Richard rodgers good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Federal investigators are still trying to figure out what prompted the mass shooting in california that left 14 people dead. Gunman syed farook had been in contact with islamic extremists on social media. He and his wife had an army of weapons and explosives. The pipe bombs police discovered at the scene, and at their home referabled the design available on the online magazine in al qaeda fire. But they say there is no official link to terrorism. Chris martinez is in San Bernardino. Chris, good morning. Reporter good morning to you. European diplomatic source is telling us this morning, it appears this couple may have been trained somewhere in the use of firearms and explosives massacre. Still, this morning, police here say there is no clear motive. As thousands gathered at a candlelight vigil last night to remember those who died, the investigato
In georgia. More than 1 Million People urged to stay inside as lions, tigers and bears and even a hippo roam the streets after a zoo was flooded. Lets talk live in the cnn newsroom. And good morning. Im carol costello. Thank you so much for joining me. Reversal of fortunes. Two Prison Inmates are roaming free and the prison employee who befriended them is locked up. This is Joyce Mitchell in shackles and on her way into court on charges that she helped those convicted murderers escape. Right now there are at least 800 Law Enforcement officers searching for those men, scouring the woods around the new york prison and stopping vehicles on area roads. State police say theyve received 870 leads, and more stream in every hour. Yet despite all the resources and the publics help there have been no confirmed sightings of these men. Cnns sara ganim and Polo Sandoval are in plattsberg york. Sara tell us about the court delay. Why it happened . Reporter Joyce Mitchell arrived here an hour ago but
Its obvious the department of Homeland Security and fbi wouldnt be issuing these alerts if they didnt have something concrete to worry about. Well these are very real concerns. This goes back at least two or three weeks when intelligence was picked up in various ways indicating something could be happening over the fourth of july that was initiated by isis supporters. Then it was realized that a significant number of isis operative s operatives were in new york. We already had five arrested in just the last week to ten days in new york. Some extremely dangerous in addition to that in june theres been nine or ten arrested throughout the country. This is very real. The people in new york were being watched, being monitored and one arrest has led to another and theres still an on going effort here. Great concerning going back to dealing with the fbi and Homeland Security over the last three weeks, i would say this is the most intense level of concern ive seen, maybe since 9 11. 9 11. Is i
Big day for john boehner. Members of congress, of course, dont spend all that many official days in session anymore as you can see from their calendar. After today, they had no work days at all scheduled for month of august. Lawmakers who arent running for president go home and tell their constituents how much they accomplished in the capitol for the last year and two. With the midterm elections in november, boehners plans was to send his members home for the summer break equipped to tell everyone they had taken action, they had taken real action on the crisis of unaccompanied kids crossing into the United States. President obama asked congress for 3. 7 billion to help deal with this genuine crisis at the border. Boehner and his fellow republicans cut that back by 80 . Their plan was to vote on that today. To pass that and then to be able to say, see, we did something. We led. And they thought they were ready to do it. Republican leaders in the house spent the past few days whipping th
Of august. Lawmakers who arent running for president go home and tell their constituents how much they accomplished in the capitol for the last year and two. With the midterm elections in november, boehners plans was to send his members home for the summer break equipped to tell virp they had taken action, they had taken real action on the kris crisis of unaccompanied kids crossing into the United States. President obama asked congress for 3. 7 billion to help deal with this genuine crisis at the border. Boehner and his fell low republicans cut that back by 80 . Their plan was to vote on that today. To pass that and then to be able to say, see, we did something. We led. And they thought they were ready to do it. Republican leaders in the house spent the past few days whipping through votes making sure they had the 218 they were going to need to pass that border bill. They even threw in another separate bill that would block president obama from using executive orders like the one that