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Officer is doing now. A new plan to take back territory seized by isis will more u. S. Troops be sent to iraq . Wever live with the latest developments there. It is wednesday, june 10th. 4 00 a. M. In the east and john berman is on assignment this morning. Happening now. New breaks in that manhunt for skipped prisoners. A source tells cnn they think a woman who worked with Pritchard Matt and david sweat at the prison facility planned to pick them up but sources say Joyce Mitchell turned her mind and wound up in the hospital suffering panic attacks. Telling nbc news there is no way she was having an affair with one of the men. She is not the kind of person that is going to risk her life for other peoples lives to let these guys escape from prison. She definitely wouldnt have an affair against my father and it definitely wouldnt be with an inmate. There is a report out there your mom went to the emergency room with a panic attack. Did that happened . Yes. She was, in fact in the hospital that evening. I dont know the exact details. I just know that she was having severe chest pains and she was concerned about that. My mom, she worries a lot about everything. I mean especially with me. People might say no matter what, i wouldnt do that. Well when youre put in a situation where family members threatened or other family members might be, you know threatened or at risk you do a lot of things that you wouldnt think you would do. My family, family always comes first. Reporter irge were threats . I have no idea. There is a second break in the case. A witness report of two suspicious men spotted walking down a road in rural willsborough 40 miles south of the prison and where cnns Jason Carroll picks up the story. Reporter for several hours, a number of Law Enforcement were out here on the ground searching by foot and by air. This after on monday night, they got a tip that two men were spotted Walking Around during the middle of a storm in the middle of a street when a car approached them apparently those two men took off. That set off a lot of red flags. Thats also what set off this massive search out here where we are located its just about 40 miles south of where the prison is located. So you can imagine why this search effort was under way here. Again, searching by ground searching by air in terms of the ground search and the property where we are, its bordered by train tracks on one side by a river on the other side. At one point, officers walking shouldertoshoulder as they conducted their search throughout the woods. Wasnt just a semp the woods about they also checked security cameras. Resident security cameras and security cameras from businesses as well. So far, we are told that has turned up nothing. Its going to be another restless day for many residents in this rural area. Christine . It sure will. Jason, thank you for. For days now authorities are warning how dangerous richard matt and david sweat are. Few people understand the threat like in a 1977 crime. Lee bates served 50 years for the murder of richard rickerson. Torture is probably an understatement because once at different points during the commission of what was the crime there, he used duct tape to tie mr. Rickerson up. He beat him with anything and everything that he possibly can, a knife sharpener, security device the club for my automobile. He physically grabbed mr. Rickersons hands and pulled his fingers back until they snapped. Punching him, beating him. Starting from in the house throughout the car ride and then eventually when he opened up the trunk and mr. Rickerson told him ill take you to the money, let me out, and richard matt there then said i dont believe you, i dont believe you. Youve been playing games with me i dont believe you. And a fit of rage, he reached into the car, grabbed mr. Rickerson by his head and snapped his neck in front of me. Bates says he was afraid of richard matt then and is still afraid of him now. A Dramatic New Development this morning in texas. A Police Officer at the center of that pool party melee, ma Police Officer pulling his gun on those teenagers, he is stepping down. Protesters have been called for Corporal Eric cases badge and called for his resignation after he drew that gun on the unarmed teens. One is happy that casebolt has resigned. I feel he could have done way better and performed better and done better toward teens in this situation. Just like in the video, his peers were working way better more appropriately than he was. Again he has resigned and his boss saying his behavior is not defensible. Here is nick valencia in mckinney. Reporter the huge news on tuesday night the resignation of Eric Casebolt showing him wrestling a young teenage girl to the ground. At police chief of the Mckinney Police department came own awe said his actions were indefensible. The 12 officers that responded to the incident on friday 11 acted appropriately but Eric Casebolt was not one of them. Eric casebolt has resigned from the Mckinney Police department. The actions of casebolt as seen on the video of the disturbance at the Community Pool are indefensible. Reporter this much is clear. We