they were seen leaving a bar to go four wheeling on sunday. the cause of death is still under investigation. we can say no foul play is suspected. gretchen: tv releasing a statement saying we are shocked and saddened by the terrible news. he was just 21-years-old. the man suspected of killing colorado s prison s chief should have been behind bars, but because of a clerical error, he was released early. he was sentenced to four years in prison while assaulting a prison guard. the sentence was put into the computer system wrong he was killed in a shootout with police in texas. the gun found was matched to the crime scene in colorado. north korea making its latest threat overnight. it s vow to go restart activity at its main nuclear complex that s been shut down since 2007. it comes as the country released a disturbing video of its military firing on cutouts of american soldiers. america continues to flex its
good evening. i m tom foreman in for erin burnett. breaking news. a suicide attack stopped just short of the capitol steps. new details at this hour about the plot. authorities say the would be bomber had conducted a test in west virginia. chose the attack at a d.c. restaurant and allegedly told investigators he wanted to kill people, quote, face to face with an ak 47. if the investigation had not gone well, if detectives had not done their jobs, our lead story tonight would in short be a calamity. inste instead, the fbi and u.s. capitol police stopped it cold. he was arrested in a sting operation when undercover agents posing as al qaeda operatives gave him a fake suicide vest. it contained no explosives, so the public was not in danger. tonight, he is behind bars. brian todd is in alexandria, virginia, where he made an initial appearance today and was charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. what are you hearing this evening about this alleged plot? to
of the troops carrying it out. [ speaking foreign language ] syrian troops, they re apparently taking aim on the people of homs. looking at this video one day after the syrian ambassador to the united nations said there s no armed conflict in syria. you can hear one of the men saying over the radio, the situation is good. as with almost all of the video coming out of syria, cnn cannot independently confirm what it appears to show. much more on the video and the story it tells ahead. the arrest, court appearance, and charges against a 29-year-old man accused of planning a suicide bombing at the united states capital. jeffrey toobin joins us to talk about that along with tom fuentes with new details just b those. what have you lurjed about the suspect and his alleged plot? the details we re getting this man, this suspect identified as a 29-year-old moroccan national seem to escalate during the points in the operation when he was working with people he thought were al qaeda
[ gun fire ] [ speaking in native language ] syrian troops, they re apparently taking aim on people s homes. remember, you re looking at this video one day after the syrian ambassador to the united nations says there is no armed conflict in syria. remember when he said no armed conflict. in that video you can actually hear one man saying over the radio, the situation is good. as with all of the other video coming out of syria, we cannot con fill that it shows what it show what is it appears to show. the charges against a 20-year-old morroccan man. his arrest the result of a sting operation. jeffrey toobin talks about that. the knew details of the criminal charges just emerging and brian todd s got new details tonight. what have you learned about this suspect and his alleged plot? reporter: well, john, the details that we re getting indicate that this man, this suspect, identified as am meean elkhalis si. when he thought he was working with al qaeda operators but were re
[ speaking foreign language ] syrian troops, they re apparently taking aim on the people of homs. looking at this video one day after the syrian ambassador to the united nations said there s no armed conflict in syria. you can hear one of the men saying over the radio, the situation is good. as with almost all of the video coming out of syria, cnn cannot independently confirm what it appears to show. much more on the video and the story it tells ahead. the arrest, court appearance, and charges against a 29-year-old man accused of planning a suicide bombing at the united states capital. jeffrey toobin joins us to talk about that along with tom fuentes with new details just brian todd has those. what have you learned about the suspect and his alleged plot? the details we re getting this man, this suspect identified as a 29-year-old moroccan national seem to escalate during the points in the operation when he was working with people he thought were al qaeda operatives but we