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Wolves, if you will, they eastern out there, a lot of u.s. officials are worried about right now are these copy cat attacks. how worried should they be? >> i think they should be very worried. clearly, wolf, this guy in sidney was a lunatic. he could have done a lot more damage, especially if he had explosives and automatic weapons. what the police are worried about is somebody like the chechen in boston, who did understand bombs, comes back and takes that lethalness and applies it to a lone wolf attack. i'm still worried about people coming paback from syria. there's nothing like being in com...

Back with us now is michael sheehan, former nypd deputy commissioner for counterterrorism among other titles after 9/11. what would your former colleagues in the nypd be doing even as sydney was unfolding? >> right now they're beating at bushes looking at suspects and i assure they're looking at many to see if any of them might be showing signs to conduct copycat attacks. i'm sure the fbi is doing the same thing. >> the copycat would be, no matter what this man's motives are in australia, he's getting world attention. and crazy people like lots of attention, isis likes attention. >> absolutely...

Including australia and that's had a deep impact on isis followers around the world. we have seen a string of plots and attacks in north america. also plots in the uk. all these people were devouring this fact that there were religious obligation to launch these kinds of attacks. it's going to be significant concern that there could be a copy cat attack by somebody somewhere the western parts inspired by what they have seen in australia. you remember back in october with that hatchet attack in new york where an attacker went after the nypd. he was inspired by what he saw two days previously in...

Another member of that terrorist organization, never trained at one of the camps, who is simply inspired by the social media, the literature, the propaganda, the message to commit an act of violence in this country. >> reporter: u.s. law enforcement posted this warning now in advance of the upcoming holiday season. many members of the u.s. military travel in uniform. the timing of this bulletin based in part on the upcoming holidays and the recent attacks in canada, which the bulletin says might embolden copy cat attacks here on u.s. soil. >> does the fbi bulletin say men and women of the unit...

They'll run for the presidency. he says he is still president and will not step down. i'm robert gray in los angeles now back to justice with judge janine. in new elections shech. she got out of a hospital prison earlier today. now back to regular programming. an attack on the california power plant last april got almost no press until my next guest brought it to the front pages. rebecca smith from the wall street journal joins me now from san francisco. rebecca, you were all over this, and, you know, it's ten months later. with little or no press, other than yours, and virtually nothing don...