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A pressure cooker bomb like the devastating devices here in boston certainly can be built for under $100. cnn commissioned experts have a testing facility in new mexico to build and detonate one. the idea is to learn how these devices work, and possibly how to prevent them from doing so much harm. heres cnns david mattingly. >> reporter: at this remote desert testing ground, experts from new mexico tech replicate and explode bombs used by terrorists. on this day, theres a sense of urgency. >> af...

Welcome back. building of pressure cooker bomb like ones used in boston is easy and cheap. literally all it takes internet access and less than 100 bucks. this is just a matter of fact. the bigger fact is the explosion they can cause are very serious, just like the one you just saw. learning how isnt the point of the next story. thats something you have to understand. cnn commissioned bomb experts at a testing facility in new mexico to bill and detonate a pressure cook, bomb. the point, to learn...

Every single time. >> bill: we will talk with a doctor, next, that tried to save a terror victims life. a very emotional interview as the factor continues all across the u.s.a. and all around the world. there is breaking news out of washington tonight. im greta van susteren. a letter sent to u.s. senator roger wicker testing positive for ricin. letter never made it to capitol hill or lawmakers office. the letter was intercepted as an off-site testing facility in maryland of them learned about ...

Punished, is it legal? after these messages. >> greta: greg news out of washington. mail service has been suspended after a letter to roger wicker tested positive for ricin. it never made to his office. federal law enforcement sources telling fox news, the letter was intercepted at an off-site testing facility in maryland. lawmakers learning about the poison thousands letter about the boston marathon bombing. mccaskill say they do have a suspect but we have not confirmed this. there is no word o...

Threats against american citizens, and a similar warning was issued by the israelis. >> weve seen some l activities that are in open source, obviously, now that seem a bit irrational but can fit into an overall picture. >> reporter: so without going into detail, the homeland security secretary said this morning that these incidents, what we saw with that american who may have been part of a plot to take down the saudi envoy here in the united states, also these alleged threats in thailand, these...

Situation last night. witnesses hearing gun fire, seeing a couple of cars racing down the street. one later found abandoned. ak 47 also recovered. the president and mrs. obama not at the white house at the time. nobody is in custody there. new safety concerns over the types of batteries being used to power electric cars. auto regulators are examining the safety of those batteries after a general motors chevrolet volt caught on fire in a testing facility three weeks after undergoing a side impact...

Lot of safety involved. >> what is a liquid brain? >> it is interesting. you have to create these models of figuring how much radiation is being absorbed by these cell phones, they gave us access to this testing facility to see this. you take a look there. thats the skull that they use. they are literally using salt, sugar and water to create what they think eslikeis like a brai. they put the cell phone up next to it and figure out, are there radiation hotspots within the brain there? that is my...

Cell phones ten years, you started to see a doubling in the rate of glioma, a brain tumor. if people are using their cell phones longer and longer an theres a latency period. it takes a while for a tumor to develop. might this be a problem a decade from now, two decades from now and so forth? theyve only become popular over the last 15 jeeryears. its gone up ten times in 15 years. the question is, what is all that doing to the brain in the longer term? as you point out, people are starting to be...

necessarily pointed to something specific. what they found was, last year, they got some intelligence that al qaeda was targeting these oil and natural gas installations in the united states. what theyre saying is, some of the information that they just got shows that al qaeda still has a continuing interest right now in going after some of those targets. >> where is this intel coming from? >> its coming from that treasure trove of information that those s.e.a.l. teams hauled out of os...

netanyahu. the two world leaders very much at odds over the future borders of israel. the aftershock of arnold schwarzeneggers bombshell is now affecting his movie comeback. his acting career now on hold while he deals with his personal mess. speaking of bomb shells, a former teammate told cbs that lance armstrong took performance enhancing drugs. he says he has taken hundreds of drug tests and did not fail a single one. the former head of the international monetary fund can leav...