. >> good to be with you, i'm victor blackwell. 6:00 now. we start with breaking news out of ferguson, missouri. >> let's go! let's go! >> this is the scene outside the ferguson police department. at least 15 people were arrested as the police and the demonstrators clashed after a day of nationwide protests over the police shooting the michael brown. >> yeah, other protests did turn hostile, we're told as proterritories took to shopping districts to try to disrupt black friday sales. police threw pepper spray at some common varts. we know 11 people were reportedly arrested in a mall in raleigh and similar arrests in oakland, california. >>> also, the father of michael brown attended a memorial for his son, and the father of trayvon martin. >> back in missouri, governor jay mixon has announced he's calling in lawmakers for a special session to try to figure out how to pay for national guard and state patrol officers. >> and we learned on monday, attorney general eric holder will be here in atlanta to kick off a series of police and race in ci

. >> and i'm victor blackwell. we begin this morning in ferguson, missouri, where residents are anxiously awaiting the grand jury to reconvene tomorrow. they could decide whether the officer who killed unarmed michael brown could be indicted but it could extend to the january 7th deadline. 12 members of the grand jury are having to sit through so much evidence. >> we have testimony of officer darren wilson, for one, there are photos, videos, crime scene evidence and autopsy reports. in the meantime, protesters have been calling for justice for michael brown. his parents are begging them to stay calm and not to resort to violence. stephanie elam is live in ferguson. stephanie, do you think the waiting has exacerbated the anxiety there or is it helping the protesters formulate what they are going to do next? >> reporter: i think the protesters have known what they plan on doing, victor and christi. there's been anxiety on the residents here in ferguson. some of the residents that i've spoken with say they want it to

i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. 8:00 on the east coast. we're starting with officer darren wilson no longer a member of the police force in ferguson, missouri. >> wilson resigned five days now after a grand jury decided not to indict him for killing unarmed teenager michael brown. his lawyer tells cnn wilson feared for the police department itself which apparently had been threatened with violence had he stayed. >> wilson said he hopes his departure will "allow the community to heal." as protests continue overnight a lot of people are saying it's not enough. >> we want to bring in ed lavandera live in ferguson. was wilson forced out? >> reporter: well, a lot of people did not envision in any way how darren wilson would continue to be a police officer here in ferguson. we have been reporting for several weeks that there have been talks in the works behind the scenes planning the departure of darren wilson. last night he released a statement "i have been told my continued employment may put the residents and police of

i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell.ing, we're learning new details about the deadly 2012 benghazi terror attack. there's a new report spirited by republicans and shooting down claims the obama administration mishandled situations on the ground. that incident killed ambassador christopher stevens and three other u.s. nationals. >> investigative report prepared by the house intelligence committee finds there was no intelligence prior to the attack. that's something that's long been a sticking point for the obama critics. >> now, the reports also found there was no stand-down order for cia operatives. it does reveal, however, overall security at the consulate was weak. >> i want to bring you host of cnn reliable sources brian steltzer. good to have you. do you think they're going to say that the administration mishandled the attack? >> some maybe. not many. it's more about myth than facts. this report refutes some of those myths that have taken root. already on friday night and saturday morning. i've noticed two things abo

i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell.ood to be with you. >> police are trying to figure out why a gunman targeted a string of government buildings in the heart ever austin downtown area. >> firing more than 100 rounds, the police headquarters, tried to set the mexican consulate on fire. incredibly no one was injured. the gunman is dead but why he did this, i mean, this is still a mystery. >> this is the austin, texas police department headquarters. riddled with bullets, shot by a lone gunman, according to police 49-year-old larry mcwilliams now dead. police say mcwilliams lived in austin and had a criminal record. he began his rampage minutes after bars closed early friday morning. 2:22 a.m., emergency dispatchers are inundated with calls, reports of gun shots, lots of them. >> they are advising someone in a white toyota possibly firing an assault rifle. >> the shooting continues. 2:28. reports that mcwilliams is shooting at the new federal court house t mexican consulate building and the austin police department headquar

i'm victor savidge in for victor blackwell.you started this morning. >>> number one, in england, british police disrupted an is ramik terror plot. four men were arrested in and around london on thursday night on suspicion of islamic-related terrorism offenses. scotland yard confirms to cnn that the four young men between 19 and 27 years old are still in custody. >>> number two, president obama is doubling the number of american troops in iraq. he's sending 1500 more soldiers there to train iraqi and kurdish forces to fight isis. the white house insists they will not be involved in combat. some may go to anbar province where isis has seized town after town. the pentagon insists they won't be involved in combat and this is not mission creep. >> it's not mission creep at all. mission creep is when the mission changes or morphs into something it didn't originally start out to be. this is in keeping with the missions we've been performing in iraq since june. >> more on the u.s. strategy in iraq at the top of the hour. >>> number thr