are told it began with altercation between an adult and young teenager and told by one of the witnesses who wasnt within earshot of this with you said others heard it began from an adult started hurling racial slurs to the young black teenagers. Neighbors in the Community Say that wasnt the case. One africanamerican resident in that subdivision where this incident took place on friday said it was the teenagers that were causing the commotion and the chaos didnt start until they started hopping the fence. This has created some Division Within the community and the case is far from over. Some are asking for charges to be brought against officer casebolt. Mckinney police dropped the charges against one person arrested during the chaos. Again, those charges dropped. The white house plan called for a new military base in iraqs Anbar Province manned by hundreds of u. S. Military trainers. Lets get the latest from our reporter. Reporter u. S. Officials are telling cnn that the administration is considering sending an additional 500 troops to iraq in addition to the more than 3,000 in iraq right now. Many of these troops are expected to be focusing on training iraqis. Its unclear what the breakdown would be of these 500, if approved if they do end up going to iraq how many of them will be doing the training. Others may be doing other there for other purpeds like security purposes like security for example. U. S. Officials are also saying they are considering one of the considerations by the administration is adding the number of los for training in iraq potentially, as you mentioned, in Anbar Province. That province the majority of it is under the control of isis where we recently saw those major setbacks take place with the fall of ramadi into hands of isis. Another consideration that they are looking at is if u. S. Troops will be directly training sunni tribesmen not arming but training them directly. Of course, the u. S. Administration believes that the sunni tribes in iraq could play a major role in shifting the balance of the war against isis to try to replicate what we saw in 2006 and 2007. The past year they have been focused on the air strikes and also training iraqi forces christine. This is something that has been key in the military part of the strategy but, of course, more needs to be happening on the ground we have heard from iraqi officials and also from the u. S. More needs to happen on the political level as we have seen over the past few months. The group is still powerful. It is still able to go on the defensive and gain fresh territory. Training those sunni tribes if not equipping them but training the sunni tribes a new wrinkle in the strategy for the white house. In washington this morning, the secret service and Capital Police are investigating two separate bomb threats that vatican a Senate Hearing. The White House Briefing room reporters were scrambled and moved to a separate building while the president was kept safe in the white house. They covered up tv cameras to protect the methods used to protect bomb threats. Officials declined to describe any possible connection between those two threats but certainly a hairy afternoon on capitol hill yesterday morning. Dozens of null hired officers assigned to the white house and other sensitive posts without the proper National Security clearance. Some of them having access to classified material. The rush to hire new personnel in the wake of a host of security lapses is being blamed. Secret Service Director promising to fix that problem quickly. Time for an early start on your money on this wednesday moaning. Asian stocks are lower after one said it would not consider stocks traded in shanghai over concerns about market strixs restrictions. Good news for job seekers. 5. 4 million job openings in april. That is a record. This is the most job openings since the government started tracking openings 15 years ago. That means for every available job, every job opening out there, there are fewer than two people looking for work. This is one of my favorite charts. That number has slowly ticked down from about seven job seekers for every available job during the heist of the recession to a bad number now to fewer than two and shows a job market Getting Better and better prospect for those searching for work. Coming up the tsa plans to keep america safer. We have that for you next. Simply stunning testimony from the Inspector General of the department of Homeland Security. John roth appearing before a Senate Homeland Security Committee slamming the tsa for a host of shortcomings including the tas failure to detect 73 tsa employees were hired. We get more from cnns rene marsh. Reporter on capitol hill serious questions raised about whether the tsa is capable of protecting the flying public from terrorists. The agency is struggling with low morale faulty airport screening equipment, officers failing to detect weapons and fake explosives. And inadequate vetting of airport workers. Now lawmakers are calling for a complete overhaul of the agency. The tsa was not at this hearing but the department of Homeland Security Inspector General was. He told lawmakers, quote, he is keeply