faisal shahzad went unnoticed from a the shadows of karachi to the shadows of -- the shadows of karachi to times square. the unanswered question -- how many others could do the same? >> engineers working for the oil company two bp that's succeeded in blocking one of the leaks from a sunken drilling rig in the gulf of mexico that caused the massive oil slick. oil was still spilling at our rate of almost 800,000 liters a day. later wednesday, a huge especially-constructed metal dome will be moved over the site. adam brooks has this. >> more can be done to disperse the slick. more controlled burning and skimming of the oil on the sea surface. but the slick is still growing. the alger edges are lapping at the louisiana -- the outer edges are lapping at the louisiana shore land -- shoreline. >> it absolutely jeopardize its louisiana's what life. it is destroying our fisheries. these barrier islands. is this during our way to earn a living -- it is destroying our way to learn -- to earn a living. >> the plume of oil will be beneath the seabed -- will be in the seabed. the dome will contain th

nick robertson is on the phone from karachi. >> caller: we're hearing from law enforcement officials here of more arrests today. we don't have numbers or don't know who they are. we do know there are more arrests today. that follows from the two arrests yesterday, coming very quickly after communication was established between u.s. authorities and pakistani officials. it does appear that the investigation continues here. we don't know how many people have been arrested today. but it does seem that the pakistani authorities are still active in this area of karachi where he attended the university at one point. this is not the area where his family most recently lived, that was close to the afghan border region, kiran. >> we're also hearing from shahzad's family in pakistan. what are they saying about the news of this arrest and the fact that he's claiming that he was indeed behind this plot? >> caller: from his family's visit, we heard from a cousin, that defended him saying that this village, there's been nobody linked with jihadism. so they are putting up a strong defense, saying it

according to government officials here in pakistan, faisal shahzad did have a karachi id, a karachi residence, a house in karachi in this neighborhood according to an intelligence source was raided, two individuals detained and being questioned at this hour, larry. >> larry: now he was legally in the united states, but back and forth to pakistan a lot. what do we know about what he did when he was there? >> well, based on the investigation here so far, based on what we're learning about faisal shahzad, it was really no red flags, no indications that he was headed for a life of militancy. government officials telling cnn he lived pretty much a normal life. they tell us he was from a village in northwest pakistan just outside of peshawar. his father eventually moved the family to peshawar. we found their house. it was empty. the father was not there. local residents telling us he probably left earlier on that day. according to government officials and police there, his father was identified as bahar ul haq, a vice marshall in the pakistani air force, by all accounts an upstanding citizen who se

shahzad traveled to karachi for more than a month. in february he returned to the united states from a five-month trip to pakistan. court documents say he received four telephone calls from a pakistani phone number on the day he purchased the suv that was ultimately left filled with explosives in teems square. none of those instances of travel to pakistan or phone calls are themselves evidence of any kind of wrongdoing, but arrests in this case are reportedly being made in pakistan and the race is on to try to find and trace any real connections that may exist between faisal shahzad and the pakistani taliban. if he did receive bomb-making training in pakistan or anywhere else it appears that training was, thankfully, tremendously inadequate. >> it does not appear, from our opinion, to be the most sophisticated device. there are a number of opportunities for the device to fail. >> the justice department released a diagram today, this diagram, of the contents of mr. shahzad's suv, several white bags of fertilizer, two five gallon gasoli

he went to karachi, which has a lot of militant activity. went peshawar, and then down to waziristan. the reason there have been suspected links to jaish emohammed, a kashmiri group, he is an ethnic kashmiri, and, two, the person who is now under arrest he met up with at karachi was arrested at a mosque that has links to that militant group. the question is, did he have associations with people involved in militant groups? it seems he certainly did. did they actively recruit him or did he come on his own? now, if this was a person living in the states who had quite a good life, a successful life and then was disaffected and decided to quit his job and come back here, it is very possible he came back on his own and started to seek out some of these groups, use his family connections, use the fact he had a u.s. citizenship, a u.s. passport to receive military training or bomb-making training. certainly he did not receive the top bomb-making training because of the amateurish nature of his attack. one former law enforcement official said if he

