thousands of tourists are finally able to leave the egyptian resort city of sharm el sheik today but termine whether, indeed, a bomb brought do that russian jetliner soon after takeoff from sharm el sheik last saturday and whether isis is responsible. president obama made his first public comments in a radio interview late yesterday. >> we're going to spend a lot of time just making sure that our own investigators and our own intelligence community figures out exactly what's going on before we make any definitive pronouncements. but it is certainly possible that there was a bomb on board. >> and we begin our coverage with nbc's tom costello who covers aviation. tom, let's start with this, stepped-up security measures. what can air travelers expect when it comes to airports abroad and here at home? >> reporter: i don't think we're going to see much here at home. i think we're really talking about foreign airports, and specifically, we're talking about what are called lpds, last points of departure, to use the tsa vernacular here. specifically, they're looking at airports in that area,

would consider suspending flights out of sharm el-sheik as the british have, citing jegs that it may an explosion. earnest said at this time no, flights out of sharm el-sheik and there are no direct flights to the u.s. the sub text being there are not flights to which a device could be placed possible and come into there country. >> it is not like sharm el-sheik is some sort of thrown together airport. they have mod earn security there, right? >> it is, you've been there. i'm sure. i have traveled there. i've reported from there. a highly militarized area in just a minute, t egypt. it is not a jv league airport in materials of security. the issue for the united states is whether there are u.s. carriers coming out into the u.s. directly. the answer is that there are not. which is why the u.s. is not engaging on the same level as the british with what they call the cobra briefings. that's cabinet office briefing rooms. what has people's attention intelligence is this. these claims from isis are coming from very well established and senior isis social media accounts. like the mega phone

a russian team is now looking closely at the sharm el-sheik airport. not just at passenger screening methods but at the employees who could have some wrote a bomb on board. u.s. intelligence agencies seem to share that concern. >> it's a huge threat. we think that's likely how this bomb got on this airplane. they can be compromised, bribed with cash or they could be radicalized enough to put a piece of luggage on the aircraft. >> isis has claimed responsibility but offered no proof. still, if it ends up being the case, it could change assessments of what isis is really capable of doing. >> if this is a bomb by the affiliate prices in the sinai, isis is fully eclipsing al- qaeda as the greatest terrorist threat in the world. >> he was officials are looking at other airports around the world to see if there are security problems especially as it relates to airport employees that might have physical access to aircraft. pam? >> very scary. >>> the time is 4:14. let's look at your traffic this morning. pretty quiet now, but as rain comes in, could be a diff

the uk, france and the lufthansa group canceling flights into and out of sharm el-sheik airport today, two uk airlines, monarch and easy jet, are resuming flights tomorrow to pick up passengers that are stranded there. of course, the plane crashed six days ago over the sinai peninsula, killing all 224 people on board. 60-year-old grandmother, nina lish schenk coker the first of the 224 victims to be buried-year-older today in russia, this as suspicions mount both in the uk and united states that an on-board bomb is what brought this plane down midair, a bomb perhaps planted by isis. >> we cannot be certain that the russian airliner was brought down by a terrorist bomb, but it looks increasingly likely that that was the case. >> reporter: although we can't show it until it has been verified there is one specific piece of evidence intelligence officials are focusing on. >> this video that isis has put out that has shown up of what looks like to be the plane in the air exploding. if someone was in place ahead of time to film that, that's as much of a red flag as you can find. >> reporter

and an intelligence report that the terror group may have had an insider work are at the sharm el-sheik airport, able to help them get explosive device on board the plane. an official tells cnn the sharm el-sheik airport is known for having lax security, something the white house is examining. >> the obama administration is reviewing a number of different steps that we can take to enhance security for commercial flights bound for the united states. >> the reporter: but president secretary josh earnest stopped short of saying what those steps might be. several european nations have stopped flights in and out of the popular vacation spot, britain is sending empty commercial jets to bring tourists home, a process the government admits will take time. i'm mary maloney report. >> mark: 43 million in taxpayer dollars for a gas station in the middle east. the only thing that makes this station unique is the price tag itself. the department of defense built the compressed natural gas station to residents in the area but it costs more than $800 per vehicle to convert cars to natural gas, money m

