the federal authorities say 44 year-old arafat naji traveled to turkey twice from lackawana county to support the terrorist organization. they were tipped off by a neighbor who heard naji talking about his jihadi believes. >> complaint alleged that naji purchased numerous items of military combat gear, including night vision goggles, other items which can be used in the military or violent context. >> reporter: if convicted he faces up to 15 years in prison. >>> a fire damaged home is at center of the investigation by city inn expecters and the fire marshall today. let's show you the scene this morning on the 300 block of ease tuscolumn street in kensington. fifer started at 5:00 a.m. and engulfed this two story home and destroyed the front. the only man inside escaped without injuries. the cause of the fire is still being looked into. >>> a man was rush to the hospital overnight after he was hit by a csx freight train in bustleton. it happened just before 3:00 a.m. near grant avenue and welsh road. it took emergency crews two hours to free the 46 year-old man who subsequently, had hi

speaking about naji's arrest the u.s. attorney had another disturbing statistic. >> isil has recruited upwards of 20,000 foreign fighters with some estimates being perhaps 50% more than that. >> reporter: the recent spike in isis-related arrests is partly attributed to increased vigilance surrounding a feared july 4th attack. law enforcement is also changing tactics. unlike al qaeda, isis is focused on smaller-scale terror attacks. that require quicker action. >> isil tends to operate more with a lone wolf approach. for that kind of a person you don't have as much indication of when they might strike and you don't have as much benefit by waiting. >> reporter: there are also more arrests because there are more terror suspects. this month alone, there have been arrests in italy, the u.k. egypt, kosovo and turkey. terrorism experts say isis's sophisticated use of social media has helped recruit fighters few of whom are turned away. >> they will try to motivate people that al qaeda would never touch. and al qaeda would not us

shawn mcknight and kevin robinson are accused of knocking naji rivera off of his scooter and beating him. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. >> ten minutes after 4:00. 73 degrees. we've got wet weather in the area. i'm tracking showers and some thunderstorms this morning. the threat will stay with us during the day. could lead to some heavy downpours, not everybody will see it but there's a potential, a lot of moisture in the atmosphere. and some storms could bring damaging winds, a threat seems to be greater to the south in delaware and extreme southern new jersey during the day today. right now, 63 degrees for mt. pocono. trenton is 68 and wilmington has clouds and the showers are getting very close to the wilmington area. cape may is dry at this time but we could see heavy downpours at the shore this morning and again this afternoon. look at the line of showers extending from new york state through pennsylvania and into maryland and delaware this morning. now we're seeing thunderstorm activity into extreme northeastern maryland. the heavy downp

and here's the real value added of naji. what he's doing in the final phase. this phase can last for a century. in this phase they are creating a giant forward operating base which can be used as the platform from which they deploy more phase one operations. this is the hybrid caliphate. the big difference with naji is prior jihadi strategists said use violence to achieve the goal of the caliphate. naji says yes, you want to achieve the caliphate but you can't just click your fingers. there has to be a transitional phase. it's this phase three where you act like a quasi state. this unfortunately, this works. as we have seen. most important question, what does this all mean? isis is far more successful and deadly than al qaeda. it's not magic. there's no voodoo involved. number one, it understands irregular warfare. it's read the right books. they follow the gavarist model of irregular warfare. he ended up dead at the age of 39. they understand that to win you have to outgovern the government. right now they are advertising for less jihadists online and more en

naji's home this morning. he's accused of traveling to turkey with the intention of joining isis. federal authorities say they were tipped off by a resident who heard him talking about his jihadi beliefs. >>> u.s. authorities have confirmed the reclusive leader of the taliban is dead and has been for two years. this comes as the president's top advisers continue to spar with congress and america's allies over the iranian nuclear deal. correspondent doug mcelway reports tonight from the white house. >> reporter: the afghan government's timing of its announcement that taliban leader mullah omar died two years ago was curious. it came just two days before its new round of peace talks with the taliban, that omar led a ten-year-long insurgency against u.s. troops. it may throw a wrench into the talks. they had mentioned omar's name as recently as this month. the white house urged the talks to continue, not knowing who the real taliban leader is. >> the united states does continue to support an afghan-led and afghan-owned reconciliation process as the surest way to end violence in the r

they say 42-year-old arafat naji was planning to join isis. >> thanks to law enforcement and the alertommunity, the suspect was arrested, charged with attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization and now faces 15 years in prison. . >>> also new this morning, the afghan government is checking reports that taliban leader mullah omar is dead. he provided safe harbor to osama bin laden in afghanistan and the u.s. has offered a $10 million reward for any information on him. >> the taliban recently released several messages purportedly from mullah omar, the fugitive leader. let's bring in the host of cnn's "fareed zakaria gps," mr. fareed zakaria himself. there have been rumors for quite some time about the demise of mullah omar. but remind us of the significance of this man, especially in helping hide osama bin laden. >> he's hugely significant. he invited osama bin laden into afghanistan to set up his base camp. remember, the 9/11 attacks were not carried out by a single afghan. this was sort of an arab army that was encamped within afghanistan but given safe harbor b

ha hasim naji is here. help us understand this.ut the markets there. and maybe we're headed towards another bubble. >> good morning. thanks for having me on the program. those are legitimate questions. and we get those questions from our clients all over the country all the time. because in past cycles when the secondary locations, the market goes away to the degree it should be there. and that usually seems to be a sign of market correction. we're not seeing that in this cycle at all. because the lending part of the equation is staying disciplined. they're wanting to finance more and more but the underwriting of the asset itself the buyer is staying disciplined given it wasn't too long ago when we had the financial crisis and over-leveraging of commercial real estate. and so you couple that -- >> sorry. go ahead, please. >> i was just going to say you couple that with the fact that you mentioned the job growth is beginning to broaden. we're seeing every metropolitan area add a lot of jobs with little, if any new construction. it g