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C4 is a military grade plastic explosive. crucially, isis in sinai has been stockpiling c4 explosives. its been using that explosive in a number of attacks in the sinai peninsula in recent months. so certainly consistent with a hypothesis that isis affiliates carried out this attack. they have claimed that they carried out this attack. >> so if it is someone who had access, they dont think it was a passenger who brought it through the security check point. who would that leave? airline or airpor...

>> everybody out. everybody out. to the front. >> reporter: police rushed on board this american airlines flight monday in search of a man with a suspicious package. passengers were ordered to place their hands on their head. >> some very large officers in s.w.a.t. gear entered the plane. they proceeded down the aisle looking at each passenger in the eye as if they were looking for someone. >> reporter: tsa at miami international airport initially allowed the man through a security checkpoint wi...

One was shot in the leg, the other the stomach. the stomach obviously a far more serious wound. the status of the shooter or shooters unclear right now. well bring you more information as it becomes available. israeli police fatally shot a woman they say was trying to attack a security check point in west bank with a knife. one of the incident captured on video, youll see it here, shows a palestinian woman pulling a knife from her bag. youll see it happen in a second and attacking an israeli g...

On board, many here are asking if it can happen on american soil. congressional testimony detailed an undercover operation where tsa failed 95% of the time detecting fake explosives at u.s. airports. >> failures included technology, tsa procedures and human errors. >> reporter: but the larger threat may be beyond the security checkpoint. >> you may have someone who has gone through all the security checks, has passed all the background checks but has been successful in hiding their true loyalty ...

>> the failures included technology, tsa procedures and human errors. >> reporter: but the larger threat may be beyond the security check point. >> you may have someone who has gone through all the security checks, has passed all the background checks but is successful in hiding their true loyalty to al qaeda, muslim brotherhood or isis and this is the ultimate threat, insider threat. >> reporter: chad wolf, the former head of tsa security policy agrees. >> here domestically in the u.s., airport...

With the latest. >> reporter: uma, these were back-to-back attacks. this could be a prelude of more ratcheted up violence not only in the west bank but jerusalem as well. the targets being soldiers as we saw earlier today. lets start with hebron with an 18-year-old palestinian man approached a security checkpoint and tried to stab an israeli soldier is. when that reportedly failed, he went after an israeli citizen who was armed and shot and killed the attacker. later, a 17-year-old palestinian f...

Soldiers and border police shooting palestinians in clash was the forces. that attack happened in nablus when the holy site was torched. josephs tomb. security forces moved in and put out the fire. that is part of what has led to the atmosphere here and tension and the security measures you see behind me. this is one gate we see from our position. they are checking people who move into the old city with heavy restrictions in and around the old city. they are checking identification and looking a...

Security checkpoint. that is the heightened security here and tension with the movement restrictions around the old city and east jerusalem. bringing in 2,000 extra border police to monitor and check and increase the security after the wave of attacks. palestinians say this is an attempt to deescalate by using more force which will only escalate the situation and bring more tension and attacks. we have seen the number of victims climbing on both sides. there are restricts for friday prayers. isr...

Security measures yesterday, a pair of attacks in jerusalem left two men dead and one injured. they played out before the eyes of our news team near the entrance to jerusalems old city. in a moment well speak live with the mayor of jerusalem. first, correspondent eamon mull dean live from jerusalem. >> good morning, mika. youre absolutely right. situation here remains tense. it is a muslim holiday. the traffic in and out of the old city a little bit lighter than what weve been seeing over the pa...

>> today an nbc news crew was there when israeli police shot and killed a palestinian man holding a knife who ran passed a security checkpoint near jerusalems damascus gate. for more on what happened, we turn to nbcs amman mohyeldin in jerusalem. >> israeli security stepped up its presence in jerusalem. their aim was to thwart any possible attack that could happen not just on israeli checkpoints but even against israeli civilians. today such an attack took place and we were there as it unfolded....