zandt, former fbi profiler and msnbc profiler and jay gray, nbc news and jim cavanau cavanaugh, who also worked out of that office of garland. we'll start with jay gray first. what do you know about what's happening there? >> richard, on the ground here at the location right now. they have us all pulled significantly back as you would imagine at this point. everything is locked down. police, state police as well as garland police, on the scene right now. many of them intact call gear. some with weapons drawn and tense situation. there's concern about the vehicle of those two suspects and the possibility there's explosives inside so they're working to try to determine if that is the case. there are also a lot of people that gathered in the area as you would might imagine with this situation here. a lot of people nervous and want the find out what's going on. i would have to say they probably have a mile cordoned off here around the event center, an event center used for graduations, special events. this was a cartoon drawing contest and had been advertised for sometime and was going

are now learning the fbi alerted police about one of the gunmen involved in the cartoon contest shooting. should officials have acted soon sner that's a good question. pete williams has more. pete. >> good morning. the fbi says it sent information just hours before the attack about one of the gunmen but the fbi director says it wasn't a warning because agents had no idea he had left phoenix. just three hours before sunday's shooting attack in garland, texas, the fbi says it sent police there a secure electronic message with the picture and car license number. the fbi says it acted as soon as it developed information that he was interested in going there but had no reason to believe he wanted to attack it or even that he left phoenix. there's no indication the fbi says, that the officer who ended up shooting simpson ever saw that bulletin. garland police declined to say what they did in response to the nchgs. they say the latest property shows how recruitment has changed. from a time when they had to seek out websites which the fbi could monitor to now when isis urges anyone who

phoenix. simpson was known to the fbi since '06 and arrested in 2010 after a four-year terror investigation, but was only convicted of lying to a federal agent. as for sophie he is the son of a texas mom and a pakistani father. his grandmother says simpson is to blame for her grandson's participation. >> he just shows up and moves in with him and i guess kept preaching, preaching, preaching to him until he just finally must have cracked one day and started believing it and he talked him into doing something that he should never have even thought about doing. >> so this brings us to our pulse question of the day for you, is the u.s. prepared for isis-inspired attacks? so go to pulse.msnbc.com, cast your vote there we want to go to amman moweyman mohyeldin covering this from texas. bring us up on the latest investigation. >> the investigation now thomas focus on the two individuals, more importantly, now this claim of responsibility has come out from isis, there is a serious effort to try to determine whether these two individuals had any kind of international association to the

held to pay. the fbi is investigating hundreds of home grown extremists plus ai rod and much more. >> good friday morning to you. severe storm threats is where we start. millions bracing for extreme weather. the southern plains 61 twisters since wednesday. storms leaving one dead and dozens hurt. here's a storm chaser's close call. >> it's hitting me right now. i got debris. i hope this thing ain't big. oh, my god. we're getting hit so hard right now. >> the power of wednesday's storm on display trees bending. the images shot from inside a storm shelter in norman oklahoma. bill karins is here. >> we're going to go through that all weekend long. a dangerous two days ahead. the jetstream is moving pretty quickly with a storm system kicking from california into the middle of the country. that's going to spread the cool dry here colliding with the moist air ahead of it. the next two days with it peaking on saturday. today is not going to be fun. 16 million people in the slight risk. that's the area of yellow san angelo to witch lowchitawichita. here's the best chance of seeing tornado

hour from now attorney general loretta lynch and fbi director james comey will lay out details. what we're hearing already is explosive. 14 defendants have been charged with racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies. seven of them have been arrested in switzerland and could be extradited to the u.s. at any time. related fbi searches are also under way in miami, florida. the indictment unsealed earlier this morning alleges the scheme to pocket bribes and corruption of the game of soccer as it was going on has been happening for more than 20 years. among those arrested two current fifa vice presidents and one former vice president. one person who is not involved the current president of fifa sepp bladder, who's up for reelection on friday. despite it all, fifa spokesman said this morning the developments are a good thing. >> this for fifa is good. it's not good in terms of image and not good in terms of reputation but in terms of cleaning up in terms of everything what we did the last four years, in terms of the process, this is good. >> and that's not all. in a separa

