dad just in his use -- dagestan has used converts in dagestan. a colleague of theirs was apprehended by russian forces but not before he blew up a would-be suicide bomber. the august 12 assassination of the most popular sufi sheikh in dagestan was carried out by a female ethnic russian convert and her handler was ethnic russian mujahideen. he was the person who organized the october suicide bombing and follow grad. he was killed a week after that attack. when the december 29 attack occurred in bolam grad there for rep boards he had been the perpetrator of the suicide roaming. he is a russian convert who is part of the russian jamman. and there are several others. on january 19th there was a videotape on the dagestan web site up to mujahideen claiming to be from aunts onstar all soon a group. they identified themselves as suleiman and abdul rahman so one of those names suleiman corresponds with the antiterrorist committee's claim of a suleiman. [inaudible] so this means that he was not involved which means the ethnic russian mujahideen are still o

you were just in another dangerous part of that area, dagestan.ers in boston. their families came from dagestan as well. that's not all that far away. here's the question because you know this region well. let's hope this doesn't occur, but if there were some sort of terrorist attack at the winter games in sochi, who would be the likely culprits, if you will? >> well, if you presume they come from the north caucasus, from southern russia, you're probably going to end up pointing a finger at the violet gag da stan. that's a brand used for an islamist emirate kind of organization working out of the hotbed of the insurgency. that's way across the east on the caspian sea. we're on the black sea here. but they've the ones behind the volgograd blast. they're not really a corporate structure. they're separate cells, often very young, a lot younger than some of the militants we've seen in the past decade, often in their early 20s. the oldest ones get to 30 before they're killed by russian special forces, but they're the ones with the radical ideology, org

they're cracking downright now in dagestan. and they don't have a constitution like we do in due process, so they can pretty much go into neighborhoods. they went into sochi and went door-to-door, you have to be registered in russia. if you're not, you get kicked out. so they kicked out a lot of residents in the sochi area that were not registered under the law. so in response to any attack will be very heavy handed by the russians. they will probably not want it to be very public because of the impact it will have on the olympics. but again, an attack outside the perimeter will probably have just as much of a political and terrorist impact as inside and probably get a lot of attention. i know putin's trying to balance the -- trying to be invisible versus visible in terms of security right now. >> and i know that these terrorists have been thinking about doing something for four, five, six, almost seven years they've been plotting this moment because they hate putin so much. hopefully it won't happen, but we'll watch together w

and that is around dagestan. and just look at this crackdown on this potential, if you like, black widows. explain that to us. >> reporter: we went to two towns that have been said to have quite strange links to militants, one where the two suicide bombers who hit the train station in volograd came from. we met a number of women who said the same thing. police telling them to check in with them three times a week. they can't leave the town where they live until the olympic games have finished. and the women quite open that the police fear they could be suicide bombers, because most of them have a husband or relative recently killed by russian special forces for being a militant. they deny any harm, but still, here's the story. far from the grandeur of sochi's games, deep in the hills of dagestan, russia is desperately trying to keep a lid on something. this is the town of the home to the suicide bombers who hit volograd twice last year. many militants hailed from here and also left widows. one, whose husband and

what is happening in dagestan i think looks to be very unfortunate. it looks to be vladimir putin again having a very short-term response to the games, lots of reports of rounding up marginal young men, the kind of young men who could be sitting at home doing nothing or if they are rounded up and abused by the police could be going over to the militants, and i think the new head of dagestan was trying to control those people back into the fold but because of the tactical response to the sochi games, people being rounded up that makes the problem worse. just to some up this is not going to be unfortunately a moment of great caucusus reconciliation between georgians and russians it is going to be at best games where there will be heavy security presence, where there is going to be all these raises done with many with net costs being trained by russian security personnel and the best we can hope for is to get through without any major incidents. >> thank you for the comprehensive perspective, bringing in a broader look at the caucusus and the political a

