and now to former profiler from the fbi, mary ellen o'toole. thanks, mary ellen. brings us to today. >> what investigators will want to know from this offender is where did he make the devices, who else may have known. where else have you sent devices, where are they stored, do you have any other vehicles. they want to develop intelligence information because they have -- would have had a public safety issue. they have to get that out of the way right away and then talking about how was it you decided to develop the plan, what kind of triggers your decision to do this. so kind of building that type of time line with him that will give them a better idea how this developed. first and foremost, where are the rest of them, where is your hit list, who else is on the list and who helped you and where are the rest of the components and devices. >> charles: before i let you go, how important is it that if he's connected to anyone else and if he's alone wolf? >> on a scale of 1 to 10, finding out that information is a 10. >> charles: okay. mary ellen, thanks very much. >>

also former fbi profiler, mary ellen o'toole. so, chief ramsey, you were the d.c. chief during the d.c. sniper attacks. can you just explain the difficulty investigations like this can be, how long they can take, or sort of what's happening right now? >> well, i mean, they can take time. i remember back in 2002 during the d.c. sniper which ironically was october of 2002. right around this time of year. it does take time. but there's an awful lot of pressure to find out very quickly or at least as quickly as possible who's responsible so that you don't wind up in this case with anyone actually being killed because right now we're very fortunate. they found so far six devices, i believe. none of which went off. that doesn't mean there are not more out there. so there's a tremendous amount of pressure to make sure that they identify this person as quickly as possible. >> mary ellen, you profiled the unabomber, ted kaczynski. looking at how this individual or individuals sent these packages, is there anything you can tell in terms of what kind of a person it could be b

it is mary ellen hannibal and i am an environmental journalist. my most recent book is called citizen scientist searching for heroes and hope in an age of extinction and the volunteers that we do have, thousands of volunteers in the city, removing invasive plants and planting native plants, are citizen scientists and heroes. and what we are doing is protecting native ecosystems here in san francisco. and just to tap back to the first part of the meeting tonight to the climate summit, and all of the huge herculean things that we will have to do to mitigate climate change, one of the most important things is something we are already doing, which is supporting the native ecosystems. as the climate bears down on us, our first defence is the healthy and resilient ecosystem. we need to do everything we can, as bob explained, to keep those native plants in the ground and have the relationship with those butterflies that are endangered, at all of the birds and small mammals and reptiles and amphibians, et cetera that use them. i too look to the day when w

mary ellen? [applause] >> good morning. welcome to san francisco. we're so happy and proud to have you here during fleet week. i was so fortunate yesterday to have the opportunity to sail in with many of the service men and women from the navy and the marines. it was an absolutely perfect -- picture perfect day in san francisco. so proud, and we hope everyone has a wonderful week while you're here. this is -- we learned yesterday, and as we'll see all week, there are so many incredible capabilities that our service men and women and organizations bring to san francisco that we will need in the event of a catastrophic earthquake or other emergency. and it is so important we are talking, practicing, getting to know each other, working out the lod logistics out here. this is not something that's easily doable in a moment without having practiced. i'm thrilled to be able to lean in this week during fleet week, and i want to talk a little bit about the folks that execute it from my team. so emergency management is thinking through and handling the detail

mary ellen o'toole, fbi, former fbi profiler and special agent.ng with us this morning. >>> well, there are negotiations going on right now, between megyn kelly and her bosses at nbc. the network confirming her morning talk show has been canceled. what is at stake as she negotiates her exit from the network? and where does she go from here? ♪ carla is living with metastatic breast cancer, which is breast cancer that has spread to other parts of her body. she's also taking prescription ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor, which is for postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive her2- metastatic breast cancer as the first hormonal based therapy. ibrance plus letrozole was significantly more effective at delaying disease progression versus letrozole. patients taking ibrance can develop low white blood cell counts, which may cause serious infections that can lead to death. before taking ibrance, tell your doctor if you have fever, chills, or other signs of infection, liver or kidney problems, are pregnant, breastfeeding, or plan to become preg

interesting stuff from fascinating book thank you so much mary ellen. lead author and the book h.p.v. vaccine on trial seeking justice for a generation betrayed thank you so much for your book of are joining us today thank you. they say that around age thirty stuff on your body just stays broke and it looks like the hubble space telescope is suffering from my case of the third hubble has not a few bumps and bruises along the way but it's the long the way but it's the breakdown of yet another gyroscope that scientists concern and nasa put a man telescope in safe mode until repairs could be done when launched hubble continued six gyroscopes each using the concept of angular movement to make sure that the telescope is pointed in the correct direction at all times but hubble needs at least reworking gyroscopes to function and the failure of another one this weekend leaves it was only two that are operational in the event the gyroscope can't be fixed the operation of hubble will be limited but will remain an operation at least until its replacement the james

