scott. >> pelley: jeff pegues in our washington newsroom, jeff, thanks very much. sticking with the live picture now as the police approach the suspect vehicle. a number of witnenees at the 2:00 eastern time described three gunmen cssed in military-style gear with assault rifles and extra magazines of ammunition getting into a black s.u.v. there was a long, hours-long search of the building, where the attack occurred, but that search came up empty in terms of the suspects. carter evans has mororon the groundnd there. cacaer, what do you see? >> reporter: scott, w wre getting reports from our affiliate kcbs, that may explain the calm demeanor that you're seeing from police officers on the ground there. we are now hearing that all three suspects are either down or in custody, and perhaps one of the suspects they observed deceased as he fell out of the vehicle, but they do believe now that all three suspects are in custody. >> pelley: it is difficult to tell whether that is one of the suspects o o the stree there between the armored vehicle and the s.u.v. difficult to

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homeland security correspondent jeff pegues is following the investigation. jeff? >> scott, some of the leads that investigators are getting to this point have come because of a name that surfaced really early on in the minutes after this shooting. law enforcement sources, multiple law enforcement sources confirm for cbs news that one of the possible suspects mentioned is syed farook. he worked for the department of health. again, this is a name that has been confirmed by multiple law enforcement sources as a possible suspect in this shooting. also we're getting new information about what was found in the vehicle. remember, there was this black vehicle that was described as leaving the scene of the shooting. according to law enforcement sources, an ar-15 style rifle was found in that vehicle along with two pistols as well. investigators are right now trying to trace those weapons. in addition, as the vehicle was fleeing, the suspects inside, according to law enforcement officials, threw a piece of metal from the vehicle. it was a piece of metal pipe is how it was d

see their faces and could not tell as we continue to watch this scene unfold live, let's go to jeff pegues in our washington newsroom. jeff, what do you hear? >> reporter: well, scott, investigators have had a name to go on as they try to track down the people responsible for the shooting. there was one name, they have not revealed that name, but we know there is a name floating around law enforcement circles, and so that has helped as they have tried to track down the suspects. of course, as you mentioned, there is this scene now. there were shots fired, a suspect down, possibly related to the shooting. scott. >> pelley: jeff pegues in washington, thank you very much. now, do not go away. we are not going to leave this coverage, but we are going to pause for just a moment to begin

those traveling by air face new rules-- here's jeff pegues. >> the new guidelines mean more passengers will likely go through the full body scanners, and some requests for pat-downs will be declined. this document, obtained by cbs news, says t.s.a. officers can now direct the change reflects an airport security overhaul under way since last summer, after several government watchdog reports human failures in the system. the d.h.s. inspector general says his investigators were able of the time. in another investigation, inspector general john roth testified before congress in november. >> ...and the test results were disappointing and troubling. we ran multiple tests using different concealment methods at eight different airports. >> reporter: u.s. officials are especially concerned about explosives brought on board. in late october, isis claimed responsibility for the bomb that brought down the russian metrojet plane in egypt. in 2001, richard reid tried to light a bomb embedded in his shoe, on a flight headed to miami.hi u.s. authorities say this is what the explosion would have been l

jeff pegues has more on this. >> reporter: today's bulletin says want country is in a new phase in the global threat environment. law enforcement is concerned about self-radicalized individuals who could strike with little or no notice. it also warned of threats against communities based on perceived religion, ethnicity, or nationality. the new bulletin alert was added because the other two categories, elevated and imminent, required detailed information and were never activated. bulletins like today's can be sent without a specific threat. homeland security secretary jeh johnson. >> what we are concerned about copycat-like attacks, and those who are self-radicalized who may be inspired to commit terrorist attacks. and regrettably, we have seen that in recent months and recent-- recent weeks. >> reporter: the massacre in san bernardino, california, two weeks ago was one such attack. so were the july 16 shootings that killed five people at two military locations in chattanooga, tennessee. today, for the first time, f.b.i. director director james comey, said the shooter, muhammad youssef

jeff pegues reports. >> reporter: tsa officials stepped up security after the paris attacks and feel this is another important change. it means more passengers will likely be funneled through those body scanners, whether they like it or not. cbs news has learned that late security administration quietly changed body scanner protocols at airports. in this document, tsa officials wrote that the agency was updating the ability of individuals to opt out of advanced imaging technology screening in favor of physical screening. that now clears the way for the tsa to direct mandatory body scanner screening for some passengers as warranted by security considerations. over the years, the technology has evolved. the body scanners that some critics label virtual strip searches are gone in favor of machines which replace an image with that of a generic figure, which lessens privacy concerns. airport security has been under the microscope o or the summer, a a athing inspector general report uncovered major gaps. investigators discovered that to smuggle mock explosives or banned weapons through che

