Eggs and Embryos Lost at Ohio Clinic.
BERMAN: This morning, nearly 950 families are learning their frozen eggs and/or embryos have been lost. Officials at one Ohio fertility clinic are saying a storage tank failure is to blame for the loss of more than 4,000 specimens. Joining me now with much more on this, CNN's Brynn Gingras. And, Brynn, I've got to believe this is just devastating for the families and it's all being blamed on an alarm?</s>BRYNN GINGRAS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes. And I can't imagine just getting this news and this was maybe your only hope. We've talked to people that are, you know, suffering through cancer and this was what they were hoping to have. They had hope before. It's pretty much gone. And, you're right, it's on a -- it's on a malfunction issue. And this is really doubled the amount than originally thought when the clinic announced this major issue earlier in the month. We're talking about roughly 950 families now affected. And it's due, again, to a freezer malfunction where the embryos were stored in the Cleveland facility. In a letter, University Hospital officials uppted (ph) the families saying this. The technical manner in which the eggs and embryos are stored in these freezers complicated our initial determination of how many patients and specimens were affected. We are heartbroken to tell you that it's unlikely any are viable. Previously, again, there was hope that some specimens would be OK. So, how did this happen? According to the hospital, temperatures fluctuated inside the liquid nitrogen tanks where these eggs and embryos are stored. Now the tanks do have a remote alarm system to alert staff when this happens, but for some reason the alarm had been switched off. Now, that was complicated by the fact that the temperatures rose over the weekend when the lab isn't staffed. In this particular tank, the hospital admits, was having technical issues for several weeks. They were in the process of fixing the problem, moving the embryos, but that hadn't yet happened when this all malfunctioned. Now, University Hospital has offered free services to its patients. It's waived storage fees, which you can't imagine, it's not very comforting, for several years, but lawsuits are really flooding in.</s>BERMAN: Well, let's talk about these lawsuits now. And, again, it seems to me that if you -- if you run one of these kinds of facilities, your one job --</s>GINGRAS: Yes.</s>BERMAN: Is to maintain the viability of these specimens. What kind of lawsuits and how many -- how much in damages might they face?</s>GINGRAS: Well, and that's what the lawyer wants to know for the family -- the one lawyer for right now that's representing about 40 to 50 families is, how did this happen? This is your one job. How would this get switched off? Was it a mistake? Did someone get annoyed that the alert was going off and so they switched it off and didn't tell anybody or forgot to switch it back on? Again, it was complicated by the fact that this alert should have gone off, first of all, and then that temperatures rose over the weekend, so nobody was even there to even check on the -- on the tanks. But they are expecting, obviously, more families -- there's 950 families affected. Only 50 families so far are a part of this lawsuit. So they're expecting more.</s>BERMAN: And as you said, for some of these families, this was the last chance, the only chance.</s>GINGRAS: Exactly.</s>BERMAN: Our hearts goes out to them. Brynn Gingras, thanks so much for being with us. Appreciate it. This morning we're learning new details about the man accused of sending suspicious packages to military and government offices around Washington. Investigators say that Thanh Cong Phan sent more than ten boxes with explosive materials to the CIA, FBI and other buildings. 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