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The police officers assigned to protect both airports are not allowed to carry weapons. they work alongside armed police officers, but there's one major difference. if there is an attack at any terminal, these aviation police officers say they are trained and told to run away. and now those officers are speaking out. here's cnn senior investigative correspondent, drew griffin. >> reporter: take a look around the passenger terminals at chicago's o'hare and midway airports, and you will see what appear to be police officers, but take a closer look. not one of them is carrying a gun. in the event...

I assume officials on the ground there are cognizant of what you're mentioning. do you think they are securing the scene in this scenario? >> to the extent they can. they are limited in resources andability to do so. new york, for instance, they have 6,000 police officers concentrated solely in times square tonight. those police officers are there. if something were to happen in any part of the city it would be hard to gear up and refocus energies there. same thing in dubai. there's only so much we can do. we can't vet everybody everywhere all the time. it's impossible. >> yeah. you make an in...

Similar to the paris attack. terrorists storm a building in london and guns blazing and police move in and move past the injured and dead in pursuit of the death threat. the police are getting them ready for a potential terrorist strike and illustrates a shift in policy following attacks in india and france. >> one of the things is to confirm to us that the training we have been doing post mum bba is a way to go forward. >> reporter: recent terrorist attacks show there is little room for negotiation. what specifically did you see in mumbai, in paris that would spark or cause that shift in poli...

One. obama won't work with putin until they agree on a political future on syria and they disagree on whether or not president assad should still be president. >> a lot of intelligence to be done. thank you, max foster, in paris. we are learning new information about the bloody terror attack in mali. the u.n. says at least 22 people died in a terrorist strike on a radisson in the capital of bamako on friday. two attackers died. now american specialist for the cdc is telling her story to cnn. for more on that, let's bring in david mckenzie live in mali. good morning, david. >> reporter: good ...

And politically, and send john kerry to baghdad and have him sit there working the political problems that underlie the weakness of the iraqi military. those are political problems, we can make a difference but we have to engage to do it. >> general keane both you and the ambassador made a big point about the fact in the northeast part of the country that is where isis is, and that is where we are striking in the northwest part of syria, that is where the relatively moderate syrian rebels are we are supporting and that is what russia is hitting but russian foreign minister said this week that ...