dagestan is an autonomous republic next to chechnya. i said, what is the percentage supportpopulation who afi ideology? not the suffi ideology which can coexist with a lot of the racism that is prevalent in russia? he said, 25% to 30%. i looked at the research and it is 25% to 30%. it is a huge number. if you take the population of the north caucasus at 8 million and add to it the diasporas in russian cities, that is probably another 4 million or 5 million. -- that ising at 13% over 4 million. i am not saying all these people are potential terrorists but gete is a percentage who recruited and brainwashed. that technology is there. isolate himerson, or her, brainwashed, show them videos, explain to them why sacrificing your life in the path of jihad is a good thing and, bingo. unfortunately, that is it. what i consider is that russia has hundreds of thousands of potential recruits like that. they have to be very careful. as they are going to a big world soccer championship in 2018 and any other events, this is a test. if they pass the so

one of these men killed in a shootout in dagestan. said to have been the mastermind of the suicide bombings that killed those in volograd in december. what do we know about him? >> reporter: that's right. so we understand there was a police operation today, according to russia-state media, which surrounded a home in dagestan. one person inside the building gave themselves up, the rest did not. there was a shootout and in that shootout authorities say everyone inside the building was killed, including this man, the suspected leader of the terrorist group believed to be behind those bombings in volograd at the end of last year. those bombings killed 34 people, suicide attacks on a train station, and on a trolly bus there, as well. there have been a number of developments in this case over the last week or so. russian authorities clearly working hard to get to the bottom of it. they have identified officially the two suicide attackers and arrested two other people who they accuse of helping those suicide bombers travel from dagestan to v

today russian special forces carried out an operation in dagestan. what have you learned about what took place? >> it's not a lot of information circulated about these emergency operations in the russian media because many say the kremlin try to keep that all quiet during the olympics. what we know is that in capital of dagestan russian special forces circled a house. in that was a man, ethnic russian who converted to islam who is a leader of one of the militant groups who is said to have links to the bombing which killed 34 at the end of last year. they surrounded that house. one person surrendered themselves. five were killed in the operation. so those jobs, those operations continue by russian special forces all the time. continually pursuing what they can. that gives you an idea of the level of security threat and, of course, also we're not hearing much about this in the local media. nothing really about it on state media. russia's not really one to talk about that kind of activity when they want everyone to focus on the sports behind me. >> than

some include kicking in doors and taking people down in the way that they did in dagestan. that is a preemptive counterterrorism strike to secure the games. internationally, the intelligence is never as good as i've seen it -- or is as good as i've seen it. excuse me. the brits are working with the french are working with the united states and everyone in between to try to find those pieces of intelligence that might help protect the games. the one last weakness, and the tension between russia and the united states is internal sharing of intelligence that we believe would be important. >> you know, a few weeks ago we saw those reports about the so-called black widow suicide bombers. those women have not been found. how big a threat is that now to those games or outside those games? >> well, you have to take them at face value. they have had successful events. they blew up a train station and two buses in the months leading up to the event. we know there are individuals who fit those descriptions who have the capability to pull off the event. that's what makes it so serious

brothers grew up in dagestan. there were two horrendous bombings killing nearly 300 people at the very end of the summer and all of them were trained abroad in dagestan. but you don't have to go all the way to dagestan. sochi, in anm atomic mass republic am a there have been terrorist acts. this entire area is extremely dangerous, one of the most dangerous places in the world. and the challenge of terrorism -- the usual challenge of terrorism in all the olympics is much greater. host: how close is chechnya? guest: if you go 370 miles to dagestan -- host: closer to the caspian sea? correct. chechnya is right before it. about three hundred miles. host: does moscow have control, for lack of a better word, over this region now? the eyes ofol is in the holder. they say they do but literally there is not a day that a law enforcement, a judge, a prosecutor, a policeman is region thatis begins about 100 miles from sochi. fraud, athere a bribery issue with law enforcement in this area? you know, again, only the russian ant

