on the line with us is the former white house security councilmember, rp eddie is with us. he is a terrorism expert these days. it is nice to talk to you. >> hi, shep, i wish it was better circumstances. >> as well as we all do. i wonder if in the early going you have lots of sources and connections. i wonder if you can alleviate any fears for us. >> well, i wish i could. i think there are a lot of questions unanswered. i guess the best news that we can take at this point is it doesn't appear that it was a very large bomb. while it was semicoordinated it didn't appear to be a very coordinated series of attacks or across many areas. that would lead me to think it was a very small cell. my initial guess and you shouldn't really make these, but based on your question of alleviating fears is it is a local, domestic cell, probably semiamateurish. it is not something that should give us an immense amount of fear at this point. >> and i want to get this in while i can, the boston police department just informed an update the jfk incident and i am talking about the jfk library in d