josh campbell, cnn. >>> authorities investigating the deaths of four idaho college students say theygress but still haven't made details available to the public. they don't want to compromise the investigation. officials say they are sorting through a huge number of tips, including many about a white 00 -- hyundai elantra sedan. they have not found the murder weapon used in last month's attack. >>> as condemnation rolls in from around the world for the execution of iranian protesters, demonstrators refuse to stay quiet. in tehran, the streets rang out with a familiar chant of death to the dictator. protesters in the western city damaged a statute chew dedicated to a member of the pair ramilit force. a man was hung on thursday after being sentenced to death in late october. the first known public execution since protests began. in peru, hundreds of people continue to protest the otheous leader. they are ruling out constitutional changes. this all comes as the ousted is seeking asylum in mexico. he was offed by lawmakers on wednesday after he tried to dissolve congress to avoid an impe

josh campbell, cnn, los angeles. >> that's such a painful story, made more so by the fact it's repeated over again in this country. joining us now in person is dr. scott hadlin at mass general hospital and ar vard school. thanks for being with us. you recently wroep an op-ed how to save your children from fentanyl. i'm so struck by this role that those parents have taken on. what is the first thing parents need to know about this drug and what do they need to do to help their kids? >> parents really need to know that in this era in 2022 fentanyl is everywhere. many times when kids think they're buying a pill that looks like oxycodone, xanax, things that people take to help themselves deal with pain or re relax, that those pills unless they've been striebed by a doctor or dispensed by a pharmacy are most likely counterfeit and can kill a child. it's important that parents talk to their teens about this. as a practicing pediatrician who works with families and talks to kids every day, many families are unaware this is going on, even despite the fact that in the year 2021 fentanyl killed t

cnn's josh campbell has the chilling details. >> reporter: we are learning new information about the7-year-old girl, near fort worth, texas, november 30th. police say the 7-year-old, athena strand, went missing from her driveway. her family called police, there was an extensive search of the area, and as part of that investigation, police determined that there was a fedex package delivery at the time of her disappearance. they contacted the company, they were able to identify that specific truck. police say that there was surveillance video inside the footage that actually showed this young girl inside the vehicle with the driver. that contract fedex driver, 31- year-old, tanner horner, was arrested, he has now been charged with capitol murder, as well as aggravated kidnapping. i will a part of the arrest warrant affidavit. they say the defendant stated, when he was backing up his fedex truck, he accidentally hit athena with the truck, but she was not seriously injured. he panicked and put her in the van and strangled her with his bare hands in the back of the fedex truck. now, we ha

and josh campbell is also -- josh, we don't often see the u.s.ic safety alert. -- >> this is federal law enforcement telling parents out there to stop, pay attention, this is important. they are seeing skyrocketing in these online scams targeting kids. and in the scheme, as you mentioned, that is called sextortion, that is seen in so many of these cases, you have a child that is online, on facebook, on instagram, on snapchat. they receive a message from someone -- and it's the typical case that pretends to be a young girl, who engages in conversation over a period of time, sometimes it's hours, sometimes it is days. they convinced these unsuspecting boys to send them some type of romantic photo, telling them i will send one -- sometimes they actually use child pornography to send messages to other kids and what's the victim actually sends that intimate photo of themselves, what typically happens is that the scammer breaks governs as, all, right you now have to pay me, oftentimes thousands of dollars, or i'm going to release this photo to the publ

cnn's josh campbell joins us now. attacks follow other incidents of vandalism at power hubs in southern washington and oregon last month. what more do we know about this? >> reporter: that's right, pamela. this is serious. we have been talking about these widespread power outages across the country due to inclement weather, but authorities here in washington state belief that this massive power outage in tacoma, just south of seattle on christmas day was intentional, believing that these four power substations were vandalized. as you mentioned, that leading to 14,000 people without power. now at this hour, police continued to investigate. they have not made any arrests. they have not indicated what the potential motive is, but they did speak to give us an update about what they found when they arrived at these scenes as well as how the investigation is proceeding. take a listen. >> the suspects cut one of the locks on the fenced areas. they made their way inside and caused damage to the substation which ultimately kno

i want to bring in cnn national security analyst juliette kay and josh campbell, is also back. don't often see the u.s. justice department and the fbi issuing a public safety alert. tell me, what is the significance of this and how these scams work. >> this is federal law enforcement telling parents out there to stop, pay attention, this is important. they are seeing a skyrocketing of these online scams are targeting kids. and in the scheme, that as you mentioned is called sextortion, what we've seen so many of these cases as you have a trial that's online, on facebook, on instagram, on snapchat, they receive a message from someone who in the typical case pretends to be a young girl, engage in conversation over a period of time, sometimes it's hours, sometimes it stays, they convince the unsuspecting boy to send them some type of romantic photo. telling them that i will send you one of you in return. sometimes, they use childcare notified to send messages to other kids. and once the victim actually submit that intimate photo of themselves, what typically happens is the scammer b

