>> jeanne meserve working her sources. live pictures from kprc. i want to be clear, often early in an investigation like this the information you get turns out to be not entirely accurate, so let's stress we are just getting details here as jeanne noted. hardin city population, about 800 people. between houston and beaumont. some of the shots, many law enforcement vehicles are on the scene. cnn confirming as jeanne just noted at least 20 bodies allegedly have been found at this home in hardin, texas. children involved, we're told. law enforcement formers involved now. kprc, they are are the reporting dozens of bodies are found here, the liberty county sheriff says 25 to 30 bodies discovered outside the home there. investigators said someone told them about the location. they are not elaborating on where that information comes from just yet. but dramatic breaking news story, we will stay on top of it. again, early information is 20 bodies or more, perhaps 30 bodies, some of them children. cnn working its sources locally, nationally, following our a

cnn's jeanne meserve working the story for me and working it now. jeanne, who are you learning?porter: well,brook, they were arrested late last night according to the department of justice. joseph anthony davis, 33 of seattle washington, and frederick domingue, 32 of los angeles, had machine guns and intended to use these in order to attack the military entrance processing station in seattle. according to the department of justice, law enforcement became aware of these people when someone who had been approached to help purchase firearms went to law enforcement and told them what was up. they then worked with law enforcement. we're told, according to this press release from the department of justice, that they do have them captured on audio and videotape, and that they had been monitoring these individuals for some time. they say there was no threat to the public because they had made the machine guns which these men were allegedly purchasing inoperable. so they would pose absolutely no risk to the public. they said that initially this pair of men allegedly planned an attack on

jeanne meserve, cnn, washington. >> amazing. back to our top story.oops today after announcing withdrawal from afghanistan starts next month. >>> the president saying it is time to turn to the battle for america's future. >> starting next month we will be able to remove 10,000 of our troops from afghanistan by the end of this year. we will bring home a total of 33,000 troops by next summer. fully recovering the surge i announced at west point. america, it is time to focus on nation building here at home. >> joining us now, former specialist to president bush. also cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr. welcome to both of you. what did you think of the -- make of the quote from the president nation building here at home? >> yeah. that's the bumper sticker quote. that was obviously directed at a domestic audience. it is important to the american people to hear that. but the president has a lot of audiences in these speeches and tried to speak to the pakistanis and the afghans to say that we are committed to a longer-term strategic relationship. which

our homeland security correspondent jeanne meserve is working the story for us.hat do we know about this individual? >> well, wolf, this is a military reservist charged with shooting at military facilities. the case unfolded unexpectedly. before he was arrested last friday in arlington national cemetery yonathan melaku was not on the fbi radar but now is charged with a string of shootings at military facilities in virginia in october and november. a key piece of evidence a video recovered from his bedroom apparently shot by melaku himself. it allegedly shows him firing a gun from inside a vehicle at what looks like the marine corps museum. according to an affidavit he says that's my target. that's the military building. it's going to be attacked. when the shooting is done he yells, alahu achbar. >> anybody who would shoot a semiautomatic weapon at four different military installations over the course of five separate instances is very serious. these were not, you know, junior highers shooting bee bee guns at a local school. >> reporter: last fall ballistics testi

cnn's homeland security correspondent jeanne meserve is here with the latest. >> this is one of a series of stories we've heard on attacks at military centers. one man from seattle, a former prison inmate and another man of los angeles. apparently when they tried to recruit a third individual to this alleged plot, he went to the authorities. and at that point law enforcement was able to monitor the plot as it developed. here is a bit of sound from a press conference with authorities a short time ago. >> the men were captured on audio and videotape discussing the attack. law enforcement monitored the suspect's actions, including a weapons transaction where they acquired automatic weapons. unknown to the suspects, the weapons they acquired had been rendered inoperable by law enforcement ahead of time and they posed no risk to the public. >> court documents say the men were unhappy about the u.s. mill tair presence in the middle east. they wanted to kill people, it is alleged, and they also wanted to inspire others to also stage attacks. they were going to do that they hoped through publici

jeanne meserve is tracking the story for us. >> reporter: the video is in large part a tribute to osama. >> translator: he went to his god martyred because he said no to america. >> reporter: ayman al zawahiri does not proclaim himself bin laden's successor, but with the tape he appears to be positioning himself. >> he wants to show to the al qaeda membership around the world that supporters, that he's the paramount leader of al qaeda. that he's the one that's delivering the eulogy for osama bin laden. >> reporter: in the video, zawahiri cheers the uprisings in libya, syria and yemen. >> translator: they need to continue their struggle, their rage, and their sacrifices. >> al qaeda doesn't like these movements but they recognize they have no option but to say if we want to be relevant we better stick with the population and the population has spoken so let's pretend like we're with them. >> reporter: in the tape, zawahiri pledges support to mullah omar, head of the taliban, urges muslim passes to rise up against what he calls a treacherous pakistani regime, and he makes repeated but uns