you traveled to that dangerous russian republic of dagestan. what did you see?ome of the remote villages known there are for their links to militants there are women whose husband who were killed and men who have been told that movements will be restricted until the olympic games are over because police, these people say, believe they could potentially be a threat to those behind me. far from the grandeur of sochi's games, deep in the hills of dagestan, russia is desperately trying to keep a lid on something. this is the town of brunext. home to the suicide bombers who hit volgograd twice last year. many militants hail from here and also left widows. one is this woman, both whose husband and son-in-law police shot dead. these widows say police, in a bid to control those they fear are future suicide bombers, have ordered them not to leave town until the olympics are over. >> translator: it will be like house arrest. three times a week they will check us and ask where we are. then after the olympics, it will end. they think that we will make an explosion like our

police here are saying through russian state media they surrounded a house in dagestan.ne person surrendered. everyone inside was eventually killed. including this man who authorities believe was the mastermind of the volgograd attacks. now they say that they are determined to catch all the people involved in this attack. last week they arrested two people who they say were accomplices who transported the suicide bombers from dagestan to volgograd and determined to track down the rest because these people have shown, this particular group it's capable of staging large scale devastating attacks, more than that it has declared its intention to stage mover them. in a video claiming responsibility they said there will be more attacks with lots of people taking part especially during the sochi games. while authorities here insist sochi is secure that all security has got the city in lock down no one can get in without authorities being aware, what this group has shown is they do not need to strike sochi directly in order to score a win, make their point and embarrass the russ

it's got a breeding ground for insurgents in dagestan, chechnya, right in the background. the state media reported that the suspected mastermind in volgograd was tracked down and killed and two chechen women with ties to terrorist organizations were arrested this week in france. however, there's been no evidence that the women had plans to travel to sochi. they are chasing any chatter that is tied to a group that has vowed to disrupt the olympic games. but let's be honest, it's hard to take russian leaders at their word, that he this left no stone unturned when it comes to olympic preparations, especially seeing how many visitors are arriving in the city only to find that their hotel rooms looked like the before picture on an hd tv show. how dangerous is sochi? joining me now is senator dianne feinstein of california, the chair of the senate intelligence committee. senator feinstein, good to see you. we're told that agencies are i a wear of other credible threats beyond the toothpaste threat. you read the intelligence. what are you hearing? >> well, i've read the intellige

some real vulnerabilities being opened up in dagestan.hat do you know about that and how unsettling might that be as the games continue? >> well, it's good news, bad new. good news, there hasn't been aattack so far. the day to do itd would have been the opening ceremony. really scare people. it didn't happen. the russians are on top of this. they're hitting people all over the caucasus. there was one yesterday, a strike against the insurgents. the russians have protected the olympics and i think sochi, looks like it's going to be safe. >> are you in agreement with some security analysts who will say it's after the 48 hours that one needs to be worried about because while the security is tightest most grand around the opening ceremonies, it's what may take place you know in the interim during the midst of the games. people might become relaxed. security may even become relaxed. there's a sense of complacency. do you worry about that? >> you know, in the village in sochi itself, no. the russians know everybody who's in that town. everybody'

the volgograd bombing, they came from dagestan. it boils down to that militant caucus of dagestan. that's what president putin is talking about when he says that the boston bombings and volgograd all feed into the security framework around these games, because dagestan is only a few several hundred kilometers from here. it's very, very close. >> paul brennan in sochi, russia. paul thank you very much, let the games begin. >> it has been four weeks since the water was poised for hundred of thousands of west virginia. many are still avoiding the tap though they say it's good to drink again. >> nearly four weeks after a hazardous chemical spilled into the elk river, leaving 300,000 people unable to drink the water, west virginia's governor, members of the c.d.c., e.p.a. and other officials made their first appearance together at the state capitol, trying to calm the public. >> i am frustrated and angry. i share your concerns about the water crisis, as does my team here in west virginia, the national experts we ever depended upon for guidance, and the federal partners standing with me

