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Good evening, everyone. Im erin burnett. Cnn has learned that al qaeda is in the final stages of planning a terrorist attack. The threat comes from al qaeda in yemen. The state department has issued a Global Travel alert to american citizens abroad and plans to shut down 21 embassies. Now this warning is broad, never heard of anything quite so broad before. How much more do you know at this point . Well, erin, what our sources are telling us here at cnn is that the threat centers around al qaeda in yemen. They have been watching a threat stream. And they call it not the usual threat stream, for several weeks and in recent days. It began to come together. And they really do feel that they have a very, serious credible threat from al qaeda in yemen. The question on the table, of course is, is it directed at a target in yemen, a lot of concern about the u. S. Embassy in yemen, but you have the broader threat that theyre addressing by ....