military bases here in the united states. more on that in a moment because right now oklahoma is under siege from a severe storm system pap state of emergency declared in that state. people there in places like catoe county already had to hide from tornadoes earlier in the week again are burrowing in storm cellars, braces for what meteorologists say could be the worst day yet this year. our meteorologist is tracking the storm on radar. we see pictures menacing looking clouds. how bad will it get? >> put it this way, jake typically the month of may will give the u.s. one, maybe two tornado outbreaks. this is a tornado in nebraska on wednesday, 48 confirmed tornadoes. that's an outbreak. yesterday we had another nine. today most likely is going to be worse than yesterday an saturday the biggest threat for the entire week. during the month of may, 276 tornadoes on average. so it is the biggest risk. it is the biggest threat for this month. take a look. i want to mention, this was a slow start. no tornadoes in january or february. it wasn't until the end of march. that's never happened before in recorded history. we've got a couple of watch boxes, a new one to the north. first one from amarillo to lubbock, softball-size hail reported ten miles south in effect until 5:00 p.m. central time. into oklahoma city dallas metroplex until 9:00 p.m. no tornado warnings just watches, but they're going to pop up during the heat of the day. we have what we call not just an enhanced risk in orange but a moderate risk. we have not seen a high risk issue yet from the storm prediction center and we may just have our first one tomorrow where the outbreak should be most severe. i want to quickly tell you, too. this is interesting when it comes to outbreaks in may, all of these, jake have been since 1999. so a little fodder for those who want to talk about climate change how about this? 10 to 11 states with snow on the back end. mother's day in cheyenne wyoming, blizzard conditions. amazing storm system. watching it closely. >> all right. tom, thanks so much. we'll continue to come back to you throughout the hour keemp ang keeping an eye on the storm system. the top story and entire u.s. military apparatus here in the united states put on alert. overnight, security at all bases across the u.s. the largest ones you see on this map, inked and order, raising the threat to bravo. predictable threat of terrorism. threats posed by people such as ept elton simpson. foiled terrorist. he was thankfully shot and killed by an off-duty traffic cop before either could do damage. and right to jim sciutto. one official called this the new normal for military bases. what prompted this change this elevation, and what does it mean for servicemen and women? >> the military grew alarmed in recent days two of the overseas jihadists linked to the garland, texas, shooting tweeted out a u.s. officer connected to the rebel training program. that tweetlished on the british, sent out on the cartoon, and by a recent publication on isis accounts on names and addresses of hundreds of military members, military taking this threat very seriously. the u.s. military is raising the security level at every base across the country. concerns grow over the threat from isis. it was the shooting in texas on sunday that prompted the increased security measures. though the military says the step is not tied to a specific credible threat saying -- we have the same concern about the potential threat posed by violent home-grown extremists. the security level has increased to bravo. a ranking signifying an increased and predictable threat of terrorism. u.s. bases generally have not been at this level since the tenth anniversary of 9/11. >> not only doctor you have security access to those bases you have to ramp up security on the post itself. so this is going to be a big operation for the security forces of all of the services. >> reporter: the texas shooting is highlighting the threat from isis supporters hiding with the united states. >> groups like isil or al qaeda now are calling publicly for attacks. in the west. of people who they would have never recruited specifically. have never trained. never even met. someone could decide on their own to answer that call with little or no notice. >> reporter: u.s. authorities are investigating hundreds of people in the u.s. who have some social media link to isis. a severe challenge for law enforcement to keep tabs on. >> it really is an expansion of how the internet has been used frankly for several years now. both in recruitment and radicalization of young people to join terrorist groups. >> reporter: the new security measures mean more inspections of vehicles and i.d.s as well as surprise measures to keep potential attackers off guard. also learning today that planned at the wright-patterson air force base in ohio cancelled because of security measures. not across country but you might see more of in light of the changes. >> jim sciutto, thanks. dig deeper on this threat cnn counterterrorism and cia countertear original and a terrorism lick cherrer at harvard and author of "isis: the state of tear", live in boston. thank you to you all. testifying earlier would-be tear rifrlts and isis sympathizers in all 50 states. given that should the threat level on these bases have been raised earlier? >> look i don't think so. one of the things you want to do with raising a threat level, this is about a conversation with the american people. the first thing they'll say is what do i do? if the federal government comes in says worry, worry, worry, but we can't give you enough specificity, that's not helpful. in this case some specificity. concern at military bases allowing base commanders to