an explosive device with two fuses found hidden in the lining of checked baggage. the man accused of trying to get through airport security arrested. severe storms even tornadoes forecast in the southeast, well a state of emergency declared in parts of snow packed california. plus, the big green reason why fox news can t quit the my pillow guy, even as he continues pushing bogus election lies. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us. well, federal agents have arrested a pennsylvania man for allegedly trying to bring explosives in his luggage on a flight to florida. authorities say 40-year-old mark motley was arrested at his home on monday night, after security agents had flagged his checked luggage early in the day. cnn s evan perez has details. according to the fbi, he checked the bag and in the process, the routine screening that was happening by the tsa, they found explosives in this checked bag. according to the fbi,
just ahead you have an individual try to get a bag on a plane and may have tried to put the bag in the plane without actually traveling. anything explosive or flammable in the luggage can be extremely dangerous in the cargo hold and could bring down the plane. and robust severe weather outbreak is possible across the deep south that could include tornadoes and large hail. everyone who thought they knew who he was, he has fooled them all for his own storm when would mean consequences for maggie and paul. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is thursday, march 2, 4:00 a.m. in pennsylvania where a man is now in federal custody after he allegedly tried to bring explosives on a flight to florida. authorities say that the man was arrested at his home monday night after his luggage triggered an alarm at a checkpoint earlier in the day. he was seen leaving the airport after he had been paged by security. a section of the airport
explosives. more now from evan perez. reporter: according to the fbi, he checked the bag and in routine screening happening by the tsa, they found explosives in this checked bag. according to the fbi, this is what they found. they found powder that was in a plastic wrap, they found fuses. powder appears to be from commercial grade fireworks. and so the question is, you know, what was he doing with this. the airport tried to page him while he was still at the airport. he left. and he was later arrested that evening on monday by the fbi. the court documents that were released today by the u.s. attorney in philadelphia don t mention any indication of extremism or his ties to terrorist groups or anything like that, something obviously that the fbi was focused on the last couple of days. nothing like that appears to have emerged in that investigation. this is a very serious thing obviously. if you read the court documents, the fbi says that this powder that was included in this
airport. the suspect arrested by the fbi. what we re learning about the device that was found hidden in his luggage. also, university of georgia football player who turned himself in on charges related to a deadly car crash that killed a teammate and staff member after the team s national championship victory. also, u.s. intelligence with a new report on what is known as havana syndrome. for years american diplomats and spies around the world have been complaining of mysterious symptoms. they re oftentimes debilitating. what s a foreign adversary to blame? we have the answer. lot to get to. we ll begin with this. the tsa intercepting a suitcase packed with an explosive device before loaded ton a plane. it happened at the airport in it allentown, pennsylvania. the bomb squad rushing into the scene there. and the fbi later arresting this man seen on surveillance video. here s the breakdown of what happened. the fbi saying the suspect arrived at the airport monday morning
says she was the target of a plot to kill jewish elected officials in michigan. dana nessel says the fbi informed her she was the target, one of the targets of a heavily armed man who made threats on social media for more on this breaking news we want to bring in cnn s chief law enforcement and intelligence officer john miller. there is a lot of jewish students, apparently this university he used to work. what are the questions that this raises for you right off the bat? well, the questions and answers, this is part of this growing antisemitism that is bridging from speech into violence into discussions of violence and the kind of extremism, domestic violence extremism accelerationism to topple the government has become a salad bar of these issues where you can pick, you know, the qanon conspiracy theories, add in antisemitism, you can add in anti-government. in this kiss, jack carpenter, who is charged in this case, starts off as an anti-vaxxer which gets him fired from th