. >> tom foreman.hey're doing it a new way you now. >> this time it didn't work. >> yeah. >> five minutes past the hour. >>> the department of homeland execute ordering security tightened at nearly 10,000 -- 10,000 federal buildings across the country. a department official tells cnn there's no new intelligence. no specific additional threat to the government buildings as secured by the federal protective service. officials described the move as a precautionary measure following two attacks last week on the canadian government. specifics on the new security measures are not being disclosed for obvious reasons. >>> new concerns of hackers who hit the white house system. they believe the hackers are believed to be working for the russian government. white house officials insist that no classified networks were penetrated. the fbi, the national security agency and the secret service all now investigated. >>> the lead investigator in the 2012 agent involving secret service agents paying for prostitutes in

tom foreman looks for answers. >> reporter: the first question can a travel ban be implemented. legally the united states has a right to control who enters the country. there are no direct flights out of the hottest ebola zone to the united states. most travelers through other airports or countries so any band would have to include massive numbers or fliers at over the globe at weeks at time. disrupting global trade and more. >> closing off is not only tech nickly difficu , technically difficult but also stops the flow of commerce and who we were as a society. >> question, two, would the ban work. if a chain of infection became established from someone in the hot zone to someone outside of it, the disease could easily migrate to america around the band. once more the administration is concerned that a ban could make people hide their true travel history. >> then less likely to get treated properly, as a consequence we could end up having more cases than less. >> could a small measure such as denying people in the hardest hit, maybe but many others are working in the hot zone but

tom foreman, cnn, washington. >> tom, thank you for that report. you know as searchers focus on where flight 370 may have possibly gone down and how to find it, questions still linger. how did this flight disappear? was it an accident or was it something criminal? martin savage goes back to the beginning retracing the key moments of flight 370 and asking the experts all of the questions we still have. >> could the disappearance of mh-370 been deliberate? to answer that question, investigators zero in on the last two men known to be in control of the plane. seen here passing through security on the night of the flight. first officer was only 27 years old. >> very young to be flying a 777 in the u.s. but had gone through all the gates and had passed and was with a very senior guy. >> there were these 2011 photos taken of him in the cockpit with two passengers that initially raised eyebrows. >> that was very concerning to me that he would have invited someone into the cockpit. >> i don't think we indict the first officer with that >> fariq had no know

tom foreman, cnn, washington. >> and cnn's martin savage goes back to the beginning, retracing the key of flight 370 and asking experts the questions we all want to know. be sure to watch "van der: the mystery of malaysia airlines flight 370" this tuesday at 9:00 p.m. eastern. >>> we have so much more straight ahead in newsroom and it all starts right now. >>> all right. hello, again, everyone. i'm fredricka whitfield. here are the top stories we're following in the "cnn newsroom." from 100 to 50 to just 10. that's how many people the cdc now considers at higher risk for ebola in the dallas area. this as we await more information from the cdc, about the deadly virus here in america. >

as tom foreman tells us the mishap is raising questions about who should be sending rockets into space we have ignition. we have liftoff. >> reporter: orbital sciences has an almost $2 billion contract with the u.s. government to take payloads to the international space station. that fits perfectly with the vision for the space industry laid out by president obama who budget problems spurred a pullback of government spending. >> we will work with a growing array of private companies competing to make getting to space easier and more affordable. >> reporter: yet, this disaster will only intensify the debate about whether private companies can handle such dangerous work well while watching the bottom line. nasa says it has confidence in orbital, the virginia company says it will thoroughly investigate. >> we will not fly until we understand the root cause and the corrective action necessary to fly again. >> reporter: some say that they've built it around refurbished russian engines made decades ago. that's right. they're buy old leftover russian engines. in a 2012 interviewee lon musk di

we're following all of the angles for to you try to get answers, we begin with cnn's tom foreman liveknow at this hour, investigators are spreading out around wollops island, virginia, to start collecting all of the data as the first light of the day comes in they know they have to pick up every piece of debris they

