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Well, there is no police presence whatsoever, though the parking lot is quite full for this hour of the day, and the television satellite truck is still on hand. I suppose it's not breaking news until someone/something tests positive. Hope that never happens.

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Re the tests, one of the things that bothers me is that Dan Rather's assistant apparently had a blood test for anthrax. Negative. She had fluid oozing from the lesion on her face tested for anthrax. Negative. It wasn't until they did a tissue biopsy that the anthrax showed up in the tests. She had initially been put on penicillin for the lesion on her face, and that didn't work. So they put her on a "cocktail" of antibiotics (this is what Rather said in his news conference last week). That didn't work, either. By then they heard about the anthrax at ABC, and she went on Cipro as a precaution. It wasn't until a few days later that the biopsy was done on her face, showing that she indeed had anthrax. Somebody needs to get hoppin' on the development of a more sensitive and accurate test for this thing, or there is going to be a problem with a) overprescribing Cipro as a "just in case" precaution, or b) anthrax going undiagnosed because initial test(s) showed negative results and thus the victim doesn't get treated properly. What's the prudent thing to do, put everybody within a 5-mile radius on Cipro while they're doing the rounds of tests, or keep watching and waiting until a positive comes back? I see both procedures being used right now.