nic is live in karachi, pakistan, nic?ts here in pakistan including the father-in-law of faisal shahzad. more on that at the top of the hour. >>> and, of course, we're continuing to follow the terror scare here in new york. we're looking at what this all means for tourism and a multi-billion industry in new york. is it going to hurt this city. we'll give you more at the top of the hour. >>> and i'm stephanie elam. also in the big apple, where we're keeping a close eye on stocks after markets hit a speed bump yesterday. the issue? renewed fear that debt problems in greece could spark another credit crunch. i'll have more on that at the top of the hour. >> thanks, guys. that, plus the very latest off the gulf coast where potential ecological disaster, rather, looms with that massive oil spill and the first real step taken in the right direction to stop it. dr. scholl's back pain relief orthotics with shockguard technology give you immediate relief that lasts all day long. dr. scholl's. pain relief is a step away. that's my c

so i'm going to get it but then i found out that the new "call of duty" has a level on it called karachitlefield. how many points can you get? but even with that i was able to convince myself, you know, like i'd have an advantage over everybody. [ light laughter ] i would be like "hey, we can hide in there, guys! i used to rent movies at that place! and mr. sadichi will give us shelter!" so, i was going to get it, but then, okay, the language we speak in pakistan is urdu, that's the name of the language we speak, but all the street signs in karachi in "call of duty" are in arabic. yeah -- totally different language. i know it doesn't sound like a big deal, but this game took three years to make. if you look at it, they give every detail perfect, like the graphics. you can see individual hair on people's head. when they run they sweat. when they run their shoe laces bounce. all they had to do was google "pakistan language," that is all. [ applause ] they were literally like what language do they speak in pakistan? "i don't care -- [ light laughter ] i can't get this guy's sideburns right.

faisal shahzad arriving in karachi airport in july of 2009. and that's when our intelligence source tells us he met up with a man by the name of muhammad rehan. muhammad rehan, according to this intelligence source is linked with another bad militant group, jayshe muhammad. this intelligence source telling cnn the two then drove up to northwest pakistan, eventually ending up in the waziristan area, and that's where, according to this intelligence source, they met with at least one, maybe more, senior taliban leaders. by the way, muhammad rehan in custody, picked up in the karachi area by security forces. we can't verify independently this account by this intelligence source. but if it's accurate, it corroborates with some parts of what faisal shahzad is telling u.s. investigators. that he did spend some time in waziristan, the nerve center of the pakistani taliban, wolf. >> what are you learning about his family in pakistan? and do you know, specifically, whether his wife and two kids are in pakistan right now? >> reporter: yeah, no word where

in karachi shahzad met a contact now in custody with ties to a militant group. with an introduction secured, shahzad said he then traveled alone into pakistan's biggest war zone, the lawless region of waziristan to learn to make bombs. in waziristan, there are many willing teachers. it's a base for both al qaeda and the taliban. shahzad is said to have stayed in waziristan for several weeks. the region is often attacked by u.s. drones and the pakistani government has led offensives here and considers the taliban in waziristan its biggest enemy. >> we condemn this incident, and we will help and support u.s. to bring these culprits to justice. >> in pakistan's capital islamabad today, people seemed embarrassed by shahzad. another man said, just because he's pakistani doesn't mean he has to be a terrorist. tamron, officials here are also trying to figure out how high up his connections went within the militant movement. at this stage a pakistani military official told us he does not believe that shahzad was sent by the taliban or al qaeda but was more likely self-r

this appears to have been his main contact, a person in e-mail contact in karachi, and then from there went on to wazirstan to apparently learn how to make bombs. >> richard engel, chief foreign correspondent in islamabad giving us a sense of how far this man's tentacles reached into the terror business in pakistan. thank you. >>> attempted times square bombing attack is the subject of a hearing under way right now. senate security committee holding a hearing on ways to prevent terrorists from using guns to carry out attacks here in the united states. new york city mayor michael bloomberg as well as police commissioner kelly are among those scheduled to testify. special agent congressman mike rogers is a republican from michigan, ranking member of the house subcommittee on terrorism, counter-terrorism, and human intelligence. congressman, thanks for joining us. >> peter, thanks for having me. it's an honor to be here. >> you've been critical of the obama administration's effort. you call the attempted bombing an sbl failure. what failed? >> the fact he was able to, a, drape in pakistan

