for audits at opm. and richard spires, ceo of resilient network systems and former chief information officer at dhs and irs. director archuleta, i invite you to present your testimony. >> chairman boozman ranking member and members of the subcommittee, government and nongovernment entities are under constant attack by evolving and advance persistent threats and criminal actors. these adversaries are sophisticated, well-funded and focused. unfortunately these attacks will not stop. if anything they will increase. although opm has taken significant steps to meet our responsibility to secure personnel data, it is clear opm needs to accelerate these efforts not only for those individuals personally but also as a matter of national security. my goal as director is to leverage cyber security best practices and protect the sensitive information entrusted to the agency modernizing our i.t. infrastructure to better confront emerging threats and to meet our mission and our customer service expectations. opm has u

that opm was hit, et cetera? >> my experience having served on the federal cio council and worked with many of the agencies is that opm is not some outlier here. that many of the federal agencies have very similar issues as far as management and cyber security posture. >> thank you very much, sir. ms. archuletta, the federal employees. maryland is the home to 130,000 federal employees. they work at everything from the national institutes of health to the national security agency. most people with the national security agency are civilian employees. what do i tell my employees? because they are quite apprehensive. what is the impact of this on them? can -- what -- can you talk about this? and what is the impact on them? how are you in communication? and should they be afraid that another shoe will drop and that it could drop on them and they credit ratings or whatever? >> yes. and i do want to state i care very much, as you do, vice chairwoman, about our federal employees. and what this breach has done has exposed

that has gained great coverage in the course of the opm incidents. how so many of your team have testified as to how that works and how effective it is. it has been a very broad press coverage there that i think has educated the public more broadly to understand what the scope of that system is and how useful it could become. beyond the point of simply -- i should not say simply -- beyond the point of coordinating this important information, it then highlights more abilities to each federal agency, when you look at the full scope of all the federal interests that have ascribed the role in the cyber security challenge, ranging from the intelligence community and the defense department, of course, but also the treasury department, through the fbi, a wide range of agencies all have a stake in this -- how do you coordinate that wide-ranging set of efforts beyond simple information sharing? sec. johnson: that is on us to do, that is on dhs to do. you are correct that there are a number of federal departments and agencies with a cyber security role. each a

back to you. >> the recent opm breach is the largest known cyber attack in u.s. history. >>> a popular known magician at children's party is accused of inappropriately touching an 11- year-old girl. jose luis valenzuela was working as a counselor when the alleged abuse happened. the magician known as jolly it was said touched her during magic classes. >>> many are celebrating a historic day in south carolina. after weeks of protest and political wrangling the confederate flag at that state capitol has been removed. our bruce leshan joins us from the newsroom with more on how it all finally went down. >> yeah, derek. that confederate flag had flown over the dome or on the ground 50 years. for many it was a symbol of racism and oppression. three weeks after a massacre in an african american church it is gone. [ cheering and applause ] >> reporter: clears and heavy security as south carolina state -- cheers and heavy security as south carolina state troopers removed the confederate battle flag from the state capitol grounds. >> it is a relief. >> reporter: frances p

the cio of the opm. she may have stepped down. my concern is, this letter says, i was just reading it again, it says that all affect did individuals, will have $1 million worth of identity theft insurance and full restoration by cs id and till 1217. i just read that this money. i thought, that means, after that date, if something were to happen, we are on our own. what is also interesting is the letter says that, pretty much, any alleged issues concerning opm or the united states by the issues covered by the letter are determined solely in accordance with appropriate law. nothing in the law makes me think the government as accepting liability. very concerning. at this point, all i can do is hold my breath and keep my fingers crossed that nothing comes my way. it is disheartening to note that essentially, they are looking out for us through the 16th, but what if something happens after that date? host: when did you get the letter? caller: i guess i got this may be a month or so ago. it allows you to go online to, you know, to estab

opm said in june, there were roughly 4 million victims. says now, it's 21.5 million. and that's pretty much every federal employee. and again, contractors applicants family and friends. republicans charged today more data theft is likely because, in the words of one they are still feeding the beast over at opm, he says still putting some information into the system that they know has been compromised even though a lot of security forms are being done on paper. security experts say this does look like the work of the chinese. white house would not confirm that today and they say the good news is that it looks like it's political looks like it's focused on spying. good news for those who were hacked because apparently profit is not the motive. and -- but a lot of government workers i talked to today said they are going to spend this weekend looking at their credit card receipts and arranging credit monitoring. if you think you might have been affected check out our washington app, nbc washington app, we have posted information on it about what you should do. i'm steve h

