east. mohammad morsi promising a new egypt as he took the oath of office today, but the incoming president also making a very troubling pledge vowing to work, terrorists imprisoned in the u.s. for a plot to blow up land marks, also serving the spiritual advisor for a terrorist convicted in the entity 3 world trade center bombing. joining me is senior advisor christian whitten. good to see you. look, rachman is convicted terrorist to be sure but i don t think a lot of people realize, his fattah was cited by osama bin laden as religious authority and justification for the 9/11 attacks. so when the new president of egypt uses his very first speech
mobilize today help restore power but consider the defendant of that. they have to be equipped and caravan is probably at least two day drive before they can even begin to get underway with the repair work. let me describe the scene. i ve been a lifelong resident of this part of the country. the storm came through for the first time in my life, i actually summoned the family down to the basement. i thought a tornado was just around the bend. got up this morning, to find power lines down, trees down everywhere. traffic lights not working, gas stations unable to pump gas. most shopping centers are closed and ones that are open or the major grocery store chains that have generators. starbucks kiosk in a grocery store had a line of about 200 people long. the wssc, sanitary commission that provides water has issued water restrictions here. people are not allowed to water their lawns, wash their cars, excess washing. they are fearful they will have to issue a boiled water alert bec
situation for firefighters and nearly everyone else in the city. check out the scene in ft. wayne indiana, folks there still under a severe thunderstorm warning. things not much better in parts of ohio. damage so bad. several motorists had to be rescued from live power lines. doug mckelway is live in springfield, virginia with more. reporter: this is the location where last night a man died. it s across the street in springfield, virginia. a man was driving down this road. a tree came tumbling down across the road drag go high tension power lines. it was several hours before authorities were able to extract his body from the car. just up the street a 90-year-old woman asleep in her bed had a tree crashed through the house crushed her to death. the governor of virginia, bob mcdonald has declared a state of emergency. he calls it the worst non-hurricane damage in the state s history. as many as three million people in the mid-atlantic states without power at a time when the t
upcoming primary. heather: thank you very much, casey stegall, reporting live. we re going to talk about the implications of this race with our political panel coming up later in the next hour. gregg: the united nations security council is taking a new stand on the crisis in syria today. approving a plan to the same time 300 unarmed military observers to monitor the fragile cease-fire. calling on the syrian government to halted the fighting before the new monitors arrive. they are satisfying there is continued attacks despite the 9,000 killed, is it time for military intervention in syria. christian whitten joins us. what would sending 300 observers into syria really accomplish? it would accomplish next to nothing. two things, two words that you
chuck grappling calling to expand the investigation to see if any involvement may have occurred with white house staff. specifically senator grassley wants to find out if anyone from the communication agency had any overnight guests that their hotel room or shared rooms at the hotel or other hotels in colombia. grassley wants to know, who would be reviewing these hotel records to ensure that sensitive information was not compromised by overnight guests. white house has said a couple times this week so far none of the people on the ground has been caught up in this scandal. i have no reason to believe. i do not know, otherwise, that this did not anything involve the agents and military personnel. we are in regular conversation with senator members of the white house staff and conversation with secret service getting briefed on the progress of their investigation. reporter: for the first time since the scandal broke, secret service director mark sullivan briefed president