Three people are dead and a regional airport has been heavily damaged after powerful winds including a tornado swept across the upper U.S. Midwest.

The envelope containing the toxic substance and the threatening letter was addressed to the White House but was intercepted at a mail sorting facility Sept. 18. Besides the letter's threats was a command to Trump to “give up and remove our application for this election," authorities said. Her lawyer, Fonda Dawn Kubiak, argued that she should be granted bail. Kubiak said Ferrier could reside with her son in Quebec or possibly with family members in Texas. He said that ricin had been located at her apartment outside Montreal and that she was likely to face additional charges in Washington, Texas and Buffalo.