nbc news has learned via law enforcement sources that the wife of syed farook, tashfeen malik, posted a statement on facebook pledging her support for isis. msnbc's cal perry is here with me now as we get more information. but as i understand it, cal, this message was posted on the day of the attack. >> right. so, as we understand it, very shortly before the attack took place, she takes to facebook, she pledges her support for al baghdadi. he is the leader of the islamic state isis, daish, whatever you want to call it. that happened minutes before the attack. one of the things that's unclear, though, is the name that she used. it's not clear that she used her facebook page, but a different name, which makes it difficult to find out who's following her online. all of this fits with the isis m.o. of getting more people inspired by letting them know about an attack just before it happens. >> you're the technology expert here. we know the importance isis has placed on social media, whether it's facebook, twitter or the dark web, as it's referred to. but if she's placed her statement on an

tashfeen malik is a mystery. pakistani who lived in saudi arabia, came to the united states, married farook, had a child and left an impression on almost no one. >> very conservative. a stay at home mom. she was help raising the children. helping taking care of the mother at the house. they're a very close-knit family. not too many people knew anything about them. >> syed rizwan farook and his family were leading a typical american life. he grew up one of three siblings living through a turbulent marriage of their parents. he finished college, was paid $53,000 a year as a health inspector. the trail to radicalization according to the family and so far any record is simply not there. >> we are also mourning the loss of someone with you knew or thought we knew. so we would really want everybody to give us some time to mourn or, you know, give some time i guess. just like everybody else out there that needs time to mourn. >> and coming up, it's been 95 years since the new york times featured an editorial on its fron

this is the home rented by terror suspect syed farook and his wife, tashfeen malik. less than 48 hours after authorities say that they found thousands of rounds of ammunition and pipe bombs, the to the landlord will allow the media in. >> we have secured a search warrant on that apartment. last night we turned it over back to the residence. we don't control it. >> which of the authorities should have controlled the scene longer? the fbi said that the property was processed thoroughly. we asked this criminal defense attorney to weigh in. >> this is about national security and i cannot believe that the entire investigation is over. it is now that it's been compromised so greatly. >> compromise because he said the scene has now been contaminated. he also said that with an investigation like this you would expect the seem to be searched for weeks and not ours. >> sony made the decision to give the landlord cart wants to do what he wants and i hope we don't pay a price. i hope there wasn't a clue there were some little detail that plot. reporter: he said that something of

. >> tashfeen malik a 27-year-old. tashfeen malik. it is his wife. made her on line. came back from a trip in saudi arabia with him. police saying very little on name and age. we are not going to get anything scheduled at least from police until this morning. you can hear police helicopters still surveying the area. we are not going to get anything till 9:00 a.m. eastern time expect today hear from the chief of police. we will keep you posted. right now we will get back to you in the studio. >> nicole: i've been hearing reports from what they were wearing, roll out pipe bombs and they were prepared for sustain fight with military tactics, rifles, pistols, this was not just somebody who walked out of the water and was upset. these sounded more, what are you hearing? >> absolutely, that's what investigators are telling fox. a couple of miles is where the shootout occurred in the black suv and they found them at nearby redlins. they were investigating to see if there were explosives or not and continue to follow up and look through that home there through any possible le

he went online to meet his wife, tashfeen malik.he moved to saudi arabia and came to the united states just two years ago. the couples in the neighborhood here are shocked. take a listen to what the family's lawyer had to say about why they think this is surprising. >> there's never been any evidence that either of the two alleged shooters were aggress e aggressive, had extremist views. they were totally shocked that this could take place, as shocked as anybody else was. >> reporter: alex, those lawyers also said that syed farook was made fun of by his colleagues at work for his beard. we also learned from the fbi that tashfeen malik pledged allegiance to isis just moments before the attack. they did have a 6-month-old daughter who lived with them here in this home. she's now in protective services. but investigators are asking a lot of new questions this morning. did she in fact radicalize her husband? why did they choose the site of the holiday party? a lot more questions for investigators to look into this morning. >> they sure a

