hours ago at a free speech event. witnesses say the gunmen stormed the meeting firing as many as 30 or 40 shots, a 40 -year-old killed, and three police officers wounded. the possible target of the attack was a cartoonist lars vilks, stirring up controversy with cartoons of the profit mohammed and they ran into a storage room together and held hands until being rescued by the police. vilks' life has been in dangerous for years. in 2013, he was pictured on a wanted dead or alive al qaeda magazine and the danish prime minister issued a statement that reads in part denmark today has been hit by a cynical violent attack everything points to that the shooting in oesterbro was a political assassination and therefore a terror attack. thoughts and prayers go to the

victims and families. we are going to tv 2 in copenhagen and police issued a photo of a man they believe to be connected to the attack. what do you know about this? >> caller: well first we believe there were two men who was behind the attack, but after they have been talking to a lot of witnesses, it's one man, a man dressed in dark clothes. the photo has been taken from an automatic photo system near the place where the man dropped a car that he stole from another man just after the attack. police is asking everybody to look out for this man, and if somebody knows him or if this man has nothing to do with the shooting they ask him to report to the police. >> so, the picture may or may not be connected at this point, is that correct? you're hearing that a vehicle has been abandon somewhere near the subway? if that's true the gunmen could

be anywhere i suppose? >> caller: they could be anywhere. i just heard a report from the border between den marc and germany and seems the border patrol is stopping all cars now. i suppose they think he can be anywhere. the prime minister and the police have asked everybody to keep an open eye and report to the police if anything looks suspicious or out of state. >> astrid what are the response people are having to the attack? are people responding as if this is like their "charlie hebdo," is that what you're hearing? >> it is strange. denmark we have been considered a target for quite a while now, and it does not seem like people are surprised. it's happened in the middle of

copenhagen, basically in the sender of copenhagen but in a place where not many people live just next to the national futbol stadium, but people -- we thought they would attack our train stations, somewhere with a lot of people, and at this point, it was a small meeting. >> all right, astrid thank you very much for keeping us on top of this and we'll get back to you as events warrant. thank you for the time. we appreciate it. joining me now with insight into the frightening attack our cnn senior international correspondent, nic puentes, and author of "agent storm: my life inside al qaeda," and james reese. nic, what do you know now in terms of what happened here? >> well, we know 30 bullets were

fired approximately from what the police describe from an automatic web. it may have been a small machine gun or a machine pistol they are saying. they are not clear on that at the moment. it's not clear if both men were the attackers, or if one was planned to be the driver, but the police returned fire. there were three policemen or three people -- three police or security personnel injured. one was a police officer, the other two worked for pet, a danish intelligence service. there were body guards there, inside they returned fire and the three injured, but not seriously injured. what the police are saying they are doing now is pulling in resources. they got all their staff on koep hague p on duty pulling staff from other parts of the country in the man hunt. it's a very serious, being taken very very seriously with the prime minister of denmark this evening asking the german and

swedish, two land borders, road borders, with denmark to monitor borders closely. we heard, in fact the border with germany does right now appear to be closed. the road has been shut. so this is a level it's being taken to, a huge man hunt for men who are considered it appears, armed and dangerous. >> and tom, danish officials call it a terrorist attack. how -- can we call it that at this point, you think? >> yeah jim, i think we can. the target has been a target for years. the attacks against the danes and the swedish have gone back to 2006 and 2007 publications of cartoons of the prophet mohammed and at the time they first came out, those many years ago, danish embassies were attacked all over the world. there were riots. hundreds of people died in those riots in a number of countries. and the danish police the fbi and other authorities have uncovered a number of plots over

these recent seven or eight years, to attack the cartoonist in denmark and in stockholm, sweden and also one in the u.s. jihad jane putting together a group to do the same thing. it's nothing new. that's why they are pretty sure it's terrorism. >> this attack happened weeks after the "charlie hebdo" massacre in paris, talking about cartoonists here trying to express their right to free speech here but depictions of the prophet mohammed can provoke violence. do you think it's possible because it's just coming weeks after that attack in paris, that these events are connected in some way? >> well certainly seems likely the motivation here is the same and what you have is jihadists essentially making sure everyone in europe knows if you do these

