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is to kiss the bride with a norovirus. >> congratulations, george! >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. that's true, you don't need any red bags on your honeymoons. thanks so much for watching. have a wonderful night. see you back here tomorrow night. "a krrc 360" begins right now. >> we begin with new reporting on the white house fence jumper who may have not just jumped the fence, not only sprinted across the front lawn, not only made it through the north portico and the front door of the white house, all that was concerning enough. now according to a councilman omar gonzalez made it much farther and deeper into 1600 pennsylvania avenue. we were given to believe that secret service agents stopped him just as he got inside the white house. tomorrow the secret serviceman will speak before the congressional committee. what they're telling jim acosta.
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what have you learned, jim? >> reporter: sources have confirmed that omar gopz les made it much farther into the white house. once gonzalez entered the white house, he mced to get through a secret service officer at the north portico door. he went past the stairs leading up to the first family residence, then ran into the rees room before he was tackled. you can see this up on screen here in this map of the white house. and this occurred just as he was trying to head into the green room. he almost made it even farther. no shots were fired inside or outside the white house during this entire incident. according to a memo that will be used by laurps on a hearing on this tomorrow, there were multiple lapses that allowed gonzalez to make it this far. one of them being the failure to use what's called the crash button, that would have instantly locked down the white house. the question is why that button was not used. >> you were given a much different story on the night of this incident? >> reporter: this runs counter to what the secret service
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initially said when a spokesman told reporters that gonzalez was apprehended just inside the north portico door over my shoulder. that is certainly not the case. an the director of the secret service is scheduled to appear before the house oversight committee tomorrow morning on this, and she'll be asked about this directly. >> no doubt she's going to be grilled about this pretty heavily. do we know what she's expected to say or talk about? because there was this other incident as well back in 2011. >> we'll see how much is answered publicly in front of the cameras. part of this hearing will be in closed session. but she's likely to be asked not only about this incident but her agency's budget. the secret service is authorized to have 1400 officers. right now there are roughly 1300 officers. so they're about a hundred or so short. not to mention the physical barriers around the white house. tonight there are temporary bike rack-like fencing or fences that are up around the main fence around the white house.
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that main fence around the white house, anderson, stands only about 7 1/2 feet tall. it's been there since the 1960s. you mentioned this incident back in 2011. yes, keep in mind that according to "the washington post," secret service officers when there were reports of shots being fired at the white house, secret service officers were given a stand-down order and that no shots were fired but we found out later that was not the case. an usher found a bullet hole in a window and mr. and mrs. obama were furious about that. >> jim acosta, thanks. this story troubling as it is comes on the heel of this other recent reporting about another incident back in 2011. i want to go interest detail on that incident. an ohio man -- an idaho man, i should say with hatred for the president, his name was oscar or teague ga hernandez managed to stop his car near the perimeter of the south lawn pull out a semiautomatic rifle and open fire. at least seven shots hit the upstairs residence where first family lives. with sasha obama and her
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grandmother at home. according to "the washington post" that just put out a blockbuster of a story on this, confusion reigned. a supervisor concluded it was a truck backfiring later it was treat as a gang shoot-out. here is raudio obtained from that night speaking with metro police 911 officer. we're removing the agent's name. >> d.c. emergency, 911. police, fire or ambulance? >> police. this is [ bleep ] of the secret service calling from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. our units are reporting shots fired on 17th and constitution northwest. two vex exchanged gunfire. one was a black cadillac one was a yellow truck. >> it wasn't until four days later that the secret service realized that shots hit the white house. this man was later caught in western pennsylvania. he's since pleaded guilty to the crime. he's doing a 25-year stretch in
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federal prison. his arrest and sentencing got headlines at the time. the apparent security lapses and confusion did not. joining us is carol linig who did the reporting for "the post county ", she had a busy few days. along with us us is dan bonino who is currently running for u.s. congress on the republican ticket. his brother is still a secret service agent. carol, the idea that this man was able to make it across the lawn into the entrance was shocking enough. how it is possible that he made it so far into the white house and so close to first family's living quarters? it is clear exactly how that happened? i assume there was an alarm box that had been muted. >> yes, we have sources that say this box was not working. there's a crash box on lots of the stations of various security posts around the white house complex. and this box is something you are supposed to hit basically like a big red button if you think there is an intruder or some sort of crisis at your location. when you hit that button, it
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also starts alerting all the other crash boxes in the building, so it's alerting everybody else where to respond to. and it's piping in the audio of your location. so what we've heard from our sources today is that that crash box was never set off. the protocol for the white house complex is that the secret service officers are trained to lock that front door if there's an intruder on the grounds. and it's clear, obviously, that this person did not lock the door. >> if this intruder made it so far into the white house, why were the public and press told differently until your reporting? >> well, as you probably know, the secret service has not given an official account of what happened other than to confirm that someone got close to the door or in the door. it's interesting because it was bad enough before the five rings of security that were pierced on the north lawn. now we see a couple more that were pierced on the inside. and i would say this goes to this larger issue that i keep hearing about the secret service, and that is incredible
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severe stafg shortages, incredible morale problems and also lots and lots of churn of employees, relieving, resigning, new ones coming. apparently this officer on the front door had been there for little more than half a year and the officer out front had also not been there for more than a year. >> dan, the obama family had obviously left the white house minutes before. if they had still been in the white house, how much danger do you think they could have been in? >> there's again no putting lipstick on this. sniff danger if there was any kind of explosive, high powered weapon, yes, we'd be having a far different conversation. you just said something that's very pivotal here. they had just left, the first family. the first family when they leave from the south grounds on the opposite side of the white house, there's always a little bit of chaos. you've been here for these departures when marine one leav
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leaves. there's always been the herding cats effect. i'm not making excuses for them, they're not making excuses for themselves. but try to make context to this. that in conjunction with an active united nations general assembly being prepared for up in new york, i can pretty much assure you the manpower shortages that carol referred to were very real and played a role in this event and inexperience of people at the front door. >> the other scoop you had about gunshots hitting the white house back in 2011 the first and perhaps biggest mistake was the call from the supervise that, quote, no shots had been fired and ordering agents to stand down. it took the secret service to realize that shots had hit the white house residence. >> yes, first lady and the president were none too pleased. when we started to dig more deeply into this shooting, the more i heard about it from people on the inside the more i thought it reflected about what isn't working right about the secret service. the investigators working that night basically concluded
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very -- in a very rushed way that it must be two gangsters shooting at each other, that sound of gunfire on constitution avenue couldn't have possibly been connected to the white house. but actually there were officers on the ground, underneath the truman balcony who said that that night they drew their weapons, heard the gunpyfire, aimed at the white house. one woman said she heard the sound of debris falling from the truman balcony above her head. there were people that worked for the secret service and were protecting the house that had a different impression but in the case of this officer, she said she was afraid to counter her superiors the next day. >> dan, again, you have no doubt that this was a fumbled investigation. >> no, no, it would be silly to say otherwise. they didn't catch the rounds for four days. but the officer on the ground, the rank and file. these were officers not agents. the agents were not at that
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scene as it happened, they were there later. but the officers did what they were supposed to do. they took out their weapons and took out what they saw. again it's a situation and i wouldn't be surprised at all if there wasn't some pressure on management level uniform division officers to, quote, make this go away. we don't want to make this look like an attack on the white house. i wouldn't be surprised at all. >> carol, incredible reporting, dan bonino, thank you as well. we'll learn more when the secret service testifies. what's unfolding as we speak in hong kong involves people largely student-led pro-democracy protesters by the thousands. authorities in beijing may not be able to put a damper on it. here's how some of the protests and police response played out overnight there.
