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this is your a.m. wake-up call. i m carol costello. let s get started with the specific, credible, but unconfirmed terrorist threat against the united states involving three people, vehicle and bombs and possible targets in new york new york and washington. new york city mayor michael bloomberg says there there will be additional police officers throughout the city, but no one should change their daily routines. leaders in the nation s cappal the telling people to remain calm and vigilant. there are people together scrubbing through mounds of data looking for potential leads of individuals where suspicion may arise around them. let s talk with cnn national security contributor fran townsend who joins me live from washington. tell me what you know of these three people. is it car bombs? what are we talking about exactly? carol, we ve gotten the information in bits and pieces as we often do in the early stages. the threat information they got only in the last 24 to 36 ....
Secretary jay carney did express concerns about the potential impact of those images. well, i ll be candid that there are sensitivities here in terms of the appropriateness of releasing photographs of osama bin laden, and in the aftermath of this fire fight. we re making an evaluation about the need to do that because of the sensitivities involved. does it serve or in any way harm our interests? that is not just domestic, but globally. it s fair to say it s a gruesome photograph. when asked if president obama is involved in this photo discussion, carney said the president is involved in every aspect of the issue. you have panetta says one thing, the white house another. no decision yet made about whether or not to release the photograph. the white house is also now pulling back from its initial account of the raid that led to osama bin laden s death. new details of the al queda leader s final moments came out yesterday as obama administration officials clarified part of the story ....