take action. go out say, seeing threat stuff, americans but can't give you anything to do that's not helpful. >> you don't think threat level bravo for milbases is the new normal? >> fbi directors talk about cases in 50 states but thousands of people over the course of time we've seen threats to major iconic targets. world trade center. white house. pentagon. we've seen threats to what we call soft targets. things like fast-food restaurants. we saw the london and madrid metro's attack. i think as the threat moves to thousands of people a harder time to give spescificity to potential targets. any 17-year-old saying i'll pick whatever target i want. >> u.s. ish tos say there doesn't seem to be a specific threat now from isis or any other terrorist group that caused them to raise this alert level. do you buy that? do you believe them? no specific threat? >> well there are a number of things that have happened in the last week that seem important to me. one is that we just started training the so-called moderate rebels in syria at an undisclosed location. that just happened this week. and, of course, the attack in texas and the fact that isis has been specifically proposing that lone wolves attack military bases, along with other symbolic targets. there may be something even more specific but i wouldn't know about that. >> phil how how long do you think bases can stay at this elevated threat level? what does it mean in terms of manpower and money, and at what point does the it become over-reaction? >> the problem you face with generic threats. in my business specificity, time place, plotters what deviceless they use? typically if you have that spes fifsty you should have enough information to disrupt the plot. just chatter, extremists saying hey, we're kind of sort of interested in unspecified time to go after military bases you don't know the back end. sitting in the white house situation room saying we think it's appropriate to alert people but not going to have the jihadis, terrorist come in say now we've decided not to do this. at some point you sit back say without additional symbol jeansintelligence ba r been at it two three weeks, back off. >> congress held and urgent hearing to try to figure a solution for shutting down isis making them ineffective on social media. one of the texas shooters talked directly with an isis recruiter. what exactly do you think needs to be done in this space? >> well one of the things that many experts propose is that we get much more -- that twister get much more serious about shutting down isis accounts. of course, there's the problem that they start new accounts under new handles, but it does slow them down. it does take a while for followers to find the new handle. that's one thing that has been considered and, of course, getting better at disseminating account or narrative is very very -- a very important part of the battle against isis and very important for our government. something our government is very concerned about. >> jessica, i've heard the counterargument shutting down isis accounts on twitter or elsewhere will just drive them to parts of the web that intelligence officials don't know about, whereas if out in a place where intelligence officials know where they are they can at least monitor it? >> yes, but the counterargument is when the isis recruiters find a new handle the passive followers don't necessarily follow again. so in a way it can enhance intelligence because it narrows it down. leaving out the just passive followers or perhaps people like me. scholars. so you get -- you get better intelligence as a result, is the counterargument. >> phil, bottom line. hearing that the u.s. is upping the terror threat level at u.s. military bases in the homeland and in the united states itself how worried should people be out there watching? >> it defines what -- the question is whether they're worried about their family or worried about america. if you're worried that your family will be affected tonight, i'd say that your concerns should be focused on things like drugs and gang violence. if your question is broader, will america face and expanded threat from the target absolutely yes. 3,000, 4,000 people in the united states threat's got to go up. >> phil and jessica, thank you. hours ago the justice department launchened and official investigation into whether the baltimore police department has a pattern of using excessive force. now baltimore's police union is reportedly responding saying it welcomes the investigation with one request -- they want the mayor of baltimore investigated, too. that story is next. meet the world's newest energy superpower. surprised? in fact, america is now the world's number one natural gas producer... and we could soon become number one in oil. because hydraulic fracturing technology is safely recovering lots more oil and natural gas. supporting millions of new jobs. billions in tax revenue... and a new century of american energy security. the new energy superpower? 