had that strong wind out of the south. that got everybody so nervous. that was moving the oil north. now, in the next couple of days, the winds are going to be light. it s just going to be drifting around. i don t think it s going to make landful so to speak over the next couple of days. there s a chance it gets picked up in the gulf, maybe pulled around the southern tip of florida. that s a long shot. but it s entirely possible. beyond the next two or three day, anderson, it s really anybody s guess what s going to happen with that sheen of oil in the gulf of mexico. stopping that flow is more than daunting opinion it s really never been done before at this kind of depth. tom foreman is tracking the efforts to find a solution. tom? this is our first best look at the best hope for stopping those fountains of oil gushing into the gulf of mexico. this is a giant device being constructed in louisiana. here s part of it. it s a big box like this, and
had that strong wind out of the south. that got everybody so nervous. that was moving the oil north. now, in the next couple of days, the winds are going to be light. it s just going to be drifting around. i don t think it s going to make landful so to speak over the next couple of days. there s a chance it gets picked up in the gulf, maybe pulled around the southern tip of florida. that s a long shot. but it s entirely possible. beyond the next two or three day, anderson, it s really anybody s guess what s going to happen with that sheen of oil in the gulf of mexico. stopping that flow is more than daunting opinion it s really never been done before at this kind of depth. tom foreman is tracking the efforts to find a solution. tom? this is our first best look at the best hope for stopping those fountains of oil gushing into the gulf of mexico. this is a giant device being constructed in louisiana. here s part of it. it s a big box like this, and then here is the other part of
something is something that should be taken very seriously. and anderson, the other thing about you know, almost everything the investigators say about these kinds of attacks or attempted attacks in the first 24 hours turns out to be wrong. the christmas day attack, there was a lot of stuff coming out of the white house saying this guy was a lone wolf and all that. it was pretty obvious right from the get-go, there was a conspiracy involved. when you have a car bomb attack or a kind of attempt that we saw here, that s not the act of a lone wolf. it s usual lay driver, a bomb maker, at least two other people involved. clearly, this is a larger conspiracy than just one guy. the university of people who want to do this kind of attack is pretty small. right wing terrorists want to attack american government buildings. they don t want to indiscriminately attack americans walking around the street. this is more of a profile of hitting the epicenters of one of the greatest centers in the
saying that hi s his group is going to attack the united states. those claims of pakistani taliban trying to attack the united states are not entirely plausible. why do you say that? because of other attacks they ve done? in january of 2008, the pakistani taliban according to their own account sent a group of suicide bombers to barcelona and spain. those guys were arrested and they ve gone into the spanish prosecutorial system, but they ve already done out of area, or try to do out of area operations in the west. and so that their claim of a desire to do something in the united states and even the possibility that they might do something is something that should be taken very seriously. and anderson, the other thing about you know, almost everything the investigators say about these kinds of attacks or attempted attacks in the first 24 hours turns out to be wrong. the christmas day attack, there was a lot of stuff coming out of the white house saying this guy was a lone wolf
overseas. so this has been quite a job for these investigators, and apparently moving quite rapidly, anderson. we ve seen this one surveillance video. i know obviously a lot of stores have their own cameras and stuff. have they been able to check all the surveillance video they want or are they still looking, do you know? it s not clear. we do know, in fact, there s been a possibility of another surveillance video being released from down here. quite frankly, it s very clear there are a lot of cameras that you have to go through when you have an incident, and certainly one like this. they would be checking every one. also with so many tourists taking pictures, that s obviously another avenue they are pursuing. we ll continue to follow up with you. we re also learning new tonight, the nypd, the new york police department is sending that path finder and bomb components to the fbi forensic lab in quant o quantico, virginia. peter bergen has spoken to his sources. he joins us now. pe