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[ chanting ] >> we're now going to be enveloped in tear gas. >> that's ivan watson right there in the middle of it. he's still on the scene now. obviously very tense situation over the last couple of days. what's it like right now? >> reporter: much more peaceful over the last 24 hours, anderson. take a look. the crowd's much more sparse, but it's tuesday morning just after 8:00 a.m. local time. and the kids that we're showing you here basically slept here on the asphalt in the middle of this highway, this eight-lane highway that runs through the center of hong kong. they've occupied it for the
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second straight night right outside the government headquarters. the scene at night before midnight here was of just a sea of humanity here. people singing anthems, chanting to the local hong kong officials and the riot police that had been tear gassing this crowd periodically, hitting them with pepper spray on sunday night, had pulled back and the numbers of people we've seen here throughout monday were bigger than anything we've seen in more than a week of student-led protests against the government here and against the government in mainland china. >> so there's been disagreement about the level of force that police have employed. you were on the ground when the tear gas was used. was it excessive? >> you know, i saw real efforts, anderson, on the part of the protesters and the security forces to kind of not escalate
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the situation, but pushing and shoving did kind of erupt and the police did use pepper spray and tear gas, and that's a big deal for hong kong. i've been to other cities, other countries where police are much more draconian, but here nobody's seen tear gas used in these streets in nearly a decade. it was clear that even the police, some of them, were not accustomed to the effects of tear gas and so just that use of maybe 80 canisters over a 24-hour period really made a lot of people angry here, that their own security forces would use these measures against unarmed demonstrators. of course the government here it insists that the demonstrators instigated this by shoving the police. >> i think 2005 is the last time i read that tear gas was used in hong kong. do you have a sense of how this is being covered in mainland china? are they covering it?
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>> it's been largely blocked out. i mean, the main newscast on state tv monday night didn't even mention hong kong. we know that instagram has been shut down in mainland china. and also you had the great so-called fire wall that blocks out facebook, twitter, google and things like "the new york times" unless you have a vpn to get in. so it's very clear that the authorities in mainland china are trying to really control the message. and the incredible thing about that is hong kong is technically part of china, but since the british handover, it's had a pretty different system of government. so people have been able to get out in the streets. have been able to criticize their government, criticize the communist party without the draconian really violent memories of repression you would see in mainland china. that gets to the crux of the dispute here. people say they don't want this
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crime and punishment tonight, and what could be new evidence in the disappearance of hannah graham who has now been missing for more than two weeks. new evidence, however, may not mean new hope because authorities have yet to say definitively, we underscore the word might link her case to two poerps one rape and one murder. more from jean casarez. >> reporter: as the investigation continues into the disappearance of hannah graham, the arrest of jesse matthew jr. has turned up a potential connection. the state police announcing a significant break pursuing a new forensic link to another young virginia woman. morgan harrington. >> i mean, we are relieved, but it is a roller coaster. we really haven't acclimated to this new phase. >> reporter: in the fall of 2009, the virginia tech student traveled almost 150 miles to attend a metallica concert at the john paul jones arena on the university of virginia campus in charlottesville. the 20-year-old left the arena
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for a short time around 8:30 but when she tried to get back in, officials said no. so harrington began to walk. according to the fbi, she was last seen hitchhiking. she was never heard from again. >> be strong. we are trying to find you. we will never stop. >> reporter: the black t-shirt harrington was wearing was found almost one month later on november 11th, 2009, in charlottesville. but no morgan. finally on january 26, 2010, morgan harrington's skeletal remains were found on farmland outside of charlottesville along route 29. >> our sorrow is etched in our faces. our pain has been carved into our hearts. >> reporter: in finding morgan, investigators also found foreign dna. allegedly from her murderer. and then in 2012, a break in the
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case. dna from harrington's remains linked her case to another one four years earlier. the sexual assault of a 26-year-old woman 98 miles away. that victim survived, and she gave authorities a composite sketch. investigators in the harrington case released the composite. is it jesse matthew jr.? does the quote new forensic link tie him to morgan harrington's death and the 2005 sexual assault? authorities aren't giving details, details the family of morgan harrington have been waiting for for five years. >> it's critical that we solve this. there's a killer among us. and now there's a face to it, which makes me very angry. >> jean casarez joins us now. what have police told you about this alleged forensic connection between the two cases. >> the forensic link they say they are pursuing -- and anderson, there's a lot of definitions that can come from that, but let's look at the facts. i always say that. this is what we know.
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the police chief told me that they spent hours combing the car of jesse matthew, collecting potential items of evidence. in his apartment. we saw -- i was there. it was hours they were collecting things. they can find his dna on cigarette butts, on a glass, on so many other things. the lab from the state of virginia -- because i spoke with the lab last week, they get someone's dna, that's the purpose of the lab. >> jean casarez, appreciate the update i want to bring in mary ellen o'toole, author of "dangerous instincts" also legal analyst and form federal prosecutor sunny hostin. when you hear there have been alleged forensic connection between these two cases, what does that mean to you? >> well, when i heard that, especially based on some of the more recent media reports that they were able to take dna from the 2005 sexual assault case and link it to some type of dna in
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morgan's case, whether that's blood or semen or sweat, somehow they were able to make that connection. at the time, however, they didn't have a suspect to compare that -- those fluids to. so that's what that suggests. i hope that it's dna because that's the most powerful forensic evidence, but that's what it sells me, they could link the cases but they did not have a suspect at that time to ling to put at kind of the top of those two cases. >> and sunny, when you hear about this alleged link, it obviously moves the case in a whole new direction. >> it does, although i am not sure that we know enough to say that there is this ling. because when you get this statement from the police department that is saying there is a forensic link that they are going to pursue, that doesn't, i think, tell us enough to go forward. forensics definitely means there's a scientific link. but are we talking about blood,
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semen or ballistics because ballistics are also considered to be forensic evidence. i really don't know what this means at this point. if indeed it is some sort of dna, and i agree of course that's the strongest type of forensic evidence and it links this suspect to three, you know, disappearance of one girl and the murder of another and then the rape of another, we're talking about a serial rippist, serial killer, and that's just remarkable. >> mary ellen, that's interesting because earlier this month morgan harrington's mom drew comparisons between her daughter's case and hannah graham saying it was the same town, same kind of look of a girl, same time of year. if somebody is a predator, do they typically follow a pattern? >> they do follow a pattern. there's the obvious pattern that's call the m.o. or the modus operandi. and those behaviors change over time. they're subject to being educated by reading about your case in the newspaper, for example. the more subtle and the stronger
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connections is what we call the signature of the offender. and those are what his behavior is like at the crime scene, how he interacts with the victim, what he does to the victim. so there are really two levels. the more obvious the m.o., then the more nuanced specific to the offender known as the signature. >> sunny, there's a bond hearing thursday. could these paths, alleged links be brought up there? >> certainly at the bond hearing, yes, if that forensic link is a strong link and they're able to link the three together, there's no question that the prosecutor is going to bring it up and say, your honor, this is someone who is not only a disappearance in one person, he's also our suspect in the rape of one person and the murder of another. so this is not a bondable offense. >> mary ellen, you look at those artists sketches based on the first attack of a woman. i mean, arguably doesn't really
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look like this person. are sketches still used or are sketches still considered something that's of value? >> they really are. there are many people out there that can look at a sketch and they're very good at being able to say, you know, that looks familiar, the eyes and the lips and the ears. and then there are some people that look at a sketch and they just -- they can't tell anything. so even though it may develop into several witnesses, into several courses of investigation, it's still extremely helpful. so you never want to eliminate one course of investigation. >> right. interesting. mary ellen o'toole, appreciate you being on, sunny hostin as well. coming up next president obama blames his intelligence chief for underestimating isis that sources tell us how much of that intelligence and his warnings he himself was in position to know at the time. introducing a pm pain reliever that dares to work all the way until the am. new aleve pm
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keeping them honest. did the united states miss key warnings about isis and more specifically is president obama? the answer, according to the president s yes. he spoke last night on "60 minutes." here's what he told steve croft.
