than that. they re still following up on these leads, getting some more information. this is really just breaking now. we re trying to figure out just how many residences they ll be interested in and where this goes from here, martha. martha: very interesting. clearly, you know, the cities on the east coast are very concerned about similar activity that might take place in their own city like boston, perhaps, and no doubt they are watching everything very closely. we re going to see if there s any connection as we get more information on it. molly, thank you very much, molly line watching this fbi activity on the streets outside of boston in watertown and brookline this morning. thanks molly. well, the bible of course says love your neighbor as yourself but does that mean that your tax dollars should pay their mortgage? at this point, five different states around the country stand to give bailout money from the federal government to help stave off foreclosures and keep troubled borro
owe top democrat on intelligence said faisal sha zahzad as completely off the intelligence community s radar and that is concerning because of the case of the attempted christmas day bombing, you see umar farouk abdulmutallab, the nigerian, there were signs in the system he might be plotting an attack on u.s. and this case it was a bomb concealed ins his underwear he tried to detonate over detroit and the most recent case of times square, it was an american citizen, naturalized american, who was not leaving any signs in the system or any clues, he was completely off the radar which begs the question, how do you prevent that type of attack in the future, and, the simple answer would be, that you cannot prevent it. when there are no signs to indicate it. martha: yes. i mean, i guess at that point, you know, it comes down to law enforcement and the person is not on the radar and somebody locally sees suspicious behavior and links those things together, it is a difficult question and good
take our poll, 40,000 people voted, 91% say yes. the complaint lost touch with reality. what do you think? please weigh in on your thoughts on this, it is a very big story for us. rick: a live look at arlington national cemetery. that is the president of afghanistan, hamid karzai along with our defense secretary robert gates, u.s. officials trying to convey to the afghan president the human toll, cost of the united states mission in afghanistan. as our men and women are in that country, trying to help the people of afghanistan. and since the troop surge the number of fatalities and wounded u.s. servicemen and women has increased dramatically. they took hamid karzai to walter reed army medical center to look at the wounded and talk to them and tied trip to arlington. hopefully he ll get the point. we ll be right back. (announcer) we re in the energy business.
wanted to be a u.s. marine from the age of 4 and told his father if he ever died that he should know he died doing what he loved, being a marine and representing his country, martha. martha: heartbreaking, listening to that dad. and talking about his family. and of course, because of medical technology a lot of the seriously wounded troops survive and tell us about the young sailor who you met and got to know at bethesda naval hospital. reporter: i went to meet jacob, a navy corpsman serving in afghanistan and he said some of his fellow marines were struck and he went to respond to help them, to try to help them survive their wounds, and he got shot in the head. here s a little bit of jacob s story. . taking care of my marines, and you know,so, it is it is a good thing. to be over there, and to be, you know, making a difference. reporter: jacob s point was that he obviously wants to win
the reason that this intelligence obviously is so very important is that once one of these people gets caught there s no reason to believe that the entire plot has been foiled, and they re trying to figure out if there is any ongoing plot that needs to be intercepted or whether, indeed, the times square plot was all that he had in mind. you know, we have watched time after time again, you think about, you know, nidal hasan, about zazi, you think about abdulmutallab, all of these attacks in recent months, many of which were fueled or inspired by anwar al-awlaki who has become so much the focus of what we are concerned about, he seems to be the inspiration for all of these sort of post 9/11 people who want to do us harm. so this is an expensive operation an extensive operation and boy, every city in the united states and certainly on the east coast has to be concerned that there may be offshoots of this kind of thing that they need to watch out for and be ready for. it s a very good