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Threat from isis-k and you've got americans who are trying to get to the airport, are there likely more missions than the pentagon obviously is going to tell us to try to get to those americans instead of asking them to come through that threat to get onto the airfield? >> there's a couple of things going on. first of all, to answer your question, i sure hope there are. you don't want to tell the people on the ground, including isis-k the nature of the operations, the pace of the operations, what time of day they're happening, where they're happening. those people have car bombs, they have bac...

Backpack bombs like we saw in attacks in london in 2005. they want to access areas like airports or airplanes that are now hardened. if you wanted to get on the news internationally with a major attack, you're going to avoid a hardened target and some of these people aren't going to have the capability to build a sophisticated backpack bomb. you come down to, why not just have a truck and mow down people in the ways we've seen in europe in the last year or two. i suspect what happened here is this cell accelerated what was to be a truck bomb attack. when that bomb went off a couple nights ago,...

Detonator. the new york times said it appears to contain a small circuit board. it was found in what they believe to be the hand of the terrorist. they also found a battery that they say is one more powerful than one often seen in whatever backpack bombs that these teams have seen in backpack bombs or suicide vests. when you put this all together do you think this is the work of a sophisticated bomb maker? j from the new york times analyst, there seems to be some cities can indication in these devices. always difficult to make a determination based on a few pictures. one thing we know about sa...

You can say we're going to license everybody within half a mile. they have to show a permit. you can put sand or concrete barriers in. i don't think preventing this stuff is possible, if you look at recent terrorism, you'll more likely see backpack bombs or suicide belts. you can't stop 500,000 people from carrying backpacks to an event. secondly, we're talking about parades. how about tail-gating at universities or nfl games over time. are you going to tell somebody you can't bring a vehicle into a tailgate event? we look at these in isolation as if to believe we can stop this kind of stuff i...

Challenge here and when i talked to voters, look, we want to see him talk more about his policies, we want to see him come off as strong on national security. and if you are a voter still undecided, you don't want to see donald trump and ted cruz go after one another. a lot of folks i talked to said they think that would be the worst possible outcome. >> thank you very much. appreciate it. >> obviously big debuts in los angeles, nation's second largest school system shut down by an e-mail terror threat. let's go to evan perez who has the latest on that. >> reporter: no doubt it has the nation ...