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"outfront" tonight, terror at the mall. security officials are on alert at the mall of america, the nation's biggest mall in the wake of a terror threat. the threats specifically names the minnesota mega mall as well as malls in canada britain, and other western countries. stores put through lockdown drills in the morning and security ramped up halls patrolled by uniformed and plain-clothes security officers. this comes as homeland security tells shopper at that mall but be aware. >> i would say that if anyone is planning to go to the mall of america today, they've got to be particularly careful. >> pretty sunny morning. it's one of the biggest shopping complexes in the world. its location home to the largest somali population in the united states. a group from which the terror group al shabab has recruited heavily. the terror group's most infamous attack was on a mall.

this video from an hbo documentary that aired here on cnn shows that attack from to 13 on the wreftestgate mall in kenya. the terror of young families on a saturday morning going shopping over four horrific days al shabab gunmen killed 67 people. brian todd is outside the mall of america in bloomington, minnesota. this is a pretty terrifying thing for them to hear. no matter what they say, they are not prepared for this kind of attack. what are they doing to get ready? >> reporter: erin they are ramping up security in ways both seen and unseen and it's a massive challenge, as you just mentioned. this mall has more than 80 acres for security teams to patrol to monitor. it's got more than a dozen entrances. it is as they say, a soft target with a lot of people coming in and out. as you mentioned, 80 million -- actually 40 million people coming out of here every year. they have you know just hundreds of thousands per day

per week coming in and out of here. so what you've got is you know just a very very massive and soft target and what they are doing today is in the ways that are visible, there is a slight increase as far as what you can see of security officers and police. there are canine teams roving around looking for explosives but it's the unseen that is the telling factor here tonight. they have plain-clothed police officers roaming around the mall. they have hundreds of surveillance cameras. they even have a station here that monitors social media. now, some of those measures have been in place for a while now but all of it ramping up tonight. that's really what makes this mall unique. this mall actually has its own intelligence branch. so those are some of the things that they've had in place here that they are ramping up here. erin a lot of it is unseen. and one other factor that they are imploring here they actually have teams of specialists here who are good at what they call basically profiling. it's identifying people who look

suspicious acting suspicious pulling them aside, questioning them. that's something that has been implemented as well. all of these measures are ramping up. >> right. and of course they profile, you know a lot of people don't like it but they do it because they think it helps them identify the people who are going to do harm. thank you very much brian todd. the u.s. and europe are on high alert after the terrorist group al shabab released a video. they called for specifically attacks against shopping malls in the united states in canada and in britain. the some maulali-based extremist group attacked the mall in nairobi. will ripley is "outfront." >> reporter: all is quiet in the moments before the al shabab attack in nairobi. men, women and children run for their lives. >> i believe the children have never heard anything that loud.

they started screaming and the shots started coming in. >> reporter: most of the surveillance video from the 2013 massacre is too gruesome to show. this wounded man tries desperately to crawl away. a gunman returns, aims and fires. the attackers are on the phone getting instructions from outside the mall. they allow these hostages to go free. along with others who answer "yes" when asked if their muslim. by the end of nairobi's four-day nightmare, more than 60 innocent people are dead including several pregnant women and a dozen children. al shabab says it can happen again. >> what if an attack were to occur in mall of america in minnesota? >> reporter: this tape was enough for jey johnson to initially warn shoppers. >> if anyone is planning of going to the mall of america today, they've got to be particularly careful. >> reporter: the national counterterrorism center says al

shabab is losing ground on its home turf in east africa. the group likely doesn't have its resources to launch an attack in america. the real risk says the fbi, the video is a call to arms. >> people who may never have met an al shabab member may try to attack in the united states or canada. >> reporter: increasingly sophisticated use of social media poses a poet tent threat to the west. >> if there's two kids in the basement that decides that's sufficient inspiration to find a weapon and shoot up a mall that's a disaster. >> reporter: the minneapolis area is home to about 30,000 somalis. that's the largest concentration in the united states and since 2007 al shabab has recruited 20 men from the twin cities area most of them somali origin. many of them are dead tonight. a real difficult situation for

