US authorities, one of the greatest successes in the post-September 11 anti-terrorism drive was the arrest of Zacarias Moussaoui. Moussaoui was the first person to be charged as an accomplice in the September 11 attacks. He had taken flying lessons in the United States but his family protested his innocence.

The Bush administration also announced it would charge the American man who fought with the Taliban, John Walker Lindh, with conspiracy to kill US citizens in Afghanistan. Lindh told prosecutors that he joined a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan last May and spent seven months there. Osama bin Laden visited the camp several times and on one occasion allegedly met Lindh. Lindh was taken into custody in December 2001 by US forces after a prison uprising in a fortress in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif.

Meanwhile in a Scottish court in the Netherlands Libyan intelligence agent Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi failed in his appeal against his conviction for the Lockerbie bombing. All 259 people on board Pan Am flight 103, as well as 11 people on the ground, were killed when the jet blew up in the skies over the town of Lockerbie.

(b)

Washington DC - January 16, 2002

SOUNDBITE (English) John Ashcroft, US Attorney General

"This morning a Federal Grand Jury in Massachusetts returned a nine count indictment against Richard Colvin Reid. Reid is charged as an Al Qaida trained terrorist who attempted to destroy American Airlines Flight 63 with explosive devices concealed in his shoes."

(a)

Boston, Massachusetts

Slow-motion close of shoebomber Richard Reid in custody

(a)

Boston, Massachusetts - January 28, 2002

Various court sketches of Richard Reid and judge in court

(b)

Reno - May, 10, 2002

Pipe-bomber suspect Luke John Helder walks out and gets into bomb

(a)

Washington DC - January 15, 2002

SOUNDBITE (English) John Ashcroft, US Attorney General

"Today I'm announcing the filing of charges against John Walker Lindh, an American citizen, who was captured in Afghanistan, fighting for the Taliban."

File - Afghanistan - December 2001

John Walker Lindh sitting with other Taliban after his capture

Peru Bomb

A car bomb exploded outside the U.S. Embassy in the Peruvian capital Lima just days before US President George W Bush was due in the city for meetings with his Peruvian counterpart.

Nine people were killed in the bombing and tens injured. The blast occurred at about 10:45 p.m. (0345 GMT Thursday), in front of an upscale shopping centre, in an area with popular late-night restaurants and cinemas.

(a)

Lima March 21, 2002

Building damaged by car bomb which exploded outside the US embassy

Windscreen of car shattered by bomb, pan to body covered with plastic on the street

Crowd of people in front of bank building

Police walking in debris following the explosion

10:15:40

Spain Bombs

Basque separatist group ETA continued its campaign of terror in Spain. In June there were five explosions in two days, timed to coincide with the Seville EU summit. A British man was critically wounded and five others injured in one of the explosions, in Fuengirola, 150 kilometres (90 miles) southeast of Seville.

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Fuengirola - June 22, 2002

Fire officer putting out fire after bomb

Smoke and burnt vehicles

Police gathered next to fire engine

Burnt out vehicle

Greece Bombs

In Greece, authorities said they were close to dismantling the November 17 terrorist group, which eluded Greek, American and British authorities since 1975, when it first emerged with the killing of the CIA station chief in Athens, Richard Welch. The anti-American group has used guns, bombs and anti-tank rockets to carry out 23 killings - including those of four US military officials, two Turkish diplomats and Greek businessmen and politicians. In July 2002 prosecutors in Athens charged two suspected November 17 terrorists over a series of robberies and killings, including those of American and British military officials. At the same time, an investigating magistrate arraigned the first three November 17 suspects arrested after a police sweep began three weeks ago. They were jailed pending trial, but no court date was set. Those in custody included an alleged leader of the extreme left-wing November 17 group, which carried out bombings, assassinations and robberies with impunity for 27 years.

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Athens - July 21, 2002

November 17 (Greek terrorist group) suspect Christodoulos Xiros (large man in grey t-shirt) is walked into court

Xiros, followed by his brother Vassilis Xiros (long hair), and Dionissis Georgiadis (black t-shirt)

Police officer

Suspects Iraklis Kostaris (grey t-shirt) and Costas Karatsolis are lead into court

(a)

Athens - July 10, 2002

'November 17' flag

various guns and grenades found by police

FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus046194

An Army report says a one-star general and 11 other people associated with an Army biodefense laboratory face potential punishment for failures that contributed to the mistaken shipment of live anthrax to other labs over a period of years.

The report Friday names Brig. Gen. William E. King, who commanded the lab at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah as a colonel between 2009 and 2011.

It faults him for actions that perpetuated a complacent atmosphere among lab workers.

The report's findings were first reported by USA Today.

The report sought to assign blame for conditions at the lab that came under public scrutiny when it was disclosed in May 2015 that live anthrax from the Dugway lab had been shipped by mistake to 194 other labs.

FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus046194

An Army report says a one-star general and 11 other people associated with an Army biodefense laboratory face potential punishment for failures that contributed to the mistaken shipment of live anthrax to other labs over a period of years.

The report Friday names Brig. Gen. William E. King, who commanded the lab at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah as a colonel between 2009 and 2011.

It faults him for actions that perpetuated a complacent atmosphere among lab workers.

The report's findings were first reported by USA Today.

The report sought to assign blame for conditions at the lab that came under public scrutiny when it was disclosed in May 2015 that live anthrax from the Dugway lab had been shipped by mistake to 194 other labs.

DEFENSE DEPARTMENT TELEVISION

Arlington, Virginia - January 15, 2016

1. SOUNDBITE (English) Maj. Gen. Paul Ostrowski, investigating officer

"The preponderance of evidence with respect to the investigation yielded the fact that no single event, no single individual, no groups of individuals are directly responsible for the inadvertent shipment of a small amount of active anthrax, or Bacillus anthracis. we did find though evidence that a combination of events, including gaps in science, institutional issues and personal accountability, when taken together, each contributed to this event. Let me be perfectly clear: There was no evidence to suggest in any way, shape or form that lab technicians or the American public were at any time at risk."