our victor blackwell is following this story and he joins us now. victor, good to have you. you have some new information from police about this? >> yes, michaela, john, good morning. they've not released the name but we are learning more about this man. he's described as a 50-year-old white man who lives in austin, texas, and it was a really dramatic scene just after 2:20 local time there in texas. here's how they described this happening. they say the first calls came in at about 2:22 this morning of a man shooting at the new federal courthouse in downtown austin. they say there were also shots fired at the mexican consulate building. also at the austin police department headquarters which we're told has suffered extensive damage. we're expecting to see pictures of that. also the shooting went on for 10 minutes until, we're told, there was an austin police sergeant who was securing the horses from the mounted unit who, with one hand was holding on to the reins of the horses and with the other hand fired a single shot in the direction of this suspect. now, the police chief

i'm victor blackwell, we enjoyed yours. this is the final sprint, the race to tuesday. we're just two days now before you decide which party will control the senate. >> that has all the candidates in full force this weekend. they're shaking hands, they're making speeches. they're holding babies, they're working the crowds, trying to get your vote. this is going to be a nail biter really at the end of the day. >> it could boil down to a fewer

. >> and i'm victor blackwell.this morning in ferguson, missouri, where residents are anxiously awaiting the grand jury to reconvene tomorrow. they could decide whether the officer who killed unarmed michael brown could be indicted but it could extend to the january 7th deadline. 12 members of the grand jury are having to sit through so

. >> victor blackwell joins me to discuss a disturbing story. what more do we know about the suspect? >> we know he's a 50-year-old white man who lived in austin. they confirmed that he is now dead. they had not released his name, but we do know that he has a criminal history. no details on those crimes yet. but you have to think that this was at about 2:20 local time when this all happened. the bars had just let out, it was a holiday, and downtown austin was crowded. reports of shots fired. we now know that hundreds of rounds police say were fired at a bb&t bank branch. also, there was a mention from the police chief there of a cylinder in front of the mexican consulate. we've been told that that was a small propane cylinder. there was a fire outside of the consulate building, but it was put out before there was any damage done to the building. now, in discussion of those cylinders, pam, we're told that when the officers approached him after he was shot by an officer who was securing horses, holding the horses with one hand and fired a single s

i'm victor blackwell, we enjoyed yours. this is the final sprint, the race to tuesday. we're just two days now before you decide which party will control the senate. >> that has all the candidates in full force this weekend. they're shaking hands, they're making speeches. they're holding babies, they're working the crowds, trying to get your vote. this is going to be a nail biter really at the end of the day. >> it could boil down to a fewer than a dozen states, maybe a half dozen some are saying. look at the map, those are the races from new hampshire to alaska, even here in georgia, and we've got you covered on all angles from washington, cnn political commentator s.e. cupp is with us but we'll start with nick valencia outside greater piney grove baptist church in atlanta. lot of candidates will be inside those churches, trying to get those last few votes. all right looks like we're having difficult with nick. nick, can you hear me? we'll try once more before we go to s.e.? >> reporter: good morning, we're here at greater piney grove baptist church, the message outrea

. >> and i'm victor blackwell. s with 6:00 on the east coast. we're starting with darren wilson, no longer a member of the police force in ferguson, missouri. >> he resigned five days now after a grand jury decided not to indict him for killing unarmed teenager michael brown. wilson feared for the police department which parentally had been threatened with violence had he stayed. >> wilson said he hopes hisure community to heal. many say this just not enough. we're in ferguson. so, ed, was wilson forced out? do we know where he is now? >> well, we don't know where he is now. many people here say this announcement doesn't come as a surprise. no one really envisioned that he would continue to be a police officer here in the city of ferguson. his own lawyers have been saying that for some time as we've known there was some sort of negotiation in process to plan for darren wilson's exit from the police department here in ferguson. but his lawyers have been saying that the chances of him ever working as a police officer are slim to none and his state

i'm ana cabrera. >> i'm victor blackwell. >> a u.s. marine reservist is back in his home state of florida after spending 214s days in jail in mexico. now sergeant an drew tahmooressi, he just landed minutes ago we know in florida. the miami dade county area. >> shows tahmooressi being driven last night to the border post in tijuana. you see him getting out of his white suv and going in and out of the customs building before arriving back in the u.s. there in california. >> tahmooressi has been detained after he crossed into mexico with three guns in his truck, which is against the law there. national reporter nick valencia, you have been on this from the very beginning following this story for months now. it all began back in march. why this release now? >> it's actually seven months to the day he was arrested there on that border, march 31st. right now we know weeks ago the wheels were in motion, high levels of the mexican government, to try to work out a release. ptsd is what he's suffering from. the family has tried for months now t

