dhs has some important programs underway. of course, there's the requirement for the 100% screening requirement, but there's questions about its feasibility on being able to do that, but we need a practical approach on that issue. senator collins, as you mentioned in the cybersecurity area, we noted there's a need for more timely and actionable alerts to the private sector and others so they can take action overtime. also, we believe fema needs to continue to work to develop metrics and methodology and roles have been articulated, but there's not a clear assessment of preparedness at various jurisdiction levels yet. there's a need to effectively implement the global nuclear detection architecture and to strengthen the abilities to detect bilogical wages. now, underpinning a lot of these issues is the ability of dhs to continue to work with its partners, and as deputy secretary lute mentioned, dhs has established those relationships. they need to continue to develop and mature, and i think in some cases they need to meet the e

although dhs has bolstered security of u.s. borders and identification documents, to iraqi refugees associated with al qaeda were recently amassed at in kentucky. how a known bomb maker, whose fingerprints we have had on file for some time was able to enter our country on humanitarian grounds remains an unanswered and extremely troubling question. are there other iraqi nationals granted asylum who are involved in attacking our troops? the fact is we don't know. we still await clear answers from the administration, which must do more to ensure that all relevant databases are used so that we do not like terrorists and criminals into our country, much less grand than asylum. i am agreed that the seaports or savor. both priorities of mine and of this committee. the gao indicates that dhs should make it purveying and how it shares and manages cyberthreats information. this is the key goal of comprehensive cybersecurity legislation that chairman lieberman, senator carper and i have co-authored. the department has also had its fair sh

dhs has some important programs underway. of course, there's the requirement for the 100% screening requirement, but there's questions about feasibility being able to do that but we need a practical approach to address the issue. also, senator collins as you mentioned, cybersecurity area we've noted that there's a need for more timely and actionable alerts to the private sector and others so they can take action over time. also, we believe fema needs to continue to work to develop some metrics and a methodology to assess jurisdictions preparedness. i think the roles have articulated, but there's really not a clear assessment of preparedness at various jurisdictions levels get. there's also a need to effectively implement the global nuclear detection architecture, and to strengthen the abilities to detect biological agents. now, underpinning a lot of these issues is the ability at dhs to continue to work with those partners, and as deputy secretary lute mention, dhs has established those relationships. they need to continue to

attorney and dhs by a dhs by a bunch involved.t was heartwarming to see that and we'll feel more secure when that's true. say it was over. >> thank you. the of his out there after 9/11 and that probably surprised a lot of people to the muslim american community. we appreciate that. i think senator collins would like one or two more questions. ensure you have faced worse challenges than the two of us. just for a few minutes more. i want to ask your question, which is the three of you, we've had a lot of good testimony, could discussion in a positive way of what we've accomplished over 10 years. look to the next year and each of you let me know what your top one or two priorities are but what is not done to your satisfaction yet in terms of your department, bureau and thunder. >> mr. chairman, our department has so many elements to it, but i think over the next year we will continue to improve and expand information sharing and analytic capability with the fbi, nctc and other agencies in the apartment and outside the capital area to

dhs has had very good leadership. tom ridge is a good example of that. >> that was not my intent at all. let me make that clear. >> look, what was 22 agencies or something like that were brought together, it is now has a budget of $50 billion or whatever the figure is, and if you suddenly moved to a new reorganization, i would be quite skeptical of that at this time. i think the focus at this point should be on getting the dhs to work and to work much better because when you reorganize the major department of government and the federal government you have really got a formidable task on your hands. >> governor i have eight seconds. >> i recall the days where we try to identify the units of government that we would pull together to aggregate them to create the department of homeland security and there was much discussion as to other entities would we voted are not. i believe that the congress and working in the executive branch at that time assimilated the right number and the right rooms. the congress has been looking

lots of information coming from dhs.e play a central clearing house world where we take all of that information come analyze it and share what we are seeing from the analytical standpoint. >> secretary, you want to add to that, does this sound right to you? >> it is an amazing coordination that might seem and i don't think would have been able to accomplish ten years ago. it is ultimately coordinated out of the white house. we all understand how we fit together. sometimes it's difficult to articulate and know it when you see it, but it does seem to increase our ability not only to share information among ourselves, but it's important that we get information to the country and receive information back, and that also is a difference between now and ten years ago and i can say that ten years ago when i was the attorney general of arizona, and it was very difficult to get information as to what was coming on with the attacks and what decisions were going to be made with respect to the air safety from airports, borders and al