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Lt. Gen. Thomas Spoehr, Army biological select agents and toxics task force

"Our recommendations which have been approved by the secretary of the Army include: the establishment of a Department of Defense executive agent who will perform technical review, harmonization of procedures and integrate the inspections for this program."

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Lt. Gen. Thomas Spoehr, Army biological select agents and toxics task force

"We have transferred control of the biological laboratory at Dugway proving ground from the Army test and evaluation command to the research, development and engineering command and eliminated their mission of producing biological agents from export across our customers. So, that production will no longer be conducted at Dugway proving ground, it will be conducted at other laboratories within the DOD."

SHOTLIST:

1. Various of apartment building in Greenwich Village, where anthrax-infected man lives

2. Police on street in front of apartment

3. Wide of street in Greenwich Village where anthrax-infected man lives

4. Wide of storage facility in Brooklyn where anthrax-infected drum was kept

5. Close-up of Pinnacle Self Storage in Brooklyn, where anthrax-infected drum was kept

6. Wide of self storage facility, with police and police tape in foreground

7. Close-up of policeman's face

8. Pinnacle Self Storage sign

9. SOUNDBITE (English): Michael Reyes, Vox pop:

"There's a whole mass of places it could be, when he transported it if they had it, it could be here, it could be anywhere. So actually when you think of it like that it is kind of scary, just a little bit."

10. Various of police outside self storage facility

11. Wide of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other officials entering news conference

12. Journalist with mobile phone

13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Michael Bloomberg, New York Mayor:

"At this time, we have every reason to believe that this infection is an isolated, accidentally and naturally transmitted case. No other illnesses have been reported whatsoever."

14. Wide of Bloomberg speaking at news conference

15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Michael Bloomberg, New York Mayor:

"There is no, I repeat, no evidence at this time of any criminal intent associated with this infection."

16. Wide of Bloomberg speaking at news conference

17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Thomas Freedman, Commissioner of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene:

"There is, at this time, no indication of any risk to the general public. The patient is stable, he has done better than most people with inhalation anthrax do."

18. Cameraman

STORYLINE:

A drum-maker in New York who imports raw animal hides from Africa has been infected with anthrax in what is believed to be an isolated accident that poses no public health threat, US officials said on Wednesday.

44-year-old Vado Diomande, who is also a dancer and choreographer, had travelled to the Ivory Coast in west Africa in December and fell ill in Pennsylvania last week shortly after his return, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.

There was no evidence of any criminal intent or terrorist connection, the mayor said.

"We have every reason to believe that this infection is an isolated, accidentally and naturally transmitted case," Bloomberg said.

Diomande collapsed after performing last week with a dance company in Pennsylvania, according to the Secretary of Pennsylvania's Department of Health.

On February 17, blood tests were taken and by February 20, the tests began to indicate the possible presence of anthrax.

He is in stable condition at a Pennsylvania hospital.

Bloomberg said the man had treated the unprocessed animal hides at a work space in Brooklyn.

Bloomberg said authorities were also screening for contaminants at the man's work area, his vehicle and his Manhattan apartment.

At least four other people, including a family member of the infected man, may have been exposed to anthrax spores and three are being treated with antibiotics, the city health commissioner said.

Anthrax spores are found in soil in many parts of the world, and livestock can become infected by eating contaminated soil or feed.

People can then pick up the infection if they come into contact with contaminated hides or other animal parts.

Teams of federal and city officials planned to search the man's workspace and his apartment to test for additional traces of anthrax.

Officials also wanted to check the areas for any signs that anthrax was being produced to completely rule out the possibility of bioterrorism.

Weeks after the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, the nation was on high alert as anthrax-laced letters popped up in several places, including New York City.

The anthrax attacks killed five people across the country, including a New York City hospital worker and two postal workers, and 17 fell ill.

Investigators never determined who was responsible for the attacks.

SHOTLIST:

1. Exterior, ABC office in New York

2. Tilt down from address to front of office

3. ABC sign

4. ABC employees talking outside office

5. More ABC employees talking outside office

6. Employee entering at another door

7. Sign on door requiring ID card

8. Wide shot, Giuliani arrives

9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rudolph Giuliani, New York Mayor

"Today we've had 51 calls. Eleven involved packages. We've picked them up, now it'll take a while again to get the results back from that but theres nothing that looks at least in plain view that would be positive but you don't know until you do all the testing. Other than that I think things have quietened down somewhat with regard to people reaction. I think people are understanding that this is something that is isolated."

10. Exterior, Post office

11. US flag over Post office

12. People going into post office

13. People inside post office

14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Voxpop

"It really hasn't made me upset about handling mail, I just think that it didn't take very much to throw us all into a panic."

15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Voxpop

"There's a lot of education not only that's necessary with anthrax, but I think that its important with other organisms that can cause trouble. So I just hope we find the people that are doing it fast."

16. Man wheeling cart into AP mailroom

17. Man sorting mail

18. Close shot, envelope as it is opened

19. Man sorting mail through shelf

20. Interior, pharmacy

21. Counter at pharmacy

22. Woman pouring pills from jar

23. Close shot, pills being poured

24. SOUNDBITE: (English) Russell Gellis, Apthorp Pharmacy

"So people we've seen have now calmed down and at this point interestingly enough, even though today the news got out on ABC about an infant coming down with cutaneous anthrax, there really haven't been any calls

25. Cipro pills in bottles

26. Close shot, bottle

STORYLINE:

Security at media mailrooms and post offices in New York remains high after an ABC news producer's infant son was diagnosed with anthrax.

The diagnosis of the 7-month-old child marked the second anthrax case involving a major news organisation in New York in four days, following one at NBC in which a female employee was infected by a letter carrying anthrax.

ABC News President David Westin said on Monday that the boy had developed the skin form of anthrax after spending time at the newsroom last month.

The child is taking antibiotics and is expected to recover.

Other news organisations to be tested included CNN, CBS, Fox, Daily News and New York Post.