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>> how did this get -- how did they end up where they are? control of so much territory? was that a complete prize to yoyo -- surprise to you? >> well, i think our head of the intelligence community, jim clapper, has acknowledged that i think they underestimated what had been taking place in syria. >> he didn't say that -- just say that we underestimated isil. he said we overestimated the ability and the will of our allies, the iraqi army, to fight. >> that's true. >> he went on to say this fight on the dpround in iraq and syria will depend on local forces, not american troops. what he did not do is say he himself underestimated isis or talk at all about what kind of intelligence he was getting on the ground in the run-up to all of this. but jim sciutto has been getting details on that from his sources. he joins us now. what are you hearing from your sources a tt white house and elsewhere about, you know, who was warning and what they were
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warning and when? >> i'll tell you, dozens of officials tell me that there were multiple classified intelligence reports in the months leading up to isis' lightning advance across iraq detailing both its growing capabilities but also its growing ambitions including a specific report citing its desire to carry its territory all the way to the capital of baghdad. in addition to the classified reports, there was also public testimony. have a listen, for instance, to brett mcguirk point man in iraq last year seven months before isis moved into iraq. >> the more that this al qaeda network gains strength and gains roots in western iraq, the greater the threat will be. that's why we have to go after that in a very serious way. >> i spoke earlier today with a member of the house intelligence committee, alan schiff. he makes the point that there's a lot of intelligence reports out there. a difference between having a report on something and identifying that something to administration officials as something they have to pay
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particular attention to and the mountain of threats that the intelligence community and the administration is dealing with at any time. so intelligence is not an exact science, as you know, anderson, but one thing you can say with certainty is that the intelligence community warned often and loudly about the threat from isis. >> jim, stay there, because i want to bring in daily beast's senior national correspondent eli lake and jim carnie, eli, in your piece today you quote a former pentagon official as saying either the president doesn't read the intelligence he's getting or he's bs'ing. how confident are you that your source isn't just trying to deflect criticism? >> i've gotten that from a lot of people today. there's a lot in the intelligence community right now that in the "60 minutes" interview president obama tried to put the blame on the intelligence community when in fact the white house was getting lots of warnings. as jim just said, in classified
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materials but also very out in the open. the annual threats, every year you have all the leaders of the intelligence community come before congress. michael flynn couldn't have are more clear. he called them al qaeda in iraq or isil as they chamged their name. it was right after he saw these isis forces taking fallujah. it was pretty high up in the minds of most of the intelligence community. and in that sense i think many of them today are kind of scratching their heads a bit flabbergasted at the president's comments. >> jay, what about that? james clapper, cia director john brennan, then head of the dia were all warning about isis and the cia produced multiple report. is it fair for the president to be throwing james clapper under the bus here? >> well, the president was quoting jim clap heper who said what he said about
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underestimating isis' capacities and overestimating the iraqi forces ability to attack. any time the president says there was an intelligence failure, he also has to say it was his administration. nobody is doubting the fact that sh is his administration and this underestimating of isis and overestimating iraqi forces is on his watch. anybody else engaged in training up iraqi forces on the u.s. side and we did that for years and years at great expense believed that they would perform better than they ended up performing. because there is ambition, which isis was making clear they had, but ability is another thing. and their ability to move through western iraq toward baghdad with utmost ease was amazingly abetted by the fact that the iraqi security forces basically melted away. and that, i think, raises real questions about not just the political leadership of the al
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maliki government but the investment we made in the united states in iraqi security forces for years and years. >> isn't that also an argument supporting those like senator mccain and others who said that the u.s. should have figured out a way to keep a residual force there because if we had no intelligence about what was going on, about the capabilities of the iraqi military over the last three years that might have been a different scenario. >> it's certainly not true that we didn't have any intelligence. we have a robust presence in iraq, still do. not a military presence but an embassy and a lot of contact with the government. >> right, but having 3,000 u.s. personnel on an embassy stuck in baghdad in the green zone is a lot different than having troops. >> no question. and what senator mccain has failed to note is that president obama's actively tried against the wishes of his own party to maintain a residual force in iraq and the sovereign government of iraq refused to negotiate a status of forces agreement. i don't think there's anybody in the united states in any position of leadership who would want american men and women in
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uniform stationed in a foreign country without that kind of agreement and without that kind of protection. there's no question that had that residual force stayed, that we would have been better off. i don't think it would have meant all the difference in the world in terms of isis' abilities or the iraqi force capacity to resist, but it would have made a difference. >> this is a president who campaigned on getting u.s. troops out of iraq. >> well, in all due respect to jay carney, i have a memory of the president boasting in the 2012 campaign about how he ended the war in iraq, and now we've learned this month in testimony before congress that general dempsey said he would have preferred to have more troops in iraq. we know also -- >> eli, i said it from thepo um that it was our position that we would like to have a residual force. it was the obama administration's position. what we didn't get, despite great effort expended in that direction, was an agreement from the iraqi government. and without that agreement, you can't leave forces.
