. >>> this is wjz tv, wjz d t and wjz.com, baltimore. >>> from the city, to the county, to your neighborhood now complete coverage on wjz 13, maryland's news station. >>> it's after 6:30. 77 degrees and partly sunny. good evening, thank you for joining us. he's some of the stories people are talking about. the home land security team speaks out about why he left bush administration he left after he saw he was getting pressure to boost the terror alert level. >> reporter: former home land security secretary makes his claim against two other cabinet members in a forthcoming book, ridge reports that the pressure came before the 2004 election. ridge says they pressed him to increase the terror threat yellow to orange meaning high just four days before the election. osama bin laden threatened new attacks on the united states. despite that, this was no support for boosting the threat level and he refused. he writes i wondered is that about security or politics and he says this incident re- enforced the decision to resign from the administration. >>> ridge says he was never invited to a white house