the fbi is denying rumors it is investigating the late journalist michael hastings before his death in a los angeles car crash earlier this week. wikileaks said one of its attorneys had heard directly from hastings he was under fbi investigation. in a statement on thursday, the bureau responded -- christian group devoted to so-called gate conversion has closed its doors and apologized to the lgbt community. exodus international had billed itself as the oldest christian ministry devoted to the practice of trying to shame gay people in a changing the sexual orientation. in an open letter to those who underwent its practices, but to this international president alan chambers of the group was part of a system of ignorance saying -- california last year became the first detonation banning so- called conversion therapy aimed at minors. two philadelphia public school parents and two workers have launched a hunger strike against a wave of school closures and staff layoffs. the philadelphia school district announced earlier this month the firing of 1200 employees lunchtimes aides responsible fo

>> the fbi is our secret police. d they do a lot of dirty, dangerous, specific jobs, like white collar criminals. but there is one job they cannot do, and have been able to do in the 100-year history, which is to police themselves. >> if a prosecutor in orlando said you know what? this has been ruled a homicide by the examiner and this happened on my watch, i want to investigate. could that happen? >> no, a giant comet will hit the earth before that happens because the fbi jurisdiction is nationwide, and trumps every case. there is only one force that is able to investigate the fbi and that is the inspector general's office at the justice department, which on the flow chart of the government is above the fbi. that is a small crew of over-worked and under-paid lawyers. they have looked into misconduct before. but not individual shootings. they will get after great systemic problems but not a pattern of misconduct as revealed in the nifty scoop by my old newspaper today. >> well, pattern of conduct, this scoop is astoni

and i think the fbi needs to rise to the occasion. the fbi is such a premier investigative agency. had the honor to prosecute cases brought to me by almost 15 years and i met with them personally for hours and weekends and nights and know how meticulously they work to do everything exactly right. when on your people have doubts come a great doubts sometimes about the integrity of the average cases and agents that i know, i know that is just not right. they try to do the right thing everyday. if they are involved in anything seriously wrong, disciplinable calls left. they can make mistakes, and congress sometimes creates circumstances that puts them in difficult positions and life is tough for agents out there but fundamentally day after day i have worked with fbi agents. they are personal friends of mine and they remain so for decades and i just want to share those thoughts. maybe you would like to comment about the fed devotee of your agents. >> you aren't going to find a better group of people to serve with. the testimony was most firmly felt when i was a new person in the instit

you are the head of the fbi, the director of the fbi. this is an accord discussion and dialogue. i know i will not get an answer. >> i will review the questions after have had a chance to preview -- review. >> i yield back. >> i think the chairman. we will reinforce our urging that these questions be answered properly and that a meeting take place with the gentleman from utah. he has an issue that needs to have your input. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york for five minutes. >> i thank the distinguished chair. i want to thank the director for your service to this great country. edward snowden as a villain. by some, his actions have been called courageous or heroic. it is not my place to characterize them one way or another. welcome to enhance -- a court of law will come to a conclusion. it is clear that he has become a lightning rod that has sparked in poor and debate in this country -- sparked an important debate on legitimately held security concerns and the concerns for privacy and liberty, which i essential for the preservation of of our democracy. in that spirit

it looks good for the fbi. the idea he was going give them anything on the match too -- the italians woptd have told whitey if his pans were on fire. his associate knew a lot about the mafia had been recruited several times. always turned them down saying i want to stay on my own. and he does it for two,s. it looks good for him. there's an ult tier your mode m going back to the hood. that was protect the family. this is going to look great for me. make sure i'm okay. i'll keep talking to them. i can cover my tracks. anything i can use this -- i can send them off on people i want to get out of my way. >> that's absolutely right. right around the time that whitey becomes an inform mantd, he actually charged with 19 murders. he's charged with killing nineteen people. one of the people is a guy who had been kind of a rivel gang, and eventually basically sort of there was some mediation and worked together. he still had it in his mind he wanted to wipe out the guys he never liked from the rival gang. after he becomes

