multiple lawmakers, latest lindsey graham saying that julia pierson needs to go. in her multihour testimony yesterday, at the she failed to tell the house oversight committee about that incident in the elevator. >> what percentage of the time do you inform the president if his personal security is in any way, shape or form been breached? >> percent of the time, 100% of the time we would advise the president. >> in calendar year 2014, how many times has that happened? >> i have not briefed him with the exception of one occasion for the september 19th incident. >> joining me now, the author of this book "the first family detail" ronald kessler. welcome. >> good to be with you. >> let's begin with this incident in the elevator. the fact that they didn't know until after the fact and until after this guy had a cell phone out and he was trying to take pictures of the president and they told him to put it down did they realize he had a gun. what's protocol if you get in the elevator with the president? >> protocol is you never allow anybody in the elevator with the pres

pi pierson. just earlier this morning josh was saying the president has full confidence and now the president has come to the concludes that my confidence and trust has eroded. i do not feel comfortable with her in that position. that's super elijah cummings, the democrat who is in charge of things. but this is not new. we -- a guy landed a helicopters on the white house lawn. we have a fine look back. >> shep, it was only tasked with protecting the president after preside president roosevelt was -- but a man with a revolver was reportedly allowed to meet him after he told security the president was expecting him. another intruder with the weapon made it into president taft's white house. he actually made it past security, but was taught in the corridor. turned out-had a knife in his pocket. over the years secret service adjusted to the threat, but they were caught by surprise in 1974, when an army private landed a stolen chopper right on the white house lan twice. the first time they didn't show

meadows, katrina pierson sent an email to fellow rally organizers. she wrote, potus expectations are to have something intimate at the ellipse, and call on everyone to -- march to the capital. the presidents own document suggest that the president had decided to call on his supporters to go to the capitol on january six, but that he chose not to widely announce it until his speech on the ellipse that morning. the committee has obtained this draft and inundated tweet from the national archives. it includes a stamp stating the president has seen. the draft tweet reads, i will be making a big speech at 10 am on january 6th, at the ellipse, south of the white house. please arrive early, massive crowds expected. march to the capitol after. stop the steal. although the street was never sent, rally organizers were discussing and preparing for the march to the capitol in the days leading up to january six. this is a january 4th text message from a rally organizer to mike vandal, the -- ceo. the organizer says, this stays between us, we are having a second st

this is julie pierson.he is the head of the secret service taking questions from both sides of the aisle democrats and republicans, both sides of the aisle have very, very heated questions. take a listen. >> the gentlemen's time is expired. if the gentle lady has answers to any of his questions, i would

>> julia pierson just walked into the committee hearing room. i wanted to show our viewers a picture of her right now. shortly she'll be sitting down and read an opening statement that will last about ten minutes and then questions will be posed to her by the chairman darrell issa and the ranking member elijah cummings, am i right, pl pamela? >> that is right, carol. >> let's talk about what pamela brought up, this changing story from the secret service about exactly what went down at the white house. michelle kosinski as that part of the story. michelle, tell us more about that. >> talking about layers of security at the white house but there are also layers of questions now. i mean, first we heard from the secret service hours after the incident happened that this was an unarmed suspect. they really played up that. they said that was part of the response, that first of all he didn't appeared to be armed. then it turned out he was not armed. okay, that sat there until the next day when it turned out he was armed with a three-inch knife. we went

secret service director julia pierson steps down after the agency reels from a series of controversies over the president's safety. >>> and 12 years gone. a texas girl allegedly kidnapped by her mother more than a decade ago is found living near mexico city. captioning funded by cbs unded by cbs >>> this is the "cbs morning news" for thursday, october 2nd, 2014. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. this morning a hospital patient in hawaii is being held in isolation while doctors figure out whether or not he has ebola. the patient checked into the honolulu hospital yesterday. it's unclear whether the man had traveled to west africa. ebola is just one condition he's being tested for. >>> meanwhile texas hospital officials admit they dropped the ball on the first confirmed u.s. case of ebola. this morning the question is how many others have been put at risk. omar villafranca is in dallas. omar, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. now, we've learned that the patient is in serious condition here at texas health presbyterian, and while he's being monito