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josh campbell is following this trial for us.he suspect was allegedly planning to target. >> that's right. that alleged target list also included hunter biden, of course, the son of president joe biden and california governor gavin newsom and actor tom hanks and speaking of hunter bide chb, t -- biden, the suspect said he wanted to kidnap hunter bide chb to discuss quote the corruption in washington. this occurred on information on state charges. david depap stands accused of assaulting paul pelosi and faces charges of attempted murder and ass assault. he's pleaded not guilty and today we learned in court one of the officers that interviewed the suspect said the suspect confessed to this. again, a lot of new details what the suspect was allegedly planning and of course, jake, when you look at the list of these targets, there is no question that this appears to be a politically motivated attack. the suspect allegedly talked to police about hillary clinton, of course, the former secretary of state telling authorities that the evil

let's bring in cnn security correspondent josh campbell who broke the story and cnn's senior law enforcementnalyst and former philadelphia police commissioner charles ramsey. josh, i'm going to start with you. what more have you learned about how this arrest came about? a lot of agencies seem to have been involved in this. >> yeah, this case is really highlighting national cooperation between law enforcement. you have multiple jurisdictions here and it shows that with this cooperation with law enforcement, no one is able to get away with these agencies coming to bear with all of their resources. we were told that investigators in idaho, they were working a host of authorities there, state officials, the fbi, out of salt lake, they were working to determine who this suspect was and during this course of the investigation, they were able to determine that he traveled some 2500 miles to the other side of the country. as jean was just reporting, officials in pennsylvania, particularly the state police, were able to go obtain a warrant, once they knew where the suspect was located, they were able

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josh campbell.national security agency. glen, stunning the velocity not of the proposals but the actual enactment. on the state level, the federal level as well. these are government based, not the entire population to some degree. who is exactly affected by the bans that we have seen being implemented the last couple of months? >> thanks. the bans that we have seen implemented the past few months have been aimed at state government employees initially. this was -- became a politically popular issue particularly for republican governors to voice their concerns turnover this. we have seen democratic governors also adopt bans on state-owned telephones and computers. then now finally most recently on the federal government with president biden signing some legislation that bans the use of tiktok on any phones or computers or laptops used by federal employees. so this has grown rapidly. having said that, this doesn't close the issue because tiktok can still be used on anybody's personal phone. there is

. >> cnn's josh campbell has been following today's hearing. what more do we know now?l under way. this is a preliminary hearing on the statement charges for the attacker of house speaker nancy pelosi's husband, paul pelosi. the suspect who we obviously have been reporting on, 42-year-old david depap faces attempted murder charges as well as assault and elder abuse. there is a separate federal prosecution going on as well, but right now in this state hearing we're learning new details about how that attack tran transpired. now according to our affiliate up in the san francisco area, prosecutors actually played some of the 911 audio as well as the police body camera footage from the day of that attack, and they just -- it indicates that the suspect told police his ultimate target was nancy pelosi. they were able to go to the hospital where the suspect had been taken and conduct an interview of him, and he allegedly had indicated that he went there on that day, confronted paul pelosi. obviously engaged in this brutal attack that left mr. pelosi with a skull fracture and s

cnn's josh campbell has the latest. >> for power substations in washington state and lest on christmas power for thousands and impacting holiday plans for many. the piers county sheriff's department says deputies found evidence of forced entry and damage at all four stations. nothing was stolen, and there are no suspects at this time. >> there is a good possibility that they are related. we are gonna be investigating to see if this was coordinated by a specific group of people. roughly 14,000 customers were impacted. -- deliberate damage were reported last month that substations in southern washington in oregon. and a similar incident just weeks ago at power substations in north county north carolina, where about 40,000 customers were left in the dark for days. with temperatures dipping into the 40s. schools and -- no motive has been announced and no arrests have been made in those attacks. >> we are aware of the things and we are gonna see if any of the stuff is related to that. >> the fbi issued a bulletin last month private -- three or four substations is being done to make a statem