thing, you engage in this mockery of the prophet, your life may be at risk. they don't attack everyone in the matter in order for it to have a widespread effect and people to change behavior as a result of it. while i appreciate there was very large march after charlie hebdo and the moment of unity, but the threat does not diminish because of that. they still very much want to attack people seen as offender islam or in the jihadist view point seen as offending the prophet, and so you have to think that the motivation here is the same. otherwise it's quite a coincidence to have a shooting at a forum discussing blasphemy and there's a figure we know had threats on his life. one important point, by the way, this is not a soft target. they went after an individual who had security there were security personnel in place. clearly, the symbolism of the attack was more important than mass casualties. there are easier targets for higher casualties, but wanted to go after vilks to make a point

on blasphemy. >> from what we understand in the initial details coming out of this attack is that vilks had protection. which is something i suppose these attackers were not counting on? >> yeah jim. vilks had protection from pet, which is danish intelligence. he had boyd guards someone who is protected to a very significant degree when he comes over to denmark to give these talk, and so there were fears he could be targeted. this is someone on isis and al qaeda hit lists for many years. in fact in 2007 the leader of isis put out a hundred thousand dollar bounty if someone were to go and kill vilks and $50,000 bonus to slit his throat. al qaeda threatened him. al shabab threatened him, the cartoon put out in 2007 depicting mohammed as a dog,

he's been on a hit list for al qaeda and isis. no clear if they were inspired by al qaeda or isis or people connected to the groups not clear if perhaps, they were people who travelled to syria, for example, about a hundred danish radicals traveled to fight in syria and some returned to denmark. >> colonel reese, will this just continue and continue? see incidents play out over and over again as these jihadists who have access to major fire power in areas where there's not a lot of protection. in this case this lars vilks had protection. are we just seeing more episodes in the days weeks, and months to come? >> yeah jim, unfortunately, it is, it will continue and we'll see other attacks throughout europe and i think, you know as folks back here in homeland security they anticipate attacks back here in the united states. it's something to watch for, and it's something to figure out especially countering their propaganda to bring down their

recruiting base along europe and we -- that's why i think we're hurting now. how do we counter propaganda to help recruitment? >> all right, well jenmen thank you for the for the time and laying that out there for us just another reminder that free speech is under attack around the world by these jihadist, and thank you for putting it in perspective for us. thank you for the time. don't miss tonight, nic and paul in a special report, "double agent: inside al qaeda for the kri cia," a man who embraced islam before becoming a double agent for the cia airs tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn. more on the attacks and an earlier interview with the possible target lars vilks, himself, and a dire warning in iraq about the collapse of a key province to isis. we'll discuss that threat and ask a key member of congress

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dire warnings today that iraq's anbar province could face collapse from imminent isis fighters and they predict a fall within hours in iraqi forces pull back. isis on friday took control of al baghdadi and the outskirts were under attack friday, and the pentagon says u.s. troops at the base were far removed from the fighting with no evacuation planned. it's against this backdrop they take up president obama's official request to use military force against isis. a retired marine corp. general said he would like to see modifications to the war

authorization. >> i'd like to see the language changed to give him more authority to use other forces. i don't like theed didea it's limited to three years. time lines don't mean anything this in part of the world. i understand why he put a time limit in but it more has to do with mission. i don't think we would have begin roosevelt three years to win world war ii. some of the language i would hope maybe gets changed in the congressional language that comes out of this in debate but i do think that going to congress is the right thing. >> and the house committee on forp affairs is hotting hearings on the president's request, and chairman ed royce is joining us from los angeles. thank you for joining us. let me ask you this as that war authorization currently stands right now, would you vote for it? >> well, i think as the war authorization before congress, we are going to debate it. in my committee, we begin the

process on thursday. i'm sure there's going to be some amendments and there will be an attempt to bring the republicans and democrats together. i think it's very important we come together and support an authorization for this reason. so far isis has recruited 20,000 20,000 fighters from around the world from 90 different countries, so unless we're going to put together a di ceasive strategy to show that they can be defeated on the battlefield, they'll continue to message out over the internet they cannot be stopped, and in order to stop them, we primarily need kurdish forces, jordan forces, arab tribes on the front lines. as you know so far, the kurds and jordanians say we have not given them weaponry needed to engage isis effectively, so and likewise they need air support from us and special forces you know spotting calling in air

