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Know this happened just before 5 00 tonight the recall to that residence of neighborhood for a service call please not say specifically why recall their but officers say there was a shooting that occurred a short time later in that area. Grant lodes we do have a crew on the scene just before 5 00 this also involves shooting of a normally quiet neighborhood will have the very latest on the breaking news as soon as we learn more. Vicki liviakis flames burn right here and hes been neighborhood the fire ignited by eagle fireworks this park explosion that is to consider all the contra costa county. Reporter this all started the fire it is almost hard to believe our brush fire can get this begged but and dry when the weather is no surprises is also no surprise soloist law would fireworks on the july 3rd and even as we walk through a neighborhood leading up to marsh creek were heard lied booms and the middle of the afternoon when woman said they did go off since thurston the captain this fire ....
Extremist group al morabitum which we havent really heard of before. How big is this is the first part of the question and secondly how do you rank the groups and their threats toward the homeland . Which one should we be the most wary of . Let me bite that off in a couple of different chunks madam vice chair. We did point out in our statement this year to the emergence of this group in north africa which is an offshoot on which is al qaeda and ghraib, and internal fights about direction is a group that we know of as the al mura battalion which includes known links to al qaeda and they have engaged in internal feuding that has put them into separate organizations from the way we look at them. We look at that grouping as a significant threat to our interest in and across north africa. As far as the ability to project a threat potentially to the homeland i would describe that as more potential than actual at this point but they certainly have taken note of what happened in western europe ....
Traveled to syria or attempted to travel there and who will return home. At least 3400 of them are from western europe. And that includes visa waiver countries, where theyre a plane ticket away from the United States. What we dont know is how many people are inside the United States following isil, and who are becoming inspired to carry out their own attacks. Separately al qaeda remains focused on conducting attacks against or homeland while aq in the ungoverned areas of pakistan may bes weak as it has been in many years, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, or aqap still poses a clear threat. The group is enjoying a safe haven in yemen, with the huiti the group has already attempted to sense nonmetallic and essentially undetectible bombs into our country on four occasions, beginning with the Christmas Day 2009 bomb. Aq has p ....
The turks have taken a significant role in trying to crack down on that, and we are an ongoing conversations about other things that might be done as part of the coalition, but as we speak right now, there are Kurdish Forces and Free Syrian Army forces moving. Thanks to a land bridge established by the turks, again, bringing pressure murder from the Iraqi Kurdish region and britney in free syrian force is going to turkey. I think that is up premise, there is some conflict. They have played a lead role in making this happen. As a result, the real forces detonated to help of fall lawn are coming into place. So, again, turkey is a close, close ally and the critical part of the coalition. Michele. Michele done from the carnegie endowment. Some of the arab members of the coalition against isil also have different definitions ....
This is just the first baby step in that direction. Were animating the inanimate world around us. If you project forward a little bit, its mind boggling to even thing what will be possible in a short period of time. And its not surprising that this is creating a certain angst about technology. The second revolution thats occurring, every bit as profound, which is made possible by this first revolution, is the biotech revolution. And whats happening there is that life through us, through our cerebral cortises, through all of our devices is learning the processes, understanding at an intimate level the processes of life at such a level that we can begin to intervene and tweak them and adjust them in ways and thats something thats a central part of all the possibilities of medicine and biology and Life Sciences that are arriving today. Its a step that nothing will ever be the same. Its like life is beginning to control its own future ....