cbs news confirms that shooting suspect tashfeen malik pledged her allegiance to isis on facebook. >> based on the information and the facts as we know them, we are now investigating these horrific acts as an act of terrorism. >> malik and her husband, syed

tashfeen malik was born in pakistan. ashfeen malik came to the u.s.arger terrorist cell. >> reporter: during the briefiryd!.in san bernardino th fbi made an announcement. >> as of today based on the information and the facts as we know them we are now investigating these horrific acts as an act of terrorism. >> the fbi director in washington explained what led them to the terrorism connection. >> the reason is that the investigation so far has developed indication of radicalization by the killers and a potential inspiration by foreign terrorist organizations. uzreporter: while investigators found no direct link to isis, )ñ'nn';there is e tashfeen malik, wife of syed farook posted on facebook, pledged allegiance to isis and its leader. >> we are

that baked the issue whether tashfeen malik radicalized her husband. what do you think?le. it is unusual based upon what we have seen here in america but not impossible. clearly there was a trick to the middle east, matt tashfeen malik, a pakistani, got married, they came back to the u.s. and this event unfold. clearly, what i see if you look at the ammunition, the weapons, the financing of those weapons given the salary they earned, and then you look at the training, i read the magazines for example, semi-automatic weapons or automatic weapons were ditched, military-style training, you expand the magazine's. neil: you think they got the training here? >> i am not sure they got the training here but clearly it was training intended for something other unlawful purposes. neil: a lot has been made about them giving their 6-month-old child to relatives, that they didn't care, they were going to meet their maker is that they. they had every intention of coming back, every intention of seeing through another act and bad luck for them would have it, police cornered them, kille

for the first time at "tashfeen malik", the wife of "syed farook." tonight, we go inside the killer couple's home, as the f-b-i declares it's now taking over this case. ==take sot== "we are now investigating these horrific acts as an act of terrorism." runs=:06 ==jan/take vo== a major revelation by the f-b-i, as we get an unusual look into lives of the husband and wife, who carried-out the mass >>> a major revelation by the fbi as we get an unusual look into the wooif offense this husband and wife who carried out the massacre in san bernardino. a community still reeling tonight. >> friends and family are remembering their loved ones whose lives were cut short. >> there's still so many questions unanswered. first and foremost, the why. the motive. you're looking live at the suspect's apartment in city of redlands. an unusual move. the landlord opened the doors and let the media inside. we have team of reporters working the story. >> reporter: the fbi considering this and investigating all of this, what many people were fearing that it was an act of te

citizen and his wife tashfeen malik, a 27-year-old u.s. permanent resident were not previously known to the fbi. and were not on a list of potentially radicalized people. however, law enforcement officials say that farook was in contact by phone and social media with international terrorism subjects under fbi investigation. the subjects were not considered high priority. investigators are also examining farook's travel to pakistan and saudi arabia. where it is believed that farook met his wife malik during the annual muslim pilgrimage, the hajj. malik, who was born in pakistan, eventually came to the u.s. on a k-1, or fiancee visa before obtaining a greencard. farook's brother-in-law says he is stunned by wednesday's bloodshed. >> i have no idea why would he do that. why would he do something like this? i have absolutely no idea. i am in shock myself. >> reporter: police are now working at the couple's home to determine how they managed to amass an enormous arsenal. two assault rifles and two semiautomatic handguns. more than 6,000 rounds

we do know that tashfeen malik spent some time loving there while she was studying here. professor where she studied pharmacy has told cnn that she appeared like an ordinary girl like any other student. not too religious. she also studied at the institute. i spent some time there today trying to piece together more information about her to try to bring the pieces of this jigsaw puzzle together behind the mystery u of tashfeen malik. when, where and how was she radicalized. i spent to the institute to speak to them. i conducted a telephone interview with a spokesperson who said tashfeen malik was a normal student who was confident, hard working and positive minded. nobody at the institute could have imagined that she could be behind what they termed a horrible attack that is 100% islamic. do they hold any allegiance with isis. they said absolutely not. ist ist is un-islamic and only teach islamic scripture at the institute. they wanted to distance themselves from violence and extremism. so how then did tashfeen malik become so radicalized to become the killer that we know