attorney and dhs by a dhs by a bunch involved.t was heartwarming to see that and we'll feel more secure when that's true. say it was over. >> thank you. the of his out there after 9/11 and that probably surprised a lot of people to the muslim american community. we appreciate that. i think senator collins would like one or two more questions. ensure you have faced worse challenges than the two of us. just for a few minutes more. i want to ask your question, which is the three of you, we've had a lot of good testimony, could discussion in a positive way of what we've accomplished over 10 years. look to the next year and each of you let me know what your top one or two priorities are but what is not done to your satisfaction yet in terms of your department, bureau and thunder. >> mr. chairman, our department has so many elements to it, but i think over the next year we will continue to improve and expand information sharing and analytic capability with the fbi, nctc and other agencies in the apartment and outside the capital area to

dhs has had very good leadership. tom ridge is a good example of that. >> that was not my intent at all. let me make that clear. >> look, what was 22 agencies or something like that were brought together, it is now has a budget of $50 billion or whatever the figure is, and if you suddenly moved to a new reorganization, i would be quite skeptical of that at this time. i think the focus at this point should be on getting the dhs to work and to work much better because when you reorganize the major department of government and the federal government you have really got a formidable task on your hands. >> governor i have eight seconds. >> i recall the days where we try to identify the units of government that we would pull together to aggregate them to create the department of homeland security and there was much discussion as to other entities would we voted are not. i believe that the congress and working in the executive branch at that time assimilated the right number and the right rooms. the congress has been looking

attorney and dhs by a dhs by a bunch involved.t was heartwarming to see that and we'll feel more secure when that's true. say it was over. >> thank you. the of his out there after 9/11 and that probably surprised a lot of people to the muslim american community. we appreciate that. i think senator collins would like one or two more questions. ensure you have faced worse challenges than the two of us. just for a few minutes more. i want to ask your qstion, which is the three of you, we've had a lot of good testimony, could discussion in a positive way of whatwe've accomplished over 10 years. look to the next year and each of you let me know what your top one or two priorities are but what is not done to your satisfaction yet in terms of your department, bureau and thunder. >> mr. chairman, our department has so many elements to it, but i think over the next year we will continue to improve and expand information sharing and analytic capability with the fbi, nctc and other agencies in the apartment and outside the capital area to th

we think dhs needs to focus more on this.is part of the reason the gao has put the transition of the management on the hybris the list and we will continue to monitor it. host: in "the baltimore sun," yesterday -- and in the tribune papers, -- is there anything in this report that addresses the indication and training of people working in the dhs particularly in areas like tsa? guest: we of looked at training employees to route all of the departments to see how well they have approached that and prepared for it. it really varies across the different areas. training is one area where they have made significant process and want to make sure they have people trained with the right skills and abilities. in other areas, there has been less, so it is a mixed bag. host: san diego, calif., on our line republicans. you are on "washington journal" with with berrick. caller: i would like to ask about the input of that the electric grid. in southern california, we had a blackout for roughly 12 hours. i wonder about the requirements of th

dhs has had very good leadership. tom ridge is a good example of that. >> that was not my intent at all. let me make that clear. >> look, what was 22 agencies or something like that were brought together, it is now has a budget of $50 billion or whatever the figure is, and if you suddenly moved to a new rorganization, i would be quite skeptical of that at this time. i think the focus at this point should be on getting the dhs to work and to work much better because when you reorganize the major department of gvernment and the federal government you have really got a formidable task on your hands. >> govnor i have eight seconds. >> i reca the days where we try to identify the units of government that we would pull together to aggregate them to create the department of homeland security and there was much discussion as to other entities would we voted are not. i believe that the congress and working in the executive branch at that time assimilated the right number and the right rooms. the congress has been looking for d

. >> narrator: when dhs was first created, official washington believed 9/11 was a failure of federal intelligence agencies to communicate. >> there was something like 40 different agencies that had databases that had information that was not being shared and correlated. it was not connecting the dots. >> narrator: the buzzwords became "connecting the dots" between federal government agencies and the states. that's why dhs decided to fund fusion centers in the states, a place where intelligence from thousands of local police forces and federal government databases could be brought together and analyzed. >> you need to get information. you need to get it fast. and you need to have it analyzed properly and disseminated properly. >> narrator: dhs has funded 72 fusion centers across the nation. maryland, the state where ziad jarrah slipped through the net, built one of the first. >> these fusion centers are very, very important entities for that information sharing between federal government, state government, local government. >> the more we collaborate and cooperate, i think, the better

