>> reporter: rockland county executive assistant d.a.ichard moran was on the case from the beginning. >> ira actually got in the car with the informant. >> how are you? >> and started talking about how he wanted his wife killed. >> the lesser you two know, the better. >> right, i agree. >> it was a game changer. >> reporter: wasn't that enough to arrest him right then and there? >> no money had been exchanged. in new york you do need an overt act. and we had some stuff, but we did not want to jump the gun on this. >> how are you? >> reporter: so they arranged another meeting, hoping ira would show again. he didn't. but something big happened. kelly finally handed over money for the hit. >> so how much are we talking right now? >> two. >> reporter: a $2,000 deposit. >> nice doing business with you. >> nothing until we give you the go-ahead. he said just be on stand-by. >> reporter: as detectives waited for ira and kelly to give the go-ahead, this melodrama took a new turn. kelly added two new targets. >> kelly shows up to one of the meeti

the fbi arresting paul rosen felt in rockland county, new york, accusing him of planning to detonate a bomb on the national mall in washington, d.c. on election day. authorities say they found what appears to be a functional 200-pound explosive device in the basement of his home. >>> we turn tonight to your money and your 401(k)s taking a hit. the dow jones plunging 831 points today, closing at 25,598. the stock market s its worst loss in eight months. tech stocks amongst the hardest hit. >>> when we come back here tonight, the important update on hurricane michael. this is still a major hurricane, as it now >>> and finally tonight here, from panama city, florida, i wanted to take a moment to show you the stark landscape that we emerged to witness outside the hotel once the storm finally passed. you can see, everywhere you look, trees have either been uprooted or simply cut in half. and this is the scene all throughout the panhandle here tonight. the recovery is just going to be staggering. and so many of these families heeded the call to go further inland, to seek shelter and so man

these images show fbi agen at the rockland county, new york, home of 56-year-old paul rosenfeld. court documents say agents found a fully functional 200-pound bomb loaded with pounds and pounds of black powder that hel wasing to bring to washington, d.c. and detonate on one national mall on elec day. rosenfeld planned to kill himself in the process, prosecutors say, to draw attention to his political views, which include support for in ancient greek syste which elected officials arech en at random by lottery. gosh. my >> reporter: people we talked to on the mall were horrified at the thought of a large bomb being detonated in this place regularly fille with tourists, including many school groups. >> nobody would have questioned, like, oh, 200 pounds of black powder for what. >> why is that so easy to get on the internet, though? >> reporter: court documents say rosenfeld had planned to kill only himself and that he had already built several smaller test obombs. li the national mall, jackie bensen, news 4. >> so frightening. all right, jackie, thank you. >> a a man in wheelchair w

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officials say paul rosenfeld of rockland county new york intended to carry out a suicide bombing on theional mall here in washington on election day. lawmakers on capitol hill are warning saudi arabia that relations with the u.s. may suffer significantly, if saudi arabia was responsible for the disappearance of a saudi journalist in turkey. the state department correspondent rich edson looks at where the investigation stands tonight. >> president trump said he is demanding saudi arabia explained to what happened to a missing journalist. >> we don't like it at all and we will get to the bottom of it. >> "the new york times" reports, took his officials believed the saudi government assassins killed and dismembered a khashoggi. the report also says the saudis recorded the murder to prove it happen and took his officials have obtained the video. the saudi government denies responsibility. vice president mike pence says the u.s. stands ready to assist in the investigation in any way. >> at this point we don't know what happened and we will continue to call for answers. >> the trump administr

his plan had been coming together for the past few months from his basement of his home out in rockland county, new york, just outside c of new yorky. the tips came from a pennsylvania reporter with whom rosenfeld h been speaking about his d.c. bomb plot. it turns out that led law enforcement to him on tuesday of this week. he also revealed to investigators that he recently bought eight pounds of black powder online to be used in a near 200-pound device he planned to set off here on the mall on election day. also foundn that basement where he was building that bomb, test explosive devices. obviously troubling news for his neighbors and the nation. >> they found the actual explosive device. he called andntade hist known to blow himself up on election day in d.c. this was an actual active itthi. as a real threat to the safety of our country. >> reporter: that threat is now contained, b you might be asking why election day. turns out law enforcement saysf that ros was frustrated with the country's politics as of late, and he also wante to advance the idea that calls for randomly choosing governme