killer remains behind bars. new and disturbing details have surfaced about enrick qque marc for teaming with them. reporter: enrique marquez has had his bail denied and another role with another plot farook is causing major concern among counter terror officials. the criminal complaint says starting in late 2011 marquez and farook mapped out the plan to attack the freeway near los angeles at rush hour. marquez told investigators farook was to start the attack by throwing pipe bombs on the highway on a stretch with no exits. the explosions would disable traffic. then farook would move among the disabled vehicles and fire at them. you were able to stop traffic and not able to get out. you can pick through people and build up your level of
as you referenced, wolf, on monday a video threatened washington d.c., isis calling it the stronghold of america and said they would attack here after they carried out the stronghold in france. now a threat to new york. to be clear, we reached out to the new york police department. they say there is no credible or specific threat. they note as we noted ourselves when we looked at this video that not all images are now. some are repurposed from a rap video published several months ago but updated with resent comments from the french president. they know u.s. terror officials told me this, as well, counter terror officials that new york is certainly an aspiration target of isis. i ll tell you speaking to french security officials here this week, i ve asked them that same question. as you look at their capabilities here in france, what is your assessment of their
it means in a way that some of these efforts are working. it s interesting because the defense secretary, you know this jim, he told our own erin burnett that he feels aqap al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, may be an even bigger threat to the u.s. homeland, to americans than isis. reporter: well here s what i hear from counter terror officials. they say the two biggest, most severe most capable threats to the u.s. homeland are aqap and the khorasan group that first came to be known at the start of the u.s.-led air campaign in syria, an offshoot of al qaeda in afghanistan and pakistan that reorganized, in effect in syria. those two have the most capability. they have the most history of attempting to attack the u.s. homeland or u.s. assets overseas. isis perhaps has the greatest chance of attacking here just because we are not talking about complicated plans necessarily directed from home base in iraq and syria. we are talking about lone wolves
correspondent jim sciutto has been digging on this, as well. do we know exactly what we re talking about, these devices? we know this is a threat that involves al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and the means of attack concealed bombs on airplanes that truly keep counter terror officials up at night. we re told the u.s. is now considering new screening measures at airports due to new information about attempts to build explosive devices designed to get past those airport screeners. they are homeland security s most dreaded threats. explosive devices hidden in objects from shoes to toothpaste tubes and undetect be by airport security. now the u.s. is considering new airport security measures due to increased concerns that terrorists from al qaeda in the arabian peninsula or aqap are developing new bomb designs to fool current security screening. we remain concerned about the capability of some of these
once again this investigation has yielded a name we ve become familiar with, the yemeni american who has been connected to or at least inspiring many of the terrorist attacks we ve heard about in this country in the last year. how much of a priority has this figure become for counter terror officials in the u.s.? he s an enormous priority. he is part of the infrastructure and leadership with al qaeda in the arabian peninsula responsible for the christmas day bombing attempt. he is something we want to get our hands on or want the yemeni authorities to take down. what this demonstrates is even if he wasn t operating in directing shahzad, the fact he is being tied to an attempted it terror attack against the united states speaks to his importance as to why we need to go after him. all right. nbc terrorism analyst roger cressey with us again. thank you for your help this week. we appreciate it. other news now, this morning friends and family are remembering university of virginia