was allowed to fly to russia, stay there for six months and fly back to the united states in 2012. the question being asked all over washington right now is why federal authorities didn t start watching tsarnaev like a hawk when he got back? the fbi says it already checked him out, interviewed him and his family, checked out his online activities. didn t plan anything derogatory. the cia says they nominated tsarnaev to be put at the terror data base watch list system. you know, this included varying nations of the spelling of his name, different dates of birth, provided by the russians, erin. that adds to this whole question, they were pushing him to be added to lists around the time he was posting the videos, how these dots weren t connected? so many questions out there. what about the list? my understanding is that tamerlan tsarnaev was included on some other watch list. so is it clear at this point if there was a ball that dropped, who did it? yeah, still a little foggy. he had
wrong about chavez, and that tells you a lot. and he also recently awarded an apartment to a woman who became his 3 millionth twitter follower, and he is a big twitter follower. yes, he is wildly popular and the message is getting through to twitter again, and he did this, and he is rewarding somebody for being the 3 millionth follower. can you imagine if president obama or mitt romney were giving away homes on live television? no. thank you, miguel. captions by vitac www.vitac.com i m suzanne malveaux and this hour in the cnn newsroom, we will tell you how the worst drought that america has seen in 50 years is affect iing the cro and the economy and our pocketbooks. and the white house takes mitt romney and two possible vp candidates to ohio. and the fda bans a chemical from baby bottles and why are adults still living with it? we go to wilted crops in fields, and soil drying up, and half of the country s farms are reaching drought which is the most since
belgium, italy and i believe spain? right. one threat vectoring from pakistan. another threat vectoring from the south, and north africa. now, a third one from the arabian peninsula. the biggest issue with border security is that there are no real borders inside the european urine. in western europe, once you have a passport and visa to go into one country, you can go into all of them. that presents a much more difficult problem for law enforcement because if you have a german national trained in pakistan or some other place and then comes back into western europe, they did move around. these are the type of people that don t appear on anyone s terror database which makes them so much more dangerous. and the u.s. state department is warning all american traveler to be aware of what s taking place in europe right now. roger cressey, thanks. you bet. i want to go back to kerry sanders. he has more on the miners.
that someone who has gone to pakistan, trained in a terrorist camp, comes back, makes repeated calls back and forth to pakistan, we should have some intelligence that this person may be a threat to us as a society. all right. that s what was lacking. roger, let me ask you one thing that obviously i think we may be able to agree on, that is that the airline screwed up. yes. what happened there. i mean, that obviously was a great breach, they allowed somebody on a no-fly list to get on a plane going to dubai. and almost leave. let me agree with the governor on one point. we need to do a better job identifying these individuals before they get to the point of trying to execute their attacks. that s the point. shahzad is part of evolving threat in the following way, he s the type of guy that doesn t appear on anyone s terror database. if you look at individuals who are not carried-carrying members of al qaeda or pakistani taliban, we need to be evolving as a government to
that s when it became serious. do i think it s part of a broader trend? no, i don t. there s several dozen cases of americans investigated for ties to islamic extremist sin past years. you have to pay attention to it but be careful not to overstate it. are the agencies in charge of protecting us prepared to look for terror suspects who have these western appearances as in the case of colleen and jamie, or do they pretty under a profile of what a terrorist looks like or should in some people s minds look like. important and very good question. the answer is they have to be looking for new types of potential suspects. people with clean pasts, but who are american, who do not appear in a terror database. the problem is when we start talking about what a terrorist looks like, al qaeda and affiliates are looking to identify people who do not fit that profile. they are creative in adapting to our security. law enforcement and intelligence community must be equally