in cyber space. >> reporter: this is what has the fbi so worried. an explosion in slick isis propaganda with messages tailored to a young audience resembling popular video games showing children in isis-run schools. many overtly call for violence. now an avalanche of messages on social media urging followers to attack here at home. example, at the height of the unrest in baltimore, this tweet called it a great chance for lone wolves, almost everything is in chaos. how many in the u.s. are following these messages? >> i would lean more toward hundreds in terms of people who are really committed isis supporters. there are probably thousands who have some degree of interest. >> reporter: the fbi says elton simpson was one of them, inspired by isis followers to join in his roommate attacking last week in garland, texas. >> if you put the frame back to al qaeda, they would spend a long time planning and plotting to do a large-scale spectacular attack. what you are seeing now instead is an encouragement to commit whatever type of small-scale attack you can wherever you happen to be

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and then lying to the fbi about the money. pete williams has the latest. >> reporter: the charges are a bolt from the blue involving a public official for more than 25 years and house speaker from 1999 to 2007. since 2008 he's been a lobbyist in washington but for the past four years he has paid $1.7 million in hush money that went to someone identified as individual a from workville, illinois. she he agreed to pay them to compensate and conceal his prior misconduct against individual a. that occurred earlier. it does not say what the misconduct was. prosecutors say he started making withdrawals of $50,000 at a time and then cut them to 10,000 when questioned by the bank. prosecutors say when asked about whether he was trying to evade something or cover something up he denied having any improper purpose and suggested he didn't feel safe with the banking system. he told the fbi, i kept the cash that's what i'm doing. >> that was pete williams reporting. dennis hastert faces charges for lying to the fbi. >>> we are getting a brand new look at the extreme weather in the country. let's st

intelligence about potential home grown terrorists. fbi director james comey and secretary jay johnson will hold a video conference today with the nation's police on how terrorists are using social media to attract recruits. today loretta lynch addresses the threat. >> the fbi director and secretary of homeland security are having a conference today with the nation's police to talk about this growing concern over isis social media. how much of a concern is that? how urgent a concern for the justice department? >> as we look into our national security cases, we have attempted to see which tools those who would seek to do americans harm utilize. social media is one we've seen be used. in the cases that result in my old district we've seen social media used as a recruitment tool means of disseminating information. it's an area we're trying to stay on top of. i say it's part of the full panel of things we look at and try to determine who's essentially trying to do us harm. >> pete williams joins me from the newsroom along with chief correspondent jim. pete, tell us about the military bases and

lying to the fbi. why pay and to who? and soccer's scandal. plus, a wash out in dallas. the death toll rising as texas continues to flood and more rain is on the way. we're going take you live to dallas and recap what's been happening this week in houston as well as wimberly texas. we do want to start with the developing story about hastert. today he's the subject of a two-count indictment that shocked the political world on thursday. the first count alleged he structured bank withdrawals to avoid bank trip wires. the indictment says that hastert was paying $3.5 million to an unknown individual for, quote, past misconduct. he is charged with lying when asked about why he withdrew that money. joining me now is chuck todd moderator of meet the press. average americans who think the place when we talk about congress is filled with crooks and creep mace have more ammo. let's start with what we do know. >> here is what we know. the payments started in 2012. look, here is what we also know. the fbi has somebody who explained the whole scheme to them and if hastert is the one that is indicted

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calls late sunday night. both were called by a policeman. they knew, the fbi, that simpson was interested in that event, but had no reason to believe he had to attack there. while the investigation is far from complete at the fbi, the events of sunday down there have spurred new debate about the potential for more isis-inspired lone wolf attacks here in this country. and in a senate hearing, terrorist recruitment today, senator ron johnson of wisconsin said there's a perception problem when it comes to how much the u.s. government actually knows about the threat from within the u.s. here he is. >> >> because of the revelations of edward snowden, there seems to be a perception in america that the federal government knows all and we have perfect knowledge and we know exactly whose online. we know exactly who's on these sites and is becoming radicalized. and the members of those communities were actually very surprised that we had no idea. >> well, this week, isis supporters boasted that the group has a number of members in 15 different states around the country. of course, they n

