>> we are following this and it is scary and it seems like a scary close call. >> it really was. police are describing a very narrow success here. and police say that this child entered a secure area of the school after trying two side entrances when he entered which is when he was confronted by school staff. immediately, he appeared very nervous and ran away and police were called to the school and able to get pictures that they circulated on social media. that led to an abundance of community tips. they were able to identify the suspect and find him and convince them to surrender before he and when police look at the totality of this case, they say a lot of things went right but

when they look at all the information that had emerged leading up to this incident, they say there was a lot that was missed. >> this is something that had been told to people of his intentions, we know there are internet searches. we narrowly missed a strategy today. and we are going to encourage people, when they see something, say something, have those talks with your children. >> it's a good example of just how thin the line is between tragedy and success here. as we move forward, we are still trying to find out more details about how the case will work through the system. at this

point, this child was a student of the district but we have not heard his net -- name yet. >> a new hour of cnn news central starts right now. new names being floated this morning for some of the top jobs in the incoming trump administration. fire crews racing to contain a wildfire in southern california. and shocking, racist text messages popping up on cell phones after the election. new reporting on where they are coming from. this is cnn news central. >> happening now, who will be named next with the chief of staff now selected, the spotlight is building on several other top jobs in

president-elect donald trump's white house and this morning, the current jockeying our reporters have learned has morphed out into an all out battle. his first pick, susie wiles will become the first ever female chief of staff. what should people know about susie wiles and what it might mean for donald trump's white house this time around? >> the first thing to note, is how loyal she's been to donald trump. it definitely played a role in his selecting of her. i remind you, back when he was leaving the white house, back in 2021, particularly after what happened on january 6th, a lot of people who were close to the former president had really try to distance themselves from him. susie wiles did not do that, she stayed by his side and has been loyal to him ever since, that's one key thing, donald trump values loyalty above all else. and she is very

disciplined, does not like the limelight and she likes to operate behind the scenes. you saw that earlier this week when he tried to call her up when he was giving his victory speech and she hung back, so that's a key thing as well, she left donald trump take the spotlight and doesn't speak for him publicly but another big thing i would note, is what she's been able to do while serving for him over the past several years. that's what she calls controlling the chaos, and this is something our colleague reported that i think was very lightning for how she will likely operate, come january 20th, which is, there's one person that said that she had told them the clown car can't come into the white house at will and donald trump agrees with her. so that's a huge part of this. if you look back on what donald trump, really how he operated with his prior chiefs of staff when he was in office before, he always had a

lot of controversial figures calling him up, waltzing into the white house to meet with him and what susie wiles has done while campaigning over the last couple of years is to try and control the axis, she knows donald trump and knows how he operates, she knows that she can control the people around him. and oftentimes that means cutting off the access to people who may come around him with crazy ideas and get into his head. >> you will be one busy lady as the months go ahead. so joining us right now is the democratic governor of kentucky, andy bashir, the transition is well underway and democrats also now trying to figure out what went wrong. you and i spoke monday, the day before the election and at that point you had said, the things that donald trump is putting out there and saying, who he

offends and what he's promising from puerto rico to hitler's generals would be disqualifying for any other candidate and should be disqualifying for trump this time. it wasn't, his win was decisive and broad. what did democrats miss? >> thanks for having me on, kate. this is a pretty raw and emotional time for a lot of people across america. and when we look at real analysis, three days after an election, we can get reaction, we can get hot takes but it will take some time. both looking at the data and having real conversations with voters, to make sure that we know where the voters of this country truly want us to move. what i'm hearing a lot about in these last three days is messaging. and yes, messaging is important. it's how you talk to people but it's also sometimes not an excuse, but it is suggesting we

are doing all the right things that we are not talking about it the right way. what i think is maybe more important is focus. i think the voters of america want candidates that they believe are focused on them and their everyday concerns. the recognition when they wake up, they're not thinking about the president, they are not thinking about an auction, they are thinking about their job and whether or not they make enough to support their family. they are thinking about the roads and bridges they drive the thinking about public education and the public school they drop their kids off at. so i think it's really important, not just we, as democrats but republicans, too, recognize that people want us to find common ground on the areas they care about the most and apply common sense approaches to them. >> what i'm hearing you say is you think where things went wrong was that democrats, the harris campaign did not focus