concerned about tsas ability to execute its important mission. Those are sobering words from the government auditor behind a scathing report revealing tsa cleared more than 70 people with links to terrorism to work at u. S. Airports. The Inspector General was also behind the recent covert bomb threat that tsa officers failed miserably at airport checkpoints. Some of the possibilities is more bomb sniffing dogs and sharing information about individuals on terror watch lists. We should point out that cnn reached out to tsa for comment but they have not yet responded. Rene marsh, thank you for that. Dennis hastert emerged from hide to go plead not guilty tuesday in federal court in chicago. The 73yearold hastert is charged with structuring cash withdrawals from banks and lying to the fbi about the reason. Prosecutors believe he was buying the silence of a former student to cover up allegations of sexual abuse. Hastert made 106 withdrawals of less than 10,000 what the fbi says they say he promised to pay 3. 5 million to the person identified in the indictment only as individuala. He will not join the president ial race until monday but jeb bush is polishing his credentials during a three day trip to europe. He urged them to take a tough line for russia for its aggression in ukraine. Some of the toughest limits in a texas abortion law puts nearly half of the states remaining abortion clinics at risk of permanently shutting their doors. The threejudge panel ruled texas can require all clinics meet hospital level operating standards. The decision is expected to take effect less an month. Attorneys for six baltimore Police Officers charged in freddie grays set to have Marilyn Mosby to recuse herself by the case asking police to target the intersection where gray was arrested with enhanced Drug Enforcement enhancements. In ferguson missouri a petition to recall the mayor of the troubled st. Louis suburb has fallen court. The petition was 800 signatures short of the 1800 need to put the recall of james noel before voters. The group has ten days to gather additional signatures. The Justice Department found a pattern of racially bias policing in that city following the Michael Brown shooting. Happening in just hours, the pope is set to meet with russias president. Can Vladimir Putin be pressured to pull his troops out of ukraine . We are live next. Give it everything youve got and leave those sticky sunscreens behind. New neutrogena cooldry sport. Powerful protection designed to feel good. Micromesh technology lets sweat pass through and evaporate so skin stays comfortable, while clinically proven protection keeps going strong. Dont get stuck with a sticky sunscreen. Stay protected and comfortable with every move. New cooldry sport. Neutrogena. A big meeting today at the vatican. Pope francis hosting russian president Vladimir Putin. As putins government is facing increasing isolation on the worlds stage. Nic robertson is at the vatican with more. Do we know what the pope is likely to ask or talk to Vladimir Putin about, nic . Reporter we understand that ukraine is likely to be on the agenda and the plight of christians in the middle east. The pope looks to president putin to help secure and aid in helping the christians of the middle east so that will be an important part of this. The pope is so far, refrained from criticizing president putin and rusch over what is happening in kraen ukraine. The pope is trying to be a part of the peace making process and trying to bring an end to the conflict there. That is the pope. Undoubtedly that is part of the discussion as well. Certainly a lot of people looking at at the situation right now. Putin not attended the g7 and excluded from that and looking for a place in the world stage and is meeting today with the italian prime minister. When he comes to meet the pope that elevates president putin on the world stage. This makes him look back home as if he is doing well but also the pope in a way, needs president putin, the pope wants to unite christians across the world and, of course, president putin describes himts as a christian, Russian Orthodox to 225 Orthodox Christians arnold the world and twothirds of those Russian Orthodox so a dialogue goes back sometime between the pope francis and president putin and something likely discussed as well christine. No question the isolation on the world stage. G8 is g7 now. Vladimir putin was kicked out and now with this high profile reception, i guess at the vatican. Should be very interesting. Thank you for that nic robertson. The search for two prisoners that escaped from a prison the help they may have had in their escape. Happening now. Narrowing an intense search for two killers who made a shocking prison break. A new tip in this case and the help they may have had in their escape. Thats ahead. Brandnew developments in that out of control pool party that ended with a Police Officer drawing his gun on unarmed teenagers. That man has now quit the force. More u. S. Troops could soon be heading to iraq to fight isis. Hundreds more. We have live with a possible new plan head. Welcome back. Im Christine Romans this wednesday morning. 