his defense team prepares for his day in court. the judge is also considering allowing tsarnaev to meet with his sister outside the earshot of investigators. the terror trial begins today in manhattan for the so-called hook-handed terrorist. radical muslim cleric sheikh abu al masri. he faces charges including plotting deadly attacks in yemen, setting up a terror camp in oregon. prosecutors say his sermons influenced 9/11 conspirator zacarias moussaoui and attempted shoebomber richard reid. al masri will testify in his own defense. the death toll has risen again in the catastrophic landslide in washington state. 39 bodies have now been recovered with 6 people still reported missing, nearly a month after that ground gave way, pushing a square mile of mud down on homes. scientists say unusually high rainfall and a weak hillside contributed to the slide. take a look at this scary accident. this is near los angeles. more than a dozen people,
bipolar disorder. edson is being held on $100,000 bond. some restrictions may be lifted on boston bombing suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev, as he awaits trial on charges he was responsible for the deaths of three people at the marathon and an m.i.t. police officer during the manhunt afterward. a federal judge ruling the accused terrorist should be able to see autopsy photos and is considering allowing him to meet with his sister outside of the earshot of investigators. opening statements today in a manhattan courtroom in the terror trial of the so-called hook-handed terrorist. shake abu hamza al masri. prosecutors say his fiery sermons delivered in london inspired zacarias moussaoui. al masri faces charges including setting up a terror camp in oregon. he is allowed to take the stand in his own defense. nearly one day after the
informant said that years ago at a terror camp, he was told to give a shoe bomb toç these four or five malaysian guys, they were going to use it to hijack a plane and it was part of a khalid sheikh mohammed plot hatched years ago but perhaps the news came out last week it s related. other thing we should be surprised by this information coming out, if you said to me september 10, painted a picture for me of what was going to happen the next day, would have thought you were balking. i think we need to look at this in terms of the geopolitical context and security context within the ring. if you look at what s going on in china, on march 1 there was a knife attack which killed 29 people there aimed at separating a group. in theç arabian peninsula they have a global jihad
set-up inside the captain s house. they re now looking at data from a laptop connected to the simulator to see if it was used as a practice dry run in the plane s disappearance. background checks, the rest of the crew and passengers are being reviewed at this hour. meanwhile, 26 countries are now helping in the search for the plane. they re look as far north as central asia, south as the indian ocean. meanwhile, washington, d.c. is involved and that s where we join up right now with bret baier. he s in our nation s capitol and wearing a green tie. good morning to you. good morning. how about this story out today that apparently in the trial of osama bin laden s son-in-law, there was an informant, al-qaeda informant from great britain who said yeah, when i was in a terror camp years ago, we had this plan where i would give a shoe bomb to four or five malaysian guys and they ll blow open the door and take over an airplane. yeah. testimony in that court hearing
exactly what they re talk about. it s pretty specific although it does not affect any domestic flights here in the united states. just flights in to and states. what does it tell you about the fact that there s no specific intel about the plot? well, there doesn t have to be specific intelligence about the plot itself but there can be specific intelligence about the fact they re training people and saying this is the general tactic we re going to use. it might just be a loose plot where they say to a bunch of operatives, you guys figure out the details but this is what we want you to do. one of the reasons you re here and we moved you up to respond to this terror plot that could have happened earlier but we want to talk of something else. if i think of a terror plot i think of yemen, pakistan. we might have as many as 22 so-called villages and at least one terror camp domestically as in texas? the clarion project whom i work for, we broke this story about how a terrorist