a suspected lone wolf from carrying out a bombing campaign in the city. 27-year-old jose pementol, a u.s. citizen and native of the dominican republic and a convert to islam was taken into custody saturday afternoon as he was allegedly constructing a pipe bomb. police commissioner raymond kelly says he was planning on building three bombs. mayor bloomberg said the suspect was intent on killing. the police also constructed a duplicate of an explosive device that the suspect built and then designated in a way he intended to use the weapon. we want to show you a video about the resulting damage. the man allegedly got the materials from home depot and other stores. he followed instructions from al awaki s inspired magazine to first acquire the bomb-making materials and then assemble them. he relied on a particularly notorious article called how to make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom. let s bring in cnn s deborah feyerick who has been working on this story all evening.
27-year-old jose pimentel, a u.s. citizen and native of the dominican republic and a convert to islam was taken into custody saturday afternoon as he was allegedly constructing a pipe bomb. police commissioner raymond kelly says he was planning on building three bombs. mayor bloomberg said the suspect was intent on killing. the police also constructed a duplicate of an explosive device that the suspect built and then designated in a way he intended to use the weapon. we want to show you a video about the resulting damage. well, pimentel allegedly got the materials from home depot and other stores. he followed instructions from al awlaki s inspired magazine to first acquire the bomb-making materials and then assemble them. he relied on a particularly notorious article called how to make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom. let s bring in cnn s deborah feyerick who has been working on this story all evening. and with us from washington, cnn national security analyst peter
live from america news headquarters. time is running out for the special congressional super committee. they have until tomorrow night to produce legislation that would slash more than a trillion dollars from the national deficit. so far we re told there is no deal in sight. republicans and democrats are already talking about the possibility of military spending. one month after moammar khadafy s death there are reports that his son was captured. the u.s. state department cannot confirm his capture. they say they caught him as two idz tried to smuggle him into niger. he is facing his role in the
i m jamie colby. great to you have here. this is a brand-new hour of america s news headquarters. topping this hour, no deal in sight for the special congressional super committee. they ve only got days left until they have the legally mandated deadline. they re asked to slash more than a trillion dollars from our national deficit. republicans and democrats already talking about the possibility of a grim endgame where there would be a bottom line of harsh cuts to military and entitlement spending. and we go now to molly live in washington with the very latest about all this. molly, are we seeing progress from the super committee so far? hi, kelly. hi, jamie. you never know what s going on behind closed doors in washington and inside conversations, but both democrats and republicans on the super committee are talking about the gap that existed from day one for this group, that they just can t seem to bridge. republicans say democrats are balking at gop proposals for spending cut