kerry johnson didn't feel comfortable rebutting her bosses narratives.icers in the secret service and leadership that night, that friday night brushed -- rushed to a hasty conclusion and didn't look very hard and didn't ask very many questions. so it almost seems like, you know, some of the complaints that we've heard over the last several months that the agency is a little too complacent, that it hasn't had a serious attack or assassination attempt and thus is sort of starting to get lulled to sleep. that's one thing, a worry that is raised. second, that it's a top-down leadership culture where, you know, you better turn and don't mess with our thought process about what happened here. that certainly looks like it was kerry johnson's experience. >> woodruff: well, it an extraordinary report, story, and two extraordinary examples of reporting am we thank you very much. the other part of it we didn't even have time to talk about is the anger on the part of the president and the first lady after this incident in 2011. again, great reporting, carol leonnig

are obviously incredibly troubling, from "the washington post" reporting they said that officer kerry johnson told several senior officers she thought the house had been hit but she did not challenge her superiors for fear of being criticized. that's what she later told investigators. speak to the culture of an agency where the officers on the ground who heard shots, who smelled shots, who saw debris falling did not feel like they could challenge their superiors in this situation? if that is, indeed, true, if she felt particularly with regard to something that could have been an attempted assassination of the president, that she couldn't communicate that to supervisors or she felt she would somehow be retaliated against, if that, indeed, is the cull tufr have tour of the secret service, middle level management, particularly uniform division, it's unthinkable. and it does speak to a very significant problem. when you talk to superiors what they'll say is, well, no one comes to us. of course, we take those complaints seriously. why wouldn't we take a complaint? why wouldn't we take a report som

officer kerry johnson told me and i heard she heard debris.s said this is about gangsters fighting and not anything to do with the white house. she said she didn't counter them for fear of being criticize. >> so many fascinating aspects in your peace. this is what struck me with the secret service threat assessment finding the president faces three times as many threats as predecessors. that's why at one point michelle obama feared for the safety of her family, her children, the president given that you write about her being infuriated about the incident. how was she told? what level of infuhr united nations here? yelling and screaming? >> this goes to the two reasons the president and the first lady were upset. it is the second part. the way she learns about the event is upon returning home a couple days after the shooting, which she's been told has nothing to do with her family, she's greeted by an usher after taking a nap after the long overnight flight from hawaii. usher is simply trying to check on her, make sure she's okay. assumes she k

fox 29's lauren johnson is live at the scene now, lauren. >> reporter: kerry, file this one under weird weapons, criminal views to get what they want. up steady of the gun or knife, he came in the store with a needle and he was not frayed to use it. check out surveillance video we have got from the philadelphia police a few days ago. in the video man is seen outside a dunkin' donuts store at eighth and chestnut before going inside on a cell phone. in the beginning there is a cuss more in front. when the customer dressed in athletic gear makes it to the front of the the line he end the call, exchanges ward with the female clerk for just a few minutes and then you see him head behind the counter. he goes toward the cashier with the needle in his hand, never sticks her with it but the two struggle before you see another employee off camera who struggles with the man. in the end he opens up the register himself pushing the female employee to the side. it appears that she find the emergency with the on underneath the counter but not before he gets away with some cash. the other employee runs

we're just asking secretary of state john kerry and jey johnson, secretary of homeland security, do you have a plan to prevent these people from coming back into the united states where they may do harm. >> i want to talk to you about some of the semantics and then also the congressional role. some say there should be an authorization of military action. republicans run the house. you're a former house member. why don't they just do it? it's not exactly a profile encourage if there are people calling for this and yet the house isn't going ahead and naturally taking action. >> i think unwith of tone of t . is, congress can do that on its own. they are going to act on a continuing resolution which will provide the authorization to train the troops, the moderate opposition. in terms of the broader authorization, the community welcomes congress doing it themselves but i, frankly, think it would be advisable to talk to congress and with that request and for congress to act on it. i think that's the way the process ought to work. most of us -- i personally believe -- that they do have legal a

after one more week, we get lane johnson back from his suspension. >> kerry williams says the defense is tired and lacks games because of chip kelly's defense. chip did not get defensive today. >> i know we ask our guys to run a lot during practice. i asked kerry on his own. he came in to visit with them and i think he was frustrated. i understand that kerry's a competitor. i've got no issues with kerry. >> jonathan pappelbom will be back from suspension. the phils held a private workout in venezuela today for highly touted free agent tomas. the flyers first pre-season game here, ron hextal's son brett will be playing for the first time tonight. >> i remember as a kid being so sbim dated by all of the guys. they've got old pictures up in there and it brings up a lot of memories. it's really cool for me to be at this level where i'm in there doing a job. >> and just like his dad, some pushing and shoving for brett with the capitols. big night for the power play. and then, in the third period, the shot from the point. f flyers with four power play goals. first knockout of the pre-season

