Norah O'Donnell Sits with FBI Director Christopher Wray on CBS THIS MORNING

CBS THIS MORNING Co-Host Norah O'Donnell sits with FBI Director Christopher Wray in his first extensive, multi-part interview talking about terrorism, the nation today and the state of the agency. The wide-ranging interview, conducted over several hours on multiple days, will be broadcast Sept. 11, 2018 and Sept. 13, 2018 (7:00-9:00 AM) on the CBS Broadcast Network.

"People think of the 9/11 threat, they think New York, they think D.C. Today's terrorism threat is everywhere, coast to coast, north, south, east, west," Wray told O'Donnell. "It's a different kind of threat."

O'Donnell talked with Wray at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in Manhattan and will talk with him Wednesday in Washington. Wray told O'Donnell that the U.S. is "safer" and "dramatically better prepared" to tackle terror threats, but they have "evolved" to present new challenges. Wray told O'Donnell that cyber threats contribute to the challenges, characterizing those threats "at an all-time high."

"Terrorism today moves at the speed of social media," Wray added.

Wray also said the FBI has thwarted numerous attempts of those plotting possible attacks even in the last year or so, from the San Francisco pier, at a shopping mall in Miami, before a Fourth of July celebration in Cleveland, and in Minnesota where a female college student was "recruiting classmates to join al Qaeda and al-Shabaab." He also said "it's not just big cities," pointing to a case in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania where a 21-year-old was allegedly inspired by the jihadist movement and "was circulating kill lists of U.S. service members, with names, addresses and photographs."

Wray told O'Donnell there are "about 1,000 investigations" into homegrown violent extremists alone. "That's about 5,000 terrorism investigations," he said.

To put the threats into context, Wray said the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force receives "about 15,000" tips a year - "that's basically 40 tips a day, two tips an hour."

"We had about 120 arrests, terrorism related arrests, last year alone," Wray said, adding, "So there's a lot happening every day, 365 days a year right now in the terrorism front."

Each weekday morning, Gayle King, Norah O'Donnell and John Dickerson deliver two hours of original reporting, breaking news and top-level newsmaker interviews in an engaging and informative format that challenges the norm in network morning news programs. The broadcast has earned a prestigious Peabody Award, a Polk Award, three News & Documentary Emmys, three Daytime Emmys and the 2017 Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Newscast. The broadcast was also honored with an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award as part of CBS News division-wide coverage of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

Ryan Kadro is the executive producer of CBS THIS MORNING and CBS THIS MORNING: SATURDAY.

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