atika shubert is live for us in london.right there in london? >> well, the threat -- terror threat level here hasn't changed. it remains the same. there are serious concerns, but it does not mean that a threat is imminent. so that's where the threat level is at here. however, after speaking with british security sources, they say this travel alert coming out really not about any new information that's been gathered in the last few days, and as you point out, no specific threat to any particular target or european city, but it's really more about the volume of intelligence and information that's been coming in over the last few weeks, particularly information that's come from militaitants in pakistan and afghanistan. also, one british security source says this may have to do with france's recent ban of the burqa. there's been a lot of debate raging about it in europe, and france itself has had a number of bomb threats in the last few weeks that have actually shut down the eiffel tower. both those bomb threats have turned out

atika shubert joins me now live from london. to our viewers, maybe they couldn't make out what he was saying but he's accusing the u.s. and coalition forces of war crimes. what does he base that on? >> reporter: well, there's several cases he's talking about but one of the most specific examples that of a helicopter gunship that apparently fired on militants trying to surrender. in the log, it appears there is a record where the people in the helicopter basically seemed to acknowledge that the militants are attempting to surrender but given advice that it is, quote, impossible to surrender to an airship, and they are given permission to engage, and they fire upon militants. that's one very specific example of that. wikileaks brought that case to human rights lawyers and those lawyers identified it as a war crime. so that's just one example. wikileaks says there is a lot of information here in the logs, and they do expect to see more questionable incidents like these come up in the future. >> a lot of stuff in 400,000 documents.

. >> atika shubert in london, thank you. >>> want to look at other stories making headlines. three people found shot to death in northwest pakistan today. pakistani security telling cnn that letters were attached to the bodies that called them spies for the u.s. and the pakistani military into rutgers university remembering a student with a memorial on campus. also a moment of silence before the game yesterday. 18-year-old tyler clementi, a freshman, committed suicide after video of his intimate encounter with another man was secretly streamed online. his parents hope his death will serve as a call for compassion and human dignity. >>> u.s. supreme court goes back in session tomorrow. welcoming a new justice, elena kagan, there she is, among several issued considered restrictions on selling video games to people under the age of 18. >>> turning back to the weather situation which has been a serious one over the past self-days. certainly on the east coast. trying to dry out there, after all of that rain led to all of that. at least eight people died in storm-related accidents,