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a new unbelievable video, a deappraised video, claimed to have beheaded more than a dozen christian. now, they discuss the case chaos in yemen, where the entire u.s. embassy staff and u.s. marines were evacuated earlier this week. first, we are following the breaks news at this hour. twin terror attacks in denmark, which may have been inspired by last morcht's deadly attacks in paris. these incredible new pictures revealing the moment the danish police gunned down the terror suspect. this is the body of the man believed to be behind both attacks in copenhagen. these bullet holes a horrifying sign of what happened inside this cafe where denmark's day of terror began. a crowd had gathered there for a free speech forum with a cartoonist on al qaeda's hit list when the gunman opened fire. >> um i realized that every

time we talk about activity of those people there will be always yes, it is freedom of speech but -- and the turning point is "but." why do we still say "but" when we -- [ gunfire ] >> just imagine being in there, and hearing that happen. absolute chaos in the middle of the day. one person was killed in that attack. three officers were wounded, but it seems his deadly rampage had just begun. ten hours after that it's believed the same man, the same gunman made his way, possibly by taxi to a nearby jewish synagogue, approaching two officers there, spraying them with bullets, their lives thankfully were spared a bystander, though was killed.

the similarity between these attacks and what happened in paris are incredibly disturbing. in denmark, the target believe to be swedish cartoonist who in 2007 drew the prophet muhammad as a dog, an animal that some conservative muslims consider unclean. then the anti-semitic element to all of this in both in paris the target was a kosher grocery store, in denmark a synagogue. nic robertson joins us in colin hagen. i know you've been on top of this story since it broke yesterday. what can you tell us about what police are saying about the similarities between what happened there and in paris? >> reporter: what the police are saying is they believe the young man, the man they killed on the streets behind me may have been influenced by the events in

paris, 9 attack on "charlie hebdo" cartoonists, and the attack in the supermarket. they say he may have been inspired by what they called radical isis propaganda but they're also saying this is a young man who seems to have a troubled past. they say he is 22 years old, he was born here in denmark, that in fact he had connections with -- connections with gangs, that he had a violent past a criminal record, and some of his criminality activities involved illegally having weapons. so the picture that the police are painting here at the moment is a young man with a violent track record who has weapons, but also who may have been radicalized by online prop ganta, poppy. >> we know they are not naming him yesterday, so i wonder if you know why that is.

>> reporter: what the police have said is they remain concerned about the possibility of an accomplice. they say the attacks yesterday were perpetrated by just the one man, the suspect gunman who was shot here. they believe he was the only person involved in those attacks, but they're concerned they say he may have an accomplice or they're also worried about the possibility of a copycat type of attack. so the operations continue as they try to gather more information about him. it does seem at the moment that perhaps one of the reasons police are not publicly naming the man so far, though there is a lot of speculation in local media about who he is certain suggestions and photographs have been published, but the police themselves aren't naming him, potentially because they're still trying to gather more information, potentially trying to find more people connected to him, if they exist, poppy.

>> do we know at this point in time nic, or do you believe it's too soon to say if there's any true connection to al qaeda or isis? it's one thing, i think, to be inspired by say, something that happened in paris, it's another thing to be trained by them or radicalized online. >> you know the first impression of this at the moments are that's not the case that he isn't something who has gone to iraq or syria to train with isis. that said it's the concern with that that the police is continuing investigation and continuing heightened security the sore of broader worry this mass not be over. it will be because of of connections, but at the moment it does seem perhaps this man was just acting alone and perhaps didn't have strong

connections to any tick lard group, but perhaps as the police say, just inspired by them in some way to act. pop,? >> nic robertson, thank you very much for your reporting. we appreciate it. it is believed the gunman's primary tart was swedish artist lars vilks. no stranger to threats, he has survived two previous attempts on his life for his controversial cartoons. al qaeda even put him on their most wanted poster in 2007. since then he travels with bodyguards. he just spoke with cnn about the deadly attack that almost took his life. >> i've been having the problem since 2007 and i've been to several instance. this one was the worst, because i've never been to shots before. i have to say, the protection was, i mean good in one way

even if the police protection could have been better they didn't really count on the strength of the terrorist's machine gun. he had equipment which was very surprising for them. they had some difficulty in striking back. >> while lars vilks eskein gunfire, his security detail did not, one of them shot. thank you for being here sir. i appreciate it. >> happy to be here thank you. >> one of bodyguards protecting lars vilks is someone who worked in your security detail when you were in your position there. do you have any sense on how he's doing at this hour? >> yes, poppy, the danes have a very top-notch security detail similar to our secret service. the detail that protection the u.s. ambassador also was protecting mr. vilks in this

case yesterday. the head of that detail was one of those shot not fatally, thank goodness shot seriously. he was operated on last night, and i've texted with him today, he's okay. but that just demonstrates the danes were aware of this threat they were prepared for the threat. if not for the expertise and the response of the danish secret service, we could have had a situation in copenhagen much like paris. as lars vilks said the perpetrators of this crime weren't prepared expecting the response they got from the danish protective force. >> i'm glad to hear he is doing all right. a tragedy, though stilled with two lives claimed and a new better of people injured. lars vilks did tell cnn that it appeared that the police were outgunned by the attack.

