obviously suicide belts in afghanistan and iraq and now most recently in paris so, i thought it was most appropriate in the last planning session, which was just a couple days ago, to introduce that. >> reporter: some other things the nypd are doing to make sure that they're prepared for situations like this, they just have begun ramping up as for called the standing counterterrorism force by the end of the year it will have 500 officers in that unit, specifically designed for threats like this, and they're also talking about ways to better monitor communications now that encryption has become so popular. fred? >> all right. sara ganim, thank you so much, from new york. ahead, president barack obama lashing out with some of his harshest words for isis. he's urging americans not to give in to fear. more on that next. across america, people like basketball hall of famer dominique wilkins... ...are taking charge of their type 2 diabetes... ...with non-insulin victoza®.