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the main targets, a personal e-mail accounts of hillary clinton campaign officials and democratic party operatives. the attacks cost dnc chairwoman debbie wasserman schultz her job after hacked e-mails showed party officials preferred clinton over bernie sanders. but still unclear if the cyber attack was to manipulate the election. >>> a 19-year-old virginia man who used suction cups to climb trump tour is under investigation. after the man was grabbed by police, trump tweeted great job today by the nypd in protecting the people and saving the climber. kenneth craig reports. >> reporter: a man used suction cups rigged to a harness to scale trump tower in "the new york times" on wednesday. officers smashed windows and removed glass and cut holes in the building's ventilation ducts but the climber just kept going. >> he is running away from police. >> reporter: on the 21st floor, two officers saw a window of opportunity and ended the chase. >> took a hold of his hand' said, sir, you need to come with me. >> reporter: down below, the crowd watch in disbelief as the drama shut down parts of

e-mails what was your immediate reaction? >> oh my god. >> reporter: the scandal has been dubbed porngate. but perhaps most sent and received those e-mails. some of the state's highest-ranking officials. >> judges, law enforcement -- >> reporter: all on the state's e-mail server. >> i couldn't believe there was violence involved and i couldn't believe -- i mean, this wasn't just some "playboy" photos. >> the pornography grabbed it put but the issue is the misogyny and racism. >> reporter: for veteran public defender mark bookman these troubling about pennsylvania's justice system. >> if i'm an accused and i'm looking up and know a judge has sent these kinds of misogynistic and racist e-mails, i look at the prosecutor who's close friends with the judge, exchanging these em mails, i don't think i'm getting a fair shake in that courtroom. >> reporter: among those who reportedly resigned because of the scandal, two of the state's seven supreme court justices including michael eakin. his lawyer tells "nightline" he never sent nor recve pornography. seamus mccaffrey, who retired amid the scandal, could not be reached for comment. to measure the scope of the can call attorney general cain a

. >>> officials at the supreme prosecutor office sent e-mails to 90 officials in the defense ministries in which they tried to obtain personal information. the prosecutors said during the first half of this year, more than 50 officials logged on to a counterfeit website and typed in their information. >>> the prosecutor said they're tracking down the origin of the attack as well as looking for the possible left the. >>> monthly sales reports, a key gauge of spending. >> sales for month of july were mixed at five major department stores in japan. officials with hankyu hanshin said sales were up 2.3%. sales at takashimaya were up.1%. officials at all five department stores said foreign visitors bought fewer luxury goods. they reported strong sales of summer clothing. one official said consumer spending has yet to fully recover and the outlook isn't certain. >>> members of the public have taken the first test ride of a driverless bus in a city near tokyo. the robot shuttle at a nearby shopping mall to shuttle customers away. the robot shuttle

than three hours but wasn't under oath, this after lawmakers asked for the bureau to turn over the official report about her private e-mail sever. during testimony last month fbi director james comey promised to respond promptly to the lawmakers' request but apparently some government officials are raising concerns about giving lawmakers what they consider politically sensitive records. >>> a slow moving storm system slammed south louisiana causing record rainfall and leaving at least two people dead. crews responding to a thousand rescue calls helping people escape homes and cars engulfed by high water. one dramatic rescue caught on camera. let's look. wow! i'm glad they got him. will is live with more on this story. >> reporter: hello. louisiana is in a state of emergency tonight as this has become a historic disaster. there are neighborhoods that have never seen flood waters before that are now surrounded by these waters. cars have been swept away, roads and interstates shut down and some areas have received so much rain so quickly that residents became trapped and had to be rescued by boats and helicopters. other

the e-mail hack that believed. >> sources tell "the new york times" the russian cyberattack that forced debbie wasserman schultz to resign as dnc chair may have breached the private e-mail accounts of 100 party officials. the democratic governor's association may be among the groups and fbi is widening its investigation as democrats brace for the possibility of more damaging leaks. >>> and there's speculation this morning about the source of that initial e-mail leak that showed party officials favoring hillary clinton over bryan barnett some people believe the whistle-blower may have been a young dnc staffer shot and killed two weeks before the democratic convention in philadelphia. now wikileaks is weighing in with a reward. here's abc's linzie janis. >> reporter: a new interview with wikileaks founder julian assange is reigniting conspiracy theories about the death of democratic national committee staffer seth rich. >> 27-year-old, works for the dnc who was shot in the back murdered. >> reporter: although assange organization is offering a $20,000 reward. it was an unprompted discussion of him who was killed in a botched robbery on july 10th near his washington, d.c. home. while d.c. police tell abc