30 minutes past the hour. John berman hat morning off. Happening now authorities have a couple of new important breaks in the manhunt for two convicted killers escaped from a maximum security prison in upstate source. Investigators now think a woman who worked with richard matt and david sweat at the Clinton Correctional Facility planned to pick them up after their skip on friday but sources say joyce moisture mitchell changed her mind and wound up in the hospital with a panic attack. Her son dismissing that and say there is no way she was having an affair with one of the men. She is not the kind of person that is going to risk her life or other peoples lives to let these guys escape from prison. She definitely wouldnt have an affair against my father and it definitely wouldnt be with an inmate. There is no truth to that. Reporter there is a report out there that your mom went to the emergency room with a panic attack. Did that happen . Yes. She was, in fact, in the hospital that evening. I dont know the exact details. I just know that she was having severe chest pains and she was concerned about that. My mom, she worries a lot about everything. I mean especially with me. People might say, well, no matter what i wouldnt do that. Well when youre put in a situation where family members are threatened or other family members might be threatened or at risk you do a lot of things that you wouldnt think that would affect your family. In my family family always comes first. There were threats . I have no idea. Here is the second break in the case. A witness report of two suspicious men spotted walking down a road in rural willsborough 40 miles south of that prison. That is where cnns Jason Carroll picks up the story. Reporter for several hours, a number of Law Enforcement were out here on the ground searching by foot and by air. This after on monday night, they got a tip that two men were spotted Walking Around during the middle of a storm in the middle of a street when a car approached them, apparently those two men took off. That set off a lot of red flags. Thats also what set off this massive search out here. Where we are located its just about 40 miles south of where the prison is located. So you can imagine why this search effort was under way here. Again, searching by ground, searching by air in terms of the ground search and the property where we are, its bordered by train tracks on one side, by a river on the other side. At one point, officers walking shouldertoshoulder as they conducted their search throughout the woods. It wasnt just a search the woods, but they also checked security cameras. Resident security cameras and security cameras from businesses as well. So far, we are told that has turned up nothing. Its going to be another restless day for many residents in this rural area. Christine . Thank you for that, jason. For days now authorities are warning how dangerous richard matt and david sweat are. Few people understand the threat like matts accomplice in a 1977 crime. Lee bates served 50 years for the murder of businessman richard rickerson. He says he watched matt bret brutalize rickerson for 24 hours. Torture is probably an understatement because once at different points during the commission of what was the crime there, he used duct tape to tie mr. Rickerson up. He beat him with anything and everything that he possibly can, a knife sharpener, a security device, the club from my automobile. He physically grabbed mr. Rickersons hands and pulled his fingers back until they snapped. Punching him, beating him. Starting from in the house throughout the car ride and then eventually when he opened up the trunk and mr. Rickerson told him, ill take you to the money, let me out, and richard matt there then said, i dont believe you, i dont believe you. Youve been playing games with me, i dont believe you. And a fit of rage, he reached into the car, grabbed mr. Rickerson by his head and snapped his neck in front of me. Has is the person on the loose right now after that jail break. Bates says he was afraid of richard matt then and is still afraid of him now. A Dramatic New Development this morning in mckinney texas. A Police Officer at the center of that pool party melee has resigned. A Police Officer pulling his gun on those teenagers, he is stepping down. Protesters have been called for Corporal Eric cases badge and called for his resignation after he drew that gun on the unarmed teens. One is happy that casebolt is off the course. I feel he could have done way better and performed better and done better toward teens in this situation. Just like in the video, his peers were working way better, more appropriately than he was. For the latest here is nick valencia in mckinney. Reporter the huge news on tuesday night the resignation of Eric Casebolt showing him wrestling a young teenage girl to the ground. The police chief of the Mckinney Police department came out and said his actions were indefensible. He said the 12 officers that responded to the incident on friday 11 acted appropriately but Eric Casebolt was not one of them. Eric casebolt has resigned from the Mckinney Police department. As the chief of police i want to say to our community that the actions