enough on kitchen table issues, did not focus enough on affordability and grocery prices, is that what you're saying is, one of the things she first talked about was tied -- trying to take on grocery prices. >> the vice president only had three months, she worked incredibly hard and i have sat next to my dad when he's lost a statewide election in 1987 and in 1996, and i know it's hard, so in no way am i criticizing the vice president who i think ran really hard and put everything she had into it, did her very best, made the best decisions that she could with the information that she had. i think what we see from the overall vote is remember, it's still pretty close, it's about 3% that separates the country right now. but i think that americans both on the democratic side and on the republican side, given how

close that was and how close it was in so many states, they are looking for that common ground, for democrats and republicans to come together and to make sure that we are just laser focused on their life. in kentucky, i won by five points, a year ago, in a state that donald trump just won by 30 -- >> and governor, -- >> just a year after, that last win but what it suggests is that people are looking for a better life and these elections have to be focused on convincing voters that that's what we are focused on, too and we will spend 90% of our time on the issues that matter most, they're probably the least political issues out there but the ones that impact people every single day. so, we need voters to know that we are not only going to run but we will

govern in the place that they lived and for instance, as governor of kentucky, i will spend the vast majority of my time doing things that help democrats, republicans, independent voters, in your everyday life. i think the concept of common ground and common sense is what this country is looking for. >> california's governor, gavin newsom, he has called back state lawmakers to convene a special session to prepare to fight the trump agenda. and i saw that you wrote yesterday, now more than ever, it's article that we have as many democratic governors as possible. do you think democratic governors across the united states are the best line of defense against president trump's agenda, is that how you see it? >> i think democratic governors govern well. we focus on creating jobs, focus on expanding affordable healthcare and we focus on bettering the lives of our people. but we also serve our people whether they are democrats, republicans or independent voters. our job

is to protect this great democracy that we love, the democratic governor or a republican governor, the job should be to agree and work with an administration, when they are doing something good for your state but it should be to stand up to any administration that is doing something that harms your state or threatens the democracy of our country. this is our country. and we all ought to be willing to stand up for it, when needed, and that ought to be not bipartisan but nonpartisan. >> governor, thank you so much. john? crews rushing to stop a wildfire that has forced thousands from their homes and scorched 20,000 acres. a vertex for a man charged with killing two teenage girls. and the fbi investigating racist text messages following the election telling people quote, they've been selected

to pick cotton at the nearest plantation.

people escaped the

dangerous wildfires in southern california said they barely made it out. it has burned more than 20,000 acres in less than two days. as of right now, it's 5% contained. >> first it skipped us and started earning our neighbors house past us and we thought we were okay. we evacuated anyway and today, came back in the house was gone. >> what have you learned? >> reporter: official saying they are making progress but that there still a lot of work to be done. they had a team of 10 groups assessing homes yesterday, and what they said was that of the 300 homes that they visited, about 132 look like what you see behind me. it's devastation, it's impossible to even decipher what is left of this home. you see the entrance of the home but other than that, there's

not a lot left, there's smoke still rising from this property and what fire officials just told me was that these assessments are not done, so those numbers could continue to go up over the next couple of days, as it goes through the neighborhoods to see exactly what this fire left behind. so the progress comes with good news, because the weather is improving, there were red flag warnings all over, now we only have the red flag warnings in the mountains, and so what they are hoping to do is get a hold of this over the next couple of days, where the weather is expected to be better but the problem is that there's still a lot of unknowns . take a listen to what cal fire just told me. >> the challenges with the red flag going away which is a great thing, we now have the onshore push, so there's areas of the fire that haven't been wind tested in the same way because the winds have been pushing the embers into the

fire. northeast portions of the fire now will see the wind pushing it into unburned fuel. we've got to get that buttoned up and make sure it's good but we will be able to make a lot of progress on the ground and the air, trying to keep it from spreading. >> so the red flag warning in the mountains will be in effect until about 11:00 a.m. local time, and what i was told by cal fire is that they have to get as much as they can done over the weekend because next week, you have the santa ana winds expected to come again, so they are trying to do as much as they can so that they are in much better shape come next week. officials also saying that these firefighters are doing everything they can, they have the resources, overnight they were able to get helicopters and airplanes in the air to use that retardant and the water drops to keep it

