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Through airport security, i was listening to a subcommittee on the hill. a lot of concern about drones by terrorist groups that are armed and can attack targeting abroad or in the united states and in europe. >> shepard: the bombs, bombs that cant be detected by the detection systems which our services use. have those bombs been found anywhere? have they been put into action anywhere? >> i think one of the things that youll see in the next few weeks, as they go there intelligence recovered in th...

Sure they can detect true natural threats with an inactivated strain. meaning, if we can kill the strain before we test it in a laboratory we not only make our laboratory safer, but we make our scientists safer as well. so by shipping an inactivated strain were testing the detection systems we have in place to assure the safety of our laboratory and general public risk issues. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you. next taken down to the ground by police officers. this woman here eight months pregn...

Health departments here in the united states have to look at their detection systems. what were worried about primarily with anthrax is a biological attack or some type of -- someone whos a terrorist that might use a biological weapon like anthrax. we have to have a detection system in place to make sure that we know that it is a real biological attack versus a fake one. we want to make sure that we get those answers as quick as possible. so i think what has happened -- and again, until an inves...

That vent line. she knew it was wrong. she called for help. it was too late. she had breathed in a fatal dose of an active ingredient in a heavy duty pesticide. when she called for help nobody knew exactly what had happened. there were no detection systems that went off to let anybody know about that chemical leak. there werent any in that part of the plant. there were big fans installed in the ceiling that were supposed to clear the air in case something like that happened. but you know what th...

Becomes more and more of a mystery. >> the ping on the satellite demonstrates two different quarters. you have to pass over india and china. they have very sophisticated detection systems. does that make the southern corridor more likely down towards indonesia. indonesia has been friendly, or at least allowed terrorist groups. >> when you look at that circle when it comes to those areas, every major group that we know just about that is involved with terrorism is in that northern hemisphere. tha...

Saying. the basic premise of the strategy is to build up and strengthen the host nation, which is afghanistan, so it can better govern and protect itself people. heres the deal though. calling afghanistan a nation is a far stretch of the imagination. most people in afghanistan dont even know how old they are. so how can we expect military members to accomplish a mission when the basic premise of the strategy thats implemented is flawed? >> and captain, with your work on the psychological piece o...

im in front of an apartment complex where six people lost their lives. ill bring you the whole story from here and from the whole area in the south and midwest that was hit by these deadly storms. >> and winner take some. mitt romney wins michigan but splits the delegates with rick santorum. romney also picking up another state. this all happening right before super tuesday. and after three days at sea without power means no lights, no toilets, no showers and infested waters, a cruise ...

The world. cham, let me ask you the government says the milk is safe. are people getting that message? or are people still freaking out? >> well, one of the good news that has come out of this crisis in the last several weeks is we can tell that people are actually getting some of this message. where we were talking with the american medical association, and it looks like some of the data that they have is that are there people who are listening now, that are not reacting as fearfully as they we...

Families and its a great tragedy. five roadside bombs has been the vein of the u.s. military over there, are we getting better to figure out how to ignore these? >> we are much better than we used to be. when we were young you didnt go down an unsecured road ever. now we can do it because we have all kind of detection systems. theyre not foolproof, but they are making a big dent in the enemys ability to use roadside bombs than we were several years ago. i would still not go down an unsecured roa...

New ways to try to get bombs on to airplanes, including by concealing them inside laptops. that perfecting some of those techniques the intelligence suggests, they are obtaining detection systems to try to probe their weaknesses. so, there is significant concern that they may stage future attempts to try to get a bomb on to a western passenger jet. but at the same time, the state of the art systems, which are deployed in airports in the united states and europe and certain other parts of the wor...