the limits, then using this method of a $200 card being worth as much as $20,000. prosecutors say eight defendants charged thursday hit more than 2900 atm machines in just ten hours back in february. they allegedly used that money to buy rorolex watches. maxim magazine named manti te o s imaginary girlfriend to the top 20 list. they say she looks awesome in a bikini. it is not going to get easier for manti. coming up, they are just wild about harry. who isn t? britain s prince harry makes a splash in our nation s capital. we ll have a live royal report next.
an amazing story in survival from bang bangladesh. they rescued a woman who was in that rubble for 17 days. the death toll has passed 1,000 and making it the worst traditional tragedy in history. relief crews are bringing in heavy machinery to remove the larger pieces of the building. investigatoors a calling ita global crime ring responsible for stealing millions of dollars from thousands of atm machines in a matter of hours. nbc s tom costello that has store. reporter: investigators say a highly sophisticated global bank height that used the computers and internet in place of guns masks in the end the district attorney says a conspiracy got away with $45 million in a coordinated attack on atms
director of the fbi tom fuentes, also gloria boerger and tom, i want to start with you, i think it s critical that this was a seems to be, indication is, it was a spur of the moment decision, not a preplanned trip. right, anderson. and i think that one of the important takeaways from that is that it would also indicate that there weren t additional people involved in this plot. so, in other words, the two of them were going to go to new york and carry out the terrorist act. it would indicate that there s not a third person out there that could do it for them or was deployed to do it or could have done it simultaneously with the boston attack, so it does indicate that they probably were alone and didn t have others involved in trying to set bombs up somewhere. tom, also what does it tell you about the fact that they are deciding spur of the moment or talking about spur of the moment about going to new york, that they are stopping at atm
believe we know he took previously, but again important to stress, no specific threat to new york. as were you explaining, chris, any time new york comes up, the attempted car bombing in times square, the city has seen about 15 alleged plots and plots targeting the city since 9/11. so any time new york gets mentioned as a possible target, it s of great concern. you know, i have to wonder, this isn t meant to be comical, but how many days can you live in new york on $800? they were going to atm machines holding them up with people there as hostages, threatening their lives if they didn t give them their code numbers. but that may have been the only evidence we have of an ongoing plot. they were stealing money from people. to do what? do we know that? i don t know, you know the motive of the theft for money and it s also important to put into context, as david gregory was explaining, is this is the word of an accused terror suspect.
security services. it reminds me a bit of what happened after we caught the underwear bomber who tried to blow up an airplane over detroit. janet napolitano famously said right afterwards, the system worked. which means that the only reason it worked is because he sweat the bomb which dulled the fuse and civilians tackled him. and i also remember the president saying i think it was in that incident that it was an isolated incident. each before he knew i have that sense here. the administration is trying to imply this is sort of isolated. a couple of wild and crazy guys who set off this bomb. no connections as lindsey graham says how do we have any idea? and i would ask if these guys were so low on cash that they had to go around to atm machines with a guy they hijacked. where did they get the money for the weapons? where did they get the