the fbi says it's probing the killing of four u.s. marines in that chattanooga, tennessee, attack as an act of terrorism. new information emerges about the shooter. >> it was clear that this gunman had every intent to encounter and to murder police officers if he needed to. >> officials are searching his computers right now. they're digging into his background. did he act alone? inspired by isis? the head of the u.s. homeland security committee said he thinks the shooter was motivated to kill by one of the world's most feared terror groups. was he radicalized online or overseas? missed signals. investigators are now looking closely at online postings and the gunman's trips to the middle east to see if there might have been clues to his plan. could a recent dui arrest have been part of the motive? i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." >>> we're following the breaking news. the fbi now says it's investigated the deadly attacks on two u.s. military centers in chattanooga as an act of terrorism. you can hear some of the gun sh

again, the president in with the fbi director right now. further, from the chattanooga times free press, the newspaper that has owned this story from the very beginning, we received this just a moment ago. a woman who attended red bank high school a local high school there in the area with abdulazeez and he went to high school in the area. and this woman attended school with him. she said he was a quiet kid and well liked. i'm quoting now. he was a friendly funny -- he was friendly funny kind. said kagan wagner to the newspaper. quoting i never would have thought it would -- it would be him. that's a quote. i never would have thought it would have been him. she added that the family seemed normal. quoting again, they were your average chattanooga family. unquote. that of this man now identified by authorities to us as muhammad youssef abdulazeez born in kuwait in 1990. clearly, a high school student in chattanooga. and now dead. not far from this incredible and horrific shooting scene where four united states military personnel have been kil

the fbi suggesting he was not. who had some sort of grudge, or was this in fact an act of domestic terrorism? the investigation here, as you can imagine is in its infancy. a lot of pieces of string to pull on here, to try to first of all unravel who this person was though a good chance the authorities already know who he was. what was his motive be in learn about all we're going to learn from the federal and local authorities but there will be another press conference at 10:00 tonight at the a police facility a few blocks from here. so we'll stay on top of this and bring you everything we can find as soon as we find out. >> thank you, john. what are the authorities doing to determine what this person did what he did? on the phone, rod wheeler former d.c. homicide detective. what are the authorities doing right no-no determine motive. >> exactly what is happening right now. this is a multifaceted investigation. that means you have not only the federal authorities such as the fbi and the atf but you also have the tenn

first, on behalf of the fbi and director of the fbi and all of the men and women who serve in the fbi and our law enforcement officers i want to extend our deepest sympathy to not only the marine corps but to the loved ones. it's difficult to find the words to express how sorry we are at your loss. now i'd like to provide you with a quick update since our last press conference late yesterday evening. this matter continues to be investigated as an act of terrorism by the fbi's knoxville joint terrorism task force along with the chattanooga police department and our other federal, state and local partners. because the investigation is still in its early stages it would be premature to speculate on exactly why the shooter did what he did. however, we are conducting a thorough investigation to determine whether this person acted alone, was inspired or directed and will exhaust all efforts in determining why or how this terrible act happened. because this is an ongoing investigation, we are somewhat limited in what we can discuss but i can tell you that as i speak right now, personnel from

and this brought then a great cultural change in the fbi. you not only have special agents, the people who carry guns and badges and handcuffs but a bunch of smart people coming into the fbi who had degrees in foreign area studies and who were linguists, specialized in international relations. and they had to be given a status equal to and comparable to the special agents themselves. and this required a great deal of cultural change and understanding on the part of the people who had traditionally been special agents of the fbi. so our commission looked at what was happening in terms of all of this. how this was going. and our overall finding was that the bureau had made great progress. they got off to a very good start. they made some extensive progress, but that a lot still had to be done and particularly, something that the congressman mccaul mentioned, was we had to increase the pace, the speed with which they were gearing up and expanding their activities to keep pace with the accelerating threats we face throughout the world, many of wh

