catherine herridge, what have we learned this morning? reporter: early ner washington, the head of the tsa, john pistol spoke at one of these meetings and the type of intelligence, though it was vague, that led to the thermos alert was prior to the christmas holidays, pistol said they had intelligence that al-qaeda in yemen, aqap, may have tried to put the explosive tapt within the thermoses, the same group that tried to plant a cargo plot by taking a similar explosive and putting it into toner cartridges in october. let s listen to pistol from earlier today: this plot was that they would use tapt around the cylinder of the thermos, put it on a passenger or cargo plane and however the initiation, the detonator, they didn t describe, so that s general intelligence. what do we do about that? we put out alerts saying all
point it out to the authorities. jamie: and i suppose the thermos alert if you re riding the rails and you see one and you re suspicious, you can report that as well. mike, merry christmas. thanks for being with us today. and to you too, merry christmas. jamie: thank you. gregg: very disturbing scene during a meeting of romania s parliament. we have to warn you what you re about to see is pretty graphic. a man throwing himself off the chamber s balcony in protest of the country s new austerity measures. the 40-year-old man fell about 20 feet to the floor in front of after stunned parliament. according to witnesses, he was wearing a t-shirt that read and this is a quote you re killing our children s future. he was also heard screaming the word freedom as he was taken out on a stretcher. the good news is his injuries are not considered life threatening. jamie: and a rush hour day causing a ruckus in argentina. passengers were angered by a