i'm wondering if you think the bodyguards and police were adequately armed. >> tip dale in denmark as mo of scandinavia, the police would not carry heavy weapon only a sidearm. frankly many of the policemen don't carry sidearms so in the case of guarding the ambassadors or the prime minister or the cartoonist who drew the cartoons the prophet muhammad in 2005 in denmark or mr. vilks, the detail would probably be a couple men with only light sidearms. if the perpetrator, the terrorist showed up with automatic weapon which we've been told they would have not had on their immediate persons weapons as strong as he had, though they would have been in their vehicles parked close by. >> so very quickly, do you think that we should see security detail the police, carrying stronger weapons? >> well absolutely in situations like this. look the danes have been

prepared for this kind of attack since 2005 when the cartoonist published his cartoons in 2005. >> even when i was in denmark there were five different plots, and the danes have taken that threat very seriously, just as we must in the west and in america. so we've got to be prepared for this type of attack poppy, wherever episodes like a rally for someone who's published cartoons offensive to extremist elements is going to take place. so i would say yes, we've got to make sure our law enforcement and intel jensz services are adequately prepared to the type of attacks we have now seen in paris, copenhagen sweden netherlands, and uk and other places around the word. ambassador thank you very much. please stay with me. denmark is a small country with a big bull's-eye on it for

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interesting question. we of course confronted that issue head on in late 2005 which denmark, there to forehad been seen a fantasy land the home of hans christian andersen lego and a queen that everybody loves, published cartoons of the prophet muhammad and then found itself under attack. when the attack started, we as the american embassy had to play a role and to try to -- try to stand up for free speech and the freedom of the press while at the same time trying to quell the violence calm the violence and act, if you would, as mediators. the issue which for us erupted almost ten years ago now on the streets of copenhagen which has now come back again in the incident yesterday brings to the forefront this question of how can we in the west with our fundamental belief and the freedom of speech how do we balance that with the closely

held sincere religious beliefs that some have and it's not just extremists but muslims throughout the world, have -- >> right, that's offensive when you depict the prophet muhammad. so you know we in the u.s. understand that sincere religious beliefs are things that you don't go out of your way to insult but i will tell you that not everybody in the world necessarily has that balance, and that's the challenge that we face now in the west. >> am bats do recall let me ask you this in the wake of the paris attacks, so many people held signs, wore testify-shirr, and social media, clearly supporting this. what they stand for ultimately is free speech. there have been cartoonists who frankly have done the same thing, "charlie hebdo," and this

artist lars vilks haven't just criticized muhammad other religions have been depicted in these ways. where where do you stand on that? have you saying that images like this that are offensive to some should not be put out? >> no no i'm not, poppy. i would point out there's a reason that major newspapers in america, colleague your own network, have not reprinted the cartoons that appeared in denmark nine years ago or that lars vilks drew five years ago in sweden. the reason we haven't is we've learned in america to balance the protection and love the free speech with respect for the beliefs and the background and ethnicities and race and creeds of others. there are in americas you know words we don't say, racial expressions we don't use. there's the concept of hate speech in america. that balance that we have struck in america, for reasons of civility and peace and harmony

is really what's at stake now in this -- in what we see around the world in these muss lipidor muhammad cartoons. we have to stand up for the fundamental belief in free speech but we have to be vigilant. we know in the muslim faith whether we print cartoons we're not just angering you know 5,000 extremists ben on jihad, we're angering a billion people around the world. we have to be prepared for the consequences and thank goodness in denmark they were prepared for that which is why we don't have a "charlie hebdo" situation in copenhagen now. we have unfortunately two who were victims, but it could have been so much worse. a very important point, this is not just something that angers extremists it offends other muslims as well. before we go quickly, sir, do you think we are seeing a change in the tide here in terms of isis expanding far beyond iraq

and syria, given we do not know if this was tied to isis but given the targets, ver very concerned about what we're seeing happened across western europe? >> yes, very concerned, not just across western europe but across the seas to north america. we know what's appearing in denmark, in paris, in the uk and my only concern is whether we're facing it at home and i'm concerned perhaps some of our leaders aren't willing to face it aren't willing to admit we have global jihad that we have to be prepared for hoar in washington. >> ambassador thank you for coming on. >> nice to be with you, poppy. to turn to the ugly weather to start out yet another week. it's already brutal in the midwest. look at chicago, three dozen cars in a chain reaction accident. dozens had to go to the hospital. can this decadent, fruit topped pastry...