another critical tool is the fbi's ability to accept electronic communications. many social networking conduit's, in contrast to traditional communications carriers, are not able now to produce the electronic communications we seek in response to a court order. when investigators cannot collect communications pursuant to a court order in near real- time, they may not be able to act quickly enough to disrupt threats to protect public safety. laws covering this area have not been updated since 1994, a lifetime ago in the internet age. we are working with congress, the courts, our law enforcement partners and the private sector to ensure that our ability to intercept communications is not eroded by advances in technology. one last but very important point -- the fbi has always adapted to meet new threats. we must continue to evolve because terrorists, spies, and hackers certainly will, but our values can never change. regardless of emerging threats, the impact of globalization or changing technology, the rule of law will remain the fbi's guiding principle. in the end

if the fbi did not address the priorities, they often would not be addressed. transnational, international organized crime because organized crime cuts across various jurisdictions and became the third criminal priority. white collar crime. that is number four. five was violent crime. you will see left off that list are a number of things, including the drug cases we have traditionally done previously. but when we say priority, we meant priority. you have to address priorities in order. i moved almost 2000 agents from the criminal programs to counter terrorism and national security because that was the priority. we have, since september 11, then run according to a set of priorities that we continuously review, but precludes us from doing things we have traditionally done, we all enjoyed doing, but is not as necessary as the priorities we have identified, and we were fairly rigorous when it comes to budget, when it comes to personnel. we adhere to those priorities. in a tighter budget, those are the things that save you because you go down the priorities and are

the fbi database regardless of the relevance?ou know, let me just say that we are adapting special procedures in order to ensure that the records are protected. in terms of the department of justice and the investigative investigation still, i will tell you that i do believe that there was a substantial effort made to minimize the request. >> let me just say that in order to get a subpoena for these records of a reporter, david have to be implicated in this investigation. is it a practice to consider reporters and editors and publishers who print stories as criminals. and how many times has the fbi talked about the communications with search warrants, claiming that they are criminals? >> our focus is on identifying the secrets and to whom the person is given a secret. part of that goes to show the contacts between the person that was leaking materials and the person publishing materials. if we go to court on this, we have to show that this particular set of materials went to a particular person for publications. the last part i c

regarding traditional criminal matters that the fbi, i remain concerned about the number of cases forndividuals that may have been convicted based upon faulty fbi crime lab reports. the chairman and i sent a number of letters regarding the unpublished results of the 1996 review of the fbi crime lab. today we have not received a briefing on this request. the department of justice continues to focus only on post expecting review of criminal cases and not provide answers to the committee as to what happened during his previous review. i would like to hear what the director says about the matter and what has been done to bring justice to the sentence that may be innocent as a result of faulty crime more lab work. i will ask the director about the fbi plans for using unmanned aerial systems are drones at the last oversight hearing. attorney general holder, i asked about the department's use of drones and in direct response the attorney general indicated that da and atf had purchased drones and were exploring their use in law enforcement absent from this response was an indication of how th

that never comes to the fbi. there is an agreement between the department of justice and irs hasthat unless the put a case together we are not going to look at it. the applicants are taking advantage of that and the irs was feeling a bit intimidated because there were some very powerful people on both sides of the aisle behind the problem. i hope that as you are looking at the irs question part of what you are looking at is whether or that we know is a plain-vanilla prosecutors and is something that the fbi should irs away from because the has not yet referred it when it is out in the same light of day. i hope you will consider that question as the investigation moves forward. it may not be the type of question that leads to a charge. in may not be purely investigative. it is an important policy question. when people are doing something to beppears on its face, a flagrant false statements, does not refer to us in the whit right way. it is not a convincing answer for what appears to be a fairly latent criminal act.

