Bomb making materials, an ISIS flag, and a 16-year-old suspect.

Tonight on Laura Coates Live. All right, there is a chilling story that just came out tonight about a potentially deadly terror plot that was foiled.

It happened in Las Vegas, but the really frightening part,

the suspect I'm talking about is just 16 years old.

Think about that.

At an age when most parents are talking about them,

talking them about their driver's license

or about getting their PSats taken

or maybe your Tik-Toc followers,

a 16-year-old is in custody tonight, arrested for allegedly making a terrorism

threat on social media.

Now the cops say the suspect claimed that he was beginning lone wolf terror attacks in Las Vegas in support of ISIS.

Were we able to identify the suspect and his location within hours of uncovering this threat.

The suspect is a 16 year old juvenile who is local to the area and a recent convert to Islam.

Within hours? Wow. And what police say they discovered his home might just be the tip of the iceberg.

You got a handmade ISIS flag, propaganda, components for building an improvised explosive device, but there's so much we don't know tonight.

What would push a teenager, a 16-year-old to allegedly make a threat just like this. What was the plan by the way? Was there a specific

target and how did the cops thwart it in a matter of hours? We cannot of course we can aim this in a vacuum. It's no coincidence about what we're seeing in terms of the rise of what happens on social media a plot coming in the midst of so many horrifying images online of the death, the destruction in Gaza.

And as the war rages in the Middle East, how do we deal with the threats right here at home?

And what role does social media play in all of this? A question so many

are asking again tonight, is it the symptom, the problem, or the cure.

During me now, seeing

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