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Was he connected to anybody and what was his mission? >> reporter: that's what they have to find out. again, whether you want to describe it as amateurish or not, it could have done serious damage, in their view. the next step is determining who did it. there have been, as i'm sure you have heard, we have been reporting on people trying to take credit for it. the fbi says early on you have people claiming credit. they have discredited some of the claims. they are trying to trace down, okay, fine, through the vehicle, for example, who was driving the vehicle. whom did the vehicle belong. do the...

Here, is there an opportunity for investigators to pick up exactly who is behind this? >> there's going to be a ton of evidence in this, alex, and i think we will find out who did this. the vehicle itself will have identification numbers, although it has been tampered with. within the vehicle fingerprints, registration papers, even the materials put together -- all of those will have a trail of forensic evidence that hopefully will lead back to an individual. if it is a sole individual, it may take a while to find out who this person is. >> we've been hearing from pete williams the v.i.n. numb...

And democrats all through this election. >> the fact that some are boycotting because of the price, that indicative of a potential split in the tea party movement? >> there's a saying in the tea party movement, patriots for profit. they don't like folks coming in to capitalize on the tea party movement. you had the one gentleman saying, we don't like the republican tent cals coming into the tea party movement. we like consulting firms trying to run tea party groups. that remains to be seen. i think you'll find a lot of these folks are going to drift back to the two political parties and we're ...

And, remember, when this first started, it was precautionary, could be something suspicious, cleared the area as a precaution. once the bomb squad got in there and got a good look, that's when they realized we have something in here that's problem atic and that's when they started clearing out the rest of times square. as for the investigation, teams of fbi agents, nypd officers running down many leads from a junkyard in bridgeport, connecticut, where the license plates that were apparently stolen or misused and placed on this nissan, the license plates came from a ford. now they're on a nissa...