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Anybody behind me, or any one of the 300 people that were there would have said the same thing. >> nbc news has also learned that syed farook and tashfeen malik spent at least a year preparing for the attack. and possibly as many as three years. nbc's miguel almaguer has more. >> reporter: two weeks before syed farook and wife tashfeen malik executed their massacre, nbc news has confirmed farook received a deposit $28,500 in to his bank account. a loan he took out. while it may have come too late to finance the attack, counterterror officials say the cash may have been for their baby and her g...

Ago. he apparentlidowned his wife in pledging allegiance to isis. cnn's dan simon is live in san bernardino. what have you learned, dan? >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. we are told that farook may have been planning an attack three years ago, 2012, somewhere in california a law enforcement tell source tells cnn. we're told that a specific target may have been considered. there are terror related arrests in the area. apparently during that time and he may have gotten spook. second, in addition, we're learning that farook took out a bank loan for $28,500 in november. what that money was used ...

>> senior law enforcement officials said syed farook discussed staging an attack in california as early as 2012. that official told nbc news that investigators had not yet fully evaluated that plane, but if true it would mean syed farook was radicalized sooner than previously thought. investigators are also working to determine whether a device left at the scene of the attack was a bomb meant to kill first responders. quoting an unnamed source, the "los angeles times" reports that the device probably would not have detonated, possibly due to water damage from the building's sprinkler system wh...

Is farook trying to cover his tracks making sure he didn't draw any attention? again, plotting this attack as far back as then. >> pamela, let me ask you about the mother. syed farook's mother who lived in the house with the terrorist couple while they were stockpiling ammunition to a degree, while they were building bombs, a bomb lab in the garage. what are investigators saying about her? >> and we also know that part of the loan he got just a couple weeks before the attack, this $28,500, around half we're told was handed to his mother. we don't know if she was aware of why she was getting th...

This marriage was arranged by a terrorist organization or terrorist operative? >> i don't know the answer to that yet. >> do you agree with me that if it was arranged by a terrorist operative of an organization that is a game changer? >> it will be a very, very important thing to know. >> reporter: police now want to know more about the couple's baby and farook's mother who was living with the couple at the time of the attack. cnn has learned she sold the home where she had been living alone for more than $200,000 in the summer of 2015. on investigators radar tonight, a $28,500 deposit into fa...