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lying to the fbi and allegedly funneling hush money to a longtime acquaintance acquaintance. >>> plus, life-threatening flooding hits dallas today submerging cars and stranding hundreds of drivers. we'll get a live update from texas. and later, hundreds of people are expected at a draw muhammad cartoon contest tonight in arizona. we will discuss the right to offend. that's next on "now." hey pal? you ready? can you pick me up at 6:30? ah... (boy) i'm here! i'm here! (cop) too late. i was gone for five minutes! ugh! move it. you're killing me. you know what, dad? i'm good. (dad) it may be quite a while before he's ready, but our subaru legacy will be waiting for him. (vo) the longest-lasting midsize sedan in its class. the twenty-fifteen subaru legacy. it's not just a sedan. it's a subaru. i am totally blind. and sometimes i struggle to sleep at night, and stay awake during the day. this is called non-24. learn more by calling 844-824-2424. or visit your24info.com. >>> now on to shocking charges shrouded in history. a federal indictment released late yesterday says former house speaker

searching if building for clues. the fbi had simpson an its radar since 2006. in 2010 convicted of lying to the agency about a possible trip to somalia. the dallas morning news reports soofi's mother says he was very quote, politically involved in the middle east and wonders if something snapped. they say it shows the men should have been under closer surveillance. >> i do believe in having more surveillance of people in the muslim community because that's where the threat comes if. i think we as a country have to come to the realization this is a war we're in and you have to respect people's constitutional rights, you should not have this absolutely strict interpretation, because to me it's reasonable in a time of struggle we have right now that a person who pleads guilty to a terrorism charge should receive more surveillance than the average person. >> meanwhile the organizer of the contest is rejecting criticism that she shares any responsibility for the violence. >> others would say that i was endangering others. that's like saying that the rain victim is guilty because she wor

by the fbi which decided that these five lines containing, they say, 23 words are now to be considered classified. because all of this e-mail traffic is from hillary clinton's private e-mail on her private e-mail server, that has set off some alarm bells for some people. at a campaign event today, andrea mitchell got something that is a rare opportunity these days. she got a chance to ask hillary clinton a question. >> i'm aware that the fbi has asked that a portion of one e-mail be held back. that happens in the process of freedom of information act responses. but that doesn't change the fact that all of the information in the e-mails was handled appropriately. >> but it was a private server, though. do you have some concern that it was on a private server, though? >> no. >> hillary clinton saying she is not concerned. but should she be? we're going to talk about the politics of all this in just a moment. but first, joining us now is "new york times" reporter michael schmidt whose paper obtained and released some of these e-mails before they were released today. let me star

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major update on the weekend shooting at that draw muhammad cartoon event in texas. the fbi says they issued a bulletin about gunman elton simpson and the specific event three hours before the event. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams has the details. what have you got? >> reporter: the fbi director says the bureau was sending to the police in garland texas, information about people who might be considered a threat. and that three hours before the event was to start, it sent a picture of elton simpson and his name, saying he was interested in the event, not that he was going to attack or was on his way there. the fbi obviously didn't know. that told him he might be someone to look out for potentially. there's no reason to think the fbi director says that the police officer who ended up shooting the two phoenix gunmen had this information in advance. the larger message that they wanted to get across today was how this event points out the change in how social media is being used to recruit and urge people in the u.s. to carry out attack. a few years ago, if you were intereste

after, law enforcement officials raced to find the people responsible. and after the fbi released surveillance footage of its main suspect, one in a black hat and one in a white an m.i.t. officer was fatally shot late that thursday night. sar naef brothers then hijacked an suv, drove to the nearby suburb of watertown where they engaged with a massive shoot-out with police. at some point the older brother, tamerlan ran out of ammunition and was tackled by police. dzhokar sped away in the suv hitting tamerlan who died of gunshot wounds and trauma to his head and torso. in the two years since dzhokar tsarnaev was apprehended, federal prosecutors have brought a capital case against him for the bombings and all that followed. and tsarnaev's defense team took the unusual step of acknowledging his role, focusing its strategy at trial on convincing the jury not to give him the death penalty. and they got support from a pretty remarkable source. the family of 8-year-old bombing victim martin richard, who wrote an op-ed in "the boston globe," arguing that the death penalty and the appeals t

