good evening everyone. welcome to cnn tonight. we begin with two alarming crime stories. a pennsylvania manner arrested after trying to bring explosives on a plane to florida. police say it is not terrorism, so what was it. then the story of a heinous murder in st. louis caught on cell phone. the next image is graphic it appears to be the moment the suspect shot a homeless man and the hand and brought daylight in a town in st. louis. tonight we will give you the real stats on crime and how it is being used as a potent political issue. and some of the lawmakers trying to make dressing in drag illegal are the same lawmakers who themselves have dressed in women s clothing. we have the photos to prove it. how much would it takes for you to move back to your home state. how about $25,000, we will explain. we have a lot to talk about so let s bring in my panel. we have my ex john. i won t say x of what. john miller our crime and justice savant. great to have all of you guys h
trying to do something. i usually don t mistakingly put my bomb in my suitcase. i usually remember to leave it at home before i go to the airport. didn t he say he was going to use it as fireworks or something? it was collected as fireworks but the reality here, this is sensitive to impact, to friction, to heat. it is it is going in the cargo hole where those variables exist, things to heart, to cold and banging around. if it had self ignited there was no detonator attached to it that would have allowed it to act on a timer. but had something caused it to go off in flight, that is really bad. there would ve been a flash anna fire. all of these criminology courses. it is really bad if it goes off and knucklehead. i am trying to use the technical terms i learned at the academy. that s good.
clayton: welcome back, united airlines launching an investigation trying to figure out how a baggage handler got caught up in north virginia. i was so glad he didn t end up going to la or new york. as long as he s safe and his family is okay. at least he got a free trip. clayton: at some point during one and a half hour flight united was alert that had the handler was in the cargo hole of the airplane. so far he hasn t said how he ended up there. a fire destroying a single father of three s house in a matter of second, the only thing that survived was a flag by his father, a world war ii vet.
is right, they would to do a thorough search of the luggage here. the russians reported this morning thatted they found the explosive residue on the luggage. and so that s an indicator that a two-point bomb or the equivalent could have been, may have been in the cargo hole of that egyptian flight. so, you know, luggage, people can get it. a bomb is not that large. so all that luggage will have to be thoroughly searched. the aircraft has to be thoroughly searched. and it s going to take a long time. and i agree that, you know, most likely they would try to get on the airplane. given what we ve all seen in the world the last ten days, this is going to be the most thorough search of those airplanes you ve
the cargo hole, what kind of cargo was on the plane. was there any possibility that someone could have got. to the plane and tampered with it. very complex. and it s why you re seeing a lot of conflicting reportsing some news reports saying no explosives, no evidence of blast injuries and yet the spokesman for the airlines saying there s absolutely no evidence of mechanical failure that could have led this plane to break apart. the bottom line, we have to wait. investigation is the investigation is likely to take a very long time, and it is going to get a lot of scrutiny around the world how the egyptians and russians are going to handle this. thank you. at the same time, the russian state media citing unnamed source close to the investigation that says investigators haven t found any sign of explosive impact on bodies of the victims, 224 people aboard the plane.