our susan candiotti has been following this story. susan, i understand you have some new information for us. >> we do. just a recap here, 193 passengers, 11 crew members aboard that flight. flight number 30, delta flight, going from jfk to moscow. but it did land safely after -- shortly after takeoff. there was a problem with the left engine according to delta air lines, and now we have this additional information coming to us from the faa spokesperson. her name, holly baker. she tells us that after takeoff that the pilots said there was an automatic shut down of the left engine on the plane which is engine number one. however, she said, there are no reports of any fire involving that engine or on the plane. that's pretty important information to pass on. no report of a fire according to the spokesperson for the faa. the plane did land safely after taking off at about 4:40 p.m. eastern time and then landed at about 6:00 p.m. at jfk. they're trying to determine exactly what the problem was but all the passengers deplaned safely and they

information to you so we want to go to our national correspondent in the new york area and that's cnn's susan candiotti. susan, what flight is it? do we know? is it delta, is it american, what's going on? >> reporter: yeah, don, first of all, the good news is that the plane has landed safely. we just learned that moments ago. now, let's back it up. this was a delta airlines flight that was -- had just taken off from jfk and heading to moscow. there are unconfirmed reports of about 200 people on board that plane. according to an airport source, we are told that there was a possible engine flameout involved, not all of the engines, but one engine on the plane and, apparently, what caused the furor is that people on the ground thought that they saw some flames up in the air on this plane and they called 911. in any case, as a precaution, we are told from our source that the pilot dumped fuel and then the plane turned around and landed safely at jfk. so, it's on the ground, presumably, the passengers will be deplaned, of course, while they try to figure out what went wrong with the engine. don? >> listen,

let's go straight to susan candiotti in new york, who's following this very, very closely. susan, what do you have? >> reporter: well, it's an intriguing revelation now, this additional information coming to cnn from a senior u.s. counterterrorism official, revealing that that package that was discovered at the east midlands airport in the uk about 12 days or so ago in fact would have detonated about six hours after apparently it was discovered. what's important about this is that where it would have been when it did go off. and that, as you know, we still have -- there are a lot of variables involved here. but it is believed it could possibly have exploded when the plane, the cargo plane, the ups plane, was over the eastern seaboard. depending on a lot of different factors. >> sure. >> reporter: we don't know for sure what route it would have taken, the trajectory, whether it would come over halifax, newfoundland, halifax, down cape cod, and down onto where the original cargo plane would have landed. remember, ali, there are so many questions here. the authorities discovere

our susan candiotti reports.rking out just fine for some airports in particular. >> reporter: denver, colorado, international airport screeners. and their counterparts in rochester, new york. they look the same, but in rochester, the people checking you through security work for a private company. it's been in place for eight years. >> i think it's a win-win for an airport operator. >> reporter: out of 450 airports nationwide, 16 applied for and won tsa approval to privatize inspect inspectors. rochester, new york is one of them. stanford airport near orlando has been considering it. but with growing frustration, others may too. proponents say it could improve efficiency and customer service. in rochester where they handle 2.5 million passengers a year, they say it also makes it easier to get rid of problem employees. >> if we get complaints of screeners being rude or maybe screeners just not performing in a professional manner, right away we're able to reach out to that contractor and say listen, this is what we

let's bring in our susan candiotti. so, susan, give me an idea. they are calling this protest, those who are organizing this, the national opt-out day. and i wonder if they're serious about this, or is this really potentially a big old bluff? >>> well, i guess we'll find out soon enough on wednesday. it's hard to tell before then, i think we'd agree. but in a way, it's kind of counterintuitive. protest body scans and pat downs by going out of your way to get a physical inspection. that's what baggers of national opt-out day are calling for. attention holiday fliers, get ready to take off your shoes, unfasten your belts, and for some, embrace for embarrassing pat downs and body scans. >> it's a horrible invasion of privacy. >> reporter: john babs is part of a grassroots movement lighting up the internet, supporting national opt-out day, urging travelers to slow down lines by refusing body scans, forcing screeners to do more time-consuming physical inspections. >> i don't want people to be inconvenienced, but mainly, i don't want them to be irradiat

cnn's national correspondent susan candiotti reports on the fda's new labels that could have smokerssk, meant to be blunt and the fda wants them to make smokers think twice about lighting up. >> this is a truly historic event. >> reporter: cigarette warning labels haven't changed in 25 years. the proposed labels will be hard to miss. >> these are pretty difficult not to pay attention to because it has to cover 50% of the front and back of package. >> reporter: they're required to show up on cartons by 2012. yet another tool including public service announcements to get smokers to kick the habit. >> now there is a hole in my throat. >> reporter: more than 30 countries use far more explicit images. this one from australia. another from thailand. >> they're not meant to offend anybody or to scare anybody off but to inform. >> reporter: we showed the prosed labels to young people belonging to a group promoting good health. how powerful a message do you think this is showing someone with a tracheotomtracheotomy? >> it's powerful but we're bombarded with images that you become numb to them

susan candiotti, cnn, new york. >> as you heard susan report there, the fda wants to hear from you..regulations.gov. type in cigarette warning in the search box then follow the prompt, and you will be able to leave comment. or you can fax your comments to this number 301-827-6870. or you can mail your comments in to the division of dockets management at the food and drug administration, 560 fishers lane, room 1061, rockville, maryland. if you can't get that down quickly enough, we will collect it and put it online for you so you can get to it. put it up on my facebook and twitter sites and make sure you can find that as well. we'll take your comments through tuesday, january 11th, about those warning labels. >>> turning to politics back here in the u.s. now. partnership may be as high as ever, or partisanship, i should say. partnership in d.c.? excuse me for that freudian slip. partisanship might be as high as ever, but the president and republicans seem to agree on one thing. there needs to be some earmark reform in congress. earmarks are spending additions tacked on to bills by me