more now from cnn's josh campbell. >> this horrific event started with an inappropriate online romanceeen a predator and a child. >> the child, a 15-year-old girl is still in protective custody undergoing trauma counseling and receiving extensive medical care. after a law enforcement officer brutally killed her mother and grandparents. >> we have possible murder victim. multiple victims. >> then set the families home on fire and took off with her. driving for two hours until the pursuit ended with her fleeing the car. and the suspect shot and killed by law enforcement. >> the suspect, 28-year-old austin lee edwards was hired in virginia by the washington county sheriff's department days before the murders according to law enforcement. it was a former virginia state trooper. >> we asked the same questions you all. asked how did this person get past a background investigation. >> police say edwards developed an online relationship with the teen on social media. posing as a teenage boy. texting her from virginia. >> this was an adult that traveled across the country. to kidnap a 15 year o

cnn's josh campbell is following the latest developments for us. josh, you just shake your head. we are talking about this happening again to a power substation. do police have any information on how this happened or who do it? >> police know how it happened and they don't know why it occurred. on christmas day more than 14,000 people in the tacoma area were left without power due to vandalism at four separate power substations. authorities have not arrested anyone, and they have not identified a suspect or suspects, and the motive remains unclear. we did get an update on police providing the information on what authorities found and how the investigation is proceeding. take a listen. >> the suspects cut one of the locks on the fence areas, and made their way inside and caused damage to the substation that ultimately knocked out power for a large amount of residents in the county. it happened in the middle of the night on christmas day causing power outages. nothing was stolen from any of the facilities, so there's a good possibility they are related. we are aware of other incide

i want to bring in cnn security correspondent josh campbell and phil mud, former fbi special agent bobbyst cray casey jordan. josh, am i right to assume basically all this came together in the past week once police got results from the dna test they had taken from the scene? >> that's right. it comes down to dna and law enforcement says this white hyundai elantra they had a be on the lookout alert for law enforcement sources to tell us they were able to match the suspect's dna with unknown dna found in idaho with a public dna database to match to a family member and started getting on to this suspect and this vehicle they were able to locate, he traveled across the country that according to sourcing from our colleague pam brown and this morning, law enforcement there in pennsylvania particularly the pennsylvania state police put handcuffs on the suspect and the fbi was there as well. what happens next is we're waiting to see how the extradition will take place, whether he'll fight extradition. that's the what. we don't know why. we don't know the connection or whether he knew the verdict

i want to bring in cnn security correspondent josh campbell, also former fbi senior intelligence officerl mudd, former fbi special agent and criminologist casey jordan. josh, am i right to assume basically all this came together in the past week once police got results from the dna test they had taken from the scene? >> that's right. it comes down to dna and law enforcement says this white hyundai elantra they had a be on the lookout alert for law enforcement sources to tell us they were able to match the suspect's dna with unknown dna found in idaho with a public dna database to match to a family member and started getting on to this suspect. and again, this vehicle which they were able to locate, he traveled across the country according to our sourcing from our colleague pam brown. and this morning, law enforcement there in pennsylvania particularly the pennsylvania state police put handcuffs on the suspect and the fbi was there as well. what happens next is we're waiting to see how the extradition will take place, whether he'll fight extradition. that's the what. we don't know why. we

more from josh campbell. >> reporter: this horrific event started with an inappropriate online romancechild, a 15-year-old girl, is still in protective custody, undergoing trauma counseling after her parents were killed, set the house on fire and took off with her, which ended with her fleeing the car and the suspect being shot and killed. the suspect was hired just days before the murder and was a former virginia state trooper. >> we ask the same questions you all asked. how did this person get past a background investigation, past a polygraph investigation? >> reporter: police say he developed an online relationship, posing as a 15-year-old boy. >> he posed as a 15-year-old boy with the plan to kidnap her and kill her family. >> we don't know if it's the first physical encounter they had. it's quite possible it was. we don't know if she knew that he was coming to california. >> reporter: this was a case of cat fishing and much more according to police where the suspect impersonated another individual for the purpose of exploitation. >> this type of victimization takes place across so

