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The explosive device. preliminarily, the explosion was equivalent to 10 kilo grams of tnt. >> well talk to a terror expert about this attack in 30 miemts from now. 74 people stranded for a week on a ship in antarctica are very close to being rescued. an australian icebreaker is plowing through the ice and could reach them at any moment. this is the latest rescue attempt. a chinese icebreaker failed to get close enough last week. well have a live update at 2:00 eastern time. a nationwide manh...

Something that could be as small explosive device as something like a hand grenade with some sort of timing device. well, you have to look in desks, you have to look in heat ducts. there are a lot of places. thats why you need the bomb dogs. but again, you know, bomb dogs arent perfect. they could miss something. explosive devices could be, in the worst case scenario, a booby trap attached to them. so this is a tremendous undertaking that they have to do. they have to bring in all of these outsi...

Heres whats happening. three deaths are blamed on the winter storm that hit the midwest and moving into the northeast. nearly 1,000 flights have been canceled. parts of new england could get up to a foot of snow by tomorrow. and police say the teenage gunman who opened fire at a colorado high school legally purchased a 12-gauge shotgun at a denver area gun store. set off an explosive device, shot one student in the head and killed himself yesterday. back to "caught on camera." >> welcome back to...

There were many incidents around the world for decades where the providence and the identity of these materials is certainly not known to the people who discovered them to very catastrophic effects. >> in terms of the motivation here, nobody seems to be putting forth the hypothesis that there were people looking to make a dirty bomb, who were looking to steal this stuff in order to turn it into a kind of weapon. but if for whatever reason it was trafficked or people realized what they had, or th...

The case, would this be the material that would be the explosive device that could disperse the radioactive material over a very large area? >> this has been a concern of people especially since 9/11. and if you were able to effectively disperse the source, because these are very highly concentrated materials, you could spread the low level concentrations over a large area. now at fukushima, you could see what a relatively small amount of material actually created the radioactive mess that went ...

Terrorist or suicidal and shes going to run people over on the sidewalk down the road or what, but its clear at that point that they know they have to stop that car. >> the fact that -- i mean, youre saying people should not read into the fact that no weapon was found inside the vehicle because at the time, law enforcement does not have that knowledge that vehicle could have been a -- you know, a vehicle born explosive device or something. >> the vehicle itself they know was a weapon. shes using...

Dead? >> no. >> reporter: which is the greatest threat to u.s. national security right now? al qaeda in pakistan, al qaeda in yemen, al qaeda in north africa, or home grown terrorism? >> i would start with home grown terrorism. the most immediate threat is home grown terrorism as weve seen in the boston marathon. >> reporter: the threat connecting most home grown plots from the ft. hood massacre in 2009 to the boston marathon bombing is the followers of the first american targeted for death by t...

Didnt see anything that happened on the bus, even though the beginning of the videotape shows them all moving forward with cell phones to record the video of the very vicious beating. >> shepard: thank you. investigators say theyre working to determine if the gunman in a deadly shooting spree outside dallas, texas, used a grenade or other type of explosive device. the cops arrested the man after he shot and killed four people and wounded others at two different homes, 15 minutes and ten miles ap...

States. no doubt mr. putin would prefer he move on. the pope made a visit to the largest shrine. earlier this week there was a small explosive device found during a security sweep. >> the pope is the first latin american pope to come there. take a look at the excited atmosphere surrounding the popes week long visit but also the security problems that have cropped up. >> reporter: dancing and jumping with joy. a party to welcome some of the hundreds of thousands of pilgrims flocking to rio, for...

To have come off that, i mean, it just felt like the plane really could have broken in half. and i mean, it was just such a hard impact. but i do, i mean, it was -- coming down the slide and seeing everybody rush. it was really more frightening turning around and looking at it, with all the emergency crew and all the people just -- it was an unbelievable feeling. >> im so glad youre doing okay, and im glad the other injuries werent life threatening. thank you so much, kathy boles. appreciate you...