nbc justice correspondent pete williams is following the money today. good morning to you, pete. what is the latest. reporter: good morning, peter. the fbi s assumption about the people they rounded up yesterday is that they were the atms, not necessarily the bang rollers for this operation. faisal shahzad has told fbi he got money through money couriers, not money exchanges. what the fbi is doing is going back to various places where he said he got money. that, in turn, has led them to where they got money and they got money before and so forth. they hope to follow that back to pakistan. the three people they picked up yesterday, two in massachusetts, one in maine, were all held on immigration charges. they are not charged with having anything to do with the bombing. so far investigators say there s no indication they knew why faisal shahzad wanted this money. that s one of the things they are now looking into, peter. pete williams reporting for us today. thanks very much. califor
the fbi terror raid. pete williams has been following the trail. thanks so much, pete. tell us the latest. where are they executing searches. six places in three states. waterdown and brookline, two areas of suburban boston. camden and cherry hills and in new york on long island s center reach and shirly, all trying to follow the money. faisal shahzad told investigators he got money through people in pakistan through money couriers, catch exchanges in the middle east. you put cash on one end and through a series of exchanges, it comes out on the other end. there are two things the fbi s trying to find out. were these people involved in giving him money and if they were, did they know what it was to be used for. now, two people were arrested.
money from pakistan through these currency exchanges, money couriers that are commonly used in the middle east to move money around. and so this is an investigative series of searches today. in watertown and brookline, two suburbs of boston, in southern new jersey, in camden and cherry hills and on long island in new york state in centereach and shirley all designed to look at where he says he got money and to then try to answer the question, which i m told authorities don t know the answer to, and have no reason to think one way or the other right now, which is did the people who helped him get money from overseas know that he was going to try to drive this car with bombing materials into times square? as i say, there is no reason to think that these men that were detained today did know that but that s what they want to try to find out. three that were arrested, otwo n mass and one in maine all pickeç up on immigration charges. thank you.