erica richards who lives upstairs in the same house is glad she was gone. >> if you had been here what would you have been thinking? >> probably would have freaked. [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: he doesn't speak english, but told us he doesn't remember anything and wants to tell his neighbors he's sorry. but glass half full, perhaps he should be thankful he never stumbled past the brothers' front door. >> probably would have been a different story if he were inside. probably would have taken care of business. >> lucky for him he didn't get in? >> yeah, i would say so. >>> this was a shocking crash, caught on a police dash cam. >> connecticut state police are calling it a major reminder. the lessons learned. >> getting into the swing of christmas. a famous downtown tree is all lit up. >> public shaming. yep, there's an app for that. how it could change society for the better and some saying it >>> we have this heart stopping video out of connecticut. troopers investigating an accident on i-95 this morning when that horrific crash. the driver of the speeding and out of contr

erica hill, thank you for that. >>> richard haas, chairman of the council on foreign relations in new york is with us by telephone and, richard, this of course enters your realm. i'm very curious as to what your chief concerns are, how worried are you for europe, how worried are you for the free countries in this fight against isis? >> well, brian, i am worried simply because the kind of what i would describe as retail terrorism. we just saw in, small numbers of individuals using small arms going against soft targets in an open city. that's the sort of situation that's all too easy to replicate, be it in france or essentially any other open country, including our own. it doesn't take a whole lot to do it. to put it bluntly, we can't defend everyone and everything. so, sure, anyone who's complacent is kidding themself. >> richard, i'm going to ask you to predict the future. but what of the wave of immigrants, the president today really criticized those who are equating the refugee movements with terrorism. but what happens? what happens in europe? what happens in the united states with

richard, nice to see you. >> erica, good to see you.teresting. >> so you spent time in that community, just sort of talking with people, getting to know them, sort of picking their brain about how they're reacting. >> right. in that community is where stade de france happened, where that attack with the three individuals, he is a three-year resident of that area. he is a five-year resident of france. this individual i spent two or three hours with. i really wanted to get a sense of what he was like. so he has a wife and three children. he is one on the way. and his view on this entire thing, first off, because of that which is out there, that this community operates separately of everybody else, that they're not integrating, first off. second of all, that these communities are not safe. so when we were up there for three hours, he took me to where he first lived and that specific area was, well, it's sort of like lower income, very simple households. that's where he spent most of his time. he took me to where he said drug dealing happen

erica? >> jonathan diets in new york, thank you. i'm joined by congressman richardn a republican from north carolina. the author of the bill that would stop syrian refugees from gaining access to the u.s. >> great to be with you tonight, erica. >> so there is currently, as i know you know, an 18, at the minimum, to 24-month period. takes as long as 18 to 24 months for a refugee to enter this country. they go through an extensive vetting process with all the different agencies. and syrian refugees go through a further vetting process. has there been evidence to this point of that process failing and allowing a terrorist into the united states? >> this isn't me saying we have a problem with the process. saying we can't do background checks adequately. saying they had concerns about their ability to get information on the refugees. >> director of the cia john brennan has said, essentially, we've got this. the current security checks in place do do enough. >> well, i'm not going to get between the fbi director and the cia director. the rationality the fbi director gave

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richard, you've been out and about in the city today, getting a sense of the mood on this, the third day of national mourning here. >> yeah, erica. ever since we were here saturday, we've been watching how the french have been reacting to this tragedy over time. i think what articulates it the best is looking at the chalkings we've seen pop-up all around the city. a street very close to the bataclan theater this morning we found a worker setting up the market for tomorrow. they'll reopen the first time. on the ground were these chalkings. some of them representing the symbol of the french revolution, the slogan saying, liberty, equality, brotherhood. then they added the word on to that slogan, amour, love. also on the ground, all of paris and a heart. saying, paris i love you. you can count the number of slogans and expressions of the pain so many of them are going through. the good thing as we know, they are expressing what they are going through. also very interesting person that spoke with our colleague thomas roberts today. she said this as she was expressing her reaction to what happened when she sat in a restaurant. >> to