explosives aboard and a legion flight from lehigh valley from pennsylvania to florida. evan perez joins us now from stanford, florida. evan, who is this guy? he s 40 years old. his name is matt mott free. and he was flying, anderson, from lehigh valley airport, which is in northeastern pennsylvania on a flight to orlando. according to the fbi, he checked a bag and in the routine screening that was 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. the powder appears to be from commercial grade fireworks. and so, the question is, 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 later 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
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paper, wrapped in plastic. it is flash powder mixed with black powd hear the you would put in a mortar shell. it looks like a mortar shell for fireworks. commercial-grade fireworks. it was deconstructed. he took the insides and the fuse which is a quick match and a safety fuse. does it mean he was going to bring it to florida and set it off somewhere with his pals? there is also a pipe in there with residue in the bottom indicating possible narcotics that they are furthering examining and testing. it does not appear that it was set to go off on the airplane. let s put all that aside. let s say that this was the ultimate terrorist and that it was rigged to explode on the plane, the system worked. machinery sniffed it out. was this a checked bag? this was a checked bag. you know, when you check the bags, it goes through a big machine that scans for explosive