Stops. The bad news is we have come together is that we have a shared and collected sense of outrage and disgust about what has happened. When the white house can be breached by somebody in this fashion, it raises the hackles of everybody on that committee, republicans and democrats, and i think Ranking Member cummings really set the tone when he went after director pearson about the problems with the culture at the secret service. The deeprooted and deepseated troubles they have at that agency that we have to fix. We have to fix it. Were talking by for and away the most threatened president weve ever had in our nation. We must protect him. We cant depend on him making the complaints. We here on capitol hill have to raise our voices in unison and protect our president. I think the unanimity across the aisle was actually pretty stunning and singular and i think you make a good point. Congressman, the question of whether or not the secret service is facing a budgetary issue and ms. Pears
Lets get right to the breaking news. Gun fire echoes in the halls of parliament and a National War Memorial. A soldier and gunman are now dead. Lawmakers are in lockdown. Schools and businesses have been closed in downtown ottawa until police can rule out the possibility of other assailants, all of this an hours drive from the United States where the fbi has put out its field offerses, all of them on alert. Our cresses, our analysts and newsmakers are standing by with complete coverage. Lets begin with our chief National Correspondent jim sciutto. He has the latest. Tonight Ottawa Police say there are still other suspects they are looking for and police are going door to door on Parliament Hill to make sure the area, the equivalent of the u. S. Capitol hill is safe. Heres where the shootings took place. The first one here at the cenotaph memorial. A few minutes later, about 400 yards away at the Main Parliament building here and where the shootings took place a few minutes distance and
Airwaves. Im all for party unity, but im not sure we have to pay for that with the secretary of state position. Exclusive new reporting this morning. Trump himself is furious at conway. And the long goob. Fidel castros public memorial beginning now. Thousands lining up to pay their respects. I was in shock because i really didnt expect that news. As cuba and america grapple with this question whats next . We will tick you live to havana, but were going to begin with the extraordinary developments surrounding an election recount which now seems like it will go forward in at least one state. In less than a week, Green Party Candidate jill stein raised enough money to get the wheels turning in wisconsin, and shes pushing for recounts in michigan and pennsylvania as well. Those are important states. President elect trump responded in his favorite way, with a tweet storm. Blasting stein and the Clinton Campaign, which is now backing the effort. Trump then seemed to undermine his entire case
Welcome back. Im Cynthia Mcfadden with continuing live coverage as Hurricane Irma pounds the entire state of florida. The storm is still a category 2 hurricane, even ten hours after making landfall. The National Hurricane center says the eye of the storm is nearing lakeland, east of tampa, as it continues its trek north. The word from city and state officials from those hunkered down at this hour, stay put. The situation is still highly fluid. At least report, the storm still had sustained winds of 100 Miles Per Hour, which has knocked out power for well more than 3 million customers and there is flooding from coast to coast as heavy rains and storm surge push water into florida cities. The river right now is going that way toward the gulf. What it should be doing is going in the opposite direct. Were getting serious winds. I want to show you this enormous tree that has just been uproot in the past couple of hours. And weve just gotten this video taken by a drone in naples, florida. Th
Hospital. Just one hospital there. And witnesses who have spoken to cnn partner ctv described seeing people on the ground and victims in body bags. They also described horror at the height of the day. In the middle of the intersection and the van went right into them and plowed right into them. He drove down further and went on to the sidewalk by the next building and he hit more people there. And just kept going. Were told that he may have driven along the sidewalk for half a mile, perhaps a mile. This is believed to be the van involved. A white ryder rental van in a busy part of toronto. Ill play another video now. What you are going to see here shows a standoff very near the scene of this with an individual pointing an object at police and this happened moments after the van plowed into the pedestrians. [ sirens ] get down. Get down. Get down. Get down. To be clear, police have not yet confirmed that is suspect. But youll note he is standing next to the van we showed you earlier whi