tamerlan tsarnaev seems to have possibly been trained in dagestan.till much we don't know. we know he met with individuals who were later killed i believe by the russians so it's not as though -- there isn't a direct line that we've established yet, but it's possible this caucasus terrorism has struck the united states in a way. we're just not 100% clear yet. according to a new cnn poll, almost 6 in 10 americans think this will be an attack at games. on the heel of this news, michele, do you think secretary kerry in his response to me earlier today was being overly optimistic or do you think that's the right tone? you know, i wouldn't discourage anybody from going but just be as aware as you would be if you were going, say, this is my words, not his, but to the super bowl. >> i'm sure secretary kerry doesn't want to be seen or the united states to be seen as somehow undermining, you know, these olympics or undermining russia and iltsz leadership for whom these olympics are, you know, a big issue. at the same time, though, he certainly did talk more a

. >> when you say from outside the region, obviously, you know outside the chech mpb dagestan area. are you talking about al qaeda? what other threats do you have? >> well, there are al qaeda and al qaeda affiliates and we believe other groups that fit the terrorist profile that have expressed an interest at least in aspiration of trying to do something at the games. so all of that is concern, and it just kind of ups the opportunities for a mistake to be made if somebody were to slip through one of the cracks in what is a fairly robust guards, gates and security plan. the best security you can have is that combined with fully robust inner cooperative intelligence. that last piece is missing. >> we're also hearing, anecdotes about look, there's construction that isn't finishesed. there are thousands of people coming and going from that ring of steel and that olympic vil every single hour of every single day. every single one of those people raises a small small chance of something nefarious going on. are you sure that that inside ring at the games themselves is really secure? >> well

january, his troops continue the low-level war against islamist in the southern russian republic of dagestan>> all of the guests at the olympics can be absolutely assured the olympic games will go ahead at the highest level and with complete security. police have set up a roadblock 60 miles outside sochi on the only road into the city. every vehicle is being searched. on the road to the mountain resorts, we found military hides in the woods every few hundred meters. troops in camouflage patrol the valley. offshore, we could clearly see armed naval speedboats and communications ships. it may be enough to did term in harm from the olympics, but what about the rest of russia? sochire may be a tax on aimed at probing the outer rim of the security force. into a could drive a car checkpoint and explode it, even though there is no real threat, it still gets in the headlines as an attack on sochi. >> surveillance drones fly invisibly overhead and police patrol. the international olympic committee took a risk on sochi, and now the games are upon us. guest served on assignment international counterter

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brothers grew up in dagestan.here were two horrendous bombings killing nearly 300 people at the very end of the summer and all of them were trained abroad in dagestan. but you don't have to go all the way to dagestan. sochi, in anm atomic mass republic am a there have been terrorist acts. this entire area is extremely dangerous, one of the most dangerous places in the world. and the challenge of terrorism -- the usual challenge of terrorism in all the olympics is much greater. host: how close is chechnya? guest: if you go 370 miles to dagestan -- host: closer to the caspian sea? correct. chechnya is right before it. about three hundred miles. host: does moscow have control, for lack of a better word, over this region now? the eyes ofol is in the holder. they say they do but literally there is not a day that a law enforcement, a judge, a prosecutor, a policeman is region thatis begins about 100 miles from sochi. fraud, athere a bribery issue with law enforcement in this area? you know, again, only the russian antit

but by the same token their vigorous crackdown in places like dagestan, chechnya, has resulted in fans the flames of a lot of this militancy that has in part contributed to the problem they're trying to confront. i think a sobering lesson in russia. it's instructive not just for the russians, i think it's instructive probably to all of us about some of the consequences of how we approach the terror problem and making sure that the actions that we take aren't counterproductive, that they don't grow the problem instead of shrink it. >> it's really surprising when you realize that russia is under the same threats we are, that they're not far more cooperative with us in the world. i was hoping that we had some shared interests, for example, in syria, where we had the chemical weapons trying to get our arms around there. but we've only recovered 4%. they're way behind schedule. i don't think there's any hope that we'll actually stay on schedule by june 30th. and it's really russia's role to make sure that happens. they're not making sure that happens. they're not cooperating anywhere near s

