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In the smoking suv. susan candiotti joins us now with more on this video in particular. what -- how much more of a picture is it painting for investigators? >> it helps them build their case as this man is still cooperating. the attorney general said that as recently as yesterday. this video shows what was happening and the date is believed to be march 8th of this year, obviously. and the first thing you see in the video a dark colored suv entering the parking lot in northeastern pennsylvania. n...

To the cashier and pays cash. the sale just under $100. and buys a number of m-88s, which are described to be not very powerful. the store ownerall perfectly le. if he thought he could light one and it would somehow set off a chain reaction of lighting the other m-88s, he was wrong, these are not powerful explosives. they are safely made so you cannot set off a chain reaction -- >> you have to light each piece individually? >> you do. >> do you have any idea where the money came from? >> our hom...

Cool, calm and collected. they asked if he could help him, he said no. then he checks out at the counter and takes his time. he spent about an hour in that store, was in no hurry to leave. there goes the dollar colored suv, the question is that the suv pathfinder that was used. were unclear at this point. if it was march, that would have been before he purchased that suv, that remains unclear. >> you had a chance to hear from the store owner about what they think about the fact that these m- 88s...

Building. the reality, according to the police is, that he left the keys in the suvs ignition back in times square. that was far from shahzads only error. today, the owner of the store where he apparently bought fireworks, m- 8s used in the failed bomb that owner said the kind shahzad bought were so weak they wouldnt damage a watermelon. team fox coverage continues. david lee miller live in our newsroom. you spoke to the fireworks store owner. what else did he say. >> he told me the sale took pl...

For the air force. by all accounts, upstanding citizens. weve talked to friends and family members. all of them are shocked, wolf, at what this young man is being accused with. >> reza sayahs digging and digging in islamabad, throughout pakistan for us. well check back with you, reza. thanks very much. this hour also, the trail of the times square bomb suspect has led investigators to a northeastern pennsylvania store. a federal law enforcement official tells cnn that is where faisal shahzad b...

Detectives. it was a very hot evening. they suited up in very oppressive gear which im sure everyone saw, and they worked tirelessly through that evening, all through the next day. so if you look at the components, the timer, the gasoline cans, the m-88s, the propane tank, the gun box, put all of that together that lethal assembly really made a very big hurt locker. and it wasnt until all of the parts of the bomb were taken down that we were able to tow that vehicle to a forensic garage. now, by...

Several arrests in connection with the case. >> reporter: faisal shahzad, a pakistani sworn in as a u.s. citizen just one year ago faces charges, including attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. the explosives-laden suv left in the heart of manhattan. >> if you looked at the components, the timer, the gasoline cans, the -- the m-88s, the propane tank, the gun box, put all of that together, that lethal assembly really made a very big hurt locker. >> reporter: shahzad was identified as a ...

This is a little more sophisticated but not much. depending on how he tried to use it. if they were counting on this m-88 to blow up between the gas cans, for that to fire off an explosion which would then create enough heat to light the propane tanks, i think the odds of that are not good. likewise the m-88 back by the propane tanks, i dont see any reason to believe that an explosive like that would penetrate tanks like that. however, and this is the important part, if the idea was that these p...

Following up on right now. >> tell me about this crazy bomb equipment. go through what was in there in the vehicle that might have worked or maybe never could have worked. what do you make of this -- run through what was in there. >> i think bottom line up front, it wasnt going to work. you had several things -- you had a gas -- you had gasoline cans. you had propane canisters. you had fire crackers, m-88s, and you had a large gun box filled with nonexplosive fertilizer. and a rude goldberg-like...

Securities of new york. came right into times square with propane, with gas, with fertilizer that maybe we know now was inert, but perhaps wasnt known to this bomber and all this kind of m-88s and was actually detonated, in the bombers mind. was allowed to get so close to the main center of this that i think that new york had a dry run here, don. and theyre going to have to look and see what the procedures are, what could have prevented this. certainly, all due respect to the t-shirt vendors, to...