ok well let's get reaction now from max adams he's a professor of public policy at northeastern university in the u.s. and joins us now thanks for coming on. let's just talk about what we know so far. i mean we understand the u.s. a geisha is just under way but one bomb went off today too it wasn't just. a gunman with a rifle does that suggest does that suggest there was extra help a i mean is it difficult for an eighteen or twenty two year old to learn how to build a bomb it does suggest doesn't it perhaps something more sophisticated or does it. your up get is so there is no an indicator there so it may be more sophistication just went right or are open up more. especially into you need seeing the internet out there so much public material on your wall including. or should we just you. know it at all like it was a crew explosive device to hurt someone. or some more honest on. talking to all our guests today i mean the question is what can be done to prevent this from happening but it doesn't seem that an awful lot can be done does it. i don't really i mean you you know i remember giving

and washington well we spoke to max abrams an assistant professor of political science at northeastern university in boston he said more research is needed to understand what prompts this sort of violence in order to prevent future attacks there is a correlation between those who have very mixed stream political views and those who are more inclined to turn from violence however somebody with extreme political views becoming by well is still exceedingly small and so that's what makes the tourism so difficult is big it's really obvious in retrospect when you connect the dots when you look at somebodies digital footprint and you see that they seem also to all sorts of extreme things but again that doesn't necessarily trip off law enforcement to indicate well logically that there's a high likelihood that this person will become violent and so frankly academics need to do a better job of really trying to figure out how people make that jump between extreme ideology in extreme action. the german chancellor is saying she in the french president considering a calm and european union position on selling

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thoughts on this max abrams assistant professor of the school science that joining us from northeastern university. the german chancellor angela merkel says she and the french president and considering a common european union position on selling arms to saudi arabia following the murder of john. early a speaking in bahrain saudi arabia's foreign minister dismissed what he described as hysteria in the media over the death and refused calls to extradite suspects saying they will be prosecuted inside the kingdom turkey's president wants the eighteen suspects to be sent back to turkey and he said saudi arabia must provide on says as to what happened to the veteran journalists. who sent to those people to turkey that's a question that needs to be answered by the saudi officials another statement from the higher authorities in saudi arabia stated that the body of jamal khashoggi was turned into a local collaborator in turkey or they had some collaboration with a local accomplice so who is the local accomplice they say these individuals will be charged or will be prosecuted and will be sentenced but this

reporter: well, the data set that we developed last year, in partnership with researchers from northeastern university, we have had a chance to validate that against some data and found that it is actually a very accurate representation of what appears to be out on the street. with respect to the nature of the report, which i would dispute. you know, one of the other things which i would value is that we are data-driven, and that we are transparent. that in fact, all of the data that we used to come up with this is publicly available on our website. so, they are free to download, and, if there is additional data that they think we have omitted, we would be happy to incorporate the analysis. >> all right, joe, joe castiglioni from the san francisco county transportation authority. appreciate your time, thanks for coming on. >> thanks so much. >>> let's bring in chief meteorologist bill martin for a look at the forecast. and the fog already rolling in. >> look at the fog. you see the golden gate bridge, north and south towers. that is about 720 feet to the top of this thing. the marine layer is fairly s