World Soccer Chief to Speak on Allegations.
COSTELLO: Active anthrax accidentally shipped to several states and a U.S. airbase in South Korea. Now the Pentagon and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are trying to figure out how exactly that happened. The samples originated at a lab in Utah. Four lab workers in the United States and at least 22 overseas are now being treated for possible anthrax exposure. Officials say the public is not at any risk, though. World soccer group FIFA opens its annual meeting today. The president Sepp Blatter is expected to speak just moments from now addressing the corruption scandal for the first time since officials from the group were arrested yesterday. In the meantime the Russian president, Vladimir Putin is stepping into the fray defending FIFA's president Sepp Blatter and slamming the United States for, quote, "Spreading its jurisdiction to other countries." CNN sports anchor Coy Wire is following this. I don't mean to laugh but you know, Russia hosts the World Cup soon. It's probably afraid of maybe kind of losing it. I don't know.</s>COY WIRE, CNN SPORTS: Yes. And maybe they should be, you know. We're going to hear from Sepp Blatter in moments at 11:00 a.m. So we'll see if he says anything. But yes, first of all, Putin said that this whole FIFA scandal will now have any impact on his country's plan to host the 2018 world cup, even though there are accusations, Carol, that FIFA officials were paid off so that his country could host it. And yes, Putin is taking jabs saying that the U.S. meddled in FIFA affairs. He's saying that the U.S. is trying to take the World Cup away and he said it's quote, "odd that the U.S. launched this probe when the alleged crimes don't involve any American citizens".</s>COSTELLO: We were in line for the World Cup.</s>WIRE: Right. But let's be clear here, this does involve U.S. citizens. Two of the 14 who have been charged, they're U.S. citizens. And also money laundering and the wire fraud that has allegedly occurred, a lot of that is involving U.S. banks. So it does involve the U.S. and it's rightful that they're stepping in.</s>COSTELLO: I know. The attorney general was making that really clear in her press conference yesterday, right?</s>WIRE: Yes.</s>COSTELLO: So, I know that FIFA sponsors are reacting at the moment. What are they doing?</s>WIRE: They are reacting. None of them have pulled their sponsorships yet. But they are basically saying they are going to reassess things if they find out what they think they are going to find out. If they did, we're talking about serious money here, Carol. To give perspective, there's a consulting firm, a research firm that estimated that over the past four years, companies like Adidas, like Visa, have paid an average of $32 million per year for their partnership deals with FIFA. So then you have companies like Coca- Cola, McDonald's, Budweiser -- they've also forked over about an average of $19 million each. We're talking about $1.6 billion that FIFA has pocketed from major sponsors from 2011 to 2014 according to this IEG and their estimates. So Visa released a strong statement last night and they said, quote, "It is important that FIFA makes changes now. Should FIFA fail to do so, we have informed them that we will reassess our sponsorship." So what type of change are we talking about? Are they asking that Sepp Blatter step down? We'll see. More to come.</s>COSTELLO: Well, it will be an interesting news conference for Mr. Blatter.</s>WIRE: Absolutely.</s>COSTELLO: Coy Wire -- many thanks to you. Thanks so much. Thank you for joining me today. I'm Carol Costello. "AT THIS HOUR" with Berman and Bolduan starts now.</s>JOHN BERMAN, CNN HOST: Evacuation -