with the shoe bomber, richard reed. and we saw a bomber coming out of yemen a couple of years ago, so they have adapted their techniques. >> while a tube of toothpaste may be too small to do much damage, consider this, if the shoe bomber had gotten away with it, the people on that flight may have experienced something similar to in. >>> the ongoing crisis in ukraine. victoria arriving this morning. she'll meet with victor yanokovych and the protesters and asking for his resignation. >> the assistant secretary of state is going to be meeting with the ukrainian leadership. and it's hopeful that her presence will broker an end to the standoff. and she's likely to meet to talk to the hostage and unknown assailant. he faced a series of interrogationers by his captors, where he was accused of being a cia spy. because of the torture he was under, he was forced to make a false confession, and he said that he received $50,000 in aid from the u.s. embassy here in kiev to help fund his opposition movement. he said that he was fals

the new concerns over shoe bombs arise roughly 12 years after richard reed was caught on board a u.s.-bound international flight trying to light his shoes. the shoe bomb containing a powerful plastic explosive could have taken down a plane carrying 197 people. here's the damage it could have caused. the incident changed airline security forever. and to this day, when u.s. passengers go to the airport, they almost always have to take off share shtheir shoes so they x-rayed. but only weeks ago, congress held hearings on whether tsa's continued concern was overkill. >> everything we've done is in reaction. take off your shoes, that was the liquids. it's all reactive. pretty soon we'll be going through naked. >> given the inconvenience there, do you think we're going to see heightened security tomorrow morning? >> reporter: sources are telling me, look, they will do business as usual, but you may see additional security because law enforcement officials want to show -- have a sign of force that they are taking this very seriously. >> seriously, but again, ranking it in terms of the intell

an unsuccessful attempt came when richard reed tried to set off an explosion on a fly from paris to miami new warning may show that terrorist may have new tactics or technology. >> this undicates to me they believe they can get past the security precautions in response to the original shoe bombing plot. if there is a new explosive or way to get past security. who knows? that is frightening to me. >> before the games there was concern about tooth past explosives. and there is another consideration. >> there is also concern about the fact that so many americans with ties to syria are over there trying to get involved in the fighting with the rebels. and there is concern about those people coming back. we don't know their intentions. >> it is a general warning and not aimed at a specific airline or country. thank you. >>> it is just after 8 o'clock p.m. in keef cove in ukraine. night time has fallen and the sunset is there. 7:23. and many feel that country could be on the brink of a civil war. it is protestors wanting to side with europe and us. and squares off against the regime backed by v

richard reed, the shoe bomber, the threat from england where they tried to use the liquid bombs. general peroxide bombs. >> has it advanced since 2009? what have we learned since then? >> there are so many agencies like the homeland security advanced projects agency. what happens there is they test all these different standoff detection systems. it hasn't gone to the point you can walk into a screening system and truly know what people have on them. now, that doesn't mean we're not going to stop it. we are going to stop a lot of things because of the way the backs scatter. different techniques we tried over the years. these are types of things you have to put in place. the oldest in terms of trying to prevent a bombing, you don't look for the bomb. you look for the bomber. behavioral assessment of officer, ability to spot what people are trying to do, getting on a plane. these techniques have evolved since 9/11. >> we were on a plane yesterday. i don't think we saw anything different. if you're a passenger flying in and out of the u.s., what are you likely to see now that there a

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as you know, we take our shoes off and already looking at this ever since richard reed attempted this bombing in 2001, just after 9/11. their concern overtime with al qaeda-like groups they're honing their methods better. this guy, al asiri who they believe can do that. as you mentioned, the underwear bomb christmas day in 2009, but also this is a guy who sent his own brother with another bomb somehow carried on his person that nearly killed the saudi prince and killed that brother. he's a ruthless guy and he's skilled and his tactics are being shared widely. that's why they're concerned about that kind of thing. >> at the same time specific and not specific. that's the line they try to walk. be worried about this and then giving 25 or 30 cities and then they say they don't know if it's imminent and just a lot of questions. the homeland security secretary was asked about that today. how serious is this threat? what was the response? >> it's an excellent question, erin. his response, this is similar to what i'm hearing, i have been talking to folks at national counterterrorist center.

we all know about richard reed. this seems to be new, though. it's not just shoes. >> reporter: it's new based on new intelligence that terror groups are working on a new way to smuggle explosives onto a plane in a shoe bomb. a new adaptation of that old method we've known about since richard reid. it extends to cosmetics and liquids. there's some information about the cities that it might apply to. some 25 cities with direct flights to the u.s., a wide group as diverse as johannesburg, london, some cities in the middle east, including cairo. now, i am told that the threat is not specific or credible enough to warrant a broader response from intelligence agencies here. this particular warning coming from the department of homeland security, which has the lowest bar for putting out a warning like this. that makes sense. that's its job to get out information about threats to the homeland as widely as possible. but just to be clear, this threat not specific or credible enough to get all of our counter terror agencies working on a direct response to

richard reed tried to ignite his shoes with explosives.y of taking our shoes off at the airport. officials are not saying exactly what they will do, but they certainly are on the watch for this new threat. >> on old threat that is new once again. >>> more severe weather could make it a miserable day. there are toshd threats from the -- tornado threats from the midwest to indiana. and then there is of course, the melting snow problem which could cause major flooding in areas. let's get back over to indra petersons for a look at all of this mess that's going on. >> that's exactly it. with have so many concerns. in the ohio valley, we have warm temperatures and a lot of rainmaking its way through the region today. so be on the lookout. then there's the blizzard conditions, looks like up state portions of wisconsin and really the midwest. we could see winds as strong as 50 miles per hour. any all the way south around the gulf, talking about the threat for severe thunderstorms. that means straight-line winds and even the threat for toshds will