. >> mary ellen, you profiled the unibomber, ted kaczynski.king at how this individual or individuals sent these packages, is there anything you can tell in terms of what kind of a person it could be behind this? >> well, it would all be very preliminary, but what becomes important is taking a look at all of those devices to see, number one, if they are forensically linked, and then number two, how are those devices put together? and are they actually functional? and are they functional to become lethal? and what that will show is the . e person's -- you heard people over the last 24 hours talk about a cig csignature in this. that means how does he crimp the wires, how does he apply the powder? that becomes important and tells us something as well. and here's the final thing that i think is really important. looking at the package for the one that went to cnn in new york, there was an awful lot of tape on there. there were six stamps. and then there was the envelope that had to be connected. so there's a real good possibility that forensic evi

let's bring in reporter katie benner for "the new york times," mary ellen o'toole, and elliot williamso all of you. katie, the issue of the fbi investigation. i don't know, do you call it an investigation? was it a series of background checks? how do -- because this is the criticism republicans were saying before it was kicked over to the fbi last week. saying there's no point going to the fbi with this. they're just going to interview people, not do a real investigation. they're just going to spit back a couple of reports. is that what happened? >> it is what happened, but let's be fair to the fbi. their job is to do a background check. this was a job interview for brett kavanaugh. they're not doing a criminal investigation of him. they interview people related to some of the claims we heard dr. blasey ford bring up. they focused narrowly on those claims and the allegations of one other woman. they did not look at his credibility in other ways, whether or not he lied under oath when he was testifying before the senate. it was a narrowly focused investigation that they were then to giv

he is an author of the study many of we also have mary ellen carole the director of the department ofrgency management and angus carty and oohed like to bring up professor to discuss a little bit about the recommendations in this report. >> thank you. i've been working on a team with the applied technology council with the team of other academics and technical engineers to develop this. there's 16 recommendations in our plan. i won't a at the present time to go through all of them. a few of the high points, first to get a handle on the issues with tall buildings, we initiated developing a data base of how many tall buildings are there in san francisco. what are their occupancy and about what types of materials were they built out of. depending on the age and materials of the buildings, we learned things through subsequent earthquakes. with concrete structure and in 1994 north ridge earthquake and l.a. we learned about fracture issues with frames. in the existing building inventory of tall buildings there's many of those tall steel moment frame buildings in the city. so from that, we d

. >>> former senior fbi profiler mary ellen o'tool spent her career studying the criminal mind.am at george mason university good morning to you. this is a race until the next bomb. what kind of profile would you start building right now to find a culprit? >> i would be looking at the forensic results and also the behavior. it's a combination of the two so for example the fbi lab will be looking at the functionality of these devices. are they intentionally not working or are they not exploding because of a problem? and if that's the case, if they are intentionally designed not to explode but to create fear and panic then we can expect to see an escalation if there's another batch of bombs that come out. this suggests to me this is someone that planned this out quite well so we should not assume that mistakes that we see in the posting of the packages are a mistake but may be done purposely. there is also an arrogance about these bombings. this is someone who is creating a great deal of fear and panic new york and in the d.c. area and he's enjoying that. my sense is that the sens

(mary ellen carroll, sf dept of emergency management) it is so critical that we are talking, practicingg to know each other working out the logistics that you see out here this is not something that's easily executed in a momenttoday's disaster response drill centered around bringing fuel ...a resource that will be very scarce after a major quake....off naval ships....and into the hands of local authorities... i know that we're doing some after actions after what happened in puerto rico. the major concern was that he had we had fuel to deliver but we had no way to get that fuel inlet so these are the kinks that we're trying to work out in the wrinkles were trying to iron outboth the military and local and state agencies brought out their emergency communication systems.... this exercises for everyone to get all their toys out and see who can talk to who, what assets do you have what assets do we have can we talk via vhf, hf do you have satcom communications do you have satellite phones?it's questions like this....that are best to be worked out before a diaster...than during one.maureen

