role in shaping where she goes. we have seen that play out. >> watch the political scene unfold in the coming days weeks and months. thanks very much for joining us. follow us on twitter. you can tweet the show. erin burnett "out front" starts right now. escaped convict david sweat saying he abandoned matt because he was out of shape and drunk. he says it was prison worker joyce mitchell's idea to kill her husband. is he lying? warnings of a possible terror attack this holiday weekend. one official tells cnn it's the most intense level of concern since 9/11. new york city with a new effort tonight. we have a special report. a shark attack off a north carolina beach, the seventh attack in the past month. we will talk to a mother of one of the victims. let's go kwlt"out front."

good evening. convicted killer david swedat revealing new details about his escape and why he split up with richard matt. he is making a stunning new claim about the woman charged with helping them get away. here is what we know. sweat telling investigators that he ditched richard matt because matt was drinking and oust shapet of shape and couldn't keep up. sweat turning the tables on mitchell. she's in prison herself charged with helping the killers escape. sweat says it was her idea to kill her husband that you see there. sweat says mitchell had a sexual relationship with richard matt but not with him. sweat tonight saying he began planning the escape in january. january all the way into june. he says he was the massachusettstermind of it. they did a dry run he said. they left their cells. they went all the way to the street. they pushed through a manhole cover. they could have escaped that night. when they got out, they saw

there were too many homes. she decide they decided they had would escape through a different manhole the following night. sweat said the two used nothing more than hacksaws. no power tools to cut their way out. these are some stunning new details if, of course i have to emphasize that sweat is telling the truth. >> reporter: if. you have to under score that. we're talking about a convicted cop killer a guy who escaped from prison. he doesn't have a lot to lose. he is talking from his hospital bed. what he is saying is that it was certainly much easier to break out than you might think. after two days of questioning david sweat in a lockdown section of a medical center investigators say they have heard enough for now. sweat telling investigators escaping with richard matt wasn't as complex as you might think. using own hacksaws to cut through their cell walls and a

steam pipe, they slipped out of their cells night after night finding a passage way. there they came across a sledgehammer likely left by a construction worker breaking down a brick wall to make their way out. sweat tells investigators the escapees tried one manhole but it was too close to a neighborhood. >> he felt due to there being a number of houses in that area that it might not be a good spot to exit from. >> reporter: the next night, they tried again, finding a more isolated manhole where the escapees were to meet joyce mitchell. sweat says while he was the mastermind it was mitchell's idea for the men to kill her husband before fleeing to mexico. mitchell's attorney says she denies that allegation. when mitchell didn't show up matt and sweat headed towards canada. as the intense manhunt through the woods dragged on sweat says he grew frustrated with matt

because he was out of shape and couldn't keep up. sweat says the two went their separate ways after matt broke into a cabin and started getting drunk. it was after the two split up that sweat had his closest call with being caught. the district attorney tells abc news sweat was hiding in a tree stand as an officer walked past him. sweat says while on the run he learned officers had killed richard matt and pressed on to the canadian border until a state police officer shot and wounded him. he is now in a lockdown section for prisoners. >> how confident do we feel this patient is not going to escape from the hopspital? i feel very confident. >> reporter: the medical director says in this section of the hospital two guards watch each patient, inmates are shackled, a jail within a hospital. >> there's a door that opens and closes. there's the sound of the rattling of the cage. there's the turning over of the wallet and your keys. you can't help but feel this is a different unit.

once you get into the patient room, it's about taking care of the patient. >> reporter: the hospital tells us that david sweat will not be released today. they expect he will be here for a few more days. the department of corrections being vague saying they will not release exactly where he will be going. the law enforcement experts don't expect he will return to the clinton correctional facility. at the facility the prison announced new security pressures. here they are. they number with -- cells will be inspected once a week. daily contraband searches have tripled. new overnight bed checks. new rules for construction toolboxes. they are hoping that these new measures will help prevent another embarrassing and dangerous escape. >> thank you very much. the shock to many will be it took three weeks to institute the policies.

