>> axelrod: tonight, how does this happen? >> everybody out, right now! >> axelrod: a white house intruder jumps the fence and walks through the front door. bill plante and juliana goldman on what this says about the secret service. and presidential security. ebola lockdown-- debora patta on the extraordinary measures one african nation is taking to stop the spread of the deadly disease. living in the middle of a manhunt. kristine johnson on the rounded-the-clock search for an accused cop killer that has trapped people in their homes for a week. and meet one of america's 10 smartest kids. who else would you expect intel to make its youngest intern ever? >> oh! captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news."

>> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod 3 it's the most heavily guarded residence in the country, if not the world, and yet we begin tonight with the man who jumped the fence at the white house, ran across the north lawn, and made it all the way inside the front dar before he was subdued. martha olson is the name of the man arrested inside the white house. the 42-year-old from texas, and was arraigned in d.c. speaker this afternoon. among the charges, carrying a dangerous weapon and possession of unregistered ammunition. so how could all this happen? the white house says tonight it has full confidence in the secret service. that's the question the agency's in the uncomfortable position of having to answer. we begin our coverage with juliana goldman. >> reporter: at the white house this morning, secret service agents walked shoulder to shoulder combing the north lawn and nearby areas for anything the intruder might have left behind beyond the questions of how such an edwreejous security breach occurred. last night, the president and

his daughters had just left for camp david when police say gonzalez jumped over this part of the security fence. he ran across the lawn, up to the north portico, and through the unlocked doors before being tackled by secret service. the agency says gonzalez ignored officers' commands to stop. ( sirens ) the whole incident lasted only about 15 seconds. staffers and reporters were still evacuated, but with sharpshooters on the roof and agents and guard dogs patrolling the lawn, the secret service says it is investigating why it was unable to stop gonzalez before he got inside the white house. secret service officials told cbs news that it was a judgment call. good-byes didn't appear stro a weapon or a backpack. he was potentially mentally disturbed, and the first family was not in the building. they added that officers must balance security with access and reasonableness. current and former officials said the agency has been sensitive to the pbilityd it received last year when a woman

was shot and killed after she rammed her car into a white house barricade and led authorities on a chase that ended on capitol hill. this episode is just the latest in a string of recent security failures, including the 2012 scandal when agents were caught soliciting prostitutes ahead of the president's visit to cartagena, colombia. last year, the president appointed julia pierson, the agency's first female director, in an effort to change the culture and restore public confidence in the agency. director pierson has launched a full review of the incident, as well as the broader protection protocols at the white house and last night the secret service began interviewing the agents who were onitute. the secret service put out a statement this evening saying they're increasing security around the white house while the agency conducts its review. and, jim, according to the complaint against gonzalez that was read this evening, he was carrying a two-and-a-half-inch folding nief with a serrated blade in his right front pocket. >> axelrod: julianna, thank

you. let's bring in seiz white house correspondent bill plante. bill, let's stop with the front door not being locked. i think a lot of people would be surprised by that. how can that be? >> reporter: it is unlocked, jim, because it is used all through the day and into the evening by secret service and staff but there is always a uniformed secret service agent with a gun standing at the door. however, maybe after what happened yesterday, they'll find a key. >> axelrod: maybe. bill, you've been at the white house for 33 years-plus. you've seen similar events to this, but is there anything different about this one? >> reporter: absolutely. no one has ever gotten this far in my memory and maybe not ever. look, until the early part of the 20th century there was no fence. you could drive up and drop your calling card with the butler which is what people used to do. now, of course, things are very different. there are secret service agents mingling with the sight sears outside the fence every day, and still about once a month, somebody manages to vault the fence. they usually do not get anywhere near that far.

the secret service is saying, as you heard in julianna's piece, it was a judgment call. well, that judgment is going to be very severely questioned. >> axelrod: bill plante at the white house, thanks, bill. the family of british00 alan henning issued a publicity statement tonight to the isis militant who are threatening to execute him. his wife says ha a peaceful, selfless man and no purpose can be served while killing him, this on a day when turkey welcomed home hostages held by isis. and as charlie d'agata reports, though the emotional homecoming was public, the details of their release were not. >> reporter: they remember in the hand of isis militants for months. now in the arpz of loved ones. some of the00s appeared to be in a state of disbelief as they took their first steps of freedom in more than 100 days. the 49 hostages, among them women and children, were captured from the turkish consulate in mosul when isis fighters overran iraq's second largest city in june. the joyous scenes of the

homecome regular in stock contrast to the now all-too-familiar beheading videos of american journalists james foley and steven sotloff and british aid worker david haines. so why were they released? the official government line was it was the result of an intelligence operation, not a military one, and no ransom was paid. turkey, a nato partner, had resisted joining the u.s.-led military offensive against isis, citing fears of the hostages' fate. the united states and britain, who do not pay ransoms for hostages, have urged allies to do the same. earlier this year, four french journalists held by islamist militants were released after being captured in syria. it's believed that ransoms were paid for their release. tonight, it's unclear why the most ruthless terror group in the world would give up such a powerful negotiating chip without a single shot being fired, a question which remains