that is contrary to what the fbi investigators were doing. ey said it was the most likely a missile. >> let's look at a clip of a former fbi assistant director james kallstrom who led the criminal investigation into twa flight 800. here he is speaking on cnn's "the lead" with "or on wednesday responding to a question about the claims made by the former investigators in your film. >> i think it is preposterous. i understand from what i read, if they felt that way back then, they could come to me. i was designed to get back to the bottom of this thing, believe me. i had a reputation for not pussyfooting around read yet it seems like they waited until they have their pensions before they became whistleblowers. i think is a bunch of bull crap. i understand that. if they felt that strongly. knowing the people at ntsb and the science they brought to it, for them to disregard something that was in port more correct, i don't see that as possible. i've no idea why they came forward now other than the fact it is a good time for this idea of blowing whis

is the fbi about to dig up jimmy hoffa. we're on the scene outside detroit, where agents are searching underneath two concrete slabs in the middle of a field. >>> also ahead, what happens when a crazed passenger starts screaming about national security leaks and poison on an airplane? >>> and how did a helicopter pull off this nearly impossible rescue, a how did two teens get on to this cliffside in the first place? >>> but first, the growing controversy that refuses to go away, the top secret surveillance. moments ago, general keith alexandre revealed that more than 50 plots were foiled since 9/11 because of the nsa secret surveillance program, but the blockbuster so far is for a man named sean joyce, the deputy director of the fbi. he revealed four instances that he says secret surveillance has prevented terror attacks, including two really that we have never heard of before. here is part of what he said before. >> it's a relationship that's been invaluable. i want to high -- in the fall of 2009, ns at intercepted an e-mai

>> no, i do not know. >> the head of the fbi is in the dark on the irs probe.en just how serious is the white house taking this irs probe. becky's jaw dropped when she heard this. she is with be tea party and testified about how the irs was targeting her group. betsy you heard that you must have just said, here we go. >> i am completely dumb founded how the head of that agency not only didn't anticipate a question about the irs but actually sounded like he didn't know anything about it. >> neil: itç does make me think they talk about how serious they are. but if you're serious, something would be top of the mind, not the least of which might be the name of the top investigators so maybe they're not investigating. ever hear of that? >> according to our counsel from the american center for law and justice, none of the 25 groups they're representing have been contacted by the fbi. and this has been ongoing, five weeks now this has been one of the top news stories. so in my mind doesn't look like there's an investigation happening. >> neil: what happened in your c

it's 85% in the private sector. our fbiitness has talked about the eye guardian program which encourages private industry partners to report cyber incidents to the government in real time. ar legislation last year had requirement of the owners and operators of critical infrastructure would be required to report major cybersecurity incidents. is the administration still support mandatory reporting in such cases? >> that was our position then. that remains our position at this point in time. we are prepared to work with congress. you all ultimately write legislation that remains the administration's position. >> thank you. in that legislation, we did pay attention to the need for a more expert cyber workforce. this latest account that such a great job of going to the resume of this individual. it underscores how much work there is to be done in making sure that we have a well qualified cyber work force. i would like to hear from all four of you on whether you are recruiting individuals who have the skills that you need so you

or the director of the fbi. s is an important discussion and dialogue. >> this includes the answers that we need. >> what would be a reasonable timeframe? >> okay, i appreciated. >> i yield back. >> i thank the gentleman. we will again reinforce these questions be answered as properly and a meeting taking place with the gentleman from utah. he has content an issue that needs your input. we now recognize mr. jeffries for five minutes. >> i think thank the chair. i also want to thank you for directing the presence here today and your service to this great country. evarts soden has been characterized by many in his actions have been called courageous or heroic. it is not my place, i believe to characterize them one way or another in the court of law. hopefully this will blow over. he has become a lightning rod of a very important debate of we in the congress should have as to the proper balance between legitimately held security concerns and concerns for privacy and liberty, which are essential to the preservation o

it >>> the fbi confirms the usef drones. the fbi emphasized the use of uavs by existing aircraft regulations and faa rules. we are in business of investigating crimes and protecting lives using all lawful tools available. but with the publicly available tools, surveillance data could be combined with other collection programs including the nsa. >> as you get more data points you can make more inferences and for more analytics which tells you a very robust picture about a person's life that you wouldn't necessarily consider from each individual point of information. >> electronic frontier foundation, the group that got the documents to the freedom of information actttold fox in a statement the fbi trust the approach is far from sufficient same the faa has no real policies that guarantee the protection of privacy and civil liberties. lou: catherine, thank you very much. fox news chief intelligence correspondent. the white house tonight saying 700 of our combat troops will remaii in jordan following a training exercise their jo