the utilities like pg & e. the explosion led to the disclosure of close ties between top officials at pg & e and the state puc. just today an assembly man announced his promotional to increase accountability and oversight at the puc. this is in addition to two other bills aimed at reforming the agency. is it enough to restore public trust in the puc? >> well, the puc in the view of many critics has a long way to go. some people have used the analogy that pg & e was a juvenile delinquent student. but the puc was like a lazy teacher, uninterested in really remedying the fault of the student. so there are a lot of people that think some of the major next steps are to really reign in the puc and make them focus on things such as related to power regulation. >> that's the point of the package of reform bills now pending in the state legislature. george with the san jose mercury news, thank you. >> thank you. >> it's august which means lawmakers in sacramento are rushing to finish their work before the end of the month. hundreds of bills need to be decided including measures that tackle the housing shortage and clim

here is the reaction to the latest batch of e-mails from donnie fowler, a former official in the clintondministration. take a look. >> these e-mails were between staffers. this was not secretary clinton involved in this discussion. second, here's what american people hear about hillary clinton in this issue. e-mails, e-mails, e-mails, bla, bla, bla. it's already baked into this election. this isn't going to really change the direction of this race. >> charles, i never thought i would ask you this question, but bla, bla, bla? >> look, i don't think this guy is whistling in the dark. this can be quite ominous. there are two questions that have been outstanding forever. the first is, what exactly does the foundation do? i know what the gates foundation does. it is obvious that it was a huge networking operation, giving jobs to the entire clinton retinue. and the second question is, why does she have a private server? i have always speculated here, and i said it was pure speculation, that the real stuff, the reason she had to hide all this, obviously she meant to hide things, was because the

the attack and if it's true, it would be a bombshell. a former top intel official claims u.s. intelligence agents hacked the eails and handed them over to wikileaks. allegedly all because they wanted to hurt hillary clinton. senior judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano joins me now. he knows the former official who is making that claim. what's he talking about, judge? >> he's talking about a general antipathy that the intelligence community has toward mrs. clinton and it has two sources. the e-mail scandal resulted in the exposure of the names of u.s. undercover agents, operating in the middle east. in the case of all of them, their cover was blown. in the case of a few of them, their lives were lost. and the intelligence community is furious at mrs. clinton for that. they're also furious at her for her secret war against moammar gadhafi in libya during the course of which she caused arms to be delivered to terrorists groups. they warned her that these groups were terrorist groups who would use the arms back at american intel operatives on the ground, and it is believed that some of these groups used one o

all of them were among the party officials on the e-mails that disparaged bernie sanders and a bias favoring hillary clinton during the primary. the chairwoman debbie wasserman-schultz stepped down because of the scandal before the dnc opened last week. >>> tonight is national night out and across the country, communities made a stand against crime and strengthened relationships. christie ileto is live in philadelphia. how tid neighbors in philadelphia mark the event tonight? >> reporter: this is a block party of sorts. it happens every year. this year is particularly important. it was an opportunity for residents, including the city's youngest to interact with police. his first time meeting a police officer. in this case, any commissioner. >> you want a picture? >> reporter: one of 17,000 communities across the country participating in national night out. it brings residents out of their homes and on to the blocks to meet and form relationships with those who protect and serve them. >> an opportunity to see police officers in a different way, different than they hear about, on school and th

>> the 30 newly discovered e-mails were part of a larger cache of 15,000 e-mails. the fbi recovered them as they probed the use of her e-mail server for official business. the state department says it would need until the end of information from the e-mails before they're released. and as trump campaigned through washington bashing clinton for the controversy, clinton stayed off the trail, continuing her fund-raising push through long island and at one point dancing the night away with paul mccartney. she's raised an estimated $20 million during her three-day fund-raising swing through the hamptons. but today on the trail, clinton heads to the important state of ohio. running mate tim kaine toured through battld pennsylvania while mike pence is in florida and trump makes his much-anticipated immigration speech in arizona following his visit to mexico. >>> now to syria, where isis says one of the world's most-wanted terrorists, the second in command, has been killed. abu mohammad al adnani, the man in charge of propaganda for the terror group, had a $5 million bounty on his head. and while the pentagon says it has not confirmed al adnani's deat

university medical center our only trauma center in the state of nevada. e henderson. officials have yet to confirm the identity to us. once we have confirmation we'll pass it on to you. >> dana: when tires visit las vegas in the summer a lot of them check out another popular spot not far from here, death valley. the hottest temperature 134 in 1913. while the heat is an appeal for >> it's the largest national park outside alaska. death valley in the summer can live up to its name. my special report death valley dangers. >> we'll take a look at why so many visitors are drawn to death valley during the heat of summer. >> it's very hot. park rangers say the s sun does not discriminate. >> quite often that temperature will be 120, 125 for the summer i've been here we've hit 129. >> death valley records at least one heat related death per year. it was one of the harshest environments on earth. tune in tonight at 6:00 for my report. >> kim: to decision 2016 where campaign stop on behalf of his wife. that means he'll be in our fine city by friday of this week. he will be addressing tho

