york outpatient medical center. tonight we have -- there will be plenty to talk about in a moment. >> a source tells cnn investigators are learning this. an unauthorized procedure, a biopsy on river's vocal chords was begun on the comedienne while she was sedated chl. . sources say there was no consent

form signed by rivers. >> knowing what is going to happen to you is crucial. >> the morning began where she was having a scheduled procedure by the clinic's doctor, dr. lawrence cohen, inserting a tiny camera down her throat looking for possible digestive issues, when staffers say cohen saw something. while rivers was still under anesthesia, sources say that the doctor examined her vocal chords and began a biopsy. and in addition to the fact the procedure was unauthorized, our sources say the doctor was not certified to operate there. >> even though you're a licensed physician you need to have the checks and balances to get you the approval to practice in a particular place. >> reporter: and there is more, a source said that the biopsy

had never before been completed at the clinic. the whole story says that the biopsy was started. our sources say as the operation got under way, her vocal chords began to swell, cutting off her oxygen, putting her into cardiac arrest. >> doctor, if the brain is deprived of oxygen, what is the effect? >> the effect on the brain is damage to the nerve cells, which can cause coma, becoming paralyzed. but in the elderly you have less reserve and less of a window to correct it. >> reporter: when rivers' heart stops beating seconds count. it is 9:40 a.m. the clinic calls 911. the call gets the highest code. five minutes later, new york

fire rescue arrives, cpr is under way, a defibrillator is under way. fire and rescue takes over, 9:47. a mt. sinai team arrives and joins the effort. a minute later, a second fire rescue unit arrives. by 9:50 a.m. 10 emergency personnel are on the scene. a week later, joan rivers is dead. as new york's medical examiner and the state health department continue to investigate the clinic announcing a shake-up in a statement saying dr. cohen is not currently performing procedures, nor is he currently serving as medical director. at this time, a source says neither dr. cohen nor the emt is being accused of wrongdoing. citing federal privacy laws the clinic declines comment on whether rivers' personal doctor was there and performed a

biopsy. and now anderson, this head-shaking news, while rivers was under anesthesia, rivers' personal doctor was taking a selfie, not the kind of thing you may expect from a doctor. >> taking a selfie with joan rivers? >> while she was in the room under anesthesia. >> so wait a minute, the personal doctor was taking a photo with rivers in the background? >> in this case, the doctor, in this case, a female was taking a picture in the background, that is according to staffers. >> with me now is arthur kaplan, the director of the division of ethics in washington, and legal analyst jeffrey toobin. first of all, taking a selfie

during an operation like this? i have never heard of it. >> so you can take pictures of their patients, but you need their permission. you should not be doing it inside the clinical setting because even with consent you're going to try to please your doctor, how many people are going to go no, i don't think so, but you go ahead and operate on me. to do it without consent, without permission, absolute violation of privacy. >> what do you make of this idea of doing a procedure that has not been pre-authorized that the patient has not said yes, okay, if you find something go ahead and biopsy it? >> anderson, this is really not an uncommon situation where a person says i'm going to go ahead and look around and if i see something, maybe we'll just continue, i'll biopsy it or do whatever we're going to do you should have consent that goes in that manner. you should consent, to investigate and then do something. you want to consent it all the way through. it is a little odd if that did

not happen here why it didn't happen here. >> that there was not an actual written form? >> yeah, to say, i sign up, you have my permission, examine me and if we find something, then don't do anything. wake me up, we'll talk about what you need to do. a biopsy, a growth, whatever you need to fine. that is fine, too. >> jeff, what do you make of this? how much trouble could the clinic, the doctors be in? >> well, certainly all of this is good reason for the rivers family to hire a malpractice lawyer. but i have to say i think it is important that we not try to qui convict the doctors based on what we've seen. as arthur said, it is not uncommon when one procedure is done that the doctors decide to do something while they are inside. that does not seem like an outrageous thing. and the precise wording of the subsequent form, i don't know

