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Welcome back to viewers in the united states and around the world. the fbi director says dozens in the united states are being monitored for fear of copy cat attacks of the paris massacre. hes slamming a new and controversy yawl house bill that requires him and top officials to personally vet and vounlg for refugees coming into the united states. kevin perez is out front. this is a stunning thing they are being required -- you putting your own personal name on the line for the refugees. what do ...

Senate, was on the show yesterday and expressed real concern about the level of security here in the u.s. right now after paris and after the isis video yesterday. lets watch. >> i dont want to make everybody nervous but i feel the same way i felt before 9/11, that something very well could happen here. >> do you share those concerns? >> well, listen, i can well understand those concerns. she and i share the same position as ranking members on intelligence. we are bombarded with bad news all the...

That is what officials are so alarmed by. >> what are officials doing based on everything youre hearing from your sources, the fbi, the department of homeland security and elsewhere to make sure what happened in paris doesnt happen in the? united states? >> officials are working around the clock. theyre going back looking at their cases particularly the high-priority people who theyre concerned about and increasing surveillance of them. wiretapping. basically increasing scrutiny of these cases t...

Attacker who is blew themselves up. so far officials say it does not appear there are any co-conspirators in the united states connected to this paris attack. officials are concerned about copycat attacks, though, and have increased their scrutiny on suspected isis supporters in the u.s. but officials of course stressing that dont have or know of any specific threats to the united states. christiane, anderson, back to you guys in paris. >> chris, thanks very much. you know, it is very early in t...

Possible to take him alive. i mean, the u.s. couldnt even rescue the hostages from raqqa unlikely they could have taken i didnt head john into custody. >> do you feel more should have been?1 done and this is really too little too late? >> absolutely more should have been done to rescue the hostages. the death of jihad john is not going to bring my friends back and it is too little too it late. >> what are your reflections when you see these attacks in paris wide scale attacks and violence that o...

Who could be behind this. there is a level of concern in the united states, anderson, even though there is no specific credible threat there could be copy cat attacks. this is something weve seen or heard from officials the concern of people launching attacks simultaneously on soft targets. were seeing that playing out in paris so officials here in the united states on high alert and fbi sending out this statements at this hour, anderson? >> pamela, in terms of the coordination between the fbi, ...

Some level of training, some level of preparation that went into this. at this hour i can tell you that law enforcement officials here in the united states, federal law enforcement officials are going to their sources domestically and overseas trying to gather any information to see if there were warnings before this happened. they are putting additional scrutiny and surveillance on high priority targets here in the u.s. the concern is there could be copy cat attacks. there is no information tha...

Someone might try to carry out copy cat attacks. >> we should point out what seems to be any evidence of this attack at this stage. he was on the phone with terrorists watching news reports and telling terrorists at different locations, kill that hostage, they are coming in to get you. >> exactly. one of the things that occurred is that they didnt capture some of that intelligence, some of that communication until afterwards because they were using u.s. phones. those are things intelligence agen...

Eventually maybe well tell you, but were not going to tell you for the moment. so they may be holding their cards very close for the reason they dont want to expose somebody working for them potentially at the airport. but obviously very, very early stages in this investigation. >> they may plan on doing it again so they dont necessarily want to tell everyone how they did itd. richard, britain, ireland, suspending all flights to and from sharm el sheikh. there must be concern right now about cop...

Available on 11 volkswagen models. police in arizona are still looking for the person or people behind nearly a dozen shootings along a phoenix freeway but they have arrested three teenagers for what the maricopa county sheriff described as copycat attacks. nbcs leanne gregg is live for us in phoenix. whats the very latest on these copy cats? meanwhile, the suspect or suspects still at large? >> reporter: good morning, jose. those three teenagers, 18 years old, were arrested on saturday night ...