they have identified the shooter as syed farook and tashfeen malik.me kind of romantic relationship, married or engaged, boyfriend and girlfriend, but initial reports say there were three shooters turned out to be incorrect. just two shooters inside the facility. they say a third person caught running away from the scene of the gun battle was not one of the shooters. >> when the officer involved shooting occurred, the initial officers that we had information from did not see anybody specifically fleeing the vehicle. it was other responding vehicles that saw this person running away from the scene, stopped them and detained him. we initially put out that we had information that there were upwards of three shooters. right now as we continue to drill down our information and the witness statements that we have, it really looks like we have two shooters and we're pretty comfortable that the two shooters that we believe went into the building are the two shooters that are deceased on san bernardino avenue. >> still don't know anything about motive, whether

he found tashfeen malik. they met and became engaged in 2013 when farook made a trip to saudi arabia during the annual muslim pilgrimage known as the hajj. farook returned to saudi arabia in july 2014 to bring her to the u.s., ind earlier this year, the couple had a baby. the court documents reveal other parts of farook's family life were turbulent. in november 2014, farook's father threatened suicide in front of farook and his brother. last february farook's mother took out a restraining order against his father, saying he was bipolar and abusive. all this is now being looked at by the fbi, which seized computers, thumb drives and shipped them to washington for now farook's wife did pass counterterrorism screening as part of her visa application process. but scott, until law enforcement determines the true motive in this attack, whether it's terrorism or workplace violence, it's not clear if warning signs were actually missed. >> jan, thank you. ten victims remain in two hospitals. two of them are in critica

a lot of people are asking how the wife, tashfeen malik, got into this country. she was let in on what's called a fiance visa. used by tens of thousands of people a year. so the question is, does the government need to do a better job vetting these people? >> yes. in reality, dan, it's just going to slow down the volume of people coming to the united states. particularly under these circumstances. so, expect that. expect local authorities to have to produce more documents for the person traveling in this case, maybe saudi arabia. >> this will be a big issue for the federal government processing all of this. we know the couple smashed their mobile phones and hard drives. matt showed us that from inside their home. how difficult will it be for the fbi to retrieve that information? >> it depends on how badly it's damaged and what type of device it is. some of it, i suspect, will be able to be recovered. other parts of it may not. but the combination, they should be able to extract, i would hope, some very valid and reliable information they can use. >> i want to ask

where she once lived, to the college where she earned a pharmacy degree, there is no hint that tashfeen malik would end her life as a gun-wielding terrorist. investigators in pakistan have drawn a blank. interior minister, between her and extremists in pakistan. malik was private and religious. her pakistani identity card has one of her few public photographs. reports say she destroyed other photos that showed her without a veil. at college, she was devoutly muslim but no supporter of islamist violence. >> anyone who knows her can't expect that she can do such a thing. we were like, no, it can't be true. >> reporter: she spent five years at college in pakistan after growing up in saudi arabia. the university spokesman is adamant, malik was not radicalized there. >> radical approach or radical-minded culture. there is nothing like that. >> reporter: tashfeen malik is a complete mystery to intelligence agencies here in pakistan. she wasn't on any government watch list. she'd never done anything wrong, she was from here, but as a terrorist, she sprang from nowhere. her family in pakistan is shoc

card, stephanie, of tashfeen malik, why is that important? >> well, poppy, we're learning a lot more about tashfeen malik and there weren't a lot of images about her once the news broke and we heard the identities of these two shooters, so now we're getting to know more about who she was and knowing she was residing in pakistan and also solidifying her age, according to this document. this is a state obtained government document that she would have here representing she was from pakistan and it shows she was there prior to 2013. it also shows us that she was -- would have been 30 next year, and there's a lot of questions surrounding malik, simply because of the issue farook grew up here, her husband, he worked here, went to college here. this is an environment where he had spent his life. so we know that he was american. the question is, did he get radicalized because of who he married, and there's also this issue of the facebook post that we believe malik posted just before the attacks happened here in san bernardino pledging her support to