e-mails. cnn national security correspondent jim sciutto reports. >> reporter: tonight, the hack of democratic party e-mails now includes the private e-mail accounts of some democratic party and clinton campaign officials enforcement told cnn, are quote, going after everything they can, to the point that both parties have been warned to assume all e-mail correspondence could have been compromised. now for the first time, the alleged culprit publicly identified by a top ranking democrat. >> this is an electronic watergate. this is a break-in. >> reporter: house minority leader nancy pelosi who received classified briefings on the hack, pointing the finger directly at moscow. >> i know for sure it is the russians. the russians broke in. who did they give the information to, i don't know. who dumped it, i don't know. >> reporter: so far, the white house is not directly blamed the russian government for the hack of the dnc or other earlier cyberattacks suspected of russian involvement. however, intelligence and law enforcement officials have told cnn it is the most likely suspect. as first reported by the "new york times" the cyberintrusions targeting democratic party organizations included a breach of pri

the debates before making a final commitment. nicole: more e-mails released from hillary clinton's personal e-mail by the conservative watchdog group judicial watch. 300 pages of e-mails include examples about top clinton officialssought access to the state department during clinton's tenure. and one of the enough to foundation officials lobbied clinton made for jobs for some enough in the state department. in a separate them on the same person as days to arrange a meeting between state department official in the foundation donor. >> the clinton campaign says neither involved foundations were a data communications between her rates in the president's personal aide and date the recommendation was for one of the secretaries staffers is not employed by the foundation. truth true to hillary clinton &-ampersand debbie wasserman schultz. >> i are committed to doing whatever i can to support her eye she returns to the congress with your support by her side because we have a lot of work to do. that is what i really focused on. >> should resign to make cigars chaired chair of the democratic national committee after e-mails show party staffers favored clinton over her rival. senator bernie sanders during the primary. she'

the russians have shared those e-mails with. tonight the hack of democratic party e-mails now includes the private e-mail accounts of some democratic party and clinton campaign officialsgoing after everything they can to the point that both party vs been warned to assume all e-mail correspondence could have been compromised. for the first time, the alleged culprit, publicly identified by a top ranking democrat. >> this is an electronic watergate. this is a break in. >> reporter: nancy pelosi who received classified briefings on the hack pointing the finger directly at moscow. >> the russians broke in. who did they give the information to, i don't know. who dumped it? i don't know. >> reporter: so far the white house has not blamed the russian government for the hack of the dnc or earlier cyber attacks suspected of russian involvement. intelligence and law enforcement officials have told cnn it's the most likely suspect. as first reported by the new york time, the cyber intrusion targeting democratic party organizations including a breach of private e-mail accounts of several democratic party officials. some with direct ties to the clinton campaign. according to a u.s.

the foundation and top state department officials. brian is in the new york room with details. are there new e-mails fueling the charges of conflict of interest? >> there are. newly obtained e-mails by a conservative group that filed freedom of information about lawsuit show what they claim is new evidence proving that hillary clinton's state department gave special treatment to clinton foundation donors. the e-mails first published by abc news show top clinton foundation official doug band requesting invitations for guests to this state department lunch with chinese president in january 2011. the guests were three executives from organizations that donated millions to the clinton foundation. all three executives have not said that they have attended that lunch and earlier today, the democratic national committee chair downplayed the so-called pay for play allegations. >> this notion that somehow or another someone who is a supporter, someone who is an activist saying i want access, i want to come into the room and meet people. we often criminalize behavior that is normal. i don't see what the

clinton, saying government officials often receive job referrals, pointing out republicans in government have also hired or referred friends, family members, and donors. the e-mail releases reach beyond the state department and clinton foundation. security officials suspect russia is responsible for stealing e-mails from the democratic national committee. wikileaks released nearly 20,000 of them ahead of the democratic national convention. they show dnc bias to clinton in her race against senator bernie sanders for the democratic nomination. costing top dnc officials their jobs. >> this is a watergate like electronic break-in. and anyone who would exploit for the purpose of embarrassment or something like that is an accomplice to that. >> reporter: that break-in may be far more successful than reported, compromising private e-mail accounts of more than 100 party officials and groups. this is according to "the new york times," citing officials with knowledge of the case. bret, we are also hearing now the dnc is putting together a cyber security initiative to try to head this off, and prevent this from happening again. >> rich, thank you. >>> now, a matter of

here is the reaction to the latest batch of e-mails from donnie fowler, a former official in the clintontration. take a look. >> these e-mails were between staffers. this was not secretary clinton involved in this discussion. second, here's what american people hear about hillary clinton in this issue. e-mails, e-mails, e-mails, bla, bla, bla. it's already baked into this election. this isn't going to really change the direction of this race. >> charles, i never thought i would ask you this question, but bla, bla, bla? look, i don't th is whistling in the dark. this can be quite ominous. there are two questions that have been outstanding forever. the first is, what exactly does the foundation do? i know what the gates foundation does. it is obvious that it was a huge networking operation, giving jobs to the entire clinton retinue. and the second question is, why does she have a private server? i have always speculated here, and i said it was pure speculation, that the real stuff, the reason she had to hide all this, obviously she meant to hide things, was because there is something havin