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anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, u.s. intelligence officials are uncovered a new terror threat and describe it as specific credible, but unconfirmed information about a potential al qaeda plot. it's believed to involve three individuals and explosives such as a truck or a car bomb. washington and new york are cited as possible targets. we are covering this from all angles. fran townsend is in washington and susan candiotti in new york and barbara starr at the pentagon. fran, let's start with you. specific, credible, but unconfirmed? tell us exactly what that means. >> i think ...

hong kong. the new york police department says it is taking additional precautions after the new threat tied to the 9/11 anniversary this weekend. it includes more staffing, more bomb-sniffing dogs and checkpoints across the city. the critical final report on the death of this iraqi civilian in british military custody was released on thursday. the inquiry found baja mussa was brutally beaten and possibly kicked to death to british troops while he was restrained. he was being held as a suspected insurgent in iraq. interpol has been asked to issue an urgent notice for the arrest o...

>> what newt's done in the past couple of weeks, i think you put it well, is repugnant. often when he talks about food stamps, he associates it with african-americans. mainly -- more whites are on food stamps than blacks. and people in the military are on food stamps. he also said that elites despise giving people jobs, attacking obama for being a food stamp president. president obama is pushing a jobs program that's $447 billion in spending and includes summer jobs program and many other things. for a guy who claims to care about ideas, it's really pretty shallow and ugly. it's far more obvio...

You're talking about the republicans are thinking and president and himself has already stated that he's thinking and that is to back off from congress and try to go it alone and put out the jobs plan and the president will make the case for passage of the 447 billion dollar jobs package. >> right. >> most of which congress has rejected the last months. >> and democrats, too, kelly and voted against the jobs bill in the senate. >> but the point is, is he right to go it an i lone? did he get any advantage in going to the american people, chris? >> well, we saw what happened with the payroll tax...

Related because thinks the white house gave investors instead of the taxpayers the first consideration with loan repayments, congressman added this today. >> the white house is trying to throw us off. if this is okay, be forth coming and show us the records. what they're doing is engaging this chicago style politics, trying to throw people off the track. let's get back to the facts in this case and let's find out what took place and with all of this money being spread around, let's find out why and who was connected to who. >> so, while the white house says they will cooperate further, it soun...