egyptian authorities told nbc news that two employees at sharm-el-sheik airport have been detained in connection with the bombing. they are currently being questioned. the chief of russia's domestic security agency also said investigators have determined 2.2 pounds of t-n-t exploded on board the aircraft and this was definitely an act of terrorism. the metro jet crash left 224 people dead... most of them russian. and u-s officials said earlier this month that intelligence intercepts picked up chatter between isis operatives boasting about the crash. a joint sub committee meeting today... sub committees from the senate and homeland security will participate. the meeting will discuss the u-s secret service... and evaluate protection practices in the wake of friday's attacks in paris. the secret service director is expected to testify. dozens of protesters are taking to the streets of minneapolis... "black lives matter" is demanding information regarding the shooting of a man over the weekend. 24 year old jamar clark was shot after officers responded to a domestic assault case. clark is

and ayman, those tourists are headed home from sharm el sheik, but they have to leave their luggage behind? are they able to take their carry-on luggage, though? >> reporter: yeah, one of the stepped-up security measures that has been put in place now for the thousands who are trying to return back to the united kingdom is that they will be allowed to take one piece of carry-on luggage, meaning most of their luggage they would normally check in will have to stay at the airport. it will have to be screened separately and then flown to the united kingdom at a separate, later time on a cargo plane once it goes through additional security. now, you can imagine that with thousands of stranded tourists, that is creating a bit of a logistical nightmare for egyptian officials here on the ground. they have already expressed some concern that they just don't have the capacity to take all of these additional thousands of pieces of luggage on a separate facility, to screen them and ultimately to ship them over to parts of europe. now, right now, egyptian ground crews, at least, and the egyptian aviati

plenty of room on on the beach at the egyptian resort city of sharm el-sheik.is cratering. just one repercussion from the uncertainty over the crash of the russian metrojet's airbus that went down over a week ago. investigators are said to have heard a loud bang on the cockpit voice recorder just before it shut down. a russian team is now looking at the sharm el-sheik airport and not just at passengers screening methods but at the employees there who could have smuggled a bomb on board. u.s. intelligence agencies seemed to share that concern. >> it's a huge threat. we think it's likely how this bomb got on this airplane. they can be compromised or bribed with cash or they could be read like -- radicalized to put a piece of luggage on the aircraft. >> reporter: isis has claimed responsibility for the attack but offered no proof. if it ends up being the case case, it could change assessment of what isis is really capable of doing. >> if this is a bomb by the affiliate of isis, isis is now fully eclipsing al-qaeda as the greatest terrorist threat in the world. >>

here's the latest from sharm el- sheik airport. >> reporter: the egyptian focus is on airport staff andthers who may have had access to the plane. reportedly officers are even questioning hotel workers, especially those involved in catering. the key in what happened lies in forensic evidence and the russians and egyptians have control of that. there's enough evidence to convince u.s. and british officials to go with the bomb theory. the isis affiliate that claimed credit for downing the claim just released this photo collection. in spite of the egyptian government claims to be in control, isis still operates in a small but very important part of the desert peninsula. >>> and students voice their frustrations about stanford's actions to the growing number of sexual assaults on campus. student organize -- organizations teamed up with jackie speier last night. she's working on national legislation to change how all colleges handle sexual assault cases. >> we have sweeps issues like this and i think the students have really -- sweeping issues like this and i think the students have really c

british authorities are worried a bomb brought down a russian jetliner that left the resort town of sharm el sheik. as a precaution, the government is now suspending all flights to and from egypt's sinai peninsula. what we are concerned to do is make sure our citizens e safe and all the right safety arrangements are in place. the metrojet airbus, carrying 224 people broke apart 23 minutes after takeoff.investigators are trying to determine if an explosion is to blame and whether it was the result of a technical issue.. or a bomb. earlier this week cbs news satellite detected a heat flash over the sinai peninsula at the time the russian plane crashed. an isis affiliate has repeatedly claimed responsibility for the air disaster .. but us intelligence officials says at this point, there's no proof terrorists were involved. investigators hope the cockpit voice recorder will ld answsws but say extractingng information has been slow because the recorder is damaged.jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, london. 3 british aviation experts are traveling to the sinai tourist resort town to look into the security thr