dhs is a large agency.was 22 agencies are picked together and formed into this one massive agency, which is now the second largest in the country with over 250,000 employees. we're not the fbi. the fbi belongs to the department of justice or the atf. but we do include, i.c.e. he does citizenship and female which does disaster relief. not a law-enforcement agency. coast guard come in the arm of the armed forces. tsa, which does transportation security. it will report to 108 different congressional committees and such committee committees. a flick about a statistic in dhs spent something like 66 were tears in 2009 alone responding to congressional questions, whereas most agencies talk to maybe two to five congressional committees. so there's a lot of challenges facing us, facing the agency, but our department over the last two years, and because of input from advocates such as adc and others and individuals like the traveling public have more to fix the issues. it's a fine line protect in the nation and also

dhs has had very good leadership.e of that. >> that was not my intent at all. let me make that clear. >> look, what was 22 agencies or something like that were brought together, it is now has a budget of $50 billion or whatever the figure is, and if you suddenly moved to a new reorganization, i would be quite skeptical of that at this time. i think the focus at this point should be on getting the dhs to work and to work much better because when you reorganize the major department of government and the federal government you have really got a formidable task on your hands. >> governor i have eight seconds. >> i recall the days where we try to identify the units of government that we would pull together to aggregate them to create the department of homeland security and there was much discussion as to other entities would we voted are not. i believe that the congress and working in the executive branch at that time assimilated the right number and the right rooms. the congress has been looking for day -- but all those r

and dhs is a large agency. it was 22 agencies the kind of were picked together and formed into this one massive agency which is now the second largest in the country with over 250,000 employees. we are not the fbi. the fbi path to the department of justice, or the atf, but we do include i.c.e., which is the immigration folks at a lot of a lot of immigration investigation, customs and border protection, citizenship and immigration service. in which is disaster relief, not a law enforcement agency. the coast guard which is an arm of the armed forces. to tsa which does transportation security. and we report to 108 different congressional committees and subcommittees. in fact, i was looking at assistance to get a few weeks ago and dhs spent something like 66 work years in 2009 of own respond to congressional questions. were as most agencies, talked to maybe two or five congressional committees. so there's a lot of challenges raising us, facing the agency. but our department over the last two years because of input

attorney and dhs by a dhs by a bunch involved. it was heartwarming to see that and we'll feel more secure when that's true. say it was over. >> thank you. the of his out there after 9/11 and that probably surprised a lot of people to the muslim american community. we appreciate that. i think senator collins would like one or two more questions. ensure you have faced worse challenges than the two of us. just for a few minutes more. i want to ask your question, which is the three of you, we've had a lot of good testimony, could discussion in a positive way of what we've accomplished over 10 years. look to the next year and each of you let me know what your top one or two priorities are but what is not done to your satisfaction yet in terms of your department, bureau and thunder. >> mr. chairman, our department has so many elements to it, but i think over the next year we will continue to improve and expand information sharing and analytic capability with the fbi, nctc and other agencies in the apartment and outside the capital area

when it was time to go back to dhs -- i decided i needed to be more engaged in the public debate. there's some things you cannot do as a public servant that you can do on the outside. that's how i ended up at the immigration policy center. we're all about trying to provide the kind of facts and information that helped shape the debate in the way that it supports the idea that immigration is important to america. we are part of the american immigration council, formally known as the american immigration law foundation. we work very closely with lawyers, including one of the sponsors of tonight's events. when i talk about compehensive immigration reform to people, i often like to move away from the movie analogy to the game analogy. think about it as a rubik's cube. if you get one side right, it probably means the other sites are screwed up. you cannot think about immigration as the one issue. there are so many that interact with each other. we often focus on legalization because it's such an overwhelming issue in many ways. we have so many people that are here without the appropria

dhs is there. >> you are there.ain or shine, day or night. >> either in the washington area, in the field -- >> or in one of more than 75 countries around the world. >> we're all part of the same team, working tirelessly towards the same goal; protecting america. >> protecting our communities, our hometowns, our families and our neighbors. >> we are one group of dedicated individuals. >> we are -- >> proudly, one dhs. >> so as our nation marks the anniversary of one of our most tragic days. >> we note, too, the englishments of our still-young department. >> so i want to express my deep appreciation -- >> and my gratitude for what you do every day to keep our country safe. >> and to say to every one of you -- >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> i thought that was great. i hope my colleagues on the committee did. it really, it's such a powerful statement of the unity. i thought it was wonderful to include secretaries ridge and chertoff in it. and all the component division heads. there was a rea

