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Have you heard anything at all that volcanic ash might have been a factor? >> you know, i have not heard that, wolf, although i will tell you, my plane was coming from london, from the united states to london, and then london to tripoli, and we were diverted coming into london. we had to take a longer route to avoid volcanic ash. and so as you know, there have been disruptions and rerouting of planes to avoid that volcanic ash, i've not heard that yet related to this crash. >> fran townsend in tripoli, libya, for us, thank god that little boy survived, but a horrible, horrible plane crash, a h...

Incidents popping up. skipping a couple years. this is the next big one you might remember. the sears tower plot. focusing originally with a plot against chicago's tower. the liquid explosives plot. 24 men arrested in london august 2006 for a plot on u.s.-bound jets and we all know that because that's why to this day we have to handle the liquids differently coming into the united states. now imagi nownajabullah zazi. this is september 2009 in a plot against the new york city subway and as though that wasn't enough, a couple months later, we saw this latest incident, video of him. this is the ...

Sophisticated like a 9/11 or an august 2006 airline plot. but they're more than happy to give him some basic training, send him out and hope he succeeds. i think we're going to see more of this. because they're going to use an all of the above approach to carrying out terror attacks. they'll still try to get the big attack. but they're perfectly happy to use opportunistic possibilities in order to carry out an attack with a one or two-person team. >> michael chernoff, former homeland chief, thank you very much. coming up next, new york lawmakers asking congress for more money to fight terror...

Mayor bloomberg is no novice in this, his city being hit before. if the mayor is saying things like that, what does it tell you? >> caller: the answer is, we don't know. it doesn't look sophisticated. it doesn't bear what we saw in august, 2006 or on 9/11. we have learned over time, some of the thing that is began as appearing to be home grown plots wound up having some kind of contact to what we call core al qaeda. this looks to be on the less sophisticated end of the scale. i understand where the mayor is coming from. i caution, it's too soon to make a conclusion. >> when you were in your jo...

United states. get on the record, did some re-- >> greta: on the record did restphoeufp august 2006 then governor napolitano signed a letter to congressional leaders: we are doing our part. at president bush's request we have sent our national guard to the border to do the job the federal government is suppose dodd. we need state and -- >> greta: two years later september of ' 8. then arizona governor napolitano wrote another letter to congressional leaders reading in part: . >> greta: has secretary napolitano changed her tune since entering the federal government? she is invited to come on th...