accelerates, because that number leads them to bridgeport, connecticut, where the vehicle s previous owner tells them he sold it to a man three weeks ago, paying with 13 $100 bills. that s what the man paid with. and the seller s daughter has a bonus in all of this. she has cell phone information about the buyer. monday morning, the seller is shown photographs and the seller and/or a friend of the seller, it s not entirely sure, identifies shahzad as the guy who bought the vehicle. down in d.c., president obama gets what will be the first of six briefs that day from his counterterrorism team. they ll go on all day about this case, and all day investigators keep pushing. the name of faisal shahzad is added to a security watch list, and customs agents learn that he intends to leave the country. so any idea how we know that, or when they have the sense that that was going to happen? we don t really know the details at this point, campbell.
campbell. we re going to be going back and back at this because bp does not have it under control. do you think the federal government ought to step in and take over? we re getting to a point where the federal government i think has to reach out to every oil company that operates. i ve talked today to engineers out of houston who think there are other ways to do it besides the way bp is trying to put this dome on. this might work. but what they re trying the ocean floor is it s not like a table. it s elastic. and this has never been done what they re trying in deep water before. it s only been done in shallow water. so we re looking at an experimental way of stopping the gusher while the gulf of mexico is slowly dying. and the whole marine systems are going to be going by the wayside. you re just starting to get the pictures tonight of these national wildlife refuges, some of them which theodore roosevelt created 100 years ago for the united states. james, doug mentioned bp e
before we get to that, a little bit of new information from cnn s susan candiotti, who is hearing from two law enforcement sources that within the last two months, the suspect bought a rifle near his home in shelton, connecticut. it s described as a 9 millimeter semiautomatic. it was a legal purchase. it s not required to be registered under existing laws. but as to what he is telling investigators, you hit some of the high points. he is telling them that yes, indeed, he is the one who put that bomb in place in times square. he is saying he got bomb-making training in waziristan and pakistan, and he is continuing to talk to those investigators, and they re trying to verify some of what he is telling them. so give us a sense, i guess, of what we still don t know, and what they are focusing on in terms of the questions unanswered at this stage. the really big question, campbell, is who else is involved here. did he have co-conspirators here in the united states. were there people w
the fbi, and the man they stopped at the last possible moment from leaving the u.s., the past 72 hours have moved at a whirlwind pace. tom foreman is here now with the extraordinary timeline of a foiled terror plot. tom, walk us through it. campbell, you re right. extraordinary is the right word. let s take it back to 6:28, saturday evening, times square, new york. these are where the dramatic events of the past few days really began. police say at that precise time, a nissan pathfinder rigged with a homemade bomb of gasoline and propane drove right into the middle of this. it was left by an unidentified man at the curb, right in the middle of a typical large weekend crowd of tourists. this is happening while down in d.c., president obama and the mayor of new york, michael bloomberg, are attending the white house correspondents dinner, all at the same time. the mayor is quickly called away after a street vendor notices smoke inside that parked vehicle and alerts police.
weekend. and it was no different from any other. you heard the same toast. over and over and dinner. and then george just woke up and knew he wanted to quit. and he stopped. mrs. bush said bible study and a meeting we advantage list billy graham also helped the president quit drinking. and a little something we want to share with you about the show who wants to be a millionaire. you probably know that contestants are allowed to ask an expert for help with questions. well, guess who their expert was this week. take a look. in 2009, what restaurant chain s founder paid $250,000 to buy back the 1971 camaro he sold before launching the company? you know, i don t know. so i have a feeling let s ask campbell brown. let s bring in campbell brown. hey, campbell. hey, meredith. gibb is really counting on you for this one. it s for $50,000.