there's the collateral fbi investigation into forensics. find on social media, what's in his or her computer what's at the residence where they were before this happened. who they were dealing with who they were talking to. all of that and more has to be brought together and pieced together like a puzzle to try to determine why this happened. >> paul crookshank you're our cnn terrorism analyst. the shooter in this particular case is dead. we don't know whether he killed himself or whether he was shot by law enforcement. a lot of reports out there. mohammod youssuf abdulazeez born in 1990. what are you learning about him? >> i think we have to be very very careful about ascribing motive at this point. clearly there's a particular threat environment. isis called for a surge in terrorism during ramadan. today is the last day of ramadan. >> ramadan, the muslim holy month. >> the muslim holy month that ends at sunset tonight. so there's been a lot of concern that that could be isis-inspired plots in the united states concern around the july 4 hol

he was actually providing information to the fbi. his story is told in the new book "how to catch a russians spy." >> we did everything in plain sight. it was not meeting in safe houses. it was not meeting insecure conference rooms. it was restaurants and hotels and park benches. you learn the tricks. you have a conversation without looking like it is serious when somebody walks by. new york became a playground you could have sensitive meetings anywhere. my name i was a double agent working for the fbi for three years. it started in the late 1980's. my parents ran a business. a russian man came to their office wanting to buy books. shortly after he left, two more men came in. this time it was counterintelligence and they said he was soviet intelligence. for two decades, my parents and the russians and the fbi had this weird nexis where the russians would place orders and my parents would sell them books and give the list to the fbi. in 2005, i came back to the company to try my hand at running it and i approached the fbi. how can we d

the fbi said they don't have a motive. o international terrorism or domestic terrorism. they said that the suspect acted alone and that isis has been encouraging people online, those lone wolf attacks during the month of ramadan. maybe that helped influence this suspect. here is the timeline from yesterday. it happened at 10:ha in the morning right here at this military recruiting office. the gunman drove up in a ford gray mustang. he did not get out of the car. he just started firing dozens of rounds into the facility behind me. people inside hit the floor. they started to barricade themselves to get to safety. they say he kept firing shots. a total of about 30 to 50 shots. thankfully no one was injured here at this office but then the suspect drove away, about 15 minutes down the road to the navy and marine corps reserve center. the entrances were not manned. he did get out of car. inside of the reserve center according to fbi and this is where he shoots the four ma reasons dead. this is what the witnesses had to say. >>

the fbi admits the charleston church shooter should not have been allowed to buy a gun. tonight, details how the feds bungled his background check. does this happen a lot? >>> isis recruits. has the terror group lured commercial pilots into its ranks? we're learning about a terrifying scenario that may be unfolding right now. >>> massive security breach. a high-level resignation after a cyber attack on government computers exposing personal information of more than 20 million americans, from social security numbers to details about their sex lives. >>> gruesome mystery. who this is little girl? and how did she die? john walsh of cnn's "the hunt" joins us to talk about this unsolved case and his mission to track down killers. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off. i'm brianna keilar. you're in "the situation room." >>> a bombshell admission by the fbi that the slaughter inside a charleston church might have been prevented, should have been prevented. the fbi director now revealing that his agency botched dylann roof'

the fbi uncovered evidence of a terrible crime by some individuals using the cover of a st. louis grocery store. but it took a forensic autopsy and a tape to reveal the entire story. ♪ >>> 16-year-old tina isa was the kind of daughter most parents dream of. she was a high school athlete, popular, a straight a student and wanted to attend college and become an airline pilot. >> tina wanted to be american. tina wanted to be independent. she wanted to have a career. she wanted to travel. she wanted to be her own person. >> her mother and father, zein and maria isa, were immigrants from palestine and ran a small grocery store in downtown st. louis. >> like most immigrants, the palestinians went into the food business. that's a tradition in america. food service is one of the easiest types of business to operate. what was especially appealing to the isas and their relatives is it was another way to rip off america. they could avoid paying taxes. they would play little games with food stamp fraud, grocery coupons. i mean, zein even said he loved america because there were so many

