when it could be a potential problem? of the materials are required to be kept cold, as far as i know, i don t know that there is any chemical way of keeping that from happening. i spoke with two experts yesterday, they both said that it is standing operating procedure at facilities like this to have a compound to neutralize them. why did arkema not have that? i cannot answer that, i do not know the chemistry that you are describing. when they started to happen we started taking measures to shut down the plant, it was shut down, and we put in place multiple layers of detection to try to provide a refrigeration for the materials that needed to be kept in the storage.
about this. elise, the question is what is the threat? there s been chatter but it doesn t seem there s a clear threat that the state department is responding to. brianna, you always get these threats in the leadup to a holiday weekend but officials tell me there has been something specific nothing credible that caused them to cancel any event. usually before a holiday weekend the state department does order their embassies and consulates to review assess their security posture and this is no different. they call it emergency action committee, they look at the security and threats and whether new measures need to be put in place. there s a standing operating procedure and it looks like all the embassies are ready to go. in the last year or so a lot of embassies in the middle east have been on high alert. so the state department thinks they here in a good position going into this weekend. they ve gotten used to some
reporter: the u.s. military has been talking with his bases around the world. the state department did order all of its diplomatic posts around the world, all embassies and consulates to assess their security. have a meeting of their security teams, they call it an emergency action committee. take a look at the procedures already in place and see if there are new measures. it s pretty much a standing operating procedure ahead of a holiday weekend but certainly as we ve seen the terror threats in this country, state department wants to make sure all ever its embassies and consulates are ready to go. and elise, obviously a lot of this could be very sensitive information, but after that assessment, do you get a sense or are you hearing that changes were made and there was security added or any procedures were changed? reporter: i don t really think so. i got to say, you have seen over the last year particularly with threats from isis and other terror threats around the world that u.
old phenomenon. nevertheless, sometimes law enforcement doesn t always have the impulse to take full advantage of what the public might have to offer. in this case, something like 27 hours after they released the photo we have this outcome, a tremendous amount of outpouring from the public, people s memories getting jogged, more photos coming in, more tips coming in telling law enforcement who these people are and where they might be. do we have james cavanaugh? yes, i m here. how much was that a standing operating procedure and how much was that a risky or innovative or bold choice to come forward with the photos at that time? was that a tough call in any way? we talked about that on the air before. i was for it. because i think it works. we use that tactic in the sniper case, put out the tag number
spring offensive. that threat follows this deadly attack in kabul but a taliban suicide bomber two hours after president obama left afghanistan and the taliban claiming it s just a sign of things to come. let s go straight to nick payton walsh in kabul. when the taliban says spring offensive, tell us exactly what that means. reporter: well, something they were talking about two weeks ago but today their statements shortly after barack obama left made it clear they consider it a new operation ahead of them. something they called al faruq, an arabic term referring between a person who can distinguish between good and evil. many targets, principally foreigners, those assisting foreigners, afghan security forces and a variety of other tactics which, of course, this kind of statement is try to design fear through the afghans working with the nato campaign here. we saw this morning a suicide bomber driving a car laden with explosives into the gates of something called the greenvi