the community and this new propaganda community is sparking some concern that more may be inspired to mobilize and instead this time not go abroad but commit horrific acts of violence right here at home. >> will thank you very much. so this question is what does this new threat mean for soft targets, things like malls right here in the u.s.? "outfront" now, intelligence analyst bob baer tim clemente. good to have you both of you with us. people may remember these images from the westgate mall. absolutely horrific, watching all of these people on a saturday dying. could this happen this kind of a style of an attack in the u.s.? >> i think, erin we've feared this for a long time a lone wolf attack someone gets access to an automatic weapon. there's no way to secure these malls. you simply drive a car through the front door and you're in. there would be panic to cause

casualties in this country. and there's also the possibility of suicide attacks. it's easy to make this stuff. and there has been a somali -- an american somali blew himself up. at least one. there's probably more. i think it's a real threat and i think the fbi understands it is monitoring the somali community, the people who are active going to mosques and traveling back. but it's the lone wolf what they don't know that really scares them. >> how serious is this threat of a lone wolf? al shabab obviously wants to carry through but even if they can't, someone sees this video as a call to arms someone in that 30,000 strong community there or elsewhere, it could be at any mall. >> absolutely erin. i think it's very real. i agree with bob completely but it doesn't have to be an individual. it could be a gaggle. two kids sitting in the basement. it's not just in minneapolis. i live in virginia and in northern virginia there's a large somali population.

there is in san diego and toronto. it's not just the somalis that we have to worry about but this particular subject, al shabab heavily recruits from around the world and the fact that they've gotten 20 to travel halfway around the world to fight means that there are probably several times that many willing to fight here in america. >> bob, what about this particular issue? you heard will say, when you look at minnesota, the largest somali population in the united states 20,000 strong. 20 plus men have gone to fight for them. this is just the somali community. you also have inspired by isis and other extremist groups. >> erin, my concern is that the simulation problem in a place like minnesota, isolated community, small suburbs where immigrants go to live. they are not passing through the great gateways in boston and new york. so they are not being assimilated. they are identifying with islam

rather than the united states and they are on the internet and reading these calls to battle and that's clearly what happened in france and belgium and the rest of the europeans are worried about. we do better at-- we are an open society and you can't put armed guards at all malls of the united states or put barriers to protect them from a car or something. i think it's a real threat. >> i mean, tim, because the truth of it is it doesn't matter how much they say they are prepared and they have all of these plain-clothed officers. let's just be honest that's not going to stop anything from happening. >> no. absolutely erin. and the fact that they are protecting the mall of america or any other mall for that matter doesn't make america that much safer because the mall is a soft target as is every other event where large groups of people gather. it's hard to harden a target that is open go to any soccer

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tonight, the parents of isis hostage kayla mueller spoke out for the first time. she was kidnapped in 2013 by isis. now the family is taking aim at the president for trading terrorists in guantanamo bay for one u.s. hostage but not for their daughter or others held by isis. kyung lah is "outfront." >> reporter: 26-year-old kayla mueller didn't just want to help the syrians, she needed to be

there. her parents breaking their silence to nbc news just didn't know how far she was willing to go. >> did you know that she was planning to go to syria? >> no. >> what do you think you would have thought had you known? >> well of course as her mother i wouldn't have let her go. you know i would have talked with her. >> there are mistakes that we all made in our life and didn't get caught at. kayla was just in a place that was more dangerous than most. >> reporter: once hostage, her captor mirrored the threat of death but there was one difference. >> i really feel that we had a chance to get kayla out. because we were in communications with them. unlike the other families. but how do you raise $6.2 million? >> reporter: even if they could, kayla's parents would be

breaking u.s. policy and violating federal law, giving money to a terrorist group. then that vital communication with her captors fell apart when the u.s. traded five taliban detainees for sergeant bowe bergdahl. >> they realized they had something. they realized that if they are going to let five people go for one person why won't they do this? >> reporter: why? because kayla mueller is a civilian. bowe bergdahl, a u.s. serviceman. an unfair distinction to determine which hostage to negotiate for, says the muellers. >> i actually asked the president that question when we were in the white house. yeah that was pretty hard. >> i think they wanted to but