on saturday, fr sharm el sheik. climbing to31,000 feet, then disappeared fromm radar. >> looking at the tail section is very telling. if it came off first, was it a bomb or structural failure? >> reporter: isis quickly claiming responsibility, but some doubt. today, the ex-wif of the pilot said he had repeatedly complained about the state of the plane. russia declared today a national day of mourning. you lose your kids, this grieving mother id, life is finished. those black boxes will be taken back to moscow to try to unlock the mystery. airlines say they will not fly over the sinai peninsula until more is known. >> steve ganyard, could this have been a bomb? >> a bomb could be one of the causes. the problem is, the claims from the terrorist group don't match up with the plane coming apart at 31,000 feet. the other thing to look at,, some sort of structural problem. >> will the black boxes matter? >> well, what's more important, the wreckage on the ground, is there things like bomb residue? the investigation needs

passengers sent these vacation photos before boarding -- boarding the plane from the resort town of sharm el-sheik saturday. and it broke 23 minutes into the flight. investigators hope the black box flight data recorders hole the clues they need to soft the worst air disasters in -- solve the worst air disasters in russian history. >> and we learning more about the release of thousands of non- violent drug offenders from federal prison and authorities tell wbz that 75 prisoners are eligible for the program out of the 6,000 eligible for early release nationwide. this is part of a national program to reduce the federal prison population, which grew to more than 200,000 inmates. >> >>> turning to campaign 2016, republicans want to take control of the upcoming debate. representatives from more than a dozen presidential campaigns met behind closed doors last night. and they agreed to mandatory opening and closing statements. and an equal number of questions. the change comes after many complained about the moderators of last week's debate on cnbc. >>> and today, former u.s. senator fred thompson is bei

on saturday, the plane left the resort of sharm el-sheik in egypt and was heading to st. petersburg, russia, when it dropped off of radar about 23 minutes into the flight. it wound up crashing in egypt's sinai peninsula. today, that intelligence official said now that feeling is that an explosive device was planted in luggage, or somewhere else on the plane. intelligence reports gathered before and after the crash are leading investigators to think now that this is in fact, the work of isis. isis has already claimed responsibility for bringing the plane down. the officials saying there was other activity in the sinai, that had caught their attention. the world is also now responding to what happened, ireland now suspending all flights to and from sharm el-sheik egypt until further notice. measures, so far though, no official comments from intelligence officials here in the united states. we'll continue to monitor the breaking story for you. i'm heather hegedus, fox 25 news. >> elizabeth: and there's some more breaking news right now in boston's south end, that's where two

they don't want people to stop flying into places like sharm el-sheik. >> mark: 224 died in the plane crash, according to u.s. intelligence, sharm el-sheik airport has a history of lax security, so it's not out of the recommend of possibility a bomb made it through >> elizabeth: a busy week for presidential candidates in new hampshire. republican carly fiorina filed papers to put her name on the new hampshire primary ballot. voters don't head to the polls for the first in the nation primary until february 9. republican senator marco rubio also filed for the new hampshire primary today. ballot registration opened yesterday and it runs through november 20th. to run in new hampshire, a candidate must declare a political party e. in addition to paying a $1,000 registration fee. coming up at 6:00 p.m. on the fox 25 news. political reporter sharman sachetti is on the campaign trail in new hampshire, talking with candidate bernie sanders about why he believes he's in a better position to battle republicans than hillary clinton. >> mark: new england patriots are the heavy favorites heading in

you look back at the russian airliner incident, in sharm el-sheik egypt, the beirut bombing which also was possibly connected to isis, some allege. if that is true then isis expanded its battlefield dramatically out of syria and iraq and shown a capacity which is truly staggering. >> absolutely staggering to say the least. i believe we have colonel jack jacobs as well with us. so colonel, my question to you, closing the borders, how realistic is that logistically? yet we have i want national flights coming into charles de gaulle, you have the trains, those bullet trains that run throughout the european union. and into great britain. how can you possibly close the borders? what does that mean? >> well, you can't. you actually can't. you can close the major points of ingress as you mentioned. but at the end of the day, people can get through either by circumventing the major points where you come in, or more significantly as we've been discussing the last few minutes, when you suggest home grown assistance in this attack, the people are already there. we have opened, they have open borde