i referred to opm for a more apprehensive set of those reforms. there is an effort underway at opm to draw on experts inside the federal government but also security experts outside the federal government. as a management expert, i would expect she would be well-positioned to bring that expertise from a variety of sources together. to focus it on the significant challenges that are being a spy opm right now and trying to move out quickly to implement many of the reforms that they suggest. >> the press secretary said opm does not have a contractor -- [indiscernible] that they promised to the individual [indiscernible] have they found one yet? josh: the information i have this morning is the latest as well. once they have entered into a contract this they will begin the steps of notifying individuals of the protections that are available to them. i am sure will have conversation with all of you about that as well. >> is the white house concerned they do not yet have a contractor for these 21 million people are smart -- 21 million people? josh: i wil

opm immediately contacted the department of homeland security. can you give me a definition of immediately is it the same day, a week a month? >> same day. >> and then you had the same issue, where we talked about the scope and impact of the intrusion shortly thereafter, opm notified congress ap leadership. >> we have a 7-day requirement in which we met. >> met it within that 7-day? >> yes. >> the contractor that was involved in this that had the responsibility for a strategic it and the security plan. who is that contractor and what were the assurances that they gave early on during the conversation of the contracting process, to say, we'll provide security structure management i'm kind of looking for what they said they would do and what they actually did. >> who is the contractor? >> i think it's -- i want to be very clear that while the adversary leveraged, compromise key point user credential to gain access to opm's network, we don't have any evidence that would suggest that key point as a company was responsible or directly involved in the

and you can search under opm hack. live in germantown, jackie bensen, news4. back to you. >> jackie, thank you. >>> a man in england is facing federal charges here in the u.s. he is accused of hacking into several government agency computer networks in virginia. among the agencies, the energy department, health and human services, and the fbi's regional forensics lab. prosecutors say in 2012, laurie love and others hacked in to protected servers and gained administration level access. they're accused of stealing personal and financial records for 100,000 employees. >>> let's get to that breaking news in chattanooga now. >> the fbi and justice department are giving an update right new on the investigation into the shooting today that killed four marines. let's listen in. >> please cooperate. if you think you have information that might assist this investigation, please call the fbi and they will deal with that accordingly. otherwise this, as far as we know at this juncture, there are no safety concerns for the general public. so with that being said, i turn it

the opm breach also remains the subject of an ongoing investigation.we have strong evidence about the identity of the actors behind the breach. as the dni said last week, there is a "leading suspect," but we are not prepared to publicly identify those actors at this time. to be frank, our federal cyber security is not where it needs to be. but we have taken and are taking accelerated and aggressive action to get there. in response to the opm breach, on june 12, the white house announced the establishment of a cyber security sprint team comprised of omb, nsa, dhs, and dod personnel to conduct a 30-day review of the federal government's cyber security policies, procedures, and practices. on a re-prioritized basis, we are deploying teams to assess the highest value systems across the federal/civilian government and hunt for and remove ever adversaries identified in the system. this response to the opm breach is part of a much broader federal cyber security effort that has been underway for some time. there is a great deal that has been done and is being d

some victims received letters from opm alerting them to the breach.y offer credit monitoring and other services. the government says there is no evidence yet the stolen information has been used for identity theft or other financial crimes. on the streets of d.c. there's little trust in that assurance. >> i want to feel more secure about what's going on. i just want to feel more comfortable when this does happen. >> reporter: james lewis is one of many cyber security analysts who blame the hack on china. >> they'll have a long time to work figuring out how to use it for recruitment, how to use it to maybe coerce people with relatives in china. they'll find a million ways to use this. none of them will be good for the u.s. >> reporter: republicans like colorado senator cory gardner are calling for the obama administration to publicly name china and lodge a diplomatic complaint. >> why doesn't this administration call in the ambassador? why don't we have a conversation and point this act out that it is unacceptable? >> reporter: late this evening virgin