of casebolt as seen on the video of the disturbance at the Community Pool are indefensible. Reporter this much is clear. We are told the incident began with altercation between an adult and young teenager and told by one of the witnesses who wasnt within earshot of this but said others heard it when an adult started hurling racial slurs to the young black teenagers. Neighbors in the Community Say that wasnt the case. One africanamerican resident in that subdivision where this incident took place on friday said it was the teenagers that were causing the commotion and the chaos didnt start until they started hopping the fence. This has created some Division Within the community and the case is far from over. Some are asking for charges to be brought against officer casebolt. Christine . Thanks for that nick. Mckinney police dropped the charges against one person arrested during the chaos. An 18yearold named adrian martin. The world on isis. The white house is considering a new strategy on the war on isis. Plan calls for a new military base in iraqs Anbar Province manned by hundreds of u. S. Military trainers. Lets get the latest from jomana karadsheh. To clarify what the strategy is to fight isis and decide whether there will be more boots on the ground in that fight. Reporter christine, the u. S. Administration has insisted that training local forces is the way forward, in addition to the air strikes that we have been seeing taking place for the past ten months. Now we are hearing from u. S. Officials that the administration is considering sending 500 more troops to iraq. That raises the number of u. S. Troops on the ground to more than 3,000. We are already there at this point. Now, according to u. S. Officials, these 500, if the decision is made to send them would mainly be there for training. Now, how the breakdown would be what these troops are doing is unclear at this toy pooin how many are training and doing other missions like air missions and medical support and security its still unclear at this point. Also u. S. Officials are saying under consideration is establishing of increasing the number of training sites in iraq and in Anbar Province the province that is predominantly controlled by isis. Seriously setbacks to iraqis of ramadi there. Another thing the u. S. Is considering doing is training sunni tribes directly. Not arming them but training the tribes. President obama saying they want to see the sunnis play a greater role in the fight against isis. They want to turn the tide in the fight against al qaeda by using the sunni tribes to turn on the extremists and fight them in these areas. Officials are saying that a final decision is expected soon. Really underscoring the urgency here after ten months of the military campaign in iraq. It does seem that isis is still very powerful group, as we have seen able to go on the offensive and capture New Territories as we have seen in recent vehicles. Jomana karadsheh in amman jordan thank you for that. Evacuations of a Senate Hearing and the White House Briefing room. Reporters were moved to a separate building while the secret service kept the president and his family in place in the white house. Officials say they covered up tv cameras to protect the methods used to investigate bomb threats. Secret Service Officials declined to discuss any possible connection between the two threats. Another Embarrassing Development for the secret service. Turns out dozens of newly hired officers have been signed to the white house and other sensitive posts without the proper National Security clearance. Some of them having information to classified material. A rush to hire new personnel in the host of security lapses is being blamed with the secret service directly promising to fix that problem quickly. Asian and european stocks are lower and u. S. Stock futures looking more upbeat. Uncertainty about a fed hike is on the markets. The truth a little more complicated. There are 6. 6 million americans working parttime who want fulltime jobs. Its true that is higher than before the recession but a big improvement from the 2010 peak. A new study from the San Francisco fed finds the growth in parttime jobs may be by higher wages. Are americas airports being kept safe from terrorists . Shocking new tsa developments is next. Welcome back. Stunning testimony from the Inspector General of the department of Homeland Security security. John roth appearing before a Senate Homeland Security Committee slamming the tsa for a host of shortcomings including a failure to detect 73 airport employees hired. We get more from cnns rene marsh. Reporter well, christine. On capitol hill, serious questions raised about whether the tsa is capable of protecting the flying public from terrorists. The agency is struggling with low morale, faulty airport screening equipment, officers failing to detect weapons and fake explosives, and inadequate vetting of airport workers. Now lawmakers are calling for a complete overhaul of the agency. The tsa was not at this hearing, but the department of Homeland Security Inspector General was. He told lawmakers, quote, he is deeply concerned about tsas ability to execute its important