sort of access to chemical weapons it won't be such a big deal such a big problem for after the dagestan is or ethnic chechen terrorists you also lay their hands on those chemical weapons right absolutely i've been writing a little bit about that lately there are actually two groups that are dominated by caucuses mujahideen some of them are. fighters of the core caucasus emirate other are others are people of north caucasus who would like to join the caucasus emirate but because they lack resources and. weapons for everyone who would like to join these people decided to go to syria they're essentially two groups there's the islamic state in iraq and syria that you mention and there's also a job and both of them have units of foreign mujahideen and in both cases the units of foreign which you had seen are led by. ethnic chechens actually from georgia from the punky sea valley in georgia so called ethnic chechen kists but there are many dogs danis from russia and from the north caucuses in many chechens and even some. of our genes involved cars so and we're talking about you know hundreds

they went into dagestan and for lack of a better word eliminated the threats in dagestan.der house arrest. they tossed out people in sochi who are not registered under the law and this is all in combination very effective from a security standpoint to eliminate any potential threat to the games and iapplaud the russian authorities for that as well. >> thankfully the olympic games without any attacks. >> thank you, wolf. >>> gays and lesbians in one country could now face life sentences for simply being gay. details of a harsh new law. >>> possible, the link between tylenol and adhd. new details of a brand-new study. e're late. did you run into traffic? no, just had to stop by the house to grab a few things. you stopped by the house? uh-huh. yea. alright, whenever you get your stuff, run upstairs, get cleaned up for dinner. you leave the house in good shape? yea. yea, of course. ♪ [ sportscaster talking on tv ] last-second field go-- yea, sure ya did. [ male announcer ] introducing at&t digital life. personalized home security and automation. get professionally monitored se

. >> i was public information director at the texas general land dagestan 90s, the inception of the state involvement in wind farms in west texas, delaware mountains, governor ann richards and land commissioner gerry marron. i have a question. i talked a couple weeks ago about an incident out there in the inception of the wind farm, delaware mountains, you might tell about the big enemy of wind farming is no wind. but the question i have is to the wind power companies have the power of eminent domain? >> thank you for the question. let me just address the episode ron brings up which we write about in the book. the first major commercial windfarm was in the delaware mountains which is in far west texas north of i can and if you were to more or less go north of the big bend of the above i can, you get to the delaware mountains it is , you get to the delaware mountains it isten , you get to the delaware mountains it is a very windy place. when they had the christening of the wind farm there was no wind that day. >> they tried to find the windiest site in texas and when they had the opening c

the russians have been on-edge, due to a series of threats from islamic militants, mainly from dagestan. at a congressional hearing yesterday, u.s. intelligence officials hinted that specific olympic threats were being discovered. >> there are a number of specific threats of varying degrees of credibility that we're tracking. >> reporter: hundreds of thousands are traveling to russia for the games, including 15,000 americans. i imagine all of them will have toothpaste, diane. >> and, pierre, i want to ask you. give us a sense of what level of certainty they have about this attack. and specifically toothpaste tubes. >> reporter: again, the information they have, has recently come in. it was specific only to toothpaste tubes, as for as we know. again, they're taking it seriously. but they don't have more specifics than that at this point. >> so, at this moment, taking it seriously. i know you will be following up throughout the night. thank you, pierre. >>> we have another note of a different kind from sochi tonight. the face of team usa, snowboarding superstar, shaun white, has pulled ou

suspected extremists and black widows in dagestan have been ordered under a sort of house arrest untilfter the olympics are over. the reason -- fears they may become suicide bombers. nick peyton walsh spokeone of them this morning. >> reporter: i spoke to six women, most of them didn't want to be identified. they all told the same story, police putting pressure on them saying you cannot leave this town, we're going to call on you three times a week, you better stay where you are. if you f we don't know where you are, we'll put you on the wanted list. and there are 64 people who have been asked to sign a people of paper saying they won't leave dagestan. they all openly say one of their relatives, perhaps a husband or a father at some point was a militant who had been killed. that seems to be the connection they're concerned about, why they're restricting these movements. people are very angry over what they feel is a a violation of their civil liberties. >> and the civil liberties, the the restrictions there. >> both her late husband was killed by russian special forces in a storm, beli