that has gained great coverage in the course of the opm breach. how so many of your team have testified as to how that works and how effective it is. it has been a very broad press coverage there that i think has educated the public more broadly to understand what the scope of that system is and how useful it could become. beyond the point of simply -- beyond the point of coordinating this important information, it then highlights more abilities to each federal agency, when you look at the full scope of all the federal interests that have ascribed the role in the cyber security challenge, ranging from the intelligence community and the defense department, of course, but also the treasury department, through the fbi, a wide range of agencies all have a stake in this -- how do you coordinate that wide-ranging set of efforts beyond simple information sharing? secretary johnson: that is on us to do, that is on dhs to do. you are correct there are a number of federal departments and agencies with a cyber security role. each agency and department has it

right now opm plans to offer three years of id and fraud monitoring. because the hackers got their hands on so much sensitive information from so many people some lawmakers say three years of protection just is not enough. >> it may do nothing now or they may do something years from now. and i think the government owes our federal employees and retirees at least that. >> opm director katherine archuleta bowed to pressure to resign because of the breach. the hackers spent almost a year taking information from the databases. the leading suspects for the hack? china. >>> president obama will be going to a federal prison next week for a visit. he'll be the first sitting president to ever visit a federal prison when he goes to a medium security facility in el reno, oklahoma. he'll talk about the criminal justice system there and meet with corrections officials and inmates. >>> next at 11 tonight, donald trump sounding off on the media, american trade deals, and yes immigration. what he sid tonight in an hour-long news conference that at times got heated. >>

dhs, the fbi, and nsa have also determined opm system containing information -- opm's system containing sensitive background information was compromised. opm provided notice to approximately 4.2 million people impacted by the data breach involving employee personnel records. opm is still working with an interagency team to address the total number of people affected either breach involving security clearance background investigation information. the opm breach also remains the subject of an ongoing investigation. we have strong evidence about the identity of the actors behind the breach. as we said last week, there is a leading suspect. but we are not prepared to publicly identify those actors at this time. to be frank our federal cyber security is not where it needs to be. but we have taken and are taking accelerated and aggressive action to get there. in response to the opm breach, on june 12, the white house announced the establishment of a cyber security sprint team, comprised of omb nsa, dod personnel to conduct a 30-day review of the federal government's cyber security policies, p

says the three years of coverage opm is offering is not nearly enough. >> the very least we should do is give them lifetime identity protection. it has to be lifetime because they may do nothing now, but they may do something years from now. >> nbc white house correspondent chris jansing joins us live from the white house. chris, where do we go from here now that katherine archuleta has stepped down? >> reporter: yeah the immediate question is what does this mean for the 22 million americans, bun in 15 americans, affected by this? the answer suspect clear. at the briefing today, white house press secretary josh earnest said that investigators don't even yet have a handle on exactly who is affected and that means that no letters can go out, no notification go out. remember, this covers people who got background checks over the last 15 years. some of them never worked for the federal government. some of them don't work for the federal government now. so first and foremost, they would have to track all those people down once they figure out exactly who they are. in the mean tame, what do

what does the opm hack say about cyber security in america today?think what this says is that we haven't all realized we're past the wake-up call stage. the wake-up call has occurred. everybody in the neighborhood -- >> how many times is the wake-up call? >> exactly. the problem is people are stumbling around in the dark looking for the light switch and there's been a guy hiding in the close closet for nine months and he's stealing the jewelry and tv and walking out the door. my question is how many of these people are already in places gaining the foothold, just waiting for the right time for the next attack equally as serious as the opm attack. >> the question is why did china go here? had a lot of viewers are going well, if china was going after the cia's computers or pentagon's computers, that would all make sense. why opm? >> i think everybody you've heard from the intelligence community is correct. this is standard espionage. the fact that we can now do it through cyberspace makes it somewhat easier. we can hoover up a lot more records and col

we now are learning that the director of opm is out of there, gone and joining me to talk about it iseporter evan perez. evan this is quite a turn here because just this morning, katherine archuleta, as we understood it she wasn't stepping down she seemed what defiant in these hearings. what changed? >> that's right, i think the calculus changed because the politics were getting worse and worse, frankly, by the hour. we had the first democrat mark warner of virginia senator, who called for her departure, for her to step down and you had some of the unions who are tarting to now call for her to go and frankly i think the administration realized she had become a liability. especially because the facts of this hack are just getting worse and worse. now we are up to 22.1 million people who are affected according to opm, that's 21.5 million background checks. this is intimate details about people's sex lives, about their medical and their mental health histories. these are things that are golden for a foreign intelligence agency that can use them for black hail. this is a serious hack. ver

