i want to bring in ted rowlands on the way to lima this morning. what a dramatic night, ted. >> reporter: absolutely, christine and john. it turns out that t.j. lane really did not make it very far. he was about 100 yards away from the main perimeter outside of the prison when they found him. he was the subject as you can imagine of the state wide manhunt. in chardon, people were very upset. as you can imagine. they closed schools there today because of it. they were able to get him with a helicopter which was equipped with infrared. they set up a perimeter. the one thing officials had going for them is they knew that he had escaped in a relatively short order. they were able to set up a perimeter. he never made it out of the area. as john alluded to, how did a gentleman serving three life sentences, who was convicted of a school shooting, just two years ago, get out of custody? a minimum security prison where he is being held. he is in protective custody. a lot of questions are going to be asked of this facility and of the warden. they had a press

well ted rowlands, keep us posted. told, you know, somewhere around 11, 12 minutes from now that things are starting to get back up and running. well, at least that's when things might get back up and running. so we'll check in with you periodically to see how they can clear up the backlog. ted rowlands for us live at chicago o'hare. what a disaster. but, again, at this early stage, all of those different organizations involved. the atf, the fbi, the faa, the aurora police and fire as well as the kane county sheriffs office assisting each of them saying at this point, early indication, it is not terrorism related. >>> in meantime just before we went to ted rowlands we showed you a very, very different other kind of runway. one out on the open sea. "u.s.s. george h.w. bush." becky anderson has been collecting remarkable vid joeeo the action on board that carrier and the brave fighters heading out and doing the sorties in iraq and syria. the air strikes have been ongoing for quite some time now and becky's had an inside

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but some of his minnesota vikings teammates want him back on the field as ted rowlands shows us. >> reporterin an about-face, the minnesota vikings have now decided that adrian peterson should stay away from football with pay while the legal process runs its course. >> we made a mistake and we needed to get this right. >> reporter: on monday the team was adamant that even given photos showing injuries to peterson's 4-year-old son, the star running back should play this weekend. >> this is disciplining of a child and whether it's an abusive situation or not or whether he went too far disciplining, we feel very strongly that that is the court's decision to make. >> reporter: the team claims the change came from the vikings, not the embattled nfl league office and commissioner roger goodell who ultimately did have to approve the move. peterson faces a child abuse charge for allegedly using a tree branch to discipline his 4-year-old son in may of this year. according to court documents the beating left scars and bruises on the boy's legs, buttocks and genitals. many of peterson's teammates think

let's bring in cnn's ted rowlands where protesters are starting to gather.rguson, a town as though the area is still something of a tinderbox. >> yeah. absolutely, jake, and if you look at this situation that is just developing right now it has all of the ingredients of more trouble here in ferguson. you see the police presence here, there are literally hundreds of police officers, state police, local and county police officers and protesters, as you mentioned. the plan for the proest testers was to come down here and shut down interstate 70 which runs just below here and we're basically on an overpass. on either side, the police have established a perimeter and are not allowing protesters to go past and now the protesters are coming right up to the edge. they've been instructed that if they get too close to the off ramp they will be arrested. so par we haven't seen any arrests and just within the last five minutes you can feel the anger and the anxiety starting to develop. so we'll see what happens in the next few moments and the hours to come, but the plan

began with a rowdy city council meeting to a highway outside of town and let's go live to cnn's ted rowlands, ted? >> reporter: well, wolf, and the latest is that the things have calmed down a little bit and this is very intense. you mentioned the bottles we saw and rocks are with police and the the goal of the protesters were to shut down i-70 just outside of ferguson. they were not able to do that and within the last five minutes or so, the core of the protest started to move out and they ared hadded now to downtown ferguson to the police department and we saw a lot of anxiety and a lot of emotion and people very upset about mike brown now one month later and it showed again here today. >> my name is charles mayor. we came out to protest our civil rights and civil disobedience. i would say we were distractioned and detained and we didn't get to perform our civil rights protest. >> several arrests, bottles were thrown, and i saw a huge rock thrown. smo no. that had nothing to do with the protest that we were with. those were professional agitators and don't equate that with the protest. you

cnn's ted rowlands is joining us from ferguson right now. his newly revealed video? >> reporter: well, wolf, since cnn aired this video last night, the reaction has been intense. people think that what is shown on this video validates what the other witnesses have said all along of what happened to mike brown. we talked to people outside here where there's a constant protest going on here in downtown ferguson, and they say this video is absolutely important to the case. >> you have repeated, repeated statements from people saying he was unarmed, his hands was up. so when this video comes out, it just gave clarity to a lot of the witness statements. >> reporter: wolf, one of the themes we're hearing is that people are pleased, if you will, that the two contractors in this video and seen reacting are white. they say that will help this case, sadly. they say it will help this case because in a lot of people's minds, this is a black and whitish shoe. wolf? >> ted rowlands in ferguson for us. thank you. let's dig deeper and get more reaction to th

