following president trump s visit to the agency headquarters first week in office, president told incoming cia director mike pompei and other officers that he wanted them to take a more aggressive posture. those officials say shortly afterward the cia began carrying out drone strikes that might have not been authorized under the obama administration including inside syria. former president obama had worked to reduce the role in killings and shift that responsibility to the military. the officials add the white house is also granted the agency more autonomy to decide on pulling the trigger on strikes. with a goal of less micro managing on targeting decisions by the white house. still ahead, now a category five. very last on hurricane maria have has been upgraded. bill karins will have the latest on where the storm is heading
warned manafort of an indictment. dispensing what the plotting pace, typical of many white color investigations mr. mueller s team has used what some describe as shock and awe tactics to intimidate witness and potential targets of the inquiry. meanwhile, cnn reporting that the fbi has been interested in manafort before and after the election. including as part of the fbi investigation into the ties between the trump campaign and russia. a spokesperson for manafort has declined to comment on both of the new reports. as the russia investigation continues, family of former national security adviser michael flynn has set up legal defense fund for him. creation of the fund, flynn s brother and sister wrote quote, the various investigations arising out of the 2016 election have placed a tremendous financial burden on our brother mike and fare.
penn state student at a campus fraternity house. ems responding to a 911 call from the beta theta pi just before 11:00 friday morning. 19-year-old timothy piazza found unconscious, he was rushed to the hospital, but died a day later. fraternity members told police the sophomore fell down the basement steps almost 12 hours earlier around 11:00 p.m. during a party. an autopsy today revealing multiple traumatic injuries due to a fall. alcohol in piazza s system. the coroner says the death appears accidental. i was notified by the dauphin county coroner on saturday morning that mr. piazza was pronounced dead. reporter: what s not clear is why no one called for help until the following morning. tonight, piazza s family is remembering a vibrant young man. his brother mike, writing on facebook that tim s sole mission in life was to make other people smile. penn state has suspended the fraternity, and they are saying they are cooperating with police, and they are hoping surveillance came
zimmerman s brother? yes, i am. and how many other siblings do you and she have? she has her older son robert, robert, jr., and then she has my niece grace christine. christina. do you and she have any siblings, you and gladys have any siblings? my brother mike, miguel. you re here today because i wanted to ask you if you ve ever had an opportunity to listen to a 911 call that had certain voices in the foreground and then a screaming voice in the background? yes, sir, i did. what i d like to you do if you would is to tell the jury the first time and the circumstances that you had heard that call. the exact date i don t remember. it was sometime in march of 2012. i am sitting at my computer at
might add who actually possesses any at that time event our family has. he has in the pentagon ten paintings as chairman of the air force artist guild over the years, and they are hanging in different locations in the pentagon. so, we have one brother of some acclaim. and one of us did make it, my brother mike. mike s son is sitting behind him, josh, he is one of three children that mike has. we have here also cousins, many friend, people i owe money to [laughter] and who knows who else, since i have received some publicity over the w the weeks. i want to also thank my friend sam n u.n. n an nunn and john