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The government cant send children back to their home countries. the law requires they two to health and human services. you mentioned the administration estimates it will catch 90,000 children trying to come into our country illegally by the end of the buckdget year. last year, fewer than 2,000 were returned home. >> lea gabrielle, thanks so much. were going to update you on the incredible situation in iraq with secretary of state kerry. well do that in a minute. plus, toothpaste bombs for t...

Steps taken so far. again, obviously we are more alert, if you will, but no significant changes, but no official designation of a different status. but obviously in an event like this, it certainly causes everyone to focus more than they might have otherwise. we should be focused all the time, but something like this causes us to focus more. >> we discussed at length before the sochi winter olympic game this is alert that went out by the u.s., toothpaste bombs for example being planted on planes...

Shoes off, in many airports overseas, that is not required. >> reporter: officials say threat information is not specific to any particular airline, country of origin, or time frame, and they say theres no indication of a specific plot, but airlines that fly from the middle east, north africa, and some parts of europe are being advised to be extra cautious. the idea of hiding explosives in shoes has been tried before by an englishman, richard reid, who attempted to blow up a flight from pair toy...

Intelligence indicates al qaeda terrorists have been working on new shoebomb designs. thats what prompted the department of homeland security to warn airlines to be on the lookout. while theres no specific target, the warning pertains to flights from at least 25 cities overseas into the u.s. johannesburg, paris, london, cairo, cities in the middle east are on the list. this is not believed to be connected to the recent warning about toothpaste bombs like this one. but theres one man, a 31-year-o...

As well. steve, in broad terms here, just a general reaction to the news as we continue to gather more specific information as well. >> as you and i just discussed this is right along the line that many people are attracted magnetically to sochi and those that have grievances or causes they want to pursue are going to be drawn to try to get headlines or to create damage or to god forbid really do something quite dramatic with bombings. i think its been very alarming when you look at the intellig...

Investigation in france. two women were arrested in france. these -- they believe these two women wanted to return to russia to launch a suicide bombing against the winter olympics. now when the french moved in on tuesday, they were specifically looking for toothpaste bombs. so they didnt find any, nor did they find any other explosives. >> to be very clear, the reasons for the concern is that these olympics were cited by putin in a place that is a little bit of a thumb in the eye to the resista...

Just be aware of their surroundings and make certain that they are acting wisely as you would anywhere where this threat may or may not exist. >> steve, how safe is sochi? >> look, i think with the revelations were hearing about about toothpaste bombs and concerns about printer cart ridges, one of the groups that had been involved with the previous bombing had said that they may go as far as chemical weapons, theres a big magnet drawing in folks, particularly the dagestan network, a very high pr...

Talk of the last few days has been about toothpaste bombs, but that sophisticated technique isnt really whats going to be bothering people on the ground here for the past few months. this is a region of the world where explosives are pretty common when youre away from the ring of steel near here in sochi and there are concerns about how well you can implement a dagnet across this whole region given the state of the russian police force often seen by russians as being a net being corrupt and actu...

However, they had no evidence that the women were a threat or had plans to travel to russia. what im told is when it comes to threats outside of russia, theres pretty good cooperation but inside russia, thats where u.s. officials have serious concerns about whether the russian share everything that they know and, of course, with the olympics inside russia, create major concern for americans traveling. >> in addition to the so-called toothpaste bombs, they are worried about suicide bombers going ...

Stop it. >> i know theres only so much you can talk about. have you been briefed on threats that are as specific as the toothpaste and cosmetics bomb threats? >> there are threats. the emirate caucuses, the more extreme faction of the checken rebels that have trained in syria, for instance, there is a concern that with that kind of training and trade craft that they can travel from syria into the sochi area. that is of great concern. the aviation sector is another area of concern that we believe...