missile strikes. so the united states has been engaging aggressively against this group since the attempt to bring down the flight over detroit on christmas day 2009. so for almost five years there has been an aggressive campaign. peter bergen from washington. thank you so much. thank you. so this dramatic rescue that we ve been talking about. we want to get to jim shudo. he s been standing buy in kabul listening to secretary of defense hagel as he talked about the rescue. as well as how we move forward with an announcement of troops in afghanistan. so jim, i want to send it to you. what have you learned this morning. reporter: let s try one more time. jim, do you have us? reporter: i hear you now.
i m wrong, it s not that isis has these brilliant bombmakers. it s that the isis may now be working with al qaeda groups in yemen that have this brilliant bombmaker. isn t that right? that s correct. i think you would be surprised to find how difficult it is for a bombmaker to transition from building a roadside explosive device to building an underwear bomb like we saw in december of 2009 over detroit that s undetectible by metal detectors. that is december of 2009 remember. four years later, if you have someone with technical capability and drive, and creativity, think, i was at reagan national airport yesterday. think of everything you can put in your bag, think of everything you can put in that the cargo hold. everything that potentially you can insert with an explosive device. that s a remarkable array of stuff that you can alter to build a bomb. that guy s had four years to figure it out. i look and say that s a recipe potentially for disaster. phil, lastly, one of the
all the best, guys. most of you don t have to work in chicago. let s bring in bill. that was bitter. he s funny. all i care about, we have way too early tomorrow and friday morning. do i need to tell my wife? it would be nice if we had a snow day for way too early. i have to know, am i going to sleep on willie s couch some. it s a double pull out. we will be spooning. i don t think willie would allow that. let me get into the forecast. we are dealing with the snow and the cold. we have two areas of light snow. over detroit and cleveland and a drive along the lakeshore and it s slick. we have the snow and it s the main show in nebraska and iowa. that will become the larger storm. the cold air is in play.
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got a big chunk of the country to show you today. people in several states were dealing with a one-two punch of ice and extremely bitter cold. this is the twin cities, minneapolis, st. paul where normally they eat winter storms for breakfast. 12 degrees right you in in minneapolis and with the windchill, zero degrees fahrenheit. forecasters there say this might be the coldest cold snap in ten years. question, are you a casual football fan or are you a die hard football maniac? an impressive of blanket of snow didn t keep fans out of the stands or the players off the field in philadelphia. look at that. the philadelphia eagles won, by the way, 34-20 over detroit. both teams are winners when you think about what they played in. the highway patrol says eyes and bad visibility to blame in this pile-up in milwaukee countiy, wisconsin. 18 wheelers jack knifed and cars