the two suspects now dead tashfeen malik. terrorism. though the suspects are dead investigators remain on scene and on alert. it ended much as it began with a barrage of gunfire captured on this cell phone video. >> my house is getting shot at right now. >> reporter: four hours of terror in san bernardino after gunmen stormed an office building killing 14 people. the final confrontation on a neighborhood street lined with houses, a dark suv riddled with bullets. a person with a gun shot down just feet away. another dead inside. >> we are reasonably confident at this point that we had two shooters and we have two dead suspects and as i said they were armed. i do have information on what they were armed with. what was essentially 223 caliber assault rifle. >> reporter: law enforcement tracked down the suspects just two miles from the initial attack at the inland regional center. >> multiple shots that were fired. we're getting a suspect last seen wearing a black ski mask. all black clothing. >> reporter: those working there included the w

. >> the suspects identified as syed farook and his wife tashfeen malik. malik was a county employee. both killed in a wild shoot-out after a high speed chase. a co-worker said he went to saudi arabia earlier this year and returned with a wife. they were reportedly parents of a 6-month-old baby. >> that barrage of gunshots from the final confrontation captured often camera by a man in the neighborhood. investigators had been searching a nearby home linked to the couple but there's no word on what they found. >> we have live team coverage. megan hughes is standing by with reaction from washington but begin with lauren lyster live in san bernardino. good morning, lauren. >> reporter: good morning, reena and kendis. the two suspects now dead identified as fukushisyed faroo tashfeen malik. they are not ruling out terrorism. though the suspects are dead investigators remain on scene and on alert. it ended much as it began with a barrage of gunfire captured on this cell phone video. >> my house is getting shot at right now. >> reporter: four hours of terror in s

, no hemos visto hasta ahora fotografÍa de tashfeen malik, tambiÉn hay un bebÉ, no queremos a suuna burca y bueno pantalones del hombre, tambiÉn hay ropa de niÑo y un par de valijas, unos libros en Árabe y un coran, otro lo menos un libro para estudiar el corÁn. minutos despuÉs de salir de la casa, a pedido de las autoridades, volvieron a cerrar la propiedad, el garage en donde encontraron los explosivos no pudimos entrar, expertos en seguridad estÁn criticando que haya dejado entrar a la prensa, a pesar que el fbi dice que ya se recopilÓ la evidencia. marÍa elena. marÍa elena: muchas gracias, luis es increÍble que pueda esto ocurrir, y sin duda este caso es muy diferente a la mayorÍa de lo que hemos visto, parece estÁ siendo material, lo mÁs preocupante es en el caso de syed farook que no se muestra una pista que esto estÁ ocurriendo, nuestra corresponsal lourdes del dÍa dice lo dificil que es detectar a un enemigo invisible. lourdes: luego que la matanza de san bernardino se investiga como un acto terrorista, las autoridades han comenzado a dar informaciÓn mÁs especÍfica. nada

two suspects dead, 28-year-old syed farook and 27-year-old tashfeen malik. it all began when authorities spotted the suv and the chase was on. witnesses say the suspects exchanged gunfire with police before suddenly crashing on san bernardino avenue the neighborhood erupting in a barrage of bullets. >> oh, my gosh. >> dozens of police cars and all these men with guns were rning behind me with guns drawn and i'm just in the middle of it. >> we were watchining tv and all of a sudden we hear gunfire left and right. gunfire started to slow down, an officer came and said to get out of our house. there's a bomb in the front of our house. >> reporter: authorities feared theuspects threw potential exploses from the car which they believe may have been booby-trapped as the bomb squad specd them other officers were on the hunt for a potential third suspect who may have fled the scene. residents helping to spot a suspicious man taken in for questioning. as the investigation continues into the night, residents are counting their blsings, witnesses say there were bullet

