Begins. Could rain dampen tonights big fireworks displays . This is new day with chris kcuomo and allisyn camerota. Good morning, everyone. That is a live look there at the statue of liberty in new york harbor as the sun comes up here. It is going to be a beautiful fourth of july. Welcome to your special fourth of july Holiday Edition of new day. Its monday, 6 00 in the east. Chris is off today. John berman joins me. Happy birthday, america. 240 years old. What do you get for a country that has everything, including Alisyn Camerota . I dont know. Thats a tough one. Up first, we need to tell you about the top story. Theres beefed up security for the big Independence Day celebrations after several terror attacks around the world in the past few days. This morning, the death toll soaring in baghdad in the deadliest attack there in years. What does this say about the capabilities of isis, blamed now for three gruesome attacks around the world in less than a week . We have this covered for you from every corner of the globe. Lets begin with deb feyerick along the east river. Good morning. Reporter morning, john. Morning, alisyn. This is where the fireworks are going to be taking place this evening. You can bet that Police Across the country in very close contact with federal agencies to assess the latest intelligence stream. Everybody is concerned about a possible terror attack, even though theres no credible evidence. After a series of deadly attacks overseas, u. S. Counterterror officials heightening security measures at socalled soft targets across the country. Including the july 4th fireworks displays tonight. We have a tight security plan for the fourth of july. Reporter in the nations capital, much of the dramatic increase in security will be hidden. We do have technology that folks will not see. Reporter the biggest Fireworks Show in america along new york citys east river with an estimated 3 million spectators, has the police in the big apple on high alert. You will see a very significantly enhanced Police Presence in the city. Reporter out on the water, officials patrolling the harbors around manhattan and conducting security dives along the fireworks barges. We are very, very vigilant. Well have exceptional nypd presence to keep everyone safe. Reporter the new york city mayor deploying 500plus highly trained, highly armed officers ready to prevent terror. The first fourth of july that Critical Response team will be out in full force. That sends a powerful message to anyone who might try and disrupt that we are ready to prevent that. Reporter tensions already high. It sounded like a cannon. Reporter after a small explosion in central park sunday left a tourists foot mangled. His foot is all but detached. His friends claim he was just walking down the rocks and stepped on something. Reporter that something believed to be an experiment with fireworks or a homemade explosive set off after a young tourist accidently stepped on it, according to the nypd. We believe this could have been put here as some sort of experiment. Reporter now, theres no evidence, john, that this was actually terror related. However, the jttf is investigating. They believe that this particular device, the explosives, were in the park for more than a day and it was shock sensitive. Theyre taking it very seriously. They dont believe its terror related. Meantime, you can bet that everywhere there are so many fireworks, so many concerts, so many people who will be out celebrating this july 4th that all police, all Law Enforcement agencies are going to make sure that this day goes off safely. John . Obvious concerns because of whats been going on around the world. Deb feyerick, thanks so much. We have breaking news. A horrific attack in baghdad. Officials there keep raising the death toll. They now say more than 200 were killed by a huge truck bomb at a busy shopping district, once again isis is claiming responsibility. Cnns Senior International correspondent ben weedman is in baghdad with the details. The death toll keeps on rising. Reporter yeah, and in fact, they are still finding bodies in these buildings around me. What was particularly devastating about this bomb, which we believe was in a refrigerator truck just on the street behind me, was that when it went off, it set off fires in all the buildings around it. These buildings full of stores with clothing, perfume, other flammable materials. So what weve seen since that bomb went off saturday midnight is that the death toll continues to climb. Still many families looking for their children. According to Iraqi Security officials, of the bodies recovered, 81 of them are completely beyond recognition at this point. Of course, people are very nervous. Just about half an hour ago, the police told everybody to clear out of there because there was a car nobody knew who it belonged to, and they were afraid it could have been a car bomb. So nerves very, very much on edge here. Back to you, alisyn. Understandable, ben. Thank you for that reporting. Also, we have some stunning new information to share about the terrorists in the bloody siege at that cafe in bangladesh. The father of one attacker coming forward now to talk. Also, were learning more about the 20 victims killed in that standoff, including three u. S. College students. Cnns alexandra field is live in dhaka with more. Alexandra . Reporter hey there, alisyn. Were now learning from police they have two suspects in custody. They say that both were injured during the attack at the bakery just down the road behind me. One of them has been identified already by police as the sole surviving attacker. It is not clear who this second person is. But we do know that police have identified all of these attackers as being bangladeshi. Five of them were known militants who they were out looking to arrest. These are men between the ages of 18 and mid20s. Theyre described as being upper middle class