down but they are trying to get that number a lot higher over the weekend. >> it's amazing. thank you very much, keep us posted. jurors in the delphi double murder trial are liberating in indiana, richard allen is accused of killing 14-year-old pretty german and 13-year-old abigail williams on a hiking trail years ago. he has denied this and attorneys argue there is a lack of dna evidence. walk us through this case. it's fascinating how he even became a suspect in this case. >> this case is really something. i mean, i wish i could talk to you for an hour but here's the pivotal question for this jury. i think we have the pictures of bridge guy, okay, and we've got richard allen. so let's look at those two pictures right there. here's the question for the jury, the bridge guy, beyond a reasonable doubt, i think prosecutors prove it, he did it, bridge guy but is

bridge guy richard allen? that's the question right there. so once the girls were on the bridge, that photo of rich guy was taken by liberty jones phone, and the next 15 minutes there was an elevation change on liberties phone, and it wasn't touched again. bridge guy, there's audio, he says down the hill, guys, it matches. lots of people were out there that day. richard allen was out there that day. he went to law enforcement back in 2017 saying i was there and i saw some girls i actually saw three girls and there were three girls in the area but i didn't see those girls, two eyewitnesses said they saw bridge guy, one originally described in with a base jacket, the other said he is money, two police statement said he's money and the final police statement said oh, he

was bloodied, too, she didn't say that initially but the girls were found with their throats cut. no sexual assault. there was an unspent bullet between the two girls bodies. and that bullet, once they arrested richard allen, they found a gun and they said even though it wasn't shot out of the gun, there were enough markings on it, plastic experts testified that it came from his gun. defense said no, there's not enough markings because it wasn't shot out of that kind let's talk about the confession, richard allen was put in solitary confinement for 13 months. initially, he said i did not do it, in solitary, but as the months went on, in solitary, he started confessing to his wife, to his mother, to jail guards, at one point he said , i did this, i was going to sexually assault them but i was scared because of a band so i didn't do it. at the same

time he said all of that, he was i'm sorry to say this but it's evidence, he was drinking the toilet bowl water out of the toilet, he was eating his own feces, smearing feces all over his body, his eyes were bulging and he would be in a fetal position a lot of the time. he had his legal documents, those had with the prosecutions case was, so what he confessed to, which have specificity, did he read that in the documents from the prosecution or is at -- that the truth? >> i know the jury is sequestered. we will wait to see what they decide in this case but there is so much, you could go on for hours. >> and the defense was not able to bring in the odin is, it says that this is a nordic, pagan religion of white supremacist, and there were branches in particular positions over their bodies and expert said pretrial, that was a pagan ritualistic ritual.

>> thanks for bringing us this case that was basically cold for seven years and the jury now has the case. will the market continue the postelection rally after the federal reserve has cut rates again. authorities are investigating a wave of racist messages that were sent to black americans. what the fbi is doing about it now.

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less lag, better gaming! i'm gonna need to charge you for three people. the fbi is investigating reports of a wave of racist text messages hitting black people's phones in multiple states. the messages are being reported in at least eight states and many of the targets appear to be middle school, high school and college age students. all of the messages sharing similar language including racist rhetoric that they have been quote selected to pick cotton. tell us more about what you are learning,

gabe. >> it looks like this is more widespread than we expected, with people in at least two dozen states having reported receiving these messages. and the texts are not just upsetting but they are alarming, they are personalized and many of them, specifically target black and brown individuals, some of them students, some of them children. i want to show you one of the text that was sent to us by a woman in new jersey, the text has her name written at the top of it. it references picking cotton, it references slave catchers and plantations, and some of the messages specifically referenced president-elect trump. to be clear, the trump campaign has told several outlets that they had absolutely nothing to do with this. but, as you can

imagine, many people are on edge in the days since the election. i want to play for you what a colorado mother said after her 16-year-old son got one of these texts, take a listen. >> it is very tense, it is very scary for a lot of individuals. the fact that it happened the day after election day, it really speaks to what i think is going on here. >> the president of the naacp put out a statement saying these messages represent an alarming increase in vile and abhorrent rhetoric from racist groups across the country who now feel emboldened to spread hate and stoke the flames of fear that many of us are feeling after tuesday's election results. and sara, there are investigations underway all over the country, to figure out who was behind this. it does appear at least some of these messages were sent out using a service called text now, it allows people to create phone numbers for free, and the company text now tells us in a statement, we believe this is a widespread, coordinated attack and we are now working alongside our industry partners to uncover more details and continue to modern -- monitor patterns. in