>> the fbi revealed today it has used drones inside the united states.unmanned surveillance aircraft were used in barricade situations where law enforcement personnel could be at serious risk. the agency did not say how many drones it has or how off they're used. >>> we have a "360" follow to a story from monday. three mid shipman at the naval academy were charged with sexual assault. a female classmate claims she was raped by the men off campus last year. >>> and the american medical association reclassified obesity as a disease. the change diagnoses with nearly one third of americans with the disease. john? >> isha, thanks. before we go, we've been looking at the tributes to james gandolfini, who sadly died tonight at the age of 51. before telling you what he said, we would be remiss to not paying tribute. >> i'm going to live a nice, long, happy life, which is more than i can say for you. >> he doesn't understand you. >> look at her face. she's smiling. look at her face. she's got a smile on her face. >> james gandolfini, as we said, was modest about

the fbi about 3:00 this afternoon issued a search warrant for two officers. one of them here at the capital inside the office of democrats. the second search warrant p we are not sure if these were separate warrants, the second office search was threw those, right across the street capital, that's the legislative i've building of where the offices lawmakers are housed. the video you are seeing right now is just outside of the capital offi senator ron caldron. what we have learn from an e-mail coming out of the senate president's office, by a federal court it appeared that this investigation coming out of la and the senate is fully cooperating. even the senate sergeant tonny beard says he does not know why the fbi is here. we did talk to him, let's see if we can hear from the sergeant now. >> i have no idea what's in the warrant by the court, i am just cooperating. >> reporter: so the senate sergeant received the warrants but those were sealed. here is what we know at this ti. the fbi came by the officer at 3:00, also searched the office of a latino ledge activ

in that time, the fbi has been led by six directors and the second longest serving director of the fbior the last 12 years, an exemplary public servant, bob mueller. by law fbi directors only serve for 10 years, but back in 2011, when bob's term was up, i asked congress to give him two more years. it was not a request i made lightly, and i know congress did not grant it lightly, but at the time transitions were underway at the cia and the pentagon, and given the threats facing our nation, it was critical to have bob's strong leadership at the bureau. 12 years is a long time to do anything. and i guarantee you that bob's wife agrees. in addition to asking congress, we need approval from ann as well. today, as bob prepares to complete his service, this is a wonderful opportunity for all of us as a nation to say thank you to bob and ann, but also gives me a chance to announce my next choice for the fbi director, jim comey. every day their staff devotes their lives to keep us secure, from the streets of our cities to the battlefield of afghanistan. they embody the core principles of fideli

it's very difficult to really delete those hard drives so my guess is the fbi, who will be involved in this, will be able to uncover all that. then the cleaning crew coming in -- >> all of a sudden on murder -- >> it's like raising raising a flag. no evidence he broke his phone and surveillance camera, but his attorneys issued a statement saying there's a warrant going -- being executed. there's an investigation by the d.a.'s office. we're not going to talk about anything. my guess is this is one of the few times when the defense attorneys probably know more than the investigators if they have a client who is smart, and the way you tell a doctor, where your pain is when you're sick, i'm -- a defendant would tell his attorney what happened so they can guide him and counsel him appropriately. they say they're cooperating with the investigators. the attorneys are. if i'm his lawyer, i'm telling them, go somewhere far away, we'll call you, don't call us. >> shepard: a lot of weirdness yesterday. he drove around in a car. went to the stadium, for like a half hour. >> then went to his attorn