but now the opm said that reached 21 million people.nese cyber thieves are widely believed to be the hackers and the opm said they have social security and employment and health and financial histories. house oversight chair jason cha ffetz called for her resignation. he said this is the absolute right call. opm needs a can have theed and savvy leader to manage the biggest cyber security crisis in the nation's history. beth cobetter will be act the now. >> for more on this. we'll bring in bob editor in chief for the hill. >> yesterday catherine archuleta said she would not step down. what changed? >> it was a matter of time. in this type of situation where an agency head is under fire is the members of her own team and other democrats were calling for her to step aside. republicans were of course as well. and when your own party ranging from a couple of house democrats and senator mike warner said she had to go it was a matter of time. huge distraction and fix the problem. and what does it mean and who was behind it. a lot of people sus

number of lawmakers say the obama administration's decision not to publicly call out china for the opm hack will encourage more and severe cyber attacks in the future. >> according to the defense department's own cyber doctrine a report that was issued this spring key element of deterrence. if you don't admit it's a big deal and who did it you'll embolden lots more attackers. >> reporter: writing today he said "this refusal is a strategic mistake. and the fact that we're making it may indicate things are even worse than we've been led to believe" in what may be a significant split with the white house, the nation's top spy now says no response may embolden the hackers. >> i think the next wave if you will, will be data deletions and data manipulation which will also be very very damaging. >> reporter: this week investigators linked a breach at united airlines to the chinese harks behind opm, who are believed to have the backing of military units housed in these nondescript shanghai offices. the republican chairman of the house homeland security committee recently told fox the same grou

one lawmakers calling for the director of opm to resign.y with abc 7 and we will keep you updated on that story. still ahead -- terror attacks worded before the fourth of july weekend. an exclusive look at what is being done to stop them. and a pope francis forced to pull over [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] leon: the fbi said that they stopped several terror plots leading up to the fourth of july holiday. federal agents arrested more than 10 people before the holiday. they believe some of those arrested may have been planning attacks. others are charged with lesser counts of terrorism. no details were given. all of this as officials speak out about the major terrorists spreading the message on social media. >> the propaganda has been very effective getting their attention and getting them into that dialogue, which is ultimately a dialogue of hate and distraction. leon: until six months ago, authorities say isil was intent on drawing fig

. >> reporter: the opm director resigned friday amid the fallout.gencies are under sieged. >> they are juicy targets. so we worry night and day. >> reporter: just days before the first opm breach was directed -- detected. the cyber center helped the opm identify the hack and used a new monitoring system that revealed it was wider and deeper than first thought. >> the board you're looking at is a system that we call einstein. >> reporter: einstein? >> einstein. we're able to understand how much traffic comes in and out. >> reporter: while einstein may be improving cyber security critics say the u.s. government's defenses are wolfe ly inadequate. >> it doesn't work. >> reporter: the nominee to head the joint chiefs of staff says the military will respond. >> my role is to provide the president a fuel range of options to deal with this. >> reporter: for "this week," pierre thomas, abc news, washington. >>> thanks pierre for that. more on this from cyber terrorism expert richard clarke. we heard how worried the fbi director was. try to give a chance how

so somebody coming out of the obama white house, essentially, going over to opm to run that troubledn. we were on this conference call with top administration officials. this is a stunning, massive data breach that affects almost every employee of the federal government and we should point out at this point opm said yesterday they do not believe any of that data has been used for illicit purposes but, of course, opm did not know the scope of the investigation it so's anybody's guess as to whether or not that data has been used improperly. we have also been hearing from top officials that china was behind this big breach but as of yet, the white house has not publicly named china as the culprit in that investigation. they say the investigation is ongoing but when the head of the dni, james clapper, said last week that they're a prime suspect, nobody inside this administration that i've talked to has said china is not responsible. so they're not publicly naming them but not denying the chinese are probably behind this hack, ashleigh. >> leading suspect is pretty suggestive. boy, beth c