the plane left the resort of sharm el-sheik and was heading to st. petersburg, when it dropped off the radar about 23 minutes into the flight. it wound up crashing in egypt's today, that u.s. intelligence official says the feeling now is that an explosive device was planted in luggage or somewhere else on that plane. intelligence reports gathered before and after the crash are now leading investigators to think this indeed is the work of isis. isis had already claimed responsibility for bringing the plane down. the u.s. official saying there was other activity in the sinai that had also caught they their attention and the world is responding. ireland suspending all flights to sharm el-sheik until further information and the uk taking the same action. forensic evidence from the site including the plane's black box, all still being analyzed. we'll stay on top of the breaking story and monitor any breaking developments and bring them to you. >> there is more breaking news tonight in bridgewater, where police discovered a woman's body set on fire. they a

. >> reporter: what we do know is that, the metrojet was on the ground in sharm el sheik for just an hour, according to an an hour of darkness when a bomb may have been put on the plane. the plane took off just before 6:00 a.m. about 24 minutes later, breaking up at 31,000 feet. >> it would have been very simple for somebody to walk out on that ramp and throw an unchecked bag onto that ramp or put it in the cargo hold. >> martha, you reported there are reports you can hear an explosion on the flight recorders. and we'll hear much more tomorrow? >> yes, a press conference is scheduled tomorrow where we should get some clarity and hopefully some real evidence. >> martha, thank you. >>> and a stunning story out of ohio. a family allegedly held for 17 hours, the father forced to rob the bank where he's manager. and gio benitez with the 911 calls. >> reporter: tonight, this banker and his family are safe after a dramatic 17-hour hostage situation in their own home. the man calling 911. >> somebody just robbed me. they're heading west on millsboro west road. >> reporter: it all began thurs

russian inspectors are examining security procedures at sharm el-sheik airport in egypt where the plane took off. the russian government says a full analysis of the evidence they found will take some time. >>> the statue of liberty a new home. the national park service is proposing a new museum to replace the one currently located inside lady liberty's pedestal. the proposed project calls for a new 20,000 square foot building on the east side of liberty island. it would allow more visitors to see the statue's historic collection. >> the entire history of the statue and what she means to people, to take that all out, to a place where more people can experience it, really strikes us as a very good idea. >> a fundraiser campaign would help pay for the project once it is green lighted. it could take three to five years to complete. >>> still much more to come here on cbs 2 news at noon. >> hook, line and sinker, i felt. >> the letter said he won more than a million dollars but he ended up paying tens of thousands of dollars for nothing. the scam you need to know about. >> are you having tro

on saturday, from sharm el sheik. to st. petersburg. it climbed steadily to 31,000 feet before starting to quickly lose altitude. then disappeared from radar. >> looking at the tail section if it came off first, was it a bomb or structural failure? >> reporter: isis quickly claiming responsibility, but intelligence financials say they don't have the missiles that could take out a plane that high. today, the ex-wife of the co-pilot said he had repeatedly complained about the state of the plane. including on the morning of the crash. russia declared today a national day of mourning. as families grapple with their devastating losses. you lose your kids, this grieving mother said, life is finished. those black boxes will be taken back to moscow to try to unlock the mystery. in the meantime, four major international airlines say they will not fly over the sinai peninsula until more is known. tom? >> alex, thank you. ganyard. could this have been a bomb? >> it could be, tom. the sky at 31,000 feet. we need to look for a catastrophic cause. a

