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Sixteen attacks on cables in the past year alone. more on this with a senior fellow at the center for digital government. morgan, we talk about infrastructure, this is something we don't think about. even though we're communicating using our phones and sending messages into space, we're actually walking on top of a lot of wires that are really important. so what's happening in the san francisco bay area is called fiber cuts. what exactly is that? >> look, jenna, back about ten years ago your voice, your video, your data went over separate networks like copper wire for phones. what happened now...

My daughter. >> agents from the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives were called in to investigate. >> we found metal fragmentation, we found pieces of pipe nipple. we picked up any pieces of wire we found. batteries, we did find some 9-volt batteries. we picked up everything. >> this clearly eliminated a gas line explosion. these were the ingredients of a pipe bomb, a homemade device in which gunpowder is packed into a steel pipe, closed with metal end caps. in this case, fragments of red painted end caps were found in the rubble along with 30-gauge blue insulated silver coated...

Unusual or unique left by the bomber, often without knowing it. >> we actually found a piece of green plastic that had a label on it that said igloo legend 12, which is a cooler. >> this meant the pipe bomb was inside the cooler, activated with a trip wire. investigators did not believe that the victim was the intended target. >> it was very apparent to us that this was very random. there was nothing in mr. plower's background to indicate him being the target of a crime. >> after some digging, investigators learned two important pieces of information. first, the only store within 25 miles that...

Marks from white's wire cutters to the tool marks on the copper wire found at the danville bomb site. >> from that comparison, i was able to conclude that these wire cutters, they recovered in rick white's garage was the same cutter found in the danville device. >> this was forensic proof that white was the bomber. >> we found an area of the garage that had red spray paint on it and contained on that red spray paint were perfectly round circles. the reason that was important was the device that killed mr. plower, which was a pipe bomb with end caps on it, those end caps were painted red with a...

Oklahoma, which is about 90 miles north of oklahoma city, population roughly 50,000. right here in enid they have the third largest storage capacity for grain on the planet. but wedged in between enid's silos lies the tale of a cantankerous legend who heft his grandchildren -- who left his grandchildren with a very entrance. >> my name is stuart, and in 2003 my brothers and sisters and i inherented something pretty unusual from my grandfather. his name was oliver jordan, and he died in '95. he was a child of the dust bowl. grandpa would hold onto just about everything that passed through his l...