implement a plan of evacuation, if that is necessary. now, of course, the kremlin giving assurances to everybody who will listen that these games will be safe. we re seeing a remarkable security presence on the streets here. 37,000 security personnel drawn in. we re seeing roads here on lockdown. it s hard for some local vehicles to get around. that sense of, as you said, a lockdown, the dragnet promise being brought in, even a security camera on a hot air balloon behind me are permanently around the olympic venue. that s to make people coming to sochi know the games are safe. the concern is, this is a wide area in southern russia, volatile for over a decade. somewhere, perhaps, there may be a hole in the security plans laid out, john. opening ceremonies friday night. nick paton walsh in sochi, thanks so much. happening today, thousands of pages of documents in the new jersey bridge scandal will be turned over to state and federal investigators. it could take weeks for them to anal
because i know we ve got to go. one of the things those uniforms, they re pretty conspicuous, if you see an olympian wearing those uniforms outside the olympic venue. are they saying that tourists, people going there who want to show some team support wear red, white and blue, for instance, that s a bad idea, as well? they also could be targeted? reporter: suzanne, sorry, unfortunately, technical issue. i can t quite hear your question. the broader issue for americans here and advice they have been getting from the state department has been encouraging in some ways. been advising them to be sensible. warned about normal, order ohnary crime, and also throwing out the issue of the separatist leader here, running much of the insurgency way out in the east in dagestan in southern russia, that he has specifically made threats towards the games. they say the state department, they re not entirely clear if this is directed exactly at u.s. citizens. don t see any specific open threat at th
someone to for a terrorist to set off a bomb inside an olympic venue. or the village. reporter: promising maximum security in sochi, but russian authorities say they will not change security measures they already have in place, confident that they re well prepared. u.s. authorities have offered full support to the russian government in ramping up security measures. in a statement, the united states olympic committee says, in part, we re always concerned for the safety of our delegation, and the sochi games are no different in that regard. an effort by the committee to avoid a repeat occurrence of the bombing that killed two in the 1996 olympic games in atlanta. what concerns me is when you harden targets, you often force the terrorists to select softer targets. so that makes everything else in sochi and the surrounding area vulnerable. reporter: targets like transportation hubs, where tourists and athletes will
they insist they re prepared to protect the players, the fans as well as the games image. a part of the game plan. reporter: these men are not elite athletes. they re all amateur ice hockey players. they re in sochi, russia s olympic city, so they get a police escort. and because they re playing in sochi s new olympic venue, the bolshoi ice dome, every bus is skand and everyone is screened as if they were boarding an international flight. but it s even more thorough. everyone gets a pat-down. journalists also get the full treatment. all of this for an amateur hockey match. the russian authorities say proves what they ve been saying all along, that they ve been taking security very seriously in this city long before the boston attack. russia is racing to finish its new olympic venues by the black sea and in the mountains above sochi. like all other host countries, its other priority is security,
only how holmes allegedly executed his rampage but also answer the one question no one knows or understands. why? let s get straight to ed lavendara on the ground for us in aurora, colorado. do we know who this package was actually sent to and when? reporter: our understanding is that it was sent to a psychology professor there at the university of colorado where james holmes had been studying for the past year in that ph.d neuro science program. we learned about the package at the university back on monday when several buildings on campus had to be evacuated for several hours as bomb technicians and teams looked at it to make sure there were no explosive devices or anything. all of that was cleared. yesterday we learned the package had been sent to the university, was found in the mail room, and was addressed from james holmes. kyra? sorry about that, ed. i thought we had a little sound there. let s talk about the details. reporter: i m sorry. that s okay. you still