27-year-old jose pimentel, a u.s. citizen and native of the dominican republic and a convert to islam was taken into custody saturday afternoon as he was allegedly constructing a pipe bomb. police commissioner raymond kelly says he was planning on building three bombs. mayor bloomberg said the suspect was intent on killing. the police also constructed a duplicate of an explosive device that the suspect built and then designated in a way he intended to use the weapon. we want to show you a video about the resulting damage. well, pimentel allegedly got the materials from home depot and other stores. he followed instructions from al awlaki s inspired magazine to first acquire the bomb-making materials and then assemble them. he relied on a particularly notorious article called how to make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom. let s bring in cnn s deborah feyerick who has been working on this story all evening. and with us from washington, cnn national security analyst peter
on coming up with a plan for the deficit. at this hour, things really don t look good. our congressional correspondent kate baldwin is standing by. she s in the capitol building now. kate, congress, washington, missing deadlines becoming all too familiar. where do we stand now? i think we can say, don, at best the super committee is on the brink of failure as talks have all but fallen apart. especially in the last, i would say maybe 24 hours really. the question, the conversation is now kind of how and when the committee is likely to make its formal announce they have failed versus they are near some kind of agreement and could be making an announcement anytime soon. of course there can be a hail mary pass at the 11th 0 hour but with such little time left it seems unlikely the committee will be able to reach any sort of agreement and more likely they have failed. evidence of that, don, just listen to the dramatic shift in tone among committee members themselves. they fanned
called the student a future welfare recipient. all the comments were caught on camera. you airline passengers, you are used to shelling out money for a lot of things to that airline, but you ll hear a story this morning of passengers actually paying for the fuel pore their flight. thank you very much for being here on this cnn saturday morning. i m t.j. holmes. reynolds wolf is about to join me, because we have a weather situation that is causing fits for firefighters fighting a fire this is going on in northwestern nevada. this is a fast-moving fire fueled by strong winds and dry terrain it is threatening hundreds of home. thousands are without electr electricity around the reno area, but most of those folks do have their power back on now. this fire is a day old and has grown to three square miles. tragically, at least one person has been killed as a result of this fire. also one firefighter had to be taken to the hospital with injuries. schools were closed yesterday.
infrastructure. when the president goes out on the road next week he can try to put some pressure on them. meantime the lobbists are going to be all over that special committee and that s one of the reasons high tax reform is so difficult. we saw that in the 1980s. those pressures when circumstances are life, can be overcome. and briefly, steve, you and i were there many the 80s watching that tax reform process. that s when this town goes crazy. it all does happen behind the scenes. it all does. those were the years of real giants, though, like jim baker and others who could make deals behind the scenes. i think another thing to watch is wloernt in return for some short-term stimulus like a payroll tax extension the democrats might agree to longer term retrenchment. i would say that s another thing to watch for out of this
at this and do it in a responsible way so that the american people say yes, the people in washington get it, we cannot continue to spend money we do not have. how do you react to all the polling that s out there that shows a large majority not a narrow majority a large majority of the american public believes that some tax increases are going to be involved when trying to tackle this issue of the debt and deficit. well, i support tax reform. i support close the loopholes as part of a broader tax reform process that would actually go to get the economy moving again. we have 9.2% unemployment in this country. chuck, have you millions and millions of americans looking for work. they can t get it. a lot has to do with the policies of this administration and the last thing to do is raise taxes on people at times like this for this economy. we want to we need more nobody wassed a video katding raising taxes right now.