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Threat from isis-k and youve got americans who are trying to get to the airport, are there likely more missions than the pentagon obviously is going to tell us to try to get to those americans instead of asking them to come through that threat to get onto the airfield? >> theres a couple of things going on. first of all, to answer your question, i sure hope there are. you dont want to tell the people on the ground, including isis-k the nature of the operations, the pace of the operations, what t...

Backpack bombs like we saw in attacks in london in 2005. they want to access areas like airports or airplanes that are now hardened. if you wanted to get on the news internationally with a major attack, youre going to avoid a hardened target and some of these people arent going to have the capability to build a sophisticated backpack bomb. you come down to, why not just have a truck and mow down people in the ways weve seen in europe in the last year or two. i suspect what happened here is this ...

Detonator. the new york times said it appears to contain a small circuit board. it was found in what they believe to be the hand of the terrorist. they also found a battery that they say is one more powerful than one often seen in whatever backpack bombs that these teams have seen in backpack bombs or suicide vests. when you put this all together do you think this is the work of a sophisticated bomb maker? j from the new york times analyst, there seems to be some cities can indication in these d...

You can say were going to license everybody within half a mile. they have to show a permit. you can put sand or concrete barriers in. i dont think preventing this stuff is possible, if you look at recent terrorism, youll more likely see backpack bombs or suicide belts. you cant stop 500,000 people from carrying backpacks to an event. secondly, were talking about parades. how about tail-gating at universities or nfl games over time. are you going to tell somebody you cant bring a vehicle into a t...

Challenge here and when i talked to voters, look, we want to see him talk more about his policies, we want to see him come off as strong on national security. and if you are a voter still undecided, you dont want to see donald trump and ted cruz go after one another. a lot of folks i talked to said they think that would be the worst possible outcome. >> thank you very much. appreciate it. >> obviously big debuts in los angeles, nations second largest school system shut down by an e-mail terror t...

Justice correspondent in our washington bureau. pete, tell us more, for people who are just joining us this afternoon, about the threat itself. this was an e-mail apparently, sent to at least some of the school board in los angeles. >> it appears that the e-mail was sent to the school superintendent in new york and in los angeles. weve havent been able to see if it was sent to other cities. the authorities in l.a. seemed to indicate they thought there might be. in any event, it was purportedly f...

You can see why new york city got a similar message and they reacted a different way. we saw the message mentioned pressure cooker bombs and backpack bombs and a group of attackers preparing to take out -- take an attack against schools in los angeles and in new york, and the message made a reference to a vulgar reference to a male body part. thats one reason why new york city police commissioner bill bratton reacted to this by declaring it to be a hoax. take a listen. >> we have been in contact...

Closer look at the bombers widow. among the items taken from her home, dna samples. why? to compare them to female dna found on one of the bombs. meanwhile, the younger brother has a new lawyer. judy clarke, a death penalty expert that helps secure life sentences for high-profile clients like the unabomber and eric rudolph, who detonateded backpack bombs during the 1996 olympics. lets go over the investigation with cnns juliette kayyem. lets begin with something i havent mentioned yet to close t...

>> steve: with what happened last monday, backpack bombs, this is one of your biggest fears, isnt it? >> true. were concerned about that. this is something thats very, very difficult to stop. >> steve: every third person on the street has a backpack. >> it seems that way, right. its an issue, certainly at major events. certain events where its a limited space, you can check backpacks. on new years eve, we do that in a very controlled environment. but in a marathon, we have 26 miles. >> brian: it...

Robert rudolph captured after years on the run in may of 03. 9/11, usama bin laden you mentioned his name almost instantly. 3,000 people dying in attacks on the new york and pentagon and on the hijacked flight in pennsylvania. bin laden first denying involvement and then in 2004 claiming responsibility. the mastermind, khalid sheikh mohammed captured in pakistan in march 2003. 10 backpack bombs exploding on four rush hour commuter traipse in madrid. this was march 11th, 04. 191 people were kille...