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wind behind along with bitterly cold temperature. but further south, another big air of concern. a big storm about to hit arkansas, tennessee, kentucky and the carolinas. tom sader joins us. let's begin with boston. >> okay. >> they have just been unfairly treating taking the brunt of it over and over again. any sign for folks that this will be the last one? >> well i wish there could be some sign but yet again, the storm in the midwest, into the tennessee valley could end up in new england, maybe even significant snow for the days ahead. our problem now, extremely dangerous windchills minus 20 minus 25 minus 30, minus 35. we have around from burning ton to boston to the blue ridge. coldest air of the season as

each air mass to trump the one before it. let's back up. if you look at the last several storms we've had, january, our greatest snowfall record and records go back to 1872 then a mid latitude one, boston had a couple clippers come out of the canada. typically to day we should only have 28.6 inches that have fallen in boston. not 95. and parts of also rock to memphis, nashville will be in significant snow st. louis to louisville to cincinnati. the ice will be a problem, maybe half inch of accumulation. this could stop traffic on major roads and major interstates such as 40. now your heaviest snow is just short of that ice line. we're looking at the accumulations, really into sparse of the entire state of kentucky could see in excess of a foot.

this storm is going to drop possibly 5, 6 inches in st. louis, maybe 4 to 7 in nashville, then into the carolinas, d.c. baltimore, philadelphia here's the track. we're still watching it closely, stays as rain mainly in the atlanta area though advisories and warnings to the north, but then the snow moves you have for accumulation here. to beginning of tuesday night into wednesday but dangerous windchilling will get even worse, this is extremely dangerous if you're outside with exposed skin for a period of time. >> no question. i'm hoping for my friends in boston they get a bit of a break after this one. >> tom, thanks for joining me. appreciate it. cape cod and the islands off the massachusetts coast could still he hurricane-force winds before this system passes. take a look at the drive from cape ann to seabrook new

hampshire shot by our crews, with will ripley chris boy yet, he joins me will ripley does from seabrook. there's also been some collapses. >> absolutely poppy, it has been a busy day. not only because of those treacherous roads, that big pileup on i-95 outside of boston but also because of the heavy snow has accumulated. take a look at the result. here in new hampshire, at least two roof collapses. this is a strip practical. poppy, it's remarkable, the weight of this snow the brick facade just crumbled. these are real bricks but the snow was heavier. no match for the snow. there was also a roof collapse 30 people were displaced, poppy. you think about the fact this is

happening, imagine if this had happened tomorrow when people are back to work. that's the big tern here now, that the snow is still sitting on a lot of rooftops putting pressure on the buildings there could be more problems in the coming hours and days if the roofs don't get cleared off, poppy. >> will i know here in the northeast we're used to this but frankly it usually doesn't happen every single week. i'm wondering how the folks there, the folks up and down these folks in boston are dealing with this in terms of the budgets and the equipment to clear the roads. >> reporter: you know poppy, i grew up in the northeast. i've been talking to locals. people say we're used to this hardy new englanders but the fire captain said it this way. he said, i've never seen anything like this. i heard it from a snow removal

crews. locals say this is unprecedented, and the cold and wind is also unprecedented. rear recording gusts of 20 30 miles an hour. it's cold unlike what a lot of people have seen a lot time. >> i didn't even know gust-ometer existed. >> reporter: i did make that name up. >> i think it's a good one. thank you to you and the crew behind the camera. i appreciate it. coming up the collapse of stability in yemen could make it even easier for terrorists who fought against the united states. now the u.n. security council taking this up in a rare sunday vote that just happened. we'll talk about that. the push for peace in a nation facing so much danger.