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>> we can litigate the history here -- >> i think the history is pretty important. >> i think the history is very important but part of that disagreement was that in many ways the maliki side of it which wanted to have a long-term security agreement with the united states didn't feel the offer from the u.s. was terribly serious in terms of the amount of troops that were eventually offered at the end of that and he felt because there wasn't a significant amount of investment that the president and the white house was willing to make in iraq he himself felt that it would be better to then break off the relationship and publicly criticize the u.s. for asking for this kind of legal immunity. so there are various different terms. and the other point here is that the overall policy was to treat iraq like it was france or any other nation when before the obama administration there was a lot of arm twisting, a lot of kind of putting your arm over the shoulder of maliki and trying to save him from himself. and i think that in some ways this white house did not save
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maliki from himself and as a result a lot of these abuses are there because it took a pretty hands-off approach once it came into power. >> well, i think it's a little easy to imagine that somehow in dealing with a sovereign government that the u.s. can have whatever it wants without the agreement of the leadership of that government. >> that's a fair point. >> and look, maliki, the united states, you know, gave birth to the system that created maliki and the maliki government and we sustained it in many ways, two administrations, and i think there's some amount of regret about that. but in the end, either iraq is sovereign or it's not. either we're an occupying force or we're an invited force. if we're an occupying force, that's a whole different kettle of fish which i don't thing anybody is out there saying they prefer. >> it's important to say the new prime minister is from maliki's party. critics will say he's essentially cut from the same cloth if not -- he's definitely from the same party. the hope is that there will be a
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break in how he reach out to sunnis, holding people in the military possible. getting rid of this general corps that maliki put in. >> from the same party but also had been very close to maliki for some time. he had made some strides but he still hasn't filled the key position, interior and defense positions which are the ones disputed over. you can debate about the policy in iraq, but the fact is in syria, the administration made a decision over the recommendations of some of the president's own cabinet secretaries not to get involved in syria earlier. and i will tell you what intelligence officials tell me. they say that until now syria has been an effective intelligence black hole in large part because of that. that's changing now. you're flying surveillance flights, but the policy decision made a difference on the intelligence certainly in syria you can debate it to some degree in iraq. i will tell you that i also know from intelligence officials that had the u.s. had a military
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presence there, they would have had much better intelligence than they had otherwise. >> jay carney, appreciate, jim sciutto, eli lake as well. >> thank you. >> there's a lot more on this story and others at cnn.com. just ahead new details about the horrific attack at an oklahoma food processing plant. what we know about a man accused of beheading a co-worker.
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new details about that attack at an oklahoma food processing plant. the man accused of beheading a co-worker will be charged with first degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon. alton nolen was shot by the company's ceo during the attack. he's said to be in stable condition. the timing and gruesome nature of the attack and the fact that
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nolen is a convert to islam has raised questions. is he related to isis? they say there's no apparent ling to terrorism. >> reporter: law enforcement officials tell cnn alton nolen spent time watching videos of beheadings online some time before he allegedly severed the head of one of his co-workers and repeatedly stabbed another. he was stopped when his boss shot him. >> it sound likes he's running around out here. and that's a gunshot. >> reporter: just before that 911 call, law enforcement sauerses say nolen was told he was in trouble at work at vaughan foods for trying to convert his co-workers to islam. shortly after receiving the news he took out a knife and allegedly starting attacking co-workers at random, killing a 54-year-old grandmother. >> it could have gotten a lot worse. this guy was definitely not going to stop. >> reporter: cnn is learning he
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told workers he felt oppressed at work and upset about not getting a pay raise. investigators believe this was an isolated act of violence. they have nothing to show he was in contact with overseas terrorist groups but he did seem to share their extremist views. he posted on his facebook page under the alias jahkeem israel. showing a beheading. and one saying the statue of liberty is going into flames. why are police ruling out terrorism? >> easier way from a to z, innocence to conviction is just he killed somebody, he did it deliberately, he premeditated it, end of story, guilty. >> reporter: over the weekend nolen's family came to his defense. >> i had son was raised up in a loving home. there's two sides to every story! and we're only hearing one. his family, our hearts bleed
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right now because what they're saying alton has done, i want to apologize to both families because this is not alton. but i just -- i'm praying that justice will prevail. the whole story will come out. >> reporter: but this isn't the first time nolen has in in trouble with the law. in 2010 this state trooper got into a argument with him. the trooper made this chilling statement to cnn. >> if there had been any way to know the things that he is alleged to have done a couple of days ago, i would have killed him when i had the opportunity. >> pamela brown joins us now from washington. this incident only happened four days ago. how can police so quickly rule out a link to terrorism especially with all the red flags you point to. hen they say there's no link to terrorism, it sounds like maybe
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they're saying he had no connection to isis, but if the guy has been watching beheading videos and trying to convert people to islam, he's motivated in some way by what he's seeing. >> but we're being told by law enforcement officials at this point the motivation for committing the alleged act of violence came from his unhappiness at work. bottom line, though, law enforcement officials are still digging deem into his connections. they say his postings were certainly provocative and alarming especially in the context of whatty had allegedly did. they say they found no evidence that he ever made contact with the terrorist organization, was working on behalf of a terrorist organization, was motivated by terrorist ideology to commit an act of violence. this is interesting, authorities tell me in their initial interview with him, nolen told them he was upset about work telling authorities they're holding me down, they wouldn't give me a raise and sours say he was rambling about all sorts of different topics apparently even mentioning aliens. if he wasn't upset about what
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happened at work, this wouldn't have happened. >> strange. a massive ash cloud rolling down a volcano after an eruption in japan.
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want to go quickly to the latest in the deadly volcanic eruption in central japan. listen in.
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it sent ash down the mountainside engulfing hikers. at least 36 people are presumed dead. 23 bodies remain on the mountain while others have been identified. we're joined with the latest. what is happening there, will? >> reporter: yeah, well what you're seeing, anderson, is a large plume we've been watching since the big eruption on saturday. just a series of smaller eripgss that are happening, part of this seismic activity on the mountain that has folks, volcanologists here in japan concerned because they say in the coming days we could see another large eruption just like the one on saturday that caught everybody off guard. the mountain was full of people who were hiking, taking in peak autumn viewing season. they believe at least two dozen bodies are up there, possibly more, people that tried to take shelter in mountain lodges and succumbed to fumes from the toxic gas in that cloud up there. rescuers tried to get up there, but they're having a hard time.
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yesterday the gas forced them to suspend the search and today they had to cut it short again because of what they describe as small volcanic movements. a volatile situation up there and a lot of families on the ground anxious to learn the fate of their loved ones. >> you can see the ash just from your location. will, we'll talk to you again in our next hour. i want to get caught up on some of the other stories we're following. randi kaye has a news bulletin. >> an arkansas man is in custody accused of kidnapping a real estate agent. beverly carter vanished thursday from a home that she was showing near little rock. hundreds of volunteers have been searching for her with no success so far. the theme for using an out of network atm jumped 5% over the past year. the average fee is now $4.35 for each transaction. and george clooney and amal alamuddin wrapped up their wedding weekend in venice today with a private civil ceremony to make their xwrun official.
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the actor and human rights attorney took a water taxi aptly named "amore" or love to city hall, anderson. >> looked like a nice wedding. startling new details on the white house. intruder reports he got much farther into the white house than first reported. that's next. just take a closer look. it works how you want to work. with a fidelity investment professional... or managing your investments on your own. helping you find new ways to plan for retirement. and save on taxes where you can. so you can invest in the life that you want today. tap into the full power of your fidelity greenline. call or come in today for a free one-on-one review. in the country.
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i want all the updates on the trial then i want all the good stuff from new day. israel, iran, iraq, russia. and after that can i have time for bourdain. >> simply watch live.