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much more critical eye to make sure those astronauts in flight in the iss are fully supplied. >> tom foreman live for us from washington, thank you for that, tom. >> reporter: you're welcome. >> also want to bring in matthew travis, he shot and posted that amazing video you were just looking at from that press viewing area, just three miles from the launchpad in coastal virginia. matthew is also, as it would happen, an aerospace engineer and managing editor of "zero g news." that view was very telling, what you physically experienced. i want you to sort of walk me through it. explain what that was like when that moment happened, matthew. >> sure. good afternoon. at first, it looked like a normal launch. we knew the antares would lift off a bit slower than previous ones because it was a heavier rocket. we noticed that. and then there was a flicker in the flame and it kind of just hovered in midair. that's when you see the disintegration, the disassembly of the back end of it. and we could feel the heat when it exploded. we could actually feel the heat from the fireball three miles away. and i

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cnn's tom foreman joins with us more. good morning, tom. >> reporter: there's a lot of buzz about these refurbished russian rockets driving this. one of them failed during the test back in may so whether or not that has anything to do with this explosion, the space community is looking at them very closely today. >> we have liftoff. >> the first stage was seconds into a four-minute burn when the antares rocket stalled, fell backward and exploded. ne nearly 250,000 pounds of thrust went high ware and people say the blast shook across the bay. >> immediately from about five seconds in you just saw kind of a fireball. it wasn't -- you could tell immediately something was wrong. >> reporter: it also clearly shook virginia-based orbital sciences, the private contractor that built the rocket under a nearly $2 billion contract with nasa now needs answers. >> the investigation will include evaluating the debris that we will find around the launch pad. if you find anything that washes ashore in the local area or came down in a -- o

tom foreman is over at the magic wall with everything we know about what happened today, when and wheregive us insight of what happened. >> it all launched at about 9:52 this morning. witnesses say that's when at least one gunman came from around this building and approached the war memorial over here. the war memorial is something that is well known to all of the people in that area there. you have the honor guards and this is where many people lay poppies and they lay wreaths at the tomb of the unknowns. at this hallowed lace for canadians and the gunman headed off toward parliament this way. there are some who say he hijacked a car and took it up here. it's not entirely clear what the details are about that, but we do know that once he arrived at this location that he then entered to what's called the peace tower. the peace tower is a monument to world war i and a national symbol and he went inside and there was a shooting in the foyer and a lot of shooting near the back of the building as he moved back toward the library area and he went back toward which is right back in here and t

thank you again, tom foreman. we'll be back here again tomorrow night. "ac360" begins though, right now. >>> good evening, thank you for joining us. it was just one security breach too many. this guy has run across the white house lawn and through the front door and hallways which caused a chain of events that caused a secret service worker her job. it did not end the dysfunction that could have cost the president his life. >>> also tonight, new sexual assault allegations in regards to the missing university of virginia student hannah graham. tonight, we begin with more we've learned. some of it is troubling, ebola in the united states. we're devoting a good portion of this and

cnn's tom foreman joins us with the virtual look of what to watch for coming this tuesday. >> reporter are three key things we're watching for and the first is right here in the u.s. senate. the democrats have been in charge. we're showing them here in blue along with the two independents that caucus in purple. the republicans are expected to gain some seats here. the democrats are expected to lose some but control of this chamber is going to come down to nine or ten very close races and the democrats have to win six or more of them if they want to remain in power here. on the other side of the rotunda, the second thing we're looking at, which is the u.s. house of representatives. the republicans have had the majority here. that's not expected to change. the question is, will they lose some seats or, more likely, will they pick up some? and if so, how? if they do it with tea party help, that could set up divisions within the republican party that the democrats might be able to exploit even from their minority position, which brings us to the third thing we're looking at, which is the w