. >> let's talk about this hack that we've seen of opm. it's like human resources for the federal government, if someone's had a background check, they've gone through opm. if they work for the government they go through opm. 1.5 million current and past employees and spouses impacted by this. china blamed for this hack. how does the u.s. respond when normally there's some sort of proportional response? >> first of all, i think it's important as we look at this so-called hr department for the federal government where these breaches took place, i think it's a good thing that the director was forced to resign. it's unfortunate too often in washington people are not held accountable. but it can't stop there. i think you've got to look at the chief information officer, you've got to look at the fact that the breach that began in may of 2014 wasn't detected until a year later. the fact that they didn't have really an i.t. security department until 2013. and as you mentioned, this is the department responsible for incredibly private information

one lawmaker this afternoon calling for the director of opm's resignation. during a conference call this afternoon, she said she would not be resigning. obviously, this is a developing story. we will be keeping you posted throughout the newscast. kimberly: right now investigators are trying to figure out how two boaters ended up in the potomac river. crews pulled a second body out of the river about an hour and a half ago not long after finding another near the boat that was found anchored his morning in the middle of the river. maryland bureau chief brad bell is live with the latest. we don't know exactly what happened here. brad: no, and we may never know exactly what happened. an autopsy could be performed but right now, it remains a mystery. in the last 10 minutes, the last of the search boats came off the water because as you said, in the last couple of hours, they found the second of the bodies they were looking for. by all accounts, charles and melissa were experienced and active voters. yesterday afternoon, they headed out aboard the 19-footer. when

the opm director resigned.arnest is addressing questions on this very issue right now as to how many other americans' records were compromised. you hear this 22.1 million figure and you think they are all federal workers. they're not. they could be contract workers or those who applied for government contract jobs, private citizens records could be compromised, medical, financial, you name it. it's dangerous stuff. >>> all right, to greece right now, ashley webster how things are going there in athens. right now they could have the measure on the table that looks closer to something that they like, that is both sides like, of course, we've been this way before, ashley. but tell us where we stand. >> reporter: we have, things got a lot noisier outside of the greek parliament building. let me pull aside and show you the very large crowd that has gathered outside. these are mainly trade unionists, organized by the communist party who are apparently furious with the proposal that the greek government has put forwar

opm director resigned yesterday after hackers spent almost a year taking information from opms data bases>>> new this morning we learned there has been a data breach at hershey entertainment and resorts in pennsylvania. it affects guests at hershey park hotels and other venues. credit card transactions may have been compromised. some guests reported unauthorized charges on their card. hershey is working on offering a year of free credit monitoring. >>> president barack obama is going to make a historic visit to a prison next week. he will walk through a medium security prison in oklahoma. he will be the first sitting president to visit a prison. he's going to meet with corrections officials as well as inmates. today, donald trump arrived in arizona. a group protested outside a hotel in beverly hills, california, yesterday for his controversial comments about mexican immigrants. >> i think the sanctuary cities are a disgrace. i think it's a disgrace. most people never heard about it until the last week. >> worth pointing out the district and several cities across the region are sanctuary c

and i know that the administration opm in particular is working and is as close to offering a public and more detailed accounting of what we think was lost but it is an enormous breach and a huge amount of data that is personal and sensitive to federal employees, former federal atlas, people who apply for federal employment was available to the adversary. we have to assume that it was looked at and/or expelled. we're talking about millions and millions of people expected -- affected by this. the challenge is as much as i'm sure the adversary has much fs 86 epic my fs 86 list every place i've ever lived since i was 18. every for travel i've ever taken from all of my family their addresses. it's not just my identity that is affected. i've get siblings, i've got five kids, all of that is in there. so the numbers quickly to far beyond the number of federal employees which is millions over the last 20 years. so it is a very very big number. it is a huge deal. >> i understand active investigation but i also know we are now running on 60 plus days, more than you since the first reach and th

. >> fire the opm director, fire the chief information officer.month. >> fire the opm director, firehe chief information officer. demonstrate some leadership. >> reporter: the head of opm has said she's not stepping down. the government says she has for information no information it's been used against anyone. >>> you're looking at the moment officers moved in on a south bay medical marijuana dealer. the raid follows mondayths of tension and investigations exposing the shop violating city rules. >> reporter: this is how it looked. our camera on the other side of a barrier fence as san jose policeftof the busiest medical marijuana severals. outside organic sellers, you can see customers detained and one of the managers in hand cuffs to an unmarked car. >> possession for sale of marijuana, sale of marijuana and maintaining a police unlawfully to sell marijuana. >> reporter: the z.a. sendd.a. sending a message in the ongoing controversy. >> we want medical marijuana dispensaries to follow the law. this isn't about medical marijuana, this is about an illegal business hiding behind the la