again it's the policy. >> the president is confident that his administration did do everything that was possible within the confines of that policy to try to secure the safe release and return of kayla mueller. >> so many questions about whether she could have indeed been saved and released. kyung, i remember talking to james foley's parents a couple weeks ago. they were angry. they said the white house didn't do everything it could. i know his mother felt like it they were more of an annoyance to the administration. >> yes. she felt the white house simply put that policy ahead of her son's life. it's something we're hearing from arizona. it's a theme running through the families. the president in response to this late last year decided to review the policy. it does not appear that the heart of the policy will change as far as negotiating with the terrorists but certainly trying

to have better lines of communications erin with the families involved. >> thank you very much kyung lah. "outfront" tonight, jessica buchanan was held hostage before being rescued by s.e.a.l.s team 6. they say that isis really wanted to release their daughter. they may pretend to negotiate but americans are more valuable to kill. do you think it's true though that kayla was different? >> i'm highly suspect of that that she was different. i do believe that they were conflicted at some point about what to do with a female hostage. but i think she was clearly destined -- the odds of her survival were not very good. there was a covert military action to try to rescue the hostages including their daughter at one point.

unfortunately, the intelligence was a little raw but it's hard to believe that she was the one that they were going to actually release for some ransom money. >> jessica, you were held hostage for 93 days and i know you were kind enough to share the video at one point being released by captors, your proof of live video that you released. i can't even imagine what it's like for you to watch and remember that. you were held hostage for 93 days. kayla, of course was a hostage for 18 months of isis. and as the chairman just referenced the s.e.a.l.s did try to rescue her at one point. that failed. s.e.a.l. team 6 was able to rescue you. what was that like jessica? >> as you can imagine, it was a completely incredible and completely unexpected on my part. i was feeling pretty hopeless at that point. day 93 i was incredibly ill. not even able to walk and at the point of the attack when

s.e.a.l. team 6 came in and got me i never thought it would be help. i thought i was possibly being kidnapped by another group, al shabab. so i thought my hopes and chances for survival were nill at that point. >> you were as you mentioned, very sick. you thought at that time you were dying. as people try to just comprehend what kayla endured, did you ever give up hope or did you always have a little hope in the back of your mind jessica, that you might be saved? >> i think my hope was that you know i'm going to survive this. it didn't cross my mind that there would be a military intervention and that's how my survival would happen. but i just kept trying to focus on being strong for my husband and for my family and you could only take it minute by minute. you can't think about the next several months or the next several weeks or however long this thing is going to last. you know my heart and my sympathies go out to the mueller

family. i can only imagine what they are going through and my family as well very much in that kind of a situation even though it ended very differently, the emotions are still very similar, i think, that they are feeling right now. >> and chairman kayla's family says isis' demands got bigger after the u.s. traded the five guantanamo detainees for bowe bergdahl. here is what kayla's brother had to say about the bowe bergdahl's exchange. >> that's when the demands got greater, they got larger. they realized that they have something. if they are going to let five people go for one person why won't they do this or why won't they do that? >> did the bowe bergdahl trade cost american lives like kayla's? >> that would be right hard to say and speculative. clearly i opposed the bowe

bergdahl exchange at the time and leading up to it for a whole host of reasons. isis is a whole different ball game and they viewed american hostages as a propaganda tool not necessarily a financial tool. now, al qaeda affiliates do make a tremendous amount of money exchanging hostages and the countries that pay tend to have the most hostages. france seems to come to mind. it was really hard for me to see the tie directly. >> right. >> but clearly, clearly they thought the u.s. position was changing and that's why i think the price probably went up in their mind even if they didn't believe they were going to get it. >> jessica, i know you just heard kayla's mother say a few moments ago saying she wouldn't have let her daughter go to syria, if she had known about it she wouldn't have wanted her to go. >> she was with her boyfriend and traveled the world trying to help others to help refugees. you were a young aid worker too. i know you thought young and

hard to go on the trip you were on. you went and were taken hostage by this group in somalia. what would you tell another young american who idealist idealistically is thinking i can save the world and it won't happen to me. should they go? >> i think that's a complex question. always listen to your own intuition, put security first, listen to others who know more than you and be smart, above all. and, you know bad things happen all over the world and you've got to go and live your life and do the work that you think you are meant to do. so i say go and make the best possible decisions you can. >> she says go but make the best possible decisions. thanks to both of you. i really appreciate it. "outfront" next a dozen