. >> reporter: nicole johnson and kerry finkly are two actresses trying to make tonight hollywood.used to post their comedic videos on facebook and twitter but now they use bubblelous a free social media site that pays people for their post. users can attach video accounts first tours and text to their pages and earn a penny for every like view and comment. nicole and kerry's ten earned them a hundred dollars. >> we have put time and effort in these video. it is nice to actually get a little compensation for work that we do. >> they created bubble lous have after watching facebook make billions off web site where users supply content without getting paid. >> we wanted to kind of put a stop to that rather than just have a network that is built up on basically the ideas of other people. >> reporter: bubblelous makes money off advertising but nicole and kerry say it is not just about the money. >> it is a matter of respect too. when we feel respected we will also respect the work. >> action. >> reporter: so until they catch their big break they are happy to collect a penny for their t

on the ground promise, while his top lieutenant, secretary of state john kerry and homeland security security secretary jay johnson brief lawmakers on the threat posed by isis. >> want to thank in particular speaker boehner, democratic leader nancy pelosi for showing us that when it comes to america's national security, america is united. i very much appreciate all of you and the efforts you made there. >> and the frantic pace of hearings on isis continue on capitol hill. right now, the house intelligence committee is hearing from former sent come commander james mat is and ryan crocker. secretary kerry and hagel testify before two other house panels next hour. want to bring in "the washington post" correspondent, ann garrett. the senate is expected to join the house in approving the president's isis strategy. how big a victory for the president, how bad if the plan were voted down? >> you just identified the real risk here. yesterday was the higher stakes of the two votes, the republican led house did rather grudgingly back the plan. approval all but ashierd today in the senate. it is a victory on a couple points

secretary kerry is testifying and so is jay johnson. homeland security secretary. about threats to the homeland. >> eun. >> tracie potts live on capitol hill for us. tris', thank you. this morning a new york man is in jail accused of recruiting for isis here in the u.s. federal prosecutors charged him yesterday. the man lived in rochester, new york and is a naturalized citizen from yemen. he's accused of encouraging three people to travel to syria to fight with isis. prosecutors say he was arrested in may after trying to buy guns from an undercover fbi agent. >>> right now, you may want to give yourself extra time taking the train up the northeast core do. amtrak said it's single tracking between union station and philadelphia while crews are making repairs. the tracks were shut down for about ten hours yesterday. that caused a huge mess for tens of thousands of commuters. right now, montgomery county police need your help to find a missing person. this is chantal anderson. she was last seen friday night leaving her home in kensington and getting into a car. althou

johnson. secretary of state john kerry will be in new york as well, hosting a global counterterrorism forum.e has his mind elsewhere, and particularly, on syria as well. tell us the daily methodology of secretary kerry as he is buffeted as no secretary of state in years. andks you have the urgent important and you have to do it all at the same time. john kerry has been here sunday dealing with a host of different issues. key today is he's going to be setting up very important security council meeting. byorrow is the yuan chaired president obama. in an effort to stop foreign fighters from going over to syria and iraq and coming back to their home countries. john kerry today is going to be gathering all of these countries together to talk about what they can do about counterterrorism. this is the fourth annual of these events that had, but it takes on really new significance. quirks is it of oso -- photo session? >> know, and we will be covering it live. it is interesting because he is having to bring on board not allies who now publicly have shown themselves, but basically the whole world. th

johnson, live for us in norristown. happening today, secretary every state, john kerry is in baghdad to meet with iraq's new prime minister>> this of course comes as president obama plans to address the nation with his strategy to fight back against the terrorist group isis. the president called leaders from capitol hill to brief them. he says he has the authorization needed to expand us air strikes from iraq into sewer y but woe like it to be an international effort. be sure to join us tonight as the president addresses the nation on the white house, watch it here on fox 29 around 9:00. he will outline his strategy against isis and its growing terrorist threats. >> trial accused of woman kidnapping sexually assaulting five year old girl in philadelphia. prosecutors say 21 year old christina, seen here, disguised herself in muslim clothing and took the girl from bryant elementary in january of 2013. she is the only person charged in that case. >>> meantime, a court hearing scheduled today foreman accused of killing two women in their northeast philadelphia home. police say james meers killed ruby thomas and house mate dol

