He had contact with the fbi which leads to a question the attorney general has to answer which is how much was he on the fbis radar screen . Not contact with the fbi but contact with people that the fbi was watching from time to time. People that came up on the counterterrorism radar. They dont know the nature of the contact. They have in essence phone records, social media records. They say he didnt have a lot of contacts with them and one of the things the fbi looks at in analyzing these things is whats the frequency of the contact . Are they reaching out to the same networks over and over again theyll say did we miss something but at the time no red flags were raised. Worst terrorist attack on u. S. Soil since 9 11 and no group is taking responsibility. How scare i have that . Its scary because it fits the isis play book perfectly. Isis may try to direct but what its trying to do is inspire so these are inspired attacks, small, isolated groups where they are, where they live that un
Grant was discussing about receiving money to kill somebody. Reporter according to bennett, he and lewis had been brainstorming ways to raise seed money for a nightclub. So lewis placed a coded message online, advertising discreet housecleaning services. Prosecutor garrett glennon. By discreet housecleaning, grant lewis apparently meant and hoped that someone out there on the internet would understand that to mean that they were hitmen. Eporter bennett says a client did respond to the ad a offered 60,000 to kill heidi. I know from the client, from the person, you know, emphasized to grant and grant emphasized to myself, that it needs to look like an accident. Reporter bennetts role was the muscle, to do the actual hit. Lewis, the middle man, communicated with the client and in late march 2000, bennett arrived in baltimore from denver. He says he waited for the signal to a a. In the meantime, he scoped out his victim, breaking into heidis home by tampering with the locks, then posing as
Where syed farook and after thend his wife radicalized . How could no one know about their weapons . Was this an isolated incident or a harbinger of futurere terror attacks . Well get t those question with the head of the justice department, loretta lynch. We begin with Pete Williams who has been covering from the start and the director of the naaonal Counterterrorism Center under both president s bush and obama. What caused the fbi to label this a terrorism incident. Theres a huge supply of weapons and bombs they have built. They built their bombs using instructions that are available from jihadist web sites ncluding al qaedas onlinene magazine inspire. They modified their assault rifles trying to make them into automatic weapons using instructions available on these theres her facebook posts pledging support for isis. Theres sort of trade craft things. They attempted to destroy their electronic media, smash their cell phones knowing the fbi would come back and look at that. Then he h
Terrorism and its transformed the president ial race. Theres so many unanswered questions. Where syed farook and after thend his wife radicalized . How could no one know about ththir weapons . Was thissn isolated incident or a harbinger of future terror attacks . Well get to those question with the head of the justice department, loretta lynch. We begin with Pete Williams who has been covering from the start and the director of the national countertererrism center under both president s bush and obama. What caused the fbi to label this a terrorism incident. Theres a huge supply ofof weapons and bombs they have built. They built their bombs using instructions that are available from jihadist web sites including al qaedas online magazine inspire. They modified their assault rifles trying to make them into automatic weapons using instructions available on these online jihadist sites. Theres her facebook posts pledging support for is. Things. They attempted to destroy their electronic medi
Inside a burning building. What may have sparked the flames. A christmastime wave of Severe Weather as a tornado touches down in alabama. We have an update on injuries as cleanup gets underway. Good morning, everybody. Taking a look at a live shot at Lower Manhattan on another mild december morning. It is saturday, december 26th, the day after christmas. Thank you for tuning in and being with us. Look who is with me. Good morning. Good morning. I hope michelle is a sleep right now. And that the kids are not waking up early to play with whatever gifts they got. Yeah. Thanks for being here. And amy is also off this weekend and enjoying time with the family so jeff smith was kind enough to step in and has weather that we have. Yeah. Two days of recordbreaking warmth. Were not going to have that today. Were going to skip a day of recordbreaking warmth and then back tomorrow. Today closer to reality but 10 degrees above average for this time of year. The stationary front off to the south, w