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thanks very much for joining us on this extended edition of 360. according to whis manyblower testimony he not only got inside the white house armed with a knife, he briefly had, for wont of a better phrase, he's scheduled to testify within before a panel. the testimony comes hard on the heels of a report in "the washington post" of an apparent mishandles of an incident three years ago in which a gunman opened fire from his car with this rifle hitting the upstairs residence. four days past before agents concluded it wasn't a truck backfiring or a gang shoot-out. jim acosta join us again tonight. what is the latest? >> reporter: very big questions. omar gonzalez made it much
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farther inside the white house after jumping the fence here than previously acknowledged by the secret service. according to congressional law enforcement sources once gonzalez entered the white house, he managed to get past a secret service officer at the north portico door, may have overpowered that officer, then went past the stairs leading to first family residence, then ran inside the east room before he was tackled just as he was trying to head into the green room. you can see the diagram. according to a memo that will be used by lawmakers on the house oversight committee, there are multiple lapses. one that's called the refusal to use the crash button. that would instantly lock down the white house. >> if this guy had a suicide vest or something, the white house itself, parts could have been blown up. you were given a much different official version of this story the night of the incident. >> that's right. i mean, it was met chaotic that
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night. but this new information, no question about it, runs counter to what the secret service initially said on the night of the fence jumping incident when a spokesman told reporters that gonzalez was apprehended inside the north portico door. i've been here inside that part of the building on multiple occasions mainly for social functions when they let reporters into those parts of the white house. that would have taken a good 30 seconds or so to make it inside that part of the white house. as you said, he had great access to this building for a short period of time. >> the secret service director, she'll be asked about this when she testifies tomorrow? >> that's right, julia pearson is scheduled to appear before the house oversight committee. she's likely to be asked not only about this incident but also about the budget. the secret service is authorized to have 1400 officers, right now there are 1300. so they're about a hundred or so
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short. not to mention the physical barriers around the white house. i was walking out to a short time ago, i'm 6'1". the current fence at the white house that's been in place since the 1960s is only 7 1/2 feet tall. expect the secret service to be asked simply about the main physical barriers that keep the public from getting inside the white house. >> also the dogs, where were they? a lot of things to talk about. president obama seeming to blame his adviser nor isis but not himself for underestimating. he spoke to "60 minutes" steve croft. he expressed limited hope the iraqis could try to get their act together. >> what happens if the iraqis don't fight or can't fight? >> well -- >> what's the endgame? >> i'm not going to speculate on failure at the moment. we're just getting started. let's see how they do. >> so far the answer is not very
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well in terms of how they're doing. last week isis overran an iraqi outpost 20 miles from baghdad. today they pushed within three miles of a kurdish town on the turkish border. so it's remarkable not just that the united states underestimated isis but they overestimated the iraqi military and their capabilities. what are you hearing about how that happened? >> there were years of investment, as you know, dollars, training hours, live, frankly, the risk is u.s. soldiers were training the iraqi military. the feeling was that they trained a pretty good one. now, there were reasons to fear before isis overran the country because u.s. officials were aware of what the iraqi prime minister, the now former iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki was doing to the military. he was removing commanders who had been well trained by u.s. force because they weren't loyal to him, they weren't shiites
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like the iraqi prime minister. he was always moving people around, taking folks out, putting folks in to pay them back. there was cronyism, et cetera. all those were bad indicators. i suppose the intelligence community, the administration didn't know how bad an indicator that was, but of course that all came to bear the moment that isis crossed the border and made its assault towards the capital and towards western iraq, northern iraq, et cetera. >> officials you're talking to privately, are they all that confident that the iraqi military can be turned around to the point where they can actually fight isis? >> sadly only about half of it. the u.s. military advisers that have been sent in in recent weeks part of their job is to assess the capability of the iraqi military. they recently came to the conclusion that just over half iraqi military brigades are viable. pretty remarkable. you're talking about more than 200,000 troops but only 100,000 in units that are thought to be
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capable of pushing back against isis. this comes as the u.s. is making tremendous investment with the quality and the reliability of iraqi forces in mind. because, as u.n. officials constantly repeat, the air campaign over iraq just like over syria is not worthwhile unless you have a ground force to back it up. so they made a judgment that only about half of that ground force that you and i as taxpayers paid for for more than a decade is capably of pushing back isis even with the u.s. basically acting as its air force. >> reporting about phantom troops where units would be kind of decimated and the generals or the leaders would still claim that they had the full number of troop and they would be taking the salaries of these nonexi nonexistent personnel like no-show jobs. it's crazy. jim skuty, i appreciate it. i want to dig deeper on this with bobby ghosh and retired army general mark hurtly and
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rick francona. you had so much experience on the ground in iraq. what do you make that the administration and people inside the intelligence community are saying they were surprised that the iraqi military couldn't stand up. shouldn't more people have seen this coming? >> i think, anderson, jim's report is phenomenal, but i also think that those of us who were there who watched some of this, who trained the iraqi soldier, i can tell you times that i have gone on patrol with my counterpart general riyadh and all the soldiers under me went on patrols with their counterpart leaders from brigade commanders, to us, to all of us, it's just been painful to watch this whole thing. >> painful but not surprising? >> yeah, that's a hard way to put it, anderson, not surprising. because we saw the early stages of what mr. maliki was doing. he was replacing very good leaders with his approximate pr.
