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Backpack with him. we don't know the contents of that backpack. we also don't know what his motivation was. the white house was put on a orange level security which is one of the highest security levels that the white house can go to. but after the man was apprehended and the grounds were searched, the security situation was put back to normal. i can tell you i've been here since about 9:00 this morning and there was really no sign that anything had happened here in the past 24 hours. it was a relatively quiet morning before we heard these reports come out. the white house is back to operating...

Into custody. now at in no time was the president in any danger. but he was alerted to the fact that this incident did take place. the security level here at the white house was raised to level orange which is one of the highest security levels at that time and then according to the secret service the grounds were completely searched on both the north and south sides to make sure there was no other threats. but by this morning everything was back to normal. i was here at around 8:45 this morning. it was business as usual. you will not have known that something had happened here late night. maj...

Foreign visitors and people that are coming to the white house. they'll bring their motorcade up on that driveway that enters through the south portico. you mentioned the security at that time. it was raised to the orange level which is one of the highest security levels before the situation was brought under control and this man was put under arrest. we're told that the president was in the residence at the time. the suspect could have been only a few hundred yards away from the president at that time, but the president was never in any danger. he was made aware of the situation as soon as th...

People on the aircraft, we've pushed that perimeter out. now the soft areas are the ticket areas and baggage claim areas and train stations, bus stations have become relatively softer targets. what we need to do is keep security levels up and unpredictable. there's no way we're ever going to make it a hard target that we can't ever have an attack. unfortunately, that's the world we live in. and the reality is there's been a lot of talk over the last day about the fact that this gentleman's gun was in his checked luggage. the reality is he could have gotten out of a taxicab or a car and walked ...

Context within -- okay, you can hear me again. >> yes. >> so as we're watching these pictures, give as you sense because many of us that are watching, those viewers who are watching may not have been to istanbul and it,turkey. give us a sense of what it is like there. security levels, generally speaking. and then what area of town this is. >> so this is a part of town that is on the bosters directly and is a very popular area with a lot of tourists, a lot of night goers. the night club itself, as i was saying earlier before we were cut off, it one of those warehouse type of night clubs in the ...