what the wording was. and it is possible this doctor should not have been there. but this does appear to have been a real doctor who was doing something seemingly reasonable under the circumstances. so it seems like this was not handled in the best way, but whether joan rivers was killed by medical malpractice that seems like a long, long stretch from what has been proved so far. >> and jeff, the selfie? >> the selfie is just a terrible thing. and certainly if this thing ever went to a courtroom you can be sure the defense would not want that in front of the jury. it is embarrassing, stupid, unprofessional. >> i find it hard to believe. i mean, i know it comes from staffers who were there. but if this were her personal doctor i am sure the doctor had plenty of opportunity to get a picture with herself and john rivers, i don't know why she would get one -- >> people behave weirdly around

celebrities. it doesn't seem out of the question to me. whether it compromised her care besides being unprofessional, that is a separate question. >> the idea the doctor was not cleared to perform this in that particular setting, doesn't mean this doctor is not able to perform this properly. >> and jeff is right, you know, we don't know exactly what the credential ling status was, but what you make this deviation, and say it is true you're not supposed to be licensed here, but come in, help out, we'll do something additional that was not on the subsequeconsent form. when you get a death and all of this is used against you in a malpractice situation and it all starts to stack up. a bad outcome, you look up and say didn't do this, didn't do that, wrong place, that is troubling. >> jeff, there is allegations by authorities. you're saying also a possibility of a civil lawsuit by the

family. >> oh, i would say that is the biggest possibility of all the possibilities that are out there. of course, we don't know what joan rivers' condition was, she was an 81-year-old woman. as we all know she had had a lot of plastic surgery. i don't know what exactly her health was in those circumstances. i mean, unfortunately, 81-year-old people, people at any age sometimes go into cardiac arrest and die. and it is not necessarily a doctor's fault. but certainly there does seem to be the basis for further investigation here. >> and anybody of that age doing something as an outpatient procedure that has to be extra complications and concerns. >> absolutely, just by being 81, we all looked at her, and said she had a lot of plastic surgery, when you're 81, you have a problem, that is due to age, you don't have enough reserves. the risk is much higher when you're an older person.

the other thing we have going on is does the facility have other equipment? we're seeing other personnel come in, who was on staff. i am sure that will come up as a question, too. why do we need the outsiders? and the defibrillator, and somebody to run it? >> one thing that strikes me about this. celebrity changes so much. the fact that she was a celebrity might have meant that they brought in different doctors. you know, when you start changing rules for celebrities it starts to hurt the celebrities, too. >> all right, a quick reminder, make sure you set your dvr and watch us. coming up next, the breaking news, accused of killing a state trooper, this man is, and camouflage, makeup, they have not yet found this man, the latest on the manhunt going on right now. i make a lot of purchases for my business.

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well, as we told you about the breaking news last night, the manhunt on the way for this man. the authorities calling him armed and very dangerous, and ideally suited to surviving on the run out in the wild. that means if you see him don't approach him. get someplace safe and call

authorities. jason carroll is out where the manhunt is in full swing. what are police saying, jason? >> reporter: well, first of all, anderson, the roadblocks are set up. police are warning people to be on the lookout for this man. police say this man obviously had a clear grudge against law enforcement and took out his anger on friday against the two state troopers. police say he killed brian dixon. a private ceremony was held for him today. also a flag-raising ceremony held for dixon today. also they say he badly injured alex douglas, we're told douglas came out of surgery on monday and is said to be doing much, much better. this shooting happened not far from where we are, he lived about an hour away, and when police got to his house they say his father said two firearms were missing from his house. an ak-47 and a rifle. and in terms of what was found

in the suspect's bedroom, a book titled "sniper training." and employment. today, the press conference gave a little more insight into what the motive may have been. >> this fellow is extremely dangerous. we have no idea where he is in this community. he has been described as a survivalist who has a lot of training in that particular area. he has made statements about wanting to kill law enforcement officers and also to commit massive acts of murder. what his reasons are, we don't know. but he has very strong feelings about law enforcement and -- he seems to be very angry with a lot of things that go on in our society. >> his father also telling police that his son was well trained and grew up with guns. at one point when he was in high

