democracy? reporter: there are many accusations that this is all a plot by the muslim brotherhood to destabilize the situation to create animosity against the ruling military and then to win in all of these different elections. the parliamentary leaks in one week, then all of the subsequent elections that are supposed to follow. but being in the square, yes, there are members of the muslim brotherhood. yes, there are even more radical islamists but there are also just students, the same people who were here nearly a year ago to demand that mubarak step down. also you have to understand since mubarak stepped down, a lot has happened in egypt. people have been arrested. people have been sent to military trials. a lot of those family members, people who feel that they were egrieved by this military government have also come out into the streets. richard, thanks so much. stay safe. officials in new york city have arrested a man accused of plotting to bomb nypd patrol cars and postal
police say the 27-year-old man was an al qaeda sympathizer who planned to target u.s. soldiers returning home from the wars abroad. wnbc s investigator reporter is here with the latest. jonathan, the suspect was inspired by al qaeda propaganda but he didn t have any direct links to the group. correct? that s what authorities are saying. they are saying he was literally reading al qaeda s inspire magazine to learn about bomb formulas, how to build a bomb at home. he was in contact with an nypd informant and apparently traveled to home depot and some other stores picking up supplies that he thought could be used to build pipe bombs. authorities are saying, look, this is not a major terror plot targeting the city. he was only trying to build three or four pipe bombs, if you will. but nonetheless, they were concerned because he had a radical website that he created of his own calling for attacks on u.s. soldiers, voicing support for al qaeda, and they say he then went and took overt
engines! road rage. nascar crowd boos the first lady before the last race of the season. this is your am: wake up call. and good morning to you. it is monday, november 21st from the time warner center in new york, i m carol costello. an accused terrorist behind bars in new york city this morning. 27-year-old jose was a u.s. citizen who was taken into custody on saturday and arraigned late last night. he s accused of building homemade bombs and plotting to plant them in police cars and they say he planned to target u.s. troops arriving home from iraq and afghanistan. the supercommittee ending up like all the other mere mortal committees announcing they failed and the trigger about to go off to an automatic across the board budget cuts. 20 people killed as protesters returned to cairo s tahrir square and things take an ugly square just one week from elections. let s head to atlanta and get a check of today s weather. meteorologist bonnie schneider is in. good morn
christine is busy preparing a thanksgiving feast for thursday. it s a full week. and ali is preparing to eat one. that s right. so they re off today. i m carol costello along with alina cho. welcome to american morning. first, new details in a plot to plant pipe bombs in and around new york city. 27-year-old jose pimentel, arraigned and made bail an hour ago. a muslim convert to plotted to bomb nypd pa control car, post office and returning u.s. troops and he was doing much more than just talking about it. our deb feyerick is here to tell us more and it appears this lone wolf was acting alone. reporter: absolutely and under surveillance about two years. jose pimentel, 27 years old, preparing as many as three pipe bombs. had he built and executed them properly he could have killed upwards of a dozen people. before arrested the nypd bomb experts built and detonate add similar device. you see it on the screen. they showed it last night. the device was detonated ins
acts, positive steps in trying to obtain materials like the ones you are seeing here that were presented at a press conference last night to show the type of device he was trying to build. not very sophisticated but they did play a tape at that press conference that showed the type of explosion, the type of force that type of device could have had if it had gone off, here s the video. that s the type of device they say he wanted to set off. the defense lawyer says, look, this guy s not sophisticated and he was not shy about sharing his views but he s no terrorist and there will be a lot of questions about this informant as to whether and how far he went in terms of providing the supplies, leading this guy along. we re hearing there may be some mental issues. there may be some drug problems. so some questions as to how much a terror suspect this really is. the fbi was apprised of this case and decided not to get involved. this was an nypd case and state