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I'm brianna keilar in for carol costello. 19 embassies and consulates are closed for a week over major security concerns. these closures were prompted by several factors, including an al qaeda message intercepted by the u.s. that threatened attacks. adding to the concerns, ramadan ends this week and several prison breaks have occurred in the region. let's go now to wall street where the opening bell is about to ring. investors are hoping for a repeat of last week after stocks, once again, posted record highs. that's where we find the lovely alison kosik in new york with the very latest on th...

What do they have in common? the police agency interpol suspects al qaeda had a hand in most or all of them. nick, break this down for us. they think that all of these or potentially a lot of these prison breaks are connected to al qaeda. what's the evidence behind that? >> reporter: well the interpol list doesn't suggest all of them are linked to al qaeda. it puts out a list of 11 jailbreaks in a 25 countries that's got them concerned and they wanted to have more information. there are about three or four of them that could have some al qaeda link to them. the main one -- >> i think we have l...

Conversation indicating information about a possible operation. as a result, the security measures were taken to shut down several embassies across the arab world and other parts of the muslim world. it is, at this time, seems to be from that phone intercept, but we're certainly learning more about it in the coming hours. >> ayman, over the weekend, interpoll issued a global security alert after hundreds of terrorists and other criminals escaped prison in several high-profile prison breaks. is this at all related to the warnings sent out by the state department to embassies around the world? >...

A man called al-balar. he's on the run. there's a wanted poster for him. concerns as to the nature and seniority of people released in these jailbreaks. >> thank you. i want to bring in our cnn law enforcement analyst. nick just mentioned a powerful person. a member of al qaeda who is on the loose. how much of this is based on the fact there are dangerous guys out there who might be in a position of power. >> of course they're in a position of power. it's hard to say. i don't think they know for sure whether the prison breaks are related to the threats going on now or the leaders that were rel...

They use it for fund-raising as well. and it grows larger and more intricate by the month. month on month. >> then you add the layer of the prison breaks, a rash of prison breaks in this part of the world. and interpol has been issuing security alerts, links to al qaeda, these breaks. >> they want to find out, were all of these coordinated? was this an offensive by al qaeda? who was behind it? they don't have the answer. they're not telling us they have the answer yet, but it is a source of concern. we have to understand one thing about many of these islamic terror groups and especially al qae...