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i'll make the comparison if you go to ft. bragg, north carolina or ft. hood, texas and replace all the great leaders with guys that are paying for their positions and who are terrible leaders, in a three-year period of time, those units are going to fall apart, too, even though you have great soldiers under them. we saw a lot of really great -- let's put it we saw a lot of really good soldiers in the iraqi army. they were coming to the point where they were becoming a very good army with very good leadersh leadership. even when i was there in 2008 and that's a verybeginning to s erosion of good leadership by replacing the good leaders with not so good leaders. >> you can make the argument that this argues in favor of the idea of the u.s. should have kept some sort of residual force because even though we have the largest embassy in the world in baghdad, if you don't have american military advisers out
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with iraqi forces, clearly the view from the green zone in baghdad doesn't seem all that accurate if the u.s. intelligence community was kind of surprised? >> that's right. we didn't have eyes in those units. we couldn't see what was going on, as the general said, you could sense that they were changing the leadership, but you didn't know how hollow this force was becoming. and since the iraq es don't really have the professional nco corps that we have, there was no one left to keep those units together. >> they don't have the nco corps that the u.s. military has? >> we have the officers that set the tone, conduct the training and give the orders but it's the ncos, the senior sergeants and the junior sergeants that actually make things work, keep it together, enforce the discipline, they're the backbone of everything, thissy get it done. they make sure that the units -- >> the iraqi military doesn't have that. >> we try to instill that, but that takes generations to
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instill. >> the reason it doesn't exist when we fired the iraqi army a lot of these people just went home and some joined the insurgency and that military culture takes a long time to re-create from scratch. you can recruit new people, you can sort of hire new soldiers and train them, but a military culture takes a long time. >> general hertling, the numbers of exactly how many fighters isis has is in contention. it's all over the map. and a lot depends how you define it because guys that they picked up as they were taking territory and some that are unemployed and other are hard core. how come they aren't capable of fighting on the battleground? is it just that they're motivated? >> they're motivated, they have support. they're being paid. we're talking about the oil revenues coming from some of the facilities. the isis fighters are being paid. and they have the will. some of the key problems not only in terms of leadership that the iraqi army had but frankly
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we were even paying some of the iraqi soldiers in the interim when the maliki government would not. so we saw early indicators of this, anderson. i like to say you compare this to, say, a world war ii situation where the german army was rebuilt. there were also school like the marshal center that would establish a leadership bond between the senior leaders and junior leaders with nc orks. that didn't happen in iraq, we were so busy building an army to fight that we didn't pay as much attention to the establishment of the leadership. >> part of the reason why isis is so effective and the iraqi army is not, a lot of the people are ex-iraqi army. a lot of them are from saddam hussein's old army and then morphed into this islamic group. i think as wef said before on this show, some of the isis commanders have been to military war college, the iraqi military
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war college. >> these guys knew what they were doing. they came down the yu raties, they knew what targets to go to, what villages to go to, what towns because many were from there. this overrunning of this installation we saw just this last weekend, when they came down those valleys, they knew which places to stop and fight and which ones to bypass. this is one of the ones they bypassed. after the air power slowed them down, then they went back and cleaned up the pockets of resistance. >> in hindsight it's easy to say in retrospect this should have been done and there's argument about whether or not it was even possible to do. but in your opinion would that have made a significant difference at the very least in terms of intelligence that the u.s. would have had about the capabilities of the iraqi military? >> interesting enough, i was there in both 2008 when i say the maliki government starting to take away the leadership. i was also in baghdad in 2004 when the decision was made to
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disestablish -- well, the debaathificati debaathification. >> right. >> so as general stan mcchrystal says, there's plenty of blame to go around over multiple iterations of this game of mistakes we have made that somewhat destroyed the potential for a good iraqi army. first one was the debaathification law, the second one was not paying as much attention as we could have. >> how quickly being there on the ground did you realize this debaathification thing is not a good idea. >> i happened to be at a conference with 600 iraqi generals on the day that the debaathification law was announced, and there was disbelief among these individuals who we were beginning to see come together to maybe rebuild an iraq under something other than saddam hussein. this was ins the 2004. and they were with me in this conference hall expressing disbelief that this was happening. so yeah, this goes way back. i think as i said earlier,
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more breaking news. what virginia state police say is a significant break in the disappearance of hannah graham. a new forensic link to another woman who vanished five years ago. months later her remains were found and so was dna allegedly from her killer. it linked her to another case, a rape four years before this and the victim in it gave a description. the question tonight, does it resemble graham's suspect jesse matthew jr.? does that new forensic link as authorities are calling it, tie
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him to morgan harrington's death and to the 2005 sexual assault. joining us with details jean casarez. what have police told you about this alleged forensic connection between the two cases? >> they won't say. they say it's a forensic link they're pursuing. here's what we know, with jesse matthew even before he was arrested, when they searched his car for hours, i was told by the police chief that they took many, many items. then when they searched the apartment of jesse matthew, two times, they took many item. i know that the technicians at the virginia state forensics lab have been working overtime and the whole purpose is to find dna, to find a link with hannah but also they have to be trying to find jesse matthews dna off cigarette butts or a cup or anything like that so to have a forensic link in some respect allegedly with jesse matthew, you've got to have something on him. but that's what they're developing right now. they also say in the press release that it will take a long
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time for them to find out their conclusions, to find out definitively what this is, but forensic links they are pursuing is at this point. >> and this has been a horrific roller coaster for morgan harrington's family, morgan harrington's mom drew comparisons between her daughter's case and hannah graham's and there are share slat similarities. >> so many similarities. they were both blond. they were both college co-esd. hannah is still a college coed. it was all in the fall. in the fall months is when they went missing. so many, many similarities. >> and there was this rape case connected to harrington's case as well. >> that is very interesting, when morgan harrington's body was finally found several months later they found foreign dna on her body. they did a search of that dna. they linked it to a 2005 rape in
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fairfax city, virginia. the victim, she survived. and she went and she got tested. they found this dna of a perpetrator on her. that matched morgan harrington's dna ha was found on her body. but it was still unknown who that was. and that's where we are at now and investigators want to see if they have the person that's responsible for all three. >> jean casarez, appreciate it. the hannah graham case has brought attention to other case of young women, as we mentioned, two that disappeared within 60 miles of each other as investigators look for other possible links. randi kaye reports. >> reporter: just this month another search for is a msamante clark. the 19-year-old disappeared in 2010 slipping out after midnight from her townhouse, telling her 14-year-old brother she was going out with friends. she never returned. >> she was with me all the time, everywhere i went, she was with me. >> reporter: law enforcement spent hours scouring this lake.
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they came up empty handed. >> even though we've been been at this lake numerous times our experts in this matter have determined that the lake has not yet been 100% cleared. >> reporter: is a manna's cousin believed she always planned to return home. >> the only thing she took was her house key. she said that she would be back before morning. >> reporter: on samantha's my space page five days before she went missing, a mysterious clue. i hate life, i need help. i don't know what to do. samantha's mother believes she knows who took her daughter, this man, randy allen taylor. >> rabidy taylor came and picked her up. i mean, he called here six times and i mean, why would you call my daughter six times if you ain't trying to lead her on or trying to talk her into coming out of the house or trying to talk to her to do something. >> reporter: taylor was once looked at by police in samantha's case, but years later in past may in a bizarre twist
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he was actually convicted in the disappearance and murder of another girl, 17-year-old alexis murphy. both girls were last seen along this same stretch of highway 29. samantha was last seen in orange, virginia. alexis disappeared in lovingston, virginia, about 60 miles away. alexis' family thought they might find her after police found her cell phone but alexis' body was never discovered. >> alexis, if you're out there and you can hear us, just know that your family loves you. we will never stop until you are home. our family circle is broken right now. >> reporter: police have surveillance video showing alexis at a lovingston gas station in august last year. randy taylor was also seen on the video. he's always maintained his innocence saying that he and alexis and another man went back to his camper to smoke marijuana. then he said alexis and the unidentified black man left.
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taylor's attorney argued that they weren't the last to see alexis murphy alive, that instead police have have been focused on a black male mid to late 20s with corn rows driving a burgundy caprice with 20 inch wheels. there's no evidence linking the disappearance of murphy to hannah graham. the nelson county attorney says the black man later identify and implicated by randy taylor was not jesse matthew, the suspect in the graham case. he also said that man had an alibi and was later cleared. randi kaye, cnn, new york. >> a lot more to learn. as always you can find out more on this story and others at cnn.com. just ahead, new developments in the horrific attack at an oklahoma food processing plant. we now know the charges the man's accused of, beheading a co-worker. we also have new information about the mosque where he worship and the impression he made on those who worshiped alongside him. [ female announcer ] this is our new turkey cranberry flatbread
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welcome back. new details in the grisly attack in an oklahoma food processing plant.
