he's admitting it freely. >> nbc's ron allen is live at the courthouse in new york for us. . >> reporter: good afternoon, alex. >> all right. so the arraignment was supposed to have happened. it's been pushed back. why is that? is it because he is still talking and they're trying to get information? >> reporter: well, that's what we're being told by the federal government that he's talking, providing vital

. >> nbc's ron allen joins us from the federal courthouse in lower manhattan. will appear in court. they want to keep him taking. the natural question, is he talking about a

. >> ron allen live for us. thank you, we greatly appreciate it. we've got more on faisal shahzad's activities in pakistan where he was born. he told a little he received terrorism training there. richard engel joins us from pakistan's capital of islamabad. richard is on the phone. richard, what do we know, what are pakistani officials saying about training he allegedly received? >> they are looking into it right now. pakistani officials are cooperating on this case. they have arrested about a dozen suspects including some of his family members. right now the attention is focusing on business trip to pakistan allegedly to attend a wedding last summer. he stayed about five months of a the wedding. now pakistani officials are trying to figure out what exactly he was doing in this country. pakistani police and intelligence sealed off the home of faisal shahzad's prominent family in peshawar as reporters gathered outside. shahzad visited last summer apparently on a mission to receive military training. that mission, pack taken officials say, began here

nbc's ron allen joins us now from the federal courthouse and, ron, is there any new indication when we in court? >> reporter: not yet, tamron. it could take a while as you were reporting. the federal government is saying he is providing information. he's talking. they don't want to break that momentum. they want to get as much from him as possible as you can imagine. there are numerous questions about who may have helped him, how he planned to carry out the entire plot, and they want to keep the process going. the minute he walks into court there is a lawyer involved. the information flow perhaps shuts down. the whole situation changes. so it may be some -- may be a while before he actually comes into a courtroom. >> and, ron, do we know if investigators are looking at any other locations specifically his home in connecticut? we know they were there yesterday. are they still out looking around his neighborhood? >> reporter: well, they're trying to piece together his life here and in pakistan. things apparently changed dramatically for him about a year or so ago. he left a good job. his

>> and ron allen can tell the story. he told this -- admiral alalen told the story that he believes that needs to happen and that behavior has changed, and he will continue to do that. we have a group set up. we responded much higher to that, so it was not consequential to the response. we have set up a team and are putting together the best satellite imagery, looking at the imagery that is available. we are trying to figure out how many frames per second we are looking at so we can establish the density of its low at any time. it will probably be arranged with some assumptions, but what we believe to be the best government assets. >> [inaudible] >> when we need information from that group, we have asked for it. >> what about the flow rate? >> i think some time next week, as we have said, they are looking at average flow rates. they are looking at total volume of oil spill. the yen will talk about initial estimates were based on satellite photos that are one- dimensional. the video is in many ways 1- dimensional, so the