. >> with us now, our homeland security correspondence jeanne meserve. this is a videotaped message, not audiotape. >> it is interesting. more complicated to produce and distribute a video message. it's particularly interesting because of the security risk this must have posed. the assumption has been a lot of al qaeda leaders are worried after osama bin laden's death and the gathering of that treasure trove of information in pakistan. the feeling was zawahiri and others were lying low in order to protect themselves. and the fact that he went through the effort to distribute this now may indicate he was very anxious to be heard and to be seen. one of the analysts pointed specifically to the use of a courier, saying it was a courier that led the u.s. to bin laden. he had to have used couriers in in instant. it must have meant he wanted his name and face out there for followers to see. >> is it, forgive the word, it's an american word i guess, but is he staking his claim, to be the new number one? >> i've seen different interpretations. he does not end the

let's go to jeanne meserve. please explain. who is on this?intelligence bulletin sent out last week, there was a video made by adam gadan, an american, but also a propagandist for al qaeda. he sent this out encouraging individual acts of jihad. in response, an extremist web forum posted information on how to collect personal information. then the fbi says others posted the names of over 40 potential targets. people in government, industry and media with photographs of the 26 of them. they were associated with think tanks, u.s. contractors supporting the military. one postings even sited sending booby-trapped parcels to the residences. the fbi does say this all appears to be aspiration all in nature. they contacted the people whose names were posted out of due diligence, but no imminent threat or so it appears. >> aspirational, and where is adam gadahn? >> i'm sure they wish they knew specifically. i'm sure a drone would have found him by now. >> jeanne meserve, thank you so much. now this. >> tell it to the judge at this point. >> that's from

homeland security correspondent jeanne meserve has been working her sources and joins us now. jeanne? >> reporter: joe, this is an embarrassment for the atf. this is an agency that is supposed to stop the illegal trafficking of firearms specifically. in recent years, its mission has been to stop trafficking to mexico. it has had some success in that regard, but when atf whistle-blowers stepped forward and said, no, their hands were tied, they were forced to stand by and watch as straw-buyers purchased weapons and passed them on to criminals and cartels. it is an embarrassment, particularly when you hear how they found out about the guns later. here's an excerpt of an interview that drew griffin did with an atf agent and whistle-blower. >> the only way you're going to find those guns in mexico is where? >> at crime scenes, at the death, at the site of somebody who's dead, at a gun battle between the police and the bad guys, in which either the bad guy was killed and his gun was left at the scene or used during the commission of a crime in which the gun was left behind. >> report

jeanne meserve is in washington. help us understand. for. were they hoping to make an example out of this guy? >> they were. drake pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge after prosecutors decided they could not charge him with more serious information against him according to the washington post, the case concerned a 1.2 data building program called trailblazer and nsa efforts to collect american's e-mails and phone call information without court orders. prosecutors accuse him of leaking information to a reporter and charged him last year with ten counts. if convicted, he could have faced 35 years in prison. today drake pleaded guilty to the one misdemeanor, which was accessing information on the agency internet site and passing it on to another person. he was awarded a whistle blower prize and was exposing government legalities and this is a just result, his attorney says. tom drake never should have been charged under the he is pea najarian charge and he didn't. individuals granted special access to the most sensitive information cann

jeanne meserve with the details. >> reporter: the pilots' tirade about flight attendants is peppereds, insults and slurs against homosexuals and women. >> 11 [ bleep ] over the top [ bleep ] [ bleep ] homosexuals and a granny. 11. think of the odds of that. i thought i was in chicago which was partyland. after that it was just a continuous stream of gays and grannies and grandes. >> reporter: grandes, an apparent reference to overweight people. >> i hate 100% of their asses. >> reporter: the pilot talks about exploits with some of them. >> so six months i went to the bar three times. in six months, three times. once with the granny and the [ bleep ] and i wish i hadn't gone. at the very end with two girls, one of them was that was probably doable. >> an air traffic controller tries to stop him but the rant goes on. >> i still wouldn't want anyone to know if i had [ bleep ] them. there's all these [ bleep ] old dudes and grannies and there are maybe a handful -- >> somebody has to stop mike. we don't need to hear that. >> one adds commentary. >> they wonder why airline pilots have a b