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let's go to cnn security correspondent josh campbell. what else do we know about this? >> reporter: we've seen thousands of people left without power but officials believe that they believe an intensional act left some 14,000 residents of tacoma, washington, south of seattle, without power on christmas day. this attack involved four of the substations providing power to the area. now officials don't yet know a motive or have a suspect or group of people in custody. but they did provide an update on what investigators found at the sites and how their investigation is proceeding. take a listen. >> the suspect's cut one of the locks on the fence area. made their way inside and caused damage to the substation which knocked out power for a large amount of residents in the county. all happened in the middle of the night on christmas day. nothing was stolen from any of the facilities so it is a good possibility that they are related. we are aware of other incidents that occurred in oregon and southern washington and incidents from north carolina earlier in this wintertime. so

here's cnn's josh campbell with more. >> reporter: beyond the overnight sensations.legged sup superstars, a potential threat to u.s. national security. this according to a growing number of federal and state officials. >> we, the fbi, do have national security concerns about the app. >> the app, the popular global social media giant tiktok with you now boasts more than a billion users. >> its parent company is controlled by the chinese government. >> reporter: the director of the fbi spoke this month. >> it allows them to manipulate content, if they want to to use it for influence operations. >> reporter: and the potential threat they say contains data collection and espionage. >> it's extraordinary china, they're not the only ones obviously, are developing just frameworks for collecting foreign data. >> reporter: in a politically polarized america, the influence in the digital space has garnered interestingly bipartisan concern. >> tiktok is an enormous threat. they can visualize even down to your keystrokes. >> the question we have to ask is whether we want to give

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josh campbell reports. >> i found zack asleep at his desk, his head laying down on his arm.l before i touched him that something was horribly wrong. >> reporter: every parents' worst nightmare. 17-year-old zach found unresponsive in his room two days after christmas of 2020, medics arrived and began resuscitation efforts. but it was too late. >> i started resuming cpr, they stood there, i got mad at them, help me save my boy. when they didn't, i started talking to zach, begged him, don't go, please come back. do not go. >> i walked up and chris said our baby is gone. >> reporter: we sat down with chris and lori inside zach's old classroom theatre room. surrounded by memories of their son. >> he loved school, loved sports, starred in the musical. he was such a stellar young man. he always wanted to help other people. >> reporter: zach's sudden death initially a mystery to investigators. but the coroner had two theories, either an undetected medical issue or fentanyl. >> and that further spiralled us into -- >> into confusion. >> yeah, debilitating confusion. why would you say

cnn's josh campbell joins us with reporting on what the confessed killer shared with police. can you tell us, josh? >> reporter: yeah, ana, an update on this tragic story we brought to you last week involving the death of athena strand. authorities say she went missing in her driveway on november 30th. her parents called police. there was an extensive search around the area. they obtained information there was a fedex delivery around the same time as her disappearance. they started working back to determine where was that truck? who was that driver? the fbi was able to obtain surveillance footage from inside that vehicle that allegedly showed athena inside this truck. now, the driver, 31-year-old tanner horner, he has now been arrested and charged with capital murder as well as aggravated assault. i'll read you part of the arrest warrant affidavit in which he allegedly confessed. authorities say that the defendant stated when he was backing up his fedex truck he acc accidentally hit her with the truck but she was not seriously injured. he panicked and put her in the van. he s

here is cnn's security correspondent josh campbell. >> this horrific event started with an inappropriatebetween a predator and a child. >> reporter: the child, a 15-year-old girl, is still in protective custody, undergoing trauma counseling and receiving extensive medical care. after a law enforcement officer allegedly brutally killed her mother and grandparents. >> we have possible murder victims, multiple victims. >> reporter: then set the home on fire and took off with her, driving until two hours until the pursuit ended with her fleeing the car and the suspect shot and killed by law enforcement. the suspect, 28-year-old austin lee edwards, was hired in virginia by the washington county sheriff's department just days before the murders, according to law enforcement, and was a former virginia state trooper. >> we ask the same questions you all ask, how did this person get past a background investigation? >> reporter: police he developed a relationship with the girl texting her from virginia, posing as a teenage boy. >> this was an adult that traveled across the country to kidnap a 15-y

perspective now from senior law enforcement analyst andrew mccabe, former fbi deputy director, also, josh campbell, a former fbi special agent, and chief law enforcement john miller, a former commissioner at the nypd. let's start with what we just heard from, gee, john, that this reporting that the dna about the dna, the genealogy, and how it led authorities to the suspect. what have your sources been telling but the dna found at the crime scene? >> my sources have been telling me that they are linking this to the crime scene. now, that doesn't necessarily mean it was the key to identifying him. and we expect to find more when we get the affidavit in support of the arrest warrant when he is returned to idaho. but we also learned that he had a white elantra, he was 15 minutes away from the scene. he arrived in, you know, pennsylvania around christmas. by then, the entire area was already looking for a white elantra, and giving police tips whenever they saw one. so it is entirely possible that someone from where he was in pullman 15 minutes away said, hey, there was a guy with a white elantra and he

