trump following soon after. going head to head tonight in a showdown filled with political land mines that could be hazardous to both campaigns. we will have full team coverage with live reports from atlanta. a detailed review of the last showdown. a look back at presidential moments with michael beschloss. the supreme court releasing that idaho abortion case, similar to restrictions in six other states that was mistakenly posted online yesterday, confirming the court will not decide yet whether hospitals have to provide emergency abortions preserving the current federal requirement they do for now, but sparking a furious dissent from justice sotomayor. a damage settlement overturned, meaning years of negotiations have to start over. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. we are just hours away from what could be a turning point. until now, it has been a closely fought race between president biden and former president trump. that could change tonight. t
fe ailford used rdx, a white powder. he filled three-quarters with the concoction and the rest with toothpaste. it smells and tastes like toothpaste. i have presented this in such a way that somebody giving it a casual inspection will probably pass it. reporter: the size of the container that alford used is the size you place in checked baggage, but two smaller containers this size, which traditionally you can carry onto a plain, can also be used. these tubes would have to be either attached or placed near each other to create a similar explosion as the one you just saw. they can be detonated by a heat source. erin? all right. when we talk about the heat source, this is not just some sort of a hypothetical, right, that they said they re going to do this and authorities are worried. a toothpaste bomb has been used on passenger jet before. reporter: it has. in october 1976, anti-castro cuban operatives hid explosives
similar effects. a toothpaste bomb has brought down a plane before, in october 1976, anti-castro cuban operatives hid explosives in a tube and brought down a flight over the caribbean. more than 70 people were killed. as for the current threat, the concern about the use of toothpaste tubes has focused mostly on flights from europe and neighboring asian countries into russia. one u.s. official says the u.s. intelligence community is still assessing the overall credibility and scope of this threat, wolf. and beyond the u.s. ban on the taking some of these products on board with you into the cabin, i understand russian authorities are doing something along the same lines. they ve done it as well. they did it just before the u.s. did it, as rene reported earlier, the russian authorities have banned liquids on all airline carry-on baggage ahead of the olympics according to a russian news agency reports. even now containers of this size, you can t carry on as far as a russian airliner
way that somebody giving it a casual inspection will probably pass it. reporter: the size of the container alfred used is the size that you have to place in checked baggage at an airport but two smaller containers this size, which you can carry on a plane, can also be used. these tubes would have to be attached or near each other to create an explosion that can be detonated by a heat source. this is not a hypothetical development. there has been a reported case that s been well-documented where a toothpaste bomb exploded a plane? absolutely, there has, wolf. october 1976. anti-castro cuban operative hid explosives in a tube of colgate that brought down a flight over the caribbean. more than 70 people were killed in that. bombing. it didn t take much. i know you have more on the tests that we commissioned. thanks, brian todd reporting. up next, we re getting new
government, national and state and local is called on to assume more obligations to its citizens. that s fdr in october, 1976. he s running for re-election. it s not a lame duck that is about his fourth case. it sounds like another planet given the tax politics. in the history you have been studying, is that an outlier or close to what the argument has been? lawmakers made the argument in two ways. you clearly try to link the revenue raising that you want to do to the social investments. the malloy approach. exactly. the way to do it is training on the austerity that is going to result if you don t bite the bullet. look at california. it was the vanguard of that movement. in this past election, facing a fiscal cliff of its own, the