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At these people who might have traveled to syria, the immigration and travel controls are much stronger. and just, you know, i have to say this every time im on air, americas radicalization problem is a -- there are issues. we dont have an epidemic like france and england. i mean, what were going to find out from what happened in france is thats their own citizens. so, to the extent we keep our heads here in the united states, we are embracing people, we are -- we are an open society, that may a...

Isis. of course russia has another reason to want to get into this game even deeper and potentially stepping up its air strikes even more and that is isis claim of responsibility for downing that russian jetliner. so suddenly you hear these two men speaking very flatteringly almost of each other. the president saying that vladimir putin could be a constructive partner and were hearing putin say that the u.s. and russia must stand together. of course, we saw that picture of the two of them when t...

Bad intent in a crowd? >> reporter: well, craig, you know, everyone that is involved in this security effort is well briefed on how unpredictable the pope can be and tried to do is get a better sense of the crowd itself by setting up these parameters. not just anybody to walk up and be along the open processions to see the pope and take pictures of him and a position to potentially even touch him. they have to go through mag no, maam tmag mono, maam ters ande of the things to make the security c...

Red carpet welcome and greeted by president obama and the first family, a gesture so rare, mr. obama has only done it on one other occasion. the nations first catholic vice presidentio biden was in attendance to welcome pope francis along with some members of his family. also on hand to greet the pope, four catholic school children from the area selected by the vatican offering the 78-year-old pontiff flowers. an honor guard part of the occasion as well as a high school band performing pharrel w...

Attendance to welcome pope francis along with some members of his family. also on hand to greet the pope, four catholic school children from the area selected by the vatican offering the 78-year-old pontiff flowers. an honor guard part of the occasion as well as a high school band performing pharrel williams song "happy." the crowds shouting at times francisco. no speeches were given and francis departed the scene in a hatchback fiat and driven to what serves as the vaticans embassy. today was a...

His first highly anticipated trip to the u.s. the pontiff will then come here to new york city on thursday. the citys police department carrying out its biggest security effort to protect the pope. what is in store in new yorks mayor bill de blasio joins us now. great to have you in studio, mr. mayor. >> great to be here, alisyn. >> how on earth do you prepare for a visit of this magnitude? >> they call it new yorks finest for a reason. the nypd is up to it because weve had world leaders in for ...

Themselves in and destroying airplanes. the same is true of guns. they can be used to protect 200 people on the planes and they can be used to kill them. no single security effort is going to solve or make us perfectly safe. youre not ever going to have airline travel be 100% secure. two pilots all the in the cockpit, none of them is going to be perfect. >> peter, the ceo of lufthansa said all the security procedures you have in place, in the end it is the pilot or co-pilot whos at the controls ...

Eating crow? why a top security effort says he will have the last laugh. after this.

Technology, but more importantly, it relies on good professional police and investigation work. >> thats really what it is because we always get prepped, we set up we talk about what could happen and is it really just the human intelligence what people do putting one and one together to make two? thats really what prevents things from happening? >> in my opinion, thats where it starts. youve got to have a good system in place where youre selecting intelligence. the best way to stop a threat is n...

Enforcement agencies taking unprecedented security effort in preparation for the big game. nbcs ron mott is in times square for us. so ron, the false alarms, the investigation to all that, is that wrapped up? everything all clear on that front? >> reporter: all wrapped up, all clear on that front. and right now everybody is about having fun down here on what they have billed super bowl boulevard in times square. 13 blocks long, all sorts of activities and tens of thousands of people down here. s...