the fbi is also on this, they put out a statement saying that they are aware of the messages and they say they are in contact with the justice department and other federal authorities. so a lot of agencies are on this, it's not clear, though, if they have it completely shut down at this point. president-elect trump has already filled a key role in his cabinet, susie wells, chief of staff and the jockeying for other positions is underway. joining me now, david axelrod, otherwise known as ask, or our buddy, and scott jennings, thank you gentlemen, for being here, susie wiles makes history

as the first woman who is the chief of staff, that's a big thing. what do you make of her stepping into this role and do you see her as someone who is going to be a guard rail, enabler, or what? >> first of all, i'm glad she got this job cousin she earned it, she ran one of the most disciplined, organized campaigns and she's known in the republican party as being a competent administrator of whatever she gets involved in. if she takes that same kind of discipline and organization to the white house, it gives trump an excellent pathway to fill those jobs quickly and execute his agenda. and i love this because it obliterates the attacks that people were making on donald trump, chiefly mark cuban that can't stand to be around smart and strong women. she did a great job running the campaign, she will do a great job running the white house. every corner of the party this morning is cheering this on and the fact that trump made a decision quickly, decisively and now she can help him organize the government, everybody is happy. >> we had a source saying that she has made this comment about

keeping the clown car out of the white house. what do you make of that and what does this mean for someone who has been disciplined, even though her canada has not been as disciplined with things that he's said. >> i said that they had a highly irrational campaign and a highly irrational candidate and the campaign was impressive in that regard, they did the blocking and tackling and i said she's pat summerall's daughter, i think she and chris vida deserve that. the question is, how much can she control, the reason she survived does she recognize what she can and can't control and ultimately every president has 99% of the voting share, so he will bring in will who he wants to, but i'm sure that she will do it chiefs of staff do. she will try and regulate the flow of paper and people in and out of the oval office so that there is an orderly process of

decision-making to the extent that donald trump will tolerate it. >> i do want to go back to sort of what we saw happen in particular with latino voters because we had one reporter going out and talking to those voters and i want to hear what someone said. >> well i know he's not perfect, i know he's not like the pope. we believe in teaching our kids about god and family values, and the democratic party is embracing all the woke, left leaving ideas that doesn't go with their values. >> do you think it's the democrats pushing latinos to trump or is trump bringing in

latinos? >> i think more democrats are pushing latinos to trump. >> when you hear that and when democrats hear that, what do they need to take away from these conversations? that is the thought of others who went to the polls and obviously the economy was a big deal but this is part of it. >> i think as democrats to soul-searching, one of the things they should conclude is to stop looking at america like anthropologists and missionaries, stop treating people as identity groups. a lot of these, will these hispanic voters weren't looking for racial advocates, they were looking for economic advocacy, they tend to be socially conservative, they behave a lot like working-class voters across the country. and i think there was a mistake in the impression that somehow that the immigration issue was some magic wand that would bring hispanic voters or should bring hispanic voters, these are citizens, some are concerned about what's going

on with the border as anybody else but i think the party has to stop treating people like subjects and identity groups and start treating them as neighbors and listening to them and their concerns, and responding to them at a ground level basis. >> i do want to ask you, when you look at these numbers, there's still about half the country that did not vote for donald trump. so when you look at this and look at some of the plans, what do you tell those people who are worrying, some, scared, about what his administration is going to bring? >> it's easy to lose an election, i've been on the wrong side of some elections. i know david has as well --

>> never. >> i understand. number 2, this is america and this is how it works. we've got a clear winner in this election, who's been given a mandate by the american people to execute on the promises he made and we will all get to judge him on those promises in two years in the midterm and four years after that, you can judge how the two parties have done. i think the conditions that brought about his victory, they are not small things. i mean, three quarters of the people think they've been under severe hardship because of inflation, two thirds of the people think that the country was on the wrong track. he has major challenges to meet but that's the challenge of any president, do you make things better and that's ultimately how trump won because biden was judged not to have done that but now that donald trump has the mantle, the election is over, let's give this administration a chance. i think democrats never really gave him a chance the first time. let's give him a chance to execute and see where we can

have common ground and maybe we can have a little more community in the country. >> let me just first respond to what scott said, we have one president at a time. if president trump response to the concerns of people in their day-to-day lives and helps improve the lives of people, if he come in a responsible way, deals with the issue of the border , that's one thing but we ought to be clear, when he talks about a mandate, it's not a mandate to lay siege on his political enemies, it's not a mandate to instruct destroy the affordable care act because he doesn't like it because it's called obamacare, if he goes down that track ,

