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Here in the united states get hit. you look at the san an dres fault line and the vulnerabilities in california. are we due for an earthquake of this magnitude, if you can say. and how prepared are we here in the u.s.? >> the places youve mentioned cant actually experience much more than a magnitude 7.8 earthquake. the san andreas fault is a low area fault, its long, but its not very wide. and we are expecting, of course, the big one to return to l.a. any time now. however, the largest earthquak...

We have people who are flying airplanes and driving tanker trucks, and piloting boats in the harbors and any number of threats or vulnerabilities that you would have in this situation. if someone loses their mind, and decides to commit an act like this. >> are we supposed to be able to know if somebody puts something like this on their website, is there something out there that tracks that? we spent a lot of time and energy tracking terrorism stuff, so i would assume that if somebody put somethi...

And i.t. centers across the country, our nations leaders are wondering if their networks are really secure and if this crisis might indeed spread into their systems. >> reporter: the questions raised by the exercise involve vulnerabilities, roles and responsibilities, legal authorities, private sector corporation, public messaging, political fallout, military retaliation, defensive capabilities. the goal of the exercise was to put these issues on the table for discussion and perhaps resolution b...

Security adviser fran townsend, our analyst. you played the secretary of homeland security in this war game today. were you as surprised as i was at how unprepared the united states government is right now in dealing with this kind of cyber attack? >> you know, wolf, i was not all that surprised. one, we have to be clear, a lot of progress has been made in the prior administration, we began the process of securitying the dot-gov and dot-mil domains and to know there are vulnerabilities in the do...

Major metropolitan areas in the eastern part of the united states. >> reporter: there was discussion of nationalizing the power grid or mobilizing the national guard to protect it. >> keep in mind, there are 160,000 miles of transmission lines, and you cannot guard every mile of it. >> reporter: and the cyber attack goes on. >> and in corporate boardrooms and i.t. centers across the country, the nations leaders are wondering if their networks are really secure, and if this crisis might indeed sp...

Youve done a complete look at all the intelligence about what it is we can accomplish, about what our vulnerabilities are to iranian retaliation, i dont think anyone sit around this little table can give you a hard answer. if youre asking me, do i think using military force is a real option, not just a rhetorical one, yes. i just came back from the middle east. whats clear to me in the arab world is people do not want to see an iranian weapon. it would be transforming in the worst possible way. ...

>> what does that mean? >> what it means, fareed, in the abstract, unless you have targeting information, unless youve done a complete look at all the intelligence about what it is we can accomplish, about what our vulnerabilities are to iranian retaliation, i dont think anyone sitting around this little table can give you a hard answer. if youre asking me, do i think using military force is a real option, not just a rhetorical option? yes. i just came back from the middle east. whats clear to m...

United states. weve seen whats taken place with google l pulling up stakes from the country. dennis blair, the director of national intelligence, said the attack on googles servers from inside china were a wakeup call. hes warned about a cyber pearl harbor. how serious is this threat from china? >> the threats and the vulnerabilities within the cyber domain are serious and significant. thats why president obama has made it a primary focus of this administration. we now have a cyber security on b...

Terrorists could cross over and get into the united states. we have so many vulnerabilities this administration ought to sit down and take a look at the vulnerabilities including the infrastructure vulnerabilities and coming up with a new program to harden and protect those things before we get another terrorist plot to either hit our airports or blow up one of our cities. >> seemed to me on christmas day i happened to be reporting the day that this happened in detroit and that the size of this ...

Securing our borders and the fact that there are vulnerabilities at our various borders for terrorists to come in. would you have wanted them at the same time they gave this testimony on capitol hill to have included a very strong statement about we moved forward in our ability to take you down before it happens? >> well, look, this was a very gratuitous warning. we had almost a dozen major incidents in the united states preempted or occurred in the last year. this fits into the you got to be ki...