good morning, i m melissa harris perry. latest details on the mass shooting in san bernardino, california, which the fbi is now investigating as an act of terrorism. rueters is reporting that isis said in an online radio broadcast that followers the group carried out the attacks that killed 14 people. the fbi says there s no evidence the attack was directed by isis. officials say one of the suspects tashfeen malik pledged allegiance to isis in a face book post. president obama had this to say about the investigation. it s important to let the investigators do their jobs. we need to know all the facts. at my direction, federal law enforcement is helping in every way that they can. we re going to get to the bottom of this. it is entirely possible these two attackers were radicalized
the message that this was, indeed, a self-radicalization situation. much of the evidence that the fbi is looking at right now has to do with electronics. also the couple tried to destroy it. we heard from fbi director comey yesterday about how critical this evidence is. much of it has already been flown back to quantico where the fbi has a number of labs, sub units, that do nothing but look at this kind of electronic evidence. two cell phones in particular that were smashed and thrown into the garbage cannot far from their home. at least one computer hard drive taken from their home. they ll look at what kind of records there might be. where did they get, for example, much of this bomb making material? they had a virtual bomb making factory inside that suburban home. photos. is there anything that can tell
thing, they will carry out an attack and they generally won t leave a 6-month-old baby behind. we ve seen it in nigeria boca more rom, they killed their baby before the attack. i ve seen it in iraq, people use their baby as their bomb. but we ve never seen one where they hand the baby off to the mother, i m going to the doctor, and then carry out at terrorist attack. it s a hybrid. it s almost a combination between a workplace violence incident, which may have precipitated and stopped a much more larger attack on a target in the area. something else in the context. we also heard there that hundreds of investigators are looking at evidence. the big thing that happened on air yesterday though was that dozens of members of the american media including some of my colleagues, went into the home where this couple was
them about location. in particular, with the cell phones, the gps, where did they travel to? would that give them indication of where they bought some of this stuff or who they might have met? as director comey said yesterday, there s a lot of evidence that just doesn t make sense and much of that is personal. the 6-month-old child. the family that seemed to be live the american dream. why would you just walk away from all that. yesterday, there was a scare at a local u.p.s. facility and it turned out this package addressed to them was just some clothes they had ordered online. why would you order clothes online if you knew you were going to mount an attack? a lot of evidence that they are looking at but so far the key question that is hanging out there is what was their motive and that answer is elusive right now, melissa. thank you to nbc s chris jansing in san bernardino, california. the shootings came less than a week after a gunman opened fire at a planned parenthood clinic in c
reports that those, of those charged, the vast majority arrested are u.s. citizens. the fbi has stated isis-related investigations are active in all states but 21 states have at least one arrest within their border. the highest number of cases in new york followed by minnesota. so, i read the report because i feel like that s what you do. i feel like the new report has told us new things. i am deeply distressed by the idea this would constitution social scientific evidence we would then make policing and counterterrorism decisions on. you and i were remarking in the break that just looking through the images of it and these kind of facebook pictures and twitter posts heck, you know, they look like brothers and friends and they look like my cousin tyrone. i think that this is what i was going to say before the break, i think we so desperately want things to be this is a