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This isn't the end of the republic. but we want to know what the fbi can do to identify these people and stop them in advance. if those people had taken the same garage and made were t a at bombs, acetone and per oxide bombs, they could have done a lot more damage and hit a major structure. they didn't have the skills to make the bombs, not like the paris people. they could have potentially done the same damage as occurred in paris. >> stephanie, quickly to you, what about the word there. what do the people there want to hear from the president? >> oh, i think a lot of people just want to know...

We want to make sure this was a singular act by a single individual and not in fact a network of people. >> bob, if he did take those canisters in in order to blow up that building, they would be able to figure that out fairly quickly, yes? >> exactly. it depends on the initiation, if it's acetone and peroxide, they are highly unstable and i'm speculating they may have to blow it in place rather than try to disarm this thing. it's very, very danger rouls stuff. when people -- ieds made like this, just imp vielsed out of household items. >> if he took equipment in order to possibly blow up that...

Left in one hotel room. is there evidence they were extremely prepared or how easy this was? >> it is very easy to make these bombs, very easy to acquire this stuff, boil the peroxide, acetone, make the detonators. this is all on the net. none of this is secret. with any of these explosives, test this stuff in an open area and test it until they get it right they were testing this in syria and iraq to make all these vests go off. that's what terrifies the french. six of them did go off. that's worth looking at is people trained, experienced just as they were in all the shooting incidents where...

For the ingredients that he was purchasing, but he was identified because of good intelligence monitoring e-mail accounts where he came up. >> reporter: jason carroll, cnn, new york. >> i want to bring in former fbi counter terrorism expert tim clemente and also our expert retired general mark hertling. i want to ask you how detectable this is at an airport or by bomb sniffing dogs? >> well, it is very difficult to detect. the arroma is not easily detectd by electronics or dogs, and something they try to do is to make it more stable, and the bombers will put it in a liquid to stabilize it, and...

Acetone and so on. they have a division looking for that because they know that's one use for it. now, that's very hard to do. there are a lot of stores that sell this kind of stuff. it's basically nail polish remover. how do you do it? that's the level of alert you have in a city like new york. >> that abandoned car, they believe that belonged to salah abdeslam, that he was driving that car. they didn't find suicide vests in that car. there may be a missing suicide vest. there's concern he may still have those explosives, he's still at large, still dangerous, perhaps involved in the standoff ...