and dagestan is full of those people. it's very nearby.also very close to where he invaded georgia which is a bit of a paradox. but i would be concerned. i think we pay attention to our intelligence estimates and our state department assessment. but for me to say that you should go or not go -- but i do think it's a little hard to adhere to the warning to stay away from crowds. one thingou have at olympic events is crowds. >> deputy prime minister responsible for olympic preparations says the u.s. is making up all this sort of stuff whether it's doorknobs not on holt rooms or dirty water or whatever we are making this up to embarrass russia and it's a bias against the russians. >> that's an old line of theirs. the best defense is a good offense. but this reporting is by media from throughout the world. toilets that don't flush and yellow water and lobbying that aren't completed. i think this could turn out to be a huge embarrassment to putin in particular. >> what's interesting sort of the social media back lash because they have released

i guarantee you the hard crack down is going on throughout the muslim caucus and dagestan and chechnyathe russian when they come down on the chechnya muslim. they don't do stop and frisk and beat the hell out of you. and it is brutal and sometimes works. >> colonel let's hope they stay safe. >> we'll have you back, thanks. >> with the congressional budget office is saying, we'll discover kids to have latchkey. we'll have parents working reasonable hours and people are going to be able to retire and cook dinner than order out and get take out. the fact is, that if americans had more choices to open up a new business they want to it start, this is a good thing. >> the spin machine is working over time as democrats try to turn the latest cbo report in good news and republicans painting it disastrous. >> law makers said the loss of jobs would be a boost for family values. lares is a radio host and julie is a fox news contractor and former political advisor to new jersey senator. >> lares are you working full- time or part time. >> i am working full- time. and planes that went to the wrong

. >> why do they wasnt to -- the people in dagestan want to interrupt the olympics, and i'm told timeime again they don't want to be part of russia. >> this is not a people per se, but the right of self expression, ranging from gays in russia, down to the activist, anyone who wants to express a discontent in russia, they are roughed up or locked up. and when there's no means -- no possible -- when a society is not democratic, there's no way to express yourselves, you shouldn't be surprised if people are going to try to blow themselves up because they disagree with the views and opinions of the way the government has cracked down so severely against these people. >> thank you very much. now over to mike viqueira. >>> a trillion dollars over ten years $956 billion to be exact, there is nothing in here for everyone to love and a lot of stuff for people to hate. it will alleviate concerns of theal cultural community. and i think we'll here the president talk about farm production being up. and he'll be speaking in about ten minutes, del. >> we are going to take a short break as we await t

we have a lot of history, in chechnya and other areas, dagestan, and a lot of anger against russia, for good reasons. >> are these ethnic head reds, different communities? >> so a lot of the news articles you are seeing about this focus on jihadism and that jihadism. there's a deeper source. jihadism came in as a fuel to the fire. chechnya tried to become independent. the capital is 12 hours away from sochi. and the russians destroyed grows ni and destroyed chechens during the fight. radicalizing people. there's an ethnic and nationalist component which is the seed bed for this anger. if you look at where terrorism is happening in russia, the star area is the caucuses >> i have to ask because the us state department did make this comment about americans not being specifically targeted. do you think that is a risk? are americans in some way vulnerable in a way other tourists or international visitors may not bement -- be. >> i think americans are vulnerable wherever they go. if you kill a nepalese, there'll be a short piece. but if you kill an american at sochi, it is a phenomenal media