art, let me start with you. david sweat saying he is the mastermind. richard matt was slowing him down because he was out of shape, he was drunk. he said he planned this since january. lots of things in here. they didn't have power tools. do you believe him? >> well i think you know you have to take a lot of what he is saying with a grain of salt. the key information that the investigators are looking for is information regarding the criminal activity. the other stuff that he is coming out with i'm the mastermind i was the leader i mean that's just peripheral information that boosts the way he looks in the eyes of prisoners. it just seems kind of odd to me that generally -- they were headed -- the plan was that joyce mitchell was going to pick them up. they were supposed to head to mexico. the mexico portion of it is exactly where matt went when he escaped several years ago. the second point being that usually the person that has the weapon is in charge. in this case, matt had the weapon. >> he had the weapon and the

destination was one he knew. obviously, a fair point there. joe, you have david sweat saying it was joyce mitchell's idea to kill her husband. it doesn't matter for him. he will finish a life sentence. it won't matter. are you surprised though that there's this blame game going on on this issue? who was going to kill joyce mitchell's house? >> this happens all the time when you have two people arrested for a similar crime. they want to blame each other. they want to distance themselves from it. this is a major incident on top of it. >> what i don't understand is i don't understand why it mattered to david sweat or richard matt about killing joyce mitchell's house. he was from a purely looking at this from a distance she's the one who would have any kind of interest in that happening or not. it does matter whose idea it was. doesn't it in. >> i don't think it does. i will tell you why. >> it doesn't matter if it was her idea. >> no. we're looking at a possible conspiracy to commit murder.

when two or more people agree to commit a crime and they take a step in furtherance of the idea. if you join with the idea -- >> she wouldn't serve more time if it was her idea or not. they have all admitted it is someone's. >> here is the question. it's a very hard charge to make out. you have to show an overt step was taken in furtherance of the conspiracy. they never intended to kill the husband. what step did she take? she helped them escape. there's no evidence she gave them -- >> no evidence. >> i think it's a hard case to prove. who is your witness? sweat, are you going to put him on the stand? >> it's her versus his word. one thing sweat is saying that's very interesting, if it's true is that the getaway was not that complex. at the beginning, you remember

how everyone said cuts were so precise s precis, you would have to have training. now it's they didn't have power tools. this was basic in terms of what they did. you still think though that there were others involved. maybe some of what he is saying could be covering for someone. >> sure. i think it's tip of the iceberg. he is in a no win situation. if he tells all, the guards will get in trouble wherever he goes again, the guards will be against him. the prisoners are against him. i mean, this is a problem. he has to pick a side who he wants to have protect him, guards or prisoners. he is in a catch 22 here. >> do you think he is covering for someone? do you think he really did this as simply as he is saying no power tools, a hacksaw to get through this metal? >> i think they probably already know whether power tools were used. they can tell from an evidence perspective what exactly cut

through the wall, what cut through the pipe. i do agree with you that it does look -- that looks like a clean cut into that steam pipe. to do that with a hacksaw blade is difficult. i'm not saying it can't be done. but, again, this is where they will have to corroborate whatever sweat is saying as to how they got out and what happened. all of it has to go back to the criminal activity. >> paul i spoke to david sweat's mother last night. everyone has a mother. she loves her son. she blamed joyce mitchell. here is how she put it. >> i feel to this day that if this woman and whoever else was involved didn't give them the stuff, those guise wouldn'tys wouldn't have broke out of jail. they wouldn't have had nothing to do it with. you know i will blame them as well as the two guys. >> her son is a psychopath and nar

narsas narsacist. >> if joyce hadn't helped -- joe's point, we don't know everything. they couldn't have done it without her. >> he is in prison for being involved in shooting a cop 22 times and running him over. i would say this is a guy who deserved to be in prison anyway. it didn't get that much worse because of this incident. he is somebody society has to be protected against. >> thank you all. a threat of a major terror attack on the u.s. this holiday weekend. this is the most intense level of concern since 9/11. macy's cutting ties with donald trump. trump firing back tonight. here is what he is saying only to cnn. dukes of hazard reruns dropped. here is the question is that car offensive to you?

