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Spanish authorities shut down the subway system in that city. that is the kind of thing that you do when you're in the middle of an ongoing operation and trying to determine how many entities are involved. if you think it's a single individual, this is not the kind of dramatic step that you take. then they also pulled into effect their terrorism alert system. we have something similar in the united states. so all of this speaks to evidence that they have that we don't that is bigger than a single individual. >> shepard: catherine, we just got this. isis has claimed responsibility. there's a re...

He'll hold private meetings with family members of the terror attack victims. 14 people were killed. 22 others wounded. first the president receives his traditional pre-holiday briefing today from his counterterrorism team. he'll make a statement this afternoon. a new level of the national terrorism alert system is called bulletin. it was activated for the first time wednesday. it's designed to warn the public about "self-radicalized actors that could attack without notice." homeland security secretary jeh johnson said he's concerned about attacks like that but his department is tracking no ...

New phase. of course how to address that. specifically the kind of attack we just saw in california is still the subject of fierce debate with critics many americans wondering if that strategy is enough. tonight, the obama administration is attempting to play offense on the heels of the president's primetime address detailing a strategy to defeat isis. today his homeland security secretary said he will create a new intermediate designation as part of a revised terrorism alert system warning americans about threats law enforcement is hearing about even when they're not specific. >> we need to d...

The through threat which "the new york times" called both specific and maddeningly vague comes less than three months after president obama can you go suggested the country would have to move beyond a post-9/11 posture of perpetual war. >> perpetual war through drones or special forces or troop deployments will prove self-defeating. our systematic effort to dismantle terrorist organizations must continue but this war, like all wars, must end. that's what history advises. that's what our democracy demands. >> it's been over two years since homeland security ended the much derided color coated t...

Using our machine language translation skills to do rapid searches to look for key words that would relate to an imminent plot. the second would be looking for location-based nontime sensitive information. and the third tier will take longer, months or years where we'll use this information to build up what is called the encyclopedia on aq, which is, again, critical. even mundane bits of information from this will be important for future plot disruptions. >> hundreds of thousands of pieces of data that they're probably pulling together. we're at week one since that was harvested from the compo...