Inspector for cape may, before moving to california. Leaving behind two sons and a wife in both new jersey and pennsylvania. Still ahead, more footage from inside the suspects apartment, also the growing number of women getting involved in terrorism and how they could be used to recruit others to commit violence. Now to breaking news from bucks county. Within the last hour a local teacher faced a judge on sex abuse charges. Joseph becker is a math teacher. Deanna durante was inside the courtroom, she joins us live. Deanna durante, allegations involve a 14yearold student. Reporter they do, becker just left here within the last ten minutes to be taken to prison, unable to post bail. Prosecutors are alleging he engaged in online communication with a student at penn ridge north middle school, a 14yearold girl, asking her to send sexually explicit photographs and that the two communicated throughout the summer. Police say the charges came to light just yesterday and they arrested becker thi
Nbcs gina kim is in San Bernardino with more on todays breaking developments. Reporter just two days after the mass shooting that took the lives of 14 people, investigators are zeroing in on the couples motivation behind the attack. We are now investigating these horrific acts as an act of terrorism. Reporter federal Officials Say Tashfeen Malik, the female suspect, pledged her allegiance to isis on social media. Malik allegedly made the post on facebook under a different name, then deleted it, but investigators were able to recover it. Im aware of it, were looking into it. Reporter the fbi does not believe isis had direct involvement with either her or her husband, syed farook, but they acknowledge others are being investigated. Officials dont know whether other attacks were planned, but are concerned the couple was flying under the radar. Doesnt make sense. They didnt seem like the type. Reporter as you can see, the hard drive is gone. Reporter today as the couples rented home in red
Reporter those others possibly isis leaders. We learned today that Tashfeen Malik posted on facebook moments before the attack began pledging her allegiance to isis. Its possible investigators say there she and farook may have also met those leaders in person during recent travel to Saudia Arabia and pakistan. Two cell phones have been crushed and discarded in a nearby dumpster. We have retained those cell phones and we do continue to exploit the data from those cell phones. Reporter that apartment was also a chaotic scene today. Reporters from around the world scrambling to get inside broadcasting images of a seemingly normal life. The fbi says it had cleared the scene. Meanwhile the fbis main concern today how this couple flew under the radar. Neither the subject of any investigation or focus by intelligence. At a separate News Conference a short time later in washington the director of the fbi and the u. S. Attorney general urged the public not to panic. What we hope will you do is
Also discovered by investigators two cell phones that they say had been crushed and put into a dumpster nearby the couples home all of they say an effort to erase their digital foot printer. We have traced those cell phones. Reporter the fbi also said today that while it is possible that the couple met with terrorist leaders in person while in the middle east, they were at the very least in touch with others about their plans by phone and by email. What im ready to confirm is there are some telephonic connections between these two individuals at least one of these individuals and other subjects of our investigation. Reporter now, in a separate News Conference in washington, d. C. Just minutes ago the director of the fbi said there is no evidence right now to suggest that farook and malik were part of a larger terror cell but yet investigators here and in washington are increasingly concerned that they had some kind of help in particular in buying the guns. We know that two of those gun
Based in the us . Are they outside the us . We dont note answers. Reporter but the woman malik will reportedly create a Facebook Page using an alias that has since been taken down where she allegedly wrote that she was inspired by islamic radicals. The investigation so far has developed indications of radicalization by the killers and of potential inspiration by foreign terrorist organizations. Reporter in an unusual move journalists were given permission by a landlord to enter the townhouse where the couple lived after the fbi completed its search. Inside a quran in the living room, a crib and a box of diapers in the upstairs bedroom. They had a child together. Already removed according to authorities. 12 pipe bombs, tools to make more explosives and over 4500 rounds of ammunition. Law enforcement across the world are now involved and the key investigators say is on the couples digital fingerprints. Two smashed cell phones that were found in the trash near their home. This is electron