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>> this may be potentially the most complex counterterrorism overlay for this event ever. >> officials across the nation it's not just in new york are ramping up security bracing for a possible terror attack. today the chairman of the homeland security committee, peter king told cnn, this is the most intense level of concern he has seen since 9/11. joining me fran townsend. and former cia operative bob baer. deborah they are talking about a terror attack against the united states they are looking at complex plans from isis. you say that something is wrong here. >> yeah. this has a different feel. around holidays or anniversaries -- >> they ramp up security. >> there's chatter. this is more than that.

when you talk to intelligence and law enforcement officials, it's clear that it's more than just chatter. you have seen the series of attacks by isis overseas. egypt, yemen, around the world. then you overlay that with the intelligence. clear clearly, there has been some signals suggesting the july 4th date and weekend. >> they have confidence. this isn't just this is the holiday and there's parades, we will put a warning out? >> this is different than that. they are going to great expense and extent to coordinate. >> i believe you agree with fran. something is wrong here. this is very serious. >> the government law enforcement is on full alert. look at the context, the attacks in tunisia, tourists killed the beheading in france bombing in kuwait calls for attacks, the coincidence of fourth of july. you have chatter and i think these people very much would like to hit us very soon at

least this month. i haven't seen law enforcement at this high alert in a long time. >> you know a law enforcement official said to me remember they have said what they would like to do. bob mentions the french beheading. they would like to behead an american here in the united states. what they worry is large public gathering, people walking around all you have to do is grab somebody. you don't need a 9/11 attack that's thousands of americans dead to get the psychological affect if you were able to grab a single american. >> as you talk about, bob, this is -- there's the month of a few few weeks. you mention the beach attack. that beach attack video is horrific. you had a guy walking down the beach with a machine gun. people were sitting on their lounge chairs. we have video of this. it's incredible. 38 westerners get shot and

killed while sitting on the beach on vacation. could something like this happen in united states? >> absolutely fran. look at even a group coming in from overseas can go to los angeles or new york and go to a gang trade an eight ball of heroin or whatever for enough ammunition. this has -- a lot of people kill a lot of people or behead one person and this would have a devastating affect on this country. that's what everybody is scared. you have groups getting better at alluding national security agency and fbi. they are not using people that are up on websites and the rest of it looking at beheadings. the threat is changing. it's dire at this time. >> fran you think that word dire is right? that beach attack in many ways it did change things. we have not seen something like that. i know we keep saying what

happened at "charlie hebdo" changed things. but this beach attack was a turning point. >> what it reminds us is that you don't need -- it doesn't have to be a high tech attack. we have seen the pressure cooker bomb in the boston marathon. we have seen gunning down on the beach. guns are accessible. you could take a car and ram it into a crowd and kill dozens of people. it doesn't require anything other than really -- it requires no brains little planning. it requires somebody willing to die and willing to be caught. >> bob, i guess the question is is then, is it stoppable? they put all this effort out. they will use people who aren't known. they will not talk about it on social media. it seepms unstoppable. >> you want the bad news? one of the guys will get through. they can't step them all. they can get the low hanging fruit that people expose themselves in one way or another.