next, the fbi analyzed the ransom notes.e typed with a computer word processer program, and all were printed with the same font. on one note the word "exactly" was misspelled. investigators got their first real break in the case from a police officer who was walking in the shopping center near harry weiner's bank. he noticed a sign in a bookstore window listing the sunday newspapers the store carried. in particular he noticed the unusual border. >> it was a five-pointed star with a greater than and less than sign shown consecutively. and corporal ayman ruminated about it and said, i know i've seen it somewhere. >> the policeman immediately recognized it as the same symbol that was on the first ransom note. the owner of the store, david kopenheffer, said he made the sign with his computer and the border was one he mimicked after seeing it on other signs. kopenheffer was a friend of the weiner family, and denied having anything to do with sally's murder. >> they knew each other quite well. both families were members of the pre

i have behind me individuals from the fbi the atf chattanooga police department, every single resource that we can summon. this is as i said, a nightmare for the city of chattanooga. one that to which we will respond. with that, i will give -- >> the shooter or -- >> that's a fifth person. chief. >> thank you, will mayor. >> the mayor shares all the details we are prepares to share right now. our primary concern was the welfare of our community checking on our officers, and making sure that we coordinated with our partners from the county the state and federal government. what we do know is that somebody brutally and brazenly attacked members of our armed services and the officers of the chattanooga police department, and we responded immediately. and they were able to make sure that no further loss of life happened. i am extremely proud of them to make sure we responded in a timely manner. thank you. >> united states attorney for the eastern district of tennessee. this is a sad day for the united states. these service members served their country with pride and they have been the vict

i know this coming from the fbi. ey are very cautious in how they approach their introduction to religion religion institutions and other inls constitution because of the criticisms of overreaching. >> knowing what isis has called for, lone wolf attacks against american military and then you find out the guy's name is muhammad youssef abdulazeez. is it not natural to say, wait a minute. was this guy inspired by isis? or is that profiling in a negative way? is that somehow islamic phobic? >> i think we have to ask this question. let's say he had not committed this act and he is -- >> fair enough. >> but it would be a good starting point. yes or no. >> years ago, when you would stop a car. you would get a feeling as a detective or a cop you would stop aer california you reached under the seat. you come up with it. i saw the handle there. >> what is that? >> that means that under the law, that would not be a legal search. it would get thrown out. my point is we're at war. look what this guy looks like. he looks like the

first on behalf of the fbi the director of the fbi and all the men and women who serve in the fbi, and our law enforcement partners i too wand to extend our deepest sympathies to not only the united states marine corps but the families who lost their loved ones in yesterday's horrific shootings. it is difficult to express just how sorry we are at your loss. now i'd like to provide you with a quick update since our last press conference late yesterday evening. this matter continues to be investigated as an act of terrorism. you about the fbi's knoxville joint terrorism task force along with the chattanooga police department and our other federal, state and local partners. because the investigation is still in its early stages, it would be premature to speculate on exactly why the shooter did what he did. however, we are conducting a thorough investigation to determine whether this person acted alone. was inspired or directed and will exhaust all efforts in determining how and why this honorable act happened. because this is an ongoing investigation we are somewhat limited in what we can

that specific info didn't get to the fbi. they knew something was you said they should have closed the loop on it, they didn't. >> generally speak, how did this happen? >> the way in which it happened and i support criminal background checks. the way in which this happened one city was in two cowards, so you had a situation when the fbi accessed the data. it was a mistake. but clearly we need to put more resources into the fbi, so that they can update this system and make sure that glitches like this in the future do not create this kind of heartbreaking result. >> should expect there's more than one city in the county? there was west columbia but the actual information said it's columbia -- our columbia police department has the information on this guy. there was only a number for west columbia. the examiner called west columbia. this is a state capital, not some obscure city in south carolina. is it a matter of that examiner being overwlaumd? they're getting a lot of requests? what do you think? >> i think she worked on abou

