D.C. Police Chief On ISIS Threat To Attack.
CUOMO: What happened here in France reverberating all over the world, certainly back in the United States, not just in terms of sympathy and empathy but awareness. Law enforcement in Washington D.C. is on heightened alert this morning because of the perceived threats from ISIS, a new video vowing to target the U.S. capital. Just how serious are authorities taking these threats and what can they actually do to prevent them. Joining me now is Chief Cathy Lanier of the Metropolitan Police Department security Washington. Chief, thank you very much for joining us this morning. What have you been told about how specific and real and imminent any threats may be?</s>CHIEF CATHY LANIER, METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: It doesn't matter what we're told, you know, when we're briefed on any kind of threat whatsoever, we take them all very seriously. We've been in constant contact with federal partners and getting updated briefings. Everything is real to us. No matter the threat and how credible it is team we take it as credible and act that way.</s>CUOMO: I get that. But what I'm asking is that what have you been told in terms of areas that you are more sensitive to or capabilities that you are paying more attention to? Is there any preference that you have in terms of responding to what we've learned?</s>LANIER: Obviously the, you know, shift in attacks has been to more soft targets and more populated area where there's a different atmosphere and historically we looked at securing critical infrastructure and things like that. But none of that can be left out. You have to have broad security that includes all of those potential targets and that is what makes it so important that you don't too narrowly focus on the last attack. I mean, really, it is being prepared for any eventualities so you can't focus too much on the last attack. But you have to take into consideration all of the details that we do know about the last attack.</s>CUOMO: What progress has been made in information sharing? Obviously the intelligence sharing is always so important in prevention. And in terms of community policing, the "see something, say something" initiatives put in place?</s>LANIER: Just in the last several years, we've made tremendous strides in terms of information coming in from the community. I think our communities are very, very sensitive in reporting things to the police and that is critical in this time. But we also have a great relationship with our federal partners. We were in constant contact on Friday actually as the attacks were unfolding, phone calls and information going back and forth. And we've been doing this a long time now. Unfortunately our wakeup call was more than ten years ago. So we have a lot of practice now and things just happen automatically.</s>CUOMO: And just to be thorough, has anything been detected? Anyone been detained because of recent threats?</s>LANIER: The community does increase sensitivity when something like this happens, so we've had significant up tic for calls and suspicious activity and packages and we respond accordingly. But that is exactly what we want from our community. And I think that is the direction we want to keep going. The use of technology out here today in conjunction with the work in the community is going to be key for us to keeping the city safe.</s>CUOMO: Understood. But to this point you haven't had to make any arrests, nothing has been detected and foiled?</s>LANIER: There's been no arrests, no.</s>CUOMO: Chief, thank you very much. It is a big job. Appreciate you talking to us about it and good luck in the days ahead.</s>LANIER: Thanks, Chris.</s>CUOMO: All right, the home situation not just in Washington, D.C. but nationally, there is a dialogue going on about what else can be done to fight against terrorism? What should we do to prevent attacks like this including how we address refugees? These are big conversations with a lot of news informing them. Let's get right to it.</s>JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: A one kilogram bomb brought down that plane.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Russian authorities now say it was a homemade bomb.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A mastermind who has ties directly to the leader of ISIS itself.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: None of the bombers identified so far in the Paris attacks had been on any U.S. watch list.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Is this the new normal?</s>JOHN KERRY, SECRETARY OF STATE: Absolutely not. No. This is not normal.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Nearly half of the governors are saying they do not want Syrian refugees in their states.</s>BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Many of the refugees are the victims of terrorism themselves.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Muslims are suffering. They are being persecuted.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Has the global community really done enough to combat ISIS?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I would anticipate that this is not the only operation that ISIL has in the pipeline.</s>CAMEROTA: To our viewers in the United States and around the world you are watching NEW DAY. This is a special edition live from Paris. Michaela is in New York City. Chris and I are following new leads in the terror attacks here in Paris. But we begin with breaking information about the different deadly ISIS attack, this one the Russian officials confirming that that Metrojet flight that crashed in the Sinai was brought down by what they call a homemade bomb.</s>CUOMO: The Russians promising vengeance and already delivering with strikes on ISIS targets in Syria following days of strikes by the French military as well. Russian President Vladimir Putin says he will find and punish who is responsible for this. They put a $15 million reward on information leading to who is responsible. We have all angles of what's going on with Russian military, French military, the investigation here in Paris, the reverberations at home. Let's start with Matthew Chance in Moscow with the big news of the morning. Matthew, they are now saying what brought down that plane.</s>MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: That is right Chris. For the first time, we've got confirmation from the Russian of all people, that it was a terrorist attack. It was a bomb according to the Russian security services at the FSB, about a kilogram in weight, 2.2 lbs. A homemade explosive device as it was described by the FSB chief. And that accounted for the fact that the debris from the fuselage of the Metrojet airline was spread across such a wide area of the Sinai desert and why investigators have been piecing together the debris over the past month. Vladimir Putin, the Russian president very swift in his response, vowing first of all revenge against those who carried this out saying we will search for them everywhere.