done to make sure there's no similar kind of event here in the united states that occurred at sharm el sheikugh a very extensive process of screening the luggage, the luggage underneath as well as the handheld. and i think we've taken the prudent steps abroad to target a number of airports. we haven't named all of them. we're doing an enhanced security review. we want to make sure that the american public as well as others who fly to this country feel 100% secure. and i think that tsa and the department of homeland security has certainly done the prudent things. >> should they be reassessing, though, taking some additional steps at foreign airports that have direct flight service to the united states and at u.s. airports themselves? >> oh, i would tell you that they're doing that. and the thought process on aviation security will change frequently now because we've had an incident. and that requires us to think just like the individuals do that want to carry out these acts. >> the u.s. and russia, they have serious differences right now. there's almost like a new cold war, if you will. but a

the russian flight left saturday from the sharm el-sheik airport in egypt where all flights to and everyones. said they found extremely lax security there. >> terror groups working in the region have been working extremely hard to develop explosives that can be smuggled on to an airplane undetected. >> reporter: as u.s. and british officials demonstrated small amounts of explosives can cause cas catastrophic damage to a fuselage be. >> the aircraft would pull apart. >> passenger planes remain a prime target of terrorists. a bomb brought down pan am 103 in '88 killing 270 people. al qaeda has since tried unsuccessfully with bombs hidden in underwear, a shoe and prettier cart ridges. for u.s. authorities, the concern is whether terrorists have developed a new explosive that can not be can detected by standard security procedures what they call the nightmare scenario. brian ross, abc news, new york. >> this really is a big deal. nearly a million british tourists visit egypt every year. the decision to ground the uk flights has left up to 20,000 of them stranded in sharm el sheikh. officials ar

. >> we must suspend flights to sharm el sheik and advise against all but essential travel by air. the uk foreign secretary says in addition to halting flights, travel advice for uk nationals will also change after finding extremely lax security at the egyptian airport. the uk is now working with airlines to return the 20,000 british tourists still in the resort city of sharm el sheikh. >> terror groups operating in the region have been working extremely hard to develop explosives that can be smuggled on to an airplane undetected. >> the white house says the faa told airlines earlier in the year that u.s. civil aviation operating into, within or over the sinai peninsula is at potential risks associated with treemist activists. however -- >> there are no u.s. carriers that regularly operate out of the sinai peninsula. >> reporter: within hours of the crash, an isis connected group operating in egypt said it was responsible. a claim initially disputed by u.s. officials. but now the group has become the prime suspect. the voice and data recorders from the jet are now being analyzed by

the chartered airbus 321 jet from the red sea resort of sharm el-sheik crashed 23 minutes after take-off, killing 224 people on board. egypt's foreign minister complained today u.s. and u.k. intelligence agencies have not shared their information about a "flash," pointing to an explosion bringing down the plane. today, aviation officials in france where the airbus is made said they are ruling out any "technical failure." russia has suspended all commercial flights to egypt over airport security concerns but is sending 90 planes there this weekend to pick up stranded russian tourists. the leaders of china and taiwan have met for the first time in 66 years. china's xi jinping and taiwan's ma ying-jeou attended a historic summit today at a hotel in singapore. the leaders shook hands for more than a minute before heading into private talks for an hour. the largely symbolic meeting ended with no new agreements signed. since the end of the chinese civil war in 1949, communist party-ruled china has regarded taiwan as a breakaway province and wants the island politically reunited with the mainla

russian air carrier metrojet flight 9268 crashed this morning about 25 minutes after departure from sharm el sheik, egypt, the wreckage located in the north sinai peninsula of that country. officials say there were no survivors, all 224 people on board died, all but three of them russian citizens, the other ukrainian. the plane was an airbus a-321 that was 18 years old, bringing russian vacationers back home on a charter flight to st. petersburg when it disappeared from radar. russian and egyptian authorities will conduct a joint investigation. according to flightradar24, the plane was descending at a rate of 6,000 feet a minute when its radar signal was lost and had slowed dramatically from 400-plus knots down to just 62 knots in the final moments before radar contact was severed. now, the "associated press" quoting an egyptian aviation official, said the pilot made a distress call reporting a technical problem of some time and announced his intentions to land at the nearest airport. there were initial hopes of survivors, and as a result, nearly 50 ambulances were sent to the crash scene. but in