a determined person like the guy in tunisia eventually will get through as long as this conflict in the middle east continues and the sectarian divisions and we are one of the participants in this conflict something will happen. >> i guess, fran the question is they are saying the attacks could be complex and centrally planned from isis. that's not something we have seen before. that would be different. you were in the white house when the united states went to war after 9/11. people think about centrally planned and they think about complex and they think about 9/11. >> that's right. >> something like that certainly must be the goal. >> sure. i think we shouldn't sort of hold our breath thinking if they have to do something that complicated -- >> it has to be -- >> it has to be that big. i don't think -- i think you are unlikely to see a mass casualty event like 9/11 with thousands of people dead. frankly, they have the advantage. they have these guys inside the united states. they can communicate with them

on social media. they can get them inspired. if you have two or three smaller cells that you can get to operate within hours of one another like the attacks in egypt and tunisia, that's a win for them. it does have the terrorizing affect. i used to say when i was in the white house, we have to be right every day. they only have to be right once. the odds are against you. it doesn't mean that you don't try to identify the cells to disrupt the events. but it's very hard. >> when you say it's inevitable someone will get through, how many people are here? how many isis operatives are in the united states right now? do they know? >> they don't know. people tell me that there are some that have come across the mexican border that they can't identify. they suspect but they haven't got up on social media. they know the people that are attracted to the islamic state. there's hundreds if not thousands of those. but that doesn't mean they are

ready to turn to violence. it's the ones they don't know about that they will scrambling to identify. law enforcement is going on 24-hour alert. every lead they have they are following up. they still can't get all the leads. >> the fbi director told us there are investigations in every one of the 50 states. you know this is a massive undertaking. >> massive. i have never -- both of you very serious on many things. i have never heard both of you as serious as this. thanks so much. macy's dumping donald trump. tonight trump fires back right here. dukes of hazard pulled off cable tv. the confederate flag making regular appearances on the car. flag sales are going strong. our special report.

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breaking news. donald trump slamming macy's. macy's folded under pressure

when the department store dumped its mens ware line. >> macy's folded like dogs. >> folded like dogs. only donald trump could put it that way. the reason is trump's comments about mexicans which trump defended on this very program. >> they are bringing drugs, they are bringing crime. they are rapists. they are sending people like that have a lot of problems. some are rapists. some are killers. what i said is right. >> brian, this is the third loss for trump over the commends. nbc, univision and now macy's. >> absolutely and smaller losses. smaller sponsors pulling out from the miss usa pageants. almost all the judges said they won't show up. we see drip drip drip. corporate america turning away from trump.

they choose between trump and - hispanic consumers. >> is there damage done. not financial. >> maybe a little bit of financial damage. it's about reputation damage. he likes being in macy's. he has been at maceymacy's over a decade. if the dream or idea was run for president for a while then go back to his reality show that's not going to happen. maybe he will have a new reality show. maybe we're all in the middle of run. >> we might be. >> soon they will be off the shelves. you think this would look good? >> it's a nice tie. >> this is the reputation damage that trump is coming under. he never backs down. tonight he went on instagram and posted an e-mail from the head of nbc. the head of nbc e-mailed him to praise one of his hotels. they had a stay in los angeles. the executive went over the top

praising the hotel. no other presidential candidate would consider doing something like that. that's why this is getting so much attention. >> he is calling our hipypocrisyhypocrisy. something to be said for that. thanks very much to brian. i want to go -- don lemon's interview, see the full interview, that's at 10:00 eastern with don lemon. gloria borger and ben ferguson. ben, trump taking hits. business hits maybe representationrepresentutation, but not from voters. a poll conducted in the midst of this controversy. he is taking a stand actually could be helping him. right? >> i think all of this is helping him from his perspective. he looks like he's a victim. he will play this victim card of i'm being picked on because i'm the one saying -- being the truth teller here. back me. support me. i'm the one because they are

coming after me. it may work with some voters. ult pat ultimately he is filling a void. no one else in the gop primary right now has come close to being as blunt as he is. some of it i think is crossing a line. but ultimately people want a bold and blunt candidate going into this primary season. >> something certainly is helping trump. i don't know what you want to say it is but something is. it's not just the poll. this one is actually more incredible. this is in iowa a state where everyone said donald trump has no chance. marriage a bunch of times. he is number two. does that surprise you? >> it does. for the reasons you state. usually, iowa the winner of iowa guys like huckabee and santorum. very conservative. really running their campaigns based on their christian values. trump has great appeal but he's not a preacher. >> he is not running on