cnn's ted rowlands is at chicago's o'hare airport for us. ted, what happened?: well, brianna, basically an individual who was working at an off-site air traffic control center in aurora, illinois, about 40 miles away from chicago here, this morning at about 6:00 a.m., he started cutting wires and set a fire in the communications area of the basements of this building and then he attempted, apparently, to take his own life, stabbing himself several times according to authorities. he ended up living and is being questioned by authorities that are investigating this. that investigation is being led by the fbi. the bottom line is, though, he and his actions absolutely shut down traffic to o'hare, midway and milwaukee airports. and you can see the remnants of what he did, still this many hours later, people have been in this airport all day long, trying to get to their destinations. in the last few hours, there are some planes leaving and coming finally to o'hare and to midway airports. however, they're at about one-tenth of what they would normally be operating at

i want to bring in ted rowlands. what is the latest from authorities on this bizarre story?er: well, what they're doing now is interviewing that individual who tried to commit suicide and who apparently started this fire which caused so much chaos. they're also assessing the damage. that control facility, located in aurora, illinois, about 40 miles outside of chicago, it's still down. some work is being done at a facility in indianapolis, that's enaging a few flights to trickle in and out of o'hare, midway and milwaukee. the lion's share of flights are grounded here and in airports across the country. this is the result, lines extending hundreds of people in these terminals in line. a lot of these folks have been waiting for hours, being rebooked. people started -- this process started in the 6:00 a.m. hour this morning. it has caused, as you can imagine, a massive ripple effect. the faa has extended the ground stop for another two hours, 4:00 p.m. eastern time. they'll reassess at that point. we're awaiting a news conference from aurora with local authorities for more infor

. >> all right, ted rowlands, thank you very much. appreciate that. all of this is tragic. terrible news. for the nfl. so has the league lost its credibility? the question? >> let's talk about all that. joined by lanny davis, legal specialist, former special counsel to president clinton, columnist for "the hill" a celebrity branding expert, and lee steinberg, agent with steinberg sports and entertainment. gentlemen. thank you for joining us. you heard the breaking news, jonathan dwyer, greg hardy benched. adrian peterson out, ray rice suspended all in just the past couple week. can we blame roger goodell for not instituting some sort of coherent policy? lee, let me ask you? >> first of all the commissioner sets the tone. we should have had a domestic violence policy some years ago. he could have acted decisively. he had all the facts when the rice case came up. there was no need to wait for the tape. there have been 56 incidents under his watch. >> does that mean he should go? so many people are calling for his head. others are saying give the guy a chance. which one is it?

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our ted rowlands is in chicago, good morning, ted. >> reporter: christi, joe, good morning. scenario that took place here in chicago on friday is still affecting passengers this weekend. >> it's kind of intensive. >> reporter: 6:00 a.m. planes on the runway at o'hare get word to stop moving. >> i have no -- >> never a dull moment, huh? >> reporter: over the next six hours traffic at chicago's airport come to a virtual stop. inside frustration, even some tears as thousands of passengers are stranded for hours. >> this is chaos mixed with outrage. and that's not a good thing. >> reporter: the cause, 36-year-old brian howard, a contract employee who that was working at an air traffic control center 40 miles outside of chicago who allegedly intentionally set fire to the basement communications area. and also stabbed himself several times. >> and he used some typech accelerant. there were no explosion. >> reporter: firefighters pulled the bleeding man described as uncooperative to safety. he was later listed in stable condition as fbi tried to figure out his motives. >> there's n

cnn's ted rowlands is following the story.ig question for people is going to be how did this happen? it's important to know even though he had horrible killings on his rap sheet, he wasn't in the hardest prison. true? >> yeah, two questions need to be answered, chris. how did he escape? and is this the right facility for a school shooter who has never shown any remorse? a massive statewide manhunt overnight after three convicts escaped the allen oakwood correctional institution in ohio, including notorious killer, tj lane. >> he did scale the our perimeter fence and again, this is an ongoing investigation. >> one inmate was quickly apprehended while lane was on the run for nearly six hours. he was eventually cornered just 100 yards away from the prison where he escaped. and taken back into custody without incident. >> i personally saw him. he never said anything at all. >> lane killed three students in 2012 at the age of 17. by opening fire at chardon high school, wearing a t-shirt that said "killer." at his sentencing, where