UPDATE - Spam Can shut down until afternoon now as testing of white powder continues

The Alaska governor's office is among those in the nation that received letters containing a suspicious powder.

The letter addressed to the governor's office was intercepted yesterday in the third floor mailroom of the Court Plaza Building at 240 Main Street in Juneau.

The letter bore a Texas postmark, just like the other letters mailed to eight other governors this week.

Palin's office said the letter was addressed to Palin's predecessor Gov. Frank Murkowski, who left office two years ago.

Capital City Fire Rescue responded at about 1:18 p.m., according to Division Fire Chief Rich Etheridge, who says workers were initially requested to remain in their work areas.

Hazardous Materials Technicians entered the spill site and contained the product in place, he says.

The building was then evacuated. Fire department personnel decontaminated three of the occupants who were directly exposed to the product on scene, according to Etheridge, who says there were no known injuries.

The Alaska National Guard 103rd Civil Support Team in Anchorage was requested to respond to the incident for product identification and evidence collection.

The team arrived in Juneau by C-130, entered the building and collected samples and evidence.

Etheridge says all evidence in this incident was turned over to the FBI where the unidentified materials will be tested to identify any hazards.

He says results should be available late today.

Seven of the other seven letters contained harmless powder.

They were addressed to governors in Alabama, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana and Rhode Island.

We're informed this morning that a letter containing suspicious powder and addressed to the governor's office has been intercepted in Maine. It also had a Texas postmark.

An update posted at 8:30 this morning says the building will be closed until early this afternoon pending testing in Anchorage.

It was initially expected to reopen at 10 this morning.

More than 120 people work in the building known as the Spam Can.

*Snicker*

Turns out that she is not only not in Juneau... as usual, the capitol is not good enough for her... but she is not even in the state. Yesterday or the day before was the Governor's open house at the mansion... she wasn't even there.

Future terrorist wannabes, please mail our governor in Wasilla and leave the poor employees alone, odds are she is not in state anyways. Note she... Palin... not Murkowski.