and educated. I spoke to the father of one of the youngest attackers just a short time ago. His son was 18 years old. The father says that his son had been missing from the familys home since february 29th. They had been in touch with police. They were looking for him. The father says he was fearful that his son had taken up with an islamist group. He says that his son never showed any signs of radicalism or extremism, and he describes the young man as somebody who is immature and impressionable. John . All right, alexandra. Thanks so much. We have new information this morning. A Suicide Attack just feet away from the u. S. Consulate in saudi arabia. Nic robertson is live in london with the latest. What can you tell us . Reporter yeah, john, this suicide bomber attacked and detonated his explosives when police approached him. He was in the car park of a major hospital, about ten yards away from the u. S. Consulate. This is situated in the middle of the city there. Unlike riyadh, where the embassy is behind multiple layers of the security in sort of an ambassad ambassadorial type area. This bomber, its not clear what his intention was to target, but the fact he was so close to the consulate is going to raise concerns that that was the target. It could have been much worse. Police discovered three more explosives in his vehicle. He detonated or was approached by the police and detonated his explosives about 3 00 in the morning. So in the early hours of the morning, the police sent in a bomb Disposal Team with a robot. They took apart the vehicle, took apart the explosives, detonated those other explosives. The consulate itself was targeted by gunmen back in 2004. No one has claimed responsibility for this attack yet. However, what we do know in saudi arabia is that there is a growing isis threat. More typically recently it has been targeting Saudi Security officers, even members of families have been killing their own family members if theyre in the Saudi Security services. So that is a growing threat. No claim of responsibility here yet. It could have been much worse. John, alisyn . Okay, nic. Thanks so much for that. So all these attacks, of course, raise concerns here at home on this fourth of july. Lets discuss whats going on behind the scenes with our cnn Global Affairs analyst and contributing writer for the daily beast kimberly doser, and cnn analyst michael weiss. Great to have both of you here on this holiday. Kimber kimberly, we always hear no Credible Threats of anything here in the u. S. , but i mean, how comforting is that given that there was no credible threat before orlando . Thats increasingly the terrifying part of this, that isis has learned how to cover its tracks. Its advising people who are inspired by it or directed by it, do not communicate in ways that the authorities can track. If youre going to Say Something about an operation, use an encrypted app. Better yet, dont tell anyone if youre in a place like the United States or europe. Keep it to a very small group of people or just keep it to yourself. That makings it that much harder for authorities to have any warning and give any warning to the public, which is why theyre urging just vigilance. You know, michael weiss, john brennan and other u. S. Officials making clear that obviously isis would attack the u. S. Here in the homeland if it could. When you look at the map of whats been blamed on isis or attributed to isis over the last week, you have istanbul, you have bangladesh, you have baghdad just over the weekend. You know, what capabilities does isis have here . We saw what happened in orlando. When it comes to the United States, its more about the isisinspired attacks. If you look at this rate of isis coordinated or isis directed attacks, what theyre trying to do is encourage people to do is go out and blow stuff up. In the United States, because of the geographical expanse, you have an ocean that separates us from the middle east. Its much easier to go to europe and conduct some kind of operation. Here, its about getting an 18yearold or a 22yearold watching these videos on youtube and getting them inspired to go out and blow up a school or a cafeteria with a Pressure Cooker bomb or to just spray machine gunfire into an open crowd. So what isis likes to do, i call them the subeditors of the International News cycle. They want to hijack the narrative. If they lose ground in fallujah, if they lose a village in syria, they dont want you talking about that. They want you talking about this. They want you talking about bangladesh, istanbul, and wherever else theyre going to strike next. Kimberly, lets talk about that. A lot has been made theyre losing ground, losing some of their physical territory, and they wouldnt be able to have a base of operations anymore in fallujah. Do they need a base of operations given that they can just send out word and then a lone wolf can do something . Thats exactly what the cia director and other intelligence officials are saying. It doesnt take much to carry out aterrorist attack. It costs maybe 500 for a single attack. So as they lose territory in raqqah, theyre already moving a lot of their operations and people with the expertise to train future attackers to places like libya. There are already Training Camps there which u. S. Intelligence fears will train cells to go to europe, joining cells they think are already planted there, either waiting for a signal or if they lose communication with the headquarters in raqqah, they can act on their own at a time of their choosing. Michael, do you think this wave of terror, again, the three that happened overseas, perhaps even orlando, that this is coordinated in the timing . Do you think isis wanted all of these attacks now . A lot has been made of the fact this is ramadan. Well, rahm dmadan is always time in which theres an uptick in terror atrocities. Their spokesman encourages muslims to commit these