jeff pegues has been working on this story with us all afternoon. he's in our washington newsroom. jeff, what's new? >> well, as you know, scott, this is a very fluid situation, and speaking to that point is the fact that investigators, they still think right now that there is still one more suspect who is not in custody or who has not been accounted for. and so that's why you see that they are going house to house, conducting these searches. they still think someone else is out there. but even if all of the suspects are accounted for, that does not mean that this is an investigation that is about to wrap up. there are still so many unanswered questions with this, scott. as you know, in part because this type of active shooter situation does not fit the mold of many of the others that we've seen in this country over the years. the fact that you have more than one suspect involved, scott. there are still so many unanswered questions for investigators. they are still trying the nail down definitively a moltive. they have not ruled out whether this is terrorism related or perhaps some

here's homeland security security correspondent jeff pegues. >> reporter: eight months before syed farookntered the united states with his bride-to-be, he applied for a fiance visa for tashfeen malik. in the document dated december 31 2013, farook, an american citizen, wrote that they had met through a matrimonial web site. when asked for more information farook wrote in a statement that after several weeks of e-mailing, he and malik decided to meet each other. that happened when they both attended the hajj pilgrimage in mech asaudi arabia, on october 3, 2013. and it is on this day he says, that we got engaged. he signed that statement january 20 2014. immigration officialed asked for and received proof. visa stamps that both were at the hajj. ultimately, the application was approved, clearing the way for the san bernardino killers to come into the country. in a statement the u.s. citizenship and immigration services says, "tashfeen malik was subjected to numerous background checks and those did not reveal any derogatory information about malik." what they didn't know about that the f.b.i

homeland security correspondent jeff pegues has more about that and about the man at the center of the investigation. >> reporter: the list of school districts receiving the threatening e-mails include los angeles, new york, miami, houston, dallas, and now clark county in nevada. the district which includes las vegas schools received the e-mails yesterday, and officials colored they were a hoax. the dallas e-mails detail plans of 46 jihad affiliates for a massacre of epic proportion with mass shootings and napalm, propane, and pressure cooker explosives for maximum casualty. these e-mails differ slightly from the one received in los angeles, which talked of 32 comrades and bombs set to detonate via cell phone. while investigators do not know all of the e-mails were routed through a server in germany run by vincent canfield, the 21-year-old native of maine and college dropout says as of last week, he has been living in romania. canfield received this subpoena from new york city police which was followed by a call with a detective which canfield recorded. >> you get three days to respond

here's jeff pegues. >> the new gpidelines mean mor through the full body scanners and some requests for pat-downs will be declined. this document, obtained by cbs news, says t.s.a. officers can now direct mandatory body scanner screening for some passengege when warrantnt byy security considerations. the change reflects an airport security overhaul under way since last summer after several government wchdog reports found widespread technology and human failures in the system. the d.h.s. inspector general says his investigators were able to smuggle mockxplosives or weapons through checkpoints 95% of the time. in another investigation, t.s.a. officers failed to respond properly after being alerted by scang equipment. inspector general john roth testifiebefore congress in noveveer. >> and the test results were disappointing and troubling. we ran multiple tests using different concealment methods at eight different airports. >> reporter: u.s. officials are esescially concerned abobo in late october, isis claimed responsibility for the bomb that brought down the russian metrojet plane in egy

homeland security security correspondent jeff pegues begins our coverage. >> reporter: sources tell cbs news, malik's facebook post pledged her allegiance to isis leader abu bakr al-baghdadi. the post was in english and issued under a different name. f.b.i. director james comey: >> the investigation so far has developepe indications radicalization by the killers and of potential inspiration by foreign terrorist organizations. >> reporter: investigators have recovered computers, thumb drives, and other electronic media from the home where malik and her husband, sayed farook, lived with their six-month-old daughter. perhaps the most important find-- two cell phones discovered in a garbage dumpster. f.b.i. assistant director david bowdich says both phones were >> those cell phones were-- werer actually crushed. we have retained those cell phones, and we do continue to exploit the data from those cell phones. >> reporter: so far, investigators have no evidence that the shooting was directed by isis leaders nor do they currently believe farook and malik were part of a larger terror new york,

norah, obama administration >> o'donnell: all right, jeff pegues, thank you. today, army sergeant bowe bergdahl was arraigned in military court on charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.. could face life in prison if convicted, or of the latter. he did not enter a plea. bergdahl walked off his post in afghanistan in 2009 and was held as a taliban prisoner for fivee yeararbefore being swapped for five guantanamo detainees. a grand jury in texas has decided not to indict anyone in the sheriff's office or jail in connection with the death of sanda bland. she was found dead in her cell in july, three days after her confrontational arrest during a traffic stop. her death was ruled a suicide. coming up, what's taking so long to clean up this radioactive mess? a close call on the sloan sloep for a world cup skier. the cbs evening news continues. every auto insurance policy has a number. but not every insurance company understands the life behind it. those who have served our nation have earned the very best service in return. get an auto insurance quot