the head of the fbi said hours ago that the feds do use drones to spy on people inside the united states of america. don't you? it's all ahead unless breaking news changes everything on "studio b." >>> but first at 3:00 in new york city, a pro football star apparently part of a possible murder investigation. police in massachusetts last night searched the home of the new england patriots tight end aaron hernandez. just one day after a jogger found a man dead in an industrial park about a mile from hernandez's home. some officers stood on the front steps of that home last night while others walked around the driveway and garage. one officer took a box from the house. state troopers returned earlier today but when they knocked, nobody answered the door. sports illustrated reports hernandez is not believed to be a suspect. but state police have spoken with him. wfxt, fox 25 from boston in the area reports police recovered a rented chevy suburban near the body. abc news reports hernandez's name is tied to the registration of that vehicle. molly is in boston this afternoon. investigators repo

he's formally nominating james comey to head the fbi. let's listen in. >> it's an opportunity for all of us as a nation to say thank you to bob and ann, but also gives me a chance to announce my choice to be the next director of the fbi, jim comey. every day our fbi special agents, analysts, and professional staff devote and often risk their lives keeping us secure from the streets of our cities to the battlefield of afghanistan. they embody the core principles of fidelity, bravery, and integrity. bob mueller has embodied those values through decades of public service and live them every day as fbi director during an extraordinary period in our nation's history. bob, some of you will recall, was sworn in just days before 9/11. bob not only played a key role in our response to those attacks, he began one of the biggest transformations of the fbi in history to make sure that nothing like that ever happens again. like the marine that he's always been, bob never took his eyes off his mission. under his watch, the fbi joined forces with our in

history, the fbi announced no evidence had been found of a criminal act. probable cause, an explosion of flammable fuel and vapors in the center fuel tank. as far as the eyewitnesss who thought they saw a missile. investigator tors explained after the explosion, the front of the plane plunged into the water but before it plunged into the water the back half continued climbing which could have appeared to look like a missile in the night sky. the man who lead the ntsb investigation was robert francis. >> a missile doesn't hit an airplane and you recover 9 8% of the airplane and not see a single scratch or indication on the airplane that a missile hit it. >> reporter: but a new documentary will try to convince others wise. the conclusion it wasn't a mechanical malfunction but instead an external explosion suggesting a missile and they said information was suppressed and some were co-hearsed into supporting the ex plan nation. former ntsb accident investigator is one of the people in it. >> what would your analysis have been? >> the primary, primary conclusion

we'd say this looks of interest and pass that to the fbi. don't look at u.s., the identities of it. we only look at the connections. >> i'm way over time. i'm not going to dwell on it. you've just given a clear illustration where you had specific information about telephone contacts which i don't quarrel with. what i quarrel with is collecting all of the information in california on telephone records to try to find that specific case. that, to me, seems overly broad. >> thank you very much. senator johanns? >> general alexander, i want to talk to you about cyber command, but senator durbin has raised a very interesting question. be and let me just follow up on this. would this lead, the scenario that he has laid out, would it lead to a telephone records search for all of omaha or -- walk us through that. >> so the methodology would be let's put into a secure environment call detail records. these are to-from records. and it is a selected time. so we don't know anything that's in there, we won't search that, unless we have some reasonable, ar

the fbi and new york place just released this video. i want to bring in mary snow who is liking at this. what do we know? >> when it comes to the suspect we really don't know much. that's why the fbi is making this push asking the publish for help. it went back to gather any images from surveillance cameras in time square that it could find that may yields new clues. the bombings took place in 2008 outside a u.s. military recruiting station and there were no injuries. the fbi says the same suspect may be linked to two similar incidents. one blast at the british c consulate in 2005. the person who detonated the explosives was riding a bicycle. the devices used were similar. they were all made with military grade ammunition cans. a federal law enforcement source stez bomb in time square was actually stronger than the device detonated during the boston marathon in terms of destructiv capability, but unlike boston it contain eed no shrapnel. authorities recovered the bicycle but wouldn't comment on whether it was able to obtain any informati

