tweets a british isis convert. i smell something big coming soon says another. as investigators look for exactly what prompted the two gunmen elton simpson and nadir soofi to plan their attack, they say simplyson was immersed in jihadist twitter accounts including some that explicitly called for attacking the texas event. two weeks before the texas gathering the fbi and homeland security warned it carried the risk of being targeted. federal officials say more than 5,000 people are following the kind of radical twitter accounts that elton simpson did. but how to tell which followers are truly dangerous? this is a very difficult task for law enforcement. there are a lot of people who say a lot of things on twitter and most of them don t carry out terrorist strikes. reporter: people who knew the other gunman nadir soofi, say he showed no signs of violence helping out at a nonprofit for the homeless. he was very gentle with the clients he worked with. he helped them with their
sharon soofi said i had all the hopes and dreams he would grow up and be successful. for whatever reason he thought that wasn t what he needed to do. something else called him to take the path he did. nadir soofi is scheduled to be buried outside kansas city. new video of elton simpson. he appeared at a 2012 fund raising video for the phoenix mosque with nadir soofi. he talks about the power of prayer as spiritual armor. it charges your imam when you come together and pray five times a day with the brothers and reminded with the hereafter. a few minutesuew months ago, simpson stopped going. and the fight against isis. 400 members of the u.s. military
wells report? when is tom brady going to talk? we have had half a day already. he has to come out and explain or admit to it or talk against it. the cover up is always worse than the crime. do you think there will be a tom brady suspension? i say one game. andy says? sean payton got a whole season because he would not cooperate during bounty gate. i think he gets three or four games. i don t know why you take a risk like that for a deflated ball. i don t get it. investigators becoming confident that the two men who tried to attack a texas contest to draw the prophet muhammad were lone wolves. acting alone here. law enforcement officials say they have not found any evidence that nadir soofi and elton simpson had direct orders from isis.
shocked. i wouldn t put it past him because i understood the sincerity of his beliefs. he expressed to me admiration specifically osama bin laden, he used the word hero. why do you think he took that step. he was a student of islam. the more he studied, the greater his intensity grew. my guess is he looked out at this and was close enough and thought no one was doing anything to protect his honor. something had to be done and he knew he was going to do it. i m sure he knew he was going to die. my friend wasn t a fool. he certainly knew he was going to die. he influenced the other gunman nadir soofi, says his aunt. i think it had to do with the other man that was living with him. i think he preached to him so much. no one else not the mosque not neighbors, friends or simpson s families say they saw
i think he may be suspended for a game. for a guy who is 37 and at the beginning of the season when it may not be the end of the world to take a game off. they may very well suspend him. more than not, there is no hard evidence is the standard for nfl discipline. that is the standard. that is why they used that language. it is enough to issue discipline. what a story. thanks andy. developing this morning, investigators are confident that the two men who tried to attack a texas contest to draw the prophet muhammad are confident they were acting alone. no evidence that nadir soofi or or elton simpson had contact with anyone else. simpson had simpson had a connection with