hurghada. it seems the issue is getting bigger now. sarah: thank you very much for the details. we turn to the united states, now, where police in philadelphia say that a man who shot an officer said he was doing it for the so-called islamic state. the gunman fired 13 rounds from a stolen police weapon. the wounded officer hit three times, managed to fire back and wound his assailant. the suspect later told investigators he had carried out the attack in the name of islam and that he had pledged allegiance to islamic state. the officer's injuries are not life-threatening. u.s. correspondent richard walker joins us with the latest on this story. so richard, what more do we know about the circumstances of this attack? richard: sarah, it really does seem pretty astonishing that this officer is still alive, with the police saying 13 rounds fired, some of them at very close range. so i think certainly lucky to be alive simply with injuries to his arm. the police have been talking about what the assailant allegedly told them after he was apprehended, as you just mentioned, reportedly s

the attack took place at the popular bella vista hotel in the resort town of hurghada. the mother of the so-called "affluenza" teen appeared before a texas judge today. tonya couch arrived in texas more than a week after mexican authorities detained her with her son in mexico. she is accused of helping her son-- ethan-- flee the country after he missed a juvenile probation meeting. ethan couch is on probation for killing four people in a drunk driving crash in 2013. ethan couch is still in mexico. last week a mexican judge granted the teen a temporary stay halting deportation proceedings. new trouble for a clark county school district teacher accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student. a new accuser is stepping assaulted by the teacher 4-years ago. brittany freer claims kristy yegge gave her drugs.. then took advantage of her. 11.07.52.00 "once i went over to her house she proceeded to give me prescription drugs, and because i was in a hyper emotional state i took." freer says she fell asleep.. but when she woke up.. she says yegge was undressing her

other news, gun men in egypt opened fire on a hotel used by foreign tourists in the resort city of hurghadaa. egyptian security forces reportedly killed at least one of the attackers. it is also being said that the assailants may have arrived by sea. despite subzero temperatures in the balkans, large numbers of refugees are continuing to make the overland journey to europe. around 20,000 people cross into the eu in the past week alone. medics working at refugee points say that their health is at increasing risk in the freezing weather. our european correspondent has spent the last few days on the border between serbia and croatia. he sent this report. reporter: along europe's refugee trail, temperatures have plummeted. still, they keep coming, 2000 to 3000 a day. children without shoes. and growing numbers of families. it had been thought that winter would slow the arrival, but here at the gates of the european union they are still lining up to get in. a few days ago. this is in critical. further -- this is incredible the cold. for them, even more so. reporter: more and more are falling sic

and wounded two foreign tourists, a danish and german, at a hotel in the red city resort city of hurghada. police member opened fire --men opened fire at the attackers killing one. not clear how serious the conditions of the tourists are. >> michelle: the attack came hours after the local affiliate of the islamic state, isis, claimed responsibility for the attack a day earlier in cairo. nobody was hurt in that attack on thursday. egypt has been battling an insur yebsy by islamic mill tablts led by the islamic state afill yants and these are different pictures of people posting on twitter as they're watching all that happen. while those two breaking stories were going on we heard of a third story. >> krystal: a lot going on on this friday. this time out of london. again, you see images coming from social media. people there this was unfolding when a commuter train station at london bridge was shut down. >> michelle: we go through what's a tool here that we're able to use and able to type in the london bridge and pull up all of the pictures and videos and tweets that are coming up. this is

have there been other attacks anywhere near hurghada? is this an area of the country that up until now has been pretty calm? reporter: yes, it has been calm. this area sees a heavy influx of tourists from germany, russia, to enjoy the red sea and the resorts there. the attacks -- most of the attacks have focused in a therern sinai, which -- is a low-level insurgency that is basically being waged there, but of course we saw a few months ago the attack -- the downing of the russian airliner al-sheikh, also one of the top results for western tourists in egypt, and is a mention, we have seen attacks elsewhere as well. was seen as one of the last places that was relatively safe. this seems to be a deliberate attempt to really cripple agen'' -- egypt's tourist industry, which has suffered heavily since 2011. 's" that was "france 24 correspondent in cairo speaking to us a short while ago. more details are emerging about the identity of the man who tried to storm parsley station. he has been identified by family members as being a tunisian natio

in egypt, two tourists were stabbed during an attack on a hurghada. the suspects are said to have flags. the suspects. swedish were hospitalized. this comes just one day after a terror attack at a hotel in cairo right near the pyramids. no one was hurt in that attack. from the terrorism alert desk in washington, i'm allison starling. >> marie: new at 330, from the 2015 attacks in paris and southern california to north korea claiming it tested a hydrogen bomb, issues of national security are dominating the news cycle. >> reed: national correspondent christine fa sdou takes a look at the campaigns and how they're taking advantage of it. fight to stop terrorists. >> as president i will defend this nation but will do it responsibly. >> he'll quickly cut the head of isis and take their oil. >> reporter: political ads offering tough talk on terrorism and national security. >> the americans fears have shifted rapidly in the past month since the terrorist attacks in paris and the shooting in san bernardino, california. >> reporter: that rapid shift has pushed

that hotel is in hurghada in egypt.om the snooi peninsula where terrorists shot down russian passenger jet last year. this assault just ended. cnn chief national security correspondent jim sciutto working his sources right now. jim, what do we know about this attack? >> well frrks what it looks like it was a pretty low rent attack. two attackers bearing knives into this hotel popular with foreigners. it was as they were leaving the hotel they were able to injure two european tourists there while they were inside. as they were leaving police -- security guards rather spotted them and shot one of them, killed him, shot and injured the other one. it's a popular place with foreigners as you can see on the map. it's right across the map from where that metrojet took off from sharpm el sheikh. this is the ultimate of soft targets, john. it shows all you need -- you know, we kind of saw the whole gamut today. saw one guy in philadelphia attack a cop, you see two attackers in an egyptian resort with two knives attack tourists t

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