Unrest in ferguson and the scrutiny cops face contributed at all to this terrifying Tipping Point . Plus Airport Security under fire. A government watchdog finding fake bombs that got through security checkpoints a whopping 95 of the time. 95 . A new and tearing report that suggests tsa officers might not be able to catch a cold let alone a terrorist. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com good afternoon everyone. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. The First Time Since america woke up to the new norming, the u. S. Government no longer that the power to hoover up information about every single phone call every Single Person in america makes. 7 44 p. M. Eastern time last night the National Security agency officially shut down its phone mehta datet metadata program. They cant capture things like the phone number of every call you make the time and duration of those calls, where you are or where the person youre calling it is at the time of the conversation or the device used to make the call
Speaker. Russian aggression. International monitors warn the situation in ukraine is getting worse by the day. Is russias president putin about to launch a new invasion . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. U. S. Investigators are blaming china for a cyber attack which may be unparalleled in its scale and audacity. Millions of americans including current and former government workers are the victims. Personal information and security records have been jeopardized in a data breach which cuts across almost every federal agency and the Chinese Military is suspected of building a massive database on americans. What will the chinese do with all this information . Ill speak live with senator james rich. Hes a member of the intelligence and Foreign Relations committees and our correspondents and analysts and guests are standing by with full coverage. Lets begin with jim sciutto with the very latest. Reporter this breach unprecedented both in scope and target. 4 million federal emplo
Transparency. What were working to establish as a communities, as we do with Police Community relationship and how we deal with the incidents is when it happens that quickly the next day immediately were together were talking, were finding out what happened, they were communicating with the president , with our constituencies and each other. [ inaudible ]. What was can you lay out the exact sequence of the events . Where does it start . What well, im going defer to the police on the exact sequence of the events. I can talk about what i saw and my reaction to it. Ill let them talk about did you see the Police Approach . Did you see him pull a knife . Well let them [ inaudible ] well get back you to okay . Well get back to you. Commissioner the question was raised by one of the media corps that they want to get a sense of and the special agent, the question was really particularly what was the sequence of events of what we saw in the video . That was the question on the table. I can talk
And more great Andrea Mitchell. And more details emerging in the alleged plot against Boston Police. Right now the fbi and Rhode Island State Police are on the scene at a home in the city of warwick. The fbi confirms with nbc news that this is a courtauthorized activity currently underway. Late yesterday, police and federal agents arrested another man related to the possible isisinspired plot. This came just hours after usaama rahim was shot and killed by police. And fbi agents as they sought to question him. Officers said they opened fire after approaching rahim, and they lunged at him with a knife. Well bring you more. Nbc justice correspondent Pete Williams joins me from boston with the latest. I think well g go to rhode island. What can you provide on activity, is it perhaps related to this incident . Reporter thats our understanding. Theyve been doing this since yesterday. Its a search. So far no arrests. The arrest was outside of boston in everett, massachusetts. David wright wil
The metal wall of their cell, and no guard heard that . Its the first escape ever from the maximum security portion of that prison since it was built in 1865. Brian yen is is live in new york city. Hi brian. And like you said no one has ever. Sin it was, and police say the convicted murderer is 48 years old richard matt and 38yearold david pulled off a sophisticated plan. On saturday during a morning check, guards found the men missing, their beds with clothes to appear as though they were sleeping. They used then they used the power tool cut through a steel plate 2 feet thick in the back of their cell. They walked onto a sixstoryhigh catwalk, cutting their way through the pipes and tunnels eventually escape out of a manhope cover blocks away. The two men left a note and that Governor Cuomo saying they do not believe that someone helped them open that manhole from the outside. You couldnt go from to the street level through the manhole, but we are carefully retraced the steps literally