strikes, and providing other support mind these troops. >> but, mr. chairman -- >> i think -- yes? >> let me ask you this as you know though the devil's in the details, and perhaps you are being kind to the members of your committee by not coming in too strongly on one specific provision over another, but this three-year time limit, you heard anthony mention he's not in favor of that that that should be expanded and roosevelt couldn't have been expected to win world war ii in three years, what about that time limit? is that okay with you? >> well i don't know where congress comes down on the time limit. i tell you concerns raised. one, you notice today british and canadian forces have their spotters forward deployed so that when they are helping the air strikes, they can actually see the targets effectively, and those strikes are effective. ours are not forward deployed and so issues like this giving

the authority to conduct those strikes, also i point out their air strikes are made in realtime those decisions don't go out to washington and wait and then hold in advance as washington agrees on a fargt or allows an air strike. i think we'll have a discussion here certainly with the pentagon with special forces about what can be done to make them effective. certainly, with the kurds, we know the administration has not given the antitank missiles or artillery or long range missiles they say they need. they have small arms fire against isis artillery. we have to get engaged in the debate in order to make certain that we can have a decisive victory there. >> mr. chairman just very quickly before i ask you about the events in copenhagen i want to ask you, though u.s. forces when they go into iraq under this authorization, the president does not want them in an open ended commitment there

under this aumf but how far should they be able to go in these operations? you mentioned air strikes. you want strikes to be more effective. obviously, you want them calling out air strikes. how much combat should they be seeing? >> well you have 3,000 u.s. forces on the ground today. i think it should be understood that we are involved in training right now, and we are assisting those arab tribes. we certainly hope to be equipping better the kurds and jordanianseniorjordanians because they are up here asking for that support. so i think we will be working behind them. i think they'll be carrying the major battle. we're not looking to put the 22 22nd airborne in operation, but that said you need rules of engagement that allow for victory, and that's going to

require a certain cooperative relationship in which we can call in the air strikes needed and give the support necessary for the front line forces which will be arab tribes and kurds. >> hey, mr. chairman on these events coming out of copenhagen very similar to what occurred in paris a month ago. what's your immediate reaction to that? obviously, this is a very serious situation if we're going to see these events sort of unfold month after month over there in western europe. you must be very concerned about what you're seeing today. >> well, it's not just western europe. there was an attempt in australia that was prevented -- >> that's right. >> i think it was tuesday. now you have large isis units operating in libya, also operating in egypt, certainly, we've watched things in nigeria unfold and so the recruitment around the world for people to

join the war for this is something that will be with us for a long time. this takes us back to the original point. they have to see it defeated. they can't believe it's inevitable that they are going to wipe out other religions and wipe out enlightenment and wipe out other points of view. it is an attempt, frankly, to use terror to use beheadings, to use stoning, to use burning in order to strike enough fear into populations and also to recruit young men and unless that's decisively defeated in this isis battle it's going to continue to have its allure and its pull on young men. >> absolutely. chairman royce, we appreciate your time very much. thank you for coming on to talk about this and hope to talk to you soon thank you, sir. >> thank you, jim. >> coming up a deadline for both sides in ukraine to stop

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ceasefire is supposed to take effect in ukraine, but as deadline nears, shelling continues near the russian border in the cities of donetsk raising concerns the cease jr. fire may not hold. russian ariantillery is helping gape effects, and bam bas dor posted three pictures on his twitter account to make the point, and says if separatists do not cease fire he'll impose martial law throughout the country, and the ceasefire may be those responsible for the rocket attacks that caused the crash of mh-17 would not be granted amnesty. that is a problem within this. it's a region rocked by heavy violence for weeks now, more than 5,000 died and civilians and fighters have been reportedly killed today, and cnn

nick paton walsh, and from what i understand in the last several moments, you heard shelling yourself. what's happening there? >> reporter: yeah just give a moment to pause so maybe you can hear some of the noises. there's a full-on artillery happening on that side from the live position for a while. just now, the sky was actually orange what i think must have been a rocket system. devices landing here inside donetsk separatist controlled territory. hearing this consistently. you hear that sounds like outgoing artillery fire and will be armed by something landing here. not the sound of a ceasefire-under-par a hundred minutes away from the noise to stop the two sides before having to stop for a while, but it feels unlikely given the tenure of what's happening now. we know that john kerry,

