Obama Met with Top National Security Officials on Terror Threats Facing America; Apple Announces New iPhone 6
BURNETT: Today, just two days before the anniversary of September 11th, the President met with top national security officials on the major terror threat facing America. This as terror analysts issued new warnings that some of the nation's biggest landmarks are at risk. Susan Candiotti is OUTFRONT.</s>SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): New York City bridges, historic landmarks, transportation life lines and tempting targets for terror.</s>REP. PETE KING (R), NEW YORK: This would have, again, a human disaster, economic disaster, psychological terror, none of which, any of us want to explain.</s>CANDIOTTI: Plots go back to the 90s when blind Sheikh Omar Abdel- Rahman was convicted of the first world trade center attack and plotting to take out the George Washington Bridge. In 2003, Iyman Faris was convicted of an al-Qaeda skiing to slice the cables on the Brooklyn Bridge. And it goes beyond bridges,</s>THOMAS FUENTES, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST: Anywhere, where people would be in their every day life and get caught up in a situation where they end up killed and other people look at that and go that could be me, I do that. I go into tunnels. I take the train to work. I drive across that bridge. I fly on airplanes. So anything people do in their everyday life where people get killed doing that terrifies other people.</s>CANDIOTTI: At first no one knew what to think last July when huge first all American flags appeared overnight on the Brooklyn Bridge where terrorists making a calling card?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We don't take these things lightly, or as art or in the realm of speech. These are issues of trespass. They put themselves in danger and others in danger and that is why we investigate it.</s>CANDIOTTI: Two German artists took credit calling it an architectural omnage (ph). They left New York. It is unclear whether charges will be filed? Much of anyone be relieved, they climbed to the top of the bridge without being detected? CARRIE GREENBERG (ph),</s>TERROR ANALYST: One of the responses to it is really?</s>CANDIOTTI: Terror analyst Carrie Greenberg (ph).</s>GREENBERG (ph): How we put so many resources into thinking about who might be a terrorist and how to find the individuals that good old fashion law enforcement, which is protecting the bridges and tunnels and the landmarks of the cities, maybe we need to put a little more emphasis there. And I think it was a wake-up call.</s>CANDIOTTI: And NYPD is paying attention saying that it is making improvements including putting up barriers to keep out climbers. And as we look at the beautiful back drop of the Brooklyn Bridge and the World Trade Center, we can tell this, from New York Police commissioner William Bratton, he says tonight, they have no information of any direct threats against New York city in the days leading up to the anniversary of 9/11 -- Erin.</s>BURNETT: All Susan. Thank you very much. And our next guest's knows the brutality of terror all too well. His owned father, El-Sayyid Nosair, was convicted of planning the 1993 World Trade Center bombing killing six people and injuring more than 1,000. Zak Ebrahim is now the author of the new book "the terrorist son, a story of choice." Zak, it is really good to have you on and very perfect timing, we talk about what this week and the significance of this week. Your father was convicted of planning the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. You just heard Susan Candiotti reporting these landmarks are major terror targets. That doesn't surprise you, does it?</s>ZAK EBRAHIM, AUTHOR, THE TERRORIST SON, A STORY OF CHOICE: Well I think -- well, one, I'm not a terrorism analyst, but it is unfortunate that after all of these years this is something we still have to deal with. As someone who has lived in the shadow of terrorism for a long time, you know, it makes me somewhat fearful and a bit sad. But I think that is why the message in my book is so important about empathy, about being able to look at those around us in our community and just try to, you know, be more empathetic toward --</s>BURNETT: Toward others?</s>EBRAHIM: Yes.</s>BURNETT: And, you know, now we know what was happening with is in Syria. James Foley's killers, they now say they believe it was a British man. You were born and race in the United States but you were surrounded by the extremism of your father. How pervasive was it? How all hyphen campusing was it?