let's go to washington to jeanne meserve, our homeland security correspondent. here? >> we expect the acting head director of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms, ken melson may be going soon. according to two senior law enforcement sources who spoke to our producer, terry freeden, he is expected to resign under pressure. the timetable here is not clear, but this may happen within the next day or two. it's a result of all the attention focused on this program, fast and furious, which not only allowed weapons to walk into mexico, but the icing on the cake is when two of the weapons associated with this program showed up near the body of brian terry. he's a border patrol agent who was killed just a few miles from the mexican border, brooke. >> jeanne, might this go beyond the atf? there was a congressional report saying the program was authorized not only at the highest levels of the atf but the highest levels of the department of justice here. might other people be forced out? are a >> reporter: some people might, but we just don't know what the upshot of the investiga

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our homeland security agent jeanne meserve is working this story for us, and it's caused a lot of outragene, what's the lateest? >> reporter: it's been a huge story and subject of heated hearings just last week. the acting director of the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms is expected to resign under pressure perhaps in the next day or two according to two senior federal law enforcement sources. as acting director of the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms, kevin nelson has touted his agency's success stopping guns flowing to mexico. >> we are putting the hurt on the gun trafficking trade down there. >> reporter: but on melson's watch atf agents in phoenix were instructed to stand by as straw buyers purchased weapons and passed them on to cartels and criminals. the program, called fast and furious, was intended to bring down arms trafficking organizations. it hasn't, but two of the guns turned up near the body of slain border patrol agent brian terry. melson wasn't present as a fire congressional hearing just last week but was raked over the coals for allegedly watching live vide

jeanne meserve, cnn, washington. >>> sarah palin is in iowa today for a big movie premiere.x mix too easily? time to deploy the chex mix boring potato chip decoy bag. now no one will want to steal the deliciousness. with a variety of tastes and textures, only chex mix is a bag of interesting. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] with amazing innovation, driven by relentless competition, wireless puts the world at your command. ♪ physical therapists suggest cold therapy for pain relief, so, you know... ♪ just use new bengay cold therapy. it relieves pain with a blast of cold. you are so smart. [ male announcer ] new bengay cold therapy. the same technology used by physical therapists. >>> 32 minutes past the hour. let's check the headlines in other news that you may have missed. nebraska's fort calhoun nuclear plant is surrounded by flood waters but the manager of the plant insists there is no likelihood of a disaster like the fukushima meltdown in japan. officials say the flood waters have not breached the walls of the plant and that the necessary actions have been taken to ensure the saf

our homeland security correspondent jeanne meserve is on the story for us. with all of the focus on our security and precautions in place this seems outrageous. >> it is an eye. owning event. a law enforcement official tells us nothing at this point that indicates terrorism but certainly raises a lot of questions about what kind of security we have at the nation's airport and involves an individual by the name of noabi. on june 24th, according to a law enforcement affidavit, he boarded a virgin american flight at kennedy airport in new york and through to lax. he was found on the flight after it took off and was asked if he had a boarding pass. he produced something. but it turned out that the boarding pass and the ticket were for the day before. they were not in his name. they then asked him for identification and he produced a university of michigan i.d. then a few days later, on june 29th, he tried to board a delta flight, this time flying from los angeles to atlanta. he was stopped by a delta agent at the gate and was told he did not have a valid boardin

jeanne meserve, cnn, washington. >>> i'm suzanne malveaux. want to get you up to speed.an anthony weiner is sticking by his decision not to resign. a source tells cnn weiner told a colleague is he not stepping down. the source described weiner as dug in. a new x-rated photo apparently of the congressman has now surfaced online the conservative blogger says he didn't publish the picture but shared it with two radio deejays. >> my website refuses to publish this photo. they have admitted they took this photo surreptitiously, without my knowledge, they even said, and that there were no cameras there. >> anthony weiner fights for his political survival, his wife is carrying on with her career. huma is currently with secretary of state hillary clinton in the middle east. "the new york times" reports she and weiner are expecting their first child. >>> the british paper, "the guardian" reports scotland yard is investigating claims that kate middleton's cell phone was among several hacked by a private investigator working for a news group. there are allegations, the investigator