mission. Those are sobering words from the government auditor behind a scathing report revealing tsa cleared more than 70 people with links to terrorism to work at u. S. Airports. The Inspector General was also test that tsa officers failed miserably at airport checkpoints. Now, some of the possibilities discussed is more bomb sniffing dogs and sharing information about individuals on terror watch lists. We should point out that cnn reached out to tsa for comment but they have not yet responded. Christine . Rene thank you for that. New details about the charges against former House Speaker dennis hastert. He emerged from hiding to pleat nodding tuesday in federal court in chicago. The 73yearold hastert is charged with structuring cash withdrawals from banks and lying to the fbi about the reason. Prosecutors believe he was buying the silence of a former student to cover up allegations of sexual abuse. The fbi says hastert made 106 withdrawals of less than 10,000 what the fbi says they say he promised to pay 3. 5 million to the person identified in the indictment only as individual a. Hastert has not been charged with sexual abuse. He will not join the president ial race until monday but jeb bush is polishing his credentials during a three day trip to europe. He medicinet tuesday with angel merkel. He travels later today to poland. The pope set to meet with russias pre as a battle enraising on ukraine. A big meeting today at the vatican. Pope francis hosting russian president Vladimir Putin. As putins government is facing increasing isolation on the worlds stage. Nic robertson is at the vatican with more. Good morning, nic. Good morning, christine. Certainly the pope is hoping whenever he talks to president putin, he hopes will help bring peace. We know two items of the agenda is ukraine and plight of christians in the middle east and they hope president putin can play a role. The pope is walking a tight rope here. On the one hand president putin, outcast from the g7. It was the g 8. President putin gets to come to sort of elevated on the world stage, if you will by meeting with the pope. Thats what he gets out of it. But what will the hope get out of it . The pope has faced criticism for not being critical enough of russia and what they believe its doing inside of ukraine. He has called the situation in ukraine fratracisized. He his position he wants to bring about peace. But when you look at the middle east the pope is going to be looking to president putin to help protect the middle east christians many of whom look to the eastern orthodox russian faith as protectors at a time when they are under increasing pressure in the middle east. Of course, the pope is trying to build sort of a historic bridge if you will going back to 54. Up doubtedly ukraine is the most pressing peace issues that the pope could be addressing at this time. Christine . Thanks for that nic robertson. Looks like a Beautiful Day in rome and a big meeting on deck there. Thank you. Breaking overnight. Her press offices says she plans to reschedule that visit very soon 108 mres cases have been reported. Look at this ad. A vicious fight raging online about this ad and millions of dollars caught in the middle. Thats next. Good wednesday morning. Asian shares are down after one of the worlds major equity indexes says chinese stocks are not ready for prime time and not ready to be included. European stocks and u. S. Stock futures are up a little bit right now and looking brighter. Stocks near record highs but they are being capped by the prospect that higher borrowing costs are on the way in the u. S. Who do americans love working for on . Googles larry page. A new report finds the ceo had a 97 approving rating from employees who submitted feedback nonetheless. They like his vision and how quickly he responds to questions and atop this list were nikes mark parker and facebooks mark zuckerberg. A debate raging online about this wells fargo ad. They became the First American bank to feature a gay relationship in its ads. Now christian evangelists are pulling his organization millions of dollars out of Wells Fargo Bank in protest. The group has started moving its money to bb t instead. Wells fargo says it stands behind the ad campaign and supports the lgbt community. 59 minutes past the hour. Happening now. The search narrows for the two killers who broke out of prison. This morning the new tip that has focused the search and new information on how they may have managed their escape. The Police Officer at the center of a pool Party Controversy is now off the job, resigning after being caught on camera pointing his gun at unarmed teenagers. The white house with a possible new plan to take back territory seized by isis. More u. S. Troops could be sent to iraq. We are live with the latest developments. Im Christine Romans. Wednesday, june 10th. John berman on assignment this morning. The manhunt for two convicted killers escaped from a maximum security prison in update new york. The first break. A source tells cnn investigates now think a woman who worked with richard matt and david sweat at the Clinton Correctional Facility planned to pick them up after their escape on friday