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Incident in the london metro, subway system. the attacker was reportedly yelling this is for syria. youre getting new information from your sources there. tell us what happened. >> well, were hearing disturbing new details about this that this was an attempted beheading. it seemed he pinned his victim, a 50-year-old man down to the ground and held his head in his hand and started sawing with a sharp knife on his neck. it appears he got distracted when passers by started shouting at him. the poli...

Risk for the united states. >> these elite teams typically reserved for espionage and high priority terrorism cases. this level of surveillance shows the severe risk connected with these unnamed suspects most likely to attempt copycat attack similar to the massacre we saw in paris. >> a man draped in an american flag holding a binder jumps the white house fence. the white house was put on lock down for three hours. the jumper a man named joseph caputo was taken into custody pretty quickly. he ha...

Reassure americans. we also saw homeland security secretary jay johnson actually hop on an amtrak train from d.c. to new jersey. both of them clearly trying to send the message to americans that its okay to take mass transit and get on with your lives. but despite that message what travelers are seeing is law enforcement out at full force at trains, bus stations, airports. were seeing heavy weaponry. bomb sniff dogs. we know the tsa has been conducting these random checks for explosives at airpo...

At least one is dead. more details on this inside of americas newsroom only moments from now. another fox news alert. the state department issuing a worldwide travel awhrert for all americans overseas. the department of homeland security issuing a warning of a copycat attack similar to what we saw in syria. thanks for spending time with us today. martha: good morning. im martha maccallum. the f.b.i. director james comey and homeland security director jeh johnson sending a warning saying the bigg...

Not strong enough. u.s. national security officials tell cnn that several of the suspected terrorist attackers could have been able to pass through the screening process and get inside the u.s. but there is no indication that any of them actually tried to travel to the u.s. cnn investigative correspondent chris frates is live for us now in washington. so, chris, how many attackers could have gotten in and why wouldnt they have been flagged? >> reporter: fred, so, we think at least one of those a...

They are closely watching dozens of people who pose the highest risk of carrying out a copycat attack. isis sympathizers were taken up a notch following the paris attacks. heres how the fbi director james comey described the threat. >> a threat here focuses primarily on troubled soul souls in america inspired or enabled online to do something violent for isil. we have stopped a lot of those people this year, especially leading up to july 4th and there are others we worry about. we cross the coun...

Closely watching dozens of people who pose the highest risk of carrying out a copy cat attack. more than 100 of the investigations into isis sympathizers were, quote, taken up a notch following the paris attacks. >> the threat here focuses primarily on troubled souls in america who are being inspired or enabled online, to do something violent for isil. we have stopped a lot of those people this year, especially leading up to july 4th, and there are others we worry about and we cover all across t...

As many as three of them could have slipped the u.s. watch list and screening program. there is no indication that many tried to travel here. some law enforcement officials are concerned that the watch list wouldnt have picked them up. others in the intelligence community are insisting that human and other intelligence could have filled those gaps. going forward, fbi officials say they are closely watching dozens of people who pose the highest risk of carrying out a copycat attack. more than 100...

Intelligence secrets to israel. pollard, who is now 61 years of age will have to spend the next five years on parole and is barred from leaving the u.s. without permission. an american student is among three killed in the latest israeli/palestinian violence. israeli defense soisofficials s west bank attacker rammed them with a car. earlier thursday, in tel aviv, two israelis killed in a stabbing attack. the fbi isic taing a closer look at dozens of people they believe pose a terror threat fo...

Terrorist attacks could have a ripple effect in the united states. the fbi director james comey and the attorney general of the united states loretta lynch are now saying that the fbi is closely watching dozens of people here in the united states who they say may try to kcarry out a copycat attack here in the united states. we will talk about this justice reporter evan perez and also foria younes who worked as a consultant overseas, and also former terrorist specialist tom fuentes with the fbi.