unanswered. charlie d'agata, cbs news, london. >> axelrod: now to the west african nation of sierra leone, where the government ordered six million citizens to stay home for three days in an effort to stem the spread of the deadly ebola virus. more than 5300 people have been infected in four west african countries. about half of them have died. in south africa, here's debora patta. >> reporter: this is sierra leone in lockdown, roads are barricaded, and people have been confined to their homes for three days to allow authorities time to go door to door looking for those infected with ebola. seriously ill patients, afraid to leave their homes to seek proper medical care are, contributing to the spread of the disease. they don't want to go to treatment centers because they believe that is where you go to die. where they are cared for, even a loving touch is dangerous, as ebola is highly contagious in its final stages. but such is the fear and

mistrust that a burial team like this one was attacked by residents. the team was forced to abandon five bodies in the street and flee. later, after police reinforcements arrived, they were able to complete the burials. sierra leone chief superintendent amara sesay, says so far, the lockdown has been successful. >> from the feedback we have been refugee is that there has been compliance. >> reporter: but at the border between sierra leone and guinea, health officials report the complete opposite. a medical officer at the border says many have fled from sierra leone through guinea through the dense bushes on the border. "there are so many people now that cross the border without going through a checkpoint, they are coming in waves," he said. and the government's call to bring the sick to clinics in both sierra leone and liberia could backfire. as there is not enough space for infected patients in many

treatment centers. debora patta, cbs news, johannesburg, south africa. >> axelrod: two u.s. auto makers announced new recalls today. chrysler is recalling 189,000 dodge durangos and jeep grand cherokees, model years 2011. a fuel pump circuit that is part of the main power module could fail. as correspondent jeff pegues reported last month, problems with that module could cause gaugegauges to malfunction and windshield wipers to move on their own. and g.m. is recalling 200,000 cars baz of problems with the parking brakes. that affects the 2013-2014 cadillac xts, and 2014-2015 chevrolet impala. a jail break in central california has police hunting five escaped inmates. the men broke out of the madera county jail last night near

fresno. they were being held on charges of attempted murder and armed robbery. the manhunt in northeastern pennsylvania for an alleged cop killer is now in its second week and taking quite the emotional toll on the people who live there. eric frein is accused of killing a state trooper eight days ago, and as kristine johnson reports, serch search for frein has fear spiking in a pocono mountain community. >> reporter: all day, every time a police car rushed by with sireps blaring and choppers buzzed by overhead, the stressed out reads of canadensis hoped it was a sign police captured their man, but it's not over. police believe eric frein is hiding somewhere in the woods, and they're searching for him across hundreds of square miles of dense forest. >> the local population is very scared. >> reporter: john tidd, a local resident, spent months organizing and advertising this gun show scheduled for the weekend. he was expecting a good turnout, but given the circumstances, it didn't go as planned.

has this affected your business? >> dramatically. >> reporter: in what way? i mean-- >> basically, because folks are being told to stay home, what's happened is they haven't come out to the show. >> reporter: after spending the night in a car, joseph walker called home to reassure his wife. >> they said you were really in the safest place because there's where there is more presence of the police so we felt very comfortable. >> reporter: he is among a group of people who can't get home because police have blocked their streets. his wife is stuck inside. >> my friend and i were concerned about our wives being there by themselves, and because the-- where this man is, it's right in our backyard. >> reporter: eric frein is accused of killing one pennsylvania state trooper and wounding another. he is now the second mostmented man in america. a $175,000 reward is being offered for his capture. jim. >> axelrod: kristine, thank you. the search for a missing university of virginia student is also entering its second

week. about 1500 people gathered today to look for hannah graham. she was last seen late last friday's night in charlottesville, virginia. surveillance video shows her walking with a man police describe as a person of interest. he has been interviewed but so far, no arrests. later, no end in sight to the fast-moving california wildfires when the cbs evening news continues.

>> axelrod: several large wildfires continue to burn across northern california as they have for nearly a week. a three-year drought has added fuel to this terrible fire accept. john blackstone has been on the front lines since monday and has this reporters notebook. >> reporter: in california, this was the week predictions came true-- the destructive wildfires that had been warned about for months hit with explosive power. in the town of weed, near the

oregon border, 150 homes went up in flames so intense, almost nothing was left but the foundations. dee houck watched her neighbor's home go up in flames. >> the fire just rushed up the hill in a matter of minute. it was all engulfed. >> reporter: as happens so often in wildfire, the destruction can seem fickle. while some residents are left with only ashes to search through, others nearby are grateful their homes were saved. the fire near weed was still burning out of control when another alarm went off 250 miles south, not far from lake tahoe. fierce wind were turning the king fire into a monster. cal fire director ken pimlott: >> fires were spotted over a mile ahead of the main fire and that means the embers that come out of these fires, the smoke column, they are are lofted and they go way out into the unburned area, land, and start a fire. >> reporter: in a single night, the king fire tripled in size, growing to 119 square miles. nearly 3,000 reads had to rush