says their investigation is wide open. they haven't ruled anything out. the fbi, on the other hand is looking at a pattern. is there a link between the three trains that were hit with projectiles tuesday night? we had a septa train another train, and, of course, amtrak 188. ntsb saying a fist-sized projectile went through the windshield that night. engineers call this getting rocked. it happens so often along the northeast corridor that they actually protect themselves with grills in the front windshield so they don't get hit with projectile projectiles. the federal railroad administration ordering amtrak over the weekend to make changes. going into that turn only 45 miles per hour and also post signs along the route for speed limits. and finally, mayor nutter yesterday holding an emotional ceremony here in philadelphia to remember the eight people who lost their lives on that night. he was here this morning at the 30th street station seeing people off on their way to new york. here's what he had to say. >> whatever folks might be thinking, obviously, they have booked themselves on

begin with the investigation into the fatal train derailment. the fbi has brought down damage to the train's windshield. during the news conference, the investigator reported what they found after reports that the windshield may have been hit with an unknown object. >> if you're standing in the middle of the locomotive cab, the center line over here is where the engineer's windshield is, over here is the other windshield, and in the lower portion of the left-hand windshield there's a circular pattern that emanates out just a bit. >> now an assistant amtrak conductor told investigators she recalled hearing an engineer from the local commuter rail tell the dispatch center his train had been hit by a rock or shot at and that the train made an emergency stop. the employee also says she recalls hearing amtrak engineer brandon bostian report something about his train being struck, too. joining me from philadelphia is nbc's adam reese. what can you tell us about the interview with the engineer, brandon bostian? >> reporter: he's been very cooperative and offered to help in the future if nee

course following the developments closely. >> this is still under investigation by the fbi, other members of the intelligence community to determine any ties or affiliations of these two individuals may have had had with isil or other terrorist organizations because of the quick and professional and brave work of local law enforcement officers and attempted terrorist attack was foiled. there is no expression however offensive, that justifies an act of terrorism or even an act of violence. >> ayman mohyeldin is in texas for us. what's the latest? >> reporter: the ongoing investigation continues to focus on these two men and perhaps any other associates. as you mentioned in that introduction, there's going to be big focus by intelligence officials as well as law enforcement officials to try to determine whether isis is capitalizing on this from an open toon is tick type of view or it had an operational link to these two individuals. a lot of intelligence will focus on these two men and any affiliations they may have had and communication and more importantly to trace if they had fun

shootout protecting people so that's good news. and federal agents are there atf, fbi. everybody is trying to get a damper on it. these biker gangs are not afraid of going to jail or being arrested. they have long criminal records if they here in a one percent gang. i arrested a biker years and years ago and he had five handcuff keys secreted on his body. they're ready to be arrested. it's part of their life so we'll see if these charges will hold on the 192 members. but they have to make some big cases on some of these guys involved in this shooting to keep them locked up, the felons with the guns, the shooters, murderers. they have to make key case there is and i'm sure the district attorney and the united states attorney are aggressively pursuing that. then they have to branch out to damp down the violence. it will boil down to be banditos versus the hells angels affiliated gang. >> certainly tough when you're not familiar with the biking culture you have to gangs which you call the one percent then you have to guys who just love to be on the bikes and around there. interesting t

lying to fbi agents when requested about the payments. pete williams has details. >> the charges were filed against dennis hastard, now 73. tapping a quarter century in public life. the charges involved payments to someone from yorkville, illinois, where he was a high school teacher and wrestling coach during the mid 1960s and 70s. a point of pride when he became speaker. >> as a classroom teacher and coach, i learned the value of gravity. >> four years ago he agreed to pay 3.5 million in apparent hush money to that person referred to as only individual a, someone who has known him for most of his life. hastard agreed to make payments to compensate for and conceal his conduct that occurred years earlier. the documents do not say whether individual a is a man or woman or what the misconduct was. he paid almost $2 million. but cut that back to less than 10,000 at a time to illegally evade federal bank transaction rules. when asked, he lied to the fbi saying he didn't feel the banking system was safe and saying kwet i kept the cash. that's what i'm doing. >> and pete williams joins me no