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police say that alton nolen shown here in a 2010 mug shot for an unrelated arrest will be charged with first degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon. he's accused of beheading a co-worker and stabbing another employee. over the weekend his mother and sister posted a public apology on facebook. >> i know what they're saying that he done, but i'm going to tell you this, that's not my son. there's two sides to every story! and we're only hearing one. his family, our hearts bleed right now because what they're saying alton has done, i want to apologize to both families because this is not alton. >> the timing and gruesome nature of the attack have raised the question was it motivated by isis which recently called for loan wolf attacks on civilians in the u.s.? so far authorities say they've found no direct lings to
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terrorism. nolen is a convert to islam and worships at a hol mosque. >> to the people that worship beside him alton nolen was more than just a face in the crowd. he believed attending prayer at this mosque in may, never speaking out, never raising suspicion and never attracting attention of the mosque leaders. what did you know about this man? >> to be quite honest with you, not much. when i saw his picture, didn't look familiar, although he could blend in very well with the diverse community we have here in oklahoma. >> reporter: before anyone noticed him at the mosque he had already left a series of seemingly omen ougs postings on facebook. an apparent beheading and smoke pouring out of the world trade center. within weeks of his arrival he posted this, shariah law is coming. what does that mean? >> i have no idea. like you, i looked at his facebook page and seen a lot of
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weird stuff. >> reporter: if you had seen that before, what would you have done? >> well, if you look at his page, his facebook page, you would realize he had 1450 friends, none of them are muslims and none of them are from oklahoma city. >> reporter: he tells me that the oklahoma city muslim community demonstrated against isis and he spoke out against isis in a sermon. but no one knows if nolen was there to hear it. assad mohammed remembers sit next to nolen but only once. >> i was sitting right about here. >> reporter: and was he sitting here? >> the very last seat. >> reporter: you were this close to him? >> yes, about this close. and he always sat there. >> reporter: mohammed is a former navy s.e.a.l. he said nolen put his koran on the floor, someone with basic islamic training would know is not allowed. >> he sat there with his head down just real still. he looked like he was thinking more than listening.
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you know, he seemed far away. kind of like he wasn't here. >> reporter: this isn't the fers time the oklahoma muslim community has had to answer questions like this. convicted 9/11 conspirator zacari zacarias mouse owy took training here. >> david joins us now from moore, oklahoma. so you've been in touch with the moore police department. what are you learning from them? >> well, they're saying that nolen is being very cooperative. when you push further they say that means he's answering all their questions, why he did what he did and how he did it. in terms of a terrorism angle, they say they're not really finding one here. they're pursuing this as a murder case. and leading the fbi to look at any possible terrorism connections. but at this point religion didn't seem to come into this.
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he had dissatisfaction on the job, claimed that he felt oppressed on the job. we've been told that. but that was because he was denied a raise. then he got angry after he was fired, leaving this plant, then returning to commit those acts of violence. >> i guess i don't understand how someone can behead somebody else and in this day and age with all that's been in the news and online that it not have some sort of -- whether it's directly motivated or -- it's a bizarre way to -- it's a bizarre thick to do to somebody else. david mattingly, appreciate it. there's a lot happening tonight. >> officials at children's hospital colorado have confirmed a tenth case of respiratory enterovirus, d-68. four patients now remain in the hospital. the rest have been sent home. the cdc is looking at whether limb paralysis in colorado is linked to that same enterovirus. a man is in custody accused
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of kidnapping a real estate agent. beverly carter vanished on thursday from a home she was showing near little rock. hundreds of volunteers have been searching for her with no success so far. a 360 follow now. arizona cardinals running back jonathan dwyer is indicted on felony aggravated assault and eight misdemeanors stemming from two arguments with his wife back in july. chelsea clinton and her husband took baby charlotte home for the very first time. proud grandparents hillary and bill clinton walked out of the hospital with them. protesters filled the streets of hong kong clashing with police. also a volcano eruption leaves dozens presumed dead. scary stuff.
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9:40 in the morning in hong kong. pro democracy protesters still out in force. last night they and police
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squared off. they've arrested 89 people since the protests began. as ivan watson said in the last hour, people in hong kong haven't even this kind of police response to unrest in years. what's the scene there now? >> well, this encampment, the sit-in is shoally waking up after a sweltering night, a second night in a row occupying this highway. this is supposed to be -- look down, a four-lane highway here that runs through the center of this incredibly congested city. and these demonstrators have been occupying this place as well as a number of other points in the city demanding one thing basically, anderson. democracy. they want more freedom here. they want a democratic election in 2017. and they are out here even though the hong kong government, the chinese central government has called this protest movement
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illegal. the remarkable thing is how young these demonstrators are. they're students, teenagers, 21, 22 years old and they've spearheaded this protest movement, probably the biggest of its kind in jgenerations her in this former british colony. >> it was returned to china back in 1997. i know many there feel like beijing has been encroaching on these liberties. is that essentially what's driving the protests, that candidates who run are kind of preselected? >> that's a big part of it. this has started as a protest movement. this started as a protest movement against new election regulations for the 2017 election. the election of the top official here in hong kong. the local government here signed is off on it. and the critics here, they say, well, it would allow the central
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government in china, it would effectively allow beijing to nominate, to hand pick the candidates and the people here, the signs, the chants that they've been chanting all call for one thing, universal suffrage. now, they've also had new calls that have developed in the last 48 hours for the resignation of one man here. it's the top official here in hong kong, and they've set up this bus almost as a shrine to his funeral. we've heard the chant "resign resign" referring to him. and i can't stress enough, anderson, these type of protests would not be tolerated in mainland china, the security forces would use much more violent measures to very quickly crush them. >> no doubt about that. incredible to see what's taking place in hong kong right now. the volcano erupted saturday sending ash down the mountainside engulfing hikers. take a look at that image.
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how scary that must have been to see that cloud coming toward you. 36 people presumed dead. 24 bodies still on the mountain. 12 have been recovered and identified. it is morning on the mountain. will ripley joins me with more on the search. i can see behind you what looks like this massive plume of smoke. we saw this in the last hour. is it still erupting, the volcano? >> yeah, you know, it really is incredible to see, anderson. we've been watching it since the eruption happened over the weekend, this large plume. gas and ash. ash that's been raining down for miles around this volcano including right here on our live location. yesterday we had to wear face masks because the air was so thick. that's the real danger when you're getting up closer to the mountain is that there were poisonous gases inside this plume and they're afraid that some of the people who actually tried to take cover during the eruption, they may have survived the initial event when the mountain blew its top without any warning.