</s>EBRAHIM: Well, I think that is one of the major aspects of living in any sort of fanatical belief. It was a turn this ideological bubble where you feel that anyone outside of that bubble is a potential enemy and that level of isolation is imperative in order to get someone to go to the lengths of violation or extremism that some do.</s>BURNETT: So you made a choice not to follow that path. Now, when you think about this; that is kind of incredible. You were 7-years-old when your father shot and killed the leader of the Jewish defense state. You were ten when he was convicted for the World Trade Center attack. That was your childhood. That was what you saw at the father figure. So how did you choose not to go that way?</s>EBRAHIM: Well I had a lot of experiences in my life that taught me -- for example, I was bullied very badly as a child and I also lived in a house hold with a violent stepfather. And when I was finally able to go out and experience the world, I couldn't use the stereo types that I'd been taught as a child as a way of treating people. I have a difficult time treating anyone who is kind to me in any other way than how I would want to be treated.</s>BURNETT: Well it is pretty incredible. And your book is fascinating. So Zak, thank you very much.</s>EBRAHIM: My pleasure.</s>BURNETT: And now to the stop business story of the day and that is the new iPhone. You couldn't have missed that today. Apple announcing the new iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6-plus. It has a bigger screen, both come with Apple pay which is the company's new feature that lets you use your phone to make purchases instead of using your credit card. So it would get rid of that whole credit card crisis and having your data stolen, theoretically. And then there was this.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Apple watch is the most personal device apple has ever created.</s>BURNETT: That's right. There is now an Apple watch. So an Apple watch, you can send a message, you can play music, you can track your fitness and you do need an</s>RICHARD QUEST, CNN HOST, QUEST MEANS BUSINESS: The real story tonight is not a watch or an auto pay. It is that number, Erin. For the simple reason, whatever you think of Apple, whether you are an Apple lover or an Apple hater, and the truth is that people tend to go down one side or the other. You cannot, must not,</s>BURNETT: Why do I need both, Richard? Why can't I just have one?</s>QUEST: The phone or the watch?</s>BURNETT: Yes, the phone or the watch?</s>QUEST: Because Apple decided and the way it is going and you and I are on the wrong side of the generational shift, if you want me to be blunt.</s>BURNETT: I mean, I guess it is $349 for the Apple watch, right? I mean, if you could get double that by forcing me to buy an iPhone 2, I guess that is why it is better.</s>QUEST: It is. And the Apple watch has core faces. It has a lot to do with different things. This might be iteration one and we need to see it in that way. Where this is going cannot be viewed on today's results or today's announcement. But 2.4 million tweets, this was the lead story. This was what people are talking about. If you ignore it, you are talking about power and money, Erin, you dare not ignore this.</s>BURNETT: All right. So why, Richard, the Apple pay, the new feature, they are trying to say it is secure, right, which is obviously important given what happened to Home Depot and Target. But it is called Apples pay. And it is called an Apple watch. Why is it not called i-watch and i-pay?</s>QUEST: My guess is that it is time to move on. It is time to grow up. It is time to sort of the I has, you know, as they say in parliament, the I's have it. Well I think maybe now it is time to widen the remake, widen the brand. So you have Apple pay, Apple watch, time to move forward. There is no question, of all of the announcements today, Apple pay was the most significant because that is integrating Apple further, deeper into your everyday financial life.</s>BURNETT: That sounds terrifying. Thank you, Richard. And know that is the way it is going. Talk about being on the wrong side of the generational divide, but it terrifies me. Thank you. All right, OUTFRONT next, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell speaking out on the shocking Ray Rice video. The big question, when he knew and -- what he knew and when he knew it. And please go to our blog, CNN.com/OUTFRONT to weigh in our new poll. Write during this commercial, should Roger Goodell step down? Plus the Ravens threw Ray Rice for a big loss. And now he breaks his silence exclusively to CNN. And it is billed as the most incredible volcano footage ever. Jeannie Moos talk to one of the fearless photographers who took this video and endured the heat.