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that haz seized power, and the security council says give up that power as you may have promised and stop holding the president and its government in effect under housing arrest. it was a unified vote. russia had to be coaxed along. they were not exactly hiding with the -- yemen, we've seen this in almost every country, and for the united nations, it's another challenge, a group may not listen. >> that was my first thought. one thing for the formiality of that vote, what significance does that hold if any? >> the unhas a point man on the ground there. as we've seen with libya and other lawless places if you ever are going to find a way out, the u.n. is sort of unilateral honest broker and there is the possibility if there will be dialogue that's what the u.n. is trying to encourage. there's no u.n. army but you

also have al qaeda that is looming in the arabian peninsula, well pointed out by the u.s. government. you might have al qaeda fighting the huithis in yemen, and -- the significance of this to the american public you do not want yemen to become a failed state, if it's not already. >> that's right. you don't want another failed state, a state that some in the u.s. government thought was under control and a success story a few months ago. it's a big thing. it's far away from americans, but it always comes home to roost. we're going to take a quick break. back in a moment. shopping online is as easy as it gets. ♪♪ wouldn't it be great if hiring plumbers carpenters and even piano tuners were just as simple? thanks to angie's list, now it is. we've made hiring anyone from a handyman to a dog walker as simple as a few clicks. buy their services directly at angiealist.com. no more calling around.

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>> i can tell you i have never seen this much police in copenhagen as i've seen yesterday and today as well but people are not surprised that we were attacked in denmark. we have been living knowing this might happen because of the muhammad drawings because of where we are in the international politics. we are sad, but we are not surprised in denmark. >> sad, but not surprised, in saying that the people there have known this may happen in part because of some of the cartoon drawings of the prophet muhammad. what are most people saying on the ground about whether they think cartoons like that that are offensive to some should be published or not? >> well it's actually quite interesting. people are not talking about the cartoons. it's behind us. it's something that happened years ago. now we are talking about religion actually that this should not be about religion. both the jewish community and

the arabic -- the islamic community in copenhagen and the dannic people everybody agrees this should not be a question about religion and we -- i don't think that many people stations or media today have discussed the cartoons at all. this is not about that. >> do you believe this would change fundamentally what it feels like to live and to walk the streets there in your community? you say you've never seen so many police officers so many armed guards out. do you think that's temporary? or are we going to see a major shift here? >> our prime minister helle thorning talked to the people of the country earlier today, and she said we will have a lot of police in the streets the next couple days but this is also so we can feel safe so we can feel secure. we will see the police and they will protect us. that's kind of what we are

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there, hometown of the late dictator moammar gadhafi. italy has shut down its embassy and evacuated staff. the emergence was especially troublesome to u.s. lawmakers as they grilled the director of the national counterterrorism center about the rising threat. listen to this exchange with marco rubio. >> it would be a mistake in your opinion to simply focus on our fight as simply being syria and iraq. this group is increasing the footprint, presence in a multiple of stages. >> that's correct. they have certainly expanded their reach. >> international attorney and former state department official joins me now from washington also terrorism expert paul crookshank thank you both for being here. david, you talk about iraq and then syria, and then libya, this coming in a week when a u.s.

official has said that isis has expanded into afghanistan, algeria, egypt, elsewhere, what does this tell us? let's talk about what's happened in libya. the revolution ended 3 1/2 years ago in october 2011 there was a lot of hope in libya. i traveled there many times during that time and after. the people of libya wanted democracy. they were pro-western in their orientation. however,ing there -- there was then and there is now a security vacuum. as a result of that security vacuum a lack of police forces a lack of libyan army which was decimated during the revolution and very little engagement by the west libya is the type of place where isis sees opportunity, because there's insecurity and there's instability. that's whether isis likes to go. it's a great market for them. unfortunately for us we're going to have to confront them

there as well. >> right. so paul to you, as david just said the type of place -- this is what happens, when you have failed states or nearly failed states that provides a fertile ground for has clearly spread and they have killed 21 cop tick christians. >> late last year they basically took control over the eastern town of a population of 100,000, and since then they've expanded their influence right along the coast and even in tripoli and we saw the american killed. >> a month ago. >> this is all very thought out by isis. the isis leadership sent a very senior figure in the group, someone close to abu bakr al baghdadi and 300 libyan isis fighters have returned to libya to lead this charge. these are experienced fighters

so they've really been able to expand as you said because there's this instability and there is a simmering civil war right now because the pro-islamistpro-islam ist faction, and the east has tie it is to the cold gadhafi regimes and turmoil and virtual civil war has allowed isis to expand territory. this is all just 200 miles from the southern shore of the european union and when they show in this horrible video of the mediterranean washing up with blood, that's a message to the europeans. >> absolutely is. it's incredibly incredibly troubling to watch. as someone who has spent a lot of time in libya, is there anything that the west can do right now, our allies can do right now to ensure that this does not become more like iraq and syria where isis has been able to spread seemingly

