Bin laden is long gone, and today the head of the f. B. I. Said that when it comes to threats to america, al qaeda has been surpassed by another terror group, isis. Heres chip reid. Isil is not your parents al qaeda. Reporter f. B. I. Director james comey told the Aspen Security Forum that the reason isis, also called isil, has surpassed al qaeda as a danger to the u. S. , is because it has mastered twitter and other social media. With al qaeda if you wanted to consume their propaganda, you had to go find it somewhere on the web. Reporter but with isis. If you want to talk the a terrorist, theyre right there on twitter direct messaging to communicate with. Reporter elliot zweig is with the middle east Media Research institute. The way that isis does it is it puts out a message among several accounts, but that message is then picked up and distributed and redistributed and reredistributed. In the way of crowd source, it sees thousands and tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands in a
No more. Bin laden is long gone, and today the head of the f. B. I. Said that when it comes to threats to america, al qaeda has been surpassed by another terror group, isis. Heres chip reid. Isil is not your parents al qaeda. Reporter f. B. I. Director james comey told the Aspen Security Forum that the reason isis, also called isil, has surpassed al qaeda as a danger to the u. S. , is because it has mastered twitter and other social media. With al qaeda if you wanted to consume their propaganda, you had to go find it somewhere on the web. Reporter but with isis. If you want to talk the a terrorist, theyre right there on twitter direct messaging to communicate with. Reporter elliot zweig is with the middle east Media Research institute. The way that isis does it is it puts out a message among several accounts, but that message is then picked up and distributed and redistributed and reredistributed. In the way of crowd source, it sees thousands and tens of thousands and hundreds of thous
Take full advantage because we do have some clouds developing later today. And then we have much colder temperatures by the end of this week. Current temperature for mt. Pocono, 40 degrees, allentown at 51. Pottstown, 49 degrees for you. But notice, the temperatures are really mild right now. In fact, were seeing westerly winds, pretty comfortable. Lancaster and reading currently at 50 degrees. Again, i cannot stress this enough, take advantage of it, because by tomorrow, temperatures are going to only top out in the 40s and 30s by saturday and yes by sunday. As for the forecast today, plenty of sunshine at 1 00 p. M. In philadelphia seeing upper 50s to low 60s. Same deal in the p. A. Suburbs. Notice im going to keep plenty of sunshine in the forecast because its not until the second half of the day when we start developing clouds and a wintery mix moving in from west to east. Coming up in just a bit i do have your most accurate tenday forecast. Starting out at roosevelt boulevard, thi
Acres have burned, forcing hundreds to evacuate camp grounds and hotels. No one has been hurt. Another wildfire is burning in Northern California near napa valley wine country. Ben tracy is there. Reporter massive lines of flames chewed up the rugged hillsides, fanned by 15to20 mileperhour winds. The fire created what looked like a thundercloud of smoke. Animals in this rural area fled the flames, which sneaked up on christina hafner. I saw a red glow. About another 40 minutes later it was up and over the ridge and headed straight toward us. Reporter investigators believe the wildfire began with a fire from a car crash on a nearby highway wednesday afternoon. We got to go back down. Reporter it quickly spread from 25 acres to 6,000 in just a few hours. But an allout aerial bombardment and 1,300 firefighters on the ground dramatically slowed the flames. A nearby lake has allowed water dropping helicopters to fill up faster and drop their 324gallon payload. Cal fires joe fletcher says th