and many other places but tom foreman reports on a much greater health threat that claims thousands ofvery year. >> reporter: it does not spur debates about whether you'll be infected while flying or make doctors don hazmat suits or cause local governments to impose quarantines, but between 5% and 20% of the u.s. population between now and february will likely come down with the flu. most will suffer only fever, aches or chills, but the very young, the very old are those who are sick, the few can be fatal. >> the defenses are weakened by the flu virus and bacteria can come in and set up shop in the lungs. so when that happens, you know, your lungs are compromised. you might have very bat cough. you might even become unable to breathe without assistance. >> unlike ebola, which is hard to get the flu is easily transmitted by casual contact. on public transit and restaurants at any public event and flu pandemics have ravaged the world. in 1918, the spanish flu killed an estimated 30 to 50 million people. perhaps many millions more. still, less than half of the u.s. population receives a f

joining me is tom foreman and rachel crane. new video of the launch from a woc chopper in the air when the rocket exploded. look at this. this is an eyewitness. check this out. >> hmm. >> so apparently we don't have the sound. what are we learning about this xploer explosion? what do you know? >> right now the copiy that launched this says basically they know what you can see on this video, that the rocket starting taking off, they said, and i quote here, some dis'ably of the vehicle. when you watch it closely you can see it basically start to separate at the bottom of the rocket as the explosion begins, then it fell back to earth and blew all parrot. the final explosion was actually triggered by safety officers on the scene, because they don't want a wounded rocket to take off sideway, for example, and fly somewhere where it doesn't belong. the final explosion was actually triggered trying to make sure the thing was completely destroyed but they've secure the ground around the launch facility. keeping everyone away and at firs

cnn's tom foreman joins me now. we've heard all along, if you show no symptoms after 21 days, you're in the clear. any chance that's not the right number? >> amid all the confusion and concern over this terrifying disease, this is the latest battlefront. how long should people who might have this disease be kept away from all the rest of us? from the beginning of this outbreak, the cdc has insisted if someone gets ebola, the symptoms will show up in 21 days or less. it is a cornerstone of their science. and yet the world health organization says not 21 but 42 days must pass before a country suffering an outbreak can be called ebola-free. why? the key difference rests in the idea of a single person versus a community, whereas health officials say one person with the disease could be expected to show symptoms within 21 days if he or she transmits it to another, a whole new 21-day cycle begins with that next person. still, where does that magic number, 21, come from? researchers at drexel university found the origin is

tom foreman has more on this. >> reporter: the destruction of the rocket took less than 20 seconds. at launch everything looked fine, but within a matter of moments it was clear something was going wrong. the company that built this under a contract with nasa, orbital sciences said, they saw the aircraft fall, and there was some movement, and then it fell to earth at that point. that is really all they know because they have to collect the debris. it is important to all of them, safety being one of the reasons, they have an $8.4 billion contract to nasa, with eight trips to the international space station to supply it. now they must begin the long, slow forensic work of picking up the pieces and analyzing all the materials of the rocket to find out what went wrong. >> tom foreman there, it is an important question, the weather was clear as we just saw and there were apparently no technical issues before takeoff. so the key question, of course, is what could have gone wrong to cause such a catastrophic event. i talked to one of the commanders of the international space station. >> at

tom foreman, cnn, washington. >>> a fire may have destroyed some memorabilia from the september 11thck on united airlines flight 93. the national park service says the fire damaged four buildings at the memorial site headquarters in pennsylvania. the damaged buildings housed about 10% of the memorial's collection of 9/11 artifacts. >> unfortunately, only about 10% of our collection is actually storied here. most of it is offsite and the items that are here, many of them are in fireproof safes or fireproof filing cabinets so this at point we don't know the extent of the damage. >> cause of that fire remains under investigation. >>> well, autumn is just getting started but snow is already falling in parts of the u.s. upper midwest. derek van dam joins us once again. snow, we haven't had -- haven't even seen my first fall leaf yet. >> the four-letter word nobody wants to talk about this time of year. it is just a little too early but it does happen and you're right, natalie, we do have snow to talk about in this weather forecast and want to touch on the united states. a large low pressu