the fbi's top fiber expert harold denman led the search. in wayne's bedroom he took clippings from a purple bedspread and from a yellow blanket. >> the yellow blanket was located under wayne williams' bed. >> on the floor a green carpet. this is a blow-up of those carpet fibers. >> they're the only company to produce a fiber like this. >> reporter: but larry peterson was still in the dark. >> i had no idea there was -- >> he had been called to the fbi office to help search this station wagon, but not told why. then he spotted fbi techs returning from their search, and so he went out to the home to snip fibers for himself. >> saw the green carpet. >> did you feel, this is it? >> you know, i really didn't. >> because it was a middle class home, a young man living with his parents, but peterson thought -- >> i'm going to run this back to the lab and just look. i started with the green carpet. once i put that sample under the microscope, i mean, i knew instantly that that was it. >> you knew that they had the killer? >> i knew that was it. you

the director of the fbi. last week director clapper declassified the fact that the telephone meta data can be -- based on specific facts of the particular basis for the queer is associated with a the data base was searched only 300 times. mr. director, this is the kind of information that i think the american public benefits from knowing that can build further trust between the public and the government. do you think that kind of information could have comprise -- be comprising for the disclosure. >> i certainly would be educating our adversary and what our capabilities are. and spes thinksty, the dialogue. you have to with the leak because a leak looks at small sliver of information on a particular program. a leak does not talk about all the oversight. it doesn't talk about all of the legal constraint in how the program operates. one has to respond. there has to be response of transparency in the particular instan -- at this particular point in time. generally, no. it educates the person's about our -- as i s

nobody at the fbi or the cia.rough this ban gaza deal and nobody's going to get fired because nobody will tell us who blew it. >> when diagnosed in january of 2011, flynn wrote my faith has seen me through the darkest moments. this is a battle i don't plan to use. this is serious but i have lots of options for slowing this down and then hopefully killing it. sadly, that was not to be. vince flynn leaves a wife and three children and a legacy of unforgettable stories that embody the best of the american spirit. >> megyn: vince flynn, gone too soon at 47. he will be missed. we'll be right back. okay team! after age 40, we can start losing muscle... 8% every 10 years. wow! whoa! but you can help fight muscle loss with exercise and ensure muscle health. i've got revigor. what's revigor? it's the amino acid metabolite hmb. along with protein, ensure helps rebuild muscle and strength naturally lost over time. [ female announcer ] ensure muscle health has revigor and protein to help protect, preserve, and promote muscle

that's the word today from the head of the fbi as he strongly defended the phone tracking. fbi

because of the possibility of it being a terror attack, the fbi joined the ntsb to investigate.termined it was not a criminal act, four years after the accident, ntsb released its conclusion, flight 800 blew up because of faulty wires sparking vapors in the center fuel tank. >> there was gross mismanagement of the evidence, of witness statements, and other scientific facts that should have been appropriately considered and they weren't by either the fbi or ntsb. >> reporter: hank hughes is one of four investigators taking part in a new documentary, calling the initial findings flawed and driven by an agenda, a massive coverup for unknown reasons. the evidence shows external explosion, likely caused by a missile. >> this provides facts that disprove the initial theory, proves beyond any reasonable doubt, a detonation, not fuel air explosion, caused this crash. hard evidence proving that. >> there's no reason to cover up anything. >> reporter: jim kolstrom who led the investigation says the documentary is preposterous. he says the fbi exhaustively examined the possibility of a mis

unclear. >> reporter: molly amman, a behavioral scientist from the fbi, is one of the team members. >ote that he left on the bus. we had a video of the assault on the school bus and not much more. and as the hours passed, very slowly information sort of trickled in. and through all of that, the offender stayed perfectly on mission. and that told me a lot right there. it scared me. >> reporter: it also scares special agent stephen richardson, the on-scene commander. >> we thought ethan was going to die. >> reporter: dykes makes his first demand. he calls 911 and instructs police to find a slender pvc pipe sticking out of the ground. it's a breathing tube that is keeping dykes and his tiny captive alive. but it's also a line of communication. talking through that pipe, the hostage team, which includes top negotiator sean van slyke, tries to soothe dykes. >> we always say, "we can't control the subject's behavior or attitude, but we can control our own and project that calm demeanor. >> our communication with mr. dykes continues. we are engaged with him around the clock. >> reporter: but

