thick the smoke was. i have never seen anything get as smokey as that before. it was so smokey. i m in the front of the car. i couldn t see the half way down. i couldn t make out who was coming out of the smoke or make out anything. i just heard sound like one of my senses was completely turned off. you koent see anything. it was hard to breathe. it was hard to listen ii cues as to what s happening because people are screaming while the smoke is going off and gunshots are going off. it was chaos. this was a workday for you. it is a workday. after this happened, the trauma that you experienced in the morning, you went on to work. how have these last several hours been for you as you started to process this? i mean, i work at two jobs. and at my other job that i work
we begin with the latest on an in-flight scare that forced a u.s. jet to make emergency landing by fighter jet. it raises fresh concerns for security for airliners headed to the states from africa and europe. u.s. airways flight 787 from paris to charlotte diverted to bangor s maine after a passenger s note warned she had a surgically implanted device. the plane with 188 people on board landed safely and the woman else courted off in handcuffs. officials determined she didn t have a device after all but that leaves plenty of questions. fran townsend is with us, a member of the external advisory committee for the cia and department of homeland security. fran, this is something people have been worried about, somebody with an implant device, perhaps a bomb. we saw an aggressive response because what we ve heard for months from intelligence and law enforcement sources that they re really worried about this because they heard this threat stream. this goes back to yemen, the al
we see any clear skies here. anderson. that s it for us on 360 . more hurricane coverage next. hi there. good morning, everybody, from the cnn center. this is your cnn start morning. coming to you an hour earlier today to cover this storm, hurricane irene that is actually putting about 20% of this country s population under threat of this storm. we re talking about 65 million people are in the path of this sucker. you see the line there. that s the cone of uncertainty they call it. but still they believe this is the path it s going to take, right up the east coast. and we re talking about some of this country s largest cities, most populus cities. these are cities that not often are tested for their hurricane preparedness. well, they will get a i test it appears here today and tomorrow through this weekend. we re talking about new york, washington, baltimore, boston, philly. all of those cities, just to name a few, all in the line of fire of this irene. it is tracking on
spread to half of the country. it s been linked to ground turkey. what you need to know about this recallo keep your family safe. i m ashe velshi. burning up another day of searing heat. it s already proving deadly on this american morning. good morning to you. are you awake yet? you will be. happy thursday. it s august 4th. this is american morning. there s a lot going on today. we should get right to it. i want to talk first about the heat. heat is on congress to finish their business as we ve been reporting. they ve left washington without resolving a dispute over funding the federal aviation administration. that s resulted in tens of thousands of american workers not getting a paycheck today. on last night s in the arena with tom foreman, one worker voiced his frustration. running ourselves into debt, selling assets. unlike our congressmen and senators who are on vacation. nice congressional junket. i m sitting here watching the grass grow. watching