. >> reporter: well, amara, as you said, those federal sources telling our cnn's josh campbell and mark morales an arrest has been made. we understand that at this point it is a man in his 20s but beyond that there are very few details coming out at this hour. i did speak with police this morning where they said there is going to be that news conference at 1:00 p.m. today. they would not tell me any further details, but just for context this is the first press conference that the police department has held in weeks. we understand that this is going to be obviously a major development. they're going to be talking about that arrest but it has been nearly seven weeks since the murders happened here at this home behind me and you can see actually today another monumental day here at the crime scene that has been very relatively quiet over the past few weeks. there is a cleanup crew here cleaning this house today and it's going to be eventually turned back over to the property owner, and so we understand that so much is happening here in moscow and the police department making this big annou

this is per our josh campbell and mark morales.fter we were told there is a press conference today at 1:00 p.m. pacific time as you've said. obviously major developments going to be aunnounced here tody from the moscow police department and this comes nearly seven weeks since the murders of zenna, ethan and madison moggan and kaylee goncalves happened at an off campus home near the university of idaho. they were murdered an stabbed in her sleep. obviously a gruesome crime and it has shaken this entire small rural college town here and of course the families have been asking for answers this entire time. but the moscow police department has been steadfast in releasing very few details. the entire time saying that they have had strong leads and they were keeping information close to the investigation to protect the integrity of the investigation. well now we are expecting that they will announce today at this press conference that an arrest has been made in the murders of these four students. >> hopefully we'll learn more on the moti

>> well, abby, just in the last few minutes josh campbell, lauren and mark morales revealed bryan kohberger, a 28-year-old has been arrested in connection to these murders here. he was arrested according to -- federal sources in pennsylvania, completely on the other side of the country, thousands of miles away. this arrest comes after seven weeks of painstaking investigation by the moscow police department, the fbi and other agencies who have descended upon this town to try to figure out who could have possibly murdered four students in their sleep, that's according to the coroner here saying those four students were likely murdered in their sleep. some of them showed signs of defensive wounds they tried to fight off the attacker. now we understand that federal sources are saying a 28-year-old man was arrested in connection to these murders. as you mentioned, there is a 1:00 p.m. press conference today. i spoke with police this morning and beyond the fact that there is going to be a development and announcement they wouldn't tell me more than that, but now we understand it is likely that th

josh campbell is "outfront." >> reporter: beyond the overnight sensations, and viral four-legged superstars to u.s. national security. this according to a growing number of federal and state officials. >> we the fbi do have national security concerns about the app. >> reporter: the app the popular social media giant tiktok, which now boasts more than a billion users. >> its parent company is controlled by the chinese government. >> reporter: the director of the fbi spoke at the university of michigan this month. he says one key threat is the chinese government's ability to potentially control the platform's algorithm. >> which allows them to manipulate content, if they want to, to use it for influence operations. >> reporter: and the potential threat officials say also includes data collection and espionage. >> it's extraordinary the degree to which china in particular, but they're not the only ones, obviously, are, you know, developing just frameworks for collecting foreign data. >> even in a politically polarized american, the communist party's influence in the digital space has garnered

i want to swing over to josh campbell. you're a former fbi agent. it was fascinating for as little detail as they were allowed to convey, you got a few kind of threads of things, how it had been several sleepless nights in the lead up to this. so clearly this has been in the works for several days and they have an elanta. it was considered one of the big breakthroughs of the case in terms of actual information, tangible information that they were going on. the idaho police chief developed a clear picture over time. what does that tell you about how the search for the alleged killer progressed. >> i think it gets to the vehicle. we've been reporting based on our sources that much of the identification was due in part or due largely to that actual white hyundai elantra that authorities were able to track and as we've been reporting the suspect traveled some 2500 miles from idaho to pennsylvania and it really shows you, as you mentioned, the sleepless nights for law enforcement, think about the number of moving parts that were involved in this investig