. >> reporter: if a bomb was the cause, it w w almostertainly put on the plane here at sharm el-sheik airport. they questioned security, seized videos and searched. egypt says this is one of the safest airports in the world checked regularly by western expert whose found no gaffes in security this year and gave it the all-clear, but the head of the airirrt has just been fired. investigators found worker weren't being checked properly, leaving the russian plane perhaps vulnerable. the airbus was on the ground here for ann hour. in that time, cleaners, caterers and baggage loaders were in it or beside it. police and maintenance crews had access to the plane with minimal checec in pitch darkness before it took off, exploding around 20 minutes later. >> we cannot be certain that the russian airline was brought down by a terrorist bomb, but it looks increasingly like it. >> reporter: intelligence officials say known isis supporters were heard talking about downing the plane just after it crashed. isis has claimed the attack twice. egypt's president in britain today doesn't agree, believing

there is another concern and this is possibly what happened at sharm el-sheik. that's airport workers don't get the same level of screening. i don't want to go into the details. they don't get the same screening as passengers do. we did pass a bill in the house calling on the tsa to reexamine that issue of airport security not just for passengers, but also for airport workers. because that is an area i think throughout the world of vulnerability. we do have procedures in place but i don't think they are 100% yet. bill: catherine hea herridge is filing report right now. martha: there are new jobs numbers out this morning. is the economy headed in the right direction? bill: marco rubio standing shoulder to shoulder on the debate stage. rubio is responding. will they have it out on tuesday night? >> for years i have been hearing his credit card are a disaster. i would think when you take a look at it you will find that. his credit card debt and his problems with credit card and what he did when he was running the party. bill: a man who flew a home made helicopter t

british tourists are being advised to steer clear of the sinai resort city of sharm el- sheik where the plane departed. aviation experts believe the evidence recovered from the scene including the black box flight recorders will be definitive if traces of explosives are found. >> through the signature of those explosives, they can literally find out where it was made, by whom, and when. so we can find out exactly what happened. >> reporter: the white house trying to reassure u.s. travelers pointing out that u.s. carriers don't fly into sinai where the security risks are well known. >> those kinds of flights are not regularly scheduled between the sinai peninsula and the u.s. the situation is different. >> reporter: if isis did play a role, all eyes will turn to russian president vladimir putin who was already carrying out attacks insyria. >> if it turns out isis is responsible for downing this plane, that is the single biggest mistake they have ever made, because putin now will retaliate. >> reporter: this does raise all kinds of questions. if this was a bomb, how did it get onboard? ch

we'll go live to sharm el sheik.ead, just an incredible announcement, what many thought was an unsolved murder of an illinois police officer. the crime scene was staged by the officer himself who actually shot himself. this is claira. to prove to you that aleve is the better choice for her she's agreed to give it up. that's today? we'll be with her all day to see how it goes. after the deliveries, i was ok. now the ciabatta is done and the pain is starting again. more pills? seriously? seriously. all these stops to take more pills can be a pain. can i get my aleve back? for my pain, i want my aleve. get all day minor arthritis pain relief with an easy open cap. . >>> the breaking news tonight cannot be more sobering. a u.s. officials says intelligence suggest as bomb planted took down the russian passenger jet killing down everyone on board. u.s. intelligence suggests someone inside the airport in sharm el-sheikh may have played a role. our erin mclaughlin joins us in sharm el-sheikh. the news the british delegation

there had been a bombing of a tourist bus near sharm el sheik that killed a number of japanese tourists of course, you've seen other activities like this one that raise significant concerns. i do believe that the american troops that are there have the ability and the material to take care of themselves and defend themselves, but we don't want to see that area destabilized, so we've got to work with our partners in egypt and elsewhere to see that we protect our folks but also do what we can to continue this peacekeeping mission that for 35 years has been pretty successful. >> it's been very successful. let's hope they do have the proper force protection, as it's called to make sure that those 750 americans and the other international observers from fiji and some of the other countries, are protected as well. senator, we have much more to discuss. you're up on capitol hill. stand by. we'll continue our conversation with senator tim kaine in a moment. does your mouth often feel dry? multiple medications, a dry mouth can be a side effect of many medications. but it can also lead to tooth d