10 Offbeat Stories You Might Have Missed This Week (5/18/19)
Another week has passed, which means that it is time, once again, to look at some of the bizarre stories that made the headlines recently. If you want to read up on last week’s list, click here.
This week, we have two stories on mysterious texts and ciphers. One is carved into a rock in France, while the other one is considered a Holy Grail of cryptography. Another mystery would be who keeps drawing penises on the sports fields of Melbourne.
There is also a secret chamber in Rome, a brewery in the United States, and a Danish politician with a unique strategy to reach his constituents.
this is your a.m. wake-up call. i m carol costello. let s get started with the specific, credible, but unconfirmed terrorist threat against the united states involving three people, vehicle and bombs and possible targets in new york new york and washington. new york city mayor michael bloomberg says there there will be additional police officers throughout the city, but no one should change their daily routines. leaders in the nation s cappal the telling people to remain calm and vigilant. there are people together scrubbing through mounds of data looking for potential leads of individuals where suspicion may arise around them. let s talk with cnn national security contributor fran townsend who joins me live from washington. tell me what you know of these three people. is it car bombs? what are we talking about exactly? carol, we ve gotten the information in bits and pieces as we often do in the early stages. the threat information they got only in the last 24 to 36 hours