kwell. charged first-degree murder expected to be ed toed to upgraded. go to washington the lead with jake tapper starts right now. the sound of gunfire has the city of baltimore back teetering on the edge. i m jake tapper, this is the lead. the national lead what the fragile piece in baltimore looks like today. a single bulis sending citizens back out on to the streets and police back in riot gear. proof that baltimore remains a powder keg. also in national lead cartoonists put in the cross hairs by isis across the globe in copenhagen, in france and now in the united states. a gunfight stopping two would-be isis terrorists before they could kill americans. the world lead. it s the most covert country in the world. new information out of north korea. an nyu student locked up in the
it s not the profile, he didn t see it coming. that s the story we re getting from a lot of people here in the apartment complex. the two men lived in that you see that balcony over my right shoulder where the two men lived. a lot of the people in the community saw the men and saw them working on that cobalt vehicle. the same vehicle, at least matching the same description of the vehicle used in the texas shooting. so a lot of people saw that vehicle. there was even one neighbor i spoke with who said she tried to buy that vehicle, but a lot of the people here said that they did not see that outward sign of radicalization. it just didn t raise any red flags here. from phoenix, arizona. thank you. bring in former fbi counterterrorism expert tim clemente. thanks for being here. what s your preliminary assessment of the attack last night? looking at the tweet sent out prior to the attack tells us a lot about the attackers. basically it was an oath of feelty to al baghdadi head of i
the last line make dua is asking the believers to pray for them in whatever act they re about to do. so this forces isis to now do some kind of formal response, because isis has to own them. do you think these are entirely self-radicalized individuals that may not have even had contact with isis? they may not have been in formal contact, may have had e-mail communications or read communications from isis but i don t think directed by isis. applying for membership into isis and doing this act, sent out the tweet in advance, a possibility they won t make it out of this they can t give recognition what they were trying to do after the fact. doing it in advance. let isis know we re doing this because amir the head of al ba daddie head of isis is who they re pledging loyalty to and want to make sure that s known. talk about the fact the fbi knew about one of these individuals, had launch add four-year sting into elton simpson.
blowing a whistle telling people to get down. reporter: police say the two men pulled up in a dark colored sedan. a police officer and a security guard stationed there had gotten out of their police vehicle. the attackers jumped out of their car wearing bullet-proof vests and started shooting from assault rifles. the police officer shot back killing both suspects. under the fire he was put under, he did a very good job. and probably saved lives. this is going to take a while. reporter: security moved the 200 people attending the controversial event to a secure location. none of the attendees were hurt. simpson is believed to have sent this tweet just hours before the attack with the #texasattack. he also linked himself to a known british born isis fighter later tweeting out details of the attack. simpson wassen focus of an fbi terror organization for several years, and 2011 he was found guilty for lying about plans to travel to somalia to engage in violent jihad.
. . welcome back to the lead. i m jake tapper. also in national news today, today police say isis sympathizers tried and failed to gun down cartoonists drawing the muslim prophet muhammad in texas. last night in a dallas suburb two men toting automatic weapons stepped out of their car and opened fire they were targeting what organizers referred to as an art exhibit featuring cartoons of the prophet muhammad call fundamental a free speech event, though others criticized the group for needlessly trying to offend muslims. sources identified nadir soofi as the second gunman. officials told cnnerrer elton