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Has not even broken through the second of a double pane of windows. that tells me that unlike so many of the explosives and explosions we cover, this perhaps was meant to force the energy out ward. what does that tell you about the type of device? >> it's clear the device was designed to maim and potentially kill people. we can infer that from the size and as pete williams mentioned the bbs and the light that were in it. beyond that we know it wasn't as big or not as sophisticated as it could have been. medium size backpack bomb could be up to 50 pounds and could have a killing radius up to ab...

Buildings or any other. they have fighter jets on the stand by and helicopters. as for those missiles, the ministry of defense spelled correctly in the british way with a c said in a statement we maintain that ground-based air defense is an essential part of the multilayered air security plan and we have always said we are planning for the worst case scenario not the most likely scenario. and a lot of terrorism experts will tell you, shep, that what they fear the most likely scenario is not some big so-called spectacular attack like a hijacked aircraft but far more likely lone wolf attacks, so...

Attracting national attention tonight is because of some coincidences and similarities between this incident and other mass casualty or attempted mass casualty attacks in the united states. this pipe bomb in colorado today was discovered 12 years to the day after the worst high school gun massacre in u.s. history. the attacks at columbine high school. the shopping mall where the bomb was found yesterday is less than two miles from columbine high school. while all of the victims of that massacre were killed by gun fire, authorities at columbine did discover a propane tank in the school's cafete...

Mall near where the explosives were discovered. part of the reason this plot is attracting national attention tonight is because of some coincidences and similarities between this incident and other mass casualty or attempted mass casualty attacks in the united states. this pipe bomb in colorado today was discovered 12 years to the day after the worst high school gun massacre in u.s. history. the attacks at columbine high school. the shopping mall where the bomb was found yesterday is less than two miles from columbine high school. while all of the victims of that massacre were killed by gun n...

>> and that was kelly o'donnell reporting from new hampshire. kelly also tells us both democrats and republicans in the state are fighting to open the prison and hope to win the funds in the looming fiscal 2012 budget battle. some new charges again the alleged martin luther king day bomb plotters tops our look at stories around the nation. prosecutors are adding federal hate crime charges against kevin harpum. he's accused of planting a backpack bomb along a parade route. he has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. and on this good friday, pope be...