Folks from outside looking what s gone on before the event and of course, folks inside. and tell us more about these truck attacks because we have seen them take place in europe. we see how devastating they can be. explain how dangerous a weapon that is and a simple form but can do a lot of damage. so al qaeda has been putting out this magazine for years called inspire magazine and in it they have suggested means of attacks. one of them is the pressure cooker bomb we saw in the boston marathon bombing and in the chelsea attacks but also talked about using a truck to simply run down people and we ve seen that in france and we saw it in canada and so this is certainly opportunistic attacks. they need to have control of the vehicle and be in a position to use it against unarmed vulnerable citizens and that s what you re taking off the table when you put out a perimeter of the sand trucks and controlling any type of vehicular traffic in the area. and police, of course, they only ha
Storefronts shattering and people running for their lives. nypd investigators were able to rewind the footage from street cameras and spotted rahami where a pressure cooker bomb was found. officials say surveillance video helps create a time line of suspects movements before they take action. terrorists buying supplies in london before committing a series of attacks on the transit system in 2005. camera footage obtained by the daily mail.com shows terrorists taking control of a paris cafe during a series of attacks in 2015. one of those cameras revealing a dramatic moment when a woman s life was spared because a suspect s gun seemingly jams. brynn gingras, cnn, new york. joining me, cnn national security analyst, julian kayam. the reason there aren t as many surveillance cameras in germany is because of its history,
Sometimes close circuit television often leads to the suspects, as it did in boston. in brussels, twin explosions at the airport and a train station in march were documented by passengers. cell phone video reveals devastating wreckage through thick smoke. but the investigation centered around this image. three men pushing luggage carts. two of them suicide bombers who police believe wore gloves to conceal the detonators. more recently on a new york city street in september, closed-circuit television showed store fronts shattering and people running for their lives. nypd investigators were able to rewind the footage and spotted this man in one location where a pressure cooker bomb was found. law enforcement officials say surveillance video creates a timeline of suspects movements
Brothers who set off the explosion and the backpack they used to carry the bomb. those pictures eventually wallpapered the city and aided in the capture of the brothers, one of whom was killed in a gun battle with police. while footage obtained sometimes depicts difficult moments to watch, each frame can prove to be invaluable to investigators, often leading authorities to the suspects as it did in boston. in brussels, twin explosions at the airport and a train station in march were documented by passengers. cell phone video revealed devastating wreckage through thick smoke but the investigation quickly centered around this image taken from the airport surveillance cameras. three men pushing luggage carts, two of them suicide bombers who police believe wore gloves to conceal the detonators. authorities arrested the third man in the hat. more recently on a new york city street in september, closed circuit television showed window
Germany s federal prosecutor says fingerprints of the tunisian suspect anis amri were found on the door of the truck used in the berlin attack. this as the investigate continues largely without one resource that has been helpful in u.s. investigations and other european nations as well, mountains of footage and data from surveillance cameras. it just doesn t exist in germany. here s brynn gingras. reporter: when a bomb exploded during the 2013 boston marathon, surveillance cameras showed the smoke rising over the finish line. but that wasn t all they revealed. for investigators, footage from street cameras exposed critical information. the faces of the tsarnaev