Lives on the Line

" New York has long -- terrorist target number one get the city remains one of the safest in the country. Ainsley Earhardt takes -- inside the police unit charged with keeping it that way. School is under siege by armed terrorists within minutes the -- Mikey he's a -- emergency service unit is there."

" reaching the building from the air and from the ground. The wounded -- evacuated in the suspect's capture. Luckily this is just -- drill. It's 100 training exercises performed every year by the NYPD they practice dealing with anything potential terrorists might not this is."

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" Schools. Hospitals. Community and we try to."

" And they have good reason to train so hard it's -- said that -- any given moment someone somewhere is planning a plot against New York City. Doom room."

" So -- ray Kelly became police commissioner after 9/11 he knew the NYPD didn't just need to know how to respond to a terrorist attack. They also needed to know how to prevent one."

" He said this is our nation. We are going to devote a lot of resources to it and we're gonna get the best people in the world to do it and we're gonna -- New York. In a way that nobody is ever used it before."

" Journalist Christopher Dickey is the author of the new book and securing the city. Inside America's best counter terrorist force."

" So when they tested. Whether language skills -- they 700. People. In the NYPD who spoke Arabic in Dari and Farsi and and -- do all these languages that. The federal government was desperate to."

" One of -- top priorities to penetrate. Not only known terrorist organization. But groups of people who may be developing terrorist plot."

" Along with the cover officers and what you don't -- division also always high visibility tactics meant to attract attention. Every day opposition different precincts go to a location that was chosen at random providing a show of force to deter anyone out there who might be planning an attack."

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" The heavily armed Hercules team also moves around the city every and to protecting high value targets and infrastructure that terrorists might be --"

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" And it's not just the major groups like al-Qaeda that they have to worry about. For years before 9/11 New York learned just how dangerous one or two people can be and how critical it is to have filing."

" Right here in this building. You had potentially one of the worst terrorist plots or ever -- hit New York taking -- and had to Palestinians guys who were working the living in this area. Who decided they wanted to be suicide."

" Laporte. After watching Hamas suicide bombing in Israel they decided to do the same thing here on a crowded Brooklyn subway train. They constructed these bombs and pipe."

" around them. Toggle switches everything ready to go. But they were living in sort of a flop house apartment back in the back here. And there were other people living there. And one of those -- was a young Egyptian guy. He knew nothing about his life and one of the Palestinians got the government says to him to see that bombing in Israel yesterday what we're gonna do the same thing here we're gonna do on the train."

" The Egyptian ran from the building and tried to warn police but it took all night for them to find a translator who could understand if it was. Just before dawn."

" Just before these guys were gonna go blow themselves. Probably on the -- That he finally succeeded in telling this story and -- yet he's either service unit. Moved in here when in the door and the minute they got in one of guys that building the bomb dump the bomb."

" Individuals reached for this explosive device and -- trip one of what toggle switches would have detonated the device. The entry team fired their weapons and wounded --"

" Both -- survive. But if they had blown themselves up it would have killed a lot of people and New York city's first suicide bombing was -- just barely. In addition that language skills and the undercover work today's counterterrorism unit also has the technology to stay one step ahead of the enemy. This man looks like any other driving through the streets of Manhattan but it's not it's."

" Right now we're doing me I realized survey just random search. There you have the capability certainly a lot of signatures. That is consistent where people go dirty bombs and nuclear devices that -- people like -- type radiation. Real life source."

" Radiological device going off in the city would be devastating. If you look at the threat intelligence -- reported."

" Globally and people who -- it and all the terrorist -- always looking to deliver nuclear devices from -- right again."

" You guys think and in addition to the city's 300 square miles of land there's also 165. Square miles of waterways different -- Any of which would make a good entry point for weapons of mass destruction."

" We're here the other Manhattan expansion of the Brooklyn bridge and we'll just circle around if you get any kind of radiation. Whether as a commercial freighters -- pleasure -- out here the night seven days a week looking -- potential source hostile towards."

" The counter terror -- don't look any different from other police boats on the the water but the classified technology that they Carrey makes them very unique."

" We both qualified both freighters tugs. You know barges. Just fly blind old pilot by. At a -- rate -- that -- games are content -- the greatest amount of compression. We'll look through holes they -- radiation. We have the capability -- operating. Under water. And gold look at the book go right at the whole thing hidden packages back home that they want -- from."

" But the most high tech tools -- thousands of feet above the city giving officers on the ground real time intelligence from Obama. They're. -- copy the computerized GPS camera system can instantly -- on any location in the city."

" From a elevation or -- out through 2015. -- feet. -- different capabilities alone we can -- small animals and trees right from here would put the helicopter up about a thousand feet -- to license -- hello miles away. Big big -- has created so. Various locations. What -- counterterrorism. Patrols point four hours available -- flying over areas and do you like which is now flying. A lot of funds were checking. Critical infrastructure train the odds. Fourth. Product the most vulnerable. Areas within the port itself reported a New York the bridges. -- extensions."

" 24 hours a day by land sea and air the men and women of the NYPD. -- counterterrorism agent are extremely busy securing our city."