But New Yorkers remain cautious, and say they're keeping an eye out for any suspicious behaviour.

New York Rudolph Mayor Giuliani said no anthrax had been detected in the initial tests.

He also said two people outside of New York who had sent hoax anthrax letters had been arrested by the

F-B-I.

Authorities did not discuss the source of the germ involving the child who was believed to have been on two floors of the ABC building on West 66th Street for several hours on September 28.

Westin said the child is the son of a female producer, but did not release names.

The skin version of anthrax that the boy contracted is not the more-lethal inhaled form that infected two Florida men who worked at a supermarket tabloid, killing American Media Inc. employee Robert Stevens, 63.

New York city health officials say after searching the mail rooms of major media companies overnight they have not found any new traces of anthrax.

The most popular drug for treating anthrax is Ciprofloxin, patented by Bayer pharmaceuticals.

New Yorkers flocked to drug stores last Friday to stock up on tablets, but the mania has faded in the last few days.

Pharmacists say that Doxicyclene is also effective in treating the bacteria.

Anthrax cannot be communicated from person to person, but is being spread by spores that have been sent in the infected letters.

SHOTLIST:

1. Mid shot Graphic: Photo of President Bush, RADIO ADDRESS, Presidential seal in background

2. SOUNDBITE (English): George W. Bush, U.S. President:

"Good morning. As all Americans know, recent weeks have brought a second wave of terrorist attacks upon our country: deadly anthrax spores sent through the U.S. Mail. There's no precedent for this type of biological attack, and I'm proud of the way our law enforcement officers, our health care and postal workers and the American people are responding in the face of this new threat. At this point in our investigation, we have identified several different letters that contained anthrax spores. Among them were the letters mailed to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle on Capitol Hill, NBC News in New York and the New York Post newspaper. Four Americans have died as a result of these acts of terrorism. At least 13 others have developed forms of anthrax disease, either in the lungs, or less severely, on the skin. Public health officials have acted quickly to distribute antibiotics to people who may have been exposed to anthrax. When anthrax exposure is caught early, preventative treatment is effective. Anthrax can be treated with many antibiotics, and several pharmaceutical companies have offered medicine at reduced prices. The government is swiftly testing post offices and other sites for anthrax spores, and is closing them where potential threats to health are detected. We are working to protect people based on the best information available. And as we deal with this new threat, we are learning new information every day. Originally, experts believed the anthrax spores could not escape from sealed envelopes. We now know differently, because of cases where postal workers were exposed even though the envelopes they processed were not opened. Anthrax apparently can be transferred from one letter to another, or from a letter to mail sorting equipment. But anthrax is not contagious, so it does not spread from human to human, the way a cold or a flu can. Anthrax can be killed by sterilization, and the Postal Service is purchasing sterilizing equipment to be installed across the country. More than 30 billion pieces of mail have moved through the Postal Service since September the 11th, so we believe the odds of any one piece of mail being tainted are very low. But still, people should take appropriate precautions: look carefully at your mail before opening it, tell your doctor if you believe you may have been exposed to anthrax. An excellent summary of the symptoms of this disease can be found on the web site of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, www.cdc.gov. Remember, doctors warn that you can put your health at risk by taking antibiotics when you don't need them, so use antibiotics only after consulting a health care professional. If you see anything suspicious, or have useful information, please contact law enforcement authorities. The Postal Service and the FBI have offered a reward of up to 1 million dollars for information leading to the arrest and the conviction of the anthrax terrorists. And those who believe this is an opportunity for a prank should know that sending false alarms is a serious criminal offense. At least 20 individuals have already been arrested for anthrax hoaxes, and we will pursue anyone who tries to frighten their fellow Americans in this cruel way. We do not yet know who sent the anthrax -- whether it was the same terrorists who committed the attacks on September the 11th, or whether it was the other international or domestic terrorists. We do know that anyone who would try to infect other people with anthrax is guilty of an act of terror. We will solve these crimes, and we will punish those responsible. As we learn more about these anthrax attacks, the government will share the confirmed and credible information we have with you. I'm proud of our citizens' calm and reasoned response to this ongoing terrorist attack. Thank you for listening."

STORYLINE:

President Bush used his regular radio address to the American nation this weekend to reassure a people jittery over a string of anthrax letter attacks.

In his most extensive public comments about anthrax so far, the president called recent cases "a second wave of terrorist attacks" on the U-S.

He said there's "no precedent for this type of biological attack" and he praised law enforcement and postal officials for their response.

Bush says as the nation deals with this new threat, officials are learning new information every day about anthrax.

And in an effort to calm nervous Americans, Bush reminded radio listeners that anthrax is not contagious.

He also says the deadly spores sent in the mail can be killed by sterilization - something the Postal Service is taking steps to do nationwide.

SHOTLIST:

1. Wide shot of Dr. Ivan Walks speaking

2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Ivan Walks, Washington, DC Chief Health Officer

"We have a gentleman who worked at the Brentwood mail handling facility here in Washington, DC, that presented at a local hospital here in Virginia with a clinical presentation suspicious for anthrax. Those tests have come back, that is now confirmed. However, his treatment was initiated based on those suspicions. He is currently receiving appropriate treatment, he is in that facility, and our CDC (Centres For Disease Control) partners have a physician on site, at that facility, monitoring his progress."

3. Various exterior shots of Fairfax Inova Hospital

4. Wide shot of DC Mayor Anthony Williams speaking

5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Anthony Williams, Washington, DC Mayor "We're going to do everything we can and everything we have to do, working with the postal service, working with the CDC, with federal officials, with the state of Virginia and Maryland, our hospital association, through our public health department to see that people are getting the treatment they need when they need that treatment, irrespective of where they are or where they come from, what they look like or where they work. That's very, very important."

6. Wide shot of Dr. John Eisold walking with Capitol Police spokesman to news conference in front of Capitol

7. Cutaway of press

8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. John Eisold, US Capitol Physician

"Based upon what happened at Brentwood does not alter the way that we are behaving with our patient population here. It does not change anything that we are doing."