jeff pegues has been working on this story with us all he's in our washington newsroom. jeff, what's new? >> well, as you know, scott, this is a very fluid situation, and speaking to that point is the fact that investigators, they still think right now that there is still one more suspect who is not in custody or who has not been accounted for. and so that's why you see that they are going house to house, conducting these searches. they still think someone else is out there. but even if all of the suspects are accounted for, that does not mean that this is an investigation that is about to wrap up. there are still so many unanswered questions with this, scott. as you know, in part because this type of active shooter situation does not fit the mold of many of the others that we've seen in this country over the years. the fact that you have more than there are still so many unanswered questions for investigators. they are still trying the nail down definitively a moltive. they have not ruled out whether this is terrorism related or perhaps some sort of workplace related sho

harder for immigration officials to see signs of her radicalizatiti. >> pelley: jeff pegues, thanks, jeff. now, because the f.b.i. has determined that that chattanooga shooting jeff just mentioned was terrorism, the navy said today that four marines and a sailor who was killed and a marine who was wounded will all receive purple hearts. homeland security was the focus last night at the republican presidential debate in las vegas. 18 million people watched it on tv, and major garrett was there. >> marco knows what he's saying isn't true. >> reporter: first-term senators marco rubio and ted cruz spard over congress' decision toned the government's bulk collection and storage of phone records. rubio opposed ending the program, and cruz supported it. >> that tool we lost, the metadata program, was a valuable tool that we no longer have at our disposal. >> the old program covered 20% to 30% of phone numbers to the new program covers nearly 100%. that gives us greater able to stop act of terrorism and he knows that that's the case. >> i don't think national television in front of 15 millio

homeland security correspondent jeff pegues is following the investigation. jeff? >> scott, some of the leads that investigators are getting to this point have come because of a name that surfaced really early on in the minutes after this shooting. law enforcement sources, multiple law enforcement sources confirm for cbs news that one of the possible suspects mentioned is syed farook. he worked for the department of health. again, this is a name that has been confirmed by multiple law enforcement sources as a possible suspect in this shooting. also we're getting new information about what was found in the vehicle. remember, there was this black vehicle that was described as leaving the scene of the shooting. according to law enforcement sources, an ar-15 style rifle was found in that vehicle along investigators are right now trying to trace those weapons. in addition, as the vehicle was fleeing, the suspects inside, according to law enforcement officials, threw a piece of metal from the vehicle. it was a piece of metal pipe is how it was described to us. it was thr

jeff pegues has been working on this story with us all afternoon. he's in our washington newsroom. at's new? >> well, as you know, scott, this is a very fluid situation, and speaking to that point is the fact that investigators, they still think right now that there is still one more suspect who is not in custody or who has not been accounted for. and so that's why you see that they are going house to house, conducting these searches. they still think someone else is out there. but even if all of the suspects are accounted for, that does not mean that this is an investigation that is about to wrap up. there are still so many unanswered questions with this, scott. as you know, in part because this type of active shooter situation does not fit the mold of many of the others that we've seen in this country over the years. the fact that you have more than one suspect involved, scott. there are still so many unanswered questions for investigators. they are still trying the nail down definitively a moltive. they have not ruled out whether this is terrorism related or perhaps some sort of

jeff pegues tried to cut through the muddle. >> >> i'll be announcing soon hopefully what our new system is that i think reflex the current environment and the current realities. >> reporter: secretary of homeland security jeh johnson said the current system is flawed. the original color-coded warnings, developed after 9/11, were criticized for sending out too many alerts. the current system has never sent out an alert because it requires an imminent threat. the modification will lower the threshold for warning the it is an acknowledgment of the changing nature of the threat, something president obama highlighted last night. >> as we've become better at preventing complex, mull hi-facetted attacks like 9/11, terrorists turn to less-comply kateed acts of violence like the mass shootings all too common in our society. >> reporter: the san bernardino shooters were not under surveillance before the massacre despite having contact online with some known extremists. frank cillufo is the head of george washington university's homeland security program. he says public awareness may be more impor

jeff pegues has more. >> reporter: when tashfeen malik applied for a fiancee visa in 2014, she had her name and face checked against terror watch lists, but whether she posted radical views on social media was not checked. alberto fernandez until recently ran the state department's program to counter isis online. >> nowadays every company that hires is looking through your social media. >> reporter: should the government be doing more? >> this is the crazy thing about this debate. you would think that people who are trying to come to the united states to live in the united states, a privilege that most people don't have, would actually have that scrutiny. >> reporter: the department of homeland security says it began three pilot programs in 2014 to examine whether screening social media was consistent with current laws and privacy protections. today government officials dismissed allegations homeland security secretary jeh johnson delayed the implementation of new rules because of public relations concerns,. a review of the policy is under way. since the attack, some members of congres