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Analyzing those black boxes seen as really critical to providing concrete evidence to what happened to the plane. erin? >> erin, thank you very much. "outfront" now, our terrorism analyst paul cruickshank. you heard barbara talk about how this could change the assessment, isis being able to change the way they do terrorism. >> they managed to recruit an insider at sharm el-sheikh airport. it wasn't like they built a sophisticated nonmetallic device like al qaeda and yemen have been trying to do. this was an old-school bomb, a conventi conventional explosive and it would appear that an inside...

Right after, brian, after the underwear bomber landed in detroit in 2009, we bought 500 of these scanners at $122 million and then we bought 378 more and now, i think there are 1,000 more on order. hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars and yet, they don't work so you got the scanners that will not -- >> we think they don't work. >> they will not pick up if you have a nonmetallic device which, apparently, the new bombs are, it's not going to work. >> body scanners can't pick up a bulge? >> that's big question. >> i'm serious. what's good with the body scanner? why are people so offended ...

every day about 1.5 million americans board airplanes. this morning they have a big question. is it safe to fly? no doubt there's good reason for that concern. this new plot centered around a nonmetallic explosive designed to slip through airport detectors similar to a bomb aboard a flight in 2009. a malfunction may be the only reason those passengers survived. the latest plot also targeted an international flight coming into the united states. that was foiled two weeks ago. the investigation is still unfolding. a short time ago we heard from white house chief adviser or counterterro...

everyone, it's 10:00 here on the east coast. they have foiled a terrorist plot to blow up an airliner, they're not saying where, oar when it happened. here's what we know, according to the fbi an improvised explosive device was seized and fbi officials are investigating it. it's a nonmetallic explosive similar to the one the underwear bomber used in his failed attempt in 2009. similar but not the same. the plot has the hallmarks of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. and president obama was briefed about the threat in april. chairman of the homeland security committee has been detaild...

briefed on the details and joins us on the phone. >> i've just discussed this. it's a nonmetallic device that was intended to be put on an american bound airline. it never made it to the airline, it's right now, as you said, being tested and analyzed by the fbi. a concern would be that being nonmetallic as to whether or not this would affect the security in our airports. this is an ongoing operation. this particular part of it occurred about -- sometime last month. sometime in april. it's not over as far as the operation itself, which is why you're seeing very few details being given...