according to the russian foreign ministry has been talking, that's incoming and they talk about the need for a ceasefire to be upheld. we heard that too, breathing out from the ukrainian president with president obama and merkel and french leaders too. there's a lot of activity to make it but there was a flaw. there was a delay from signed to implementation. we hear the consequence of that behind us now. there's another key question a town that's become international currency previously unknown a week ago when we went there. there's a hundred, if not a thousand ukrainian troops encircled by separatists. the question is what happens to them, kiev considers, of course that to be ukraineian territory, and not dealt with by the agreements. that's a potential flash point, and that could derail the agreement potentially in the hour and a half before the guns

are supposed to fall silent. give you a moment to hear the noise, jim. >> i was just saying nick i think we hear it as you speak right now. if this violence does not stop and you said a hundred minutes from now, what happens next? >> reporter: yeah jim, i'm losing you in my ear, but, yes, we heard this consistently since we got here ten days. it does not let up. it's concerning because that sound of shelling has moved closer and closer towards the city center four or five shells landed close to our hotel today and also separatists close to the separatist leaders residence here reports going to a witness who spoke two two people died in that shelling here. that's not abnormal in central donetsk. it's been going on for a while. remember this plays into whether a ceasefire will work or not. when we first came here the uprising movement felt

artificial and imported but since the war's gone on shelling poorly targeted so many areas killing civilians in the wake that has hardened so many people spoke to here who remain in separatist area in kiev a sense of loathing more shelling behind us now, a sense of how hard it is for ukraine to be united in the way it was two years ago after the war has been here jim. >> nick paton walsh live from eastern ukraine as shelling is taking place, as he said just minutes before this cease fire is supposed to take place. nick stay safe. thank you very much. appreciate it. he was getting safe there in the last seconds of that live report. coming up just ahead, a man hunt jurnway in copenhagen after a deadly attack at the event, a cartoonist who depicted the prophet mohammed can the attacks be stopped? that's ahead. fofofofofofofofofofofofor fastidious librarian emily skinner, each day was fueled by thorough preparation for events to come. well somewhere along the way emily went right on living.

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the entire country of denmark on high alert after this a deadly terrorist attack at a free speech event in copenhagen. two gunmen stormed the meeting killing one person and wounding three police officers. here's how one witness described it. >> caller: there was nothing before the shots. it was quiet and peaceful debate. the french ambassador had just said a few words about the "charlie hebdo" incident and yeah just a meeting about the conditions about the freedom of speech today, and the limits on art, and self-censorship, and these things. i think we were all of 35 people there, and it was very peaceful until we suddenly heard the shots, like out of nowhere. >> police issued a photo of a

man they believe is connected to the attack. they also found a volkswagen carjacked near the scene of the shooting outside a subway station. rejoining us now, tom, the attack comes weeks after the massacre in paris. you know after that occurred in paris, you know the authorities, obviously, fanned out, tried to find the perpetrators and what is that process like, and how difficult will that be in this case? >> well, the communication will be going continuously even before the "charlie hebdo" attack with the police authorities all over the country, europe in particular, using interpol europol, the office in copenhagen and every means possible will be used and the intelligence services of denmark, the cia, other services to look for any connections to any other groups and who else

might be involved in this but this network inging of al qaeda related growth goes back to 2011 the plot to bomb of the u.s. embassy in paris in 2001 involves seven european countries with al qaeda cells. >> they say the whole country is on high alert. obviously, there's a climate of fear in the country, and that's exactly what these attackers want i suppose. >> that is what the attackers are trying to do. they are obviously sending a message about what they feel is slandering the prophet, and there are several challenges that security services face rights now. of course, there's the imminent manhunt, likelihood of another shootout with the security force, and there could be follow-on attacks or companion attacks, others who decide they are going to either activate or perhaps maybe accelerate their attack planning.

you have multiple threats the danish security services are tackling all at once. there's a heighten sense of anxiety and risk in the country of 5 million people. i assume it's going to be very long night for the police and intelligence services in copenhagen. >> absolutely. paul we have two gunmen believed to be responsible for this. i guess what is the likelihood that these two individuals are somehow connected to a larger network? >> well we don't know at this point, obviously, with the "charlie hebdo" attack the two brothers likely had connections to al qaeda in yemen. there was a network perhaps in that attack in france but this time around it's very very early stages not clear how well trained they were. they will be investigating all of that but the fact they had powerful weapons, they launched this attack with is obviously, worrying begin inging inging given

the fact they are at large. people want to go out in a blaze of glory because they think they will be rewarded in the afterlife. i think there's huge concern tonight about follow-on attacks by the two gunmen perhaps by others in depp mark. >> and colonel reese, we'll get your take after the break, but we have to go to a break, but we'll get to you in a few moments. still to come freedom of speech under fire talking with a panel of experts about threats, intimidation and it stifling free expression. it's happened again today in denmark. that is next.