9. Cutaway of press

10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. John Eisold, US Capitol Physician

"We have read out somewhere between 45-hundred to 5-thousand of the specimens, and as of this time, there continue to be no new positive findings for the personnel screened here on Capitol Hill."

11. Pan from Capitol dome to wide shot of presser

STORYLINE:

Another anthrax case came to light on Sunday, this time in Washington D-C.

Health officials in Washington say an unidentified postal worker has inhalation anthrax, the most serious form of the disease.

The man checked into a Virginia hospital on Friday and was diagnosed on Sunday morning.

At a midday news conference, Washington, D-C Mayor Anthony Williams called the postal worker "gravely ill."

This is the third person in the US to come down with inhalation anthrax.

Six other people have been diagnosed with the skin form of the disease.

The postal employee works in the city's central mail handling facility which processed a contaminated letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle last week.

Authorities say they don't know if this postal worker handled the Daschle letter, and they are investigating the source of the anthrax exposure.

Mayor Williams said more than 2-thousand employees at the Brentwood central mail processing centre and another 150 employees at the air mail handling center near Baltimore-Washington International Airport will be tested for exposure to anthrax spores and receive treatment beginning Sunday.

Meanwhile, the sweep through the U-S Capitol complex continued Sunday.

House and Senate leaders were to be briefed on findings late in the day and planned to hold a news conference to announce whether the Capitol would open Monday.

A Capitol Police spokesman said nineteen buildings including and surrounding the Capitol have undergone environmental surveys and anthrax spores have been found in four of them.

Speaking at a news conference, the U-S Capitol Physician said nearly 5-thousand people have been tested for anthrax since last Monday, when a letter containing anthrax was opened in Daschle's office.

Doctor John Eisold said twenty-eight of those have tested positive for exposure to anthrax but none have contracted the disease.

Eisold said confirmation of inhalation anthrax at the Washington post office will not affect the treatment of patients on Capitol Hill.

SHOTLIST:

1. Wide shot exterior Trenton Main Post Office

2. Close-up post office sign

3. Man leaving post office with mail

4. Postal worker looking through window

5. Various of postman delivering mail in Trenton

6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tony DiStephano Jr., Letter Carrier, Branch 380, Trenton Post Office

"As a matter of fact, they gave us a briefing again this morning. Anything that looks suspicious, anything that has protrusions, anything that has a powder-like substance, any type of maybe foreign matter, any type of envelope that has overly postage - a lot of postage on it, any letter that is overly taped, unnecessarily - that should give rise to suspicion. At that point we are to report it to our supervisors and we are also supposed to contain that letter or package in an isolated area so the supervisor can take the necessary measures to report that to the inspection service."

7. Cutaway of badge

8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tony DiStephano Jr., Letter Carrier, Branch 380, Trenton Post Office

"At the present time I'm not worried, only because the two letters that have passed through the processing plant were tested negative, and if they were not opened then I really don't want to get excited about that, but if someone tests positive for the Anthrax, then I would be very concerned about my safety and also about my members."

9. Low-angle shot, letter carrier delivering mail

10. Pan of presser

11. Cutaway of various officials

12. SOUNDBITE: (English) George T. DiFerdinando, Acting Commissioner, New Jersey

"Yes there are two sets of test being done on the postal workers - there are cultures being done at our lab and down at Trenton, and then there's serologic work being done by the Centres for Disease Control, and the serologic work is pending and I don't make comment on whether or not those are positive or negative, and then there are the cultures, we look at them over time and those are not growing at this point."

13. Cutaway

14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tony Esposito, New Jersey Postal Inspector

"Somebody could have flew here from a different country and then deposited that letter. Let's just say that it, that it's safe to say that it entered the mail stream in any one of those 46 post office stations or branches, or one of those 650 mail collection boxes."

15. Wide shot Trenton post office

STORYLINE

The investigation continued on Tuesday into two anthrax-tainted letters that were mailed from Trenton, New Jersey on September 18th.

One of the letters, which tested positive for anthrax, was received by the Washington, D.C. office of U-S Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle.

So far no one from that office has shown signs of contamination by the letter.

Another letter processed at the Trenton Main Post Office tested negative for anthrax, although one woman who handled the suspicious letter contracted a mild form of of the disease.

Eileen O'Conner, an assistant to NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw, was confirmed on Friday of having contracted the cutaneous version of anthrax.

Tony DiStephano has delivered mail in this Trenton area for over twenty years and is now on the frontlines of the anthrax scare.

Until now, the roughest part of his job has been breaking up fights between school kids on the block.

He says nothing in his job has prepared him to battle anthrax.

As the president of the union of letter carriers at his branch, DiStephano has made sure that health and postal officials brief his members about what to look out for in their mail pouches.

Despite the two anthrax-related letters that may have gone through his or his colleagues hands, DiStephano is not too worried about getting anthrax.

Yet two Trenton postal workers who have shown anthrax-like symptoms have also been tested for the disease, with preliminary results showing they are not infected with the bacteria.

Those employees may have handled anthrax-tainted letters that were sent to N-B-C's Tom Brokaw and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle.

The female letter carrier had flu-like symptoms and a male maintenance worker had symptoms resembling poison ivy.

Meanwhile, the massive and seemingly bottomless investigation into the letters processed in Trenton continues.

While it is clear that the letters were processed in Trenton, and that the letters must have entered the US mail stream at one of the post office's 46 branches or 650 mailboxes, it does not mean the person who mailed them lives anywhere near New Jersey.

Tests on 65 other suspicious pieces of mail were pending on Tuesday.

State health officials already had tested 25 mailings, none of which contained anthrax.

SHOTLIST:

Washington, DC

Oct. 26, 2001

APTN

1. ws executives coming to microphone

2. cutaway press

3. SOUNDBITE: Chief Operating Officer of GlaxoSmithKline, Bob Ingram, "We have committed that we will work closely with the Food and Drug Administration to expedite the approval for the use of two of our antibiotics, Augmentin and Amoxil against the anthrax strain, and if those are approved we will then donate those free of charge to anyone infected or exposed to anthrax. Secondly, we've sent in our proposal yesterday to commit to supply smallpox vaccine within that one year period we've condensint I hope everyone understands from five to one eight years down to one as several other companies are committing to."

