weeks and employee safety. it is friday, november 15th. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now with john muller and diana perez. all right. good friday morning, everyone. a lot of stuff to get to. we had a busy week. always a busy week. we climbed the mountain. reached the summit and we are at the top. any fun plans for the weekend? i have my brother coming into manhattan, new york city tonight with my college buddy. it is guys night. uh-oh, watch out new york city. bunch of over-the-hill guys, going to have some fun. can t even imagine. how about you? nothing. not much fun going on in my life. i am not so sure i wouldn t rather be sitting up with my feet up at home, but we ll have some fun anyway. i will live vicariously through your story. we begin with a mystery in the skies over miami. a pilot reported a passenger had
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moment for whatever reason to take these backpacks, or were they trying to help their friend dispose of evidence? i think it s a very difficult to believe that a jury would ever think that it was anything other than helping in a cover up but those are the kinds of issues that ultimately go before a jury if this case ever winds up there. am i allowed to ask you what you think as if you were a juror right now? oh, sure. i read this complaint and i think to myself, no one can be that stupid. but you know what? we discover all the time people can be this stupid. this looks like a fifth rate cover up trying to help out their college buddy and in a way that they would be trying to help him cover up some underage drinking or something extremely minor. instead you have a crime where at least four people are dead and they are still engaging in this incredibly amateurish cover
bombings? it s hard to say. obviously this is breaking news, jon. the question is were they involved in this plot? or are they just useful idiots that helped out a college buddy? we just don t know that at this point. hopefully their detention will lead us in some direction in terms of that information as to whether this was a localized plot or if it may have connections through them to overseas. once again we don t want to jump the gun on it but we do want to know exactly how they were involved and whether they were part of a cell, a bigger network, or they were just college friend trying to help out a buddy who said, go get this equipment and take it out of my apartment, and he never told them why. so, we re going to have there is a lot to learn yet. jon: mike, you re saying that those on capitol hill who are pointing to the marathon t of an intelligence failure, you think those folks, as you just put it, should back off? well, yes, i mean again we ve all become conditioned to
dorner s downward spiral, we have a reporter here. tell me, what can you tell me about his life after he left college? reporter: after he left college, we know he enlisted in the navy in 2002. what we are learning is that, you know, when he was in the police acted, he was having some issues. not that he was having typical issues or requirements at the academy. but he was complaining about his fellow recruits. apparently, there were some racial comments and he didn t like how officials dealt with those issues. and talking to a college buddy, i asked if racism was an issue in his life at all. he brought that up while he was in o clock. he said that, yeah, he did talk about it. no red flags to say, you know, to point to this. all right. when he felt wronged a few years ago, but what led to him being fired is that he made an