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ahead of me. and i m looking to seize the moment. reporter: tragically, the 26- year-old died saturday, swimming in a 10-kilometer, open-water race, in the united arab emirates. it was his whole life. his dream was making the olympic team. and he fought. reporter: crippen was swimming in 86-degree waters. just 15 degrees less than the average hot tub. fran went under about 17 minutes ago. they didn t realize it at the time. and two hours later, they found his body. reporter: officials in dubai say he died. exhaustion. died of exhaustion. but critics blame the heat of the water, calling a race of these temperatures criminal. if the water is too hot and salty, your dehydration level goes up so much faster. reporter: his friend competed in the same race. i don t know why the reports came out that he passed out and drowned. i don t really know what the cause of death was. but for me, it could have easily have played a major role in me passing out. reporter: je
wjz from arlington, virginia. federal investigators say a pakistani-born man, helped patch a plot to bomb subway stations near the u.s. capital. agents arrested 38-year-old farouq ahmed today. police believe he was helping to plan attacks on d.c. substations. a senior law enforcement official says the month-long investigation was an fbi sting. the white house says the public was never in danger because agents were on top of the case from the beginning. a nine-page criminal indictment, unsealed ahead of ahmed s arraignment today, detailed his trips to busy stops. reporter: the indictment concedes that he conducted surveys here at this station. a few days later, he handed off the image to someone he believed was affiliated with al qaeda, in a virginia hotel room. he delivered subway diagrams and made suggestions about where explosives should be placed to kill the most people possible. metro riders say learning about the plot makes them nervous. but it s part of the world