4. ws press

5. SOUNDBITE: Peter Goland, CEO Bristol-Meyers Squibb, "In my company's case, Briston Myers Squibb, we're offering to make our antibiotic available, Tequin, assuming it's approved for the anthrax indication, at no cost to anyone who contracts that illness. Secondly, we're offering 20 to 25 scientists who have experience in antibacterial in voroligy who can work as part of a bioterrorism team to address the country's threats and needs at this time."

6. cutaway press

7. ws executives walking away

STORYLINE:

Leaders of major pharmaceutical companies detailed steps the companies have taken since September 11 to assist the government's efforts to protect the public health, including providing the public with free anthrax drugs which are alternatives to Cipro.

The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) said the companies are coordinating their efforts as part of a newly-created Task Force on Emergency Preparedness.

Pharmaceutical companies outlined a wide-range of efforts they are working on to meet new threats at a meeting with Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson in Washington Friday.

Initiatives include offers of free antibiotics to authorities to treat people infected by or exposed to anthrax; offers to develop and manufacture a smallpox vaccine; pledges to increase production of certain medicines as needed; giving government scientists access to company laboratories and production facilities; making company scientists available to work in government facilities as needed.

The PhRMA represents the country's leading research-based pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.

The companies are offering an alternative to Cipro, the most popular anthrax drug on the market.

The patent-holding maker of Cipro, Bayer Corp., has been ramping up retail production to 100 million tablets by mid-January, according to company officials.

That is in addition to the 100 million pills the company agreed to supply to the U.S. government for emergency use at a cost of 95 cents apiece.

The government is stockpiling Cipro for use where it is most needed in a national emergency.

A jump of nearly 50 percent in prescriptions nationwide for Cipro shows that many doctors and patients are shrugging off government pleas against stockpiling for personal use, medical and industry experts say.

In the New York City area, prescriptions nearly tripled, drug marketing data indicate.

Spurred by news reports on potential bioterrorism, sales of the antibiotic began climbing right after the Sept. 11 air attacks and weeks before the first news of an anthrax case on Oct. 4, according to a national marketing consultant that surveys pharmaceutical

retailers.

The numbers are apt to rise more still as they are released in

coming weeks, because the latest data go only as far as Oct. 12 -

before the last anthrax deaths and widespread Cipro treatment for

postal workers.

The run on Cipro is deepening worry about potential shortages of an important drug for fighting many infections, side effects in more patients and the buildup of antibiotic resistance in the germ.

Increases were especially heavy in Washington too, which together with New York suffered the brunt of the Sept. 11 attacks.

In Washington, new prescriptions went up 67 percent, according to the NDCHealth data.

People can suffer allergic and toxic side effects from Cipro. Its retail cost is also steep - about $4.50 a pill. A 60-day regimen for anthrax retails at around $500.

English/Nat

Iraq is ridiculing the Pentagon's decision to inoculate American troops against anthrax, saying it does not possess \"even one gram\" of the deadly biological agent.

The U-S ordered the vaccines because of fears that Iraq may have produced anthrax during the standoff with U-N weapons inspectors.

Defence Secretary William Cohen says Iraq could have produced enough anthrax to fill six missile warheads.

But Baghdad on Tuesday mocked that contention, suggesting that Cohen might own a vaccine firm and be trying to drum up business for it.

The U-S Pentagon is fortifying its strategy to protect troops against a biological warfare threat.

Citing a growing worldwide threat from the deadliest form of germ warfare, Defence Secretary, William Cohen on Monday, ordered all 1.5 (m) million men and women in uniform to be inoculated against anthrax.

The biological agent can be fatal even in microscopic amounts.

SOUNDBITE: (English)

\"We're addressing anthrax, the American military is addressing anthrax now because anthrax is sort of the worst of the biological weapons. There's a very high ratio of the percentage of people who are killed by it. It's relatively indefensible, it attacks very quickly, within two to four days after being exposed, a person would then get the symptoms and die.\"

SUPER CAPTION: Andrew Koch, Centre for Defence Information

Anthrax spores are stable and remain viable in water and soil for years and can easily be put into a dry powder form that can be stored as a weapon for long periods.

SOUNDBITE: (English)

\"There are several ways you can disseminate it. One would be an artillery shell or a missile, and maybe more effectively would be an aerosol sprayer, such as you would see as a crop duster. Military plane, or even a civilian plane, outfitted with a crop duster, you load it up with a small amount of biological weapon, or chemical weapon, and overfly an area. Anthrax, when it's in its dry form, which is a spore, lasts a long time, decades long. In fact it could be in the soil, and five, ten years later along comes somebody exposed to that soil, becomes sick.\"

SUPER CAPTION: Andrew Koch, Centre for Defence Information

Over the next six years nearly two and a half (m) million troops will receive shots and boosters under the programme.

The move comes amid the confrontation with Iraq's Saddam Hussein and U-N efforts to uncover his weapons of mass destruction.

SOUNDBITE: (English)

\"Prior to the recent crisis they actually had, the UNSCOM inspectors, the inspectors in Iraq, had been gaining some small momentum. They were able to track down most of its nuclear programme, for instance, they were able to track down most of its missiles programme, at least already produced missiles. There are signs that Iraq continues with its missile development efforts, so that is sort of an ongoing battle. But on the biological weapon side it's sort of the least documented programmes.\"

SUPER CAPTION: Andrew Koch, Centre for Defence Information

The first shots will be given next summer to about 100-thousand soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines deployed to \"high threat\" areas in the Persian Gulf and around the Korean peninsula.

Anthrax, an infectious disease that normally afflicts animals, especially cattle and sheep, is considered the most lethal of biological agents by the U-S government.

