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Out to cover three other areas. possible residences, places of employment and the like, trying to gather possible additional evidence that may help with that motive as far as trying to determine what he was thinking and what kind of went into that planning. also, there is his associates. they want to talk to friends, family members, colleagues. again, trying to get a mindset, build a picture of who this person is. lastly, we have been talking a lot about these very troubling social media posts. ...

That he was doing this on his own and that this attack was not part of a larger plot. now, the most serious of the federal charges accuse him of obstructing the free exercise of religion. that carries the death penalty upon conviction and its undoubtedly that other charges will be filed, as the investigation proceeds and these cases are presented to a grand jury, david. >> pete, what are you going to be listening for here in the next hour, when we have local federal law enforcement gathering for...

>> and what is the fbi doing right now to find out if he had accomplices? >> well, they will start with people and interviews. his family, friends, colleagues, neighbor, they will all be interviewed. but they will also work on the forensics. they found his fingerprints, maybe dna. if other people were involved, they would have left trace dna as well, they may have left fingerprints. but at this point we dont know how many days, weeks or months he actually took to put all these together. again, t...

Actualities and forensics or whether the two suspects knew each other. that that kind of thing. but just the tenor, the discourse, the divisiveness in this country right now. is it fair to say that that has permeated the atmosphere and that is something that raises alarm bells within the fbi, win local law enforcement, thus having to deploy marked cars, uniformed police officers, to places of worship on a sabbath morning? >> of course. when you get what may be considered by some to be a permissi...

You go in. the most firepower that you can bring and eliminate the threat. you secure the scene. and then you go and try to help people who need assistance. and there is a lot of controversy as to what you do with individuals while there is still an active threat. you dont stop and take care of them. you are working through that now. but ems and now you see them with vests on. ems will go in with police and try to render assistance. and then once the threat has been eliminated, hopefully youve c...

>> able to do forensically in examining these packages that was key to this. but look, theres a lot of clues, as james can tell you, having done many of these investigations over the years. its not just one thing, right? it helps that they were able to find the nexus in florida there, in that facility in opa-locka, where rosa flores has been reporting from. they were able to identify that that was a facility that processed many of these packages. that at least allowed them to narrow their focus ...

Have made. did someone buy 12-plus timers. at least one of these devices had a timer on it. what will they look for thats outside of the packages themselves? >> so now that we have potentially a particular geographical area in florida that investigators can focus in on, thats where the forensics come in. its occurring right now, im sure, a very close examination of those components to see if in fact, are all 12 timers same manufacturer. envelopes, are they 12 of the same envelopes? identify who ...

Same time. five or six at a time. something you can really key in on. but when we talk about forensics, its not just obviously dna and prints, which are the obvious links youre looking for, but also a very close examination of the components and tracing their origin. >> people, too. what did they know? did they see anybody buy this stuff. do they know someone talking about doing this kind of thing. im sure theyre canvassing for that kind of information and would welcome it if folks out there bel...

Definitive motive. because they were democrats or progressives or from that side. its something to take into consideration, but not the main topic. they will have the evidence and the forensics lead them on. they would have had the video and the forensic evidence from inside the packages themselves as they are being examined. again, if he is known to the police, how well-known? was his dna or fingerprints on file and maybe they got a match to him specifically and that led to this? did somebody t...

Like this. you match that against dna evidence and you start to get a sense of what a classic investigation looks like. different bits and pieces, sort of like sand on a beach and slowly you build a beach and all of a sudden somebody walks into your office and you are game on, you got them. we see a piece of it but they must have a lot, a lot. >> they have the sand. because of his roaring, we know they used dna, they used a cell phone to track him. can you walk how that would have led them to hi...