we're told the fbi now considers this to be a terrorism investigation. four u.s. marines were killed in attacks on two u.s. navy recruitment centers in tennessee. the gunman also is dead. the fbi says he's been identified as mohammod youssuf abdulazeez. president obama says the u.s. military is being vigilant about security at all its defense facilities as the investigation unfolds. also breaking we're standing by for a verdict this hour in one of the nation's most horrific mass shootings. james holmes is about to learn his fate three years after he admittedly opened fire inside a colorado movie theater during a midnight film killing a dozen people. holmes has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. we have our analysts our correspondents and news makers they're all standing by to cover these breaking stories. but first let's go to chattanooga, victor blackwell is on the scene for us with the very latest. victor. >> reporter: wolf the fbi evidence response team has just pulled in attempting to find out exactly why the man who's accused of pulling off this two-sce

so the fbi, he hasn't even been on their radar up until now. , back to you. >> i want to ask you real quickly, what do you know about the new york time report about the father and he could have been on a watch list a number of years ago? everything that we read, every person that came into contact with abdulazeez says he was very religious and would fast and argue with his wrestling coach, et cetera. then this unconfirmed reports about the blog that might have indicated that he has some radical islamic at least thoughts or belief systems. what do we know about the father? >> reporter: that's certainly a valid point that you have. we are still looking into his father. there are a lot of circumstances. it is not clear if he was motivated himself or his father had somewhat of an influence. we do have another crew that is in the hickson area right now. we're trying to reach out to neighbors, family members and we are working to get you more details maybe to confirm that family association, if there is any other motivation behind the shooting. >> all

as you heard, the fbi in the press conference said there will be hundreds of fbi agents, and that's a little unusual but i'm glad to hear it. they will be turning over every single rock, visiting the home and all of his friends and all of his relatives. the forensic people will start taking part his computers. let's face it, he's a college graduate. and he has had computers and systems, and they will take apart his phone and they will turn over every rock to find out if there's anything in there that ties him either with somebody else that could be involved in the next incident or if the whole event were triggered by some tweet, by some information by some text from somebody other than we would want that to be. >> gotcha, so bill, reading about the lone wolf attacks one of the report's conclusions is that there's a trend in this country right now away from groups committing violent attacks, to individuals committing these kinds of attacks. would you agree with that assessment, and how much more difficult is it for law enforcement to counter the lone wolf attack? >> tony, i do agree wi

first on behalf of the fbi the director of the fbi and all the men and women who serve in the fbi, and our law enforcement partners i too want to extend our deepest sympathies to not only the united states marine corps and the family of those who lost their loved ones in yesterday's horrific shootings. it's difficult to find the words to express how sorry we are at your loss. now i'd like to provide you with a quick update since our last press conference late yesterday evening. this matter continues to be investigated as an act of terrorism by the fbi's knoxville joint terrorism task force along with the chattanooga police department, and our other federal, state and local partners. because the investigation is still in its early stages, it would be premature to speculate on exactly why the shooter did what he did. however, we are conducting a thorough investigation to determine whether this person acted alone. was inspired or directed, and we'll exhaust all efforts in determining how and why this horrible act happened. because this is an ongoing investigation, we are somewhat limited

fbi's largest field office. he's also a former assistant director of the inspection division of the fbi in washington d.c. , good to have you with us. the threads that are coming out of this right now. it is interesting that we know this young man was -- born in kuwait, that his name almost immediately. we know there have been arrests, two family members taken from his home. two females in handcuffs by authorities. and now this. we're finding out that he somehow was in access, apparently working in some form for a period of a week and a half at a nuclear power plant in ohio. how long would you say based on your experience will it be before we have a far better picture of who this muhammad youssef abdulazeez really was? >> well, i can't put a specific timetable to it, but i can assure you that hundreds of investigators both from the federal government and local police departments plus our intelligence assets are working day and night to make sure that this bolt of cloth that's starting to unravel comes unraveled. i don't think there's any doubt, you know? you talk about the doc. i guarantee we've got a terr

>> reporter: the fbi is under tremendous pressure with terrorism investigations in all 50 states. involves hundreds of suspected radicals. many thought to be isis sympathizers. just one week before the chattanooga terror attack, the fbi director was sounding the alarm before congress.

