today marks 1,000 days for austin tice.nt marking the day saying the u.s. government will continue to work tirelessly to bring austin home to hits parents. josh ernest started off his white house briefing today on the issue of american journalist austin tice. >> a statement issued earlier today by bernadette meehan, the spokesperson for the national security council. she issued a statement today that it's with a heavy heart we marked austin tice's 1,000th day in captivity. the united states government in sear yaus is trying to bring him home. that is an effort that is on going and has been for some time and certainly is something we are focused on every day but today we're particularly mindful this day being his 1,000th day in captivity. >> the u.s. it continues to coordinate with the syrian government on his case trying to get him home following the death of a series of american hostages and journalists taken in iraq and syria from james foley to just last month when a drone killed a hostage, warren weinstein. there have b

government said it had begun periodic direct communication with the syrian regime about tice's case.s been your reaction to how the u.s. has handled its hostages being held overseas? >> i think the more appropriate question is how they have not handled it, because look at the tragic ends six times over. >> reporter: six american hostages have been killed in the past nine months, while other westerners have been freed. one of the cornerstones of u.s. hostage policy has been its refusal to allow payment of ransoms. >> it just is heartbreaking disbelief because especially with them. they were held with others, and those others, except for the british, are free. that's the strongest indication that freedom was an option for them. >> reporter: last month, administration officials indicated that they would no longer seek to threaten families with prosecution who do try to pay ransom. but so far, scott, no ransom has been requested for austin. >> pelley: clarissa ward with the interview in beirut tonight. clarissa, thank you. in britain, more than 200 officers swooped in today and arrested

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>> well, actually, the russell tice had already admitted that he was one of the sources. as i understand from reading i believe james risen has said once or twice there were about a dozen sources. but none of the other ones have been revealed. and risen took the unusual step of saying publicly on a number of occasions that it wasn't the five of us who were targeted and that he knew -- he didn't know any of us and had not received any information from us. >> and who was this person who came forward and said -- >> russell tice. >> and who was he, where did he work? >> russell tice was a contractor at an nro ground station, and if i want to depress you more, yes the satellites are collecting on us too. [laughter] but, and he said that he had high-level clearances and i think he was working nights, and he went there once to put a piece of paper into a burn bag which are usually bags about this big, you know? paper bags in which they collect classified that is supposed to be burned. and he saw something in a bag that he thought was very unusual. he took it out and he read it,

today marks 1,013 days since freelance journalist austin tice went missing in syria. at the time he vanished he had contributed to news outlets like cbs and the "washington post." and on tuesday his mother debra tice held a press conference in beirut where she made an emotional plea to the u.s. and syrian governments asking them to work together to secure her son's release. and for the first time in a long time she gave us a specific flicker of hope that her son is still alive. >> we ask both governments to work together and to work effectively to locate austin and to secure his safe release. we hear that he's well that he's safe which is of course very important, and the most important thing is for us to stay patient. i long to hold my son in my arms. i want my family to be whole again. >> hopefully, someday soon we can report the news that austin has been reunited with his mother. meanwhile, next week in iran "washington post" reporter jason rezaian will appear in a tehran court. rezaian has been detained for 306 days on charge of espionage, charges that are not bac

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joining me on the phone is jeff tice who took that video.s going on when you first saw that tornado? >> honestly we saw the initiation of the storm just east of a small town named harding, nebraska. it took shape and we saw it destroy a farm stead northeast of the small community. >> you look pretty close, were you worried? >> no. we were at a safe distance in the opposite direction of the movement of the storm and wasn't rain-wrapped and these are dangerous situations that we were trying to avoid. myself and my friends were just amateur storm chasers. >> and when you say it is rain-wrapped for those who don't follow tornados as much as you know explain what that means. >> rain-wrapped is as simple as it sounds. rain is surrounding and you can't see it and it makes it difficult to see. >> you can't see which direction it is going. >> exactly. and farly with the great visual on cell phones and gps you can see it immediately. >> and did you see much else? >> no. just this is a rural area on the kansas and nebraska border and there was a little

but one thing we do know is that his parents mark and deborah tice and his entire family have worked tirelessly to locate him and bring him home safely. this week marks the 1,000th day of austin's captivity. and i really can't begin to imagine what the toll has taken, this ordeal has taken on austin's family. but i have to also say i so greatly admire the courage and conviction of his parents who said earlier this week in a statement -- quote -- "we have desperately missed austin. for more than one million 440,000 minutes. each new minute fuels our resolve to find him and bring him safely home. while we often mark the number of days someone is missing i think it's important to remember that the family and friends of -- the family and friends of someone who is kidnapped even the minutes that pass are almost unbearable. austin's family is not just counting the days he's been gone and all the milestones that he's inevitably missed, they're counting the minutes too. austin tice has a family that's waiting for him missing him and laboring to find any piece of information that will lead to

debra tice the white house and syrian government are not doing enough to find her son 33-year-old austinancer for the washington post. the former marine disappeared almost three years ago while covering the syrian civil war. his mother says she fully believes her son is still alive but doesn't know who is holding him. >> we have every reason to believe austin is alive. as recently as a few weeks ago and a number of times over the past 33 months credible sources have told us austin is alive. >> the white house says it is making every effort to find austin. and bring him home. his mother says she's certain the syrian opposition is not holding him. >>> mountain lion causes uproar in one california neighborhood. the two-year-old big cat weighs about 90 pounds and several people spotted it wandering around san matteo neighbor. mountain lions are common in the hills of that area but rarely rarely enter the heavily populated downtown. they were able to catch the cat. it was looking for a snack in a residential area. >> very unusual to see a lion this far down down and we don't really have an ex