he may look like a harmless grandpa, this sinister senior is currently one of the fbi's most sought after fugitives. he is known as the geezer bandit. >> the geezer bandit is a white male. his appearance makes him appear to be between 60 and 70 years old, anywhere from 5'10" to about 6'1". we're getting about 180 to 190 pounds. he comes in as a fairly benign looking older man. he is seemingly dressed fairly nice, oftentimes wears a blue blazer, sometimes baseball caps. based on his actions, witness accounts and victim teller accounts and surveillance footage, we believe he is left-handed. >> since his first robbery the geezer bandit hit a total of 13 banks primarily in or around san diego, california, and all of them have been caught on surveillance camera. >> first robbery was standard. we see him go in. we don't believe he had a gun during the first robbery. he did have a demand note. and he gets a small take and he leaves the bank. >> he repeats this m.o. for his next two robberies, only using threatening notes and language. but by robbery number 4, the geezer bandit decides he n

person shortly thereafter -- by 2013, the fbi were investigating denny hastert. one of the two counts in the indictment said the former speaker lied to the fbi about what he was doing with all that crash he was withdrawing from his bank accounts, hundreds of thousands of dollars, the fbi said he told them when they asked, yeah, i kept the cash, that's what i'm doing. that's not true according to federal prosecutors and this grand jury and indictment unsealed today. what the indictment says what he was doing with all that cash was he was paying someone off regularly and regularly scheduled payoffs, paying somebody off to make good on, sort of compensate for and also to cover up something that denny hastert had allegedly done wrong to that person years ago. we don't know what that is. here's two things to consider. this is going to sound like it's really out of left field, but it's a connection to this that seems like we ought to consider given this -- given the opacity of the indictment on this point. do you remember the sibel edmonds case? she was an fbi translator saying she had been fi

ortiz, the fbi special agent in charge for boston, as well as potentially the vpd boston commissioner of the police department there. just from your experience we can't predict what they're going to say, but from your experience, what is the kind of case we would expect to hear from them after what they consider a fully successful prosecution? >> you know it's interesting because in these cases, these high-profile cases, we've seen more and more of these press conferences that do a little bit more of a methodical reading of what the most powerful evidence you know had been in the trial what it meant. but mostly, they take this opportunity, especially in this case, when you have fbi agents you have local, state, and federal officers all working together that will take this time to, of course, thank them for the hours and weeks and months that they've put into preparing this trial. so you'll see a lot of political rhetoric back and forth. i think that we'll see a little bit more specific evidence and a little bit of commentary towards that as has been happening in these hig

heavily in atf. they have the guns, bombs, violence. likewise fbi, dea and state police. they're always trying to stop these guys. law enforcement knows the difference between these kinds of criminal organizations and people that ride motorcycles for recreation. it's a big difference. when someone is a one percent gang that's an organization. >> they picked this busy shopping center in waco, texas. we know how remote and rural that area can be. that's the area they chose. jim, we thank you for that perspective. >> thanks. >>> today in iraq, a planned counter attack against isis. this is video that just fed in. it's propaganda video from isis that reportedly shows people in the large city of mosul under isis control. ramadi is not the only capital of the province. it's 90 miles west of baghdad. a white house spokesman said they'd help iraq take back ramadi. >> it is possible to have the kind of attack we've seen in ramadi. i'm absolutely confident in the days ahead that will be reversed. >> the loss of ramadi comes a day after u.s. special forces ss ss secretly dropped in syria an