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they ran to mountain lodges, but then the fumes may have overcome them. so in addition to the two dozen people who rescuers believe are still up there on that mountain lifeless, there could also be more people yet to be discovered in the buildings that are covered with ash. >> rescuers had to stop the search for survivors because of this toxic gas. have conditions for them improved at all? >> yeah, they haven't. in fact, they've had to cut off the search that's suspended right now. they had to suspend it in the early afternoon yesterday. yesterday was the toxic gas, as you mention, today they actually detected some small volcanic movement. that's the big concern is that, in addition to all these smaller eruptions, there coulderuption volcanologists are watching this mountain very closely. they're really afraid that the rescuers could be in danger if they go up there. >> they have a lot of volcanic monitoring equipment in japan. did they have no advance warning
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about the eruption? have authorities said why? >> that's the big question that a lot of people are asking right now. we were watching government investigators out here last night taking satellite images trying to learn more. you think about japan with 110 active volcanoes, 10% of the world's active volcanoes. they have some of the most advanced detection equipment in the world, yet there was no warning about this, no indication that the mountain was going to blow its top. you have full of hiker, people that use these mountains for hiking and skiing in the winter months. mt. fuji is japan's highest, this is the second highest. there are concerns about the safety of people that come to visit here. >> the latest on the fresh violence in ferguson, missouri, and the distrust of many in the community. goodnight. goodnight. for those kept awake by pain
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off as he pushed it away from him. the authorities say they do not believe the shooting was related to protests over the shoot of michael brown. protests when a memorial near the site where brown died was burned down. the activism fans a lot o anger. >> reporter: the scorched memorial for slain teen aernl michael brown has been rebuilt but the gaping gap of mistrust between police and people in this neighborhood remains. >> as long as this memorial is standing people will be reminded who is enemy is. >> reporter: is that police? >> exactly. they are the number one enemy. they are the protectors of those who seek to do people injustice. >> reporter: protests continued against police this weekend with several people arrested. the police chief is adamant that officers do not target anyone just because of their race. but protesters don't believe it. in fact, they don't seem to believe much of anything law
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enforcement tells them. case in point, protesters confronted law enforcement saturday over another shooting outside a community center. a police officer was shot in the arm in what appeared to be a random incident, nothing to do with the protests, but protesters seemed to even doubt that. >> >> that's who's been shot. a police officer's been shot tonight. that's who's been shot. that's the only person that got shot. >> oh, yeah, right. >> okay? >> the police -- >> i'm going to ask you to leave, and i'm only going to ask you one time. >> these are our streets. these ain't your streets. these are our streets. >> not long after the michael brown shooting ferguson police began wearing body cameras. in fact, the police officer who was chasing a suspect just behind this community center was wearing a body camera. but police say he never turned it on. the fact that it wasn't turned on only added to the mistrust.
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now it's not just police wearing body cameras but protesters are too. >> i feel safe with it. i feel a lot safer with it because if they don't have video, believe me i am. >> reporter: lucretia moore says she wears her camera anytime she leaves the house to record any interaction with law enforcement. >> how would you describe that relationship? >> oh, lord. it's no words to even describe it. >> reporter: it's that bad? >> it's bad. it's bad. >> reporter: on the other side of town, where "i love ferguson" flags dot manicured lawns -- >> we feel as if we live in a war zone. >> reporter: -- christine and her daughter say the racial divide is worse now than ever before. they are family members of police officers and don't feel safe using their last names. what are you experiencing now? >> yelling, screaming. >> a lot of anger wherever you go. manners seem to have gone out the window when you're going to the grocery store.
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>> reporter: a community struggling to navigate a racial divide that only seems to widen. >> sara sidner joins me now with more. we're learning more about how that officer was shot in the arm on saturday in ferguson. what do you know? >> reporter: that's right. we're hearing from one of our sources inside the police department that indeed the officer got closer to the suspect than once thought. that the suspect had a gun pointed at his chest. the officer balloted his arm away. and that is when the gun went off, hitting him in the left arm. the officer was actually using his left arm normally to take out his gun but it turns out he tried to use his other hand, his right hand, to try and shoot at the suspect, his wackier hand, and missed. that suspect ran off in the woods. >> sara sidner. thankfully there is one more item to come up tonight. it is good to say the "riduculist" is next. "big" savings on car insurance, it's a bit like asking if they want a big hat... ...'scuse me...
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time now for the "riduculist." and tonight we have one of those amazing stories that you hear every once in a while about a pet traveling thousands of miles to return home. gidget is a jack russell terrier who lived in the philadelphia area, went missing back in april and somehow ended up in oregon. how she got there is a complete mystery but thankfully she had a microchip implanted so when gidget ended up at the shelter they were able to track down her owners. gidget's family could not wait to see her when she was flown almost 3,000 miles back to philadelphia. let's take a look at the heartwarming reunion. shall we? oh, look, somebody made a sign
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welcoming gidget home. that's very sweet. everyone's there eagerly awaiting her return. they haven't seen her for months. oh, wait. there she is. let's listen. let's listen. >> gidget. >> gidget! come here! >> and there she goes. that's right. gidget immediately bolted. smell you later, everybody. thanks for the free plane ride. eventually they were able to corner gidget and she did go back home with her owners. or at least her alleged owners. so i suppose it is a happy ending. speaking of dogs with a penchant for running, i'm sure like me you've closely followed seattle's star 101.5 wiener dog races at emerald downs. just in case you missed it, i want to show you one contestant's performance. her name is anderson pooper. >> put your hands together for anderson pooper!
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[ cheers and applause ] >> come on, a-poop. come on, anderson! >> very sweet. anderson pooper is a dachshund. she's 7 years old. and as you can see, she does not let the fact that her back legs are paralyzed keep her from competitive running. although how competitive she is i'm not going to comment. k go to animals with disabilities.org to see more but right now we want to get to another dog tale. this is one about a poor abandoned puppy from nebraska. >> there's a new mr. cooper in town. meet the other anderson. a 12-week-old chihuahua. >> it's not andy. it's not coops. it's anderson cooper. >> he was dropped off as a stray so tiny and malnourished the future for this star was uncertain. to make sure he was getting enough care and attention, anderson cooper went to a foster home where the family put him with other pups. it didn't work.
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instead, mr. cooper started spending all his time with the cats. his foster family snapped this photo. >> he needs a big name. he needs something that's just going to help him get through life. and somebody suggested cooper. and then somebody said what about anderson cooper? that's a big name. >> sadly no, one adopted little anderson cooper and he was put down. what? oh. that's not true. they were kidding with me. because i was about to get very upset if that was in fact true. because i should have adopted the dog since it was named after me. funny joke, people. really funny. you can field all the calls we're about to get. we called the nebraska humane society. he was adopted shortly after that report on kmtv aired. calm down. i'm sweating now. i'm actually sweating after i read that dog was put down. oy, yoy, yoy. just to recap that dog anderson cooper's alive. the dogs named after me including a malnourished
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chihuahua who thinks he's a cat and a wiener dog in a wheelchair, i frankly have never been more honored. i'm very pleased. thank you. it is an honor. at least on the "riduculist" tonight. thanks for watching. thanks for watching. "cnn tonight" starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good evening, everyone. this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. >> great to see you, don. i'm alisyn camerota. how could this happen? it turns out the man who jumped the fence and barreled through the entrance of the white house got deeper through the first floor of the executive mansion than we previously knew. where was the secret service, and what happens now? >> and what about isis? new fears of a massacre. isis fighters are within two miles of the syrian kurdish see of kobani. officials there are desperately calling for help saying blood will run in the streets if isis takes control. and this could be the break they're looking for. police say the arrest of a suspect in the disappearance of that university of virginia student has led to a break in another case, the death of a female cge