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let's get right to cnn susan candiotti in new york on the latest bomb plot development. susan, not only does this further confirm what a lot of authorities put out there. not only do we suppose that this would have exploded over the u.s., but this is also furthering the fact that this was a ticking time bomb. we now know when it would have detonated. >> reporter: that's right. and now we're getting more precise information, first of all from a u.s. counterterrorism official telling us -- telling cnn exclusively that this bomb was set to go off roughly six to seven hours or so once that plane took off bound for the united states. and we want to further tell you this. remember we're talking about a printer cartridge in which some 300 grams of petn, an explosive, was found in a package sent from yemen on to the uk and on to the united states. but then we have this statement from scotland yard and they said the activation -- this is a quote. the activation could have occurred over the eastern seaboard of the united states. now, what this means is we're talking about a timelin

cnn's susan candiotti is covering the case of the man known as the merchant of death. susan? some people even say, tony, that a movie that was made starring nicholas cage a few years back was actually built around this man's real life. but his name is victor boot. he's a former russian air force officer, speaks six languages including english, and he was flown by the dea to the united states overnight from thailand, arriving in new york in the dead of night. these photographs provided by the u.s. drug enforcement administration and now he is scheduled to make a court appearance this afternoon. what are the charges against him? well, this is a man who has about a half dozen aliases, and the u.s. government says that starting in 2007 for several months thereafter he met with two confidential sources working for the dea and is alleged to have set up deals to buy a ton of arms and weaponry, including surface-to-air missiles and rocket launchers and 5,000 ak-47s and all kinds of ammo and c-4 explosives. in order to be used, he thought, to be used against the u.s. and u.s. specific

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. >> i want to bring in susan candiotti for developments in this case. time ago. what more can you tell us? >> the hearing didn't last very long and not surprisingly he pleaded not guilty. this is a man supposed to be worth billions and billions of dollars. and so in court today, the most interesting part about this was when the judge was asking about a financial form that asked him whether he had any assets and his written response was, well, not in the u.s. so with that we can tell you that today, yes, the dea and federal prosecutors finally announced the results of the sting that they've been working on for the last couple of years. he's charged with arranging to sell a ton of weapons, a mountain of them, to people secretly helping the dea. we're talking about ak-47s and cargo planes to deliver it all at a cost of $5 million. the arms were supposed to be used to kill americans who were helping the columbia government battle fark. >> they stood to collect millions of dollars on the arms deal and both allegedly jumped at the chance to arm them for the t

our national correspondent susan candiotti has been working the story for us. well, wolf, two unsettling pieces of information are revealed today. first a u.s. counterterrorism official tells cnn that the printer bomb intercepted in the uk stuffed with a powerful explosive petn would have gone off at 6:00 p.m. if it had not been detected. and scotland yard says it would have blown up over the eastern seaboard of the u.s. and the jet that was to carry the bomb took off from london and took off over the atlantic and turning south over upstate new york and continuing up across pennsylvania farm country and on into philadelphia. had the bomb not been found, there could have been casualties in the air and on the ground. had it not been for that crucial intelligence tip passed on from the saudis, officials say that the explosives would not have been found. homeland security chief janet napolitano says that security is constantly tested by al qaeda and others. >> terrorist groups are intent of acting in invasion environment, and on attacking americans and attacking our

brooke, we should be very close because you can compare dental records, and we do know cnn's susan candiottigue, but everybody is waiting here on the island of aruba. right behind me is the public minister's office. that's the prosecutor's office, and they are the ones that actually helped investigators take what is believed to be that jaw bone and that tooth attached to the hague. they're using dna because they have the biological mother and father of natalee holloway and those dental records. but as i talked to the prosecutor's office today through the day, they say that they are calling the hague on a constant basis to see if there are any updates, and the hague is responding to the forensic institute that, no, they are not ready to discuss their findings. >> i imagine here, the parents, you just ultimately want closure, and especially with the mother, beth twitty. i know she went all the way to peru, as have you, to try to get that closure from the suspect here in the disappearance, joran van der sloot. jean, do we know whatever came of that meeting? >> reporter: we know that they met at

susan candiotti is joining us from new york with more on this.rverse and pervasive. that's what fbi investigators are calling a fined tune scam, ripping off holocaust survivors, many poor who depend on it for food and health care. the fraud was allegedly run in new york's brighton beach. >> more than $42 million that was intended for holocaust survivors instead found its way into the pockets of corrupt employees of the claims conference and an elaborate network of fraudsters as the charging documents described. >> almost 60 years ago, the german government set aside 415 million deutschemarks for those who were forced to live in concentration camps. the $42 million alleged ripoff went undetected for about ten years because it was so well organized. >> the reason they were able to pull it off for so long is that it was such a sophisticated group of people, it was many of them and they were organized. so each group within this -- within this gang had specific assignments, some people recruited people to pretend to be survivors, some people created f