to the fbi, added to a terror watch list five years ago after being convicted of lying about plans to travel to somalia to wage what federal prosecutors called violent jihad. however, 34-year-old nadir soofi was not on any terror list and his grandmother insists he was not a terrorist. >> you're saying that his roommate was overzealous and extremist? >> yeah, he must have kept preaching to him or something. that's not something nadir would do. whoever he was with talked him into it. >> that's how you feel about it? >> yep, no other way it would have happened. >> nbc's ayman mohyeldin has been covering the story for us out of garland, texas. there's no evidence to support this claim that isis is responsible or motivated this but what do we know at least regarding what they are saying? >> yeah you know tamron that's a very good question i think it's certainly going to be the focus of both the federal and intelligence sources working this case right now. there's no doubt about it that the recording, that is the radio broadcast of the announcement that came out of an isis top tier foru

in for ed schultz. you just heard from carmen ortiz. you also heard from the fbi special agent in charge and the lead prosecutor there. all of them reacting to the jury's decision to sentence dzhokhar tsarnaev to death. we are also, we should let you know, awaiting for the ntsb news conference as well, as we've been reporting here this afternoon, we have been told by our sources there at the ntsb, we've been told that they spoke to the engineer on this friday afternoon. that they talked to brandon bastion, and we are expecting to find out a little bit more of what they learned when that news conference gets started. i want to bring in ronan farrow who joins me from boston. also ari melber is here in the studio as well. ari, let me start with you here in the studio. again, one of the things that struck me there from mr. ortiz saying that this is not a day for celebration. this is not a day to celebrate. >> in this federal death penalty case it is the jury that decides if dzhokhar tsarnaev should die not the judge. it is then the judge who technically goes through that sentencing pr

something not classified at the time but later became classified by the fbi potentially complicating her claim all along it contained none of this. i talked to people that have seen these e-mails for a long time and are not expecting bomb shells. they are people that worked for her at the state department. they said e-mails will exonerate her. they say once this is brought out in the light of day, we'll see there's nothing scandalous nothing untoward. they're eager to get these out. they think it landfall help them politically. >> do we know when to expect another batch of e-mails to be released? >> reporter: we don't yet craig. the state department has said they'll give a time line. originally the state department said they'd wait until january of next year to release all in one batch. the federal judge ordered they come sooner. they're still working out how this is going to happen. we only found out the release was going to happen at 12:30 today less than an hour before it happened. >> again 296 e-mails released about -- nearly 900 pages. any idea about how much of the information has

florida beaches. >> the fbi investigating a series of phoned in threats against passenger flights over the holiday weekend. officials say the calls were a hoax but while telephone threats to air plans are common this one was unusual. it involves multiple flights. nbc news pete williams reports. >> reporter: two u.s. military fighter jets escorted flight 22 into kennedy airport after an anonymous caller said some kind of chemical weapon was on board. nothing hazards was found. >> it's over and we're safe and the plane is safe. >> reporter: it was one of ten flights that were the subject of telephone threats. the fbi says the calls apparently came from the same person who phoned them in. the calls were made to local police in maryland, oregon and new york each conveying the same thing. a delta flight from paris to boston, american airlines from england to the u.s. and delta from london and emirates from canada to due buy. the threats were not considered credible but they were passed along to the airlines to be extra cautious. >> they told us to get off the plane, pick out our luggage. they t

in texas, the fbi and homeland security warned the nation's police that the event, coat carries the risk of being targeted by violent extremists noting that people were on twitter calling for retaliation. they say one of the gunmen was reading the calls. they say he followed a suspected british isis recruiter and that isis sympathizer and was communicating with an american who specifically called for attacking the texas event a week before the attack simpson sent this tweet, dm me. a prominent pro-isis website shows this picture as isis followers continue claiming credit. they say simpson was one of 400 people in the west deeply embedded in jihadist tweets. they say shutting down accounts is virtually impossible. >> when twitter takes down accounts they open new ones but it takes some time for followers to find the new accounts. >> reporter: monitoring twitter messages tipped off the fbi in many isis related terror cases but officials say it's a huge chore with more than five thousand people following. >> a new report claims to have found nearly 1600 irs who cheated on their taxes.