Washington D.C., United States, 15 December 1997 and file

File - Gulf War Pool

1. Various of Gulf War tanks on Iraqi desert

2. Soldiers wearing gas masks

Washington D.C. APTV

3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Andrew Koch, Centre for Defence Information

File - Gulf War Pool

4. Wide shot of street in Kuwait City

5. American soldiers patrolling street in Kuwait City

Washington D.C. APTV

6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Andrew Koch, Centre for Defence Information

File - APTV

7. Wide shot American soldiers on field march

8. Close up American soldiers on field march

Washington D.C. APTV

9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Andrew Koch, Centre for Defence Information

File - APTV

10. American soldiers marching

SHOTLIST:

AUGUST 22 - New York

1. Medium shot Professor Vincent Fischetti walks into laboratory

2. Wide shot Fischetti working in lab

3. Close up lab equipment

4. SOUNDBITE: (English): Professor Vincent Fischetti, Rockefeller University:

"Well the technology has two uses. One is to kill the organism without worrying about antibiotic resistance. So since this is a new way of killing the bacteria they cannot become resistant to an antibiotic, and this enzyme wouldn't work. It works whether they're resistant or not. It also works very specifically and only kills the anthrax organism. without touching any of the other normal organisms that are important for health and well-being."

5. Various researchers working in lab

6. SOUNDBITE: (English): Professor Vincent Fischetti, Rockefeller University:

"The technology is being expedited as we speak. We're testing it in animals within the next month, and DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), which is the funding agency for this technology, is part of the military, and they are expediting the whole process".

7. Wide shot exterior University gate

8. Close up University sign

File - recent - Washington, D.C.

9. Microscope slide showing anthrax spores

10. Various people in protective suits.

STORYLINE:

US scientists have created a bacteria-killing enzyme that can detect and destroy anthrax.

The enzyme was isolated from a virus that attacks bacterial cells and they say it should work even if terrorists create antibiotic-resistant strains.

Ordinary anthrax responds to antibiotics, but there is concern that terrorists might develop resistant strains.

The researchers suggested it would be difficult to create strains that resist the enzyme because it acts on a vital part of the bacterial wall, one that can't easily be modified.

Professor Vincent Fischetti of the Rockefeller University in New York and his colleagues reported that the enzyme, called PlyG lysin, kills anthrax bacteria in the laboratory.

What's more, when they infected mice with a related kind of bacteria that can kill the animals within five hours, prompt treatment with PlyG saved 13 of 19 animals.

They also found that spores of this anthrax-related bacteria could be quickly detected using PlyG and a hand-held device.

The PlyG enzyme possibly could be made into a drug that would hunt down anthrax bacteria as they begin to infect a person or an animal, researchers said.

Researchers said the next step will be further animal tests to see if the enzyme can halt an anthrax infection.

The key, researchers said, as with conventional antibiotics used against anthrax, is early treatment before the bacteria produce enough toxin to kill healthy cells and tissue.

SHOTLIST:

QUALITY AS INCOMING

1. Security guard opening letter at Daily Jang office

2. Various journalists working

3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mehmood Sham, Editor, Daily Jang

"We received this envelope on 23rd October. The letter was opened by one of our reporters and he was worried, so he told his colleagues and head of newspaper. So immediately this envelope was sent to the laboratory for tests and the person who was exposed to this was sent to the hospital. The final report came after nine days and it was found positive. Then the working area was closed for decontamination which is being done today. All the editorial staff working in that area will be on sixty days antibiotic course."

4. Various journalists

5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Shahid Mujtaba, Jang Group Newspapers

"A day before yesterday the final report came and it was found to be positive for Bacillus anthracis sporus, so we started antibiotics to all the persons who were working in that area and all of them who went there along with the decontamination techniques. Decontamination process is now underway in that area."

6. Various of photo in Daily Jang of man in mask in office

7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Shahid Mujtaba, Jang Group Newspapers

"Fortunately till now we have no person complaining of any signs or symptoms of skin or inhalation anthrax. We are calling them regularly and no one until now has any signs of anthrax"

8. Photo of man in mask in office

9. Journalists looking at letters

10. Police and Biohazard team entering building

11. Man putting Biohazard suit on

12. Suited man entering sealed Anthrax area

13. Various Biohazard expert checking rooms

14. Biohazard expert leaving contaminated area

STORYLINE:

Pakistan's largest newspaper evacuated some of its editorial offices Friday after lab tests on a letter received last week turned out positive for anthrax, the newspaper and doctors said.

The contaminated area was sealed and a police biohazard team was called-in to check the evacuated zone.

Minhaj Rab, a reporter at the Daily Jang, an Urdu-language newspaper, opened a letter on October 23.

He says he thought it was a press release.

The letter contained white powder, which was sent to the Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi, one of the country's leading medical facilities.

The reporter and dozens of other staff members were immediately put on antibiotics as a precautionary step.

However, none has shown any signs of contracting anthrax, said Dr. Syed Mohammed Shahid, a medical adviser to the newspaper.

In lab tests at the hospital, the powder turned out positive for anthrax, prompting the evacuation of some editorial offices Friday, said Dr. Mohammed Tasleem, a senior doctor at the hospital who was been involved in the case.

With a team of doctors and security officials supervising, editorial offices on one floor of the newspaper were closed off.

"Anthrax Zone" said the sign taped to the office doors by men in biohazard suits.

Employees in other parts of the building worked at their desks and computer terminals wearing plastic gloves and surgical masks.

The Jang newspaper has received a number of letters in recent days containing white powder, but it was not clear who was behind the mailings or what the motive was.

Tests on all the other letters turned out negative for anthrax.

Meanwhile, a Pakistan official said Friday that the Health and Interior ministries had formed a special body that had been preparing for a possible anthrax attack. Post offices were also told to be on alert, and workers at Karachi's main post office were issued masks and plastic gloves as a precaution.

