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Cleared security? reporter: my source, wolf, telling me that security is very tight at the airport, that is it tighter for employees of the airport than it is for passengers, and that all vehicles that enter the airport are scanned, not just with dogs sniffing them but metal detectors, bomb detectors, saying it is very tight. but he did also say that a bomb potentially could have made it past if it was sophisticated enough. ian lee at sharm el sheikh for us, thank you. isis affiliate in sinai has claimed responsibility for the downing of the metrojet airliner. the americans have been among the targets. cnn s brian todd taking a closer look at this part of the story. tonight, new information about the very dangerous group. we ve got new details on who their leaders are. their operational capables and some of the deadly attacks they ve launched on egyptian and ....
Down metrojet 9268. translator: the likelihood of a terrorist attack still cannot be ruled out, that is why such a decision was made. reporter: u.s. officials are now piecing together clues but very v. no forensic evidence shared by russian or egyptian investigators. some u.s. analysts believe the most likely scenario is jihadists planted a bomb with a timer on the plane by someone that had access, rather than a passenger sneaking it through the security system. u.s. officials tell cnn. however, a senior intelligence official cautioned that much of the evidence so far is circumstantial and amounts to hearsay. with no access to debris, bodies or the cockpit voice recorder all normally essential parts of any crash investigation. russian investigators have promised to share any evidence of an explosive if they find it. translator: i can say with full confidence, in case there are any traces of explosives, they will definitely be found. ....
It is possible. but not in the way it was portrayed. these allegations are generalizations. they are baseless and false. airport authorities insisting that the sharm el sheikh international airport is safe, jake. all right. erin mclaughlin, thank you so much. cnn aviation correspondent rene marsh is in washington as well. rene, there are hundreds of thousands of airport workers in the united states who have unrestricted access at the thousands of u.s. airports. and some u.s. officials seem worried because they say the government doesn t know all that much about who these workers are. jake, that s absolutely right. we know one congressman is sounding the alarm tonight over concerns about an insider threat right here in the united states. and he points to a vetting system for airport workers, he says is not stringent enough to catch bad actors. as u.s. intelligence officials are increasingly confident a terrorist bomb brought down the russian metrojet airliner, ....
Millions along the pacific coach are shocked to see a missile streak overahead. should the military announce the test of a nuclear capable missile? was it a public relations blunder? and bling or bust. donald trump draws new ratings as he dances to a new video on saturday night live. but will the former reality show s return to tv help or hurt his presidential campaign? i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. u.s. and british officials are now convinced that russia s metrojet airliner was brought down by a bomb planted by isis or its sinai affiliate. we re learning that crucial information was actually provided by israel. and now intelligence agencies are also scrambling to learn how and where a device could have brought the plane down killing all 224 people onboard. the working assumption is that isis had help from an insider at ....
Going back and forth between them. in was a bomb in sharm el sheikh it wasn t one of the impossible to detect bombs that got on the plane. i don t think i think the work assumption it was a fairly conventional-type bomb that was put on in the hold and you don t really need something that would defeat, you know, a high level of airport security. underwear bomber who tried to bring northwest flight 253 down over detroit did have a bomb, he did get through security in amsterdam and that s a tough airport to get through. so you know, i don t think it for sharm el sheikh, for the attack on metrojet airliner, it s not necessary it was one of the ultrasophisticated bombs completely impossible to detect. or that might have been. just to think they re working on that and potentially getting close is a terrifying thought. thank you so much. thank you. straight ahead, deep anger on the campus of the university of missouri after a series of ....