and apparently the opm had been hacked five times since mid 2012.rotections that should have been put in place were not. is that really the bottom liep here -- line here? who is complicit, who is responsible? >> i think there's a number of things to consider. the first thing is that you have to make security protocols, particularly with governmental information so that they can't be breached. that obviously is a tall order. we've seen one hacking issue after the other as it relates to the private sector. you could talk about target. we could talk about sony. we could talk about the phone hacking scandal with the celebrities and the iphones and the apple icloud. there's so many. but the issue is when it starts infiltrating the government that has so much of our sensitive information. irs. we know who they are, do we not? we're talking about, you know tax information and what could be done. we're talking about information not only for commercial gain but can it be used for purposes associated with you know espionage and other activities? and so the bo

of the information that was stolen from opm's systems, not for now. sure there will be more information coming out. it seems to be in a rather negative direction. katty: thanks very much. a quick look at other news. the united nations has announced the truth will come into effect in yemen on friday evening. the country has been caught up in a civil war since houthi rebels overthrew the president in march. saudi arabia has led a coalition in a campaign of airstrikes against houthis but has not abated them so far. -- has not defeated them so far. british tourists have been warned to leave tourists after 30 british people were among 38 people shot dead. the head of the year i has said that the bureau toward a number of -- of the fbi has said that the bureau thwarted a number of plots for attacks over the fourth of july. he did not give any details for planned attacks or targets. now, can they come up with a deal in time? that's what people are wondering about greece's debt negotiations. the country's financial stability is at stake. the meeting will be h

president obama named beth cobert acting opm director. d? just this week former virginia governor jim gilmore became the 17th republican to announce that he is seeking the 2016 presidential nomination. now gilmore says his military and executive experience sets him apart from the crowded gop field. >> we have to reverse this decline in the united states military. just this week it's been announced the army is going to reduce 40,000 soldiers. this sends a dreadful political message worldwide that we're weak and retreating. >> gilmore is running against former florida governor jeb bush amongst all the others. jeb's brother former president george w. bush, no stranger to the criticism that can come over the course of a campaign. >> some of the worst years of my life were watching my dad be criticized and i'm confident my brother will be criticized as well i suspect and it's always more painful when a loved one gets criticized than when you yourself get criticized. >> if you'd like to hear more of our interviews with the former president george

opm cyber insecurity, i think all americans feel. forget the government, but everything that happened this week. >> chuck todd a lot to cover this sunday on "meet the press." don't miss it this sunday at 10:30. also watch the show on your smartphone or your tablet using the nbc washington app. just click watch live tv now. >> as chuck mentioned first came the hack. today came the sack. the director of the office of personnel management is out of a job one day after 21 million americans learned they need to scramble to protect their personal information. steve handelsman now live on capitol hill with the latest developments today. steve? >> reporter: jim the white house again today refused to point the finger for this at the chinese but up here on the hill, fingers were pointed by a lot of republicans by virginia democratic senator mark warner, fingers pointed at the office of personnel management, that tomorrow, bell have a rks will have a new boss the head of opm fought to save her job but director katherine archuleta sent her resig

there were five hacks that opm has suffered since the middle of 2012. was plenty of notice that they had that they were troubled with their i.t. system and did not do enough to secure them. now you have all of these millions of people who entrusted the government with their most intimate secrets in order to get security clearance and be trusted with security secrets and they will be betrayed because the government did not protect their information. >> that's a lot of people. evan perez, thank you. >>> next, we have to tell you this story about this pilot who allegedly tried to flush ammunition down a toilet of a plane. how this even got on board, why this is an issue. what will be done about it? next. >>> also ahead, george w. bush and bill clinton appearing together on one stage. that's rare in itself. one brother, one wife running against each other for president in 2016 what these two said together on stage. we'll be back straight ahead with a marine who had the honor of introducing both of them. do you like the passaaadd? it's a good looking car. th

they've improved security both at opm, but there is a tremendous problem across the government and theyause -- we know that hackers, both from government -- foreign governments and also criminal hackers are constantly attacking u.s. government websites. so they know that they have a tremendous problem. this is only the beginning. the problem now is how do you help these people whose background information has been compromised? how do you make sure that they're protected? for years and years now they're going to have to have credit monitoring and other types of things to be able to protect themselves. >> evan perez, thanks for the update. we appreciate it. pope francis having it his way. taking a break at burger king while he's in latin america but the pope also talking tough and not just about faith. we'll have the details straight ahead. ♪ ♪ ♪ (vo) making the most out of every mile. that's why i got a subaru impreza. love. it's what makes a subaru a subaru. when broker chris hill stays at laquinta he fires up the free wifi with a network that's now up to 5 times faster than before! so