SHOTLIST:

APTN

7 May 2002 - Washington, DC

1. Exterior view of Federal Reserve

2. Pull back from flags to exterior of building

APTN - FILE

3. Close-up slide of anthrax bacteria

4. Close-up film of anthrax

5. Pan view of Washington mail handling facility

6. Close-up workers sorting mail

POOL

7 May 2002 - Washington, DC

7. Close-up Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan seated between U.S. Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary of Defence Paul Wolfowitz

8. Pan close-up as President Bush shakes their hands

9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ari Fliescher, White House spokesman.

"Routine preliminary tests at the Federal Reserve, which were administered late Tuesday and Wednesday have detected anthrax spores in small batches of mail. The affected mail was routine commercial and business mail and did not have any of the characteristics identified by the F-B-I as suspicious, so as a result as has happened previously from time to time unfortunately. Swabs were sent additional testing. These are preliminary, this has happened before. The source of the possible contamination is not known. Subsequent tests of the mail room surfaces and mail distribution points within the Board's buildings have all been negative. (Q: Suggest there could be potentially another anthrax ...?) No Kelly this is new information, this is based on this preliminary report from the federal reserve and so I think the lesson that everyone has learnt from the anthrax episodes of last is that preliminary information is often incorrect information."

APTN

October 25, 2001 - Washington, DC

10. Various views of letters sent containing anthrax to Senator Tom Daschle and NBC Anchorman Tom Brokaw

STORYLINE:

The U-S Federal Reserve reported Thursday that about 20 pieces of mail tested positive for traces of anthrax in an initial screening.

The tainted mail was discovered as part of routine mail testing by the Federal Reserve in a mobile trailer stationed in a courtyard at the Federal Reserve's main buildings in downtown Washington.

The test results were preliminary.

The mail did not contain powder like substances or handwritten addresses. Such preliminary tests often are inaccurate and further tests are being conducted.

In a written statement, the Federal Reserve said: "The affected mail was routine commercial and business mail and did not have any of the characteristics identified by the FBI as suspicious."

Fed spokesman David Skidmore said some of the mail was addressed to Chairman Alan Greenspan as well as other officials.

Swabs that produced the positive readings will be sent to a laboratory for additional testing.

White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said it is important not to jump to conclusions.

The Fed also had positive initial test readings for a batch of mail received in December. However extensive follow-up tests never found any new letters containing anthrax. The Fed said Thursday it believes those initial positive readings were "the result of cross-contamination."

SHOTLIST:

1. Medium shot police officer in front of car in vicinity of Ford building

2. Close up "Staff only, no thru street"

3. Close up sign visitors entrance

4. Close up sign Ford House Office Building

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Lt Dan Nichols, Spokesperson for Capitol Hill Police

"This morning, after doing the environmental sampling around the capitol complex, it was discovered that a sample came back from the Ford House office building mail room as positive for anthrax and its important to realise that this was not an unexpected situation. We've been trailing the mail through the capitol complex for quite some time and after the discovery in the Hart and the Dirksonand also the US Police on sight delivery center, testing was done at the Ford Center mailroom."

6. Wide shot of news conference with Lt Dan Nichols behind John Eisold, attending physician

7. SOUNDBITE (English) John Eisold, Attending Physician

"As you are aware, we have tested over 4,000 people and have not found any further positive findings than we have already reported. We have identified a zone in which people need full dose therapy for a two month course of treatment. That process of giving results back and treating people is ongoing and at this time none of the people who have demonstrated exposure, have become symptomatic. This new finding in the Ford building, as explained by the Lieutenant, is actually not surprising if you follow the trail of the mail."

8. Medium shot exterior Ford center with pan to road with police

9. Close up sign "Staff only, no through Street"

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Lt Dan Nichols, Spokesperson for Capitol Hill Police

"As it stands right now the goal is for the Senate to come back on Monday and for the House to come back on Tuesday. Now we'll have to evaluate further to see if this changes that balance or not."

11. Medium shot Capitol Hill

12. Wide shot Capitol Hill

STORYLINE:

Authorities have discovered evidence of anthrax in a House of Representatives office building that processes mail for lawmakers, congressional officials said on Saturday, as hazardous materials teams methodically worked their way across Capitol Hill.

The anthrax was found in a mail bundling machine in the Ford House Office Building, three blocks from the U.S. Capitol, where mail is directed to the Longworth Building, which houses the offices of Gephardt and House Speaker Dennis Hastert.

The finding in the Ford Office Building brought to three the number of facilities believed to be tainted by anthrax.

It marked the first time evidence had been found on the House side of the complex.

The announcement of the discovery at the House building came five days after nearly 30 people in Congress were exposed to anthrax after an envelope, disguised as a letter from schoolchildren and laced with the bacteria, was opened in the office of Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle.

The disclosure came as authorities said they had pinpointed the New Jersey post office sorting box from which anthrax-bearing letters were sent, advancing their investigation even as two more people were found to have the skin form of the disease.

It is not known whether any affected mail from the Ford House building was delivered. No details on how the bacteria reached the mailroom were immediately available.

Mailroom workers in the Ford House will be tested for possible anthrax exposure but there were no plans to extend testing to other workers, officials said.

The new find added to a growing anthrax scare throughout the United States, where eight people are confirmed to have been infected with the potentially deadly bacteria so far.

SHOTLIST:

Boca Raton

1. Wide shot exterior zoom in on American Media Inc.

2. Mid shot police vehicle outside AMI

3. Mid shot emergency vehicles outside AMI

4. SOUNDBITE (English) John O. Agwunobi, Florida Department of Health Secretary: "There is no conclusive evidence at this point that anyone other than the three that I have mentioned to you, have the Anthrax germ, the Anthrax bacteria in their bodies. This is a fairly new occurance. The presence of Anthrax in a population doesn't happen that often. As technology evolves, we learn. There are some tests that are being performed at the moment, that we know we will not be able to read conclusively, until follow up testing is done in the future."

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida: "We have asked people to call their local health departments, and to call their local law enforcement when they see something unusual. Clearly in a free society it is important for all of us to be vigilant. But the people that are taking advantage of the fear that exists right now in Florida and our country, by using this as a hoax, to try to either have fun doing it, or because they think it's interesting, or whatever weird motivation they may have, I wanted to tell people that it is against the law in our state."