we went to the hills of dagestan, the home of the insurgency far to the east of sochi.mingly large groups of people have been told not to leave town until the olympics were over. one town, 64 people on a list that we were shown who said they have been told by police to sign a document pledging not to leave the area and in a different town we spoke to one woman who ultimately talked how police told her that three times a week her whereabouts would be checked. i spoke to five other women who confirmed they have been given similar odds. the reason why? these people are suspected of links to militants here and the women i spoke to many of them which dose of militants who died recently. they openly say police are worried they might blow themselves up. they say they are innocent. they say they have no ill will towards the games and talk about the violation of their civil liberties by not being allowed to move freely. really the scale of what we saw and the claims we heard suggest the russians have a significant problem but the police didn't confirm that they had asked these p

steel around the olympic area, but you could be very, very sure that in the really hot areas in dagestan and elsewhere, the pressure from the s.s.b., and other concerned apparatuses were in high, high -- >> more likely, they had the defense ministry. >> and the army, too. and i thought in the closing ceremonies, there was even a flash of the kind of russian wit that i love. to see them making fun of themselves with the fifth ring not opening. >> rose: oh, yeah. >> i thought that was a kind of show biz moment of irony that was nice. but them the real world reasserts itself. >> rose: and they told a story. there was a narrative in the opening ceremony. >> they did. and i think that was part of my job sitting in between matt lauer and meredith viera to-- i guess, you know, some people thought i was debbie downer-- "here comes the marching persians of 1937." but more seriously, there was an attempt -- >> here comes a guy who has actually lived in russia. >> but there was an attempt, however much a cirque du soleil kind of macy's thanksgiving day parade terms, to show the best face forward, e

they're not widely reported in russian media but we can tell you in dagestan today five merchants were killed in a siege of russian forces. one leader of a group and that group had links to the bombings. one russian security official, so there is certainly an ongoing battle inside southern russia. it's far away from here and this place is protected by that ring of steel. but all of that possibly have added to the willingness, damage the willingness of the american tourists to come here for fun. >> nick paton walsh, boy, we certainly appreciate your perspective there today. thank you. >>> amanda davis is also in sochi keeping up with some of the controversies surrounding last night's opening ceremony. run through it. what's that all about, amanda? >> well, we didn't see it here in tv in russia but it's about the five olympic rings which we know so well as a fantastic symbol to the start of the olympic games. and very early on in the opening ceremony that they place so much emphasis on, the rings were raised. they developed out of snowflakes. but we only saw four out of the five rings. t

suspected mastermind of those bombings in volgograd during a special operation and a shootout in dagestanspected mastermind was believed to be the leader of an islamist militant group. we'll have more details as we get them. >>> in the meantime, a new study predicting how president obama's health care law could impact the economy. nonpartisan budget analysts say obamacare will dramatically reduce the number of hours that many americans work equaling 2.5 million fewer full time jobs by next decade. the reason, many americans are likely to keep their incomes lower to stay eligible for subsidies. >>> congress has approved a long delayed farm bill that will affect the lives of nearly every american. the bill will cut nearly $9 billion from the food stamp program and will cut billions of dollars in direct subsidies to farmers in favor of a crop insurance program. >>> and there is word of another scandal in the u.s. military. the navy investigating more than two dozen sailors accused of cheating on a test at the nuclear reactor school in south carolina. this comes days after a separate cheating

incident where the man who then became the number two in al qaeda, possibly, he and some others were in dagestan trying to get to chechnya earlier on. and the russians picked them up and they held them but then they didn't have enough evidence about him that i don't think they consulted the u.s. about this and so they let him go. he then went back to afghanistan and we know what happened on 9/11. that putin was warning the united states about these dangers and the united states didn't take them scarcely enough. and, obviously, from the russian perspective they understood this because of russia's own problem in the problems in the north caucasus. the issue again has to be that the united states has been reluctant to classify many of these fundamentalist terrorists in chechnya in the same way that it classifies al qaeda operatives, because of these other issues that surround it. now, the counterterrorism cooperation did work in the fall of 2001. we were on the same page and president bush certainly endorsed the russian view, we are now talking there was a second chechen war obviously that happened