ç dhs has come a long way. at the destination? absolutely not.ommand going on on the ground is much better. katrina was a central event. katrina force the washington bureaucracy to realize dhs has a counterterrorism legacy but other things ignored. it's still a journey. we're not at the destination. >> i don't want to give al qaeda a playbook, what areas of vulnerability are you most concerned about? >> the same ones we've been facing the last decade. we still don't have a reliable method to make sure weapons aren't smuggled on to an airplane? >> you would have thought that would be something we would do right after 9/11. >> full body scanners don't get it done? >> we had a guy who boarded a flight, the father told the state department he was a suspected terrorist. he was able to board a flight to the united states. the only reason the bomb didn't go off was a trick of science. it had nothing to do with our detection abilities. that should be scary, that should be frightening. that should be a wake-up call, and instead the response of the departm

may have seen this on youtube, where bring all of dhs, dhs's facets there the theory is kind of like the hercules teams new york police department has where hercules is team drive around with a bunch of swat guys with black suv drive from terror target and wall street to twin towers and jump out with assault rifles in case terrorists attack at that moment they would be there. the theory you don't have people to cover all the targets but jump around from potential target to potential target to deter and in theory get outsized deterrents for your expenditure. the problem with is, dhs is single largest employer of law enforcement officers in the federal government. so what happens is, this is important, the fourth amendment is you're not supposed to have searches without probable cause. supreme court carved out in special sections in administrative search or dui check point or airport check point you can screen for those limited purposes when you did, what they did in tampa, you have the tsa guy checking for knives and guns and bombs, and then you have the i.c.e. guy asking about your i

. >> priest: what dhs wants to do is to turn all of the local and state law enforcement personnel intothe tipsters for the fbi, into the front line foot soldiers looking for possible terrorists. >> narrator: dhs funded high- tech terrorism centers around the country. >> priest: every state has at least one. there's 74 fusion centers in the united states. >> clarke: contractors went in, put in the large flat-screen tvs, put in the "mission control to the moon" kind of facilities. >> narrator: now, state and local police are using surveillance cameras, biometric scanners, high-tech license plate readers. >> state trooper: the software with the system, when it sees what it thinks is a license plate, it will read it using ocr, optical character recognition, and make a crosscheck against a database. >> narrator: while it's been a high-tech bonanza for the states, there are questions about its effectiveness. >> clarke: you can look, if you're objective, at all of this money and all of this effort and say, "what would have happened if we hadn't done that?" and in almost every case, nothing wo

and, you know, dhs is a large agency. 20 to agencies that were kind of put together and formed into this one massive agency which is now the second largest in the country, with over 250,000 employees. we are not the fbi. the fbi belongs to the bartman of justice, or the atf. but we do include i.c.e. in which is the immigration, folks at a lot of the immigration investigations, customs and border protection. fema, which is disaster relief. not a law enforcement agency. the coast guard which is an arm of the military, arm of the armed forces. the tsa which does transportation security. and we report a 108 different congressional committees and subcommittees. in fact, i was looking at assist us in a few weeks ago and dhs spent something like 66 work years in 2009 alone respond to congressional questions. where as most agencies talk to maybe two to five congressional committees. so there's a lot of challenges facing us, facing the agency, but our department over the last few years, because of input from advocates such as adc

i can just tell you and confirm what dhs put out and that the president is on top of it. >> jay carney, thank you very much for your time tonight. >> thank you, sir. >>> coming up, the republican plan for the economy continues to hinge on tax cuts. we break down what we've heard from last night's debate about what republicans would do and later congressman barney frank of massachusetts on what, if anything, his colleagues across the aisle will be willing to do about jobs. >>> still to come tonight, we'll take a closer look at the policies in tonight's speech. my doctor told me calcium is best absorbed in small continuous amounts. only one calcium supplement does that in one daily dose. new citracal slow release... continuously releases calcium plus d for the efficient absorption my body needs. citracal. the crib is already there. great. thank you so much. [ male announcer ] we provide great service, so you can stay you. holiday inn express. stay you. [ tv announcer ] today's trivia question -- what's the hardest play in baseball? the unassisted triple play. the unassisted triple play.

