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According to the affidavit. this f-86 remote-controlled toy plane can be bought online for less than $200, but some experts say they most likely would have exploded on takeoff, and authorities don't think the plan had much chance of succeeding. but, they say, they have enough taped material to show a vicious intent. ferdaus was 26 years old, he graduated from massachusetts northeastern university where he studied physics, so he had an engineering background that helped him transform cell phones into bomb detonators. he lived with his parents for 14 years, he was in a rock band, he played drums...

Be bought online for less than $200. authorities don't think the plan had much chance of suggestion he'ding but say they have enough taped material to show a vicious intent, martha. martha: what do we know about this young man in terms of his background, jennifer? >> reporter: we know he was 26 years old, we know that he had lived with his parents in ashland, massachusetts for 14 years, he was a student at northeastern university in the massachusetts area, he had studied physics, so he had an engineering background that could have come in handy, and he also again had lived with his parents, he...

Regulatory issues that could have contributed to says it could be rigged. julie has more. >> reporter: one of the seven commissioners has a big engineering background, and another member is an environmental scientist, but the five other commissioners on the panel are experts in policy and management it has them questioning whether it's political theater because of the lack of technical experts. it was to focus on, some say too close, relationship with the oil industry. the commission has not met yet but some members make the views known already, like bob graham who led aefefforts to drill off ...

Julie kirtz is live in d.c.. what is the basis for the criticism? >> only one of the seven commissioners on that panel, the dean of what vard engineering and applied scientist school has a big engineering background. critics are looking at that. according to another a.p. report, another member is an environmental member scientist who is expert in coastal areas and oil spills. the five other commissioners are expert in policy and management, and that, as you said, has some cit cannics questioning whether the commission is just more political theater. the commission was appointed by obama to inv...

We'd like to see it. >> can you see it there? >> yeah, go for it. >> so yeah, you can see inside the salad spinner there's a yogurt container that's propping up cones. and in between the teeth of cones we just set these tiny little test tubes that contain the blood samples. so we spin it for about ten minutes just using the pump-on top. and afterwards it will separate between the plasma and blood cells. >> the pump-on top, it works that way. you didn't really have to overhaul it much or reconfigure it to work? >> no, all the salad spinners own mechanism. we don't have the engineering backgroun...