director pierson, i had thought about all of this long and hard, and i think my major concern goes to the culture. it is very disturbing to know that secret service agents in the most elite protective agency in the world feel more comfortable apparently from what i'm hearing, coming to members of this committee and telling things, than coming to you and members in the agency. that -- that, i'm telling you, when i boil all of this down, that to me is dangerous. it goes -- it has to go against morale. i don't even see how good decisions can be made if your people don't feel a level of comfort that -- or they feel fear that they are going to be able to talk about the things that concern them. and that's -- i just want to go through some questions, and i want .you to -- i want to give you a chance to address that, because to me -- when all of the dust settles, that's a problem. so going back to this november 11th, 2011, incident -- and i know you were not the director, i understand that. a lot of people talk about the culture problem with the secret service, and the press reports -- of al

should director pierson step down? does president obama think that's the right course of action at this point? >> the president and the white house have confidence in pierson's ability to do this job. we have confidence in the review that she's undertaking about exactly what happened, the incident that you referred to that happened a couple weeks ago. it's something they're taking seriously. they've upped some of the security procedures already. and she's undertaking that review. we're letting that process go forward. the president has confidence that she has the ability to run the department. and to conduct this review. we'll see what comes of that. >> i know josh continues to say the president has confidence in the secret service. i guess the question is why. because lawmakers on capitol hill yesterday who i was speaking with, just a lot of americans, say they're losing confidence. so why does the president still have confidence, particularly when we're just learning about this breach? atlanta that occurred when he w

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pierson resigned. she was under fire for a series of embarrassing breaches for presidential security. >>> steve handled man is live on capitol hill with the latest. >> thanks. first the nuts and bolts. julia pierson submitted her resignation and accepted immediately by homeland security jay johnson with the knowledge of the president. clearly from the top down to her level, they were not pleased with three things. number one, her performance up here at that hearing yesterday, very contentious. she seemed kind of not cooperative and defensive about the fence jumping incident. lawmakers, including prominently maryland senior drink elijah cummings said he lost sleep last night over the hearing an the new revelation from the "washington po" confirmed quickly by nbc news there was another major security breach by the secret service just 15 days ago with the cdc in atlanta when a man with a gunnd an arrest record was allowed by the secret service on an elevator with the president. she not only -- pierson not

julia pierson, director of the secret service has resigned.urable weeks heading an agency that nobody believes stands up to its historic legacy. it came last night with the "washington post" report that an

pierson could no longer defend the culture. , mr. clancy coming out of the -- coming to the helm of the secret service. happening now in montgomery county, police are investigating the deaths of two people as a murder suicide. tuesday afternoon, police first discovered a deadly car wreck. but it's later, a couple of miles away, police responded to a fire and found a body in a garage. the victim is identified as carolyn meddling the -- matt ingly. at this hour, police believe andrew racca carried out the murder-suicide as retaliation for an incident at work. appearance for the man charged with hannah graham's abduction is delayed until december. jesse matthew was expected to appear in court tomorrow for the first time to respond to that abduction charge. instead, the court will only address charges of reckless driving against him. at this hour, investigators are using drones to search for graham. the technology will help them reach areas particularly hard for people on foot. abc 7 will be in the courtroom in charlottesville tomorrow f

with pressure mounting on the secret service, director, julia pierson today offered her resignation. >> she believed it was to the best interest of the agency of which she dedicated her career. pierson was on the hot seat at capitol hill, as lawmakers from both parties blasted the secret service how they handled the security breach at the whitehouse. >> this is disgraceful. >> omar gonzales, a homeless iraq war veteran jumped the fence and made it all the way to the east room. this prompted growing concerns about the secret service, pierson was the head of the agency for just 18 months. lawmakers called for her resignation. >> i don't see how she can make the changes necessary in this position or how she could stay in this position. >> it's incident on september 16th was the last straw, president obama was visiting the cdc that day and in the elevator, he encountered a security guard and started to act unprofessionally and taking photos. and they did a back grown check and found he committed a crime in the past, he would not have been allowed to be there. >> white house fence jumper

