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A short number of hours, less than a day and a half later, he was in custody, that is great work for everyone in that community from police, technology and getting the word out about who he was. >> looking ahead, there's going to be a lot of conversations. they're already under way. about what can be done in the future. i mean, it is ranged from pretty sophisticated technology, some of it which has raised questions about privacy, all the way to what we did after 9/11 which is bag checks, random bag checks by police who are in the station. as you look at this problem, what makes sense to you? >...

York city subway with all of that and how do you stop that? >> well, remember, the vastness of our system, our system is extremely vast, one of the most vast subway systems on the globe. there are so many stations you can enter to actually enter the system. and the police department, they do an amazing job with periodic bag checks, but we want to enhance our level of security and that's why i'm talking about examining some of the technology out there, not the technology of detecting devices when you walk through the airports, but there are newer versions that are used at ballparks and other pl...

People are able to get on the greyhound bus and come into our cities with bags full of guns with a level of comfort. so we need to zero in on that handgun and you will see the decrease in many of these shootings. but then we must have long-term plans of the feeders of violence in our country because it's more than just dealing with the immediate shooting. before that young person gets a gun, he was denied an educational opportunity somewhere in the city. that's the real crime that we are fighting. >> there's also in washington a big effort to policing reform. talks in congress are stalled righ...

Say that between the event organizers and law enforcement and security, it's at a high level it seems like they had everything in place. in terms of trying to make many secure. they had bag checks and the metal detecter. pr perimeter security. they had fencing. they were going everything correct. and we still had the tragic event. which leads me to believe the motivation of the attacker to breech a the perimeter to come in through a fence line took launch and attack. this wasn't a crime of opportunity. to me this is seemingly it's more of a targeted attack. the individual was focussed on someb...

Today. based on the things where are we? what do you get to say about the economy? >> we are headed for a growth slowdown in the united states and worry about a recession overseas. when gdp contracts in japan and germany, that's a warning sign. china is slowing appreciably. the u.s. is slowing some. the housing has slowed and auto sales. investment by companies did not materialize as promised an something that the economists are beginning to watch carefully because if it doesn't come around that's an engine for growth. we're riding the back of the consumer who as we saw from glendale appears t...