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tonight, two college students in critical condition, ten others recovering after apparently overdosing on a popular synthetic drug. police say the overdose happened at a party on the campus in connecticut. jean casarez is there. what are authorities learning about where this drug came from? >> reporter: the investigation is really in full force. the middletown connecticut police department. because they want to find who or what people distributed or sold this molly-like drug to students at wesleyan university over the weekend. here's how it all came about. it came to light yesterday about 7:00 in the morning.

police inand ems started getting phone calls as people were being transported to the hospital. the two most critical were medevaced right here to hartford because this is a level 1 trauma center. they remain in critical condition tonight but we're told that some were able to say i took molly. others were not able to talk to communicate that. but the first thing they did was urine testing to see chemical composition. that led them down the road of molly. now more sophisticated testing is being done at the state crime lab in connecticut to determine the actual composition but the head of toxicology at this hospital told me he believes it is a synthetic form of molly, which can be even more dangerous. now, we do know parents are coming in and have been here to be with their children. and we've also learned, i've spoked with the elected state attorney of this area and he tells me he's aware of the police investigation going on right now but his heart is with the families and the victims

because this is a very serious situation. >> jean thank you very much. i incredibly serious. two are in critical condition fighting for their lives. molly is a synthetic drug market surging across the united states with deadly consequences. last year a young man died of a molly overdose. there have been molly-related deaths at music concerts in boston and new york city. our cameras go undercover. drew griffin is "outfront." >> reporter: it's saturday night at a new york city dance club and the steady beat signals the start of another night of searching for many of these dancers. they want mol leechlt lately the drug of choice. it's a nickname given to the pure form of ecstasy. some tell us getting ready for molly has taken all week.

>> i hydrate all week. i know how to prepare for it. every time i take like a gram or more. >> reporter: molly has been around for more than a decade. originally it was ecstasy. in the last few years, molly has gone from a known drug to an unknown unknown quantity. a toxic chemical cocktail. users don't know what they are getting and one hit can put you in the hospital. >> they took me to the hospital and they gave me oxygen. i was about to pass out because i couldn't breathe. one of my friends got this with me. >> reporter: she was lucky. deaths associated with molly are being reported across the country. molly is no longer ecstasy. what it is a variation of half a

dozen extremely dangerous synthetic designer drugs flooding the western world. >> we're seizing larger and larger quantities of half a dozen compounds that we're seeing in these substances being marketed as molly. >> and we see the overdoses and even deaths. >> reporter: increase? >> we have seen a number of deaths attributed to what the abuser thought was molly. our kids are really being used as guinea pigs by these drug traffickers. >> reporter: it's as guinea pigs for the new drug dealers. chemists creating their often toxic compounds in labs. mostly in china. the chemicals are imported to the u.s. and europe where they are assembled, packaged and told to kids who may think it's just the same old mdma. it's taken just three years for this flood of new synthetic drugs like these to change the landscape of the illicit drug market in this country.

as krncnn has shown, spice and bath salts can be bought easily over the internet and mailed to your home. it's information not likely to be involved in the decision whether to ingest or not ingest a pill a powder a package at a dance club on a saturday night in new york. here night after night and in clubs across the u.s. the real dangers of molly are being felt one hit, one overdose one death at a time. drew griffin cnn. >> and now, dr. drew is joining us. you heard drew griffin reporting. most of these drugs come from labs in china. just how dangerous is this drug? in connecticut they were saying it was a bad batch. that might not be the case right? >> right, erin. people are getting this story

and most of the stories around molly completely wrong. the original sort of story that has swirled around molly was, this is a pure form of mdma. therefore, it is safer. mdma is the dangerous compound in molly. it is highly neurotoxic. we've known this for years and if taken in high concentrations even modest concentrations people get malignant hypothermia, brain swelling cardiac arrhythmias, end up in the hospital just as these kids did. the problem is not that it was a bad batch. it was probably a good batch and because it was a more con traded mdma the mdma is the problem. people can't get through their head. by the way, you don't have to overdose on it to get somebody immediate and sometimes medically critical effects. >> it's terrifying. kids have died. two are in critical condition in connecticut. when you talk about the hourrrible

