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Dizziness or confusion. ask your health care provider if you're tresiba® ready. covered by most insurance and medicare plans. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ rick: terrorist target a christian church in pakistan killing nine and wounding more than 50 others. isis takes responsibility which came eight days before christmas. taking down one of the attackers at the entrance the other made it inside where he set off the bomb. international protest over the trump recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital showed no signs to slow down.

Something, this is a reminder of how important this is. >> you know this kind of reality. you ran the jerusalem post. we see these types of things happen there. what's life like then? >> one of the things i find striking is when i returned to new york from jerusalem i thought this is the biggest city in the world, it's the most attractive terrorist target. and yet coming from 9/11, apart from a few relatively minor incident, the city's been extraordinarily safe. so to some extent, this incident is testimony to the effectiveness of new york city policing in the wake of 9/11. the seeming lack of...

Of people and the ideal target, certainly ideal for a terrorist target in new york city he came out injured and not so much for everybody else is really miraculous. >> neil: what do you think in terms of help he may have had? >> it looks like he was not a particularly good craftsman and this was the first device he built. it certainly law enforcement will be looking for evidence that he built others and may have taken them someplace to detonate them. he was not a very good craftsman, and as i said, these devices can turn deadly. we saw that with the body builder a few decades ago. who had a fi...

Year. however, new york is always on high alert because it is the number one terrorist target in this country. over 20 attempted attacks in new york city. and again last year we had chelsea, last month we had the by the world trade center. they're on high alert. right now i think it's too early to come to a final conclusion other than it appears to be terrorist-inspired and it's important if anyone gives out the name of this person rather than tip anybody else off to -- full-court press and run it down all the way. >> sandra: of course we'll learn a lot probably in the next few minutes. we'll ...

U.s. all pledged allegiance to isis. >> we are the number one terrorist target in this country and potentially in the world. >> reporter: in 2012, a 21-year-old bangladeshi man inspired by al qaeda thought he built a 1,000-pound bomb to blow up the federal reserve bank in new york. he hoped to strike at heart of the american economy. in 2010, times square, again, a failed plot by pakistani-born faisal shahzad inspired by al qaeda and funded by the pakistani taliban, tipped off, when smoke started pouring from his suv. >> firefighters, emergency service officers and the bomb squad responded and...