weekend and within the united states law enforcement agencies from coast to coast are on heightened alert. >> this morning new york's governor announced extra man power and enhanced monitoring operations this weekend and a top police official in the nation's second largest city says that the threat stream has not been this high since september 11th, 2001. that's the word from michael downing, the deputy police chief of the los angeles police department. he joins us now. thank you so much for being with us, sir. >> good morning. >> not since 9/11. those are pretty alarming words. what are you hearing that makes you think such a thing? >> well, there's a number of things. first, the threat stream has never been this high. we are in the month of ramadan. we're five days after the establishment of the so-called caliphate. we've had major terrorist attacks in tunisia, the sinai, france, and kuwait, and we've had more disruptions within the