spout and rip tides forced hundreds of beach rescues. the fbi is looking into chemical weapons threats against a passenger aircraft. that and much more. "first look" starts right now. >> good morning, and thanks so much for joining us today. i'm betty nguyen. severe weather in the south again. >> it's on the ground again. i'm getting it. >> this tornado touched down in southeast texas inside the flood zone. new heart ache. at least eight people dead. 12 still missing. in houston, flood waters inside a popular mall. the city hit with almost 12 inches of rain in may. along the border a killer twister. cars thrown on top of homes. >> we want to search some of these large debris piles. >> reporter: a desperate search for the missing as this historic flood sinks in. >> i would describe it as a flood of biblical proportion. it's nothing like wife ever experienced. >> reporter: in the air on the on the ground. >> these are people in our community, it affects us on a personal level. >> reporter: the texas army national guard scours the banks of the blanco river. >> we have drones gis,

and say they will call in the fbi to review the damage. they say the engineer brandon bostian has been extremely cooperative but listen to how he described one of the employee statements just moments ago. >> she also believed she heard her engineer say something about his train being truck by something. our investigation is nothas not independently confirmed this information but we have seen damage to the left hand lower portion of the amtrak windshield that we have asked the fbi to come in and look at for us. >> joining me now is nbc news correspondent rahima ellis. thank you for being here. >> absolutely rev. what you were just playing there was the ntsb official telling us about an assistant conductor who was in the fourth car of amtrak train 188, talking about a radio conversation she heard between the engineer of her train, the fatal amtrak 188 and a local philadelphia commuter train, they call them septa. the engineer said what you just heard from the ntsb folks. that some kind of a conversation was going on and the engineer said that he thought that his train had been hit b

revelations tonight about that terrorist attack in garland, texas. the fbi says that it sent police in garland a secure electronic message with elton simpson's picture and license plate number three hours before sunday's event began. the fbi says it acted as soon as it developed information that he was interested in going to that event. but had no reason to believe that he wanted to attack it or even that he had left phoenix. police in garland declined tonight to say what they did in response to that information. fbi director james comey told reporters i know there are other sheldon simpsons out there. fbi director comey and johnson will participate in a video conference tomorrow. >>> up next, casey hunt asks chris christie about those indictments. this allergy season, will you be a sound sleeper, or a mouth breather. well, put on a breathe right strip and instantly open your nose up to 38% more than allergy medicines alone. so you can breathe and sleep. shut your mouth and sleep right. breathe right. dave's been working on his game... and starting each day with a delicious bowl of hea

johnson says the u.s. has entered a new phase of terrorist threats. the fbi director's warnings says use using the internet. the terror group has been encouraging it follow followers to travel to syria. >> we're very definitely in a new phase in the global terrorist threat. the so-called lone wolf could strike at any moment which is why the fbi in my judgment has done an excellent job of interdicting those who are attempting to travel to syria or commit overt acts and support to terrorism. it is a new environment, but we are not discouraging americans from doing the things they do on a daily basis. >> this as former about director of the cia says it is only a matter of time before isis is capable of larger more elaborate attacks on u.s. soil. to the sports world. the nfl top draft pick is filing a countersuit against the woman who accused him of rain. jameis winston filed paperers accusing the woman of damaging the quarterback's reputation. they write he has been successful in one major area. she has mounted a false and vicious media campaign with the objective of getting him to pay

friday and they're expected to win a fifx term. bradder was not among those arrested. the fbi has been investigating fifa if the officials are paying bribes. the resent selection of qatar was the wide spread questioning. earlier this month espn talk today a media and said that snefs the room as she offered bribes. >> i witnessed the qatar offering to different members money in exchange for their vote. >> you were there? >> yes, i was there in a room. >> how much money? >> 1.5 million. >> per? >> per vote. >> what did they say? >> the members? they agreed. they agreed. >> as for the latest development attorney general lynch and fbi director are expected to hold a news conference this morning. we will bring that to you when it comes. >>> now, to tex where the death toll has risen to 19. search crews are searching for a dozen people after a vacation home swept down a river. nbc has more from wimberly texas. >> reporter: as the water rose the horrifying calls. >> i knew something was very very wrong. >> julie licensed to her sister on the line. she was with her husband, two children a

