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For the impact. hotels are still under construction if you can believe it. reporters who are already there reporting that rooms are unfit and accommodations. one sent a photo of a sign posted in a bathroom. it add vised that toilet paper is not to be flushed with the tweet -- "people have asked me what surprise me in sochi. without question, its this. another tweeted, my hotel has no water. the front desk says do not use on your desk because it contains something very dangerous. how would you li...

The taliban spokesman telling "the washington post" the dog was captured after a fire fight between u.s. forces and taliban fighters last december in afghanistan. he goes on to say the dog carried the rank of colonel, was of high significance to the americans. the pentagon says the dog belongs to another nato allied force, not the united states military. lets also remember that army sergeant bob bergdal has been held by the insurgents in the border region since june of 2009. hes the only america...

Similar effects. a toothpaste bomb has brought down a plane before, in october 1976, anti-castro cuban operatives hid explosives in a tube and brought down a flight over the caribbean. more than 70 people were killed. as for the current threat, the concern about the use of toothpaste tubes has focused mostly on flights from europe and neighboring asian countries into russia. one u.s. official says the u.s. intelligence community is still assessing the overall credibility and scope of this threat...

Republicans. hes saying, look, theyre all over the place. boehner, as you know, has talked about getting immigration reform done. hes hired people on his staff to get immigration reform done. i think what he said today is a tass cit acknowledgment that nothing thats a large plan is going to get done, maybe they do something on the dream act, for example, but nothing thats comprehensive. >> gloria, thanks very much. when we come back, wrenching video of what might be the first ever canine prisone...

Way that somebody giving it a casual inspection will probably pass it. >> reporter: the size of the container alfred used is the size that you have to place in checked baggage at an airport but two smaller containers this size, which you can carry on a plane, can also be used. these tubes would have to be attached or near each other to create an explosion that can be detonated by a heat source. >> this is not a hypothetical development. there has been a reported case thats been well-documented w...

To have you on. welcome. >> thank you. >> this latest threat is nothing new. a toothpaste bomb was used in bringing down a flight back in 1976. i have read that toothpaste could be the least of our concerns. how do you mean? >> you know, the idea is they are coming up with innovative ways to create explosives. the concern is everybody is looking for that traditional explosive. something big and bulky, but it doesnt have to be that. even though the blast would be small and contained, it would be ...