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This holiday weekend, were giving you a live look right now from seatac international airport. aaa putting the number at about 3.6 million, thats about the same as last year. joining me now, john pistol, the former administer of the tsa and president of anderson university joining us via skype. john, you hear the president talking about there is no specific threat, and we hear jeh johnson also talking about that and we remain vigilant, more than a slogan of see something, say something. what sho...

>> reporter: well, fredricka, theyre telling horrifying stories of this attack which unfolded on friday here at this radisson hotel in mali, which is frequently visited by foreigners, including americans. and at 7:00 in the morning, the two, maybe three gunmen walked in here and started firing at random. i spoke to an indian national who was with his colleagues living here in the hotel and he describes this scene as it unfolded. >> we barricaded the doors. we put a lot of heavy stuff on the door...

Joins us live now from mali. so, david, we know that two al qaeda-affiliated groups are claiming responsibility. what more can you tell us about the state of emergency in effect and what theyre doing to go about finding these three other suspects? >> reporter: well, certainly, fredricka, this is a nation in shock. and at this scene, at this hotel, its quiet now, but very different scenes on friday when two, maybe three gunmen stormed this hotel. they werent, in fact, driving inside a diplomatic ...

What did you find out? >> this is someone who worked at the restaurant. they said the attack started during breakfast. the attackers stormed in. people then started running out of the restaurant. he said the attackers came in through the main lobby entrance and started shooting at random. people started running to the elevators. we do not know how many people are injured, how many are dead, but he said people were congress gating by the elevators, desperately trying to get inside. while they wer...

Debate with the republican presidential candidates have also been reacting. here is a sample. >> we ask that our leaders understand this is not some random, ill-defined violent extremism. this evil, radical islamic terrorism needs to be called out. >> you can say what you want, but if they had guns, if our people had guns, if they were allowed to carry it would have been a much, much different situation. >> if we take in, you know, thousands of people from that area it would be almost malpractic...

Of the worst carnage. 89 lives taken there just behind me. police say three attackers took audience members hostage inside of the concert hall venue and then right in front of the stage executed them at random. in all, 89 people lost their lives in the building that is just over my shoulders, the bataclan concert hall. the attackers killed either by gunfire from police or by activating their own suicide vests. joining me now, cnn chief national security correspondent jim sciutto, also our senior...

Those watching a friendly and the arch rival germany. we have a map showing the locations and all of these and based on the reports of the police, the totality is no more than 5 km apart. you can see that the stadium to the north there and here to the south the bar and location of the restaurant and the venue where the attack ers opened fire on those at random. clamping down with lawmakers and i should say with attractions and the eiffel tower and greg is live in paris this afternoon with more, ...

>> what is that? >> whoa. whoa. >> there we go. >> let me see that. >> look at that. >> what do you got there? >> maam, thats a cuff key. thats a homemade cuff key made out of metal. thats a homemade cuff key. this right here can get somebody killed. this is why we do our shakedowns and do them at random. if they knew we were coming we would have never found this. it would have been gone. they would have flushed it. this right here is very serious. >> the key has been discovered in the cell of i...

Someone like this, no one should be traveling to iran right now. this is a regime with a legal system thats random. they can come up with charges randomly and without explanation, and they do. we have seen several individual being held against their will. i worked on several cases. once in a while we get someone free. but it should not be a part of the iran negotiations. this is a separate deal. the more we put it with any type of political issue, the more individual will be at risk because the ...

According to the "washington post." they had no access to classified information whatsoever. and their compensation was a $250 gift certificate to amazon. what in the world is going on here? the group is known as the super forecasters and their story is told in a great new book. tedlock has studied the art of prediction for years. he made waves by showing the average expert in fields like politics is about as good as a predictor as anyone making a random guess. his most recent was funded by the ...