uncontrollably? >> yes. there needs to be much more engagement by the west. the u.s. has to be much more involved. there was a program to train the libyan army about 5,000, that was supposed to go forward by the u.s. that hasn't happened. that needs to be put back on track. as paul mentioned there is a pro-western government and it is the elected government and it is now based in tebruk and that government needs more support and the challenging government which is not elected is based in tripoli now and it is a pro-islamist government. we need to support the government that's been elected by the people of libya and doing a lot more on the security side to help them confront this threat from isis. >> but what does that mean support? to what end? how much do we get involved? >> that means -- that means training. that means perhaps providing weapons. it may even mean another air campaign just like we did in 2011. that was very successful. no one thought it would be but it was successful. we defeated gadhafi.

we can do it again. we probably don't need that same level of support, but we need to do more. we're not doing much at all. as you mentioned the italian embassy has now been evacuated and that was the last european embassy in libya. the u.s. was evacuated a while ago and the embassy is now based in maltsa. we need more engagement and we don't have it right now. david, thank you, paul cruickshank, we'll talk about this more next hour. >> we will discuss the threat to our own country ahead. why do we do it? why do we spend every waking moment, thinking about people? why are we so committed to keeping you connected? why combine performance with a conscience? why innovate for a future without accidents? why do any of it? why do all of it? because if it matters to you it's everything to us. the xc60 crossover. from volvo. lease the well-equipped volvo xc60 today. visit your local volvo showroom

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in copenhagen at that cafe was no stranger to police. a 22-year-old man born in denmark in a lengthy criminal past. police say the shooter likely worked alone and his motive possibly inspired by the "charlie hebdo" attacks in paris. how do we respond to the lone wolf terror attacks? let me bring in our panel to

discuss bob baer and also with me again is paul cruickshank and co-author of "my life inside al qaeda" is this a problem for the world? >> this is a problem which is much broader than just europe and there is really an unprecedented threat in europe right now because there are so many europeans who have gone off to fight in syria and iraq and almost 3.5,000 europeans have gone and more than 750 have returned and many of them fought with isis and there is a security challenge from them and a lot of radicalization in the european union, as well much more than in the united states. there is a lot of concern about lone wolf terrorism, as well and i think the more we found out about this from our sources in denmark the more there seems to be a lone wolf. >> right. >> someone inspired by isis. >> right. >> or al qaeda but not part of them. >> bob, to that point, i know it's early going, but so far

there's no indication that this young, this 22-year-old who carried out these two attacks yesterday alone ever went ever went to fight with isis or to be trained with isis. so what does that tell us? that it merely takes inspiration? well you know i think we'll have to wait for the facts to come out. what surprised me about the attacks in copenhagen and even the third incident where he was kill side killed is gun control. he hit two policemen and a security guard. this wasn't a young man randomly firing into a crowd which is what usually happens when it's a lone wolf when they have no experience with guns. i would suppose he had some sort of training along the way or he got extraordinarily lucky, but let's wait for the details to come out, but i agree with paul. this is a phenomenon which is sweeping across europe and you were just talking about libya with all of these immigrants and libya is a failed state.

>> right. >> it's broken up to pieces and there's nothing we can do about it. the state department right now, by the way, is blocking americans going to libya to provide trading because they're afraid americans will get killed there so this administration is more or less written off libya and we're not going to help legitimate government unless we put some effort into it and we're not doing it so far. >> we just saw an american contract worker killed in the luxury hotel in libya a month ago. paul cruickshank, i know you had a point you wanted to make. >> we're getting new information about the attack in denmark that's come from carson christianson who is a reporter for the danish newspaper. he's being told by sources, security sources that the gunman was on the radar screen of the danish intelligence services and police for being a gang member but not for his radical extremist activity and the working assumption is this is a

lone wolf attack. they don't think he traveled somewhere else to get training overseas somewhere like syria and iraq. >> just when you see the imsimilarity between what happened with paris with more victims killed and the similarity of this attack of freedom of speech and then this attack on a jewish gathering whether at the supermarket or at the synagogue, it is incredibly troubling. thank you both for being with me. stand by we'll talk about this. 6:00 top of the hour sunday evening. a lot of news to get to. you're in the cnn "newsroom." i'm poppy harlow in new york. cnn has learned the fbi is assisting denmark as it tries to piece together a pair of deadly terror attacks in its capital. a body language -- a body lays rather in copenhagen in the streets there. you are looking at the aftermath of the shootout with police. this is the body of the terror suspect believed to be behind the attacks. it all started here inside of this now bullet-ridden cafe.