. >> i'm victor blackwell.eing with us. >> yeah, we have some somber news we need to start with. former d.c. mayor marion barry has died. he was 78 years old. we don't know the cause of death. it's still unknown. we know that he struggled with health problems in recent years. >> barry started as a civil rights activist in the 1960s. he was elected as washington's mayor four times and served as a city councilman as well. >> in 1990, he made headlines after a televised surveillance tape showed him smoking crack in a d.c. hotel room. he was later convicted and served six months in prison for that. >> we return now to our coverage of ferguson, missouri, where the people there are just waiting, waiting for this grand jury to make a decision. >> i mean, they're suppose to reconvene tomorrow, we know, and protesters are hoping that they're finally going to know whether darren wilson will or will not be indicted for michael brown's killing. cnn's stephanie elam is live from ferguson for us. stephanie, do you get a sens

let's get the latest details now from cnn's victor blackwell. victor, what can you tell us? >> reporter: several new developments within the last hour. we now know the suspect's name, larry mcwilliams. we'll told by austin police department that he's 49 years old, white male who lived there in austin. and this is something that they say happened at a time when the streets of downtown austin were crowded because it was a holiday, just after 2:00 a.m. local, the bars are closed and everyone flushed to the streets there. they started getting the calls around 2:22 of so many shots fired that the callers thought that there was some automatic weapon or there was a machine gun involved. we're told that police believe he fired more than 100 rounds at the mexican consulate, at the austin police department headquarters, also at that new federal courthouse there. we're told that there were also cylinders inside the van of this suspected shooter, that they thought were explosives. there were no explosives at the home. but the question now is why? well, we heard from the police chief the

. >> i'm victor blackwell. good to have you. >> we will persevere.se are words in response to yesterday's spaceshiptwo disaster over the mojave disaster. one pilot is dead. another seriously injured after parachuting to the ground. it is still unclear exactly what happened but eye witnesses say the space plane started to break apart moments after it detached from the mother ship. branson is still due to visit the crash site today as he joins his colleagues ow out there. >> joining us to talk more about the disaster, leroy chow a the former nasa astronaut logged more than 229 days in space. i want to ask you specifically about what might have happened here. we're not getting any specifics from the mojave air and space port. but they're saying it is what did not happen. when the someplace plane separated from the white knight, what information from what you know is possible that went wrong here? >> of course it is early to speculate on what's going on in the accident investigation team will be looking at everything. but for as you mention the eye witne

our victor blackwell has been following this story. how did this whole thing unfold, victor? >> we just listened to some of the dispatch recordings, and we know that the first calls came in at about 2:22 local time. you have to consider this was a holiday. as the police chief described, there were crowds there because the bars had just closed at 2:00. what we know is that the people who called in said that it sounded like a machine gun or some semiautomatic weapon because there were so many shots, as you said, more than 100. they don't know the sequence in which they were shot yet, but as you said, the mexican consulate building, the new federal courthouse in downtown austin. also a branch of the bb&t bank were all damaged. we have a bit of a description of the suspect. a 50-year-old white man who lived in austin and has a criminal record, although no details about that record. i have to tell you, as dramatic as the details of the event are, how it ended, those are just as dramatic. we're told that a sergeant, who was securing the horses with the mounted division, was holding

. >> good to be with you, i'm victor blackwell. 6:00 now.e start with breaking news out of ferguson, missouri. >> let's go! let's go! >> this is the scene outside the ferguson police department. at least 15 people were arrested as the police and the

i'm christi paul. >> i'm joe johns in for victor blackwell.thank you so much. glad to be here. >> you came in, boy, a lot of stuff going on. >> absolutely. there's breaking news out of iraq, america's top general has made a surprise visit to the country. general martin dempsey arrived in baghdad as the u.s. prepares to expand its assistance to iraqi and kurdish forces battling isis. >> this is the first trip, his first trip to iraq since president obama ordered noncombatant american forces back to the country. this week general dempsey testified before the house armed services committee saying he is not ruling out sending u.s. ground forces to iraq. >> i'm not predicting at this point that i would recommend that those forces in mosul and along the border would need to be accompanied by u.s. forces but we're certainly considering it. >> joining us with more on general dempsey's unannounced visit to iraq douglas oliver, senior national security fellow at the new america foundation. thanks for being with us. what's general dempsey looking to acco

