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Investigation in france. two women were arrested in france. these -- they believe these two women wanted to return to russia to launch a suicide bombing against the winter olympics. now when the french moved in on tuesday, they were specifically looking for toothpaste bombs. so they didn't find any, nor did they find any other explosives. >> to be very clear, the reasons for the concern is that these olympics were cited by putin in a place that is a little bit of a thumb in the eye to the resistance groups there. what do we make about the group that is targeting these attacks and the idea of a...

Just be aware of their surroundings and make certain that they are acting wisely as you would anywhere where this threat may or may not exist. >> steve, how safe is sochi? >> look, i think with the revelations we're hearing about about toothpaste bombs and concerns about printer cart ridges, one of the groups that had been involved with the previous bombing had said that they may go as far as chemical weapons, there's a big magnet drawing in folks, particularly the dagestan network, a very high priority concern for threat watchers and i think it will be a miracle if we get out without an incid...

Talk of the last few days has been about toothpaste bombs, but that sophisticated technique isn't really what's going to be bothering people on the ground here for the past few months. this is a region of the world where explosives are pretty common when you're away from the ring of steel near here in sochi and there are concerns about how well you can implement a dagnet across this whole region given the state of the russian police force often seen by russians as being a net being corrupt and actually with brutal tactics that many accuse of having fueled the insurgency here in first place, wo...

However, they had no evidence that the women were a threat or had plans to travel to russia. what i'm told is when it comes to threats outside of russia, there's pretty good cooperation but inside russia, that's where u.s. officials have serious concerns about whether the russian share everything that they know and, of course, with the olympics inside russia, create major concern for americans traveling. >> in addition to the so-called toothpaste bombs, they are worried about suicide bombers going after softer targets, maybe outside of the ring of steel to embarrass putin, if you will. >> that...

Stop it. >> i know there's only so much you can talk about. have you been briefed on threats that are as specific as the toothpaste and cosmetics bomb threats? >> there are threats. the emirate caucuses, the more extreme faction of the checken rebels that have trained in syria, for instance, there is a concern that with that kind of training and trade craft that they can travel from syria into the sochi area. that is of great concern. the aviation sector is another area of concern that we believe they may be attempting to bring these explosives onto airlines. >> in terms of 57% of americans se...