the one thing i know about this wheel of democracy, it is awesome and it's brutal, when you are on the wrong side of it but it keeps on rolling and if people are unhappy with what this president does, they will very quickly, dispatch him as well. >> that's the beauty of it. the gears keep turning, we get to vote every two years in this country and you can express your pleasure or anger and the people just expressed their anger with what's been going on. i'm hopeful because people obviously want republicans to have a chance to change the direction of the country. i'm hopeful my party understands the message they been sent and treat it as seriously as the people did who voted and do the right things. good policy is good politics, it's an old cliché, but it's a true one. >> i know we are all so tired, and it's friday. >> you could have given us a seat. >> but you have a stand at the table. >> yes, i'm leaning. new this morning, soccer fans from israel violently attack, the attack is being called barbaric and anti-semitic by the government. and big changes could be coming to your go to cold medicine. why the fda is considering pulling some popular products from the shelves.

moments ago, opening bellringing on wall street, does the postelection market rally continue today? after the federal reserve cut interest rates yesterday. the person with all the answers, julia chatterley is here.

>> you may not like the politics of this week but if you like your 401(k), you could like the prophets. less good news for the renewables and that's what we've seen this week except for tesla, of course, elon musk, $20 billion richer and more powerful, that's the take away from the week. investors did like what they heard from powell, yesterday he talked about the strength of the economy, we saw a quarter of a percentage of a rate cut, he left open the door for a december rate cut which i think it started to be called into question. i think my biggest take away from yesterday is the president-elect is going to be taking over a solid economy and that should be good for borrowers. >> that's what i was going to

ask, so what kind of economy, you know, is trump going to be inheriting, and what does it mean for the fed outlook going forward ? >> great question. a solid economy until perhaps his policies do otherwise i think that was one of the unwritten messages of the meeting yesterday in fact, one journalist asked, rather than the fact that we've been talking about him and the federal reserve cutting rates next year, what is the risk that as a result perhaps of tighter immigration policy, some kind of trade war, that could be inflationary and raise prices, they end up having to hike interest rates, just take a listen to this. >> can you rule out an interest rate hike next year? >> i wouldn't rule anything out, but that is not our plan. her baseline expectation is that we will continue to move gradually down towards neutral and the economy will continue to go at a healthy clip.

>> that's not our plan. >> the president-elect and his policies are the wildcard but he said he will be staying in the job and that was a bit of a mic drop moment, it'll be a lively few years. >> asked and answered, will you leave, no. and no again. good to see you. new this morning, the dutch government is condemning violence anti-semantic attacks on israeli soccer fans in amsterdam overnight. tensions have been rising in the lead up to thursday nights soccer league game between them israeli team and a dutch team. and after the match, multiple brawls broke out. israeli soccer fans were beaten and injured. matthew chances joining us from jerusalem. what do you know about what happened and what led up to all of this? >> reporter: look, this was, you know, this is being

condemned by the dutch authorities and the israeli authorities as an absolutely outrageous act of violence, anti-semitic violence, there have been dozens of people who have been arrested, social media is filled with horrific images, frankly, of israeli soccer fans being beaten to the floor, being kicked, anti-semitic, anti-israeli slogans being shouted at them, and there's even a video of somebody being run over, and israeli fan being run over on the streets of amsterdam. inevitably, this has been condemned by the dutch authorities, it's being called a -- of horns by the israeli president, and the israelis are doing everything they can to get people out of the netherlands, as soon as possible. a number of flights have been sent there to get people home as soon as

possible. we are told the israeli forensic teams are being sent to the airport to meet people to collect evidence so they can work with the dutch authorities, so there can be prosecutions as well. but more generally, a security review is underway, to make sure that in the future, is really sports teams get the appropriate level of security so this kind of thing does not happen and also there's a review of security on israelis living abroad in general. this has caused such shock and horror, here in israel. >> thank you for your reporting there. new this morning, ukrainian president zelenskyy confirmed the deadly clashes with north korean troops in russia's kursk region, i assume he confirms they are happening. this comes as ukraine is