tom foreman is joining us. tell us what he's saying.t of homeland security issued a statement categorically denying the statement. >> let's listen to what he had to say. it was a bombshell and it was said on fox news and it is explosive. listen to this. >> i know that at least ten isis fighters have been caught coming across the mexican border in texas. >> how do you know that? >> there you have the basic claim that he is making here. and if this is true, everyone would be talking about this. isis fighters caught coming across the border in texas. why aren't they? this idea have been picked up by other politicians as well. there is some legitimate concern that terrorists could come across the border. but why is this idea not getting any real traction? because of what homeland security is saying about it. what they're saying is unequivocal. they're saying it is categorically false and is not supported by any credible intelligence or facts on the ground. they're saying there's simply no evidence of this happening and there's no suggestion

tom foreman is "outfront". >> reporter: if someone contracts ebola in west africa, most days there arethat could bring them to the united states, one to atlanta and one houston. the outbreak has been small with 20 cases compared to liberia and new guinea and sierra leone. look at the global flights that are happening every single day. there are counterless permutations where they connect with other flights and wind up being some of the half million people who arrive every day on international flights including about 1500 of them, according to the map, if you look at the flights that end up coming out of the hot zone here through belgium, which is still running flights in and out of those areas. erin? >> so tom, i guess the question i have is can they do anything to make sure that someone does not come down with ebola on the plane given that there's an incubation period. you might feel fine when you get on the plane and literally you could get sick on the plane. >> a lot is being done to avoid that. for example, brussels airlines, which is doing all the heavy traffic, takes the temperat

cnn's tom foreman has more for you. >> there are three key things we're watching in this midterm and is right here in the u.s. senate. the democrats have been in charge. we're showing them here in blue along with the two independents who caucus with them in purple. the republicans are expected to gain some seats here. the democrats are expected to lose some. but control of this chamber is going to come down to nine or ten very close races and the democrats have to win six or more of them if they want to remain in power here. on the other side of the rotunda, the second thing we're looking at, which is the us house of representatives. the republicans have had the majority here, that is not expected to change. the question is, will they lose some seats or, more likely, will they pick up some? and if so, how? if they do it with tea party help, that could set up divisions within the republican party that the democrats might be able to exploit even from their minority position. which brings us to the third thing we're looking at, which is the white house reaction to all of this. if the pr

thank you very much, tom foreman. let's get more now. us our cnn aviation correspondent richard quest. our cnn aviation analyst miles o'brien. it's amazing when you think about it. on wednesday, this disaster, this rocket explosion in virginia. now what's going on in california with this virgin galactic disaster. what a huge setback for the private space program. >> yeah, as i said all week since this previous accident, this is not routine. it remains on the edge of our capabilities, and it is very intolerant of even the smallest mistakes or errors or problems. that's what we're seeing right now. this is a test program that had been troubled by a motor that wasn't delivering the goods. they switched the fuel and some of the numbing along with that. >> virgin galactic had been hoping to offer these commercial space flights by the end of the coming year. by the end of 2015, they were hoping to get some celebrities on board. does an accident of this magnitude seriously set all of that back? >> absolutely, without any shadow of doubt. i don'

cnn's tom foreman is standing by with that. >> we're piecing together all this information as well as we can at this hour, what happened at the school. here's what we know about the alleged gunman. jaylen fryberg was a freshman, a football player and part of the homecoming court. he was a native american. classmates say he was into hunting. he was friendly and he was popular. and this is what we know at this point about the time line of what happened. shortly after 10:30 a.m., as students gathered in the cafeteria for lunch, one witness says a young man rose from a table, pulled a small pistol from his pocket and began firing. >> i saw three kids just fall from the table like they were falling to the ground dead. i jumped under the table as fast as i could. and when it stopped, i looked back up and i saw he was trying to reload his gun. and when that happened, i just ran the opposite direction. and i was out of there as fast as i could. >> reporter: that witness said he knew the young man and he looked calm, with a blank stare throughout. students scattered. many in the rest of the bu