school he was a member of the rifle club. and when asked about his son's shooting abilities he says when his son shoots he never misses. >> and i understand they found this guy's car about two miles from the pond. >> right, two and a half miles from the barracks, and inside the car they were able to find camouflage paint, spent shell casings, and military gear. we should also tell you police confirm they are working with the fbi, anderson. and one other point. they also had a message for this suspect. they said we will find you. >> jason, do we know the area where the car was found? is it very residential? are there woods? do we know? >> very wooded area. in fact if it was lighter here you can see from the area where we are it is densely wooded and would be very easy for somebody

with survivalist skills like this man has been described in order to blend in, if you will, and hide. that is why police are so deeply concerned about trying to find him before he hurts somebody else. >> yeah, jason, appreciate that. let's dig deeper, i want to bring in a former lapd psychologist and also our law analyst, tom fuente, and deputy director. jason, they're saying this is a wooded area. where does a manhunt like this begin? because we all believe the suspect would want to get as far away as possible. but in the past we've seen sometimes they actually stay very close. >> that is right, anderson, and you will recall two years ago the christopher dorner case, the lapd police that was killed. he abandoned his car in the mountainous wooded area in san bernardino county. and they thought this guy has fled the area. he could be within mexico in a day or two.

and turns out when he is located weeks later he is located a few 100 yards in the particular -- you know, the san bernardino county sheriffs. the big fear you have in a case like this, is a person is going to need shelter, food, water and transportation, if he plans on getting out of the area. and the best way to do that is to do a home invasion. so the public that has residential homes in the area, the cabins or shack, they're vulnerable to him coming there and coming in their home and taking their vehicle. and the other statement, just that he has general hatred sounds like for everybody. and that makes him as dangerous to the public as he is to the police. >> also, chris, i imagine what one says they want to do, killing law enforcement and what they actually do is two

different things. and mass murder, that is the worst possible scenario. >> that is right, this person may not have just one person in mind but the world at large, his vendetta, he made it clear. i think you have to take it seriously. so exactly what tom was saying, is anybody that comes into contact with him should stay clear of him. notify the authorities and anybody in that region should be very concerned and very vigilant. >> and talk mentioned the chris dorner situation. he had a grudge against the lapd but he also ended up shooting police officers from riverside. >> that is right, it ended up getting generalized to other law enforcement in general. and we don't know the specifics of if there is a certain law enforcement agency, this particular guy has a vendetta against. it doesn't sound like it. it sounds like he has a thirst for blood of any sort. and a lot of anger and animosity

that he wants to inflict on the world and prove himself. you know, the fact that he has departed to the woods in that vicinity, anybody needs to be very cautious. >> and tom, just from a law enforcement perspective, having somebody who has experience in the woods. searching the wooded area is a whole different thing that what police normally do searching a residential area or operating in a residential environment. i mean, do they bring in specialists in the woods? how does that work? >> well, normally for that kind of search they would be trying to use helicopters with forward-looking infrared that would look down and be heat-seeking for an animal or person moving around. unfortunately, with those types of equipment they often find deer and bear and other wild animals running around in the woods. and you know, they're often used, if a lost child is being searched for or something like that, there is a lot of

technical equipment that can be in. the police are going to have to go door-to-door. they're going to have to keep one other thing in mind. the fbi had a case in 2010 involving the militia in michigan where their intent was to kill one police officer and ambush hundreds who attended the police funeral parade later. and that is going to happen soon for this diseased officer. >> tom fuente, appreciate you being on. as always you can find out more on this story and others on cnn.com where obviously we'll follow this throughout the evening. coming up next, the vikings adrian peterson, coming up with major news on a sponsor cutting him. and star treatment, allegations against him, generally one game-expense, now, minnesota's governor is weighing in. details ahead. for better acce, cutting edge research, and state of the art facilities. and you pay no taxes for ten years. from biotech in brooklyn, to next gen energy in binghamton, to manufacturing in buffalo...

