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David Bowdich, assistant director of the FBI’s Los Angeles bureau held a press conference Monday afternoon to update the media on their investigation.

Officials also said the assailants had gone to gun ranges within the Los Angeles area in the days before last Wednesday’s massacre that killed 14 people, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The source cited in the Fox News report, which has not been confirmed by authorities yet, said that the investigators are also trying to find out if the $10,000 withdrawn by Farook was handed out to Enrique Marquez, who had bought the two assault rifles involved in the attack.

The reopening of much of the government’s offices signals an effort to return to normalcy for a community that has been in shock and mourning since the killings Wednesday.

The couple was killed in a gunbattle with police about seven hours after the initial shooting at the Inland Regional Center, which provides treatment for people with developmental disabilities.

A day after the attack, a spokesman for the Saudi Foreign Ministry Osama Nugali said told NYT that while Farook had visited the kingdom only once, for nine days in 2014, there was no record of Malik having ever entered the kingdom.

The Dec. 2 shooting, which also wounded 21, was the deadliest act of terrorism on USA soil since September 11, 2001.

A pro-IS news agency, Aamaq, said Friday the mass shooting was perpetrated by sympathizers of the radical group, which has urged followers in the United States and elsewhere to carry out lone wolf attacks.

CNN has obtained a photocopy of Malik’s Pakistani national identification card from a senior Pakistani intelligence source.

“What they’re calling these two are supporters, which is kind of a lesser level”, indicating ISIS might not have had direct contact with the couple, Francona said. A law enforcement official said it appeared last week’s San Bernardino attack may have been inspired by ISIS, but none of the three officials said the group directed or ordered the attack.

Questions have been raised about the extent to which Farook, who was born in IL to Pakistani immigrant parents and grew up in Southern California, might have been introduced to extremism by Malik, whom he married in Saudi Arabia in the summer of 2014 before returning together to the United States.

Tafsheen Malik and Syed Rizwan Farook. Her new husband, Syed Farook, stood right behind her as they passed through immigration.

Malik looks directly into the camera as her husband stands behind her.

In addition, authorities found 19 pipes in the couple’s home that could be turned into bombs, Bowdich said.

Farook’s mother, who shared a home with the couple and their 6-month-old baby, lived in an isolated part of the house, he said.

The president said Congress should act to make sure no one on the U.S.no-fly list is able to buy a gun.

The attack took place inside a packed conference room rented by the county’s public health department for a year-end event, which Farook had been attending.

The environmental health services department employees will start working from December 14. Investigators said that it is not yet clear whether workplace friction might have played some role in the couple’s choice of target. “We can’t be afraid of our lives, of our community, of our neighbours, of our coworkers”.

The county, which operates out of hundreds of facilities, has stepped up security at its buildings, posting armed security guards at some locations.