tom foreman, thanks for the explanation.ining us now is tom worthington at the ottawa hospital where the victims are being treepted. thanks so much for joining us and how many people are you treating right now? how many victims? >> there were four patients injured in this incident. the first patient succumbed to their injuries and the three injuries were not life-threatening and they're stable and still in the hospital. >> was the first person who died the alleged shooter or was that the soldier? >> the -- i really can't get into specifics about the individual patients. i apologize about that, wolf. so i prefer to just keep this conversation at a very high level. >> one person did die at the hospital, is that correct? >> that is correct. yes. >> presumably, you have sensitive issues over there, so it's either the shooter or the soldier. we only know of two people who were killed in today's incident and the shooter and the parliament and the shooter at the national war memorial and if you want to answer this go ahead. do you

tom foreman reports on this worrying new trend. >> reporter: out of the gunfire in ottawa, the emerging of the shooter is what intelligence services fear most, a largely self-radicalize person attacking a target he has chosen. a lone wolf. >> this is something that he talked about before this incident in kacanada, before we saw the emergence of isil as a threat here in the united states. >> reporter: it made it harder for groups like al qaeda involving foreign players, and this is what has risen in the wake. smaller attacks by terrorists who live in the countries they target. they are inspired by jihadi websites and sometimes trained during brief trips to extremist camps. and they act alone or in very small groups. officials say the boston marathon bombings are a good example. but so are many others. in 2009, an attack at ft. hood in texas heaves 13 people dead. and in arkansas, a soldier shot dead at a recruiting station. in 2012, three soldiers and four civilians, including children, are slaughtered in france. in 2013, a british soldier is butchered on the streets of london. and this

tom foreman looks at how these horrifying events unfolded. >> reporter: at 10:39 a.m.s students gathered for lunch, witnesses say a young man rose from a table, pulled a small pistol from his pocket and began firing. >> i saw three kids just fall from the table like they were falling to the ground dead. i jumped under the table as fast as i could, and when it stopped i looked back up and i saw he was trying to reload his gun. when that happened, i just ran in the opposite direction and i was out of there as fast as i could. >> reporter: that witness said he now the young men and he looked calm with a blank stare throughout. >> i heard his girlfriend broke up with him, and everyone has been retweeting of, like, their conversations. it's been pretty brutal. >> reporter: students scattered. many say they thought a fire drill was under way, and many ran outside, in the hallways, teachers started herding others into classrooms and ordering a lockdo lockdown. at some point, someone placed a 911 call. by 10:40 police were swarming the building. going room to room, placing tap

real or is he a video game character, i don't know any more. >> tom foreman, he does not exist. nev >> i've never been in the same room as him. >> that's fascinating. >> we'll talk more about the drama of the mid-terms, coming up. >>> the police chief of ferguson, missouri, says he's not going anywhere as the town waits for the grand jury to decide whether to charge officer darren wilson. we'll ask the slain teenager, michael brown's cousin. what he thinks is going to happen. >> speaking of the unt unknown. it bears repeating. the senate race ace loan have photo finishes in big, big races. there could be one specifically. that could determine just one race, who clols the u.s. senate. john king has the latest incite for you on incite politics. >> to get excited about. our best ever pricing with double the data on select plans. and three: you can now get our best ever single line pricing starting at $45. so get all this now, on the network ranked #1 for data performance nationwide. verizon. having a perfectly nice day, when out of nowhere a pick-up truck slams into your brand new