they may go as far as chemical weapons, there's a big magnet drawing in folks, particularly the dagestaniority concern for threat watchers and i think it will be a miracle if we get out without an incident. we just reported a few minutes ago an airliner where someone attempted to hijack the airlines. it landed in turkey but wanted to go to sochi. some of them may be crazy and some may be very real to bring the world into shock, if you will, with some incidents, i think we have to be on very high alert. it's very hard to say if something will happen or won't happen but we have to be very worried that something will happen and need to be prepared for that and what comes after. >> president obama, of course, also gave an interview yesterday talked about bob kcostas and that's going to air tonight during the opening ceremony. take a listen to what he said to say about his relationship with president putin. >> the one thing i'll give mr. putin credit for, when we sit down and talk, there's not a lot of beating around the bush or niceties. i think it's all business and i tell him where i stron

a source telling cnn that five suspected insurgents who were holed up in a house were killed in dagestan's capital in a shootout. another one captured, and just last wednesday in that same republic the suspected mastermind of those deadly twin suicide bombings in volgograd at the end of the december, the russians have reported they killed that suspected militant. so the operations are clearly ongoing, and they're clearly claiming lives even as the sports and the festivities and the athletic competitions are continuing to take place here in a very different atmosphere behind me here in sochi. >> cnn's ivan watson. thanks so much, ivan. earlier i spoke with janet napolitano. she's heading up the u.s. delegation in sochi, and she's also, as you know, the former secretary of homeland security under president obama. janet, we appreciate your being here today. it has been noted, i'm sure it's been noted to you, that it's been 14 years since a president or a vice president or a member of their family has not gone and attended at least an event at the olympics. can you tell me as a practitioner of

you look at it from, again, from the, you know, if you're an islamist fundamentalist sitting in dagestan or in chechnya, or in ossetia, wherever in the north caucasus you've known that putin has staked his personal representation on the success of these games. he's basically staked the resurgence of russia on the national stage. and that is an irresistible point, i think, for these fundamentalists. that's why, you know, the concern has been for a long time, not just the past few months, that, you know, this is a very, very high threat environment. now what do you do? of course you've got to go on. i always see the international olympic committee and the russians, you know, they're spinning madly trying to get the focus off the security concerns and on to the opening ceremonies which take place on friday. and that's proper. the athletes have to get themselves focused. but the reality of it is, you have to be realistic, we're operating in a high threat environment for the course of these games. >> all right. well we hope that the olympics will be safe. certainly expect the super bowl to be

, which is citing russian security services saying that a shootout broke out in this republic of dagestan the process a man they suspect of being the mastermind of these terrible twin suicide bomb attacks that he was killed along with several others. last week the russians said that they captured two brothers who they believed to have been accomplices in those suicide attacks. sochi is on the border of the caucuses. that's part of why the fears are so big, why the security concerns are so big, because russia and the international committee decided to have the winter olympics in the most difficult, most turbulent, most politically charged and conflict-prone part of russia and certainly of the caucuses. arguably also in europe. >> sol ivan, beyond the security, is this city ready for the olympics? there's all sorts of stories about the hotels, and bad construction. this thing is starting in a matter of days. >> reporter: listen. the russian authorities, the international olympic committee insist everything is going to be ready. the fact of the matter is, the scale of this project, everythin

and we have talked a lot about the threats from the dagestan area that's east of sochi. now hundreds of people there have been put under house arrest. our nick paton walsh is in sochi right now, joining us live. nick, who is being confined to their homes? what's going on? >> reporter: well, wolf, we spoke to a number of people in two key towns with well-known militant links. one, in fact, from where the suicide bombers allegedly attacked the volograd station late last year stemmed from. there i spoke to a number of women, all of whom confessedly, had links to militants. perhaps their husband or son-in-law killed recently by russian special forces in shootouts. they said, all of them, they had been told by russian police they shouldn't be leaving not necessarily their homes, but the towns they lived in throughout the period of the olympic games. the police would check up on them regularly. if they went missing, so to speak, they would be put on the wanted list. so a clear, i think, warning from police to make their whereabouts well-known. another town i went to, a number