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following developments obviously, after that deadly attack in copenhagen and we know that there's two individuals who are at large right now, and as we've been reporting this afternoon, there was some interest in a volkswagen that may have been used in the attack, and we're now seeing some pictures. these are the first pictures we're seeing of this car that we believe, or what authorities believe was used in the copenhagen attack. this is from local media there in copenhagen. we wanted to share that with our viewers, and, of course this is something that will develop over the course of the afternoon. we'll keep an eye on all of that. we have to mention barely one month after jihadists slaughtered those in paris, today's deadly assault in

denmark, focuses on a swedish cartoonist lars vilks, at today's event, a lightning rod for depictions of the prophet mohammed and we spoke with him in 2007 when he was receiving regular death threats long before the threats became real today. >> you set out deliberately to provoke and insult muslims? >> well you have to understand that the artwork in this small place in sweden -- >> look what happened. didn't turn into a small thing. >> no. i don't think it should be a problem to insult religion because you have to be plausible to insult all religions, and it could be done in a democratic way, insult one, insult the other one. >> did you get a death threat? >> i will kill you, you [ bleep ]. >> why are you not afraid? you got a death threat. >> i'm used to it.

>> if i have the occasion, i shall slaughter you, and you shall scream like a pig, and you are a pig. >> i thought vilks the pig was an inspiring idea. the cartoon would be a nice attempt at a self-portrait, and pigs are nice animals. >> don't like it? don't look at it. if you look at it, don't take it too seriously. what do you say? no harm done really. >> devout muslims take their faith seriously. >> they have to consider there might be a problem there. >> don't you consider people think that's arrogant. >> nobody loves the truth, but someone has to say it. >> more and rxreaction to the attack david cameron said free speech has to be protected. my thoughts are with the danish people. let's go back to our panel. colonel reese, going back to you.

how much responsibility does the artist bear in all of this? obviously, free speech has to be protected, has to be respected, but at the same time you know free speech does not allow us to yell "fire" in a movie theater, in a crowded theater, are the artists in some way inflaming radicals where they don't only get themselves killed but others killed? >> yeah jim, i believe they do. you know don lemon weeks ago on cnn tonight had a great point. you know, if i drew a caricature about martin luther king, i would be called a racist. you know if i did something to the jewish community, i would be antisemitic. how far does the free speech aspect go? it's really the values of what our, you know our country looks at how other values are looked at. that to me is the struggle here. i'm all about free speech. like you said, you go in a theater, yell "fire" and i go hey, freedom of speech i can do

that. it's just not natural for me to look at it from that perspective. i go back to the, you know, my mother taught me in sixth grade, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. >> right. artists should have the right to provoke because it gets a dialogue going, and art has a place in our society, and so it's a careful balance, but i want to ask you about something else tom fuentes, as seen in the piece with lars vilks a few years ago, he was looking at his phone and looking at the death threats coming in at realtime. given what happened today in copenhagen is it possible that you know, they mayment to mentwant to look at lars vilks' phone and other phones in the area to trace back attackers where they might be located? is that possible? >> yes, they'll absolutely be looking at all the phones call and text messages and social media, looking at every possible

security camera on every building in the downtown area and along that subway system to see, you know more information about the two guys that walked away from the shooting, but in my opinion, he's a dead man walking. there's going to come a time they get him. it's just a matter of time, i think, unfortunately as terrible as it is to say, al qaeda has shown over the decades they don't quit. you know, when they tried to hit world trade center one in 1993 when he was apprehended, he said, we'll get it eventually and they did. so these cartoonists, and "charlie hebdo," back in publication, they are not through attacking them either. >> paul how do you stop this? if you have provocatives out there, a place in society out there, and people do respect their freedom of speech, freedom of expression but at the same time they may not only be

provoking attackers on themselves but they may get innocent people killed in the process. who knows this 40-year-old person who was killed in the attack in copenhagen today may have been caught in the cross fire and may not have been even the target in the attack. >> yeah no doubt these cartoons, first published in 2005 in the danish newspaper, they have created a significant threat in europe, particularly lyparticularly a string of plots against that newspaper that published cartoons starting in 2006. there was an al qaeda plot in 2010 involving a swedish cell who drove all the way from stockholm to copenhagen with a machine gun with the plan to take up to 200 journalist hostages and execute them. that went up to the top leadership of al qaeda.

