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The government can't send children back to their home countries. the law requires they two to health and human services. you mentioned the administration estimates it will catch 90,000 children trying to come into our country illegally by the end of the buckdget year. last year, fewer than 2,000 were returned home. >> lea gabrielle, thanks so much. we're going to update you on the incredible situation in iraq with secretary of state kerry. we'll do that in a minute. plus, toothpaste bombs for terrorists. word that al qaeda militants are work on a brand new generation of exploesives. bombs ...

Steps taken so far. again, obviously we are more alert, if you will, but no significant changes, but no official designation of a different status. but obviously in an event like this, it certainly causes everyone to focus more than they might have otherwise. we should be focused all the time, but something like this causes us to focus more. >> we discussed at length before the sochi winter olympic game this is alert that went out by the u.s., toothpaste bombs for example being planted on planes in advance of the sochi winter olympic games. and all the briefings you've had with u.s. intelligen...

Shoes off, in many airports overseas, that is not required. >> reporter: officials say threat information is not specific to any particular airline, country of origin, or time frame, and they say there's no indication of a specific plot, but airlines that fly from the middle east, north africa, and some parts of europe are being advised to be extra cautious. the idea of hiding explosives in shoes has been tried before by an englishman, richard reid, who attempted to blow up a flight from pair toys miami just before christmas in 2001. he had an explosive hidden in the soles. he is serving a lif...

Intelligence indicates al qaeda terrorists have been working on new shoebomb designs. that's what prompted the department of homeland security to warn airlines to be on the lookout. while there's no specific target, the warning pertains to flights from at least 25 cities overseas into the u.s. johannesburg, paris, london, cairo, cities in the middle east are on the list. this is not believed to be connected to the recent warning about toothpaste bombs like this one. but there's one man, a 31-year-old college dropout named ibrahim al-asiri. >> this is the kind of device he's built in the past. ...

As well. steve, in broad terms here, just a general reaction to the news as we continue to gather more specific information as well. >> as you and i just discussed this is right along the line that many people are attracted magnetically to sochi and those that have grievances or causes they want to pursue are going to be drawn to try to get headlines or to create damage or to god forbid really do something quite dramatic with bombings. i think it's been very alarming when you look at the intelligence assessments and reports about a big concern about toothpaste bombs and the tsa has put out an ...