most of the arrests have been made from karachi and peshawar.ne of those was, we believe, his good friend, mohammed rahan. now suspected to be a militant leader. the two of them drove together to peshawar when faisal shahzad arrived in karachi from the u.s. in july last year. now, a source privy to the investigation, the ongoing investigation, told nbc news that they are also investigating faisal shahzad's possible link with an outlaw group. this group is the so-called -- one of the so-called punjabi groups. little by little we're learning more about faisal shahzad's pakistani roots. earlier today we sent a local reporter to a small village outside of peshawar. locals there said shahzad's family originates from this little village. but the family moved to peshawar some time ago. local tv channels went to this family house in peshawar this evening and showed -- and they're showing pictures of family and friends arriving and leaving. in a3Ûum way you could say it's condoling with family members, so to speak, which would be according to local custo

he's in karachi. >> thanks for joining us. it has become clear in the last day that faisal shahzad comes from a well-off background in pakistan. tell us what is known about him and his family. >>ñr indeed, that's one of the more unusual aspects of this case. faisal shahzad comes from a family ofçó privilege and a family of some prestige here in pakistan. his father was a fighter pilot whoñr rose through the ranks of the air force to become serving three-starçó0@6c0@6general, and his uncleÑi was the commander ofçóÑi the frontier corps, which is the force that fightsÑi the taliban in the tribal areas along the border. this is a very unusual set of circumstances for a young man from this type of background to be involved in terrorist activity, either here in pakistan and certainly in the u.s. >> well, several people there have been arrested. what can you tell us about them? >> these are all people who are in various ways connected to faisal shahzad. one is reportedly his father-in- law. and others are people with whom he has been

now a pakistani intelligence source tells our sister network cnn that the raid was at a house in karachi where they believe shahzad stayed the last time he was there. we're going to have a lot more on that case but because we're hln, there is other news concerning you as well so let's get to some of those stories. >>> some oil from the massive spill in the gulf of mexico has already started washing up on barrier islands. but a possible solution for the leak is on the way. now this is what could turn things around. it is a four-story-high containment dome that will be lowered onto the seabed by tomorrow. >> we will be hooking it up under the course of friday and the weekend. this has never been deployed in the water, it's a technique that the industry uses often in the shallow water, 300 to 400 feet. it has never been deployed at 5,000 feet so we should not per. there will be issues to deal with as we deploy it. >> the oil spill is really hurting people who make their living off of the gulf. fishing is banned in the affected areas for at least a week, and people are canceling their hotel

in karachi, officials say more people were taken into custody today. they wouldn't say how many or who they were. investigators do want to know if shahzad acted alone, obviously, or as part of a larger plot and what training he might have had. court documents show shahzad had a prepaid cell phone activated april 16th, deactivated april 28th. the documents also reveal he'd recently received a dozen calls from pakistan, including five on the day he bought the nissan pathfinder, the one that was bought in connecticut, later found at times square filled with explosive material. those phone calls stopped three days before the failed bombing. >>> shahzad is charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, acts of terrorism, transcending national boundaries and three other counts in connection with the saturday incident. christi, back to you. >> chuck, thank you. >>> now we want to get to, can you imagine, some of the passengers who were on board the dubai-bound emirates flight with shahzad? they are talking. they say they had to go through anothe

among the group, friend of faisal shahzad who was picked up inca ca karachi, may 5. >>> the lone survivore survivor of the plane crash in libya arrived home in the netherlands. he was told that his parents and older brother did not survive the crash that killed 103 people. authorities are investigating the cause. more on these and the top stories coming up at the top of the hour. america's news headquarters. [ laughter ] >> cheryl: a scene from our nation's capititacapitaitocapit? maybe. they're warning that the republicans are going on a $200 billion spending frenzy before leaving for the holiday and not one penny paid for. maybe that's why 83% of americans say it's possible we could go bankrupt. jonathan, you say it's not possible, it's actually probable. >> well, if we keep spending as we have been, cheryl. take a look at pictures if greece, spain and portugal where people are rioting because of the basket case economy of the entitlement states. both parties are to blame here and a lot of spending that the g.o.p. is arguing against they committed eight years ago. spending and entitleme