jeanne meserve has the latest. >> reporter: if you feel like you're getting nickelled and dimed by thosene baggage and reservation change fees, it's adding up to serious money. according to the department of transportation, in 2010, u.s. airlines collected $3.4 billion in baggage fees, and $2.3 billion from reservation change fees for a grand total of almost $5.7 billion. if you are wondering how big an increase that is, it is huge! d.o.t. says between 2007 and 2010, baggage fees rose 631%! in that same three-year period, reservation fees went up 151%. though they were down a little bit last year. wolf? >> which airlines collected the most in these fees? >> well, delta in both categories by a very large margin, followed by american airlines. the air transport association which represents u.s. airlines maintains airfare is still a bargain. it says that in 2010, even with $5.7 billion in fees, the industry had only a 2% profit margin. >> all right, thanks very much for that. >>> jack's got the cafferty file. >> the question is what do you want to hear from these republicans tonight in the

let's bring in jeanne meserve with the latest details. >> they allegedly wanted to attack a recruitingthey're abu khalid abdul latif, and wali mujahidh. as they tried to recruit a third person, that informant went to the police. law enforcement had rendered the guns inoperable. court documents say the men were unhappy about the u.s. military presence in the middle east. they wanted to kill and inspire others to attack by, among other things, getting on cnn. wolf? >> new information about a separate indication that's unfolded here in washington? >> that's right. also involving the military facility. the arrest of a marine reservest last week has led to charges related to earlier crimes. before he was arrested last friday in arlington national cemetery y:nathan malaku was not on the fbi's radar. a key piece of evidence, a video recovered from his bedroom, apparently shot by himself, allegedly shows him firing a gun from inside a vehicle at what looks like the marine corps museum. according to an affidavit, he says that's my target, the military building, it's going to be attacked. when t

our homeland security correspondent jeanne meserve joins us with more. >> hit list is exactly the wordarned about by the fbi. they put out an intelligence bulletin, which says that adam gadahn encouraged acts of individual jihad in a june 3rd video. in response, the bulletin says, an extremist web forum posted guidance on collecting personal information on potential targets. then the fbi says others posted the names of over 40 people, individuals in government, industry and media, the bulletin says the list included people associated with think tanks and u.s. contractors supporting the u.s. military. free throwos were also included. one suggested booby-trapped parcels to the residences of the people on the list. the fbi says this all does appear to be aspirational in nature. they contacted the people whose names and photos were posted out of due diligence. >> so they say all the individuals named there, they have been alerted by the fbi? >> i asked a law enforcement efficient if they had all been contacted at this point, that officials couldn't answer that question, but this was put ou

jeanne meserve has the details. >> reporter: the pilot's tirade about flight attendants is pep we areds and slurs against homosexuals and women. >> reporter: grande is a reference to overweight people. >> i don't give a -- i hate 100% of their. [ bleep ] >> so six months i went to the bars three times. in six months, three times. once with a granny and the and i wish i hadn't gone. >> okay. whoever's transmitting, watch what you're saying. >> reporter: but the rant goes on. >> there's a handful of few chicks. >> reporter: someone has to stop mike and tell us all about the endeavors. we don't need to hear that. >> reporter: finally the transmission ends and pilots on other planes chime in to say quickly, it wasn't me. one adds some commentary. >> and they wonder why airline pilots have a bad reputation. >> reporter: the faa expects a higher level of behavior. >> what he said is offensive, inconsistent with the professional behavior and overall respect we require from all employees. >> the pilot was reprimanded, suspended without pay and he's now back on the job. the pilot has apologized

jeanne meserve joins me from washington now. jeanne, 70% seems like a very big number.any guns are we really talking about here? >> we're talking a pretty large number, in fact. this report substantiating claims that guns for the u.s. are fuelling the mexican drug wars. not every weapon recovered in mexico is traced, but according to the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms in 2009 and 2010 of the 29,284 firearms that were traced, 20,504, or 70%, were sourced in the united states. the report also says that most of the firearms traced to the original owner in the u.s. came from three states. texas, arizona and colorado. they are urging congress to do a lot of things. reinstate the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004. and require background checks for all firearm purchases. those are both very controversial steps. they've been fought hard by the gun lobby and they have failed before. >> so i would imagine that the u.s. has already been taking steps to try to stop the flow of guns to mexico. is that just not working and now they're going to try this? >> not as effe

homeland security correspondent jeanne meserve is here with the details. >> this could surprise someople. ten years after 9/11, only half of international travelers are having their documents checked against databases to determine if they are stolen or fraudulent. ronald noble, head of the international law enforcement agency, interpol, calls it a glaring security gap and serious concern because terrorists and criminals use stolen and make passports to conceal their true identity and travel freely from country to country. interpol estimates there are 28 million stolen passports and national identity cards in circulation but last year only 40,000 airline passengers were caught using them. according to noble, that's because the vast majority of countries are not running passports against the interpol database which includes records of lost and stolen documents from around the world. he estimates that one out of every two air travelers crosses borders without having their documents checked. governments and airlines should step up at and address the problem but most of them haven't done

