enrique marquez, the suspect s friend. what are authorities learning because he is cooperating now, isn t he? he is cooperating and continues to talk to investigato investigators. he s not been charged but told investigators he and farook built pipe bombs in the past. he said he had nothing to do with the devices at the home of farook and his wife and the ones that went off at the office building and marquez spent multiple days providing voluntary interviews to the fbi portrayed himself and farook back the last couple years saying that look, this was a hobby for us. we were hobdoing a hobby and experimenting but he did boast, if he made the bombs they would have gone off. marquez again hasn t been charged with any crimes but right now, investigators want to know what the additional bombs in the killer s home were intended for. jim? listen, hard to believe it s
types of searches. we know they may be looking for that hard drive because that is still missing, something that wasn t in the computer at the home of the shooters when fbi investigators searched there. so this is an ongoing search that could take days, we re told, here at the lake, poppy. ana, what about farook, one of the terrorists, what about his former neighbor, enrique marquez? this is someone, to be clear, who has no formal charges brought against him. he did purchase two of the guns used in the attack. anything new on him? reporter: we have learned that he s talking a lot to investigators, poppy. he voluntarily is providing information that appears to be incriminating of himself. he even told investigators, we ve learned, according to sources telling cnn that he and farook together made pipe bombs sometime in the past. he told investigators at the time they were more like hobbyists, experimenting with
you could destroy some evidence. maybe a hard drive. reporter: the fbi not saying what they ve recovered so far, but experts say if it is a hard drive, it could hold evidence on whether others knew about the attack. that magnetic disc even if damaged could yield some important information. reporter: the fbi is also focusing on enrique marquez, said to be cooperating with the fbi. marquez supplied the two assault rifles to farook and is now sharing details about another 2012 plot involving farook for an attack that was ultimately scuttled. meanwhile, every unusual twist in marquez s life is under scrutiny. we have learned he s married to a ukrainian woman, that his own mother said he didn t know about. at the bar where he worked his boss said he had no idea marquez was even a muslim. last time i checked this ain t a mosque, he never talked religion here. reporter: for this community, trying to heal, tensions remain high.
to the terror cell busted in california here in 2012. a law enforcement official telling cnn that farook was in the same social circle as this recruiter of that terror cell. that terror cell was arrested and they have been convicted of trying to go overseas to afghanistan to blow up a u.s. military base and work with taliban or al qaeda fighters in afghanistan. now, 2012 is the same year farook s friend, enrique marquez, tells investigators he and farook were planning a terror plot here in the u.s. he is the friend who purchased two of the ar-15 rifles used in the terror attack here in san bernardino. he is apparently cooperating with investigators, we re told. he s not been charged with any crimes just yet. kate? ana, thank you so much. for the latest, we ll keep a close eye on that lake. investigators are preparing to head back into the water. we appreciate it. in light of what you re hearing from ana and in light of what more we re learning about
the fbi complaints, including violent video messages from anwar al awlaki. they were arrested days before they were set to fly to afghanistan and target military bases. farook and kabir were in the same social circle. but authorities did not know of farook until the shooting last week. marquez told investigators spooked by the arrests but was this a terror network or just a group of men connected by friendship and a twisted desire for violence? we are working very hard to understand exactly their association and the source of their inspiration. we re also working very hard to understand whether there was anybody else involved with assisting them, with supporting