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Hello, everyone. thank you for joining me this sunday. i'm fredricka whitfield. we begin with this breaking news. one of the men accused of one of the deadliest terror attacks in american and british history is now in custody in the u.s. the justice department confirming they have arrested a libyan suspect for allegedly making the bomb that brought down pan am 103 over scotland in 1988, leaving 270 people dead. cnn's senior justice correspondent evan perez joins us with more on this. what do we know about this arrest, how it happened, and what more about the suspect? >> reporter: good morning,...

Chance to respond to the development in an arrest and the pan am flight bombing. >> it's great we were be entering able to bring this to justice with this tragedy that occurred so many years ago. americans are fighting strong after all those years we're going to tell our enemies that we're going to hold you to justice even if you commit terrorism in 1988 we're going to come back and make sure justice has been served to those families and individuals that were tragically lost in that attack. alicia: absolutely, switching gears as you know on thursday the house approved the national defense auth...

Have got an example from north of the border, where we have a government in scotland who have chosen to invest in pay, and the additional money that has been found, an extra boost to health worker pay this year, has staved off strike action, so we are asking the secretary of state to follow suit here. .. ., secretary of state to follow suit here, ., ., ~' secretary of state to follow suit here. ., ., ~ i., secretary of state to follow suit here. ., ., ~ i. secretary of state to follow suit here. ., ., ~ . secretary of state to follow suit here, ., ., ~' y., . ., here. sarah, thank you so much ...

Let's talk about the breaking news about the lockerbie bombing suspect in u.s. custody after decades of frustration. the justice department said he is now being brought to the u.s. where he will appear before a district court in washington. the 1988 bombing of pan am flight over scotland killed 189 americans. we are following the story. i think the ultimate question here for so many individuals, so many years after this bombing in 88, how did they find this guy? >> yeah, that's right, yasmin. this guy is basically at large for 34 years. the initial investigation was not about the man who maste...

Victims�* families. it was just after seven in the evening on the 21 december 1988 when the town of lockerbie was engulfed in flame. pan am flight had left heathrow for new york but in the skies above scotland a massive explosion ripped through its fuselage and down it came. most of the 259 passengers and crew were american. they all died. as did 11 others whose homes were struck by falling debris. it remains the worst act of terrorism in british history. this is the man the us authorities accuse of making the bomb. abu agila masud, here in libya, where he had been tried and held for separat...