age 2669 roslindale section of boston. officials say he had been under investigation for weeks by a jttf, a joint terrorism task force. >> the subject had been under 24-hour surveillance. this investigation had been working side by side from minute one with the jttf partners, including the boston police department. >> reporter: officials tell nbc news, they were concerned rahim had become radicalized by isis-inspired social media and was actively considering an attack on police officers in boston within the next few days, in a city still traumatized by the terrorist bombings of the 2013 boston marathon. although they had no warrant for his arrest, they wanted to question him, fearing he was preparing to take action soon. >> obviously there was enough information that we thought it was appropriate to question him about his doings today. >> reporter: his brother, a former boston-area imam said the family is grieving but wrote on facebook that rahim was shot in the back three times while talking to his father on the phone say

police and federal agents searched his roslindale home today. another address in the boston suburbs and in rhode island. officials say they're investigating whether rahim was in touch with others who may have been radicalized by isis inspired propaganda. officials believe they have disrupted a potential terror plot. now they're detaining other people for questioning. them they say rahim was in touch with to see if anyone else was involved with his plot or whether other attacks were planned. >> pete williams in our washington newsroom tonight. thanks. >> we're learning details this evening, about the fbi secretive airborne surveillance program, centered on a fleet of ordinary looking planes with extraordinary capabilities. including the ability to lock on to your cell phone. stephanie gosk has been looking into it. >> fbi investigations often rely on surveillance to find criminals or catch them in the act. but what many may not realize is how often that surveillance comes from the sky. >> an associated press investigation found that the fbi contr

. >> reporter: rahim's widow left the roslindale news conference without saying a word but his aunt suggested rahim was carrying this knife that day because he felt threatened. >> as you all know with the current slaughter of black men going on right now across the nation that's enough to make any and all black men feel threatened. >> reporter: the imam from rahim's mosque was even more blunt. >> i think this young man might have put his head in the jaw of a lion and got it crushed. >> reporter: again, the video still has not been made public. they plan to share the evidence with the media only after rahim's funeral which is set for friday. in boston jim armstrong, cbs news. >>> overseas the cruise ship that capsized is right side up this morning. they uprighted it to recover the bodies of more than 130 have been missing. >>> colorado authorities are trying to determine if they have a serial sniper on their hands. the latest victim 65-year-old william kanol was shot and killed near his home in loveland, colorado. authorities say two earlier shootings are connected. jon jay kobe was shot and k

and killed rahim, 26 years old, who was under 24- hour surveillance by terrorism investigators in roslindale. >>> it could be a wet drive home tonight. showers in the forecast once again. yellow alert day, too. meteorologist howard bernstein standing by with the first look at the forecast. howard? >> hey, mike, so far we're watching the steadier showers off to our south and east. a lot of them are in eastern north carolina, southern southwestern virginia but they're inching toward us and we have the stuff on the eastern shore we're tracking from easton to denton more so toward delaware. locally drizzle, a heavier mist if you will. you see this stuff in prince william, fairfax, over toward montgomery as well and even northwest some light drizzle outside. everything is moving toward the east. we still have the easterly push from the winds. that's a colder, damp wind coming in off the atlantic. off to the south notice richmond seeing the steadier showers and the concern is some of this could inch up toward us for the afternoon commute so that's idea yellow alert. temps are not growing to be mov

police and federal agents searched rahim's roslindale home.nother address in the boston suburbs and in rhode island. officials say they're investigating whether rahim was in touch with others who might have also been radicalized by isis inspired propaganda. >> pete williams, thanks so much for that report. >>> let's go overseas now to growing fears that isis could soon be in control of the largest city in syria. the islamic state is advanced towards aleppo after seizing territory 20 miles away. syrian opposition forces are now hoping reinforcements can turn isis back. the u.s. embassy in syria is also accusing syria's government of launching air strikes near aleppo to help isis. syrian officials deny doing anything to assist the militant group. we have a triangle of warfare over there. iraq's prime minister says air strikes and training iraqi forces will not be enough for the u.s.-led coalition to, in fact defeat isis. this all comes as republican senator and presidential candidate lindsey graham tells our own chuck todd that the u.s. should k

law enforcement sources telling abc news their inn vest gaiting whether rahim, who lived in this roslindale apartment complex in boston, had been inspired by isis throughhe terror network's social media campaign. rahim's brother, a local imam, took to social media, claiming his brother was on his way to work when boston police shot him in the back. the shooting comes months after this lone wolf terror-related attack in new york city. surveillance video capturing this man attacking uniformed police officers with a hatchet before being shot dead by police. and david, tonight, there's been a new arrest in connection with the terror investigate that led authorities right here to rahim. sources are telling us that there are a number of related searches connected to this case happening right now in boston. david? >> tom llamas leading us off from boston tonight. tom, thank you. >>> and authorities investigating whether that suspect was inspired by isis. and there was concern in recent days that key provisions of the patriot act expiring would hamper the hunt for lone wolves across the country. we

