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Sixteen attacks on cables in the past year alone. more on this with a senior fellow at the center for digital government. morgan, we talk about infrastructure, this is something we dont think about. even though were communicating using our phones and sending messages into space, were actually walking on top of a lot of wires that are really important. so whats happening in the san francisco bay area is called fiber cuts. what exactly is that? >> look, jenna, back about ten years ago your voice, ...

My daughter. >> agents from the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives were called in to investigate. >> we found metal fragmentation, we found pieces of pipe nipple. we picked up any pieces of wire we found. batteries, we did find some 9-volt batteries. we picked up everything. >> this clearly eliminated a gas line explosion. these were the ingredients of a pipe bomb, a homemade device in which gunpowder is packed into a steel pipe, closed with metal end caps. in this case, fragmen...

Unusual or unique left by the bomber, often without knowing it. >> we actually found a piece of green plastic that had a label on it that said igloo legend 12, which is a cooler. >> this meant the pipe bomb was inside the cooler, activated with a trip wire. investigators did not believe that the victim was the intended target. >> it was very apparent to us that this was very random. there was nothing in mr. plowers background to indicate him being the target of a crime. >> after some digging, in...

Marks from whites wire cutters to the tool marks on the copper wire found at the danville bomb site. >> from that comparison, i was able to conclude that these wire cutters, they recovered in rick whites garage was the same cutter found in the danville device. >> this was forensic proof that white was the bomber. >> we found an area of the garage that had red spray paint on it and contained on that red spray paint were perfectly round circles. the reason that was important was the device that ki...

Oklahoma, which is about 90 miles north of oklahoma city, population roughly 50,000. right here in enid they have the third largest storage capacity for grain on the planet. but wedged in between enids silos lies the tale of a cantankerous legend who heft his grandchildren -- who left his grandchildren with a very entrance. >> my name is stuart, and in 2003 my brothers and sisters and i inherented something pretty unusual from my grandfather. his name was oliver jordan, and he died in 95. he was...

They are about to be released from their captivity that only lasted a year. i want to show you sound in a moment. but first lets get your reaction to what bill oreilly said. do you agree this was a deceptive practice by the white house? >> there is conflicting information. the army major general said bowe bergdahl always planned to return to his base. we know he was tortured by the taliban. it doesnt make sense that they would torture him then he was on their side. he was kept in a cage by the t...

Technically. were just not quite to the middle of it. so around this bend and up the road a piece, just beyond the rise, right where the mountain begins, well meet tom. whats his name? >> coyne. he goes by thomas and i think hes particular about it. >> thomas coyne. not my first day at the rodeo. ill tell you right now, out here, its important to be a team. by team, i mean its every man for himself. you dont have to be faster than the bear. you have to be faster than jones. i just have to outrun...

Its actually in everybodys history worldwide. >> thats so fine, you could really start to -- >> i like that one. thats a good one. >> plus it looks a little bit like a penguin. >> all right. so were going to go to pressure flaking. instead of percussion where were hitting the flakes off, well use a copper tip tool. this is a piece of oak, copper wire on the end. well use pressure to put along the edge here and just go along, work along, push along the top. little tiny chips are going to come off...

Circumstantial evidence would indicate that he intended to kill himself to avoid having to talk to the police. >> next to whites body was his german shepherd dog. it matched the description of the dog given by the witness near the first bomb site. >> he was obviously clutching the bomb close to his body, and he had his one friend in the world there with him, his other arm around his dog. >> also in the garage, investigators found blue silver-coated wire, the kind used in the two church bombings....

>> agents from the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives were called in to investigate. >> we found metal fragmentation. we found pieces of pipe nickel. we picked up any pieces of wire. we found batteries. we did find some 9-volt batteries. we picked up everything. >> this clearly eliminated a gas line explosion. these were the ingredients of a pipe bomb, a homemade device in which gunpowder is packed into a steel pipe closed with metal end caps. in this case, fragments of red pain...