and brain swelling that's not what they are told. miley cyrus even saying this is cool stuff. ♪ dancing with molly doing whatever we want ♪ ♪ we something about mary she gone off with molly ♪ ♪ as we moonshine and molly feel the warmth we'll never die ♪ >> it's horrible that it is acceptable. but that's what people are saying. >> the report in this pop cultural context is how alluring this drug is. it really does work. it really does feel great and they do kind of know there are dangers although they brush over them. it's not going to happen to me. it's a great feeling. they all know that. and they just over look the dangerous effects, which are not common. they don't all come across this every time they see it. unfortunately, what they don't get to see which i see all the time the downstream effect years later, which is memory problems and mood disturbances

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tonight, isis brutality on display, the terror group releasing a flood of propaganda videos including this one with children. supposedly these children are ann isis camp for kids. they are wearing bandanas and exercises, some of them as young as 5 years old. jim sciutto is "outfront." we're showing this video so people can see how young they are. what else is in it? >> you see them citing religious phrases and answering questions from the koran. we saw video of teenage fighters

and this is taking a step earlier, a decade earlier to kids that are 5, 6, 7 years old. i think there's a message in that. isis is taking losses. some of its leaders have been killed thousands of its fighters have been killed and i think we've always got to keep in mind this is pure propaganda that it's to say you may kill the older ones but we have a new generation coming up. >> of course as you point out, they are making sure that they have brand-new cammo outfits. isis has been changing its pr a little bit and now making a bigger deal of a video showing what is supposedly daily life is bustling and normal. right? this has been a real shift in what they have been trying to do. what do you see in this video? >> they have a big audience that they want to get to and what they want to show the audience particularly here is the islamic state is working. we're not only taking over territory but as you can see, we have busy shopping and fruit

stands open and to show not only can they take territory but they can hold and control that territory. the thing is when you hear accounts of eyewitnesss who have actually lived under isis rule of course the reality is very different. they speak of brutal treatment, torture and, as you know erin too many stories to recount in that category. >> there are. and you see this other push, domesticated we sell candy and sweets things are so great here. the same day a video comes out, more video of human beings in cages. >> yeah. look at this again. the cage of course reminiscent of the horrible video of the poor jordanian pilot burned alive. these are occurredkurdish fighters captured. they believe this video was taken in kirkuk iraq.

isis did carry operations inside there, an attack inside there in recent weeks. and what is not known is what their fate is because, of course all other folks that we've seen in those orange suits have sadly met a very sad death, usually by beheading. you don't actually see that in this video, whether that's part of a change in their propaganda messaging, erin remains to be seen but last week we saw a number of christians beheaded. i wouldn't put it past them to see a later deadlier video. >> part of the problem is the lack of intelligence. you're talking about a terror analysis group who says this was in kirkuk. u.s. analysis is poor. you spoke with the head of the nsa today and he agreed with you that the u.s. has blind spots when it comes to tracking terrorists. he says it's because of the quote/unquote revelations released by edward snowden. let me play a clip of your conversation with the admiral.

>> do you have new blind spots that you have prior to the revelations? >> yes. >> how much does that concern you? >> it concerns me a lot. >> the look on his face is pretty incredible there. >> it is. it's a frank and stark assessment from the head of one of the most capable intelligence or zagorganizations in the world saying that post-edward snowden -- and i've been hearing this from intelligence officials for a long time because of the way that they are changing communications that they can in some respects no longer be tracked the way that they used to be intercepted phone calls, e-mails, et cetera. that's a real problem when you want to prevent terror attacks. it's quite an alarming admission from the head of the nsa. >> it certainly is. thank you very much jim sciutto. next the suspect's attorney in the road rage murder turning the corner questioning whether

