Are you sufficiently terrified? Unless you are currently cowering under your bed and praying to whatever deity you think can help you, then you aren't terrified enough.
The American government wants to help you live in fear of Monday.

US intelligence officials have reportedly warned law enforcement around the country of the potential for multiple al-Qaeda terrorist attacks on Monday, aimed to coincide with the day before the US election. The reports were described as “possibly legitimate and concerning.”

Details are still scant, but the intelligence has singled out New York, Virginia, and Texas as the mostly likely targets. Even then, they offered no details on potential locations, saying al-Qaeda and its affiliates are eager to regain their relevance.

A NYPD spokesman briefed on the matter said that the threats “lack specificity,” however local police around the country were said to have been warned that polling places are considered “attractive targets” for both organized and homegrown terror attacks.

Darn those terrorists. Always trying to kill us in predictable ways.
Wait a second. I seem to have heard this somewhere before. Sometime last year.

 Former CIA deputy director Mike Morell ominously told CBS last week that “I wouldn’t be surprised if we weren’t sitting here a week from today talking about an attack over the weekend in the United States.” MSNBC and Fox joined in too, using graphics and maps right out of Stephen Colbert’s satirical “Doom Bunker,” suggesting World War III was just on the verge of reaching America’s shores.

Like in most cases, it was CNN who led the charge in making sure that our fear level was sufficient.

  There were plenty of Serious People in the government to explain why this July 4th was going to be the most dangerous in the history of the country.

 Authorities told NBC News that they are unaware of any specific or credible threat inside the country. But the dangers are more complex and unpredictable than ever.

 You read that right. There were no "specific or credible threats" but that just made things more dangerous than ever.
  If there was a specific and credible threat then we'd actually be in less danger.

  Even politicians wanted us to know that now was the time to tremble.

  Oh sure, you are more likely to die from your own falling furniture than from a terrorist attack, and white supremists kill more Americans than Islamic terrorists, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be paralyzed with fear of scary muslims.
  If you want proof, just look at the ISIS dildo-flag. We need to be protected from that.

   Adam Johnson went back and looked at the last 40 times that the FBI and Homeland Security have issued similar threats around national holidays and found that we barely escaped with our lives each and every time. Somehow the terrorists failed to carry out a single one of those terrorist attacks.

“Can the FBI break its terror-predicting 0-40 losing streak this weekend? Tune into CNN to find out!”
  - Journalist Adam Johnson

So how did we manage to dodge yet another bullet this July 4th? Because the FBI was on the job, as CNN reported.

US law enforcement efforts thwarted a number of terror threats in the last two weeks, including plots timed to the July 4 holiday weekend, US officials tell CNN on Thursday. The thwarted plots included targets “coast to coast.” In fitting with calls by ISIS to attack in any way possible, the attempted plots were unsophisticated, including guns, knives and other weapons.
  More than 10 people have been arrested in the past four weeks on charges related to their association with ISIL. Some of those, Comey said, involved plots timed to July 4th. Comey declined to elaborate on the nature of the plots or where they were targeted.

"Coast to coast"! They almost killed us all! With knives, no less!
   NBC managed to get FBI Director James Comey to elaborate on these evil plots.

 Comey added that those inspired by ISIS don’t make elaborate plans and often act on the spur of the moment.
“It’s actually hard to figure out when they’re trying to kill somebody,” Comey said. “And you cannot say, ‘Well, we’ve got to do it on the Fourth.’ Because you know you have people who are motivated to kill people, and they are unreliable in terms of when they’re going to act.”

So these terrorists had "no elaborate plans" and are “unreliable in terms of when they’re going to act” and it's "hard to figure out when they’re trying to kill somebody" and are not actually linked to international terror groups, but somehow they were "plots timed to the July 4 holiday weekend".
   If I wasn't pissing my pants in fear inside of my panic room right now, I might be able to notice the contradictions in claims.
Considering all those restrictions, it's amazing the FBI managed to thwart them at all. If our law enforcement hadn't thwarted those "plots" we might not have even known about them.
FBI press release-reader Jim Sciutto managed to add, “No further details were immediately available about how the plots were thwarted.”

Personally, I fear sharknados a lot more.