. >> fox 29 lauren johnson live in north philadelphia where police are serving for the gunman, lauren. >> kerry, looks like police are crapping up the scene at 20 and nesra where it happened. they're wrapping up this morning with key pieces of evidence. a 6-year-old mother was found outside of a running chevy impala. they were coming the car for evidence. the woman was shot in the head, arm and both legs. she was rushed to the hospital where she was pronounced dead. doctors worked for more than an hour to try to save her baby. they were unsuccessful. also a victim in the shooting is 25-year-old man who was also found outside of this running car suffering from two gunshot wounds to the back and leg and he was taken to einstein in critical condition and he is expected to survive this. police say the gunman fired off 11 shots. the car hit by bullets, shell casings were scattered through the streets before homicide detectives gathered up evidence. as for motive they don't have one yet. one suspect was found reping from the scene here. police are talking to witnesses and carefully inspect car and ho

testimony from secretary of state john kerry just back from the middle east, urging other countries to help. now, that's this afternoon. this morning, jeh johnson, the homeland security secretary, testifies about threats to the homeland. isis is sure to come up. tracie potts, nbc news, washington. >>> a trial is scheduled today for a woman accused of leaving five children in a running car while she shopped at a philadelphia supermarket. karen thompson is charged with endangering the welfare of children. investigators say it was on july 2nd she went into a shoprite and left five children in her care unattended in the car. a witness called police when she heard the children crying. police say thompson operated a home daycare. >>> philadelphia police say a 15-year-old girl found unconscious in the woods had a medical issue, even though her parents believe she was attacked. the teen was found with bruises and scratches in the woods off roosevelt boulevard in penny pack park jumonday night. she was reported missing after she didn't show up to school. police say she suffered a medical episode, but parents insist the levels were fine in the hospital.

. >>> and then lauren johnson is following a terrifying attack with an unusual weapon, lauren? >> reporter: good morning, kerry. a man visits this dunkin' donuts in center city three times before robbing it with a >>> we will start off with wet they are morning, lot less weather drama then we had yesterday with all that rain and the the wind and everything else going on with that coastal storm that is not here anymore. this is where it all went. it didn't actually go that farrah away. it didn't move that quickly and we did get an inch or so of rain out of this but it is up in new england right now. with our 56 degrees in philadelphia we will look at temperatures that are not exceedingly chilly, so we've got an air mass that is set to warm us up, over the weekend. if you are in mount pocono it is 51. we have 53 in reading. 56 degrees here in philadelphia. fifty-five in dover. fifty-seven down in wildwood, and visibility could be an issue for you. now we don't have that many areas of fog, mostly to the west but .3 of a mile visibility in reading. just with some left over moisture from yesterday, if you go could

kerry just back from the middle east urging other countries to help. that's happening this afternoon. this morning, we're hearing from secretary jay johnson of homeland security talking about threats right here in the u.s., threats to the homeland. >>> firefighters in northern california battle a wildfire that damaged or destroyed nearly 150 homes and businesses. windy conditions today will keep red flag warnings in affect. firefighters say they will likely work for days to put out hot spots in the town of weed. the fire is being called the worst the state has seen all year. this woman had time to grab clothing and her dog before making a quick exit as her home was on fire. >> it was boiling red. just rolling, bubbling up. plus the propane tanks were blowing, bombs going off. >> firefighters are making sure -- making progress, but they say the danger is far from over. >>> a cal schoifornia school is closed after a car crashed in. it's a miracle no one has seriously hurt. as children arrived to class, a parent accidentally drove through a classroom wall. eight students and a teacher were inside. the force of the impact was so great that pi

hearing today from secretary of state john kerry debriefing from his trip overseas to gather more support for this campaign. this morning, they're hearing from jay johnson who is the homeland security secretary, he's going to talk about threats to the homeland, but before all that, we're also expecting to hear this morning from president obama. he's down in tampa today at mcgill air force base which is the headquarters of central command. they oversee all the operations in the middle east. and we're waiting to see if the president will address what his top general said here on capitol hill yesterday. joint chief's chair martin dempsey left the door open to possible u.s. boots on the ground, ground troops in iraq and or syria. in iraq, depending on the situation there. that's something the president has said he does not want to do. finally the vote that you were talking about, it's scheduled to happen late this afternoon, the house vote to arm the syrian rebels to provide them money for training for those rebels on the ground. >> one to certainly watch, thank you for following that for us, tracy. >>> all new this morning, strong earthquake struck off the

. >>> then lauren johnson live inard more where hundreds of people are waiting in line for the new iphone right now, lauren? >> reporter: kerry, if you have one of these iphone five or anything older than that you are old news now. all these people lined up at apple storm waiting for iphone six to release at 8:00. we will tell you why they are here and what happened to the person who got their hand on the first one over in au >>> all right. we have high pressure in control. frontal system came through, a few showers hanging around because of it but this will be our weather maker for the weekend leaving us high and dry, okay. the irish weekend in north wildwood is, such an event, and we have already gotten a lot of tweets hey what is the weather. here it is, early sunshine on saturday, possibility of the pop up thunderstorm late in the day but i think we are actually going to stay high and dry. we will fix that for you. ultimate doppler shows us that we have one shower that is now dissipating down in southern delaware. rest of the viewing areas looking absolutely fabulous, this morning. now, temperatures are really not where t