today in boston's roslindale section the police officer and fbi agent cub fronted the man and when the man turned around he was brandishing what they describe as a fairly large military style knife. he was told repeatedly to put down the knife and he didn't and, therefore police and the fbi agent felt they had no option but to shoot him down and taken to a hospital and died of his injuries. >> more on this story developing, obviously, right now as well. thank you. the u.s. senate here in washington votes on a bill that would give the national security agency the nastsa some of its powers back. major provisions of the patriot act expired after senator rand paul and others blocked the extension of the law the senate is taking up a house version known as the usa freedom act. republican congressman james sensenbrenner of wisconsin is the chairman of the house judiciary committee and introduced the patriate act after 9/11 attacks and the usa freedom act. thanks very much for joining us. what's going to happen now? >> well the senate is going to have a vote and i hope that they pass the free

he was killed near this cvs pharmacy in boston's roslindale neighborhood and allegedly because of flashing a knife and advancing on counterterrorism officers. officials say they were tracking rahim because they believe he was about to carry out a plan to attack a boston police officer. cnn's alexandra field is in boston and joining me is harry houk, cnn's law enforcement analyst and cnn legal analyst danny cevallos. so walk me through process whereby the authorities released this video to us, the public. >> ashleigh, we've known this video existed for almost a week now and obviously investigators were taking a close look at this. members of the clergy, community leaders had been given an opportunity to see this at the police department headquarters. the family of usaama rahim had also seen it. they asked the district attorney's office to wait to release it to the public until after the funeral. that was held on friday so today we met here at the district attorney's office and the video was played for the media for the first time. in many ways, ashleigh, it was what we expected to see. we h

. >> police shot rahim tuesday during a conversation in boston's roslindale neighborhood.rces tell the "boston globe" the two men wanted to behead a police officer. jeff pegues in washington is talking with his sources. jeff, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, the suspect arrested overnight will be in court at 12:30 pacific time. his name is david wright and u.s. law enforcement sources tell us he and usaama rahim were communicating and discussing potential attacks. sources say rahim, the man shot and killed tuesday, was influenced by isis and planning a knife attack before investigators moved in to question him. late tuesday, police head david wright out of an everett, massachusetts, home. police say his arrest is linked to the terror investigation 14 miles away where investigators say usaama rahim pulled out this knife and waved it at officers. moments later, police fired, shooting and killing him. >> we believed he was a threat. >> reporter: boston police commissioner william evans says the shooting was caught on nearby surveillance cameras. he says the video show

usaama rahim, aged 26 of the roslindale section of boston was shot and killed after police say an officer and an fbi agent approached him at a bus stop and he came at them with this knife. officials say surveillance video not released publicly showed what happened. >> we saw the video. it appears the law enforcement officers were backing away before they exercised deadly force. >> reporter: investigators tell nbc news they believe rahim was preparing to attack police in boston within the next few days. radicalized, they say, by isis-inspired social media. they say he had been under 24 hour a day surveillance for weeks. within hours of the shooting investigators began looking for others they believe may have been in contact with rahim, searching locations in warwick, rhode island boston and nearby everett. >> i saw a line of what looked like swat team members dressed in full cammo gear helmets, shield battering ram and a bunch of machine guns. >>> . >> reporter: officials say expect to see other scenes like this as isis reaches out more with social media and the fbi ramps up surveillance.

>> he lived in roslindale. he attended brookline high school. apparently thanked his guidance counselors after he graduated. ended up coming back here in the last couple years after living in florida and worked at a best buy. his last job was at a cvs pharmacy. took the bus to work everyday. we talked to people who would talk to him on the bus, said he was a nice guy. in fact one woman had showed him a -- one of these jihad executions or tape of one of them that was online and he turned his face from it. didn't want to look at it. so people could not believe -- one woman described him as sweet. so it was very shocking and stunning to these folks when this happened. >> i want to ask you a decision about police showing the video to community and can community leaders. were you surprised at how quickly that occurred? >> no boston police commissioner evans and other leaders want to be transparent about what happened. they wanted these muslim clerics and african-american community leaders to see what happened on that street in that shooting. the poli

police and federal agents search rad hemo's roslindale home another address in the boston suburbs.n touch with others who might have been radicalized by isis-inspired propaganda. >>> a midnight deadline has connecticut democrats scrambling. we were talking about this yesterday, the hartford courant reports the statehouse democratic leaders worried by grim warnings from some of connecticut's biggest corporations worked yesterday on trying to scale back their budget's business tax plan. the current proposal replaces it with higher cigarette taxes. i've heard of this before in connecticut. a 50 cent per pack increase. >> wow. >> okay. this is where everyone goes to the indian reservation, cross state lines to buy their cigarettes. this after a fourth major employer joined three others in complaining about a corporate tax hike in the state's budget plan. ge travelers and boeing voiced opposition to the plan that funds governor dannel malloy's spending increases on transportation. so with the deadline looming, "morning joe" went to the state capital and talked to the lawmakers and hear'