but my atf source says that has not been concluded as a patent yet.hen a person is looking for a place to drop those devices it's pretty easy to find a mailbox. that might be the only connection. so far they say they have not discerned any particular pattern or what the actual target might be, shep. >> shepard: so it sounds like the investigation is in the early stages. >> yeah. the investigation is in the early stages. i'm told that additional resources are now being sent to the area. the explosive devices have been taken to atf forensics labs to determine how they are made and see if that can give them any clues, but this is early on. as i say the atf says this is a grave and dangerous situation developing now in east texas, shep. >> shepard: jonathan hunt with that update from the newsroom. jonathan, thanks. in a story that developed this afternoon and an important one, a federal judge ruled today government investigators acted illegally when they wiretapped conversations between an islamic charity and two american lawyers without first getting a s

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in the past meetings, the atf has reported that the u.s. is overwhelmingly the source for these gun traffickers and their acts. we allotted $21.90 million for funding to disrupt the illegal gun trafficking, especially along the southwest border. the believe that this recovery act funding [unintelligible] do believe it is sufficient to take on the trafficking? and let me give you another question on top of that. the issue of gun shows. does that continue to be the main source of arms that show up on the other side of the border? >> i think we have to use all the tools that we can to stop the flow of guns from the united states and mexico. gun runner has been a successful program. we have used programs with our mexican counterparts, and they have been a very the label effort to fight these cartels. the atf has appropriately gone to gun shows where guns are being sold improperly and has been effective in that regard as well. the concern is that we really have to understand that there is, indeed, a problem. way too many of them come from the un

which is why the fbi and the atf have been brought in to help in a case the police chief is determinedcrack. >> we mean to catch them and see them spend the rest of their life in jail. >> reporter: there are no suspects, although some fear the vagos, a california motorcycle gang known for trading in meth. police have raided up some of them recently and they fear the attacks may be retribution in a war that got more unpredictable. >> some parts of the plains are welcoming the first day of spring with some snow. there's a very fierce storm that's already slammed parts of the colorado front range with as much as 20 inches of snow. and the weather channel's mike slidell is live for us in oklahoma city. as we get a look at you, what is this? it's horizontal snow. that's terrible for you. >> reporter: yes. it's better than horizontal me. like last weekend with that storm on the east coast. you guys get the great weather. from key west to portland, maine. look at the snow out here. look how things have changed in the past hour. visibility down to it a quarter mile. it's snowing an inch now. i

ice vent and adjuster down to combine the resources not just the fbi but dea, atf and others who wish to participate to address that circumstance. this is the first instance we have seen i believe that individuals associated with the american consulate in juarez attacked in such a brazen manner. >> did the car have a u.s. license plate? >> i am not certain whether it did or not or could. >> the people that were murdered in, was that an american car? >> i would have to get back to you on that even one car there were two individuals murdered and one individual murdered, his family was in another carpet both of those cars came from the same birthday party on that day. >> i would be interested to know if they were u.s. license plates or texas license plates. there are a number of questions i will ask him that or go the radicalization issue. over the last year or so we have seen a disturbing trend terror attacks planned carried out by individuals including americans who have been radicalized with islamic influence. the fort hood killings, the christmas bombings in jihad jane and a fellow t

ice vent and adjuster down to combine the resources not just the fbi but dea, atf and others who wishate to address that circumstance. this is the first instance we have seen i believe that individuals associated with the american consulate in juarez attacked in such a brazen manner. >> did the car have a u.s. license plate? >> i am not certain whether it did or not or could. >> the people that were murdered in, was that an american car? >> i would have to get back to you on that even one car there were two individuals murdered and one individual murdered, his family was in another carpet both of those cars came from the same birthday party on that day. >> i would be interested to know if they were u.s. license plates or texas license plates. there are a number of questions i will ask him that or go the radicalization issue. over the last year or so we have seen a disturbing trend terror attacks planned carried out by individuals including americans who have been radicalized with islamic influence. the fort hood killings, the christmas bombings in jihad jane and a fellow the other day