him then lied to the fbi when asked about suspicious cash withdrawals from several banks. the indictment from the northern district of illinois court reading, during the 2010 meetings and subsequent discussions, defendant john dennis hastert agreed to provide individual "a," unnamed in the indictment $3.5 million in order to compensate for and conceal his priority misconduct against individual "a." to help us make sense of all of this robert costner, political reporter for "the washington post." robert, did this come as out of left field to gop politicos as it seemed to come out of left field to all of us today, when this crossed the wires? >> i've spoken to several top republicans and close friends of former speaker hastert and they're stunned. they never expected this. and he's someone who's always kept close counsel. someone who was a candid figure a colorful figure even when he was inside of the house. but most interesting about this chris, these references in the indictment, perhaps his time as a teacher at yorkville high school. >> so let's be clear on the dennis hastert

installations are on increased level of alert this friday night following an fbi director report james comey's revelation, that the fbi is investigating hundreds of potential home-grown extremists right now with cases open in every one of the 50 states. he says the threat is going. comey warns hundreds maybe thousands of people in the u.s. are following jihadist social media and it's like the devil sitting on their shoulder saying kill, kill kill. defense officials say there's no specific threat against the military right now, but noted that isis consistently encourages its followers to attack people in uniform and that the u.s. military quote, shares the same concern about the potential threat posed by home-grown violent extremists. isis is claiming responsibility you all know for sunday's failed attack in texas on an exhibit featuring caricatures of the profit muhammad. home grown jihadists were killed during by police during that attack after they were alerred simpson's interest in the event by the fbi. comey said i know there's other elton simpsons out there. here's elton sim

on the front page thargs eat the same kind of chart the fbi puts together when they put together a crime family. that's the way they lay it out. and it's kind of the way it was described by loretta lynch yesterday. >> and bill neely is with us there switzerland, right? no, you're in london. and it really is -- i'm one of the few certainly on this set i'll say soccer fans for stupid americans. football fans. and it was always difficult every four years during the world cup trying to explain how screwed up fifa was. and the one thing i can never explain is why everybody put up with it for as long as they did. so you've been a fan for a very long time. why? why did europe and the world put up with this corruption for as long as they did? >> well, i suppose because the gravy train just kept on rolling. the world cup is one of the most if not the most lucrative sports events in the world. 1 billion people watched last year's final between germany and argentina. fifa gets 9 the 0%0% of its income from the world cup. but there was a significant shift overnight. follow the money you might

money to a longtime acquaintance blackmailing him then lied to the fbi when asked about suspicious cash withdrawals from several banks. the indictment from the u.s. district court northern district of illinois, "during the 2010 meetings and subsequent discussions, defendant john dennis hastert agreed to provide individual a $3.5 million in order to compensate for and conceal his prior misconduct against individual a." help us make sense of all this, a national political reporter for "the washington post." robert, did this come out of left field to geopoliticals as it seemed to all of us? >> i've spoke within several top republicans and former close friends of speaker hastert and they stunned. he's someone who's always kept close counsel, who wasn't a candid figure, a colorful figure even when he was inside of the house. what's most interesting is this references in the indictment perhaps his time has a teacher at yorkville high school. >> yeah. so let's be clear on the dennis hastert bio here. this is a man who was famously high school teacher and wrestling coach, right, and every profi

get it done. they have to get on that. they'll be doing it all night. >> clint, to you, former fbi profiler, msnbc contributor. if you can please tell us in 30 to 45 seconds, it's a same location of thousands protesting against the muslim conference there to raise must understand to open a muslim center in the area. what is your reaction to that dynamic? >> well, again, as jim's talking, you have to consider the motivation. number one, you have the group that we have talked about that appears to be anti-muslim. number two, their contest, $10,000 to draw a picture of the prophet muhammad which, of course, is totally against that religion. and number three, the keynote speaker was a dutch member of parliament. he was on al qaeda's hit list and potentially a number of reasons why the event, those sponsoring it or those speaking at it may have been targeted and the reason that brought about the shooting tonight so the authorities are going to be able to identify that primary motivation. >> clint, stand by. jim, stand by. we'll be right back. when you're living with diabetes, steady is