our homeland security correspondent jeanne meserve is working the story for us.ere's a lot of nervousness, i suspect now in the aftermath of these most recent arrests. >> that's right. i want to mention to you one of the people picked up in seattle had on his youtube channel some videos of anwar awlaki, who's cropped up in several other cases. that's one of two cases this week that had common elementses. homegrown, inspired by internet and they targeted the military. war makes enemies and u.s. military engagement in iraq and afghanistan is no exception. just listen to abu khalid abdul latif charged this week for planning an attack on a military camp in seattle. >> people are killing each other instead of defending religion. the enemies of islam, like the united states, are taking advantage of that. >> reporter: it may be reference to rogue elements within the u.s. striker brigade unit charged with killing afghan civili civilians. abdul latif intended to retaliate by striking ft. lewis with machine guns and grenades. he later allegedly shifted his target to the re

jeanne meserve is here to tell it us more. >> reporter: based on a federal report obtained by the starases in 2008 and 2009, mexicans and dough minute cans were singled out for scrutiny at newark airport and they were asked additional questions and travel documents like passports and visa would get additional scrutiny and their bags were being searched. according to the newspaper this happened because they wanted to make their officers look better. they were scanning the crowd and looking for people who might show indicators of some kind of threat to aviation. if there were more referrals, they would look better. the tsa has responded to this report saying we do not condone racial profiling at newark. the boundaries were overstepped. they say that 18 months ago, all of the behavior detection officers at newark were retrained and four managers did receive some sort of discipline. one of them, in fact, no longer with the agency. >> you obtained the list of indicators that behavior detection officers are supposed to use to identify people who might pose a threat on planes. so was race or

our homeland security correspondent jean m jeanne meserve is covering this for us.rate allowed the weapons to get into the hands of mexican drug cartel members? >> members want to know who gave it the green light and what they were thinking. when border patrol agent brian terry was killed last year near the mexican border, two guns were recovered nearby and traced. it turned out the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms allowed the weapons to end up in the hands of criminals. brian terry's mother was shocked when she found out. >> i was just flabbergasted. i didn't believe it at first. >> reporter: three whistle-blowing agents from the phoenix atf office said supervisors did not allow them to intercept weapons bought by so-called straw buys for cartels and criminals. the goal was to wait until the weapons surfaced at crime scenes in mexico and then bring down an entire arms trafficking organization. but the agents say such a tactic often used in drug cases was a colossal mistake, a catastrophic disaster when used with weapons. >> we weren't giving guns to people w

let's bring in our homeland security reporter jeanne meserve. >> the video, 30 minutes long, is the firstince the death of osama bin laden. the video is in large part a tribute to osama bin laden. >> translator: he went to his god martyr because he said no to america. >> reporter: with the tape he appears to be positioning himself. >> he wants to show to the al qaeda membership around the world, supporters, he is the power leader of al qaeda and delivering the eulogy for osama bin laden. >> reporter: in the video zawahiri cheers on syria and yemen. >> they need to continue their struggle, their rage, and their sacrifices. >> reporter: al qaeda doesn't like these movements but recognize they have no option but to say if we want to be relevant we better stick with the population. population has spoken. let's pretend we are with him. >> reporter: zahra hi pleddid repeated threats against the u.s. >> i called for jihad, my beloved people, to fight those who fight islam. >> reporter: since the raid that killed bin laden, u.s. captor terrorism officials assumed zawahiri was in hiding. analysts

meserve has the very latest for us. it's shocked a lot of people out there. jeanne, what's going on here?g incident which has fueled a heated debate about whether security should trump privacy. this 95-year-old luke can a patient was going through security at a florida airport on june 18th. because she was in a wheelchair she was given a pat-down, and the transportation security administration found a problem. >> a wee bit embarrassing. >> it had something to do with her depends, that it was wet and it was firm and they couldn't check it thoroughly. she would have to remove it, and -- and i was -- i said i don't have an extra one with me. this normally isn't a problem, and she said that she could not complete the security check without the depends off. >> reporter: her nephew thinks it was ridiculous. >> i felt sorry for her. i mean, you know, dignity and self-esteem. >> reporter: the tsa says they did not require her to remove the diaper an provided the elderly woman and her daughter with options. >> they offered to get her bag off of the -- out of the plane and bring it back so i can ge