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Could the nylon bag been inside of this other bag? they dont know, but theyre very confident that theyre looking for black nylon bags. and, you know, to johns point, go through your receipts. if you have any receipts of anyone buying two pressure cookers. thats where this is going. any tip like that could help break it, but it shows you they dont have any tip lines. >> in terms of the device itself, the pressure cooker, weve seen this used before overseas. its been described as crude, as unsophi...

Trigger switches so that law enforcement and the military can train on how to recognize them and detect them and avoid tripping them. to learn how to disarm them. this company sells not to the general public, but to agencies, specifically sell, dummy pressure cooker i.e.d.s to train on because there are so many of them around, its the kind of thing around that people who work in explosives need to know how to do. people put explosives in pressure cookers and blow them up not using a fuse an a ti...

Cnns barbara starr is live at the pentagon with the details this. good morning, barbara. >> good morning, john. weve talked so much abo ts notion of a bomb signature. what is it a why is it impoant? you know, bombmakers tend to put their bombsoghehe same way each andve time and when they train others to put a bombether that is the bomarssignature. what experts are doing is atatia was used?orensics. how was it put together? what kind of detonator? what kind of fuse? w was the bomb placed, if you ...

With end caps or you could scoot and end cap and put a fuse in there. in order to purchase one of these, people were running the risk of having the hardware store or the store where you purchase these, someone actually calling law enforcement saying, hey, you know, this is very odd. so i think terrorists or criminals have kind of adjusted. and have gone to something that could do equally or more damage, which is you can pick up at almost any store. >> and wouldnt stand out as unusual in any way....

Right now i want to bring in barbara starr. barbara, you just got some new details on this investigation. what have you just learned? >> well, john, we now know that about 1,000 national guard massachusetts and from other new england states assembling on scene to support local law enforcement and help them out. people have been talking about this as a war zone. literally, john, the u.s. military intelligence working with the fbi, they have years of experience together now from the wars in iraq a...

The who matters less now than that were getting people to safety and they got people to safety quickly. >> tom fuentes, certainly the fact that there were multiple devices and seemingly coordinated, we dont know the means by which they were coordinated, but that is significant. that is though they might not be sophisticated devices, that at least shows a level of planning or sophistication in how this was carried out. >> well, that could be, anderson, but you could easily have one person drop on...

A lot of that work is going to be done today. some of it -- some of the initial work was done last night. but we dont have a very good picture yet of what they found in terms of what kind of explosive was used. they claim to know some of the officials i should say, claim to know how the things were detonated. that is to say whether it was a timer, whether it was a cell phone call, whether it was some other kind of radio remote control device or simply somebody, you know, with a fuse pressing a b...

Routine -- >> normal -- >> routine -- >> it started out as a very good murrah building, told me how he day. assembled the bomb, where he got the parts, how he drove it to [ explosion ] oklahoma city and parked on way down at blackwell, oklahoma, came down the next morning. how he lit it when the bomb -- when the truck was paused >> holy cow! briefly in front of the regency about a third of the building towers, that he lit one of the fuses there and then lit another has been blown away. fuse and ...

He told me the very first meeting, and he said, "i decided to do this." he told me why he chose the murrah building, told me how he assembled the bomb, where he got the parts, how he drove it to oklahoma city and parked on way down at blackwell, oklahoma, came down the next morning. how he lit it when the bomb -- when the truck was paused briefly in front of the regency towers, that he lit one of the fuses there and then lit another fuse and closed the door and walked away. he took 100% of the b...

Him virtually all day. he told me the very first meeting, he said, i decided to do this. he told me why he chose the murrah building, told me how he assembled the bomb, where he got the parts, told me how he drove it to oklahoma city and parked. on the way down from blackwell, oklahoma, came down the next morning, how he lit it when the truck was paused briefly in front of the regency towers, he lit a fuse there, lit another fuse, closed the door and walked away. he took 100% of the blame. >> ho...