home in northeast austin. jim, tell me how investigators are going to be going about this? painstakingly forensic investigation. atf dispatched their national response team, that s the premier bomb team. i used to be on it and i directed it from washington. they are the cream of the crop for bomb investigation. the atf laboratory. the fbi is there too and austin pd bomb squad is very, very good. the talent is all there. they re going to process that scene and pick up the minute fragments of the bomb. they re going to put it together. this is everyday bred for atf, every special agent is trained in this extensively. and then we have experts on top of that. but there s also a white collar, heavy detective investigation going on by austin pd detectives. i m sure the rangers are there, fbi, and atf. we normally set up a joc, joint
many, many bomb scenes, taught bomb investigation, worked in cases, bombings, remote control bomb, mail bombs, murder bomb, suicide bombs all over the country you. get there, the scene is hot. you go to the seat of the blast. you have to sweep for secondaries. that s what the bomb squad has to do to make it safe. sometimes the device is partially detonated. sometimes it s completely detonated. we call it the slang in the business we call it the crater. when you have a suicide bomber, likely the crater is in his back. so it s pretty evident that that s where the explosion, the epicenter or the seat of the blast, or we call it the crater. that usually yields us the most evidence. we can get a good look at what the bomb is there. from the seat of the blast. and take it back. you know, we ve talked a lot about what the intelligence services are doing worldwide. and everything that s been said by shawn and the commissioner and jeremy i agree with. they re right about that. that s all spun u
george oglvy were disrupting the active bomb investigation at the white house. i want to look at what is coming up on new day. chris cuomo on the crash scene in philadelphia. good morning, chris. john three big points of focus. first is the idea of speed being what was the catalyst for the crash. investigators are going very slowly on it. the mayor here, michael nutter talking about the engineer and what investigators believe they know early on about the speed. largely in part from the surveillance video cnn had this morning, but also from the black box. if the train was going so fast into the curve, which seems probable from common sense of how terribly destroyed the cars were, what does that mean? why did that happen? is it human error or systems? you have the issue of the
for the attack. a secret service agent implicated in a drunk driving incident at the white house is retiring. marc connolly is leaving the agency. the news comes just as the inspector general report on the incident is released. the report says connolly and a second agent had been drinking and drove through a secure area outside the white house disrupting the active bomb investigation. president obama hosts a summit meeting with leaders and officials from the persian gulf countries today. bahrain, kuwait and qatar and uae will come together at camp david. the house voted overwhelmingly to end bulk collection of phone records by the nsa. the bill passed 338-88 with
as soon as we can. the search continues for the helicopter. in the meantime an american citizen is among five people killed in a terrifying attack in kabul. three gunmen stormed the park palace guest house hotel wednesday night trapping more than 50 people inside. there was a standoff after the afghan forces killed the three attacker attackers. in the last few hours the taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. the identities of the victims have not been released. a secret service agent implicated in the drunk driving incident is retiring. marc connolly is leaving the agency. that news comes as an inspector general report is being released. connolly and a second agent drove through the secure area outside the white house disrupting the active bomb investigation.