appearing for the possibility of a major funding cut following donald trump's election back to the white house. donald trump has been elected in the united states, again, in the past, there have been discussions that if he were elected, you might cut u.s. funding to ukraine. what would happen, if funding to ukraine from the united states came to an end? >> thank you very much indeed, for the invitation. i want to say that i'm very much appreciating the american people and the unique bipartisan support , fighting for our freedom, for our democracy and fighting for freedom in the world, second, i worked with trump for more than three years and i can guarantee that this is not going to happen. and for third, without

the money, me, ukrainian people will fight for our state, our independence, our serenity and our integrity. >> donald trump has said that he could broker some kind of peace agreement between ukraine and russia within 24 hours. do you believe that? >> i hear that before the election and i'm happy to hear that after the election. my piece of advice if trump wants to stop the war in 24 hours, he can have it in only one way, to invite ukraine to join nato and within 24 hours, the war will be stopped and there would be no peace without ukraine joining nato neither in 24

hours nor in 24 years. >> what is your weakest concern now, following the u.s. election? >> look, after the election, this is not only the challenge but also the opportunity. again, i worked with trump for three years and after my meeting in the white house, we received firstly the weapons including javelin and warfare systems, we received sanctions against company who built out the nord stream ii, and now we have different trump, very different from the year 2020 and at the same time, we have a

different putin. if, five years ago under the trump presidency, putin was just a bad guy, now, he is a killer and terrorist, and he is dangerous, not only for ukraine and definitely not only for europe, but for the united states and for american people and i think that my message is, help us to stop putin it is cheaper and more effective to stop him in ukraine, not losing the time and my message, we have no opportunity to lose people . that's why we need to have active and well coordinated and one more, we don't try to do nothing about ukraine without

ukraine. and i want to use this opportunity to invite president trump to visit ukraine because that would have an enormous symbolic importance. and i definitely keep fingers crossed that one of the first visits to the moderation should definitely be in ukraine. >> former president of ukraine, we appreciate your time this morning. stay safe. we were trapped. a line of cars struck on the interstate in a snowstorm. we will tell you where that is, and police say close your doors and windows because there are monkeys on the loose. that story is ahead.

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is zeroing in on is phenylephrine, an active ingredient in the common nasal decongestants that you mentioned like sudafed, take well and oral phenylephrine was approved by the fda 30 years ago, but what is happening now is that the fda officials say the latest evidence and research suggests that oral phenylephrine is actually not effective as a nasal decongestants and that is why they are proposing removing it as an ingredient in some common cold and allergy medications. this is an issue around effectiveness, it's not around safety and phenylephrine is found in other nasal decongestants like nasal sprays, for instance, so this

is really looking at the oral phenylephrine that is in these common products, sara. >> this doesn't mean that things are going to suddenly be missing from the shelf? >> that's right, no, this is a proposal. this is a proposal that is open for public comment right now. what will happen next is if we see this proposal finalized, then that could affect products that are on the market, and like i said, there are alternatives like antihistamines and nasal sprays, there are alternative options for consumers out there but i will say, it is an interesting conversation that's happening right now, the company's behind the cold and allergy medications that have it, they are standing by this ingredient and they say it's safe and effective. so we will see this kind of conflict in conversation happening in the months to come roughly 100 vehicles were stranded for hours on a rural new mexico highway after a semi crashed during a severe winter

storm. this man was forced to turn around after being trapped. what a mess. more than 10 inches of snow has fallen, with more on the way. more than 5.8 million people across new mexico and colorado are under winter storm threats. sales of books focused on oppressive societies rocketed to the top of amazon's best seller list, a handmaid's tale jumped back up to the number 3 spot and before that it was sitting around number 209 spot on that bestsellers list, george orwell, 1984 saw a 250% sale -- surge in sales in the same amount of time . 43 monkeys are on the loose in south carolina, they are like, we are coming for you, they managed to escape a research facility wednesday after a caretaker forgot to lock an enclosure door. local officials are warning residents in the area. >> i imagine they will be

getting hungry but they are not violent in nature. they are small, skittish, i'm advising people to make sugar windows and doors are closed. >> the testing facility said they are young female monkeys and they are little, then they weigh about six pounds, what could they do, nothing. the police have deployed thermal imaging cameras to track them down and while 43 monkeys made a run, seven actually stayed behind and you wonder what they are thinking today. what's also bananas, pun intended, 19 monkeys, oh, stop groaning, you guys, 19 monkeys escape from the same facility back in 2016. >> go, run, >> go as fast as you can. >> highly unlikely. you know what, i'm going to go to one now. >> thank you