pierson when she testifies.ne is the security breach, but the other involves that it wasn't properly recorded. and there was bipartisan anger about this, which is rare in washington these days. >> reporter: there is anger. the first reports was that he was stopped right inside the white house. okay. that's bad enough. but now we're hearing -- the "washington post" first reporting, and indicating that he got much further into the white house. so people are wondering is there another shoe to drop? what don't we know yet? i think it doesn't look good that this information is coming out peace meal like that. and that it is worse the more we hear about it. >> this is julia pierson being sworn in to testify. that is the committee chairman and the ranking member greeting her. but now we go back to 2011, and we're finding out that that other breach at the white house was far worse than once thought. >> right. the "washington post" said it took four days to realize someone fired a high powered rifle at the white at the t

julia pierson neglected to tell people any of this stuff. i need to mention the post's writer who owns this story and is responsible for these revelations, and in terms of needing a new director of the secret service, i don't think you need much more than a knife-yielding maniac getting over the fence and into the white house. that's clearly all the president needed. the president just learned just hours it was in the press that he was next to a crazy armed felon guy in an elevator weeks zblag we don't know if he was crazy but he was an armed felon in the elevator with the president. the secret service didn't know about his past and the fact he was armed. that is a big national security concern. >> apparently he was acting, if not crazy, he was giddy just to be next to the president and the secret service didn't discover until later when they pulled him aside and were interviewing him and his boss came in to fire him from the local security detail and said hand me your gun and that's when they learned he was armed. they had been the known un

pierson did not take the rejection well.oel redmond was the co-captain of the debate team with pierson. >> i told him, you know, your future is not what happens to you in high school and so much more than that. >> reporter: but he said pierson was removed from the speech and debate team after threatening the coach tracy murphy with his life. >> a lot of high schoolers, a lot of teenagers think their life is so immediate, so now. >> reporter: they never thought it would come to this. the students will be allowed to re-enter the school later this week, but that will be only for the purpose of retrieving their belongings. rick salinger, cbs news, centennial, colorado. >>> a wildfire in central california has destroyed at least 15 homes. the big sur fire has burned about 500 acres in the los padres national forest. firefighters say they are making progress but the wind-driven fire is zero percent contained. one of the destroyed homes belongs to the big sur fire chief. >> it still has not sunk in. i just haven't absorbed it all y

>>> by mid afternoon, julia pierson delivered her resignation to jay johnson. in an interview, pierson said i think it's the best interest of the secret service and the american public if i stepped down. congress has lost confidence in my ability to run this agency. the media made it clear that this is what they expected. the president's family woke up to this headline this morning in their local paper. man with gun was feet from obama. that was the latest in a series of stunning revelations by "the washington post." this morning's washington post front page was clearly the last straw for the white house. the white house press briefing was delayed three hours today and began immediately after the secret service director submitted her resignation. >> this afternoon, the president had the opportunity to telephone director pierson to express his appreciation for her service to the agency and to the country. director pierson offered her resignation today because she believed that it was in the best interest of the agency to which she has dedicated her career. the s

as gloria said, look at what got them to julia pierson.chief of staff and also a she and it was coming off of a very big scandal where it looked like it was a boy's club and they wanted to have a woman in there and it didn't work out. ironically for the same reasons that the men had problems because it was a culture of cover-up and not having actual accountability so it was gender neutral. but finding somebody who is going to be appropriate, but not too heavy handed is not easy. >> it will have to come from the outside, i think. they went inside and stuck with the culture, now i think they have to go somewhere else. >> they need somebody with a lot of credibility and experience, someone who can take that secret service and make it what it is supposed to be, the elite organization that protects the president and the first family. all of those who work at the white house. guys, thanks very much. you can follow us on twitter, tweet me at wolf blitzer or tweet the show at cnn sit room. and join us tomorrow right here at the situation room or d

