in the smoking suv. susan candiotti joins us now with more on this video in particular. what how much more of a picture is it painting for investigators? it helps them build their case as this man is still cooperating. the attorney general said that as recently as yesterday. this video shows what was happening and the date is believed to be march 8th of this year, obviously. and the first thing you see in the video a dark colored suv entering the parking lot in northeastern pennsylvania. now you see the gentleman walk up to a desk. he has to present a driver s license to prove that he lives out of state. i m told that that driver s license matches the photograph that they have on record for this man. he walks down the aisle and takes a hand basket and picks up the fireworks they want to buy. described as m-88s, paid cash,
to the cashier and pays cash. the sale just under $100. and buys a number of m-88s, which are described to be not very powerful. the store ownerall perfectly le. if he thought he could light one and it would somehow set off a chain reaction of lighting the other m-88s, he was wrong, these are not powerful explosives. they are safely made so you cannot set off a chain reaction you have to light each piece individually? you do. do you have any idea where the money came from? our homeland security correspondent, jeanne meserve, has been picking up more information about that. we know he had a job as a financial adviser and ran into money troubles because he lost his home to foreclosure. also, he did bring in, according to our sources, around $80,000 he brought in from pakistan between 1999 and 2008. they are also checking out that money trail. that put him on a list
cool, calm and collected. they asked if he could help him, he said no. then he checks out at the counter and takes his time. he spent about an hour in that store, was in no hurry to leave. there goes the dollar colored suv, the question is that the suv pathfinder that was used. we re unclear at this point. if it was march, that would have been before he purchased that suv, that remains unclear. you had a chance to hear from the store owner about what they think about the fact that these m- 88s were going to be possibly used in a bomb in times square. they are scratching their head. only 50 mill grams and that s the same amount you get in 1/6 the size of an adult aspirin,
building. the reality, according to the police is, that he left the keys in the suv s ignition back in times square. that was far from shahzad s only error. today, the owner of the store where he apparently bought fireworks, m- 8s used in the failed bomb that owner said the kind shahzad bought were so weak they wouldn t damage a watermelon. team fox coverage continues. david lee miller live in our newsroom. you spoke to the fireworks store owner. what else did he say. he told me the sale took place back on march 8th. middle march outfit called phantom fireworks. the sale was recorded on videotape. now the fbi has asked the store not to release the recording. the owner says clearly shows shahzad wearing blue jeans and khaki jacket. calm looking around the store. the owner told me the fireworks that he bought, m-88s do not mass detonate. in other words, this is not the type of stuff you want to use to make a bomb. it was also during the month of march that new york city s
for the air force. by all accounts, upstanding citizens. we ve talked to friends and family members. all of them are shocked, wolf, at what this young man is being accused with. reza sayah s digging and digging in islamabad, throughout pakistan for us. we ll check back with you, reza. thanks very much. this hour also, the trail of the times square bomb suspect has led investigators to a northeastern pennsylvania store. a federal law enforcement official tells cnn that is where faisal shahzad bought fireworks used in the failed bomb attack. the president of that company, by the way, the phantom fireworks company, is quoted as saying that the m-88s that shahzad bought, in his words, wouldn t damage a watermelon. the federal government has now called in its top terrorist interrogators who focus on high-value suspects to help in the questioning of shahzad. let s bring in our homeland security correspondent, jeanne meserve. this case is revealing some apparent gaps in homeland