lovely start of october. the tourism season is still very high here. clearly people have heard about it. and are watching, but at least in terms of the police presence, they don t want to make too much of a uniform presence to scare people off in any way. which is clearly one of the things that can happen when the alerts do go on. finally, shannon, the state department alert was very short on specifics. mentioned no specific countries by name. it did, however, mention as you say, rail transport, maritime, the kind of things trains, people going to in heavily watched tourist places where a lot of tourists are traveling. i don t think it s that people are saying don t travel, it s perhaps you don t want to take the train, the subway. you want to take a cab. shannon? shannon: be careful, greg. thank you. well, taliban militants may be to blame for murders of three men whose body were found near the side of the road in pakistan. julie kirtz is standing by with that and other top