the house oversight committee is grilling secret service director julia pierson right now looking for answers. >> don't let somebody get close to the president. don't let somebody get close to his family. don't let them get in the white house, ever. and if they have to take action that's lethal i will have their back. in this day and age of isil and terrorists and ieds and dirty bombs, we don't know what's going on underneath that person's clothing. if they want to penetrate that, they need to know that it will be fatal. that it would be message we're sending every single time. i thank them for their service, i love them and care for them but we need better leadership. it's not happening. >> strong words from representative jason chaffetz. we want to turn live to the house oversight and government al reform hearing where julia pierson is now answering questions. let's listen. >> he would not have been apprehended except that he had a car accident and even when he was it was not neimmediately linked to his criminal activity. that, in fact, the system at the white house did not detect t

they said that julia pierson stepped up and offered her resignation. i pressed him and said why did they not fire her after these breaches? he just said basically they did not know about that incident in that atlanta elevator at the cdc where a security guard who had a gun and a criminal record, the secret service was not aware of, got inches from the president. the president was left out of the loop that his safety had been in jeopardy again, just a couple of weeks ago. i'm also told one last bit of color, that when julia pierson wernlt up to the -- to offer his resignation, he not only immediately accepted it, but said it would be effective immediately. they're not even going to give her time for a transition, they realize they have got to turn the page on this fast. >>> now to the ebola scare, earlier we got an update on the condition of the patient in a dallas hospital. >> we're categorizing his condition as serious but stable. >>> we also heard from rick perry on some children who came in contact with the ebola patient. >> we also learned that som

julia pierson, director of the secret service has resigned. it turns out unendurable weeks heading an agency that nobody believes stands up to its historic legacy. it came last night with the "washington post" report that an armed man with a criminal record, an armed man was allowed to ride in the elevator with the president of the united states. that must have been an unchallengeable challenge to miss pierson. a bigger challenge confront as bigger fish. how is the president going to get people to follow him through a dimly lit tunnel. endlessly bad news about a spreading terrorism and a spreading disease. it is now part of a trinity of horrors. ebola which we'll go deeper into the next segment. isis which continues reaching for more territory. a land ruled by the harshest of islamist rule. that's what we're facing with the president. he being out on point. all these crisis have no quick fixes. president obama ran on hope and the new. right now everything new is bad. and this right now is the age of containment and it will require him to come

. >> director pierson should resign today. yords why she has not resigned as a matter of honor and duty and service to their country. she has got to go. >> do you think she should go? >> i think so. >> look at why julia pierson blamed the media. the press pushing back hard against the president, appearing to shift the blame for underestimating isis in his intelligence agencies, but the media also fall short in covering these dire warnings? the nonstop coverage of the ebola virus dominating the news. >>> hat hour, health officials casting a wide net in an effort to track down everyone that was exposed to ebola here in the united states. >> we here are talking about ebola the last few days. do we need to? >> are we reaching the point where the mainstream media are scaring people? >>> plus when the miami harold exposed a fling with diana rice? a new look at that bit of monkey business. i'm howard kurts, and this is media buzz. >>> begin with a series of washington post scoop. the service botched the probe of the white house being

katrina pierson blamed the rise the surge in iraq, during her time as senator. (katrina pierson/ trump spokeswoman) "and barack obama went into afghanistan creating another problem. it was hillary clinton and her incidents in libya which was also a reckless decision to create that vacuum. they armed the rebels and they're even funding them now." (victor blackwell/ cnn correspondent) "ok, so so you're saying barack obama took took the country into afghanistan post 2009 is that that what you're saying?" (katrina pierson/ trump spokeswoman) "what i'm saying is the policies barack obama and hillary clinton, that was obama's war, yes." trums sarcastic, "but not that sarcastic." ((nia wong)) >>> 8 news now is your local election headquarters for all the races and political news that matter to you... on air and online at las vegas now dot com./// ((nia wong)) >>> coming up on 8 news now. >> crazy pita is celebrating their 10 year anniversary with the josh stevens foundation. how you can help right after this break. more heat to come, but a chance of rain and "now, live