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the fbi is in there. they along with atf and any other federal agencies they'll take the lead because it was a crime on a government reservation, because it was a crime against u.s. military personnel. so they'll have the lead. but by and large, should there have been a prosecution, it likely would have been at the local level first. you know and to say this guy has acted alone, this shooter has acted alone, i think right now all we know is that there was no second person in this so described mustang convertible with the top down. as jim says, the fbi tells us there were multiple weapons that this individual had. so there's a lot of investigation still open. >> clint, how much harder is it to figure out the motive here? the gunman is dead. they say that they do have access to his car. at this point, is it more difficult if the shooter is not alive? >> well, yes and no. i mean he's not -- he's -- in a position obviously that we can't question him. but what's more i guess important at this point for the inve

did the fbi manage to turn him into an informant? s been his role in recent terror attacks around the world? one thing is clear, he turned on the country of his birth and called for jihad against his fellow americans. in the end, it was the joint cia military operation that caught up with him. >> for fox news reporting,orrow -- tomorrow national ice cream day. >> bye, everybody. >>> security beefed up across the nation. after a deadly attack in the heartland rattles the nation. this lone wolf not only delivering a terrible emotional cost to the victims' families and their community. someone here says these hits could have a widespread impact on our economy. hi everyone. this is "bulls & bears." and the "bulls & bears" this week gary b. smith, jonas max faris, john mayfield with lisa booth and chuck rocha. we see lone wolves across the country. you say that could have a huge economic impact on the

the fbi, they state they are tracking hundreds of individuals. it is clear that we have a very serious problem. at the outset, i just want to describe quickly what it is we do, what the criteria are that we look at when, is it a terror plot. it has to be a concrete plot with actual action taken. if someone wants to travel abroad support isis, we do not consider that a terrorist plots against the u.s. homeland. a terrorist act is defined by statute and would be motivated by an islamic ideology. generally, we also look for an official statement by the government and law enforcement to indicate that this was an act of terror, usually indicated by criminal charges. that is not always the case. take the fort hood shooting. that was characterized as workplace violence, not an act of terror. with these criteria in mind, we have been watching and recorded 72 islamist terror plots since 9/11, not including chattanooga since we are still watching for some of those criteria. of these plots, five were successful. u.s. law enforcement help foiled 59 and intern

the fbi has been outstanding. the fbi will lay out the details. i want to thank them and i know the community will come around the families the community will de erg they con to ensure -- will do everything they can to make sure lea enforcement has what they can, so they can investigate why this person did this terrible thing. i turp it over to the -- turn it over to the mayor. >> thank you senator. this has been a long day for our city. hopefully soon i'll put my head for a little while. and i'll say a couple of things i'll thing about as a drift off for a few minutes. i want to think about this afternoon, when i came back to the police service center with chief fletcher and walked up to see a woman at the scene, telling the chief about the heroic deeds that one of her fellow officers did to help her and save another fore. i'm going to think about another officer at the scene, who engaged the criminal telling us about how the training that he had received helped make sure that the actions didn't have greater effect. i'll think about another offic

the fbi says if the examiner had known that under fbi rules, the gun sale would not have been allowed because the fbi would consider that to be evidence under federal law that you were unlawful user of a drug. but that was never in the system. and for that reason the gun sale was allowed to go ahead. so he says fbi director comey says fbi officials in south carolina are now meeting with members of the victims' families from the church shooting to explain this to them. he says that it is a heart sick thing for him, a gut wrenching thing, very painful for the fbi to have discovered and he says he discovered this just last night. now, you know this issue of whether dylann roof should legally have been allowed to buy the gun has been something that's been examined in detail for weeks now. and it was just last night, comey says that he was inform of this series of problems that the gun sale should not have gone through. >> all right, pete williams with that breaking news at the fbi disclosing the gun sold to dylann roof was sold illegally. pete williams thank you for that. >>> this breakin