government continues to defend its controversial intelligence gathering programs while the director of the fbi admits his agency uses drones over american soil. >>> and getting ready for the royal baby. prince william and kate reveal where she'll give birth to the future monarch while other details remain a closely guarded secret. captioning funded by cbs ng funded by cbs >>> this is the "cbs morning news" for thursday, june 20th, 2013. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. actor james gandolfini never thought he was a big deal, but this morning gandolfini is being remembered for his huge talent and good nature. he died suddenly in italy at the age of 51. no cause of death was given. it was his role as the tough and emotional crime boss tony soprano that turned gandolfini into a star. ♪ the groundbreaking "sopranos" aired for eight years with a finale which left viewers wondering. gandolfini avoided the spotlight saying he was much more comfortable doing smaller things. edward lawrence has more. >> yeah, i know, but i'm talking to you here on a human level. >> reporter: the

martha: president obama will anoun his pick for the nation's next fbi director. lmey is a former justice department official during the george bush administration. he will replace mueller. he's known for his opposition to the wiretapping program. we'll see what the president has to say about him this afternoon. rick: mortgage rates you might have noticed are on the rise. what do these rising rates mean for the housing markets? >> consider this. home prices are up just over 10% according to industry analysts in just the last year. a moderate increase in mortgage rates they say will not hurt the housing recovery. according to freddie mac the average 30-year fixed mort age is 3.93% compared with a low of 3.31 last november. fears that rates will continue to increase has caused potential buyers sitting on the sidelines to jump into the market. >> i was waiting to see how low they would go. now i wanted to lock why they when were their lowest. >> reporter: many economists believe a year from now mortgage rates will hover around 5%. but how high will rates go? that's an

an alert went out to the fbi. jim kal strom of the new york office believed that the news was about to get worse. >> i would have bet my rather meager pay check that it was an act of terrorism, and i believe that the conventional thought swept through the white house and everywhere else was that it was probably right. >> believing that the nation had just been at a tacked, an investigation is launched unprecedented in the history of u.s. air travel. coming up, it is a mystery and a million pieces. with clues scattered for miles at the bottom of the ocean. the white house demands answers and gets ready to retaliate. did you know, your eyes can lose vital nutrients as you age? [ male announcer ] that's why there's ocuvite to help replenish key eye nutrients. ocuvite has a unique formula not found in your multivitamin to help protect your eye health. ocuvite. help protect your eye health. i'm all about "free" travel, babe. that's what i do. [ female announcer ] fortunately, there's an easier way, with creditcards.com.

an alert went out to the fbi. ors recovered 97.5% of the plane in a giant hangar, they actually put twa 8 00 back together and reconstructed the plane's last seconds. early on, they determined the center fuel tank blew up. causing the nose and first-class section of the jet to break off and fall away. incredibly, the coach section kept flying for about 30 more seconds. evidence pointed not to one explosion, but two. the second blast, half a minute after the first erupted when the left wing tore away from the back half of the plane, leaking fuel from the much larger wing tank until sl touched off a spark. that, they say, is why people saw a line of flames shooting upward. those eye witness accounts of a trail of fire hit the internet less than 36 hours after the explosion. people speculated it was a terrorist surface-to-air missile. then, a document began circulating on the web, taking the missile theory in a new direction. it said a u.s. navy ship accidentally shot down flight 800 and a cover-up reaching the highes