i think that was probably the final bro for julia pierson -- blow for julia pierson. gwen: we spent a lot of time on this program talking about the veterans affairs administration and all the terrible things that happened in the v.a. that led to the resignation of the guy at the top, which didn't fix the problems. so i'm wondering if now that we have led to the resignation of the person at the top here at the secret service, whether there's still more digging to be done. >> oh, absolutely. agents have talked to me all the time, they say the problem is called the eighth floor. it's a series of leaders where e meritocriyy doesn't rule up.gets low level rank and file are so demoralized because they get dinged for forgetting to file their paperwork. there is a terrible lack of leadership at that level because of the way they've allowed this agency to be eroded from a budget standpoint. from a staffing stand point. they're flying in field agentses from other offices at huge expense now because they don't have enough guards on the white house grounds to monitor the complex

pierson has been completely transparent with us. >> is her job on the line? >> 9 director of the secret service said this -- >> this is unacceptable. and i take full responsibility. >> she then went on to defensively make excuses for every terrible display of utter incompetence the secret service has given us in their protection of the white house and the first family. she tried to give defensive speeches instead of answers to very simple questions. >> your agency previously had reported an indictment against mr. gonzalez, asserted that he was arrested in that entry area. isn't it true that he actually penetrated the cross hall, the east room, and, in fact, was arrested in the vicinity of the green room. >> referring to your map on the wall, as i have been briefed, mr. gonzalez entered the front double doors. >> ma'am, i want a short answer. i have very little time. >> that was the day that i agreed with darrell issa. that's not the darrel issa i have seen in other hearings. that was darrel issa being perfectly reasonable today and final bly losing patience w

johnny pierson makes the decision.is first draft will ignore future sources and regulate existing polluters only. a step not popular with park service officials in washington. >> it was a very aggravating process at times when you said something over and over and they said, we get to, and then it was not what you were saying at all. >> when you care about what you are doing, you identify very personally with the product that you see on paper. it isn't just a regulation, it means when people see the grand canyon 100 years from now. .... ! there are sentences that aren't even sentences. i began feeling like a manic depressive on a rollercoaster. >> across town, and environmental group beauty pages lead to them from the park service. >> quite frankly, it is pitiful. it does not mention anything about new sources at all. >> we've got to raise the issue. that is our responsibility. >> you could not intelligently evaluate proposing because the agency had not given us all of the information we needed to make a judgment. >> an

a 2012 scandal triggered pierson's selection to head and clean up the secret service. agents were found to have hired prostitutes in colombia while preparing for a trip there. no one charges peer sop's departure was caused by sexcism. social media questioned whether pierson was qualified for the job or based on gender preference. one commentator raised the point about the glass cliff and studies show that women tend to get big opportunities when a company or organization is in trouble. they slide off quickly when things are not fixed. does her resignation have wider implications for women at the heads of corporations or major government organizations? >> i don't think it does and i will tell you that because the secret service is a unique agency. it will have terrible implications for the women in the secret service and that is what we should focus on. >> she was not the first person the president had selected. it was a man who was a former secret service agent who runs some global security company. and he stepped down or did not take the appointment. she was second ru

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pierson was appointed director in march of last year to the s reputation. question, how's she doing? part of the secret service's leadership since 2008. she served for predecessor mark sullivan who did such a stellar job, he was in charge during the colombian prostitution scandal and two agents were pulled from the president's detail. one for leaving a bullet in a woman's hotel room and another for sending sexually suggestive e-mails to a subordinate. pierson was director in march of this year when the secret service sent three agents home from the netherlands after a night of heavy drinking. how do we know it was heavy drinking? one of the agents slept it off in a hotel hallway! i just love the idea of the united states secret service being represented so brilliantly. >>> and this latest security breakdown is really a much bigger deal, and to allow the residence of office of the president of the united states to be this vulnerable should result in a complete and utter management house cleaning. and homeland security as well as the secret service. at least

director julia pierson admits agents did not follow protocol. >> i don't sense from you, director pierson, a sense of outrage about that. >> i wish to god you -- you protected the white house like you're protecting your reputation here today. >> reporter: omar gonzalez is in court today facing three counts for jumping the fence and making it all the way into the east room of the white house. initially the secret service said he was stopped just inside the door. >> were you lying to the american people, or were you misled by your own agents about where the intruder was tackled? >> the secret service is conducting an ongoing investigation. >> tremendous restraint is not what we're looking for. the message should be overwhelming force. >> americans know that the next attempt to take the white house may not be by a crazed solo knife-wielding veteran with ptsd. it could well be a planned attack from a terrorist organization. >> reporter: and there's another concern, too, that agents, the rank-and-file, may be afraid to speak up to their superiors. director pierson tells congress that is unacce

