plans? how he was trying to get there? reporter: according to the local travel agent that we spoke to here he came in last thursday just before 3:00 said that he wanted to buy a round trip ticket from new york going to istanbul. it was going to cost about $900. the travel agent said i can get you there for $571 going through kiev. he used a new york state id in order to purchase it. they gave me a copy of the i ten rare. he was scheduled to fly out at 12:30 a.m. on ukraine international airlines flight number 0323. when i was speaking to the travel agent earlier he also told me his hands are still
threatening to carry out attacks over there and in the u.s., and that wasn t the whole plan. two suspects threatened to plant a bomb on new york s coney eye and and to kill president obama and wait until you hear in a few moments how authorities uncovered their plot. but this morning law enforcement across the country on high alert for other violent extremists we have this story covered from every angle, beginning with will ripley in brooklyn, new york. we ve been working to learn more about the two younger suspects arrested here in brooklyn including a 19-year-old who lived in this building behind me. he paid just $571 to get a ticket to try to fly over try to join isis a plot that was only foiled by the federal authorities because of the fact that these two young men were so careless. the initial actions were effectively to go to syria. this morning two men intent on waging war with isis according to the february are
reporter: we know that 19-year-old suspect paid $571 for that ticket because that s all he could afford. you can see behind me the apartment building where he lived. a pretty modest apartment building in a very diverse neighborhood. the coney island neighborhood here in brooklyn. raises questions whether they had the means to conductivities like this. we also know the 24-year-old, he was arrested at his home also in this neighborhood. he was a delivery driver. like we hear a lot about these want to be jihadists, they blended it but it was their online language that were the warning signals that got the attention of the fbi. there was online mentions on websites if you will, basically, they were pretty blunt. they were talking about potentially killing the president of the united states. that obviously got the attention of u.s. law enforcement authorities last summer.
allegedly according to the feds funneling money to these men. this is a young man that didn t have the means to carry out the kind of attacks allegedly talked about online. he didn t even have the $900 to buy a direct flight to turkey. so he paid $571 to take a different flight, route it through ukraine. clearly, both of those men if what s laid out is accurate, they were looking for something bigger than what they have here in brooklyn. will reporting for us live. thank you for that. so three arrests yesterday in two different states right here in the union. how many more plots are being hatched right now as we tell you this story? and by the way, what kind of tools did the feds just lose yesterday by hauling these three guys in? you re about to find out. you think you take off all your make-up before bed. but do you really? [ female announcer ] neutrogena® makeup remover erases 99% of your most stubborn makeup
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