north carolina shutting out same-sex marriage with a constitutional amendment. people behind the movement this morning saying they re not anti-gay, they re pro-marriage. mississippi searching for adam mayes wanted for killing of a tennessee woman and her teenage daughter. the police expand their search for the two young girls. pomp and perception. queen elizabeth ii arriving in a golden carriage wearing a crown with 3,000 diamonds. going before parliament to talk about saving money. newsroom starts right now. this morning we begin with new details and backlash over the al qaeda plot to bomb a u.s. bound plane. we know it was an undercover operative working for saudi arabia and the united states. according to the new york times, the operative handed over the bomb to the fbi and now that bomb is undergoing extensive study. the newspapers reports it was sewn into custom fit underwear but unlike the bomb that malfunctioned on the 2009 flight into detroit, this one had f
infiltrated al-qaeda in yemen. he volunteered for a suicide mission to blow up a u.s. bound airliner, but then gave the bomb and details to the saudis and other agencies. the man also had info that took out a top al-qaeda operative. so now, i call on nic. what are your sources telling you about the mole, the fallout and the fact the bad guys realized they were duped? an arab source told us the saudis are also upset this information has leaked because they have more many acts as part of a network inside al-qaeda and they re concerned this will have a direct impact because this is all playing out in realtime. it s not events that happened months ago. we also have new details from a counterterrorism analyst who s been briefed directly by saudi counterterrorism officials and he tells us this operation was in planning for months and months and months and the way that it came down was this. that through their intelligence assets, the saudis got indications that a yemeni plot was
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bomber, that this was a way to upgrade the technology into an ie d and explosive device. what do you know? just speaking to a senior administration official tells us while there are many similarities to the past bombs we heard out of aqap, there was differences to this which is why they want to take the time to being make sure the fbi goes through the forensicing. we have heard a number of threats about body bombs and senior administration officials tell cnn this was not intended to be a body bomb. this was more in line with the sort of underwear bomber type of thing. look, they really feel strongly this is a success. they worked with their international partners, make no mistake about it, the best internal service against this target is the saudi service. we know that the saudi service is tipped off the americans when it came to the cargo plane threat and worked with them, and the head of the saudi service, muhammed benaif was the target of the one of the al bombs so they