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breaking news tonight, minnesota vikings runningback adrian peterson lost one of their big sponsors. today, rumblings from a huge sponsor, anheuser-busch which

said we're disappointed and completely concerned. we are not yet happy about the league's handling of the culture and moral code. the vikings reinstated him after suspending him for one game, a game the vikings lost without their star player. he is expected to play this sunday in the vikings' next game. we'll have more in a moment. but first, more allegations on a different child abuse case. >> reporter: a new string of text messages obtained by the station details another alleged incident of abuse by peterson, this time with a different son. the alleged incident happened last summer. the station reports peterson allegedly sent a picture of one of his boys to the child's mother. the little boy had a bandage on his head. according to the report, the mother responded what happened

to his head? peterson responds hit his head on the car seat. how did this happen? peterson writes, i did it i felt bad, he would have saved the scar, he is all right. adrian peterson's attorney says the allegations there is a second child abuse investigation, simply not true. the attorney says it was an accusation that was not substantiated and shopped around to two different authorities in two different states over a year ago and that nothing came of it. the attorney said there was an adult witness who insisted that peterson did nothing wrong. in the final text messages with the unidentified mother, she writes, i'm real sensitive about my baby and him being hit, to which peterson responds, you trip him, you come get him. i'm not about to get questioned down like you cps. >> i was incredibly sad and horri horrified. >> reporter: the sports writing was familiar with the police report in the other incident

involving peterson's 4-year-old son that led to the football star's indictment last week, saying in the report it is clear peterson believes in tough discipline, although texas investigators say this incident crossed the line into child abuse. >> this did not have the feeling of you know, dad comes home from work looking for someone to hit. it was it appeared to me that this was -- this is how dad was raised, if not that dad was raised more harshly and that this is how he believes you raise young men in america. >> reporter: to many, that is a ground justification. minnesota's governor called peterson an embarrassment to the viking's football organization and called for the star runningback to be suspended until the legal process is complete. cnn, dallas. and even casual football watchers likely heard of adrian peterson, but unless you're a vikings fan you probably never heard of aaron henderson, caleb king, each player suspended by the vikings in recent years,

soon after being arrested but before a court ruling of guilt or innocence. seems a different set of rules apply in peterson's case. unlike most of those players peterson has not been cut nor is no longer suspended and will play this sunday. the vikings saying it is right for him to go through the process legally. a.j. jefferson, chris cook, caleb king would have liked to have had that right. are there two different sets of rules, one for others, one for stars? joining us, former federal prosecutor sunny hostin and roger costick, they moved quickly to distance themselves. is there a double standard? >> i don't think there is any question there is a double standard. chris cook was being investigated on felony domestic abuse charges. he didn't play for ten games

during that stretch. adrian peterson misses one game and is supposed to be back on the field this weekend. and as for the details in the cases emerge, the accusations in the second case that ed went over with the text messages, there are a lot of people in the state of minnesota that are getting increasingly upset. there are a lot of cases where possibly disciplining your child crosses over to child abuse. and the standards are if it violates the standards of the communities. well, you're dealing with two different communities. you have the texas community where the allegations are that the incident occurred and then you have the minnesota community which maybe has a different standard. and they read a statement that peterson released saying hey, i did all of these things but my intent is different than you think. we're hearing from a lot of people from the state of minnesota, saying hey, your intent doesn't really matter. we see the wounds on your child and that is not okay. >> does the intent matter? >> i don't, it doesn't matter, and i think the photographs,

anybody that is mindful of his response, which is i love my children. i'm not a child abuser really leads you to believe that he does not understand or he doesn't the import of his actions. this is clear child abuse. it is not discipline. and i think that unfortunately, there is this celebrity justice taking place. and i also think, anderson, that what is so odd to me about this entire conversation is people are saying well, he made a mistake. but this is child abuse. it is not -- a mistake. >> there are a lot of people who disagree with that, what sunny said. i got a lot of tweets last night saying look this is the way i was raised. just like peterson said this is the way i was raised, this is what my parents did to me. spare the rod, spoil the child. >> anderson, we're talking about a beating with a switch to a 4-year-old child. not a teenager, and that would be unacceptable, too.