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>> reporter: deteriorated the best word to use for it and you can see that spelled out in their statement. the police union. and the mayor had said early on that she was fine and wanted the department of justice to come in and take a look at the department and now that is exactly what the doj is doing. freddie gray's arrest and death in police custody, and the intense backlash put the city of baltimore in the national and international spotlight. now it's under scrutiny from the department of justice. the decision announced by the new attorney general. >> this investigation will begin immediately, and will focus on allegations that baltimore police department officers use excessive force including deadly force, conduct unlawful searches seizures and arrests and engage in discriminatory policing. >> reporter: this announcement just 11 days after the city saw some of the worst riots in recent years, and then charges brought against six police officers in the death of freddie gray. the investigation launched at the urging of baltimore officials hoping to begin the healing process. >> such an investigation is essential if we are going to build on the foundation of reforms that we have instituted over the past few years. >> reporter: attorney general loretta lynch and her team will look to see if baltimore police engaged in a pattern of civil rights violations. >> if unconstitutional policies or practices are found, we will seek a court enforceable agreement to address those issues. >> reporter: which means the justice department can change the police department's policies and procedures. the investigation echoes what was done in ferguson missouri after the death of michael brown last summer. the department of justice collecting massive amounts of electronic data and doing extensive interviews ultimately deciding that the police department had racial bias in its patterns and practices. baltimore the police commissioner sat down with cnn and acknowledged a divide between the community and the police. >> there is a lack of trust within this community. period bottom line. that's going to take healing. that's going to take us acknowledging as a a police department, not just here in baltimore but law enforcement as a whole we've been part of the problem. >> reporter: the city's fraternal order of police is firing back in a statement saying it wants the mayor to be part of the probe. now, we've certainly seen these investigations before. most recently of course you remember this jake. the investigation by the doj into the ferguson police department. i was there throughout that entire time that they were investigating. took them about a little over earn six months to get through it. this is a much bigger department with a lot more data to look at. a lot more interviews to do. i mean they really do an extensive, extensive investigation. so i wouldn't expect to see the results of this for some time to come jake. >> all right. sara sidner in baltimore. thank you so much. another police-related story. moving images out of new york today. tens of thousands of police from all over the country showed up to pay respects to 25-year-old brian moore, and an nypd officer whose life was cut short in a cowardly act of violence. moore and another officer shot sitting in an unmarked police car over the weekend. he died of his injuries days later. 9 suspect identified as demetrius blackwell will likely face a first-degree murder charge. live in seaford, new york, where the funeral was held. an officer who made a name for himself and only on the job a few years? >> reporter: right. he sure had. and officer moore tonight is detective brian moore, because posthumously given that designation in his funeral today. we know he was on the force just almost five years. 150 arrests, two commendation medals and everyone loved him and respected him. the funeral today, there were thousands of officers here from all over the country. the procession began bringing his casket from the funeral home to here the church with hundreds of cops on motorcycles, finally the color guard, and then there were the bagpipes and then there was the funeral. you know said in the funeral that his vocation was to become a police officer, vocation go into the danger not back away from the danger. and it was new york police commissioner bill bratton that really broadened the thought here today at the funeral. that the pulse of some in this country today is not for law enforcement. listen. >> brian's death comes at a time of great challenge in this country. police officers across the country, we are increasingly bearing the brunt of loud criticism. we cannot be defined by that criticism. what is lost in the shouting and rhetoric is the context of what we do. >> reporter: and i will tell you officers that i saw here today from florida to arizona to california to massachusetts to connecticut to new jersey and all over the state of new york and his mother was given the flag as that casket was carried out, and you can imagine her thoughts. his whole family is law enforcement. father uncle, cousins, all law enforcement here in new york. jake? >> detective moore, rest in peace. jean casarez, thank you. coming up what jeb bush is telling donors behind closed doors about the role his brother george w. plays on his campaign. it's something he hasn't exactly said publicly. that's ahead. plus what it's like to grow up in north korea. talking about spreading the word of dear leader. our own cnn reporter is inside the hermit kingdom. stay with us. thank you for being a sailor, and my daddy. thank you mom, for protecting my future. thank you for being my hero and my dad. military families are thankful for many things. the legacy of usaa auto insurance could be one of them. our world-class service earned usaa the top spot in a study of the most recommended large companies in america. if you're current or former military or their family, see if you're eligible to get an auto insurance quote. welcome back to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. our money lead today good news in the economy. new labor department numbers show the u.s. gained 2,023 jobs dropping unemployment to the lowest level in seven years. president obama praised the news during an appearance at nike headquarters where he also promoted the pacific straight agreement but labor and left-leaning groups hammered the