. >>> also, the stunning admission from the fbi. the accused charleston killer should not have been allowed to buy the gun used in the attack. but a series of shocking errors failed to stop him. >>> judgment day for a cancer doctor who poisoned hundreds of patients, giving a false diagnosis and chemo treatments they didn't need for diseases they didn't have. >>> a legendary movie star is gone. from dr. zhivago to lawrence of arabia, we remember the great omar sharif. >>> and making history in the canyon of heroes. why today's big celebration was unlike anything we've ever seen before. "nightly news" begins right now. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening. today in the shadow of the south carolina state house it took an honor guard just 36 seconds to lower a symbol that has divided this nation for a century and a half. the applause was thunderous and sustained. look at the crowd. after 54 years the confederate battle flag was brought down from the site

of terrorist groups and this is exactly the kind of suspect that has worried fbi officials for very long. >> there are a lot of reports out there including the "wall street journal" evan as you know, the "new york times" saying last year he spent seven months in jordan, what do we know about that? >> the jordanian government has not yet confirmed he spent -- how much time he spent there they said he made several trips to jordan in the last few years and i believe one of those tripped ended last year. so it's not clear the timeline of that. that's something authorities are trying to put together wolf. >> victor is there any indication based on everything you're hearing from friends of his, associates family members, investigators there with you in chattanooga right now when he might have become radicalized? because we know that it was only relatively recently he grew that beard, right? >> the reports we're hearing is that the beard is new and we can see the photographs some of the mma photographs in which he's clean shachbven. one mentions the old tale of the blind man and the elephan

and this brought them a great cultural change in the fbi. you not only have special agents the people who carry guns and badges and handcuffs but a bunch of smart people coming into the fbi who had degrees in foreign area studies and who were linguists specialized in international relations. and they had to be given a status equal to and comparable to the special agents themselves. and this required a great deal of cultural change and understanding on the part of the people who had traditionally been special agents of the fbi. so our commission looked at what was happening in terms of all of this. how this was going. and our overall finding was that the bureau had made great progress. they got off to a very good start. they made some extensive progress, but that a lot still had to be done and particularly, something that the congressman mccaul mentioned, was we had to increase the pace the speed with which they were gearing up and expanding their activities to keep pace with the accelerating threats we face throughout the world, many of which

it's the weekend, so the fbi doesn't begin the required criminal background check. roof is sent away. that monday, in west virginia, an fbi examiner begins to run the check. she sees roof was arrested in march on drug charges, but she was not able to reach the police department that made the arrest. so, she never discovers that roof allegedly admitted to possessing illegal drugs. that fact would have blocked him from buying the gun. by law, the gun store is only required to wait three days for a response from the fbi. on thursday, with still no word, they sell the gun to dylann roof who walks away with his handgun. two months later, june 17th, he allegedly uses it to kill nine african-american worshipers in that charleston church. >> and pierre is with us now. you were in the room with that fbi director today. this tough admission, they didn't call back within the three required days? >> inside the fbi, they're sick about what happened. the fbi director said he wishes he could turn back the hands of time, but he can't. >> thank you. >>> and news of this major fail ca

the fbi right now is working overtime. e trying to figure out what the motive into have been. they don't know what it was. if it happened online is that something that possibly was missed? i know that it's almost impossible to find everybody. but they are trying to keep a database of anybody who is in a chat room or talking about isis or talking about anything radical. >> well yeah the fbi can't be everywhere. rules have changed since 9/11. before 9/11 the fbi couldn't surf the internet and go into blog sites and chat rooms and just surf and look for people who might present a threat. now they can do what they call a threat assessment and do just that. if there's some credible information that something is happening. this is really tough. this is -- if he is in fact a lone wolf terrorist, it's like trying to find a needle in a stack of needles. the only people who can really be the early warning system if you will are people that are very close to them. >> chris, i appreciate your time. thank you very much. sobering when yo

what happened here and what the fbi plans to do to address these issues. he said he's ordered a full review of the procedures of the training to see what can be done in the future to make sure this never happens again. brianna? >> so basically pamela the fbi should have checked with columbia police with local police and followed up because they knew he'd been arrested. >> right. >> but they didn't know the details of it. >> exactly. so the fact that he had been arrested on a felony drug charge was not enough to deny the transaction. but had there been communication with columbia police the fbi would have known. he admitted to possessing drugs and that would have made him an unlawful drug user which would have permitted him from being able to buy a gun. as director comey said he said we got the geography wrong in south carolina and the contact information for columbia police was not on a certain piece of paper that this examiner was looking at for lexington county so the examiner called west columbia police department. west columbia said we don't know anythi