6. Wide shot cutaway of press conference with all officials on stage

7. Mid shot emergency vehicles and workers behind fence at AMI building

Delray Beach

8. Wide shot pharmacy where Atta reportedly purchased salve for inflamed hands

9. Close up entry to pharmacy, zoomout to street corner

10. Close up cutaway Delray Beach banner hanging from light post

11. Mid shot exterior of apartment complex where Atta lived

12. Mid shot gateway of apartment complex

13. Mid shot security at gate of apartment complex

14. Close up sign on edge property of second apartment complex where another suspected terrorist lived

15. Wide shot pan of exterior of apartment complex

16. Wide shot exterior of apartment property

Boca Raton

17. Wide shot Boca Raton Post Office exterior

18. Mid shot postal vehicles in lot of Post Office

19. Midshot postal worker handling crates behind postal vehicle

Graphic

20. Still photo of AMI intern who is presently in hospital diagnosed with flu

STORYLINE:

Workers at a publishing group in Florida will undergo a second round of blood tests after a second employee was diagnosed with the deadly inhaled form of Anthrax.

Ernesto Blanco, a 73 year old mail room worker is in worsening condition with the same illness that killed one of his coworkers.

Last week health officials reported that his situation was improving, Monday however they said he is infected with the inhaled Anthrax that is, in most cases, fatal.

American Media Inc. headquarters, in Boca Raton, has been quarantined since last week, after Anthrax spores were found in several locations inside.

Florida Governor Jeb Bush, the President's brother, held a news conference Tuesday with an entourage of other state officials to quell fears and dissuade would-be pranksters.

State health officials said there are no other cases of Anthrax infection as of yet, but that more testing will be done to bolster those conclusions.

The Governor stressed the importance of being on aware of ones surroundings during these times, and immediately reporting any strange packages to the authorities.

In Delray Beach, a man believed to be one of the hijackers in the terrorist attacks visited a drug store in late August for medication to treat a burning sensation in his hands, a pharmacist says.

Gregg Chatterton, co-owner of Huber Discount Drugs, said Friday the man he identified as Mohamed Atta was evasive about the cause and the pharmacist asked if he'd been exposed to cleaning fluids or

gardening chemicals.

"He snickered and said, 'No, I wasn't in a garden,"' said Chatterton, who described him as "cocky."

Chatterton said Atta was accompanied by a man the pharmacist later identified from photos as suspected hijacker Marwan al-Shehhi.

The pharmacist said the second man tapped himself on the chest and said he needed cough medication.

In a strange twist of events that the police are saying is probably coincidental, the wife of an editor at the AMI group is believed to have rented two apartments to two men who are now believed to have been hijackers in the September 11 attacks.

Both apartments are in Delray Beach and near to Huber Discount Drugs.

Police say this is the only connection that exists between the Anthrax attacks and the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington.

The Boca Raton Post Office is where the mail that brought the Anthrax into AMI offices is thought to have been sent from.

Another possible coincidence, an intern from a Florida university that was working at AMI, but left in August, is now hospitalized with the flu.

Jordan Arizmendi's internship ended in August.

Tests are underway to determine if his illness is related to an Anthrax infection.

SHOTLIST:

1. Wide of Supreme Court

2. Exterior of court building

4. Close up of court

5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr John Eisold, Capitol Hill Physician:

"Following the same thought process we did last week, we are following the letter so to speak and if there is evidence of a contaminated filter at the off site screening although its a conservative approach for us to take, we are making the assumption that quite possibly something may have come to the mail room here. And as you know there are many mail rooms that have been screened and followed with treatment."

6. Wide of Eisold speaking

7. Wide of mail warehouse sorting facility used by Supreme Court

8. Various of police tape and building

9. Media outside building

10. Post office closed near facility

11. Various of police tape

12. Wide of spokesmen

13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Dan Nichols, US Capitol Police:

"We have determined that we have three locations within the Longworth House offices thus far which have tested positive for anthrax bacteria."

14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. John Eisold, US Capitol Physician:

"We will notify the staffs in those offices and by your press releases reach people who may have visited those offices subsequent to or on the day of the 12th of October on the day that those buildings were closed last week so that we can identify people who may have travelled through those offices or worked in those offices and tomorrow we will start seeing those people and treating them with a course of antibiotics."

15. Wides of press conference

STORYLINE:

Anthrax was discovered on Friday on a filter removed from a warehouse which screens mail headed for the Supreme Court.

The discovery led officials to make plans to shut the court building down as a precaution.

Federal officials said there was no evidence the microbe had travelled to the court building itself.

But a court spokeswoman said the entire building would be closed and employees sent home and that it would be tested thoroughly.

She added that if any contamination is detected, the building will be decontaminated.

The building was immediately closed to tourists and the ventilation system was turned off in case any material had found its way from the postal screening centre, officials said.

Capitol physician John Eisold declined to say whether any of the nine justices were tested for exposure or whether any are receiving antibiotics.

The justices held a private meeting in the building on Friday morning.

Authorities were taking much the same precautions as they did when anthrax was discovered across the street in a Senate office building, Eisold said.

Court medical workers began testing some of the 400 people who work in the main building on Friday afternoon.

The court was in temporary recess this week, but returns for arguments and other business Monday.

If the building is shut down, the court will borrow alternate court facilities.

Meanwhile trace amounts of anthrax have been discovered in the offices of three lawmakers in a House office building, congressional officials said Friday night, as evidence of bioterrorism spread on Capitol Hill.

The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said tests detected the anthrax in the Longworth House Office Building.

The names of the three lawmakers were not disclosed.

The Longworth building, which provides space for dozens of lawmakers, receives mail that is processed by a machine where anthrax had previously been found.

The machine is located in a separate House office building several blocks away.

The positive tests turned up as Congress struggled to recover from a bioterrorism scare caused by the discovery of anthrax in two Senate office buildings.