we're talking about a beating of a 4-year-old child this is not disciplining your child, this is child abuse, and is he being treated differently by the vikings, you bet he is. they lost that game last week and suddenly they need to reinstate him? they have to make peace with what they have done. >> we talked to other players who have actually been convicted and are being still allowed to play while they appeal the conviction. >> yeah, and it is interesting. we talked a lot about greg hardy of the carolina panthers, who was convicted of assaulting his girlfriend. the panthers put him out there. there was so much of an outcry between weekend one and two that the morning of the game they did decide to deactivate him. that is after saying all week he was going to play. first of all it tells you the public's voice matters. people need to keep talking about it because it is having an effect. and then it leads to where the

sponsor's voice matters. and i do think that dollar sign speaks louder than words when you have anheuser-busch and visa making a statement saying they don't think the nfl has done enough. radisson hotels is taking back their sponsorship. we'll have to see if adrian peterson actually gets onto the field on sunday. right now the vikings are saying he will play but we have a lot of people weighing in saying he should not. and as the noise gets louder, we'll see if it has an effect. >> so roger, are you saying you don't think he should play until a court determines exactly what happened? he should not be able to play? >> absolutely, i believe that. due process is two different things here, what you're talking about is due process in the criminal courts and obviously i believe in due process in the criminal courts. he should have a trial and fair trial and the jury should decide whether they think it is reasonable for a man to do what he did to a 4-year-old child. i think obviously a jury should

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today, president obama said the united states is ready to take the lead in the fight against another global spread, ebola. the epidemic has killed at least 2400 people and is affecting thousands more. >> it is spiraling out of control, spreading faster, this is an epidemic not just a threat to regional security but a potential threat to global security if these countries

break down, if their economies break down. if people panic. >> speaking from the cdc in atlanta, president obama outlined a plan that includes sending as many as 3,000 u.s. troops to liberia. before leaving washington president obama met with dr. kent brantly and his wife. as you may remember, dr. brantly contracted ebola while working in liberia's capital. he testified this month. for months, they have been begging for help. and the disease has grown exponentially. so the president announced plans. what are the details of it? >> reporter: well, you mentioned the 3,000 troops, that is a big number. i tell you, anderson, we have been covering stories for a long time. this is the largest public response i've heard of just outside the united states. just these numbers alone they want to build hospital beds

eventually. and also train health care workers, 500 a week. obviously this is very important because the response will end, and what happens when the troops start to leave? they also want to do something i think is very interesting, which is provide about 400,000 home protection kits. you and i have talked about it, anderson, despite everything that is going on there, there is still a lot of distrust doctors and hospitals. people will stay at home, this is more of an acknowledgment of that. we'll stay at home, and provide the protection kits. so if somebody is sick in the home they are not subsequently spreading it to anyone else. the analogy i hear about this, anderson, you can't leave even one burning ember behind because eventually that could be a source of an outbreak. so it has to be a robust effort in many places. >> but in particular, it focuses on liberia, but doesn't address the problem in guinea or sierra

leone. >> reporter: i was in guinea, it sort of started in guinea and then spread to the other places. so it is if there was not a more broader effort it is hard to coordinate care in all of these different places. so i don't know how this is all going to work. i've asked that same question. and i will point out some of the plans that we've heard from the president, they have sort of been in planning for sometime. this situation happened a couple of days ago. this has been given thought. they will take the fall and go

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well, there is more breaking news tonight. a top u.s. general says that more ground troops may be used to fight isis, in his speech, president obama said the u.s. offensive would not involve combat troops. today, general dempsey seemed to open the door for just that, listen. >> my view at this point is that this coalition is the appropriate way forward. i believe that will prove true. but if it fails to be true, and if there are threats to the united states then of course i would go back to the president and make a recommendation that may include the use of u.s. military ground forces.

>> we have cnn correspondent barbara starr joining us right now. he says if the air campaign against isis fails then ground troops could be something he would recommend on a case by case basis. >> good evening, beyond, general dempsey talked about two cases in which he might recommend ground troops. one would be if he needed the troops to call in airstrikes to locate targets from the ground and call airstrikes in or to advise the iraqi air forces, and what they call close combat, meaning you're right up there at the front line. so is this different than what the president is talking about? are these troops in combat? well, they may not be in direct offensive combat. you know, if you're out there and bullets are coming your way you're in combat. so -- there is a semantics theme going on here. there is a bit of wordssubmmith.

