. >>> jack thomas tomarcho is a former undersecretary at the homeland security department and a student of terrorism. earlier he spoke to al jazeera about what we can expect from the government in the coming days and weeks. >> one of the things that the federal government is going to do certainly this is still an ongoing incident they are going to try with the help of the san bernardino police with the fbi the california state police all the other agencies that are on the scene right now, they are going to be harvesting as much information as possible. they need to find out the identities of these individuals, how they got their guns, where they got their guns. was there planning involved, obviously there was, was there anybody else who might have helped them in the perpetration of these acts and what were possibly the motives? were these just criminals, were these individuals who had a political motive, was it a politically motivated terrorist action, was it a copy cat action that happened in paris? right now we don't know these things and we're not going to know that nutritionally or