is the gravest threat they've seen since they took the job, eric holder, jay johnson, as well as secretary of state john kerrytelligence in the house, mike rogers. also we see the lethality in which isis is putting together and killing people in the area of syria and iraq, knowing that at least 100, maybe 200 americans are fighting amongst them and they have passports to come right back. >> it is good that the president came out very strongly last night and said, we're going to go out there and destroy them because when you look at his history, and it's just a fact, in the beginning when george bush was talking about the surge, barak obama then senator, was against it for the most part. >> as was hillary clinton.ç >> absolutely. but barak obama was against it until he became president and then started taking credit for it. then when it's time to leave iraq, rather than leave a small residual force, nothing. had he acted and left some people in place, many of the smart guys who analyze this every day say we would not be in the pickle we are today. >> yeah. i think that's basically it and i'm worried he's goin

josh johnson won the game in the bottom of the tenth with a walk off, home run. this is the last week of the season, kerry barrett. >> it is indeed. >> thank goodness. >>> 6:26. a pistol packing pastor helping nab a suspected robber how a man of god helped police and brought peace to the neighborhood. >>> steve keeley is in monroe county as police search for a man who killed a pennsylvania state trooper ten days ago, steve, good morning. >> reporter: yah, eric frein packing more than a piss tell but powerful rifle with the snipper scope. we are two hours and 40 minutes drive north of philadelphia, and some thick, dense woods, and it is day ten looking for this guy and dense woods, and it is day ten looking for this guy and don't believe tom corbett's tv ad. the facts speak for themselves. tom corbett cut a billion dollars from our schools. he took an ax to education. twenty-seven thousand educators were laid-off. class sizes increased. and now almost eighty percent of school districts plan to raise property taxes. tom corbett. can't trust him on education. can't trust him to be for us. >>> it has been ten

kerry? >> sue, thank you. it is 4:03 this morning, the three suspect arrested in the alleged attack on gay couple in center city are free this morning. >> fox 29's lauren johnson live at police headquarters with the very latest, lauren? >> good morning, they surrendered yesterday in spring garden, new video actually we want to show you of the group being released overnight after they turned themselves in a day after the da announced plans to go after them. let's look at the mugshots of the suspect, 24 year old philip williams, 26 year old kevin harrigan, and 24 year old catherine knot. each facing two counts of aggravated assault, two counts of recklessly endangering another person, one count of criminal conspiracy. you may remember the video, brutal beat down on the night of september 11, near 16th and chancellor streets, social media played a huge role in helping to identify the people responsible, as customers from nearby restaurants, now the lawyers are speaking out defending their client. >> this was a mutual confrontation between individuals out on the street it, in center city, unfortunately, last week. it resulted in injuries to an individual, but i ca

kerry on live television. new fallout from the heated interview. >> and a brand-new shocking report about the v.a. scandal. details with more lies and cover-up. what's going on here? peter johnson-- your statement. fabulous. glamorous. fun-loving. one-of-a-kind. because you have stories to tell. what's your cover story? at chico's and chicos.com. >>> welcome back. the watchdog responsible for investigating the v.a. scandal says 42 locations were involved in plots to delay patient care. they found 28 instances of clinically significant delays in care and at 13 administrators lied to investigators who were trygon cover the ex tempt of the problem. fox news brought the v.a. scandal to light months ago and has followed all of its developments from veterans dying to veterans being left without benefits. peter johnson, jr. has been at the forefront of this effort to get to the bottom of it and joins us now. >> i looked carefully this, 133-page report. in my view, the report is a white wash and a scam. bluntly spoken. i think congress is looking very, very hard at this. they find delays. they find deaths, but they don't put the two together. and this is the controversial line from the

jay johnson, earlier this week, he said he's working with his foreign counterparts to track some of those people, to make sure that does not happen. also, domestically, secretary of state john kerryama will travel to tampa, where he'll meet with the leadership of centcom, and that is where the pentagon houses its operations that deal with the middle east. deb? >> all right. erin mcpike, thank you so much for that great report. appreciate it. >>> and coming up next, we're going to talk with the daughter of the lake james brown and get her take on the ray rice situation and what women should do to escape violence at home. she grew up watching domestic violence and she says she, too, has been a victim. nineteen years ago, we thought, "wow, how is there no way to tell the good from the bad?" so we gave people the power of the review. and now angie's list is revolutionizing local service again. you can easily buy and schedule services from top-rated providers. conveniently stay up to date on progress. and effortlessly turn your photos into finished projects with our snapfix app. visit angieslist.com today. ♪ >>> time now for the science behind, basically where we look at the why behin