christian values nor is he pretending to. >> i don't want to disparage religion. i have no idea what his religion is. he is running on an anti-immigration message which has had traction in iowa. i think it was the blunt talk and anger. there is also the sense of grievance. it's lost on me. but to older white men -- i am all three. i am real white. a lot are angry. they feel like -- i think trump could speak to this. this is not the peak for donald trump. he is not going to bet nominee. but he has farther to go up before down. >> that's incredible. i believe he is presbyterian. i think that's what it is. it's not just that he is number two. it's that he surged to get to two. he was in last place among the top ten candidates nationally in may before he announced. he got in the race. he got in with a bang. he is doing what a lot of people

perceive as truth telling. he surged to two. do you agree with paul that he could keep it going? >> look i think i do agree with paul. i do think that his unfavorable numbers are so high in polls that i think he has a ceiling that he gets to. there's certain points the angry full of grievance republican-base voters who by the way were supporting walker to a degree and rubio, you see their number shrinking. those voters turn to the question of, do i like this guy? how well does he wear? most of all, can he be a democrat? can he be hillary clinton? i think when you put those together people will take a second look. i tell you what the republican party has a problem right now, because this is exactly what they didn't want erin. they didn't want all the kids in the sand box. donald trump is throwing the sand at everybody.

now they are responding. we saw george pa ta keye pa tataki take him on. >> what he has done is make the republican race interesting. he has gotten the american people to watch. by the way, the rest of them have failed to do that so far. >> that's one of the main things here. i talked to different campaigns in the last 24 hours. they all basically said the strategy early on was to not engage him in any way. do not talk about him. that has not worked. i think now what you are going to see is you will see over the next couple weeks a lot of these campaigns work together to go after donald trump for all of the litissues whether firing people bankruptcies. he has a lot of dirty laundry that can be brought out. i think you will see him come back to reality. this is early on. other candidates know you don't want to peak too early in this

campaign process. donald trump has peaked early. can he keep it up? there's no shot he will do that. >> if i were out there on the debate stage, i would use donald trump as a foil. i would take him on. i would take on immigration. they need hispanic voters. they won 27% last night. i think pataki is on to something. >> but you could call donald trump a lot of things. you can't call him stupid. he will be prepared. look what he did to the executive from nbc. he saved that e-mail that that person sent him. i gaernuarantee you almost everybody on that stage has sent an e-mail or phone -- >> remember when they went by his office? do you remember that? the kissing the ring? >> absolutely. >> i can't wait to see those e-mails. >> he will be loaded in those debates. somebody should confront him. i'm all for that. >> you know what -- the big x factor is chris christie.

>> i do too. >> i think chris christie will take so much wind out of the sail of donald trump. he will know how to take on donald trump. i think he is the guy that probably is going to love and relish -- >> hold on. if he acts like this chris christie. this is the chris christie that some voters love some hate. >> you want to have the conversation later? i'm happy to have it. until that time sit down and shut up! your rear end will get thrown in jail idiot. are you stupid? on topic. on topic. next question. >> i can see it. i would pay for that. the question is whether christie will be high up enough in the polls to get on the stage. you know trump is taking up that sort of in your face stream of consciousness, i'm the truth teller part of the stage. christie needs to sort of get back in there. i think he will do that with

trump. i think he will do it with everyone else. >> a lot of people would pay to see trump versus christie. >> i would pay. >> we may get it for free. >> christie will wimp out. donald trump is an equal opportunity offender. he attacks immigrants in a nasty way. he is attacking a top executive at nbc. i have never seen any tape of chris christie hitting a powerful person like that. when owe be a mra camea mra obama came to his state, he hugged him. he beats up on little people. >> there's no down side to ripping on donald trump. >> you can take him on on policy. stop calling each other names. ask him what he would specifically do on issue a, b and c. that's where you take him on. >> thanks to all. appreciate it. tv land pulling the dukes of hazard off the air in the midst of the confederate flag uproar.

