it is tuesday november 17th. coming up on "early today," breaks news right now. the crekremlin confirms 224 peo were killed by a homemade explosive device which destroyed the airliner. city of lights and recover mode. meeting with secretary kerry who refrs to isis as psychopathic monsters. >> i don't want to make everybody nervous but i feel the same way i felt before 9/11. that something very well could happen here. >> and just how the terrorists are communicating with one another shows they may be one

step ahead of law enforcement. "early today" starts right now. >> good morning everyone. i'm alex witt. we start with the breaking news. russia has announced that traces of explosives have been found in the debris of the downed metro joet plane. a bomb equivalent to 2.2 pounds of tnt exploded on board the aircraft. russia is offering a $15 million we regard for who brought down the jet. they will hunt the perpetrators and fine those responsible. obama talking trade but also ways to coordinate with china a

ice. the president spoke yesterday backing up his plan to defeat isis. >> we have always understood that there will be a long-term campaign. there will be setbacks and there will be discusses. the terrible events in paris were obviously a terrible and sickening setback. even as we grieve with our french friends however we can't lose sight that there has been progress being made. >> isis also released a new propaganda video threatening a paris style attack on the united states that. video has yet to be authenticated. the man hunt still ongoing for salah. who may have fled to belgium. meanwhile in paris there are signs of healing. yesterday the eiffel tower reopened and was lit in the colors of the french flag. paris's motto meaning tossed by the waves but not sunk was projected onto the tower. joined from paris with the

latest, good morning kelly. >> reporter: another active night alex for security services and police here in france. 128 more raids overnight. more weapons seized and more arrested made. a lot of those raids centered in the southwestern city of tuloise. the suspect booked two hotel rooms in paris the night before the attack. tonight francois hollande met with john kerry. president hollande would like to form a global coalition to fight islamic state with the united states and russia already moving an aircraft carrier into the

eastern maediterranean to participate in the the fight. and there were more air strikes overnight. ten french war planes striking targets in raqqa in syria, hitting a command center and a recruitment center. one final development this morning, the belgian prosecutor says two men who were arrested over the weekend have now been charged this connection with the paris attacks. they don't believe they were involved directly but may have helped them get out of paris on the night of the attack. >> and as international powers map out a strategy, a new video directly threatens attack on washington d.c. but there is no change of course for president obama. >> reporter: new isis video says

america is next. the terrorist says as we struck frantz in the center of paris. we swear we will strike america at its center in washington. a carrier group leaving virginia for the mediterranean, a planned mission now focussing on isis. the u.s. is stepping up air strikes in yesyria. but president obama sounding defensive, stickic to his game plan. >> the terrible events in paris were obviously a terrible setback. even as we grieve with our french friends however we can't lose sight that there has been progress being made. >> firing back at critics -- >> the interesting we are putting forward is the strategy that ultimately is going to work. >> reporter: a false alarm two days later caused panic.

and isis capability u.s. intelligence never could have predicted. >> i certainly could have predicted a oneoff we event. i would anticipate that this is not the only operation that isil has in the pipeline. >> i don't want to make everybody nervous but i feel the same way i felt before 9/11, that something very well could happen here. so how to stop isis? experts say more air power. more effective naval power and several thousand special forces, not just fifty. and diplomacy, even this weekend with with vladimir putin and intelligence. figuring whether isis can really do washington what it did to paris. >> americans say strongest

defense is that good intelligence but the fbi says it is getting harder to monitor terrorism suspects. a problem the fbi says is going dark. pete williams explains. >> reporter: though u.s. intelligence officials say they don't yet know how the platters kept in touch. one official says he would be shocked if they didn't use some type of communication that the police cannot monitor. isis has been manning a 24 hour help desk and can temperature would be jihadiists worldwide how to use certain software. investigators say when they find someone through twitter the conversations are shifted. and the message is encrypted the moment it is sent. >> these also can said to delete

