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Vicinity of the theater. they're making hur thesure ther threat in the immediate area. jim, we were talking a little bit about this before. but 2012, the aurora, colorado, movie theater shooting, tragedy. we are in the penalty phase of that right now. you had a few weeks ago, the shooting in lafayette, louisiana. at a movie theater. is this the sort of modern american phenomenon now that movie theaters are targets? we have heard the story of yelling fire in a crowded movie theater and incites panic. but are these theaters public targets? >> well, i think we're seeing a copycat effect, luke. wh...

Them an identity by mentioning their names and repeating their names, creates additional -- helps to create additional little monsters. we find that these types of crimes occur in clusters. so to that extent, lapierre is not that far off when he says how many are out there waiting? we have no idea. >> the data, we looked into the data on this copycat effect and there's been interesting findings in both directions. it's fairly unsettled. there's been some findings that suggest there's a copycat effect that large publicity of mass shootings induce people who are on the border of committing these...

Weapons. most of the time you look at the mass shootings, probably in the last 15 to 30 years, it is either semiautomatic pistols, which normally have about 15, 16 rounds or high capacity. they could have 20 or they use assault rifles which, again, have 2035 rounds. so the shooters are going in and they are better armed and have high capacity weapons and they are obviously shooting to kill. in this case, the most innocent of those what do some of the shooters -- what are some of the traits they all have in common? >> well, you know, recently -- first of all, i want to be very quick to say we c...

23 more deaths reported in syria. a day after president obama and several u.s. allies finally called on president obama bashar al assad to step aside. arwa damon is covering this story. another friday, a day of prayer, but it was a day of brutal violence as well, arwa. >> that's right, wolf. and it would seem some pretty dramatic footage emerging from damascus. in the center of the city and in the clip that emerged on youtube, we could not independently verify its awe tenitiesty. you can hear the fear in the people's voices on the recording. now, we spoke to an eyewitness, a person w...

Unique characteristics but there is a formula here. one after another after another. and we're seeing certainly a copycat effect, a feeling in one country if that country can do it, we can do it, we can do it. they use the social network tools. more they use anger and desperation of people and now they're coming out on the street, jenna. jenna: greg palkot, thank you very much. we'll go back to greg as the news warrants and develops. obviously an ever changing situation there. greg, thank you very much. we'll now move back to some other banking news we just had. a bank robbery suspect from tak...