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tonight the dukes of hazard yanked off tv land. the show becoming a flash point. it's this. it's the iconic car, the 1969 dodge charger. of course that's the confederate flag on its roof. protesters around the nation have called for the removal of the flag from merchandise, public grounds, all in the wake of the racially driven shooting at a black church in charleston. the shooter posed with the flag for photos. there's a lot of people who want to keep the flag. ed you have been traveling around the country. you found some of these people. >> reporter: as the calls to bring down confederate imagery have ground louder and louder there are some people digging in their heels, eager to show their defiance. we found that here in georgia. on your business card here, it

says power honky wild man. this is my introduction to dent myers. >> call me by my full name. call me honky, redneck, bigot and racist. >> reporter: he is a bit of a folk hero to those flocking to buy up confederate merchandise. they see wild man's as a protector of southern culture and heritage. frank bought these flags for his grandchildren before they disappear for good. >> that's who we are. i have lived here all my life. alabama and georgia, we were raised up with values that our parents gave us. >> reporter: he feels the values are under attack after 21-year-old roof killed nine in charleston.

now image has shifted. denton is unfazed. >> it's christian. >> reporter: for many here the uproar is misplaced. >> you mean the yankee flag? >> reporter: some people call it the american flag. it's not just the flag. he shows me around. he can't understand why this is offensive. >> i when people see this -- >> good. >> reporter: that's probably hard for a lot of people to look at. >> they don't need to be in the store. this is my black memorabilia. >> reporter: this is the kind of stuff i'm talking about. >> what about it? it's history. >> reporter: it's off the charts offensive. >> if it's offensive to you, look out your eye. >> reporter: he insists nothing you see here is hateful or racist. >> it's another part of history.

>> reporter: while many retailers have stopped selling confederate merchandise, there are shops like this all over the south thriving. what's been been like? >> we sell a lot of flags. i have orders from all over the world. people calling and coming and congratulate me. >> reporter: as the retailers like amazon sears and walmart now say they refuse to sell confederate merchandise, we have found here at stores like this one that they can barely keep up with the orders. some flags have been sold out of and they are waiting to get more supplies from their suppliers. >> thank you. that was an incredible report. we will put that out there so you can watch that again. incredible. a shark attack off a north carolina beach. the seventh attach there in the past month. the mother of a victim. the president and the first lady locking down the girl scout vote.

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a shark attack off the coast of north carolina a man pulled under the water by a 7-foot shark today. he has multiple injuries bites to his rib cage hips legs and hands. this is the seventh shark attack in north carolina in the past month. an alarming number. steven lee is out front. he witnessed to day's shark attack. steven what happened?

>> well honestly i didn't see the attack itself. i was on the beach and had my daughter and niece in the water. i heard some one yelling to get out of the water. with everything that is going on i thought maybe that was, you know something strange. i wasn't sure if it was for real. >> yeah. >> and they i get up go down toward my daughter and my niece and they're coming out of the water. and i'm looking down the beach. i can see a group of people huddled around someone. and then, you know the word spread that there was an attack. and my daughter and niece ran down the beach to spread the word to get out of the water. and it wasn't too much longer i would say, five minutes or so before emergency services showed up to tend to him. there were lifeguards there. evidently a doctor as well fortunately on the beach. >> thank god for the doctor and

they were able to show up so quickly. i know you took some of the photos of the shark attack victim being carried away on a stretcher. you mention your daughter and niece. they were in the water at the time. right, actually this happened in shallow water. they were about the distance this man was, right? >> that's correct. they were in -- in water that was probably knee deep mid thigh deep just swimming around. they were about 70 yards away from where this happened. >> all right. i appreciate your time stephen, i know you are very relieved your daughter and niece are safe. that man obviously recovering tonight. joining me now is the mother of another victim of a shark attack. elaine weekly joins me on the phone. her 12-year-old child, son tyson attacked off the coast of south carolina. elaina we have pictures you shared of your son's leg. traumatic, horrible what he went through. you can actually see the bite marks. how is he doing?