but one focal point and another focal point, karachi, where according to intelligence forces, there wasaid conducted in a house where faisal shahzad spent time over the past year and as many as three people are being detained and questioned at this hour as this investigation unfolds in pakistan. >> you talked to members of his family. what did they tell you? >> reporter: we found a cousin, and he said, look, the family are reeling, they're shocked about these developments certainly going to put this family under severe scrutiny, despite what he said to u.s. authorities, this cousin says, this family was a good family, weren't engaged in criminal activity. let's listen to what the cousin had to say. >> these people, they never indulged in any criminal activities, not a family member, the village from which both of these people belongs, none of the village member involved in any criminal activities or jihad activit activity. >> that was faisal shahzad's cousin defending the family. it's a good bet this family will go through a tough few days as pakistani investigators will want to find ou

. >> well, officials are telling us several more people were picked up today in the karachi area. we don't know their names or what type of link they had with faisal shahzad. we have the names of three other people who have been arrested. his father-in-law, one of his friends, and a young man described as his associate, mohammed ranhan. these people are being questioned. they're not arrested, only being questioned. i want to pass along very important new developments concerning the pakistani taliban that we just got in. a lot of talk about the pakistani taliban. were they involved in this attempted bombing in new york? you would have thought faisal shahzad himself said he received training in the nerve center for the pakistani taliban. but now in a phone call to cnn, the spokesperson for the pakistani taliban essentially saying we're impressed with what this man tried to do. we like what he tried to do, but he's not one of us. take a look at his statement. he says, the action of faisal shahzad was very good. we appreciate faisal shahzad but he has no link with taliban pakistan. he

among the group a friend of faisal shahzad who was picked up may 5 in karachi.istani intelligence sources tell fox the man "confessed to having ties to the pakistani taliban and he may be the link between shahzad and the senior member of the group identified to fox as kari hussein. tonight, new information about the three men picked in raids in boston, new jersey an long island. authorities say they supplied money to him but it's not clear if they knew it was for the bomb plot. they believe he got money at a handoff at a dunkin' donuts in new york. they effected the name of nidal hasan, and umar farouk abdulmutallab and faisal shahzad. a website said, "the average muslim does not need to go to afghanistan or pakistan in order to attend training camp and learn how to fight the american enemy." likewise, he does not need to be an expert or professional in making bombs or explosives to attack the u.s. "other chatters encourages followers to leave suspicious packages in public places so the american public becomes decencitized to threat -- desensitized to threats. >

my guess is you got policemen on their way to karachi right now who want to talk to the people there or because eighths federal investigation? >> that's true. again, we have new york city police officers embedded in the joint terrorist task force. they're acting in a federal capacity. sure, investigators will certainly try to, as best they can, to reconstruct what happened with this individual. >> >> charlie: any tool you need that you don't have? >> we always like to have more police officers, we'd like to have more technology, we'd like to have more cameras in midtown manhattan. you have 500,000 cameras in london. we have manhattan security initiative, canal street south. we will have about 3,000 cameras, public and private sector cameras, that program is underway. our goal is to move that program, migrate it north to midtown manhattan, 38th street to 60th street have several thousand cameras in that program. we think it's a very valuable tool. it's a crime preventer, certain plea -- >> charlie: we also, i'm under the impression that there was the ability to have somehow a composit

rahan is the one who met faisal shahzad in karachi when he arrived from the u.s. last july.rove together to peshawar. the other five are believed also to be friends and perhaps facilitators of mohammed shahzad. they helped him get to training camps or wherever else he wanted to go and whomever else he wanted to meet when he was in pakistan. at least that's what the pakistani officials here believe at the moment tonight. little by little we are learning more about faisal shahzad's pakistani roots. earlier this evening we sent a local reporter to a small village outside of peshawar in the northwest of the country. the locals there said that shahzad's family is originally from this little village. but the family moved some time ago to peshawar. and a local tv reporter went to the family house in peshawar this evening. local tv is now showing pictures of family and friends arriving and leaving, in a way con doling the family members which would be according to local custom. we've also heard the family has another home, one in islamabad, here in islamabad, the capital. where the

