calling our desert an active drug and new smuggling area, these signs warning people of danger and telling them to stay away. does this look safe to you? martha: wowvment also, this morning, confirmation hearings set to get underway for general david petraeus. busy day on capitol hill this morning. he will try to convince a war weary congress that he has a plan to turn around the war in afghanistan. we ll be all ears on that. bill: breaking news, two spies among us, secret agents busted by the feds, five different cities, now new reports a canadian has been arrested overseas, wanted in the u.s. on espionage charges. the big question, was there a breach to our national security? david lee miller live in new york city, how wide of the infiltration, david lee? good morning. reporter: good morning, bill. the infiltration appears to be bide with you it was not very deep. one of the key things here is there was never actually an espionage charge in this criminal complaint. we ll
you know what else this fake cop did? he called for real backup. we ll explain that story in just a bit. let me give you a look at some of the stories making headlines. first, a horrific story. the democratic republic of congo this morning, at least 230 people are dead after an oil tanker flipped over and exploded. again, this is the drc in central africa. now, officials believe what happened here, it exploded because of a lit cigarette. it may have started this whole thing because after the oil tanker wrecked, many people then began to gather around it to try and recover some of the spilled oil and somebody they believe had a cigarette and set off this explosion. congolese police say they expect the number to go up. we ll keep an eye on what s happening there. also in tampa a man hunt for the suspect in the fatal shootings of two police officers. the search is now over. 24-year-old dante morris now in custody. you see him there.
morris is suspected of killing two officers during a traffic stop early on tuesday morning. both officers being laid to rest a little later today. also in colombia police there say eight people are dead after a shooting at a night spot early yesterday. one of the dead identified as a man with dual u.s. and colombian citizenship. police say they believe the shooting was drug related. they are looking for two gunmen. we ll turn to afghanistan now where there is a new man on the job. that new man david petraeus just approved by the senate this week already in afghanistan and on the job replacing general stanley mcchrystal who was in charge but resigned last week in the wake of the whole magazine article flip. we go to kabul. hello to you once again. the general is on the job now, back in afghanistan, so what is his message? i know he s meeting with some of the troops on this 4th of july weekend. what message is he bringing on his first couple of days back on