so that adds to the puzzle really that the fbi is trying to resolve. another thing that is being actively investigated is the question of how he obtained this ak-47 style rifle that he used to carry out this very lethal attack. this is a very powerful weapon, and at the press conference late last night, the fbi mentioned that one reason why they're withholding some details about the weapons, and they said he had weapons, not just one, one reason they say they're withholding some of that information is because they're working on perhaps looking to prosecute someone. so that's the question, who helped him obtain this firearm, were there any crimes committed. the fbi will pursue that if they find evidence of it. >> tracing those weapons back right now, i imagine that will happen very, very quickly. thanks so much. i know there's more information we're expecting soon. we'll check back in with you shortly. want to discuss the details on the investigation that we're just learning. joining us now is the hamilton county district attorney neil pinkston. mr. dist

the fbi spoke. vestigating to find out exactly who the suspect is. >> we are checking vr ryevery possible place he could have resided visited where he shopped where he went to school who his friends were? did he work out at a gym? we will check every location. >> here's the time line of how these events unfolded. yesterday morning at 10:45 the gunmen drove up here behind me to the military recruiting center according to the investigators. drives up in his gray ford mustang. he starts opening fire. multiple weapons fired two dozen rounds. people inside barricaded themselves to keep themselves safe and more shots were fired. they heard about 30-50 shots total. no one was injured at this facility. the gunmen stays in his car drives down to the navy and marine corps reserve center which is an industrial area. there are two entrances in that facility. both were being unmanned at the time. he gets out and goes inside the reserve center and that's when the fbi says he took the lives of those four marines. t

did the fbi manage to turn him into an informant? what's been his role in recent terror attacks around the world? one thing is clear, he turned on the country of his birth and called for jihad against his fellow americans. in the end, it was the joint cia military operation that caught up with him. >> for fox news reporting, i'm bill hemmen. >>> i'm bill hemmer, fox news reporting in jersey city, new jersey. right over there is lower manhattan where the twin towers of the lower trade center once stood. 15 of the 19 hijackers lived or moved to the state of new jersey. now, more than a decade after the attacks ground zero is home to the national september 11th memorial and museum, along with one world trade center. but the iconic skyline of manhattan remains incomplete to this day. on that fateful morning 3,000 people died in new york. at the pept at that gone in

because the fbi doesn't -- there's no indication the fbi -- that the fbi believes the father knew about what was about to happen yesterday or that it had anything to do with the attacks that his son carried out yesterday. it's also important to remember that after 9/11 a lot of muslim americans who were sending money to overseas charities, especially in the middle east, came up in these types of investigations when the fbi began more aggressively looking at financing of some of these charities and had some concerns about where the money was going. again, this is a man -- his family was a successful family, they had money and it was not unusual for someone of his means to be brought into the investigations like this. >> so, again, just for clarity, evan, says the father's history -- and we're talking post-9/11 -- that's not necessarily being linked to what took place yesterday involving his son but we are just in context now just letting people know that the fbi had been made aware of the family name by way of the father and this activity. so then, tom, help us understand we are talking

you agree with the director of the fbi? >> i think on balance i do. lume of attacks, the extraordinary number of followers they have on social media, the fact that these attacks are very difficult to prevent because it can be a single person acting in a single impulse. al qaeda still concerns me more than isis in one respect. isis is about the quantity of attacks. al qaeda, on the other hand is focused on the quality of the attack. the kind of attacks al qaeda wants to do going after aircraft trying to blow them up over our skies, those are nation-altering terrorist acts that would have a far bigger impact if successful. for that reason al qaeda still in that respect very much concerns me even more than the quantity of isis attacks. >> it concerns him as well. but he says right now those lone individuals being inspired by isis those guys could kill a lot of americans and they're really worried bill. >> absolutely. one of the reasons he's probably reaching that conclusion is we've been see successful in going after the core of al qaeda. we've been succe

