more fascinating parts of this bin laden raid. everybody is just hanging on the details of this as it comes out. and after ewe learned where the terror leader was hiding it turned out some researchers at ucla predicted that he was right around that area, just a couple of years ago. this is fascinating to me. trace gallagher has been looking into all of this with the story. how did they do that, trace? reporter: and it s fascinate thank two years ago, we were all looking in caves for bin laden, right, and this group at ucla said no-no, he s in a compound in a major city in pakistan. so we re talking about tom gillespie, a geography professor at ucla, his research partner, john agnew and five undergraduates undergrads, they used a scientific theory, distance decay, used to locate endangered species, it basically says that creatures stick to what they know, they figured the further bin laden moved away from tora bora the more
releasing information on the raid in abbottabad, we were supposed to get new details this hour. as we await that briefing from the defense department, let s go to catherine herridge, live from washington, she has been doing digging on her own and has new information. i combined a department and cia briefing and we re told we can anticipate a background briefing, a briefing not on the record or on the camera sometime in the next few days,. understand you ve got an amount of information and a loss of it has to be declassified before it s released to reporters based on background. based on what i know the cia has been going through material and looking for three major areas: first, what s called actional intelligence, this is information that you can do something with, the second is leads on al-qaeda operatives, the third is leads on bin laden s support network within pakistan. what we ve seen within the last 24 hours is that there has been actional intelligence and it s been