a message soon after it is sent. i've set this app to delete after four seconds. i'm sending it. it's received. and it's gone. forever. >> european officials warned before the paris attack about another way to elude surveillance. they say even gaming consoles like sony's hugely popular population 4 can be used to send voice and text messages hard for the government to keep track of. >> i heard that the most difficult communication between the terrorists is the population four. is very very difficult for our services. >> the problem the online groups come and go so quickly, one calls it security by on security. pete williams nbc news washington. >> we're joined by medal of honor recipient conditional jack jacobs. we're learning that vladimir

putin, how does he act now? >> well there is an idea that says this might motivate him to get more serious about attacking isis in syria rather than just trying to knock off opponents of assad. and if that is the case. it means that we have an opportunity to work more closely with him. and perhaps we can operate together to knock off isis or at least degrade them a lot more than we have up until now. up until now the only guys going after them are united states and france. this may change now that putin knows that isis is behind downing that airliner. >> speaking of the united states. you heard the president talking yesterday in turkey. he's not going to make any rash decisions. not going to change course. this is not necessarily a popular decision but is it the right one? >> probably not.

he's got a political problem. he rose to office on the back of a promise to get out of the middle east. he's already done that. we're down to very few people. extended the stay of americans just a short period of time really. but at the end of the day he is committed to waite draw. to change that now is extra streamly difficult politically. and now you are not talking about a big increase in capability. he's got a real political problem here. >> who was most extraordinary as we got to eavesdrop and see that meeting between putin and obama on is side lines there. does this have effect to unifying the two countries? >> actually one hopes it will. think of our capabilities and what the russians have. we haven't been work gt together at all but we've got great technological means.

over head, satellites, eavesdropping and all that stuff. the russians have people on the ground. and part of our shortfall in developing good intelligence, and now more important that it's easy for terrorists to converse without been overheard is human intelligence. information on the ground which we can combine with information with signals intelligence to produce finished intelligence on which we eand the urussians can actually operate. to do that it means we're getting in bed with somebody who supports assad. and that is a problem. >> nbc meteorologist bill karins with more about the severe weather. >> yeah this is a storm that was in the west two days ago and it is causing problems this morning. yesterday we had 42 reports of tornados. a blizzard going on in the denver area on i-70 here is our

blizzard warnings in effect. zero visibility at times and some of those roads including i-70 could get shut down for a short period. for denver the blizzard ends at 2:p.m. 16-20 inches in nebraska. no tornados recently but stock storms just went through the dallas and tulsa areas. later today across arkansas and louisiana, additional threat of tornados. and on top. some people could get seven

behind our storm still chilly in areas of arizona. quite the november storm. >> yeah it is indeed. thank you bill. straight ahead the paris impact on wall street and the economy plus the president arrives in the philippines for the apex summit. excellent looking below the surface, researching a hunch... and making a decision you are type e*. time for a change of menu. research and invest from any website. with e*trade's browser trading. e*trade. opportunity is everywhere.

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some of the nations meet hearing are part of that 60 member coalition the united states has put together to attack isis. for example one of the first meetings the president had is with the australian prime minister. they are the second largest distributor to the coalition. hundreds of troops and war planes as well. humanitarian assistance. a key part of the u.s. strategy is to get the coalition partners to step up more. that is the point the president has been making. we know the french are stepping up. they are launched air attacks at isis head courquarters in raqqae the terrorist group is based. so that is a key part of the strategy we'll probably hear more about from the president. in addition there is other efforts of the strategy that the united states is successful able to move forward on like sealing the board we are turkey and syria. and trying to stop the flow of

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breaking overnight. looking into an inside job. egyptian authorities detain two airport employees suspected of having a role in the crash of a russian jet. speaking of the war on terror, president obama unveils his vision for bearing down on isis. critics accuse the president of not going nearly far enough. plus, prepare for more than just game day. s.w.a.t team will with security a more important issue than ever in the bay area. "today in the bay" starts right now. very good morning. >> tuesday morning. >> thanks so much for joining us. want to bring in kari and another cool start to our morning. >> keeping that trend going. >> it is going to be