tom foreman is live in washington for us. what is the latest?is that the officials of this company oral sciences were up looking at the telemetry from this rocket from the moment this happened and pretty much all night, looking at electronic signals coming off this rocket about its force, its altitude, its attitude, its speed, the temperature, everything they can to see if there are any signs in the numbers about where things started to go wrong and at this hour, investigators are spreading out to the marshes there in coastal virginia trying to pick up every piece they can to put it back together and solve this mystery. >> and we have liftoff. >> reporter: the first stage was just seconds into a four-minute burn when the antares rock waet stalled, went backward and exploded. the blast shook the ground even where spectators were. >> immediately about five seconds in, you just saw kind of a fireball and it wasn't -- you could tell immediately that something was wrong. >> reporter: it also clearly shook virginia based orbital sciences. the private

tom foreman takes a look at how it all unfolded. >> at 10:30 a.m., as students gathered in the cafeteria at lunch, witnesses say a young man rose from the table, pulled a small pistol from his pocket and started firing. >> i just saw three kids fall from the table like they were just falling to the ground dead. i jumped under the table ooze fast as i could. when i stood back up, i saw that he was trying to reload his gun. when that happened, i ran in the opposite direction and ran as fast as i could. >> he said he knew the young man and he looked calm with a blank stare throughout. >> i heard his girlfriegirlfrie with mim him and everyone has been retweeting their conversations. pretty brutal, honestly. >> students scattered. many thought there was a fire drill under way and many ran outside. in the hallways, teachers started herding others into classrooms and ordering a lockdown. at some point, someone inside placed a 911 call and by 10:40, police were swarming the building. >> additional 30 students out to the south. >> going room to room, placing tape over the doors of those they had

tom foreman, cnn, washington. >>> so what is happening in the fight against isis? well, the u.s.-led coalition is keeping up its bombing campaign on isis in northern area but not enough to stop the militants' week-long onslaught of kobani. intense battles erupted on the outskirt s as they try to crush the defenders. they surrounded kobani on three sided. >>> an interesting angle. three american teenage girls who skipped school in hopes of joining isis fighters are now back home after being stopped in germany. officials say the girls who live in the u.s. state of colorado had flown to frankfurt international airport where they were apprehended after the fbi flagged their passports. why they were questioned, the girls said they stole $2,000 from their parents and hoped to make it to syria to join the extremists fighting there. after interviewing the girls and their families, the teen also not face any charges. >>> mexican mayor and his wife accused in the disappearance of dozens of students who were protesting against the government. this incident is so explosive the governor just

tom foreman has late details and he joins now. tom? >> yeah, hey, anderson, take a look at this view from some of the spectators who lined up to watch it, and listen to how they respond as this goes cataclysmically wrong. you can hear the explosion and you can hear their reaction. that's roughly three quarters of a million pounds of thrust being released in the wrong way as this rocket fell apart. it only two seconds. the first stage, it seems to be absolutely centered there. how it happened is a big mystery. the company that is in charge of all of this, orbital science corporation, based in virginia, under contract to navy for $1.8 billion for sending supplies up to the iss and issued a statement saying it's far too early to know the details of what happened. we will conduct a thorough investigation immediately so they can figure out how this happened and how to deep from happening, but the impact is quite significant here. it is a two-stage rocket, the first is a rocket-fuelled liquid oxygen. it does make a difference, because the ex

. >> our thanks to tom foreman for that report. >>> well, tuesday was a day of mourning in canada. ♪agpipes playing ] >> thousands gathered to pay respects to corporal nathan cirillo, who was gunned down last week. he was attacked by michael zehaf-bibeau while standing guard at the national war memorial in ottawa. authorities shot him and have since learned he had ties to jihadists. at the ceremony, cirillo's commanding officer praised the slain soldier. >> he never took the tough knocks personally. he just smiled and soldiered on, both in the regimen and in life. loyal, tough, loving, true. his family knew it. his regimen knew it, and now canadians know it. rest in peace, corporal cirillo. your argyle family will not forget. >> and cirillo leaves behind a 5-year-old son, pictured here. the prime minister urged canadians to pray for the surviving family and said he hoped the boy would find comfort in knowing the entire country was looking after his late father. >>> investigators in canada say the soldier's murder was part of a suspected terror attack. earlier, i spoke with katie simp