the fbi is asking hong kong to extradite him. es comey, nominated now by president obama to be the new fbi director. he's got a lot of cred, a lot of status here on capitol hill because of his previous activity to oppose unwarranted surveillance, which could help president obama win senate approval for the man he wants to be the fbi director. he calls himself a freakishly tall republican. he was deputy attorney general, an executive at lockheed martin, now president obama's nominee to direct the fbi. >> i'm not sure i have the words to describe how excited i am to return to the department of justice, and especially to get to work again with the people of the fbi. they are men and women who have devoted their lives to serving and protecting others. >> reporter: he would take over the bureau just after americans learned their phone and internet use might be monitored by the nsa. the outgoing director revealed the fbi is using drones for domestic surveillance. as acting attorney general in 2004, in a confrontation with seener bush 43

an alert went out to the fbi. jim kallstrom of the new york office believed that the news was about to get worse. >> i would have bet my rather meager pay check that it was an act of terrorism, and i believe that the conventional thought swept through the white house and everywhere else was that it was probably right. >> believing that the nation had just been at a tacked, an investigation is launched unprecedented in the history of u.s. air travel. coming up, it is a mystery and a million pieces. with clues scattered for miles at the bottom of the ocean. the white house demands answers and gets ready to retaliate. >>> the plane was in over a >>> the plane was in over a million pieces. a million pieces. >> the fbi's jim kallstrom arrived before dawn at this coast guard station facing the toughest day of his career, convinced that the crash of twa 800 was an act of terrorism. >> if it was, the crime scene was all of long island and a good portion of the atlantic ocean. >> as the fog lifted from the sea that morning,

is the fbi spying on americans in the u.s.? >>> and adrenaline rush. up close and personal with a waterspout. >>> good thursday morning. there is stunned reaction from fans to the sudden death of james gandolfini. especially because of his age, just 51. >> and this morning, we're learning new details about the passing of "the sopranos" star. he was on vacation in rome with his teenage son, a kind of guys' trip, when he suddenly suffered from an apparent heart attack. he was due to appear in a film festival in sicily tomorrow. overnight, gandolfini being remembered as a genius, a gentle giant and a great man. >> gandolfini was a veteran of movies, tv and even broadway. but he will always be remembered as tony soprano. >> with more on that legendary role, here's abc's terry moran. >> reporter: sometimes an actor finds a role that just connects. the role of a lifetime. ♪ woke up this morning >> reporter: for 86 episodes, over 6 seasons on hbo, gandolfini seared america's eyeballs with his all-out portrayal of a new jersey mob boss plagued by self-doubt an

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and the second longest serving director of the fbi, for the last 12 years, has been an exemplary public servant, bob mu moeller. by law, fbi directors only serve 10 years, back in 2011 when bob's term was up, i asked congress to give him two more years. it wasn't a request i made lightly and i know congress didn't grant it lightly but at a time when transitions were under way at the cia and the pentagon, and given the threats facing our nation, we felt it was critical to have bob's steady hand and strong leadership at the bureau. 12 years is a long time to do anything, and i guarantee you that bob's wife, ann, agrees. in addition to asking congress, i think we needed approval from ann as well for those extra two years. today, as bob prepares to complete his service, this is a wonderful opportunity to -- for all of us as a nation to say, thank you, to bob and ann. but also gives me a chance to announce my choice to be the next director of the fbi, jim comey. everyday our fbi special agents, analysts and professional staff devote and often risk their lives keeping us secure from the stree

he revealed the fbi has used drones on u.s. soil to gather intelligence in a, quote, very, very minimal way and very seldom, end quote. >> generally used in a particular incident where you need the capability. it is very narrowly focused on particularized cases and particularized needs and particularized cases. >> mueller agreed a debate and perhaps legislation to regulate the information gathered by drones could be called for down the road. >>> now to the force feeding of terror suspects at guantanamo bay. dianne feinstein has written a letter to defense secretary chuck hagel asking him to stop the practices. she says they violate u.s. and international standards and medical ethics. she visited gitmo 11 days ago and says 40% of detainees are being force fed. four were in the hospital for problems related to the feeding or hunger strike, she says. 104 of the 166 prisoners are on a hunger strike. >>> so the tea party wants to get rid of the tax man. they protested in washington wednesday blasting the internal revenue service for