that plot. we also saw a plot to attack the newspaper, and there's a very big concern in denmark, particularly there's a significant amount of radicalization in denmark, more than a hundred danish radicals have gone off to fight in syria and iraq. some have come back. there's a significant radicalization problem in the somalia diaspora community in denmark. dozens gone off to join the terrorist group, and one swede who joined in 2010 appeared in a video in a soccer stadium in somalia and threatening to behead lars vilks. the terrorist threats are much more pronounced against scandinavia because of the cartoons, no doubt about that. >> gentlemen, thank you for the expert tees. we appreciate it and will come back to you as hours go on here and thanks for the time. we appreciate it. earlier, i spoke to cnn's nick paton walsh in ukraine and heard the sound of shelling in the background. now, will both sides end the

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welcome back. that cease-fire in ukraine begins in just over an hour. that's midnight local time.

but will it hold? shelling rocked several cities including donetsk in the hours leading up to the deadline. joining us now by skype from kiev is miker bucherq for the organization of security and cooperation in europe. michael, what are the prospects here. do you think this is going to hold? earlier we were talking to nick paton walsh and you could hear the shelling in the background. >> good to be with you. of course we're hopeful with just about an hour to go. as we speak, we have quite a big number of monitors in the conflict zone right now. we're aiming for 350. so we've drawn in monitors from other parts of ukraine. they're on trains and planes and cars at the moment. but yeah today was a pretty violent day. considering we are that close to the cease-fire. there was shelling as your correspondents reported in donetsk and dubalsovik. what we'll be looking for of course tomorrow morning is not

only for the guns to fall silent but also as the days tick by withdrawal of very very important withdrawal of heavy weaponry and also the removal of foreign armed individuals. now, to give you an idea of the kind of live fire going on in the past 24 hours, one of our two remaining drone ss was not only fired upon but subject to electronic jamming. that's the kind of stuff we're seeing on the ground right now. >> what does it mean the shelling the shooting that we're seeing right before this cease-fire? is it the separatists trying to hold their positions? is it the ukrainians trying to soften them up before the cease-fire takes effect? what is your guess at this point? >> well we don't want to ascribe any intentions to them. but one of the things we're doing as part of our mandate is getting word out about the minsk package that was agreed to. of course what we'll be looking for. and the other thing, jim, of course what wie very very

hopeful for as well as a number of other people is an end to this humanitarian predicament that has sent more than 1 million people fleeing for safer ground has killed more than 5,000 people and injured close to 13,000 people. we're now seeing hospitals, for example, and schools that have been hit two or three times. and the people caught in this conflict zone are suffering a lot, especially now that temperatures have fallen again. >> well michael, thank you very much for your time. we're going to have to hope for the best here and watch what happens after midnight strikes there in eastern ukraine. michael, thank you very much for your time. we appreciate it. meanwhile turning to the weather, it is very serious what we're seeing up in the northeast. it's about to get walloped by yet another winter storm. the area just can't catch a break. we'll look at how it's preparing for the storm next. doug, we have the results, but first, we have a very special guest. come on out, flo!

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another massive dangerous winter storm is bearing down on the northeast right now. cnn's will ripley is in cape ann, massachusetts. he is rolling along in the elements. will how do things look out there for you? >> reporter: weather conditions are definitely deteriorating. we've seen the snow begin. as we drive here through rock port you can see the snow banks along the sides of the streets here. it's really been a difficult situation. they're running out of places to put all this snow. we're going to pull over to give you a sense of what they're concerned about. coastal flooding and beach erosion is a real factor here. and as the storm moves in and as it picks up you can see a lot of these areas, including this harbor the rockport harbor here considered to be most at risk. the bottom line