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That. no one has claimed responsibility for the bombings, though, in russia, but a prime suspect is a man who is the leader of a chechen separatist group and he threatened violence to disrupt the olympic games. let's go to the man who led the security operation back in 1996 for those atlanta olympic games. william rathburn. he joins me now. nice to have you on. let's just begin with, let's say you were the head of security. your role as an atlanta, but you're in charge of sochi. given these two recent bombings, what is your move number one to protect everyone? >> hi, brooke. well, obviously, s...

End of the day, there's only so much that he can do, even in russia, to provide security, because he still has to allow for the movement of all those visitors, all those sponsors, all those athletes, so that the games can go on. i mean, this is a very serious situation. we have known for some time, because of the proximity to chechnya and dagestan and others that make up that region, that this could be a real problem. >> as you point out, just a couple miles from that border. this is just russia. we were talking, and i know 2016 summer games. that's brazil. you said brazil in terms of security...

Was the word he used. the other thing that was striking about all this was the way he apparently tried to mask what he was about to do. one of the things the sheriff also said is he basically went about his daily routine, even going to the length of going bowling by himself about an hour before he entered the school, committing those heinous ablths. the shooting in total only took about 1:20 until everything was over, but of course, by that point, he had done a lot of damage. >> awful all the way around. fred, thank you so much. now to the most high-profile symbol of world unity. now under t...

Among the 28 hurt, a 6-month-old baby. just a day ago, a blast at a major train station left 17 dead and 35 wounded. and russian officials believe a woman set this bomb off. >> according to available information, the explosion was carried out by the female suicide bomber who saw a police officer next to her on the way to the metal detectors. she became nervous and activated the explosive device. preliminarily, the exploeshz was equivalent to ten milligrams of tnt. >> the bombings both hit volgograd, more than 600 miles from sochi. you can see here on the map, the distance roughly between, say,...

Insurgents in that part of the world in the pars. if he vows there will be security, you can count on the fact he will do everything possible to insure that's the case. >> not the same with brazil? >> no, no. because in part because of the lack of resources. they don't have the same level of resource capability. it's a much more chaotic environment in a sense. so it will be a different type of concern. and that will be outside forced as opposed to the domestic terrorism primarily that russia is trying to deal with. but if you look at the two, i'm actually more concerned about the security goin...