among this group, we're told a friend of faisal shahzad who was picked up may 5th in karachi, pakistan, pakistani intelligence sources tell fox the man, quote, confessed having ties to the pakistani taliban and he may, in fact, be the link between shahzad and the training camp he says he attended in waziristan. shep? >> shepard: you know, there are a couple of new web postings tonight. the first is encouraging muslims here in the united states to attack in the united states. >> well, this is one of the more interesting developments in the last 24 hours. analysts tell me that the chatter on the web site is up and it specifically talks about times square and the other two attempted attacks christmas day. and then also fort hood as well. now, once a web site reads in quote: so see a clear encouragement in this particular case on the web site, i'm told it has thousand sabz of followers. >> shepard: in addition, there is a push to set off more false alarms. >> well, this web posting really shows you to the extent that this is a psychological warfare going on. this web posting they clearly s

it seems he had a contact in the city of karachi. he landed in karachi, met with his contact, who is known to have militant ties to what one of many militant groups operating in this country. and then he went on to waziristan and was able to, according to shahzad himself, learn some bomb-making skills himself, although it's not clear at what level his training went when you look at how amateurish the bomb-making was. if this was the best al qaeda and taliban can do in their train, they've gone very far back. he did receive some training here, according to his own admission, but probably wasn't with with the top al qaeda leaders and top taliban in this country. >> richard engel, thanks very much. there's some information on faisal shahzad, born in pakistan. a student at the university of bridgeport. my gosh. so, we get a sense of the timeline now in terms of how he was caught, a little lost and found there. nice of you to show up. >> richard says -- it was nice of me to show up. richard got into islamabad late last fight. guess what,

. >> reporter: maggie, pakistanny police made several arrests in the city of karachi.ow they believe many of those were relations of shahzad's. we spoke to the interior minister earlier today, and he said that shahzad had made several trips to pakistan. >> he had made 13 visits in and out from 2003. and there are seven departures, and six arrivals. >> reporter: authorities believe that this terrorist training camp, raided in early march by pakistani forces, is where shahzad may have spent at least four months learning the tactics of terror. this is also the terror camp that is affiliated with pakistan's taliban. the group that claims responsibility for the attack. his leader hakimullah mehsud threatens the time is very near when our fighters will attack the american states. prior to release of the tape mehsud was presumed dead in a u.s. drone attack in february. shahzad has confessed that the failed bombing was in retaliation for the u.s. drone attacks. maggie? >> mandy clark in islamabad this morning. mandy, thank you. now, over to you, harry. >> thanks, maggie. so wh

that mission, pakistani officials say, began here in the bustlings port city of karachi. there shahzad met a contact, now in custody with ties to a militant group wi. with an introduction secured, shahzad says he then traveled alone into pakistan awar zone, the largest region of waziristan to learn to make bombs. in withaziristan, there are man willing teachers. shahzad is said to have stayed in withaziristan for several we. the pakistani government has led offensives here and considers the taliban in with a steer dan its biggest enemy. >> we condemn this incident and we will help and support u.s. to bring these culprits to justice. >> reporter: in pakistan's capital of islamabad today, people seemed embarrassed by shahzad. another man said -- just because he's pakistani doesn't mean he has to be a terrorist. a pakistani military official this morning said he doubts the taliban dispatched shahzad to the united states but more likely, he said, shahzad came here to pakistan, received some training, met some militants, and then went back to the united states to carry out thi

been eight arrests here in the last day and a half, including two friends of shahzad's, arrested in karachift the mosque, with no links to a terror group. five more friends of shahzad's were arrested elsewhere in pakistan. and his father-in-law has also been arrested. or at least taken into custody. u.s. officials have always been worried that pakistan is a hub for militant groups and militants who want to train. this time, they're looking into whether shahzad received his training from the pakistani taliban. that's a group that claimed credit for the attack. if that claim proves accurate, it will be the first time that the pakistani taliban has attacked the u.s., or anywhere outside pakistan or afghanistan. that means the u.s. will put more pressure on the pakistani military to crack down on the pakistani taliban. that's so far pressure they've refused to give into. juju? >> nick schifrin in pakistan. thanks for that. >>> the best hope of mopping up the oil spill in the gulf of mexico arrives today. it's a specially-built containment dome, designed to funnel oil into a tanker. they hope to