open those shipping containers. homeland security says the revelation led to beefed up american security. i m glad american people are learning more about these. reporter: like this man who planned to marry four women and have 48 kids to build his own jihad army. as ridiculous as this sounds, you realize you have to step back and you need experts to explain is this possible. reporter: al qaeda planned to use special blow torches to cut the cables ton brooklyn bridge and might have succeed fd they got into the security room where those cables are anchored. if you got into that room, you would be able to, in my judgment, cut those cables and not be seen by the public, not be seen by traffic passing on the bridge. so, yeah, it would have been feasible to do it and still potentially feedsable. reporter: but they abandoned the plan because the weather was too hot, meaning too much security. in the middle of 2002 the intel
announced candidate s past, charges of hypocrisy and where he fits into the growing field of contenders. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. two weeks after the death of osama bin laden we ve learned u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s who stormed the compound and killed him had cameras on their helmets. while we ve been showing you an animated version of what likely happened that night, u.s. officials now are studying actual digital recordings of the raid. our pentagon correspondent chris lawrence is here in the situation room to talk about this. what do we know about these recordings? the first thing, wolf, a military official is telling us that it s hazy. it s extremely dark. so don t go in there expecting to see movie quality here. but what it does do is it puts you in the shoes of the actual s.e.a.l.s as they were going through this assault. he says basically when you look at this video, it s b