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to the latest on fears of isis attacks in the u.s. fbijames comey said this week he believes arrests in the past month thwarted potential strikes during the july 4th holiday. he said some of the roughly ten people arrested on isis-related charges were plotting attacks for the fourth. and he said the use of incrypted messaging is making it harder to track potential terrorists. >> there is a device almost a devil on their shoulder all day long saying kill kill kill. and if they find someone and they have found many of those someones in the united states who are interested in this and we can see twitter, we'll see them give them directions to a mobile messaging app that is end to end encrypted and tell them contact me here and they disappear. >> i'm joined by shawn henry, the presidentch crowd strike services former executive director of the fbi. with a welcome to you, shawn. given the number of arrests the fbi made in recent weeks how close do you think the country came to being attacked over the the holiday? >> i think this is something th

some rounded up the fbi says were talking about killing people during the holiday. fbi agents made a dozen terror-related arrests in the past month and the fbi direct tomorrow said some were carried out stop planned attacks. two came in boston and a third man there killed a month ago originally planned attacks on july 4th. the fbi says all were communicating with isis figures overseas responding to social media message advocating violence blasted to cell phones. >> there is a device, a devil on their shoulder all day long saying kill, kill, kill, kill. >> reporter: the fbi says isis directs those who respond to use applications like what's app and threema that encrypt a message as soon as its sent and don't unscramble until received. the company handling the message can't read it either even when the government comes with a court order. >> our job is to look at a haystack for needles invisible to us because of end to end encryption. >> reporter: but many internet security experts say what the fbi wants is a bad idea. >> to all of a sudden say all u.s. company haves t

the fbi is digging deep into the gunman's communications online and his travels to the middle east. the house homeland security chairman believes investigators will find a clear link to terrorists. >> my judgment in my experience is that this was an isis inspired attack. >> soft targets. u.s. military recruitment centers all over the country are on guard tonight as the pentagon is reviewing security. should troops be allowed to carry weapons any time anywhere to defend themselves against acts of terror? and victims remembered. we now know the name of the four u.s. marines who were killed from a war hero to a recent recruit. they died serving their country in a place where they thought they were safe. we want to welcome our viewers from the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room. new video capital turk sounds of gunfire ringing out during the shooting rampage that killed four u.s. marines. federal authorities stressing this is being investigated as an act of terrorism. they're now revealing the shooter was armed with at least two, two long

>> apparently the fbi is in charge of coordinating the investigation. fbi along with the atf as well as local state and law enforcement agencies will be assisting their lead. >> neal can you give us any understanding? because we heard in the press conference that the shooter apparently lived in the area. can you give us any understanding, at this early stage of the investigation, what the motivation may have been whether the shooter had any ties to the military? >> i have no information with regard to the motive. it's too early in the investigation to determine that. but hopefully through time it will be developed. >> earlier when the shooting began around 10:50, i'm sure you were alerted very early on can you tell us how it was as things were unfolding, shootings at two different places a naval reserve center and a few miles away where it all began. tell us what unfolded earlier today there in chattanooga. >> well i was at the office and started getting a bunch of phone calls and messages that the lee highway shooting was first followed by the shooting

the fbi is making a big push to alert companies of the dangers. what is the fbi doing? >> a big push in terms of publicity to warn american companies about this spike they're seeing in corporate espionage coming from china, they say they've seen about 53% more cases this year than they did in the previous 12 months. there are hundreds of cases out there now, of chinese corporate espionage. they gave us this video. take a look this is surveillance video provided by the fbi that shows two chinese executives there on the left-hand side of your screen. the chinese thought they were going to bribe this american executive for access to glass manufacturing secrets, they hand him the cash in reality what happens at the end of this video, is fbi agents crash into this room and arrest the two chinese executives for corporate espionage. the fbi put together a training video for american executives. they've been showing it in private. take a look at this video, it's a little bit like a hollywood movie the way the fbi produces it. >> if you manufacture in china, you save on transpor

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