Blizzard of 2015. We have late arest on when and where. We so much to get to. And i want to begin with the spike of online and against airlines. We have renee marsh for us live at laguardia airport. There have been 50 online threats since january 17th, and what are the airlines doing to find who is responsibility . Don, the fbi is working to search ip addresses to find the culprits responsible for this this, and as far as what is behind the uptick, i spoke to several officials today, and one o official telling me that these are copycat incident ss, and sparked by the incidents that is fueling it. But this is important to note that sit that it is a federal crime and even if the intent is not to bring down a jetliner and if somebody thought it was a funny prank, it is not. The federal aweuthorities are taking it seriously, and the punishment could be up to ten years behind bar, and oftentime s a plea deal so you could face hefty fine, and we are talking about hundreds of thousands of dol
Smuggling business within a short period of time. Yes, it is a persistent problem in moldova, wolf. It goes beyond the people they have been able to target in the sting operation, but other smugglers there who they dont have a good handle on, and you are right, some of the people have not enough time, but they are sting operation, and the materiels are not a huge amount. Again, this is a situation where it is not believed that these people necessarily are working with terrorist, but they simply dont care to whom they sell their materiels to. Thank you, evan, very much. Joining us to talk about this disturbing development, and joining us from irvine, california, is our cnn Intelligence Security analyst bob bair and also our expert robbie gosch. How would this be dangerous if they were to get their hands on a dirty material . Well, you could put something in a car, and put some cesium on it, and you could blow up a car in manhattan and close down the city for months. So this is a ongoing
Crave. But you really should know about it. The frames depict what appears to be a bomb being constructed and a potential bomber dripping up his jacket over a bomb strapped to his body. And scenes from areas like times square and Herald Square in new york. We are awaiting a new york conference with the nypd tonight. Also with us is john miller. He is going to be live in studio with me. A lot to get to. Back to anderson now. Anderson, last night around this time, that dramatic raid began. What have we learned and who do authorities believe they have captured or killed . Eight people have been taken into custody from that particular raid and cell. Seven men, one woman, as you know, another woman blew herself up after having a short exchange with police. And one other person was killed as well. We dont know the identity of the second person who was killed. The woman who blew herself up was related to abdelhamid abaaoud. He may be here in paris or this morning might have been here in paris
Were covering these latest developments with Barbara Starr at the pentagon, joe johns at the white house. Barbara, lets start with you. What details are you hearing from your sources. Good morning, john and kate. Multiple u. S. Officials are now telling cnn that the white house is expected to make this announcement shortly. What by all accounts the president has decided is a small group of u. S. Special Operations Forces, the most elite, the most highly trained will go into Northern Syria. This is an area controlled by the kurds, up near the turkish border. They are going to go there to support both kurds and the syrian arab fighters. There are thousands up there from all of these groups fighting isis. But they lack ammunition, equipment, logistics, the real ability to begin to execute a campaign, if you will, to push isis out and push isis further south. So what are the u. S. Special Operation Forces going to do . They are going to help with that kind of planning and coordination, mak
Moments in his own life story, including the attempted stabbing of a friend that he recounts in his book gifted hands. In his memory of being offered a scholarship to west point. There is a desperation on behalf of some to try to find a way to tarnish me because they have been looking through everything. They have been talking to everybody ive known and seen. Theres got to be a scandal. Got to be some nurse hes having an affair with . They are getting desperate. Next week, itll be my Kindergarten Teacher who said i peed in my p pants, but its okay because i totally expect it. To those who say you may have exaggerated and youre using that to build your resume as far as what would you say to those people . I would say where is the exaggeration . Dr. Carson, one said this is the beginning of the end. How do you think this will affect your opponent . What do you expect them to say . Intimated we would get more details, potentially, as early as this weekend about your childhood friends that