tom foreman is out front. >> reporter: out of the gunfire in ottawa, the emerging picture of the shooter is what intelligence services fear most. a largely self-radicalized person who attacks a target he has privately chosen. a lone wolf. >> this is something the president talked about before this incident in canada. it is something we talked about before we saw isis become a significant threat to the united states. >> reporter: the massive security and surveillance surge after 9/11 made it harder for groups like al qaeda to pull off large assaults involving many foreign players. and this is what has risen in the wake. smaller attacks by terrorists who live in the countries they target. authorities say they are inspired by jihadist websites and sometimes train during brief trips to extremist camps. and they act alone or in very small groups. officials say the boston marathon bombings are a good example, but so are many others. in 2009, an attack at fort hood in texas leaves 13 people dead. and in arkansas, a soldier is shot dead at a recruiting station. in 2012, three soldiers and four c

. >> our thanks to tom foreman for that report. well, a u.s.n who disappeared during halftime at a denver broncos game has been found safe. police posted on twitter that paul kiterman was located in pueblo, colorado, a bit more than a 100 miles from where he disappeared. the 53-year-old was attending a night name on thursday with his stepson. the boy went to the bathroom and discovered kitterman missing when he came out. denver police say kitterman was found unharmed and no foul play is suspected. >> well, some families on hawaii's big island are watching helplessly as lava from the volcano inches closer to their homes. you are looking now at aerial drone footage of just how close the flow is to the town. the 2,000-degree river of molten rock has already claimed one structure .pit's just a garden shed at this point. but about 40 to 50 homes are among the first group of residences in its projected path. that is why people are very uneasy about this. the lava flow actually started back in june. and it slowly crept about 13 miles, or about 20 kill

tom foreman walks us through the day's events. >> it all launched in about 9:52 this morning.nesses say that's when at least one gunman came from around this building and atreched the war memorial over here. the war memorial is something that's well known to all of the people in that area there. he attacked the honor guard there. this is where people lay many, many pom pis on remembrance day. in any event, after this happened at this very hallowed place for canadians, then witnesses say the gunman hijacked a car and went up to the front here. we know once he arrived at this location, he sbrt into what's called the peace tower. it's a monument to world war i and also a national symbol. there was a lot of shooting in the immediate foyer. an many lan later, a lot of shooting near the back of the building as he moved back towards the library area and he went back towards, back in here, the caucus rooms. that's where he was finally taken down by security forces. authorities had been believing there was another gunman over here. so what happened was a lot of this entire area, buildi

joining me now to discuss this, tom foreman.ht now, two private companies, space x and boeing are working to build rock totes take humans into space. not cargo, people. that, coupled with this highly visible launch failure by another firm has absolutely reignited this debate about the whole idea of private companies leading the modern space race. >> zero and liftoff. the final liftoff of atlantis. >> the end of the space shuttle era amid government budget issues in 2011 was the beginning of the fed seriously handing over the reins of space travel. since then, the global space economy is believed to have rocketed to nearly $300 million a year. >> we will work with companies getting to space easier and more affordable. >> reporter: yet, questions have swirled about whether private companies can handle such dangerous work well while watching the bottom line. the first man on the moon welcomed the idea of private efforts. >> but having cut my teeth in rockets more than 50 years ago, i am not confident. >> reporter: part of the probl