from their homes. the ever-growing cloud could be seen clearly from a nasa satellite. the king fire is now so large, there is still no official count of the homes lost, but tim roffe found out oned from of fate of his. >> my garage is completely gone. our house is completely gone. everything we have is completely gone. >> reporter: nearly 5,000 firefighters are working to bring king fire under control at a cost of about $5 million a day. regional forester randy moore says that has taken funds away from fire-prevention projects, like clearing dead trees. >> we need to be talking about how to we go out and make that land more resilient and healthy so when we do have these fires they're not as catastrophic as what they've been. >> reporter: but you don't have the money to spend on that. >> don't have the money to spend on that. >> reporter: what makes this fire even worse for those fighting it and those suffering its impact is that investigators believe it was deliberately set. a man has been arrested on charges of arson, and, jim, he's being held on $10 million bail.

>> axelrod: john blackstone in the eldorado national forest, john, thank you so much. uch next, crunch time for breakfast cereal makers facing a steep decline in sales.

>> axelrod: this week, cereal maker general mills reported a 25% drop in quarterly profits and announced it's cutting 600 jobs. this is just the latest example of the change changes in populae that one researcher has dubbed the serial killers. adriana diaz has more. >> for decades, cereal was the champion of breakfast, peaking in sales in the 1980s, but between 2000 and 2014, cereal sales have dropped nearly $4 billion, down 29%. >> we seem to be eating a lot less cereal than we used to. >> reporter: nicholas fereday studies food and consumer trends at rabobank. his report, the serial killers,

details how the american breakfast is changing. as baby boomers age, birth rates drop, meaning fewer kid are eating cereal. yogurt sales have seen double-digit growth and eating on the go and snacking has led to a decline in sit-down meals. >> some of the cereal companies are trying to prophot the gluten-free nature of their products. >> reporter: new ads are also trying to attract families who don't normally choose cereal for breakfast. jim murphy is the president of general mills cereal division. >> >> we advertise on spanish language television more than we did previously. >> reporter: even though sales are down, according to general mills, 90% of households still buy cereal. they're just eating lesof it. e.j. shultz says the industry can bounce back in it changes with the times. >> they're responding by trying to take traditional kids'

brands, like lucky charms, and market them to adults and it's going to really play on this nostalgia concept. >> reporter: tony the tiger, cap'n crunch, and toucan sam are all faces many of us have grown up with. cereal manufacturers hope they'll stay for generations to come. adriana diaz, cbs news, new york. >> axelrod: still ahead, remembering emmy award-winning actress polly bergen.

>> >> axelrod: pope francis has chosen a new leader for the chicago area's 2.2 million catholics. his first such appointment in the u.s. bishop blas cupich of spokane, washington will succeed cardinal francis george, who is battling cancer. cupich will become archbishop in november. stars of stage and screen gathered inside a harlem church today to remember emmy-winning activist and civil rights

activist ruby dey. phyilicia rashad, tyne daly, and others remembered dey who died in june at the age of 91. family members called her "the voice of our humanity." and emmy winning actress and singer polly bergen has died. bergen began acting in the 40s. in 1964, she played the first woman president in "kisses for my president." she also starred in the original "cape fear." bergen won an emmy in 19 fate for playing singer helen morgan on playhouse 90. she died today at her home in connecticut. polly bergen was 84. and coming up, what this young inventor is up to now.

>> axelrod: timely tonight, who says americans don't make anything anymore? they couldn't possibly be talking about the young prodigy

we found showing off his latest innovations this weekend. >> how do you like that? >> yes. >> joey is showing off his latest gageets to kids young and old. as intl's youngest intern, the 17-year-old from suburban phoenix now travels the globe. >> right now i'm working on a full-body scanner. >> reporter: "business insider" magazine named him one of the world's 10 smartest kids. today he'st maker fair in new york city, among the most popular conventions for technology ibo vairts. >> what grade are you in? >> eighth. >> reporter: he grabbed the spotlight in 2012 when he caught the attention of the president during the white house science fair with a one-of-a-kind, high-tech-- >> whoa! >> axelrod: marshmallow gun. >> it goes without saying how proud you are when you show off something you built to the president. >> reporter: jay is his boss.

>> he's a great ambassador for young people who aren't necessarily thinking about becoming engineers, but now can see that the tools are easy enough for them and they can create really cool things. >> reporter: he is balanced high school homework and applying to college while already getting paid by intel to help develop the booths at gatherings like makers fair to get budding techies into the tent. >> i love inspiring other people to make things. it's a fantastic experience seeing hirrize light up and thinking i can do, this. and the best part is months later seeing that they've done it, too. >> axelrod: and he lives by a motto he came up with for himself. "don't be bored. make something." good motto. and that's the cbs evening news for tonight. later on cbs "48 hours." for now, i'm jim axelrod in new york. and for all of us here at cbs news, thanks for joining us. good night.

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