tashfeen malik and her husband carried out a deadly attack. a report now from martha raddatz. >> reporter: isis recruiting videos actively target young women. enticing them to join the terrorist group as brides. this year, three young british schoolgirls secretly rn away from home to join isis in syria. caught on security cameras in an istanbul bus station. as they traveled a well-worn path for many foreign fighters which we recently retraced. this is the exact route the girls would haha taken. they would have gotten off the metro, come right in here to the station. according to a recent study, in the last 21 m mths, at least 71 people here in the u.s. have activities. ten of them women. one from philadelphia arrested this spring, allegedly telling an isis fighghr she met online that becoming a martyr would be amazing. a girl can only wish. some have been mothers, like tashfeen malik, who left behind a 6-month-old baby. there are people that would look at their mission to carry out a terror attack as much more important than being a parent? >>

tashfeen malik attended college in pakistan and followed a militant form of islam. her family in pakistan says that after malik arrived in the u.s., she began posting extremist messages on facebook and communicating with someone on the internet in arabic. the family doesn't know what was said, because they don't speak arabic. a former co-worker of syed farook says he was a confident guy who talked a lot about religion. listen. >> he didn't want to be in the united states. he told me him paying taxes was helping the united states support basically the war on islam, the war on muslims. >> reporter: "the kelly file" has visited the southern california mosque attended by syed farook. it's also where his wedding celebration took place and where he abruptly left for unknown reasons. listen to a member of the mosque whose wife was shot in the attacks. >> for good reason, like someone had job change and moving out of town maybe. but if someone lives nearby area, i think maybe a good indication to look into it. >> reporter: in 2014, syed farook's co-workers at the county hea

. >>> we are getting our first look at tashfeen malik. the fbi says this woman, who was also a wife and mother was one of the shooters in the san bernardino massacre. we are taking a look at her tie to terror. isis responding to the attack in california calling the shooters, supporters, not members of its terrorist operation and saying, it is praying to god that they are accepted as martyrs. >> we are strong and resilient and we will not be terrorized. >> is america safe? the president says we are with terrorists striking on our soil, though, have we underestimated isis' reach all along? >>. >> we are always grateful for your company. thank you for sharing time with us. i'm christi paul. >> reporter: i'm victor black well. live here in san bernardino, california. we are starting our coverage of the massacre here and now this terror investigation must begin with a new development. we now know that ups package addressed to the two california shooters contained clothes. if you missed it, overnight, a ups facility was evacuated after a driver

first, there were complaints about the pictures being shown of tashfeen malik.er family described her as a devout muslim, so when the media started run thing picture of tashfeen malik with her face uncovered, a producer for al jazeera america criticized the choice, saying people were being disrespectful. he was forced to apologize. but over at msnbc, melissa harris perry attacked "the new york times" for using her uncovered photo alongside images of the koran, saying it amounted to an indictment of muslim culture as a whole. >> right next to it, in a hijab. the idea that this is what terrorism looks like. [ sighs ] >> howard kurtz joins me. this is what the face of terrorism looks like. >> let me say this to melissa harris perry, this is what the face of terrorism looks like. this is a woman who abandoned her baby and slaughtered 14 innocent people. as far as picking the photos, it's not like the media had a wide selection. >> even if we have a wide array, nor should we stick to what the al jazeera america producer finds respectful when showing a terrorist murde

they are identified as 28-year-old syed farouk en twenty-seventh-year-old tashfeen malik. she is his wife. the tories are trying to determine a motive for the that is the big question and it could potentially include workplace violence or terrorism. it is the deadliest mass shooting in the u.s. since the sandy hook elementary school shooting in 2012. ben: business watch target will pay a bank $39.4 million to settle claims stemming from the mass data breach a couple years ago. several banks, credit unions sued saying target should be responsible for the cost of reimbursing customerss and reissuing new credit and debit cards after the 2013, target has set 40 million credit cards were compromised and as many as 110 million people had some form of personal information stolen. juliet: new jersey transit trains free in exchange for a new rules as security. they will act as extra eyes and ears watching for any suspicious behavior. some management employees receive security training from the new jersey transit police. officials say that everything was going on since before the in

