would open fire with a gun at a people broke pines school. the police are telling the public they took that threat so seriously that that s what caused a massive lockdown across florida s second largest county, broward county, and particularly people broke pines. we don t know pembroke pines. we don t know anything about the threat that came in or what is happening now. they are updating the public as we speak. they are not taking many questions at this point. this is the first that we ve heard in more detail about what would cause them to sort of in a domino effect should down one school and it just kept going until we saw an entire counti schools shut down. that s the very latest from florida. as i stay on this i ll bring you more details that come out of the news conference. jenna: we have more breaking news, jon. jon: we sure do. it is a busy day, jenna, good news and bad news when it comes to the capabilities of al-qaida in the arabian peninsula.
british authorities are reporting that the mail bombs, or at least the mail bomb that they took off of a ups-browned cargo plane in britain was timed to explode over the united states. it was shipped from yemen to cologne, germany, from cologne to britain. it was in britain that authorities noticed something suspicious about that printer cartridge. they took it off, disruplt edit, essentially diskupt edit, essentially disrupted it, stopped the timing device. if it had not been loaded in great britain it would have been loaded on a u.s. cargo plain in all likelihood it would have exploded on board that plane in the air over the eastern united states. to a second report regarding al-qaida in the arabian peninsula. you might have heard they took credit for the explosion for the fire that downed a united parcel
down the top suspects the big terror fish in that al-qaida in the arabian peninsula, they don t know the whereabouts, they don t have enough evidence. there could be further to go before we get resolution to this particular terror experience. back to you. megyn: greg palkot, thank you. we ll have much more on that here in this broadcast in half an hour. we are hearing some folks on the left saying the message from tuesday s vote was really about the government s uneffectiveness not its over reach. wait until you hear what they want president obama to do now to bypass the congress all together on some of the big, liberal agenda items. alan colmes on that right after this break. plus the drug war across the border hitting too close to home. five americans killed in recent days. we ll show you who may be behind the latest attacks. five americans. and there are 459 passengers on board this flight, many saying they are lucky to be alive today after the engine exploded midair at left this ga
package bomb plot targeting the u.s. international investigators are stepping up the search for suspected bomb maker ibrahimal as sere ri, a high-ranking member of al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula, and now officials are warning local law enforcement and emergency crews to be on the lookout for more suspicious packages from overseas. let s talk about it with bob strang, a former federal agent. he was co-chair of the post-9/11 antiterrorism task force. the scary thing is that we might not have gotten ahold of all of the packages that were sent last week? that s right, jon. we know that there were 20 for sure that were sent, but the bottom line is we don t know whether there are still parcels in the mail today as we speak that are in the belly of an airplane sitting in an office, a car, they could be anywhere in the world. and when you think about the plot and the logic behind it, i mean, this is a scary thought. it s a loose link in our security system globally when we put cargo on ai
secretary robert gates stated so much in a recent interview, shep? catherine herridge with the late breaking news from washington tonight. thank you. there s word tonight that intelligence services in saudi arabia are warning of a potential terrorist attack. the group al-qaida in the arabian peninsula is said to be behind the threat. experts say that terrorist group is connected to plots including the failed christmas day bombing in detroit and a french interior minister reports the saudis report that the terrorists are focused on europe in general and france in particular. all of this the latest in a string of threats that have recently forced security teams to rap up their victimigilance. jonathan hunt is tracking this from new york city tonight. how serious are the french taking this threat? very serious indeed. that french interior minister says the threat is real and our vigilance is total. they clearly believe that the saudis have passed on their real