jonathan dietz has more. >> reporter: if the suspect was able to build and place the pipe bombs, investigators say this tape of an nypd tests shows the damage that would have been done. the suspect is 27-year-old jose pimnetel. he wanted to bomb u.s. soldiers returning home and nypd police cars. >> the subject was a so-called lone wolf, motivated by resentment of american troops in afghanistan. >> reporter: police say he learned how to read bombs by reading al qaeda's inspire magazine. and they showed a photo of pimentel allegedly trying to mix powder. police say they've been watching him with the help of an inform mant. >> the nypd has been keeping track of jose pimentel since may of 2009 when he talked about violence and more intensely in recent weeks as he acted on it. >> reporter: officials say pimentel was a follower of an war al alwalki and became angry over his killing back in september. >> that was jonathan did i etz reporting. >>> elsewhere, it appears lawmaker lawmakers are throwing in the towel. after months of partisan disagreements on tax cuts and spending, it looks like the so-ca

. >> that was jonathan dietz reporting. police say this alleged plot is the 14th targeting of new york city since the september 11th terrorist attacks. >>> new from overnight, a nato service member has been killed in a bomb attack in afghanistan. nato says the roadside bombing occurred yesterday in the southern part of the country. nato has not released any more details on the identity or nationality of the person killed. this raises the number of international troops this killed this month to 20 and more than 500 for this year. >>> let's get a first look at the forecast now at 4:31. tom, a little bit of wet start to the day. >> we've had some overnight showers and also some fog that has been thickening over the last couple of hours, the fog has reduced visibilities down to just a quarter of a mile in much of the rural region across virginia and into maryland and west virginia. right now just some light fog in washington. that's a live picture there from the city camera. 56 at reagan national. a calm wind and we have high h