the other shooter was his wife 27-year-old tashfeen malik. they were killed in a shoot-out with police about four hours after the attack and leave behind a 6-month-old daughter. police say they were the only shooters and haven't determined a motive yet. >>> another double shooting is caught on cell phone video in san francisco. and isis releases a video of an alleged execution. those are some of the headlines on the morning newsstand. u.s. news world report claims that isis claimed to have executed a russian man. the terror group released a video on wednesday showing the apparent death. isis says in the video that the man joined the group was actually a spy. russia recently increased air strikes against isis in syria. >>> "the san francisco chronicle" reports on the deadly police shooting of a stabbing captured on video. >> oh, my god! >> reporter: the police chief says the man had a knife in his hand as he approached officers, but critics say the man was not a direct threat and did not have to be shot. >>> "the washington post" reports on a

was the married arranged specifically so tashfeen malik could get a k-1 visa? investigators want to know what role marques played. so far he has not been charged. back you. juliet: thank you. a girl severely burned in a fire. the 8-year-old wanted enough christmas cards to fill her card treat after her and posted a photo on facebook, she has gotten word than enough from all over the world. two years ago, she lost her entire family after an arsonist set fire to her home. fox means business. overstock.com stopped selling the most popular holiday gift or what some would say the most popular holiday gift, hoverboards. juliet: adam shapiro has the story. >> overboard is the generic name. we talked earlier this week. they discovered that the plugs on 88%, i want to repeat the number, 88% were faulty and could lead to potential fires or explosions. another captured on video. there have been different experiences like this. overstock.com. here is what they said about it. customer safety is always our top priority. he went on to say that we will continue to take every m

both tashfeen malik and syed rizwan farook were killed by police after murdering 14 people.oke with farook's sister and brother-in-law saying there were no indications of extremist islamic ideology. >> that's shocking. >> it is shocking why would she do that? >> she never mentioned anything like that. >> they were great parents. >> always happy with each other. >> they spent a lot of time with her, they kept to themselves a lot, they were a good couple. >> "action news" has learned that one of the victims of the mass shooting was a pennsylvania native, 46-year-old hear bowman grew up in york county. the father of two daughters and worked in california for 15 years and a co-worker of farook's at the san bernadino health department. bowman a devout roman catholic frequently taught religious classes. you can find more at 6abc.com, we'll be posting updates thoughts the weekend. >>> a math teacher in bucks county is facing child sex abuse charges. authorities say joseph becker had an inappropriate relationship with a 14-year-old students. he is a teacher at north penn middle scho

we learned the 27-year-old, tashfeen malik, used an alias in the facebook posting and then deleted thosesages before the attacks. this is the most significant piece of information linking the shootings that left 14 dead to a terror motive. malik was a pakistani native who came to this country last year on a fiance visa before they married syed farook. we will have updates inside our nbc washington app and later today on news 4. >>> as we process the shootings in san bernardino and all the recent mass shootings in this country, many of us are talking about that with our children. one child psychologist told us it's important to have a consistent message. >> it's a balancing act of reality but not generalizing it and to be overly cautious. >> dr. saunders says you can say mass shootings are rare. you can also reassure kids that you are keeping them safe. it's okay to be aware, though, of your own feelings, too. >>> some call it festive, others are offended. check out this big board for a gun range in charlotte, north carolina. the ad for blackstone shooting sports has santa staring down an

we're seeing the picture of tashfeen malik.res i'm told by a law enforcement source that confirms this is her that's in the databases at dhs because as you know, she came here on a fiancee visa, wolf. she was living in saudi arabia, a pakistan, born in pakistan and moved to saudi arabia and came here believed in 2014 where she was -- came here with her husband on this fiancee visa and later obtained a green card and become a lawful permanent resident. i'm told this is not the picture she would have taken in the consulate but taken through this process of her becoming a lawful permanent resident. right now i can tell you, wolf, the fbi is trying to dig up anything they can on tashfeen malik. all we know right now publicly is she apparently posted on facebook right before the attack pledging allegiance to the isis leader al baghdadi. the fbi has agents over in pakistan trying to learn more about this woman because so far there has been very little. she wasn't on the fbi's radar and the relatives of her husband didn't know much ab

