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Promenade and there is a lot of armed guards and police officers. in barcelona, they are resilient. there was a rally and memorial service today where they had a moment of silence. the king and queen were here and they chanted we are not scared and not afraid. it is a resilient city. >> bill: these are the deadliest attacks for more than a decade in spain. a decade ago there was bombs on trains and 200 were killed that day and more than 1800 injured. the train attacks happened before the electio...

A magazine called inspire published arm ultimate mowing machine urged jihaddists to use a pickup truck not as a mowing machine to mow grass but to mow down people. the latest issue of inspire just came out and it urges them to carry out attacks on trains in the united states and in europe. they have a list in the magazine of train routes in the united states. number one target list in here washington, new york, and d.c. they have 18-page guide in there to how to build a derailment device to dera...

Gleaned from the initial raid this morning. >> abaaoud was thought to have come back. i mean, he is the most high profile, most violent, most known belgium jihadi who has gone to syria and then you know to come back and linked to a series of failed attacks in the years alone. he had connections according to police with the guy on the toronto who tried to massacre people with an ak-47 this summer. >> we got the homeland security memo yesterday. u.s. authorities had their eye on abdelhamid abaaoud...

U.s. officials to secure this nations railways. the question is, what can be done? joining me now, shawn henry, former fbi executive assistant director. shawn, good to see you as always. my first question to you, according to the "washington post" earlier this week, how can they stop terrorist attacks on trains. what can you tell us about the existing security policies and what are some of the messages that should be put in place in the wake of the attack in france? >> you know, alex, when youre...

Points tuesday. will wall street find stable footing? we are live with what to expect today. new information this morning on the man accused in the paris train attacks. what investigators say he was radicalized, ahead. welcome back to "early start." im alison kosik. >> im miguel marques. >> we begin with donald trumps combative news conference in iowa. >> who would you rather have negotiating against china, against iran? what a deal that is, okay? you talk about incompetent people. against a...

This system. why would that matter so much? well, because via carries more than 4 million people on trips every year up there in canada, and for a long time, jake, theres been talk about the idea that train stations are comparatively a soft target compared to airplanes. in fact, ever since 9/11, as air travel has been more and more locked into security, various people have said the real concern is going to be train stations because there are millions of people on them. think about this. we had t...

The london . everyone watching that event will be aware of their surrounding that will make it difficult to do something like you saw in boston. >> londoners are hardly immune to terror. they are used to it. going back to the ira bombingings a few years ago and the train attacks in london not too long after 9/11. they have a heightened sense of urgeency . who do they have to do now? anything different or look more at the packages? >> well, the british and the americans have the stronger counter ...

State and local law enforcement, and an aware public, where the public has to step in. dhs has created programs to help us do that. >> with a lone wolf, or groups, its amazing after all this time, despite all the talks of threatened talk of trains, planes remain the theme. why is that? >> we puzzle that over that in the community. we have seen train attacks, in london and madrid in spain, so its not an exclusive forecast on aircraft, but they sure like them for some reason. you have to be aware ...

This is a guy that -- apparently had a computer but no internet connection. how in the world would he have been able to communicate with people? >> i think it was -- quite limited. we know there were careers, we will find out more from the briefing today. what we hear about the -- potential train attacks on the tents anniversary, those may have been a wish list of bin laden. we shouldnt be surprised by that. i think what, more surprising if he was than planning things or if al qaeda said you kno...

Looking for identities of these guys and looking for links to other potential terrorist networks in other parts of europe. >> kelly, if you get anything else, please come back. thank you for spending some time with us. i know its been a marathon for you. joining us, sean henry, former assistant director of the fbi and an msnbc contributor. joinings by phone, a senior analyst. juan, let me start with you quickly. there hasnt been a terror attack carried out in spain since the 2004 train attacks...