students say murphy had taken disciplinary action against pierson after the student threatened him. joe redmond was pierson's friend. >> it began with the speech he wrote and it escalated from there and karl took himself so seriously he thought that when we said no to that speech we were saying no to him. >> reporter: a sheriff's deputy assigned to arapaho and a guard were in the school at the time but pierson shot himself in the library before they could reach him. pierson's family released this statement today. >> reporter: scott, in another >> reporter: scott, in another statement, the family of claire davis said she remains in a coma in critical but stable condition. >> pelley: rick salinger, thank you very much, rick. today the f.b.i. said that this year its agents prevented 150 attacks like the one in colorado. the bureau is working with communities to spot potential threats early and our homeland security correspondent bob orr gotten an inside look at how it works. >> reporter: andre simmons runs an f.b.i. unit charged with stopping mass shootings before they happen. three ti

a bombshell from the secret service, director julia pierson resigns. agency?next for the in prince george's county come for a suspect. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- abc 7 news at 11:00, on your side. >> the fight against ebola hit close to home tonight. the cdc confirms the man who now has the deadly virus passed through dulles international airport on his way to dallas. officials are keeping a close eye on everyone that thomas duncan came in contact with. he was not showing any symptoms here. jay korff is live at dulles airport. >> a comfort to many, but whenever you hear the term ebola and northern virginia, folks get worried. according to federal officials, thomas eric duncan was at dulles airport last month or in a layover the lasted three hours. the 42-year-old liberian national departed to visit family. from brussels, he took the united flight. four days later, he went to texas health presbyterian hospital in dallas, where he is now in isolation after testing positive for ebola. >> i would like to see some more action.

neil: pierson among them? >> i would argue yes, unfortunately. they developed relationship with the white house staff, with people in the business sector. look at what some of the former directors and former upper management. look what they've done. it's almost, neil, a quasi form of regulatory capture in the secret service. neil: who leaked that it was actually an off-duty agent who tackled this guy who entered the white house to the grounds? not an active on-duty agent. who would say that unless to embarrass active duty agents? >> they're willing to take the embarrassment at this point to get rid of this management team. they're fed up, neil. i get the calls every day. they're upset about this. neil: dan, thank you very much. curious about that. good seeing you again. >>> now there is pressure to cap spending. the push to cut spending on defense that could leave our forces defenseless. and flyers, you could get sick on your next flight, it depends where you're sitting on that flight. why lizzie is very happy she's ensconced in first class? ♪ mr

we just booked to correct all my katrina pierson.'s what she said. >> ed: why didn't you tell me, ed, i didn't know all the details, but i did say, yes, he used this and were to use the conversation along whitesburg of the first call you are talking about where she is claiming i said that, was in a totally different call, where she was arguing with lynne patton about the existence. let me explain something to you! omarosa has been using this tape to manipulate people. >> ed: she's also using this tape to sell a lot of books. you have katrina pierson doubling down on the book idea of using the word "dog." they say they don't want to focus, she's a liar, they are giving her more attention, and they are selling a lot of books. >> i kind of needed a whiteboard for that discussion because there were a lot of things going on. >> ed: this one, that one. >> the bottom line is they were trying to spin it originally, then omarosa comes out with tapes, and it doesn't look good, and now they are trying to figure it out, going forward. the whole