president for his remarks. and for appearing at swoosh hq. "the only thing weaker than sweat shop king nike's empty promises at the white house's willing flz to hype them as a victory in its push for a trade deal making it easier for other huge corporations to ship more u.s. jobsover seas." labor practices have come under fire but the company says 10,000 new jobs will be created here in the u.s. if the proposed trade agreement moves forward. should we go to cnn's michelle kaczynski live in the white house? let's do it. michelle did the president acknowledge the criticism coming his way today from his fellow democrats? >> reporter: he did and has to. this has become quite the battle over the last several weeks. seeing big groups jump in. workers groups labor unions pro-business groups all fighting over this and using strong language. this is one of those very weird political scenarios where even though over the last year it seems like republicans have been willing to criticize literally everything president obama has done and said this is one area where republicans are backing him up, and it's prominent members of his own party slamming the possibility of this deal. elizabeth warren bernie sanders, saying it could be a race to the bottom. this trade deal won't really be good for american workers, and the president himself and the white house have used pretty strong language, too, calling his opponents wrong, and even dishonest in some respects. here's what he said today. >> the only reason i do something is because i think it's good for american workers and the american people and the american economy. i don't have -- yoi don't have any other rationale for doing what i do than i think it's the best thing for the american people and on this issue, on trade, i actually think some of my dearest friends are wrong. they're just wrong. >> reporter: they're just strident strident arguments on both sides. the opponents of fast-track trade authority and the tpp, a big asian trade deal say, well this is going to in some ways mike it easier to outsource jobs and that in reality it's not going to boost working conditions or wages. the white house says just the opposite. and they say that if the u.s. doesn't step in and work with these asian partners then china's going to do that and that's going to make conditions worse overall. jake? >> michelle kakaczynski, thank you so much. publicly distanced himself from his brother's foreign policy legacy to a degree. behind closed doors jeb bush is telling a different story. what is he saying about the role former president bush is having in his campaign? that story, next. then you don't know "aarp". our aarp tek program helps people find better ways to better connect with each other. find more real possibilities at aarp.org/possibilities and when you bundle your home and auto insurance through progressive, you'll save a bundle! 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any place he made a mistake? >> i'm not going to get into that. look that's -- that's not particularly relevant. >> not particularly relevant but jeb seems to be telling a different tale behind closed doors. bring in cnn political reporter sarah. welcome to the show. governor bush attended a private manhattan meeting on tuesday with big donor types. what did he have to say about george w. bush, his older brother? >> reporter: caught flak about foreign policy advisers and trying to reassure where he gets advice on foreign policy. in the midst of that he said named people and then said the person i turn to for advice on foreign policy is george w. bush. >> hmm. interesting. this was a room full of israel conservative israel supporters. perhaps seeking reassurance? >> reporter: they were assured. exactly right. tend to be bush supporters historically. hawkish. looking for a lot of reassurance particularly on israel and how jeb bush would approach israel and why he started talking about his brother in that context. of course what sounds reassuring to this group of prominent republicans is not necessarily reassuring to the rest of the american public. >> right. sarah murray thanks. and former white house communications director under president george w. bush and author of "madam president" i read and wrote a blurb for. thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> great book. i'll get to it in a second. >> first, respond to -- >> exactly, but i know you love them both both jeb bush and george w. bush. if you were advising jeb bush. >> which i am not. >> which you are not. how would you advise him to deal with the george w. bush thing? you can't really distance yourself from your brother, by the same token, a lot of baggage especially when it comes to the war in iraq. >> it's important to note for your viewers the campaign is saying something very different. he was specifically referring to israel. george w. bush has long and deep relationships there. a very strong ally of israel which as you know better than anybody is under constant threat in the region. so i think it's an important issue. going to be important for hillary clinton, too. i don't think israelis feel that israeli/u.s. relations are any other a at a high point. they're not toddlers. it's not like jeb bush needs to call his brother to ask where the bathroom is. the notion you wouldn't ask every former president of both parties for think advice about vital american alliances is ridiculous. >> right. let's talk about the book. the third in the series. president charlotte kramer is the, one of the main characters. >> yep. >> in the book. there's a lot that happens in this book but one of the things that happens gives a big policy speech having to do with abortion without getting into