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new demplts in the case of alleged road rage that left a mother of four dead. a 19-year-old made his first appearance in court today. he's the one accused of gunning down tammy meyers in her driveway. a manhunt is still on for another suspect. they say it stemmed from an incident of road rage when she took her teenage daughter out for a driving lesson. but he said the meyers family isn't telling the truth about what happened that night. >> when eric walked into the courtroom, robert meyers was right there to look into the eyes of the teenager charged with killing his wife and mother of four. >> i'll be here every date. >> reporter: he said a lot about the day tammy meyers was killed. built as a road rage incident. it turned out the victim and suspect knew one another. a fact the family knew but

police say only found out the day of the arrest. robert meyers telling cnn he didn't think it was worth mentioning to police because they did not suspect he was directly involved until the day he was arrested. for the first time we hear the details of the shooting suspect's side of the story. his attorney sat down with us. was this a case of road rage? >> we can say with some confidence there was no road rage. >> can you tell me anything about what he's saying happened? >> what we know is that a story kept changing that it was an illogical story. there's a sequence of illogical and untruthful stories that come out one after the other, that just lead you to the inescapable conclusion that you cannot depend upon what the meyers family is saying occurred that night. >> the meyers family says it is the defendant who was lying, not them. police are still investigating the case.

the prosecution says this is not a simple case but a case of murder, nonetheless. >> i don't want to get into the specifics because it would take me about 30 minutes. it's not a straightforward case. it is not a garden variety run of the mill case. we all know there are certain nuances to this case. but at the end of the day this young man is charged with a senseless, stupid act of murder and we intend to prove it in court. >> are you going to say that this is self-defense? is eric nowshe going to say i was defending myself? >> yes. >> and you heard there the defense saying they did believe that self-defense will likely be something that they look at when this case goes further in the court system. what we have now is the police report. and what's interesting here is nowsch is talking about a car he thought was following him, a green car which matches tammy

meyers' car. but he never mentions the meyers either. so at first we didn't know the two knew each other, partly because he didn't tell his friend that either. the police didn't know until the day they arrested him. the case getting more and more and more complicated as time goes on. erin? >> sarah, thank you very much. complicated. like somebody knows something they don't want to share at this point. there's got to be that kind of aha moment. jeanne moos up next doubling down on the most oscar moment of the night.

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travolta without a big statue or bag, he still found a way to keep his hands full. here's jeanne moos. >> reporter: john travolta walked the red carpet with his wife but he got called on the karnt for what happened on stage with idena manzel. first she got revenge by mangling travolta's name like she mangled his last year. >> my dear friend glom gazingo. >> my wickedly talented idina manzel. >> reporter: it ranges from mr. spock's mind-melding moves, to the vp who does creepy old guy better. it may seem vice president biden has the edge with his hands on nuzzling secretary of the wife to the daughter of a senator. but travolta earned the hash tag creepy uncle john. i for one was not creeped out.

that face cupping was just a bit. he was an actor, acting. leave john travolta alone. travolta himself recreated the moment. >> that's right. >> apparently i played with her chin too much. >> reporter: travolta also got flack for planting a surprise kiss and a hand on scarlett jo hanssen. look like she looks peeved? watch the video. this is nothing compared to the time mizrahi examined the architecture of scarlett's gown. >> just want to feel it. >> ooh! >> reporter: travolta finally explained why he butchered idena manzel's name last year saying he was so star-struck meeting goldie hawn backstage he didn't pay any attention when her name had been changed on the teleprompter. >> i get to her name and i'm like hmm? >> reporter: but he called her adele dazene?

how do you get that out of a phonetic spelling like that? and what do we do for days? >> milk it scarlett milk it. >> reporter: jeanne moos cnn. be sure to dvr the show watch it anytime. anderson starts now. good evening. thanks for joining us tonight. what to make of a terror threat against the largest shopping mall in the united states. how seriously the authorities are taking it and what they're doing to keep people safe. one nation under a sheet of ice with dangerous cold and millions more have already seen way too much. more than 1,000 flights canceled. we'll tell you where it's all headed next. his lawyer said it was not road rage and suggests it might have been self-defense. that's not all an attorney for the accused road rage killer has to say after his client makes his first court appearance. i talked to him just a short time ago. suffice it to say he presents a