. >> i forgot to acknowledge mary ellen. where are you? i apologize.pplause] don't be shy just because c-span is watching. [laughter] >> doctor shannon. if you want to stand and ask your question. >> my handwriting is -- >> i didn't want to say that but i thought it was some prescription for me. >> my question relates to the study in 2000 by [inaudible] i've got a couple of questions. one is the panel thanks that a study that should be periodically redone but the second question is and i think we got to this with the opening but it was done by [inaudible] a report done by the diocese and wonder if you could contrast that and what was unearthed with subpoena power. >> well -- it was a two-part question. should the report that was issued by the national review board be reviewed and continually updated and the other was what was the issue with regard to the grand jury in pennsylvania and their subpoena power. what was the difference because kevin, you can answer that little better but you could start and we can all come in on that. >> i think i understood

denise kaufman, dieanne v, mary anne and mary ellen. i listened to your music today. i i was like, they were really good. they were playing in the '60s and '70s. what have you been doing the last four decades? >> playing music. >> where? in a closet? how come we never heard of you? big time. when i first listened to you, i thought, they sound like joan. wait a minute. they were doing it way before that. >> we didn't get a record deal in the old days in the bay area. no all women bands got a record deal right when we were playing. and at the end of the summer of love period. well, like 1970, 1971, we started having babies and drifted in different directions. >> so you didn't stay together as a band all these decades. >> on and off, we would come together for reunions but everyone still played in other bands and we would get together and have these reunions. until, you know, the magic happens. >> so the rest of your lives took over and now you've gotten the kids out of the way. we have grand kids now. we don't all live in the bay area. so we have to come from other plac

(mary ellen carroll, sf dept of emergency management)a catastrophic event, particularly the type of earthquake we are likely to experience in our lifetime many more resources will require many more resources then we have with in the city and probably with in the region. and what you're seeing her today and what you'll see all week is our efforts to partner to literally roll out the types of equipment to test the capabilities that we will meet in the event of a catastrophic disaster here in the citytoday's disaster response drill centered around bringing fuel ...a resource that will be very scarce after a major quake....off naval ships....and into the hands of local authorities...both the military and local and state agencies brought out their emergency communication systems.... this exercises for everyone to get all their toys out and see who can talk to who, what assets do you have what assets do we have can we talk via vhf, hf do you have satcom communications do you have satellite phones?it's questions like this....that are best to be worked out before a diaster...than during one.maureen ke

marshal's office and assistant secretary of homeland security and mary ellen, let me start with you. based on what we know about the packages and everybody has been targeted so far criticized the president of the united states. if there is a preliminary profile sheet this morning, who are they looking for? >> well, preliminarily, they are looking for someone that planned this out very well. that means someone that didn't just happen to decide to do this a couple of days ago. this was someone that seems to be very knowledgeable to a certain extent about politics and knows the people he doesn't like. his dislike of he's people might have been manifested on social media prior this to this and that becomes important or he may have subject a letter to someone talking about one of these people and how he disliked their politics. if you look at the forensics, you have got someone that because of the planning that went into it, i would be very careful about summarizing or concluding that any mistakes that you see in how he addressed the letters or the return address that to assume they are m

mary ellen o'toole profiled ted kaczynski for the fbi.investigators are looking closely at the connection between today's targets. brennan, who the bomber mistakenly thought worked for cnn, as well as prominent people in politics who have all been harshly criticized by the president or his right-wing allies. she says law enforcement will be looking for specific characteristics in the suspect. >> someone that is very angry about the politics in the country and specifically against these individuals. the reason that's important is because there may have been some effort prior to mailing and placing these bombs to contact these people, either through a letter or through posting something on facebook. >> reporter: o'toole says the suspect could plan on mailing more bombs, could have active devices or other weapons on them when law enforcement approaches. and likely has a desperate outlook. >> this is someone who now cannot go back. he can not change things and blend back into a common, ordinary life, so he has thrown all caution to the wind,

(mary ellen carroll, sf dept of emergency management)a catastrophic event, particularly the type of earthquakewe are likely to experience in our lifetime many more resources will require many more resources then we have with in the city and probably with in the region. and what you're seeing her today and what you'll see all week is our efforts to partner to literally roll out the types of equipment to test the capabilities that we will meet in the event of a catastrophic disaster here in the citytoday's disaster response drill centered around bringing fuel ...a resource that will be very scarce after a major quake....off naval ships....and into the hands of local authorities...both the military and local and state agencies brought out their emergency communication systems.... this exercises for everyone to get all their toys out and see who can talk to who, what assets do you have what assets do we have can we talk via vhf, hf do you have satcom communications do you have satellite phones?it's questions like this....that are best to be worked out before a diaster...than during one.maureen kel