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On new bomb designs. unrelated to the warning about the explosives, remember the warning before the olympics hidden bombs in toothpaste tubes. and ted cruz rules out campaigning. the texas lawmaker would not rule out campaigning with ted nugent in the future. senator cruz smoke in an interview with our dana bash. >> theres a reason i played that for you. this week youre in texas as i mentioned he was invited to campaign with the man who may be your next governor in your party. >> those sentime...

Intelligence officials i talk to say no one should be panicking here but this is just an abundance of caution getting the information out there to airlines. >> i want to bring in former homeland security adviser fran townsend currently sits on the dhs external advisory boards. youve been there, fran, when threats like this come in. why go public with this? does that surprise you? >> its interesting. as you talk to folks inside the law enforcement community and homeland security community, they s...

Earlier this month homeland security warnled about sploichs hidden in toothpaste tubes as well. in other news, the late actor philip seymour hoffman had an inusual request in his will for his son. according to "the new york post," he wanted cooper to grow up in new york, chicago, or san francisco. hoffmans will states so this is so he would be exposed to the all chur, art, and architectura. it was written before his other children were born. the bulk of his state goes to his longtime girlfriend....

The new warning comes two weeks after that alert went out, you may remember on those toothpaste tubes possibly used as delivery systems for explosives on airliners. how do we stop this and what can we do? aaron cohen, founder and president of ims security. he is trained in security measures used by el al, israels national airline who by the way has not had a terrorist incident since 1968. aaron, how serious is the new threat that the shoe-bomber vision could be back. >> the threat is about, the ...

Washington. and ill read you what weve gotten. the department of homeland security has issued an alert to airlines about a possible shoe bomb threat. its been a very recent and credible intelligence of people wanting to blow up airplanes. we would not normally break in with this short of alert. we get this kind of thing from the feds, i dont know, at least once a week. this one seems significant. the department of homeland security has issued an alert to airline s about a possible shoe bomb thre...

Telling us. >> would this mostly be the suspicion, the fear, even though its a general concern, flights coming into the united states from overseas? >> thats what theyre focused on. this is the a additional scrutiny they are warning airlines about. no additional measures but they are letting them know that this is something that they should be aware of. remember, it was only a couple weeks ago in the advance of the sochi olympics where we had another warning come through, you and i talked about ...

Other events where the event itself becomes the reason for a lot of new construction, a lot of revitalization and the like, and weve certainly seen that here in sochi where a number of the hotels are new, the sporting venues obviously are new. the press center is new. so thats all had to be constructed in a fairly short period of time. >> were hearing, of course, back here lots of scary, troublesome stories about explosive material in toothpaste tubes, black widows. whats your personal concern a...

Are active in afghanistan, they have a long history of hatred of the russian people. our people who are there are very concerned about the safety and security. >> isnt it also true that the fact that the russians lack of that compound in keeping folks safe? >> no doubt about that. they should be looking to the world to help them and they did not do that. id like to see a s.e.a.l. team or delta or the fbi i would hope they would be there. but the likelihood of the russians cooperating with them a...

Underway. snow boards slopestyle qualifying runs and team figure skating theiring their debut on thursday. while the eyes of the world will be on the games, terrorism fears have made many here on edge. on thursday, the tsa anoubsed it is -- announced it is banning all liquids on flights between the united states and russia. these restrictions follow a warning from the department of homeland security earlier this week that terrorists could be hiding explosive components in toothpaste tubes, power...

We dont quite know who the passengers were on this. a lot of turkish individuals work abroad often doing construction. it could also be ukrainians perhaps going to istanbul as well, a lot of ukrainians or russians, too, consider turkey to be a good holiday destination for them, though programs not this time of year, but the key things that raised everybodys eyebrows the demand to be taken to sochi and the timing, of course, the timing was right in the opening ceremony of the 2014 winter olympics...