but opm was left -- the head of opm was warned. the red flags were there. didn't take it seriously. and now our security has been breached. and the private lives of these people have been breached. >> a lot of talk about sanctuary cities. the sheriff in san francisco blaming the feds. i.c.e. for not enforcing laws. that's another story this week. but i want to talk about this charles. president obama comes out after the church shootings and says this town can't deal with changing gun laws. just not an appetite. but they need to come to grips with it. because he says now's the time. and we know that this shooter got access to a gun, and innocent people were killed because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun. today the fbi director says the reason dylann roof got the gun was bought of a failed federal background check. not because some loophole or because some law wasn't there. >> this is -- tells you two things about obama. number one, is he sees the world through a narrow ideological prism. so when you get the story of the professor in harv

moments ago with news of the immense scale of the opm attack 22 million identities stolen house speaker john boehner is calling on president obama to fire the opm chief, saying the president must take a strong stand against incompetence in his administration and instill new leadership at that office. bret? >> rich thank you. >>> the new york stock exchange says problems associated with the software upgrade led to yesterday's 3 1/2 hour suspension of trading. no issues reported today. the dow was up 33 today, the s&p 500 gained 5, the nasdaq was up 13. >>> two of the individuals who would like to be the next commander in chief are going at each other over something you probably have much more experience at than they do, working a regular job. chief political correspondent carl cameron tonight on the squabble over which member of a high dollar political family dynasty can best relate to the american worker. >> the right to rise superpac that republican presidential frontrunner jeb bush raised money for collected a whopping $103 million in the first six months of this year. bush launched h

opm is offering three years of credit monitoring and identity theft protection to the victim bus d.c.oman he will holmes says that is not enough. she has introduced legislation today to guarantee the workers free lifetime identity theft protection. maryland senator ben carton is -- ben cardson sponsoring a similar bill in the senate. >>> robbed after a night out at the cass seen the family of a virginia woman shot by thieves says she was targeted. more on this violent confrontation. >>> during a busy summer of pool parties, do you know how to spot a child who is drowning? we will show you exactly what to look for in a report that could help save your life? >>> the water bills could be going up in the districts and may depend on hour to see how much you pay. news4 at 5 is just >>> seen cloud cover all day long, kept temperatures down. right now, not all that bad, cloudy skies the most part a little bit of a peek of sunshine, temperature 81 the hype temperature so far today, average high temperature this time of year close to 90. so we are a limb built below average. gaithersburg, 75 ma

. >>> today we also got breaking news that the director of opm resigned. is anyone surprised at this? >> well it is surprising because, on a conference call for reporters yesterday katherine archuleta, who testified recently insisted on multiple occasions that she was not going to step down but clearly the temperature changed overnight and the white house this morning said the decision to go was hers alone. >> director archuleta did offer her resignation today. she did so of her own volition. she recognizes as the white house does that the urgent challenges currently facing the office of personnel management require a manager with a specialized set of skills and experiences. that's precisely why the president has accepted her resignation. >> republicans said in a statement this afternoon the resignation of the opm director does not in any way absolve the president of the responsibility to repair this damage to our national security. we know from last year's resignation of the va secretary the change in personnel does not always lead to real change. private

. >> where he saw the opm data hack, now these glitches today with while not a hack and not terroristed or anything like that are still very unsettling for people and makes them question how secure are all of our systems. i wouldn't say cyber security has been top of mind for your average voter this election season, but i would think the candidates to need to have answers in place and are going to get asked more and more about cyber security as people become aware of the risks that we do face here in the country. >> absolutely. these three incidents with united, with the "wall street journal" and nyse were reportedly not related, but as soon as this was going down you saw twitter just explode with people making jokes about doomsday scenarios and even terminator style. >> it did feel like i needed to hide under my desk. >> so we've already seen some segments of the country that are really, really concerned about this stuff. the glenn beck and ron paul world has been buying bunkers and silver bouillon for ages. >> so when something goes wrong, people say government, help us how do we de