to hear her classmate tell it, tashfeen malik was a a normal college-aged woman. k was funny, jolly with a loud laugh. malik wasn't very religious at the university in pakistan where she studied pharmacy. and she liked gossip, liked to point out the boys she thought were cute. one expert says that doesn't mean she wouldn't have been radical r or angry toward the west. he points to one example of a well-known terrorist who lived a double life. >> we had the case of the 9/11 hijacker who had a girlfriend, liked his work, not religious, but at the same time, he thought i would do this great act of violence, i will go into. heaven as a result. >> intelligence sources tell cnn tashfeen malik's extended family has wealthy landowners, but her immediate family is middle class. that's the kind of woman that enrolls at the chain of religious institutes in pakistan. teachers tell cnn malik was enrolled in pakistan in 2013 and 2014, but didn't get a diploma. could ve have been radicalized there? they promote the cloaking of women and a narrow conservative following of islam. >

he found tashfeen malik. they met and became engaged in 2013 when farook made a trip to saudi arabia during the annual muslim pilgrimage known as the hajjjj farook returned to saudi arabia in july 2014 to bring her to the u.s., and earlier this year, the cole had a baby. the court documents reveal other parts of farook's family life were turbulent. in november 2014, farook's father threatened suicide in front of farook and his brother. last february farook's mother against his father,r,aying he was bipolar and abusive. all this is now being looked at by the f.b.i., which seized computers,humb divers and other electronic devices and shipped them to whington for analysis. now farook's wife did pass counter-terrorism screening as part of her visa application process, but until law enforcement determines the true motive in this attacm, whether it's terrorism or workplace violence, it's not clear if warning signs were actually missed. >> pelley: jan, thank you. farook's wife came into the united states on a visa s

officials close to the investigation are telling cnn the female attacker, tashfeen malik, pledged allegiance to isis on facebook while the massacre was unfolding. i want to bring in cia operations manager mike baker. good to see you. >> thank you. >> we have not yet heard if malik's social media accounts were being monitored before the attack. how does the cia and fbi decide whose internet activity they should track, keep a close watch of? >> it's a difficult process as you might imagine. there are upwards of 900 plus active investigations going on around the country right now. in terms of the social media, part of it, do they meet a certain threshold? are they in contact with known supporters or terrorist suspects overseas? is there indications of radicalization that meet a certain threshold? if that's the case, they go through a process to get approval to do this. it is an incredible heavy lift when you think about the potential pool. terms of sharing, identifying, starting to monitor and do the surveillance and coordinating that with not just the u.s., local and state authorities, but the

the 28-year-old syed farook and 27-year-old tashfeen malik both now dead. you can see their wrecked s.u.v. riddled with hundreds of bullets farook was an employee of the inland regional center a health department specialist and tanned the holiday party where the attack occurred. he left in an angry state and returned with tashfeen malik wearing tactical gear and with assault rifles and explosives and handguns. >> heartbreaking to see another mass shooting in this great country, if my beautiful state, innocent people and children it has been like a war done and it is not enough to keep lamenting needs things, we have to take action. >> farook's brother-in-law has no idea why he would do this and is shocked. he is called quiet and live the american dream, the deadliest mass shooting since sandy hook. terrorism is not being ruled out at this point. >> just released cell phone video shows the horrify moments faced by employees in the colleague until center. workers are evacuated from the building walking down the hallways with their hands in the air as officers

they have been named at 28 years safil and 27 tashfeen malik-- syed farook and tashfeen malik. >> reporter: a pivotal moment of a mass killing in san bernardino. a bullet riddled vehicle and two suspects shot dead inside. >>> the suspects were dead at the scene, one a male and female. they were dressed in assault-style clothing. they are both armed with assault rifles. they're both armed with handguns. >> reporter: a third person was detained running from the scene but police aren't sure if he was involved. several hours earlier shooters burst into a luncheon of the employees of a local health department. they opened fire killing 14 people, 17 were wound elide, some critically. david johnson was walking nearby when the shooting started. >>> that was going on for, like, a couple of minutes. it was like bang, bang, bang for a while. it wasn't continuous shooting. that's another thing. this got to, it wasn't just one sound. it was like be that as it may be that as it may and then-- bam bam and a different pitch >> reporter: none of the disabled clients or the staff at the center were shot. me