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Churches and synagogues, planning acts of violence against jews. we have details. ben carson s self-described violent past, including a knife attack, playing big in the republican campaign. will it actually help him? i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. let s get right to the breaking news. egyptian security has investigated every person involved with the metrojet airliner before it took off on its doomed flight over sinai that word from an egyptian source who says investigators are seized all cameras, sensors and related information at sharm el sheikh airport. egypt has not publicly embraced the idea this was a terror attack but some u.s. officials are piece together what they believe is a likely sequence of events with a catastrophic explosion over sinai. ....
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Including 25 children. we say likely, because u.s. official tells cnn it s 99.9% certain it was a bomb but not 100%. figuring out what happened is critical to preventing the next such attack with concerns of the 1 million people who work behind the secure lines at american airports. cnn s barbara starr live at pentagon. what s the latest? well, jake, russia and egypt sharing little, almost no information, about this situation. but the u.s. is beginning to develop some ideas about what it believes happened to the russian airliner. as the u.s. tries to connect the dots on what happened to the russian airliner, a working theory is emerging inside the u.s. government about the possible makeup of the plot. more than half a dozen u.s. officials in various parts of the administration now believe it likely was a bomb. officials stress, understanding ....
In airport security? well, i think everyone is really looking to identify exactly what these holes are. i think we ve got to take them very seriously as at the same time we are looking at the holes in our own security system here in our domestic airports. we can t underestimate the threat that we are seeing is possible here and we ve got to work with these other countries, work with those who have direct flights coming into the united states to make sure those holes are plugged. thanks very much for joining us. thanks, wolf. aloha. coming up, u.s. officials suspect insider planted a bomb with a timer aboard the metrojet airliner which blew up over sinai. an egyptian source says state security has investigated anyone who had any direct contact with that doomed plane. i ll speak about that and more. egypt s foreign minister is standing by live. two virginia men arrested for allegedly plotting to blow ....
The device may have used military grade explosive, based on the size and signature of the incident that took this plane down as observed by u.s. surveillance assets. this assessment is hampered by the lack, wolf, of any hard, forensic evidence, namely, any other normal investigation of a plane crash, you of course look at wreckage and test for explosive residues. because they don t have at this point and don t have intelligence shared with them by the russian or egyptian authorities they cannot make that determination with confidence. egyptians have not invited u.s. experts to go to that site to look for that kind of evidence. despite offers. u.s. offered to speak to the foreign minister. i ll ask him why that invitation has not come forward. more on breaking news, learning that egyptian security carried out a major sweep of the sharm el sheikh airport immediately after the metrojet airliner exploded. ian lee joining us from sharm el sheikh. what are you learning? ....