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Plots to smuggle radioactive material since 2010. >> the proliferation is smuggling, the movement of this material around obviously has grave consequences. were going to continue to work internationally as this demonstrated to try to stem that. >> reporter: moldovas close proximity to russia where radioactive material can be made, makes the selling of this big business for terrorist organizations. >> a group that has billions is certainly willing to pay that for material that could terrorize or ...

Isis has gotten their hands on any of these materials coming from eastern hureurope? >> theres no indication that isis has gotten their hands on any material. this was a sting operation done by the mol dove area police with help of the fbi. this is a concern for the fbi. this is major concern for law enforcement of the united states and in other western countries. the idea that there are these criminal group thats have access to some of this material and may want to sell it to pretty much anyone...

Get ready to speed read the news. first to virginia, the man who shot president ronald reagan is fighting to live his life outside a mental hospital. john hinckley jr. living inside that mental hospital since the ronald reagan shooting in 1981. in 2013 a judge ruled the 59-year-old could leave the hospital for 17 days a month. now he is in court fighting to live with his mother in outpatient care full time. court resumes tomorrow. and now to japan in a terrifying discovery a drone carrying trace...

Get ready to speed read the news. first to virginia, the man who shot president ronald reagan is fighting to live his life outside a mental hospital. john hinckley jr. living inside that mental hospital since the ronald reagan shooting in 1981. in 2013 a judge ruled the 59-year-old could leave the hospital for 17 days a month. now he is in court fighting to live with his mother in outpatient care full time. court resumes tomorrow. and now to japan in a terrifying discovery a drone carrying trace...

Lets head to tokyo and cnns will ripley. strange and scary. >> reporter: revery startling. this is the equivalent of a drone carrying radioactive material landing on the rooftop of the white house. the prime minister works out of this building and he sometimes stays there. the prime minister out of the country right now in indonesia but there were still a lot of staff members in here when this drone was discovered this morning and within minutes there was a swarm of police on the rooftop trying ...

Cant take the cameras away. its their right to do so. its a certainty that law enforcement throughout the country is more attune to this and start letting their officers know what their rights are and what their rights are not. >> many thanks to both of you. i appreciate it. as early as today investigators could begin questioning the six baltimore police officers involved in the takedown of freddie gray. gray died from a fatal spinal cord injury. those officers now suspended with pay. more pro...

Federal government thats essentially assistance to buy health care. but the white house is sort of amazingly is saying all throughout this process, they dont have a back-up plan if obamacare loses. heres what they had to say. >> we would see millions of people lose their health insurance. we would see prices likely go through the roof. and theres not a whole lot frankly that the government could do about it. other than congress passing legislation to fix it. >> now health care experts estimate t...

Scattered about the junkyard. >> thousands of little metal pellets that look like cake decorations than nuclear waste basically ended up in the junkyard in juarez after a a handyman. that old medical equipment was loaded with cobalt 60, a radioactive isotope used in radiation therapy for cancer patience. a handyman sold it for about $10 and the junkyard mix the radioactive material into metal that was used to make ree bar and iron table legs among other things. 200 tons of the stuff was found ac...

Be torn apart and torn down because they had been built with that radioactive rebar. as a result of that incident, the u.s. installed radiation detectors along the border with mexico. that material goes missing a lot in mexico. just this past fall, a truck carrying an old radiotherapy machine was hijacked on its way from tijuana to mexico city for disposal at a special facility for storing nuclear waste. not knowing what they had taken, they abandoned it in a field in a small farming town outsid...

Detectors and there hasnt been another cross border incident since it turns out that radioactive material goes missing a lot in mexico. just this past thanksgiving day a truck was hijacked while it was on its way to tijuana from mexico city. those hijackers enlded up abandoning the cargo in the field about an hour outside of mexico city. the six men thought to have been the hijackers were admitted to the hospital with signs of radiation poisoning and field authorities used a robotic arm to recov...