>> so you were not satisfied with what the director, julia pierson, had to say today, were you? >> well, i wasn't satisfied because we continue to ask questions and she was saying that it was a budget concern, it was another type of concern. and yet when we asked piercing questions, what we found was that indeed it is probable that she made some of the very decisions to reduce staffing that created this potential concern. and so why were the dogs not released? a lot of still unanswered questions that i think americans deserve. >> so where do you go from here? what can congress do to try to fix this problem? >> well, it is a bipartisan thing. you heard democrats and republicans today very concerned that what we've got is an agency with a culture that must be turned around. the current director has been there for 17 months and yet we can still see that even among some of those that showed up at the hearing today that they acknowledge that they've got a problem. so we need to give our secret service the tools necessary. hearings are not enough. we're probably about to go into an ex

lot of reaction coming we are now hearing from people about julia pierson's resignation. here is a comment we found on social media. >> who did not see that coming? just asys, probably well. however, questions need to be addressed as well. we would like you to join our conversation with going to our wjla facebook agent telling us what you think about julia pierson's resignation. >> our senior political reporter was in the courtroom for today's hearing. we will get some perspective from him on what he saw and heard, coming up on abc 7 news at 5:00. tothe first death connected a rare respiratory virus sweeping the nation. staff died from a infection associated with enterovirus d68. combination is very rare. this is an isolated case, which obviously led to a tragic outcome, but it's not something we expect to see again. >> enterovirus d68 oestreich and more than 450 people in 41 states, including maryland, virginia, and the district he read the department of health said only a small number of people infected will experience symptoms be on runny nose or a fever. >> there's no

secret service director julia pierson has resigned in the wake of security lapses at the white house. fox's own ed henry is standing by in the briefing room with the very latest tonight. ed. >> reporter: sean, a really dramatic turn of events because as of this morning josh earnest, the press secretary, was doing various television interviews saying the president still had full confidence in julia pierson. what changed in those few hour sns a number of things. one, white house officials say they only learned late yesterday about this second breach in recent days. but this elevator incident where a security guard with a gun who had a criminal record got very close to the president. and it turned out julia pierson while briefing the president recently about the fence jumping incident that really started all this did not disclose what had happened in atlanta. that was a problem. but i've pressed josh earnest on why it took a resignation from the director. why didn't the white house push to get her out if they were so troubled by this? listen. why didn't senior people here at the white ho

everybody is ganging up on pierson, who has just been in the job a little over a year. she came to congress and said i need some tools to have better personnel perform wrans, and she suggested first some changes in educational requirements which she wanted increased. some better changes. she wanted authority for management. people could stay in management positions that are qualified, and then last of all and we saw this with the v.a., we finally gave v.a. the ability to hire and fire people who don't do their jobs. just holding people accountable. whether you have julia pierson or someone else, you've got to have the ability to control your agency and get good people. >> so yes or no, you're not calling for her resignation? yes or no. >> no, inlt. i think at this time it's actually premature. whether she stays or goes, whoever is in charge -- congress has had some of her proposals. we don't need all these commissions. they have the authority. pass the law. do your job. we could give her the tools to clean up the mess. >> there's no time to have a bunch of hearings beca

after just 18 months on the job director julia pierson resign under heavy pressure yesterday. she told bloomberg news it is painful to leave as agency is reeling from a significant security breach. >> on september 19th a man jumped the white house fence and made it into the east room of the president's home. support for pierson quickly faded this week with the revelation that an armed contractor with prior arrests rode an elevator with the president during a visit with the cdc last month. some members of the congress has called for an independent investigation into the agency's operations. the director of home land security says that will happen. the the president is standing by the the agents assigned to protect him. >> the president has nothing but the highest regard for the the men and women of the secret service. >> reporter: the white house says next permanent director of the secret service could come from outside the agency. susan mcginnes for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> clancy, from havertown, is not new to the agency. he served as head of the president's protective div

what happened with director julia pierson on that incident? >> i can tell you we first learned about that incident shortly before was reported lou: we will be talking with louie gohmert on whether the embattled agency is going to go forward from here. also today, benjamin netanyahu urging the president to show leadership and to end the iranian pursuits of weapons. president obama showing more support at the u.n. general assembly. >> the violence engulfing the region has made too many israelis ready to a been in the hard work of peace and that is something where the of reflection within israel. and let's be clear, the status quo in west bank and gossett is not sustainable. >> we also recognize that we have to find ways to change the status quo so that both israeli citizens are safe and school children are safe in their schools from the possibility of rocket fire. lou: an important difference of emphasis. a former israeli ambassador to the united states joins us now on what it feels to face radical islamic terrorists. and new concerns about the