neither individual showed up on the terror watch list. bill: also at the last moment, apparently they changed their travel plans and why that? putting it all together, here s greg palkot live in london with the latest on this, gregg, good morning over there. bill, martha, a lot of question, some answers we are getting and some we ll get probably in the next couple of hours and what we can tell you from our contacts in holland, two men both with ties to the u.s. and yemen are held for questioning by dutch authorities and we are told, they are suspected of, and i quote, planning a terror attack and, also, of arson and they were arrested yesterday morning at the airport and they were taken off of a united airlines flight coming from chicago and what raised alarm bells was what was found on luggage, not traveling with them but from chicago to washington, dulles airport, for further travel, on board, that suitcase was including watches, strapped to an empty pepto bismol bottle,
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a mosque two blocks from ground zero are spreading well beyond new york city. there s no shortage of this voice in this debate. but what about the developer at the center of it all? sharif al gamal. he tells allan chernoff exclusively why he is so driven by this project. what you have in mind is building bridges, interfaith dialogue, then why not have this center a little further away from the world trade center? instead of just two blocks right there. there probably wouldn t be much opposition if you were further away. you know, this is this is not about the world trade center. this is not about this is not about a particular location. this is about a need that exists within the lower manhattan community and a need that exists within the muslim community to have a community and a cultural center. and it s pretty hard finding real estate in new york. so you have the building.
there s no shortage of this voice in this debate. but what about the developer at the center of it all? sharif al gamal. he tells allan chernoff exclusively why he is so driven by this project. reporter: what you have in mind is building bridges, interfaith dialogue, then why not have this center a little further away from the world trade center? instead of just two blocks right there. there probably wouldn t be much opposition if you were further away. you know, this is this is not about the world trade center. this is not about this is not about a particular location. this is about a need that exists within the lower manhattan community and a need that exists within the muslim community to have a community and a cultural center. and it s pretty hard finding real estate in new york. so you have the building. therefore, do it there? we have the building, and we re doing it there, god willing.
escapee john mccluskey and tracy province is going on in this hour in and around the family vacation spot. a female accomplice may be with the fugitives. both men are considered armed and extremely dangerous. they ve been on the lam since fleeing an arizona prison july 30th. u.s. marshals say province and mccluskey have white supremacist leanings and may be searching out fellow sympathizers. a third escapee was recaptured in colorado last week. under arrest, mccluskey s 68-year-old mother. she faces charges of helping her fugitive son escape. the fugitives may have left a trail of blood as well. police say an oklahoma couple was found murdered in new mexico on wednesday. their camper and bodies burned. tracking the escapees is no easy task. yellowstone park is over 3,400 square miles. i want you to take a listen to what police and a security expert told me earlier about this investigation. yellowstone included but anywhere else in the southwest, we re telling people that, y