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Sugar, like you use to bake a cake. that's amonium nitrate and powder. basically fertilizer and aluminum. >> 90% of the stuff you don't need a license to buy. i can go in the half a half an hour away and come home with 90% of this. >> reporter: almost all of this? >> almost all of this. hands the bomb itself, easy - enough to make. setting them off, another matter. >> all i'm going to do is i'm going to place it right inside the cap well. >> reporter: a blasting cap like this one, a smaller explosion used to set off a larger one necessary. the blasting cap itself needs a tiny electrical charge...

Agents, low explosives and high explosives we're talking about how much energy it take to get the reaction going. the high explosive requires the most energy to get started. the only way to get the high explosive to initiate is by hitting it with a blasting cap. we're going to detonate this electrically. you have to be an explosives license to do that. >> you got one of those? >> i do. >> good, than. >> one of these is actually plenty for what we're going to do. >> is it? >> yep. >> just imagine if we were to do four or five. >> yeah, well, this is already about six sticks of dynamite right he...

Safest of all explosives and when we talk about blasting agents, low explosives and high explosionives we're talking abo how much energy it take to gaet the reaction going. the high explosive requires the most energy to get started. the only way to get the high explosive to initiate is by hitting it with a blasting cap. we're going to detonate ele ele ele electrically. you have to be an explosives license to do that. >> you got one of those? >> i do. >> good, than. >> one of these is actually plenty for what we're going to do. >> is it? >> yep. >> just imagine if we were to do four or five. >>...

The fbi believes they will be able to identify from these fragments the manufacturer of that pressure quiching. you have a point of manufacturer, then a distribution and that ultimately takes them to a certain part of the country. second part of this is this block poud tkefrplt i was told that block powders teufp i can leak could he taeupb a tracer or tag and this would allow the fbi to lead them to a potential point of sale for that type of explosive. you've got a lot of forensic kwror that is moving forward very quickly at this this hour and the components being assembled here in the washing...

Been? >> this is an amateur attempt, alex. this isn't even really technically a bomb. you can have an explosion if the gas had been properly released and held within the car and then detonated by some sort of flame. you could have an explosion but it's just a big fireball. there's no explosive material in the there. also it didn't have a sophisticated detonating device so this is really an amateur hour effort by probably someone without any real assistance from an organized group. >> yeah, and these two clocks that were inside, michael, these battery operated clocks, i mean, were they atachld ...