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To be a detonator. facebook, soon, cut off his live stream and law enforcement surged in. setting up a wide perimeter and evacuating several nearby buildings, including the supreme court and a house office building. roseberry communicated with police at first using a dry erase board. at one point writing, dont shoot me. police, eventually, sent in a robot with a phone to communicate more clearly but he never used it. surrendering, instead. >> right now, we have no indication that he was acting w...

At one point writing, dont shoot me. police, eventually, sent in a robot with a phone to communicate more clearly but he never used it. surrendering, instead. >> right now, we have no indication that he was acting with -- with anyone -- anyone else. but that, again, is part of the ongoing investigation. >> reporter: capitol police said, later, they found possible bomb-making materials inside the truck. but not a working bomb. the standoff marked the third major security incident on capitol hill ...

>> thats an excellent point. you have been very focused that these bombs didnt detonate or theres some evidence that is out there that he didnt intend for them to detonate where they werent even intended as destructive devices. however, the fbi has said that these devices were capable of exploding. with a distinction in terms of them blowing up or not it is important is that these devices were sent according to their theory and term of his trying to intimidate the recipients. so the issue here i...

Contract. >> so let me just ask you, do you think they have more of these bombs that are ready, that are built? >> erin, you and i could go out tonight, get the equipment and if we had explosives it would be very easy. we could have a bomb by tomorrow morning, a working bomb tested, the circuitry and the rest of it. its very easy, the technology is widespread through the middle east. you know, we were picking up in the 70s and 80s and so forth. theyve only gotten more sophisticated. you can take...

Isis-inspired attack on a beach in florida. harlem suarez, a 23-year-old from key west was arrested monday after he received what he thought, according to authorities, was a working bomb but was actually a phony device provided by the fbi. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams joins us with the latest on this investigation. pete, what more can you tell us? >> tamron weve got this and some developments in new york. first the florida case the fbi said this man came to the attention after po...

It is. >> thats right. its one thing to have a blew print. its another to build a working bomb. the most important thing for the terrorist is that the bomb be reliable. that is you want it to go off when you want it to go off. not after, not before. terrorists have been lost because the bomb went off on them before you reach the target area. where do you get the hands on experience to figure out whether it works or not. that means they either termsed locally, rural massachusetts, somewhere where...

About how he has been doing, his job, and about his loyalty to the countrys supreme leader. iranian lawmakers have never before called out a president anything like this. they gave him a series of questions to answer. ahmadinejad apparently didnt like them. >> these questions that you ask from me -- by the way, this was a quiz, wasnt it -- were not too difficult. i guess the question who designed the question were among those to got a master degree by pushing a button. >> shepard: defiance and b...

Agreement remember world powers have been trying to get iran abandon its nuclear program. the israelis have within hypotheticalling this might attack nuclear sites to prevent iran from building a working bomb. in fact, today the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu referred to possible time line for an attack. he said he is not standing with a stop watch in his hand. and that, and i quote. an attack would not come in a matter of days or weeks. but its also not a matter of years. you can tak...

Propane and gasoline canisters, ammonium nitrate fertilizer could all be components of a working bomb but the way they were put together here seemed destined to fail. we dont know the whether the person was hapless and didnt know what they were doing. >> because it didnt work, because were not looking at bomb fragments today, this has really a treasure troeb for investigators, isnt it. absolutely. nypd has everything they would want when it comes to do the forensic analysis. its not going to t...

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