abortion, i wonder if you think women candidates talk about issues differently than men candidates? >> yeah yeah. you and i know each other well enough. that's one of my fantasies, frankly. this book is really it's about this moment in our politics still broken such a put-off to so many people. part of the reason i think women could be one of the solutions to this low point in how appealing politics is to people is that we put people off. there's no tolerance anymore for saying i may be pro-life but i understand that you're pro-choice from the mostnoble part of your belief system or i agree, i believe something very different, disagree with you whether the iraq war was worth it but let's join hands and do something important and lasting for military families. no one hears or sees any of that and i think women are uniquely suited to bring out more of that in politics. >> interesting. there are two women presidential candidates right now. carly fiorina, former hewlett-packard ceo and of course former secretary of state hillary clinton. something i've been thinking about a lot when it comes to either one of those candidates but to be frank, more hillary because she's much more likely to get her party's nomination. >> sure. misleading -- carly at this point is very much a long shot. >> here's the question -- i think that there will probably be a lot of women even moderate women, even republican women, who go into that voting booth assuming hillary clinton's on the ticket, and feel compelled to vote for her because it is so historic 43 men president a woman hasn't and even if she positions her presumably as something of a moderate might do that. i've asked a bunch of republicans, don't you think assumeing your candidate's a male should be extra consideration to putting a woman on the ticket republicans hate ta identity politics thing but i think it's beyond that. >> democrats do too. look the results of the 2008 primary? you would have think more women would walk into the voting booth, i like them both time for a woman. democrats didn't do it when put to the test in 2008. time and time again voters rejected gender politics. different now while president obama promised and end to childish things that's not what has come to pass. i think the opportunity hillary clinton has and carly has, frankly, talk about issues where we know we cannot reach con sense ins. you can't convince someone pro-choice be pro-life, but maybe we can talk about it. it's thefantasy i play with the novels. talk in a way that gets everybody to stay at the table and finish their meal. >> former president clinton, so far, a huge political asset. >> for sure. >> so far -- >> you know all my former bosses call him a friend now. >> so far especially because of the clinton foundation. >> right. >> he's been a little bit more of a problem for the campaign than a help. that will no doubt change in the coming months, but they talked about how he would play a smaller role in this campaign than in 2008. that doesn't seem to have happened yet. >> and i don't know if he's capable of it. we'll find out frankly in the next few months where the country really is. i think we live in a country that swings from center right to center left that's how elections are determined and find out if bill clinton has the constitution to be the dimmer light in the clinton orbit and i'm just as interested in the answer to that question as the first. >> i want to play a little sound from secretary clinton earlier this week where she talked about immigration. >> we can't wait any longer for a path to full and equal citizenship. when they talk about league status that is code for second class status. >> what do you make of that? a lot of republicans seem to call that extreme, but i've heard other observers say she -- she's sending a general election message and putting rubio and jeb in a box? >> george w. bush calmed it a path to legal citizenship after the borders were secure once and for all and the law of the land law enforcement. when george w. bush tried to accomplish it with congress in 2006 and 2005 part of the package. clinton is suggesting there are republicans in the debate. marco rubio has been in the fight trying to get something done. i don't think she's going to succeed in putting marco rubio in a box but the next question for her, how do you do it? her own party wasn't willing to go along with george w. bush or frankly president obama. if there's one policy problem that has been a failure of both president bush's years and president obama's years it's the task of doing something about illegal immigration and doing nothing is probably not a possibility for either party. >> the book is "madam president: a novel." third in a series. you're going to sign this for me before you leave. >> come visit us on "the view." >> anytime. you know i love those lovely ladies. when we come back a rare look at the lives of children inside north korea. schools where individuality is shunned and even recess is critiqued. our exclusive report from inside the hermit kingdom, next. plus an unusual sight over washington earlier today. skies filled with planes. not just any planes. world war ii era bombers and fighters. that's coming up. you total your brand new car. nobody's hurt,but there will still be pain. it comes when your insurance company says they'll only pay three-quarters of what it takes to replace it. what are you supposed to do, drive three-quarters of a car? 