. >> i'm victor blackwell. we begin with breaking news along awaited freedom for u.s. after seven months in a mexican jail. we're expecting sergeant andrew tahmooressi to arrive in his hometown not far from westin. he flew out of san diego, you see him here, boarding the plane. this is the new video in to cnn. he's being driven here we see last night to the border post in tijuana, getting out of that white suv and then going out toward the customs buildings, before crossing back to the u.s. into california. tahmooressi was jailed, you may remember, after entering tijuana with three guns in his truck. the veteran

. >> and i'm martin savage in for victor blackwell. it is 7:00. thank you for joining us.tory, good news, of the two american detainees released by north korea. this morning they're waking up on u.s. soil. there were smiles, there were tears of joy. there were hugs as kenneth bae and matthew todd miller stepped off a plane in washington state. >> bae and miller were detained after being convicted of crimes against the state and sentenced to several years hard labor. anna cabrera is live in washington. we're seeing it through the camera. but you are there. you got to see it in person. what stuck with you? >> it was just such a joyous moment. so many hugs. so many smiles. as you mentioned the tears of joy for the families as kenneth bae and matthew miller stepped off the plane into the arms of their loved ones. a moment that had been anticipated for months and even years. and while there are still a lot of questions surrounding their release, one thing is for sure this was an answer to many prayers. after months and years of detention, two americans helped prisoner in north

. >> and i'm joe johns in for victor blackwell. >> want to get to our breaking news this morning.video published online today, isis claims to have beheaded american hostage peter kassig. >> we have a still photo and the isis executioner with a british accent who appeared in previous videos. in the video, we see the aftermath of the beheading and the victim is not clearly recognizable. we can't yet confirm the video's authenticity or whether it is indeed peter kasic. >> you know kag ssig, he was an iraq war veteran and in civilian life, he was an aid worker in syria. that is where he was captured a year ago. we learned he officially converted to islam going to the name of abdul rahman. in if this video is authentic, he will be the fifth westerner beheaded. we want to get to our guests. thank you for being us with. >> first you to, will, what do you think would make the difference of what we're seeing in this video compared to the ones we've seen in the past? we know that this is a little bit different thing than some of the other execution videos isis has put out. >> yes. it's quit

. >> i'm victor blackwell. let's start with five things you need to know.ian court sentenced eight men to prison for three years for attending a same sex wedding. they were convicted of debotchry. one man put a ring on another man's hand. they hugged as a crowd around them cheered. human rights watch is condemning those convictions. >> number two, in a new video, the leader claims reports of a cease-fire within a nigerian government is false. the schoolgirls they abducted in spring will not be freed. the notorious leader even laughed while explaining how the girls were converted to islam and then married off. >> some unintended results of a nightly fireworks display in disney. look, sparks set fire to the seven dwarf's mine train. passengers were able to get off safely. the fire was put out quickly. also good news here, nobody was hurt. >>> number four, four people were killed at sea north of san francisco when a rogue wave crashed into them capsizing their 32-foot fishing boat. a fifth passenger was found alive clinging to rocks in the frigid water. we're

here's cnn's victor blackwell. >> reporter: this is the austin texas police department headquarters.ot by a lone gunman. according to police, 49-year-old larry mcqum, now dead. police say mcquilliams lived in cause tin and had a criminal record. he began his rampage officers said minutes after bars closed early friday morning. 2:22 a.m., emergency dispatchers are inundated with calls, reports of gunshots, lots of them. >> advising someone is possibly firing assault rifle. sounds like a machine gun. >> reporter: officers start their search as the shooting tins. 2:28 a.m., reports that mcquilliams is shooting at the new federal courthouse, the austin police department headquarters where at 2:33 a sergeant who was is youring portions with the department's mounted unit hears the shoots and sees mcwilliams shooting at police headquarters. >> as he held two horses with one hand, he discharged at least one round with a single handed shot. >> reporter: police say mcquilliams falls to the ground. although the medical examiner will have to determine whether it is the officer's shot or a self i

. >> i'm victor blackwell. >> we want to begin with breaking news as we're learning world powers may be one step closer to striking a dealing on iron's controversial nuclear program. >> efforts are being made to close the, quote, serious gaps still remaining. >> thrive nic >> what we're hearing is your secretary of state is going to have in about an hour's time his fourth trilateral meeting. this will be the fourth time they have had such a meeting. last night lasted for two hours. secretary of state kerry made earlier with the german foreign-eforeign minister and there he told reporters there are gaps but we hope they are closing them. this is what he said. >> we're working hard. we hope we're making careful progress. but we have big gaps. we still have some serious gaps, which we're working to close. the good thing is the p 5 plus one are united and working in concert. and we're simply going to not say anything subsequent about the discussions while they are going on. but a lot of serious work is going on by a lot of people. >> as secretary kerry has been stressing all along that t