but later, the general clarified about what he was saying, not putting troops right into combat. but talking about the case in which u.s. troops may help on the ground in a semi-combat situation. >> so the house votes tomorrow giving the president to pass and the authority to train rebels. do we have anything what the authorization would look like, how they would idea and vet these people? >> all of the problems with all of this. and the training program, about 5,000 moderate syrian rebels per year is according to the administration absolutely crucial to dealing wi ining wit the syrian border. the problem is how do you identify them? where do you train them? no country has exactly stepped up to welcome the 5,000 troops to their country to be trained. and perhaps most interesting, governor mccain pointed out

today his problem with the whole effort if you train and equip these moderate syrian rebels what is to say they're going to fight isis? they may just go back to syria and fight the assad regime. no guarantees about any of this. >> all right, thank you, barbara starr, one thing to make good on the order. it took years to make good on the intelligence information to target the key operatives. some of this information came from a former danish boxer, morton storm. he shared information, my life, which he co-wrote. tonight, at 9:00 eastern time, just nine minutes from now. the cnn special for the double agent inside the al qaeda, telling his story. it is really an unbelievably fascinating story. he joined up as an islamist. and then became a double agent.

why did he choose to do that? >> he became radicalized after converting. and then he went deep into al qaeda's world, getting to know many of the people who became top al qaeda leaders. people like an war alalaki, and he had all of these contacts. he was trusted by them and was perhaps the most important spy that the cia has had inside al qaeda since 9/11. >> is it clear -- people become double agents for many reasons, some financial, some other reasons. >> he was fed up with all the civilian casualties from al qaeda and did all the soul-searching, deciding the only thing he could do was to work with the cia. he knew just how dangerous these people were, because he rubbed shoulders with them for years and years. >> how did he make contact with them? if he is deep in bed with them, how did he make contact?

>> well, he came back to denmark, and the danish operatives tried to recruit him over and over again. again, when he was ready, to prove he switched sides he ordered bacon and beer. they were very, very excited that the guy who they monitored, this guy who had all the contacts in al qaeda. they were very excited he would become a key resource. >> beer and bacon, a design to show he was no longer following the dietary laws. in terms of what he actually was able to accomplish for western intelligence, an war awlaki was killed. did he have something to do with that. >> the admissions he was involved with, one involving a cro croatian woman who was sent out

to marry awlaki. but in the end, he had this courier going between him and the cia. and they were able to trace this back to awlaki. >> it is an incredible story, an amazing tale. what happened to him? i understand he is in hiding. >> he is in hiding. isis threatened his life last year, they had a picture on a wall of him. if he doesn't receive protection from western intelligence, he has to have his wits about him every single day. >> why doesn't he have protection? >> because he told his story and wrote a book with us. he felt that was the best thing he could do. he wanted the world to know what he really was. that he was not part of al qaeda. but really secretly working for western intelligence with cia. >> and because of that, that was something obviously western intelligence, they don't want people they are protecting to write a story like this. so they said we can't protect

you. >> yeah, that was the deal. you stay settlemeilent, we prot, you go public, you're on your own. >> that is fascinating, and congratulations on the book of course. check out cnn special report, double agent for the al qaeda, right here, 9 eastern, cnn. >> in northern california, wildfire threatening hundreds of homes. details ahead. bayer back & body provides effective relief for your tough pain. better? yeah...thanks for the tip!

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"ac360" bulletin. >> anderson, a delay in the case of the shooting death in ferguson, missouri, a st. louis county judge has extended the deadline for a grand jury to decide whether wilson should be charged. that new deadline is january 7th. wildfire, forcing thousands of people from their homes and burned at least 9,000 acres in northern california. the biggest fire is in el dorado national forest and is only 5% contained. and it looks like nasa has awarded contracts to the international space station. since the shuttle program ended astronauts have been going on russian spacecraft. the astronauts will undergo testing before they're certified for flight.

and a doctor in the detroit area has pled guilty to giving patients unnecessary chemotherapy to defraud patients. the doctor faces up to 175 years in prison when he is sentenced. >> unbelievable, all right, susan, thank you very much. we'll see you 11 p.m. eastern, another edition of "ac360." a double agent inside the al qaeda for the cia starts now. the following is a cnn special report. morton storm. for half a decade he says he moved back and forth between two worlds and two identities. when one misplaced sentence could have cost him his life. >> you don't know what angle he is playing. >> traveling between