i can just tell you and confirm what dhs put out and that the president is on top of it. >> jay carney, thank you very much for your time tonight. >> thank you, sir. >>> coming up, the republican plan for the economy continues to hinge on tax cuts. we break down what we've heard from last night's debate about what republicans would do and later congressman barney frank of massachusetts on what, if anything, his colleagues across the aisle will be willing to do about jobs. >>> still to come tonight, we'll take a closer look at the policies in tonight's speech. later, barney frank will tell us what the president can expect from the house of representatives. that's coming up. >> it's a balanced plan that would reduce the deficit by making additional spending cuts by making modest adjustments to health care programs like medicare and medicaid and by reforming our tax code in a way that asks the wealthiest >> it's a balanced plan that would reduce the deficit by making additional spending cuts by making modest adjustments to health care programs like medicare and medicaid and by reforming o

. >> we work not just within dhs, but with all of the other intelligence community to track it down and follow it up. >> security was tight in new york, streets around ground zero will shut down tomorrow. nearby residents have been told to stay inside sunday. thousands of uniformed officers will swarm the area. >> and i believe that we are safe. i also take great comfort in tonight where the fbi and the nypd are working together with other law enforcement agents. >> all over the nation in new york, pennsylvania, and washington, america remembers. >> standing in front of five people and the only one that survived. >> norman was supposed to be at a seminar in the twin towers that morning. he feels late dropping his son at school. >> that wasn't my time. >> like ruth, survived knowing she's a nurse. >> i know they're taken for a reason. >> recorded audio tapes record the moment the second plane hit. >> another one hit the building. that one hit hard. >> chilling times that america will never forget. even though new yorkers are in a heightened 125i9 state of alert doesn't want them to be in

i think this is very prudent on the fbi and dhs's part to issue this bulletin at this time. >> i want the idea of an yaeaerial attack. be honest with me here. we go through the tsa scanners and subject ourselves to the patdowns. at end of the day when we get on airplanes in this country, are we 100% safe? will we ever be 100% safe when we fly? >> well, craig, there's no such thing as 100% safe. we are safer than we were on 9/11. that's especially the case as far as large aircraft are concerned. which is why we're seeing the news of this small aircraft plot because it's harder to attack large airplanes, they're focussing on small airplanes. there's much less skroocrutiny pilots and cargo. the good news is relatively little damage can be done. it is a vulnerability. as i say, the fbi and dhs are right to be concerned about it generally, especially at this time. >> obviously, we're trying to create awareness with viewers about this. is there anything the average citizen can do, small airport officials or small plane owners? >> well, a couple things. first of all, i have long argued for s

i can just tell you and confirm what dhs put out and that the president is on top of it. >> jay carney, thank you very much for your time tonight. >> thank you, sir. >>> coming up, the republican plan for the economy continues to hinge on tax cuts. we break down what we've heard from last night's debate about what republicans would do and later congressman barney frank of massachusetts on what, if anything, his colleagues across the aisle will be willing to do about jobs. [ male announcer ] the most headroom per dollar of any car in america. from $10,990. the all-new nissan versa sedan. innovation upsized. innovation for all. helps defends against occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas and bloating. with three strains of good bacteria to help balance your colon. you had me at "probiotic." [ female announcer ] phillips' colon health. [ male announcer ] the most legroom per dollar of any car in america. from $10,990. the all-new nissan versa sedan. innovation upsized. innovation for all. >>> still to come tonight, we'll take a closer look at the policies in tonight's speech. later, barne

alerts issued by dhs and the fbi talking about the results of what have they found in the bin laden hideout and also the fact that five days after bin laden's death, al qaeda stated specifically that soldiers of islam, quote, will plot and plan until they succeed in carrying out an attack in the u.s. the most interesting thing here is that we now know that al qaeda does use anniversaries -- u.s. secular anniversaries as a symbolic way of carrying out attacks. nobody knew before why september 11th or whether it was an islamic holiday or something. but now based on the new intelligence, they definitely believe that the anniversary of 9/11 and other prominent days in the u.s. calendar where something significant has happened is being used as a vehicle for timing such things. >> clearly, we remember when bin laden was killed and the raid on the place where she was staying was carried out. they found documentation suggesting that he had been masterminding some kind of attack on the u.s. rail network to coincide with the tenth anniversary of 9/11. this is a slightly different form of atta

what is your opinion of what happened to fema under dhs? >> i share with president carter's concern. i watch it upfront and personal and i think fema such a critical organization when a disaster happens and it needs to have direct access to the president. i think a big part of what was going on during katrina -- there was a lot going on but the communication change just did not work well. i think it needs to go back to the way it was. i worked with the u.s. -- mayors and we put together a white paper that allows changes to lobby congress on and that is one of them. >> 60 minutes did a piece on the current mayor and it was flashy and it was nice. there is a spirit -- he is a spirited about new orleans is your. it also came across as somewhat of an upgrade and i wonder what you think about the things he has been able to do since you left and if any way it is a criticism of what was going on. my second question was there as been conspiracy theories about katrina. can you dismiss any of them? >> yeah, well yeah i do. like i said i don't want to