>> he is actually doing really well. you know? he -- i think it is very surreal to him. even today he is like mom, i can't believe i have been bitten by a shark. so i think we're both of kind of in a little bit of shock. and talked to so many people. and it's just kind of been a little overwhelming. >> my goodness he sound like a brave boy. i know he was in the water with a cousin when this happened. i mean what exactly did happen? >> so he and his cousin, his cousin is 7 years old. they were out in the water the they were only about 10 15 feet. but the -- the tide was coming in. they were just kind of riding the waves as the tide came in. and tyson was laying on his stomach with his feet out towards the ocean. and the -- you know the next thing i knew he just yelled to his cousin get out of water, i just got bit. and i was like -- what?

he is like i just got bit. so he came out of the water. and i'm like where? he lifted up his swimming suit and there were teeth marks in his legs. >> we are looking at the picture you took at the time. the bite when the blood was coming down his leg. what want through your mind. you are looking at your 12-year-old son and all this blood. you must have been terrified? tau >> i think it was just very surreal to me. i was grateful. he was very calm during the whole thing. and you know he did shed tears in the beginning. i looked at him. i said "tyson you are okay. "then he was like mom this is going to be an awesome story. >> that pea's what he said? he is a tough cookie then. i am glad that he is okay. >> yeah i think he is like "mom it's just a shark bite.

why does everybody care?" >> my gosh incredible to seat pictures. thank goodness to you that he is okay. thank you so much alene. shark experts telling us an alarming situation what they're seeing in the carolinas with all the attacks. they believe local authorities need to get more involved. >> "out front" next jeanne moos and a story of girl scouts camping out on the white house lawn. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (charge music) you wouldn't hire an organist without hearing them first. charge! so why would you invest without checking brokercheck? check your broker with brokercheck.

the first white house camp out apparently ever and the president showed up at the tents. here's jeanne moos. >> tents for 50 campers were pitched when a tall man with graying hair walked out on to his lawn and said. >> what are you guys doing in my yard? >> reporter: what does it look like these girl scouts are doing? >> camping on your lawn. >> reporter: forget mr. president. >> can i have a water? >> it is part of the let's move outside campaign to get kids outdoors and did a little rock climbing they sang campfire songs. ♪ i love being a girl scout ♪ >> reporter: the president scouted out the first lady's dance moves. and then he said good night with a final admonition. >> you guys aren't going to be

making a racket are you? >> no. >> reporter: they didn't make a racket the lightning, rained and wind forced the girl scouts evacuate the south lawn ending up what looked like a pajama party next to the white house. tweeted one critic a knife wielding maniac can make it into the stateroom of the white house, girl scouts have to settle for a conference room floor a building away. when the president woke up he didn't just find the girl scouts on his lawn he found them on morning tv. talking about their favorite part of the adventure. >> sleeping at the white house? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and seeing barack obama. >> they didn't just see him. >> we could have a group hug. >> scouts rushed him like a swarm of mosquitoes. >> do it really nicely. >> reporter: one smart little cookie even went back for seconds. jeanne moos cnn. new york.

>> he almost got injured there. pretty adorable. sound like fun for him and the first lady. thank you for joining us. be sure to set your dvr record out front to watch the show at any time. and "ac 360" starts right now. >> good evening. thank you for joining us. we're following some very serious potentially dangerous area in the kansas city area. want to show you pictures what appears to be a funnel cloud doing damage on the ground. happened a few minutes before we want to air. you can see debris being lifted up off the ground. we are not sure exactly the damage on the ground. but clearly there is some sort of debris that's been that's been lifted up. we and again this occurred moments before air. i want to bring in our, well actually let's stay with the images. you can see what look like a number of transformers blowing. and shortly see a larger explosion of what appears to be a