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i m patricia stark. happy new year. the walkways of new york s time square now largely empty as cleaning crews move in to sweep up the confetti. a short time ago it looked like this. 1 million showed up to celebrate 2016 with the tightest security ever seen. the city of rochester new york had to cancel fireworks celebrations after this man was said to be in a bar threatening. the police station searched for several hours a plot by islamic suicide extremists and involved a team of suicide bo bombers and the trains are now back in operation.
counterterrorism official phil mudd, mitch silver, and terrorism analyst paul cruickshank. a lot to talk about here. paul, in just 24 hours, paris and belgium banning some employees with tarmac and plane access because they say they could be muslim extremists or radicalized. now they are looking, all of a sudden they find r50, 60 people. how could they have missed this before? there are questions about this, erin, and the concern is that these people really want to bring down planes and insiders at the airport, people with access to the baggage, the tarmac, cleaning crews, those are the kind of people that can potentially get bombs on planes. and especially in the united states. there s just no systematic daily screening of airport workers in
close. about 100 feet away. the faa telling us that this is a scary situation. it happens a lot more often than anyone would care to admit. z. meanwhile, we are closely watching developments in france. plane debris is expected to arrive at a state-of-the-art lab in toulouse. it is thought to be a piece of the plane wing and officials are confident it is from a boeing 777. the debris arrived at a paris airport on board an air france jet. teams from boeing and the ntsb will also be taking a look at this wreckage. let s bring in erin mclaughlin. she joins us from reunion island. what are investigators doing there at this hour? reporter: hi,randi. for the past few days, choppers have been in the skies scouring the beach, the same cleaning crews that found that original
clues as to how the plane may have gone down. now, as for the island the search continues for the wreckage. cleaning crews still combing the beaches, trying to find more debris. they re also analyzing the current around the island. the hope of finding more places where debris may be because each piece of debris really giving them important clues, not only as to how the plane went down but also to where the actual wreckage may be. poppy? erin thank you very much. also when you look at this this piece of airplane whatever it turns out to be is certainly affected by spending a long time in the ocean. what we see on it what can that tell us? the condition of the metal? what s growing on it. the barnacles. they all hold valuable clues that will help investigators figure out how it possibly ended up on reunion island. nick malis is with us he s a conservation biologist. and also with us, professor