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400,000 since april. that is too high. economists say to make a dent in the unemployment rate. federal authorities have charged a young massachusetts physics grad in a terror plot. agents say rezwan ferdaus planned to use remote control airlines to hit the u.s. capitol and the pentagon. they would have been filled with a plastic explosive. the fbi says that they arrested him, hes an american citizen, after a lengthy undercover operation. john mccain leading a delegation of republic...

authorities were tracking mr. ferdaus for the better part of this year. at least since january of 2011. they do indicate that he began some of his various plotting last year but they have tracked him at least since january. they have used undercover agents and at least one cooperating witness who started taping conversations with him earlier this year. so this was a fairly elaborate sting operation that lasted until today when they actually sold him what he thought was some explosive m...

photograph that the saline bag -- you see where it has a slit or a cut in the bag where im pointing in peoples 28? >> yes, i can. >> okay. did you observe that on that day, june 25th, 2009? >> no, sir. >> and again, referencing your diagram where you had drawn an apparatus at the bottom of this saline bag, would that -- can you see those two pictures, mr. alvarez? >> yes, sir. >> the saline bag that you drew as reflected in peoples 27 on the right here, you show the saline bag coming d...

been a very elaborate sting. authorities were tracking mr. ferdaus for the better part of this year. at least since january of 2011. they do indicate that he began some of his various plotting last year but they have tracked him at least since january. they have used undercover agents and at least one cooperating witness who started taping conversations with him earlier this year. so this was a fairly elaborate sting operation that lasted until today when they actually sold him what he...

benefits. its been really at 400 or higher since april. thats really not conducive to cutting the unemployment rate but a good number this week. it fell to 391,000 and thats better than we had expected. another important report, the final read on how fast the economy grew in the second quarter. this is the gdp report. gross domestic product. the sum of everything that this economy puts out and it grew at 1.3%. so, for all those people who are talking about a double-dip recession, this ...

what do we know about how it went down? it appears to have been a very elaborate string. authorities were tracking mr. ferdaus for the better part of this year. they do indicate that he began some of his various plotting last year but they have tracked him at least since january. they have used undercover agents and at least one cooperating witness who started taping conversations with him earlier this year. so this was a fairly elaborate sting operation that lasted until today when th...

Accepting perhaps, having these targets hardened is part of the deal going forward? >> it has to be. i used to prosecute firearm cases as a federal prosecutor. many of these cases are stolen firearms. the terrorists have ak-47s that are illegal on the black market. i think what we need to do is look at hardening the targets, the soft targets with the school resource officers. you know the parkland case, we also -- im the biggest fan of law enforcement. we had a law enforcement breakdown where th...