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Different from just another school shooter, they will seek more events like terrorists. >> it is the case that terrorists -- and you could make the case this individual in texas had radicalizeed in a trench coach school shooter mentality. terrorists want the big bang. they are trying to put together an event that has a theatre to it and not just casualties. in the u.s. because of the preference for building a bomb instead of using guns or a vehicle, there were no casualties because of faulty bomb making. the thing we have seen in texas are very, very low-tech. the only ones confirmed are the k...

Facility at fedex near the austin airport. that didn't detonate. and fedex knows how to track a package. they handed over a lot of information to investigators and we are told by a local police department that the fbi is looking into a possibility that both packages were dropped off at the same office. the probability that they were dropped off the same office here in austin, that's a major lead right now. >> reporting from austin, nick, thank you very much. i want to pri in jim maxwell. jim good evening to you. if this is a single person he or she seems to have a pretty sophisticated knowle...

Both packages were dropped off at the same office. the probability that they were dropped off the same office here in austin, that's a major lead right now. >> reporting from austin, nick, thank you very much. i want to pri in jim maxwell. jim good evening to you. if this is a single person he or she seems to have a pretty sophisticated knowledge of bomb making, in addition to the bomb that went off in the fedex facility this morning. three bombs were hidden in packages delivered to homes. but one device was anchored to a for sale sign on the side of the road and rigged with a trip ware. wha...

Totally surprised at what these people do. so i think it's hard to -- hard to understand why they do it. i guess we will find out later on. but it's the same thing. everybody is surprised that he did this. >> melissa: yeah. it's also astonishing that he had so much expertise in bomb-making. can you tell us anything about that? >> well, i mean it was an expert as you say. he was not a rooky. and i think that is one of the things when they were tracking him down concerned irving. they weren't dealing with somebody that was just rogue on this. i mean, he knew what he was doing. he seemed to have ...

Changing up the way he was delivering them. it's very interesting to see how he did it. with respect to the unabomber, for example, steve, the answer to your question is he experimented all day long in the woods around his house in hun tanna. and he experimented for years. from 1978 when he began, until 1995 when he sent his last bomb. and then, of course, the bomb we found under his bed that he was getting ready to mail in 1996, he had changed and progressed to where he could pack a very lethal bomb into essentially the package the size of a video cassette. and the last two of those bombs kil...