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Give people a reason for jumping on board and helping us. >> reporter: he says for voters sick of gingrich and romney's fighting he is the better choice. >> the bottom line is they don't present the real contrast. the reason you're seeing them fight over such petty things is because the big things they can't fight over. because they agree with each other by and large. >> reporter: and there will be plenty of time for the candidates to talk about the issues before they meet again. the next debate isn't scheduled until february 22nd. reporting in jacksonville for abc news, i'm kaitlin ross. we...

thwart a potentially catastrophic event, the likes of which the city of tampa has not seen and hopefully never will. >> i want to bring in david mattingly who has been covering this for us all day long. i want to begin with the fact that i'm glad we're sitting here telling this version of the story. this could have gone a different direction. a lot of this is all in thanks to this unsung hero who we may never know who this individual is who tipped police off. what did the police ultimately find? >> what they ultimately found in the bedroom of his apartment where he was living, found ...

A person of interest. investigators noticed this man left an entrance or exit that's not commonly used by the public. that's the red flag. somebody who they would like to identify and speak to. now, the fbi -- excuse me, the fire department was called here to the mall just after noon wednesday when a fire broke out inside the mall. the fire department went in. put out this fire. then they called in the bomb squad when they discovered that two propane tanks were in the area where the fire originally started. a third device, a pipe bomb, was found and then the mall was, of course, immediately ev...

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Maybe coming in or out of the area are could possibly be involved. >>shepard: the tanks discovered inside the mall are similar to what investigators found at columbine high school 12 years ago, after the two carried out a mass murder that stunned the nation. and our reporter is here saying the connection is columbine. what else are the cops saying? >>reporter: the jefferson county sheriff says a small fire spotted in the food court of the mall on the same day, in the same hour, as the columbine attack and just five minutes drive from the school. the to propane tanks found near where the fire s...