back with the national urban league president and the president and ceo of the naacp. we re getting new information from our national correspondent jason carroll. he is on the ground in ferguson. what are you learning? reporter: wolf, we told you about the three people brought in for questioning with regards to the shooting out here and released. we told you that i had an opportunity to speak with the three of them. one of them tells me that she was woken up in the middle of the night, ordered oust eded out of bed, out of the house, and found herself begging police not to shoot. i want you to listen to just a brief clip of the interview we conducted with her. i opened the door. the door is open it s open it s open. i opened the door. i look at my i have my hands up start crying done shoot me. i surrendered, don t shoot me. he said come out. i said are you going to shoot me? i said, no. i stood there crying. i said, he s going to shoot me. he walked in front of me.
of people both here in the st. louis region and even beyond across the country who have been protesting the last few months. are you among those who suspect outside agitators, some professional hit man, in effect with an expert marksman coming in and shooting these police officers? i don t know. i wouldn t try to guess. i will leave it up to the police to do their work and hopefully they will apprehend this person very soon. fair enough. let me bring back jeff roorda for a moment. we are just getting this tweet from the st. louis county police associate president, gabe crocker, who is expressing fear that yes, the two officers are out of the hospital one of them a good friend of yours but there will be fallout, he fears, from the injuries. they may never work again. how concerned should we be these two police officers they may be done being police officers given the nature of the injuries? well not only the physical part of the injuries but just being mentally prepared to
ally do you want the ferguson police department disbanded? absolutely. with that we also want the resignation of the mayor in ferguson and we need to look at what happened in august and september with the national guard coming into the city and citizens with tear gas and being shot at and people who made those decisions to be held accountable. thank you so much. that s it for the lead. i m jake tapper live from ferguson missouri. i hand it over to wolf blitzer in the situation room. happening now, manhunt. police frantically searching for the shooter who wounded two police officers overnight in ferguson. was the long range ambush carried out by a pro? losing the street as tensions rise in ferguson will fresh protests erupt tonight? can police still control the situation? plus drunk service? two senior secret service agents suspected of being intoxicated crash into a white house barrier. it s the latest in a series of scandals. can the secret service still manage to protec
them go home that s just as bad. reporter: it was a long ugly string of embarrassments in the secret service. the cartajena prostitution scandal. officers drunk and sent home, one passed out in a hotel hallway in amsterdam. the fence jumper that got inside the white house in september that lost the director her job. long time secret service agent joe clancy was just named permanently to that position less than a month ago but it raised questions as to why an outsider wasn t brought in especially since one of the deep-rooted problems identified within the service was that officers didn t trust and respect their supervisors. today the white house is saying that the president is yes, disappointed about this but that he still has confidence in the new secret service director. an administration official told me that even the white house doesn t fully know what all happened that night. they want to find out what happened as this investigation is handled by the department of homeland securi
[horns blowing] acknowledgment nine months ago would have kept that from happening. [bleep] okay. that was just gunfire and now cops have guns drawn. on the hill up there. now, the shots rang out as demonstrators are protesting against the ferguson police department. just hours before the protest the town s police chief resigned after a scathing justice department report found widespread racial bias in his police department. and right now the search though is on for the gunman or gunmen who shot the officers. attorney general eric holder and the st. louis county police chief both calling the shooting an ambush. what happened last night was a pure ambush. this was not someone trying to bring healing to ferguson. this was a damn punk. punk who was trying to sow discord in an cherry trying to bring together a community that s been fractured for too long. this is really an ambush is what it is. you can t see it coming. you don t understand it s going to happen. you are de