The arrest of a man suspected in the di appearance of a Virginia College student yields what police call a significant break in the killing of another young woman. Are police dealing with a serial killer . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were following multiple breaking news stories right now. Isis forces are right now on the verge of capturing a key kurdish city in the northern part of syria just across the border from turkey. Were also looking into a brandnew report that the man who jumped the white house fence and made it inside the white house actually went much further into the president s home than previously known. Were covering all the breaking news with our reporters, our guests this hour, including state Department Deputy spokesperson marie harf. Lets go to brian todd first who has more on the white house intruder. Shocking on what were discovering. Reporter the white house intruder, Omar Gonzalez, made it much further into the white house than previously known.
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Province, the attacks killing 14 militants and five civilians, including women and children, according to a rights monitor group. The u. S. Led coalition aiming to degrade the brutal militant groups source of revenue. Striking 12 Oil Facilities, seized by isis in Eastern Syria wednesday. Bringing the total number of air strikes in the region to over 30. This is the beginning of a long effort. There will be more. There will be more. U. S. Officials estimate that isis makes upwards of 2 million a day by Smuggling Oil, refining it and producing 500 barrels a day and selling them on the black market. U. S. Officials hope the air strikes in the remote countryside would lessen the risk of civilian casualties. A concern raised after the initial air strikes fell upon densely Populated Areas like raqqa. An activist from raqqa says the isis fighters began moving into civilian homes two weeks ago. And wednesdays strike, the u. S. Flew only about half a dozen f15 aircraft. Saudi arabia and the Uni
What have you learned, jim . Reporter sources have confirmed that omar gopz les made it much farther into the white house. Once gonzalez entered the white house, he mced to get through a secret Service Officer at the north portico door. He went past the stairs leading up to the first family residence, then ran into the rees room before he was tackled. You can see this up on screen here in this map of the white house. And this occurred just as he was trying to head into the green room. He almost made it even farther. No shots were fired inside or outside the white house during this entire incident. According to a memo that will be used by laurps on a hearing on this tomorrow, there were multiple lapses that allowed gonzalez to make it this far. One of them being the failure to use whats called the crash button, that would have instantly locked down the white house. The question is why that button was not used. You were given a much different story on the night of this incident . Reporte
Well take you live to the medal of honor ceremony at this hour. Hi there, im michaela pereira. Im john berman. Those stories and more coming up. At this hour, a young woman, a young nurse is safe. Going to be reunited with her family. A suspect police call a vicious predator is in custody. Were learning new details, fascinating details of how Law Enforcement tracked him down. An atm card, security cameras, a savvy used car salesman all playing a role. Car leisha Freeland Gaither basically stolen off the street sunday night near her home in philadelphia. Wednesday afternoon, another shock, a good shock. The victim of this violent kidnapping was found alive. We actually found a scene where some items were discarded that belonged to her. A receipt was found there. We were able to backtrack that. It was a Grocery Store in philadelphia. We pulled video from there, very good video. We got that out. The media was a great help to us, because by putting that video out, we got a phone call from