. >> reporter: giant's hitting coach says that the dh rule had something to do with it.es the fact that a starting pitcher might only get 50 plate appearances all year. compared to a position player with 500 to 600 at bats. >> once they sign and become a professional pitcher the days of their batting and even working on it very much are almost over. >> reporter: go to cbss footwork.com. chick on connect to send me your good questions. >> and how did the giants final home stand begin tonight? will he or won't he? my pick, held against the 49ers, next was orginally thought to have a broken hand after yesterday . >>> well, good news for the eagles and the quarterback michael vick who was originally thought to have broken his nonthrowing hand after yesterday's game against the giants. it turns out a ct scan reveals vick only has a broken bruise on the nonthrowing hand. they are unsure if he will play against the 49ers on sunday. i am telling you he will play. that is a guarantee. >>> tony rona played with broken ribs that means hits like these did hurt. now, baileyy had a ro

. >> reporter: giants hitting coach hensley mullin says the dh rule has something to do with it.act that a starting pitcher might only get 50 plate appearances all year compared to a position player with five to 600 at bats. >> once they shine and become a professional pitcher, the days of their batting and even working on it very much are almost over. >> reporter: go to cbssf.com. click on connect to send me your good questions. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, entire coaching staff will return next season... >>> jobs are apparently safe in the giants clubhouse. bruce bochy says his entire coaching staff will return next season. >>> the sharks maturing, torrey mitchell hoping their upcoming season doesn't end like the giants. taking on the rockies. in the 3rd mike fontenot bangs one off the side. dexter fowler canned find the handle. 2-0 san francisco. -- can't find the handle, 2-0 san francisco. that was enough for ryan vogelsong who completes his magical season with a 13-7 record. giants win 3-1. >>> umbrella is are out, got to be seattle, right? that's why they go every year. justin sm

some discussion that it would be issued after the speech, none of that and it's all in the hands of dhs at this point, brian. >> and as we await the president entering the chamber, we should turn to the topic in chief tonight. that is with our politics so badly broken, here's the backdrop as the gavel comes down and -- >> the president of the united states. >> so chuck, talk to us about the president's motivation, what he plans to say, what he hopes to get out of it? >> reporter: the white house knows this is a now or never moment, they're in about a 2 1/2 month window what one administration official sort of reluctantly admitted where they can still govern, they believe, so the motivation of this speech, the proposal he's going to spend the congress next week, he already called speaker boehner, senate republican leader mitch mcconnell, the american jobs act, everything he'll be outlining tonight, putting it in bill form and sending it to congress next week. but the purpose of the speech is to raise the level of awareness of the american people that he's trying to do this and it forces

dhs issued its and 9/11 warning. there was the states department worldwide warning to americans traveling overseas. this morning the department of defense raised its current level to grovel. as americans watching this, we know there was some reference to a 9/11 anniversary attack. what does this mean? are you concerned about an anniversary attack? do you see increased fretting -- france? -- threats? >> there were a number of security measures put in place in. now, we have seen things like in the bin laden compound. we know there have been times when they tried to take advantage of the attention paid to these anniversaries. activities are time to take place when they are ready as opposed to forcing it to take place in a day. we need to make sure we're doing everything possible to prepare and safeguard this country. so out of an abundance of caution, we have instituted a number things this week or the fbi and homeland's security, defense, the promised date, issues of alerts advisories'. we want to make sure people are

just last week, dhs and the fbi announced a specific, credible, but unconfirmed threat related to the9/11 anniversary. thed administration is taking 24 -- this threat seriously and appropriately so. it has shared information and intelligence with state and local law enforcement officials at the targeted locations and others across the country. thankfully, there was not an incident over the weekend, but we must consider whether this particular threat has truly passed or whether the terrorists have just gone to ground. we must evaluate for how long should we remain on heightened alert. this threat demonstrates yet again that the terrorists have not abandoned their quest to harm our country and our people. they continue to probe for vulnerabilities. much has changed in the past decade. we have vastly improved the sharing of information across the agencies at the federal level and with state and local emergency and law enforcement professionals. america's chemical facilities and sea ports were especially vulnerable a decade ago, and we took important steps to safeguard them. in the case o