first tom foreman has the coverage. >> reporter: a commercial jet pulled from service. 800 passengers, schools and businesses shut down, all because nurse amber vinson flew with her temperature rising. her family is pushing back hard. in a written statement saying to be clear, in no way was amber. the nurse had no business flying. >> because temperature point, she was in a group of individuals known to have exposure to ebola, she should not have traveled on a commercial airline. >> but her family said she contacted the cdc repeatedly and she reported her temperature before boarding her flight three different time, in all three instances, she was cleared to return to texas. amid confusion, fear and blame, the ebola problem is getting worse. true, nigeria and senegal have now been declared ebola-free. they had small outbreaks. world health officials say by december, guinea, liberia, and sierra leone could see up to 10,000 cases a week. that's spurring even some democrats to say the obama administration needs to get tougher. for example, by focusing on a study that says some patients can

tom foreman is out front. >> questions oefrl travel, school closing and the ebola outbreak.bers of congress expected answers from the cdc. what they got is this. >> i don't know the details. >> reporter: time and again tom frieden dodged questions like how did two hospital workers get the disease. >> i still don't feel like we have a good answer of why nurse one and nurse two contracted ebola. is it because there was a problem with not following the protocol or is there something wrong with the protocols? >> and i think what the american people are wanting is some assurance that somebody does know the details. >> the investigation is ongoing. we've identified some possible causes. >> so we don't know. >> reporter: another question, why did the cdc tell the second nurse she could board a commercial plane even with her temperature rising. >> i have not reviewed exactly what was said. but they r she did -- but she did contact our agency and she did board the plane. >> and she said she was told to board the plane. >> that would be correct. >> now your august 22nd protocols say p

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tom foreman is joining us with a preview. explain what is going on, tom?d give us impressions and tonight every one of you can be part of the focus group by going to the web page bing.com/cnn and let us know if you are republican or democrat or independent. we are not tracking you. we are just keeping track. and your inputs will create a graph showing the high points and the low points of the collective reaction. and we'll go over that later on in the evening and you can participate by going to bing.com/cnn and more than watch the debate, you can go there. >> and as we count down, i'm joined by gloria borger. two weeks until election day here in the united states. rick scott, the florida governor, charlie crist the challenger about to face-off. the stakes tonight significant. >> they are. there are a lot of important governors race but this is the most closely watched because as you know, this is the all-important state of florida. these guys are in a dead heat right now, wolf. there is about 75 to $100 million in ad money spent in this campaign. and this

tom foreman is talking about this real flu threat that is out there. >> reporter: as fearsome as ebola. citizen has died from ebola at this point. and yet this other infectious disease has probably killed around 750,000 americans over the past couple of decades, and many people just sort of shrug when you mention it. it does not spur debates about whether you should fly or cause local governments to impose quarantines. but between 5% and 20% of the u.s. population between now and february will likely come down with the flu. most people will only suffer fever, aches or chills. but the very young or very old or those already sick, the flu can be fatal. >> the defenses are weakened by the flu virus and a bacteria can set up shop in the lungs. when that happens, your lungs are compromised. you might have a very bad cough, you might each become unable to breathe without assistance. >> reporter: unlike ebola, which is hard to get, the flu is easily transmitted by casual contact. on public transit and restaurants, any public event. and flu pandemics have ravaged the world. in 1918, the spanis

thank you again, tom foreman. and thank you for joining us, we'll be back here again tomorrow night. "ac360" begins though, right now. >>> good evening, thank you for joining us. it was just one security breach too many. this guy has run across the white house lawn and through the front door and hallways which caused a chain of events that caused a secret service worker her job. it did not end the dysfunction that could have cost the president his life. >>> also tonight, new sexual assault allegations in regards to the missing university of virginia student hannah graham. tonight, we begin with more we've learned. some of it is troubling, ebola in the united states. we're devoting a good portion of this and into the next hour on "ac360." because people want to know, our doctors, health care officials, are they up to the challenge of a virus who kills more than half the people who catch it. so far, as thomas duncan arrived in dallas, at least part of the way on a united airlines flight and we're just learning possi