National headlines, their story of robbery, ransom. The young woman kidnapped and attacked. Police said it was all a hoax but it wasnt. Tonight, their first interview. What do the police say now . Good evening. And its great to have you with us to start another week here. And well have the track of that storm in just a moment. But first, the hunt for a suspected serial bomber tonight, striking fear yet again in austin. This time, Authorities Say with a trip wire bomb, the fourth bomb to go off. The first bomb, in a package left at a home. The following week, two more packages on the same day, both exploding. And this newest bomb with that trip wire on a Darkened Street overnight. The neighborhood on lockdown for most of this day. And tonight, the audio of this newest bomb going off just out. Abcs marcus moore leading us off from austin tonight. Reporter tonight, more than 500 agents flooding austin, texas. A massive manhunt intensifying. School buses kept away. This bomb went off hours
To fund the government, which by the way, in the space of a few days he endorsed and threatened to votto and didnt veto in the end, the president was asked three questions. Two about the bill which he answered and one he did not. Thank you all very much. Lying about the affairs . Well, on the way out to marine one, the same story. Mr. President , is Karen Mcdougal telling the truth . Any comment on mrs. Mcdougal. Will you watch 60 minutes on sunday . Will you watch 60 minutes mr. President . Well, the president also ignored questions at Joint Base Andrews Taking The Long Way to avoid members of the press. This is a president who, as you know, doesnt shy away from speaking his mind about even the most serious allegations against him, including allegations of sexual misconduct. He is, however, silent about the alleged relationship karen
of mind with everything else. And you know, deep inside, i did have a lot of guilt, but i still continued. You believe, though, that he had real feelings
Wondering what is going on. Have they found this suspect yet . This is a fast moving investigation and they do have strong leads into whats not just the suspicious packet sent to that one base, suspicious packages sent to six different locations around d. C. Over the last 24 hours. All of them with Locations National security implications. All of these packages intercepted that facilities designed for this purpose, keep packages away from sense tifr sites like the white house. All of these packages were rendered safe, made sure they couldnt be harmful. All of them had thing in them that look like bomb components. We do no one lead that has been set aside, Law Enforcement Officials Say they dont think this has anything to do with the situation in austin over the the last couple of weeks. The investigation is continuing as we speak. Law enforcement officials are telling our clearlies Pete Williams that they do have strong leads at this point. We hope to know more soon. Well bring it back
Now lets stop right there. There is a lot going on. But theres a reason this is our top story, because it is the biggest story in the country right now. Youre witnessing a20year fbi veteran, a registered republican who rose to the very top of that agency, acting fbi director, and he is saying under his own name on the record, not a leak, that he was fired by the Trump Administration, not over his conduct, which would be fine. But hes saying it was over his role in an open criminal probe into your white house. Its a big deal. Now Jeff Sessions, i should mention, didnt take this whole action in the daylight. Literally. Youre looking at the file footage we have of what it looked like at the white house friday night. That was the time when Jeff Sessions announced this firing, when most federal employees were home for the week. When most reporters were gone. Now cable news does run pretty late, but honestly, most of us were out of the office by then. Eventually wei eventually we do go home.
But christopher wylie, the former ukbased Cambridge Analytica employeeturned whistleblower said that the core of the companys activities was the access facebook provided. So we went from no data to, you know, harvesting all of this this data off of facebook and then combining it with all this you know, the consumer data sets and voter data sets. So, you know, we had sort of a steve bannon and a billionaire breathing down our necks going, wheres the data . Wheres the algorithms . Wheres our information weapons . And thats where kogan came along, alexander kogan, the professor at cambridge. Alexander kogan is the Cambridge University researcher who in 2014 developed an app, a facebook Personality Test called, this is your digital life. 270,000 people voluntarily took the Personality Test. But what no one who took the test knew is that kogans app opened the door to all their personal information and to all of those voluntary facebook responders friends and their friends and so on. Tens of