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Keep people calm, have them go out and enjoy it. that's the idea. police officers want to go home, too. they are on their utmost security tomorrow night. >> of course. just yesterday we know authorities in sydney, australia arrested a man for making new year's eve terror threats online. this comes after police in melbourne arrested five suspects who were planning attacks on christmas day. all of this stuff, these kind of threats that come in, there must be many that police get. how do you discern what is real and what is not? >> well, that's the million dollar question, so to speak. the police...

Live from america's news headquarters, i'm patricia stark. australian police are thwarted a coordinated boehm plot. five people have been detained suspected of planning attacks in melbourne. police say the group is suspp(uq" of being inspired by asis and planned to carry out the attacks the a train station, square and cathedral. the threat has now been neutralized. a fire breaking out tonight if a high-rise building in new york city. the flames and smoke injuring 24 people. two people were critically injured. the fire broke out in a third floor apartment and quickly spread to the fourth floo...

It's interesting to note that just last month the state department put out a note warning u.s. tourists away from outdoor markets in this holiday season, pointing to credible information, that isis was planning attacks here. >> all right. max foster, stay with us. let's bring in cnn contributor michael weiss, terror analyst paul crookshank. paul, obviously this immediately conjures up pictures of the niece in a brutal attack last summer. in a magazine, isis called for more attacks like that, using trucks to drive into crowds. at this point do we know of anybody claiming responsibility for this...

Indications that isis leader al baghdadi is under perhaps more pressure than ever. u.s. officials say he's in deep, teach hiding. >> we also know that he hides with slaves and all sorts of terrible things. this guy is one of the most despicable we've ever seen. so we're doing all we can to find and eliminate him. >> reporter: nearly all his deputies have been eliminated. three of his top lieutenants have been taken out in raqqah, syria. u.s. officials say they were responsible for planning attacks in paris and brussels last year. a u.s. intelligence official telling cnn tonight the coalition's...

>> right, so first of all the threat assessments, stock? he talks about what are the threats to the united states, what groups are planning attacks, what do we know about those attacks? then he should be getting briefed on what are u.s. operations abroad? we're doing a lot of stuff all over the world, human operations, satellites, cyber operations. he should start to learn what that is. third of all it's intercepted communications from world leaders. we have a lot of information on what other countries are saying and doing and thinking about us. it's important to know that stuff if you're maki...