reporter: analysts say the french security services are simply overwhelmed. they cannot get their arms around this problem. cnn has told french intelligence has opened surveillance files on about 5,000 islamic extremists throughout the country. and they can t monitor all of them all of the time. they have to figure out who they believe the most dangerous ones are and hope they re following the right people. erin? a stunning number, 5,000. how could a group of terrorists organize such coordinated attacks? even if they weren t being monitored, wouldn t intelligence officials have picked up the coordination, the cell phone conversations, or the in-person meetings or online coordination? somehow they missed it. across america, people. .are taking charge of their type 2 diabetes. .with non-insulin victoza®. for a while, i took a pill to lower my blood sugar. but it didn t get me to my goal. so i asked my doctor about victoza®. he said victoza® works differently than pills.
petersburg, russia. reporter: the middle east source i spoke to with knowledge told me that it appears that it s a bomb that s been put on board this aircraft and part of that has to do with intercepts from phones that have gone on in the region after the bomb went off. there have also been in recent days claims by isis to have been behind this and there have also been threats against russia made by isis in the preceding weeks as well. a lot of this is coming together and it s not looking pretty at the moment. and so let me ask you, nic, in terms of the evidence coming in, when you talk about the chatter, you re saying that was cell phone conversations or text messages or do you have any sense of what that might be? reporter: no, not at the moment. not in detail. and what we re hearing and one
officials are very adamant about that. it was a stream of intelligence that they were following. then a couple weeks ago, by all accounts according to sources we have talked to the intelligence essentially dried up. not very surprising these kinds of things usually recess involved around intercept of cell phone conversations, intercepts of electronic conversation. this kind of covered activity comes and goes. you can certain assume they are trying to pick up the trail again. all eyes are on the city of raqqa. several officials telling us over the last many days and weeks isis is moving around a lot, in and around that city. isis leadership weapons, personnel, equipment on the move. they were getting pressure from kurdish force to the in order, u.s. air strikes are picking up. this is the play that the u.s. is looking at around the clock to see what intelligence they
russian mission to the united nations in new york. he was part of the military staff committee. his job, as far as i can surmise, was to be a spy handler. he was my spy handler. he was set to recruit, task and run me as a spy. you were at hooters one day. explain why hooters and then explain what happened. yes. hooters. i guess you can t say you have lived unless you ve gone to hooters with a russian spy. that was definitely a bucket list experience. the russians there is a comedy that went with this whole offings but it was very serious. the russians were under surveillance. they would execute counter surveillance and choose locations to meet. there was no email or cell phone conversations. it was all done in person. the russians would choose locations that were i guess, good for a security standpoint and for some reason they chose hooters. in an odd twist, i had
terror take-down in boston. grainy surveillance video showing confrontation between suspect usuma rahim and anti-terrorist agents. rahim s family says the video reveals part of the story. abc s tom llamas reports. reporter: this is the moment five fbi agents and boston police officer approached the terror suspect, usama rahim. watch closely as officers back away. rahim, seen circled in yellow coming toward them. you can then see two officers move toward him. rahim goes down. police say the two anti-terror agents shot rahim though you can t see it in the video he was arm ed with the large knife and allegedly threatened to kill police officers. there are questions asked why didn t the officers use any other force? you know this guy had a malicious intent and our officers were really faced with that. reporter: they approached him because the fbi listening in on his cell phone conversations allegedly heard him say he was about to go after the boys in blue. we intercepted a communic