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recently given extraordinary access to the country and to a school in the country's capital pyongyang and filed this eye-opening report. >> reporter: the north korean education system is designed to turn out discipline devoted citizens with a heavy focus on the group over the individual and above all else devotion to their supreme leader. [ speaking in foreign language ] if they didn't look so young -- you might not believe they're first graders. by the time they reach elementary school pyongyang students have typically learned their country's most sacred lesson. shedding the individualism of youth for the collectivism of north korean society, and most importantly, loyalty to the leader. >> what do you want to be when you grow up? i'd like to be a journalist to spread the greatness of the marshall king jungong un throughout the land. and the same level of discipline throughout. even outdoor exercises critiqued. classes are praised for moving in unison. these pyongyang orphans will practice for hours until their routine is perfect. demands are even more rigorous at the international football school. north korean athletes are expected to be the best in the world. all students get free uniforms provided by the state, even at the prestigious kim isle soon university. >> how much is the tuition to come to university? >> there's no tuition fee. >> reporter: it's free? >> yes, it is free. >> reporter: a lot of students would really like that i think. >> i mean all of them actually study -- we don't even know the meaning of tuition fee. we just know it by books. >> reporter: the main focus at the university level is science and technology. north korea strives to be strong and modern but only a rare few can access the internet. >> reporter: you have ever been on facebook? >> facebook? what -- what is -- >> reporter: never heard of facebook? >> no. >> reporter: for all the discipline there are brief moments when kids can act like kids. at least until it's time to go back to class. north korean students are now required to finish the 12th grade and all of eligible to apply for university although the entrance exams are highly competitive. north korea teaches its own version of history and current affairs. it's one of the reasons access to the outside world here is so tightly controlled. will ripley cnn, paennsylvaniaa pyongyang, north korea. wolf blitzer is here with a preview of "the situation room." you've been to pyongyang. will is doing great coverage. >> amazing they've given him that access. >> very strange. tell us about your show? talking to house foreign affairs chairman ed royce? >> a lot of issues on the agenda especially now that the u.s. military bases here in the united states are going a little higher state of alert because of isis, maybe because of what happened over the weekend in texas. we go in-depth on that and a lot of controversy going on now. should the u.s. supply weapons directly to the kurds? u.s. allies in northern iraq or should those weapons funneled through baghdad? a lot of members of congress want to send them directly but elements especially shiite radicals in iraq now saying if the u.s. were to do that this legislation were to be passed they would start attacking what they call u.s. interests in iraq. so it's a big subject we're going to get in depth-depth on that as well. >> b were bolf blitzer. thank you. 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they can be military police. they can be doctors, nurses, ss but this was specifically special operations? >> this team of women out every night alongside rangers and other special operations teams officially attached to those teams not assigned to them. that's how it was actually entirely legal. >> reporter: first lieutenant ashley white in the first class to answer the call. >> she was the kind of person who would do something spectacular and kind of look down on the ground shuffle away because, not she didn't know what she done was great, but no need to talk about it and all she saw the opportunity to do her job and her job well. >> reporter: for six weeks ashley and her team endured brutal training mentally and physically. cnn at the time was given rare access. >> we've got a bunch of strong, capable awesome women who can take any challenge that -- that's thrown at us. >> reporter: as soon as the training wrapped, white and her teammates shipped out. >> by the summer of 2011 they were seeing the kind of combat fewer than 5% of the entire military seas alongside fighters of special operations on the battlefields of afghanistan. out there every night running off the bird boarding the bird going to the compound making sure women and children were away from what was happening, searching, questioning, making sure peoples lives were saved as they could be. >> reporter: and women would take off helmets to show they were women and there to keep them safe. on any given night an ordinary mission could turn extraordinary. at an insurgent's compound ashes soldier sterp odd an daisy chained ied triggering a massive explosion that took the life of ashley white and two other rangers. did they see themselves these women, as trailblazers? >> they saw themselves as soldiers who wanted to do the best job they could with the finest fighters they could be around and a mission that deeply mattered to them. that's it for "the lead." i'm jake tapper turning everybody 0er to wolf blitzer in "the situation room." happy mother's day. happening now breaking news. heightened alert. the pentagon ordering increased security at all u.s. military bases amid concerns of isis terror threats against u.s. troops. the fbi now investigating hundreds of suspected isis sympathizers here in the united states. what threats are they looking at? three-way plane crash, a massive fireball as a plane slams into a major interstate killing people. the last-minute maneuver overting a big

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