attacks during the holiest period in the islamic calendar. With respect to a direct coordination, do i think that the guys in bangladesh are in communication with with the guys in turkey, and theyre in communication with the guys who just blew up the neighborhood in baghdad . No, not necessarily. By the way, that doesnt make them any less dangerous. No, with respect to isis, this is still an army that has 20,000 to 30,000 active operatives and agents throughout syria and iraq. Abroad, we dont know the numbers. Thats whats so dangerous. With al qaeda, it was only ever a couple hundred people. That took, you know, over a decade to try and decimate their ranks. Isis is more dangerous. When they have territory, they can lay claim to being a nation state. That is the key here. You have to shrink their socalled caliphate to deprive them of their resources but also the symbolic value of actually governing and controlling a large swath of land in the middle east and all these people. Kimberly, the details of these attacks are just so sickening. The one in baghdad, i mean, 200 People Killed, many of them children. These were people in this middle class neighborhood, they were just out celebrating the end of ramadan, and they were at a market, at stores. I mean, families also celebrating the end of their children getting out of school for the year. Ideologically speaking, this attracts people . I mean, the idea to kill children. In what sort of perverted ideology does that appeal to people . What isis has tried to do is kick up a sectarian war. And it said so. It said we were aiming a the a shiite neighborhood. They want to spur the militia groups on the shiite side to attack sunni communities and kick off a war that you wont need isis fighting back and forth anymore. You will have ordinary citizens within iraq fighting each other again, just like it was in the battle days when the u. S. Troops were there. So what they tell their followers is the reason that children were killed, if they even ask, is, well, they were shiite or they were innocents, so theyll go to heaven anyway. Thats one of the excuses often given by terrorist groups for attacks like this. Just incredible. Thank you for all of that context. Its great to have both of you with us here this morning. Thank you. Lets talk politics now, shall we . The two presumptive president ial nominees facing political controversy this morning. Hillary clinton sat down with the fbi for more than three hours this weekend facing questions about her use of a private email server while secretary of state. And donald trump facing new questions about a tweet he sent this weekend that included an d antisemitic imagery. Joe johns is live in washington, d. C. That really heated up over the weekend, images tweeted by donald trump of what appeared to be a sixpoint star of david with pictures of hundred dollar bills, calling the former secretary of state corrupt. Now, it looked like a representation of a star of david, was later deleted, replaced without comment by the campaign. Very similar to an image that had been posted ten days earlier on a french message board that carried antisemitic conspiracy theories. Critics, including the National Director of the Antidefamation League, calling the image offensive and alarming. The campaign has not commented on the tweet, but Donald Trumps former Campaign ManagerCorey Lewandowski said on cnn that the image was the same star that sheriffs departments use and that people were reading something into the tweet that was not there, calling it Political Correctness run amok. A longawaited moment for Hillary Clinton and her campaign, an interview with the fbi lasting about 3 1 2 hours over the email controversy that has dogged the campaign. Shes been saying for months that she wanted to get this over with and said on msnbc after the interview it was something she was eager to do. Though quite frankly, this comes at a very difficult time for her campaign. Just weeks away from the democratic convention. No details on what Hillary Clinton said to the fbi as that investigation continues. Alisyn . We will be talking more about that interview with the fbi in our program. Joe, thank you very much. Also, more about that controversial tweet, what does it mean two weeks before the Republican Convention . Our panel is going to be here to break all of that down next on this special july 4th edition of new day. 4 by 4 those who jump start the weekend. The ones who want to see it all. Hear it all. And feel it all. All summer long. Jeep renegade its how we live 4 by 4 summer. Wannwith sodastream®er . You turn plain water into sparkling water in seconds. And because its so delicious, youll drink 43 more water every day. Sodastream®. Love your water. By finding a policy to fit your budget. [ coughs ] sorry, tickle in my throat water would be nice, but that would go right through me. Ghost problems. New questions this morning about donald trump, twitter, and antisemitism. This weekend, donald trump sent out a tweet, not a retweet mind you, but a tweet that used an antisemitic image. Donald trump took down the tweet but has said nothing objeabout or how he used that image to begin with. You know, maggie, this is tweetgate part nine or ten for donald trump. But this image went out. The campaign pulled it down. Obviously they knew something was amiss. There was a reason why they pulled it down. First they changed it to the circle. They changed it from the star of david to the circle. But theyre not saying how donald trump ended up this with image to begin with, an image that had previously gone out on these Message Boards. How did donald trump get it . The campaign is not saying. Dont they owe an explanation to how and why they used this original image . I saw what Corey Lewandowski said yesterday on state of the union. Hes echoing what the campaign does seem to feel. Lets play it, just so everybody hears how he defended w