Oklahoma city. 30yearold alton nolen, according to witnesses and detectives, earlier in the day has been fired where he worked as a production line employee. After he was fired he went to his car, drove to the parking lot, rammed into another car and walked into the office, attacked two women randomly and attacked with a stan ard issued knife used at the facility. He cut his first victims head off. As he was stabbing his second victim, the companys coo, mark vaughan pulled out his Service Weapon and you can hear him shooting and injuring the suspect at the end of the call. We dont know where the person went. He went through our front office, stabbed a woman in our Customer Service department. Can you hear this in the background . Is that him . Hes back . Yeah. It sounds like hes running around out here. And thats a gunshot. Got a gun shot. The fbi is looking into reports that nolen not only tried to convert people at his work to islam but also witnesses say he was shouting islamic phra
And reach a definition, were not going to devote the necessary resources to counter radicalization in this country. Ryan has more from our new york city newsroom. Start with this. Police have been looking into this for the past 24 hours or so. Have they found any link to terrorism yet . They have not actually. The fbi is investigating the motive specifically because they say that alton had been trying to convert his coworkers to islam. He was a recent convert. Nolan just fired from the vaughn Foods Processing plant when he drove to the business, walked in holding a knife and stabbed and beheaded colleen hoffert, as he grabbed tracy johnson, company ceo and off duty reserve deputy shot him, gunshots captured in the 911 call as the dispatcher told the caller to lock everyone behind doors. Were trying. Can you hear this in the background . Is that him . Hes back . Yeah, sounds like hes running around out here. And that is a gunshot. Johnson is in stable condition in the oklahoma sheriff s
Its time the folks in charge of looking after us regroup and maybe rethink their priority, and commander, right now you say Climate Change, aint one of them. Right . Well, neil, keep your eye on the ball when you have a threat to the United States that the administration has even said. Right now the department of Homeland Security, lets look at what their missions are. Prevent terrorism, security our borders, enforce immigration laws, secure cyberspace, and prepare for natural disasters. When they cant even follow up on two of their five missions and want to take preparing for natural disasters and claim its caused by Climate Change, thats nothing more than a classic washington power play to try and increase the budget, increase government, and start some guy at a desk in washington dictating to local communities how to build infrastructure in case that tornado or hurricane or earthquake occurs. Ed focus on what is important. Im sorry, commander. A share the frustration. People are big
Interview with cbs he did admit that intelligence officials underestimated isis and overestimated iraqis military. The president pointing to a Coalition Air strikes hitting the group for weeks, recently expanding into syria. Also mentioning recent congressional approval to train syrian rebel groups. Part of the solution here is going to be military. We just have to push them back and shrink their space and go after their command and control and their capacity and their weapons and their fueling and cut off their financing and work to eliminate the flow of foreign fighters. But what we also have to do is we have to come up with Political Solutions in iraq and syria. You heard him there, the president also reiterating that lasting peace can only be obtained through Political Solutions. Elizabeth, of course the question now is what are lawmakers saying about the administrations strategy . Right, well some are saying thats just not enough. Theres a growing group who are dissatisfied with t
Reason that we did not have a follow on force in iraq was because the iraqis were a majority of iraqis did not want u. S. Troops there. And politically they could not pass the kind of laws that would be required to protect our troops in iraq. But secretary panetta who served as both secretary of defense and cia director under president obama says the pentagon and the state department both wanted a residual force, but the president did not. He writes in his new book, worthy fights that as he and others were objecting to the complete withdrawal of the troops the president s team at the white house pushed back. And the difference is occasionally became heated. And those on our side viewed the white house as so eager to rid itself of iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests. Earlier tonight i spoke with jen paski, spokeswoman for the state department. Thank you very much for being here. We appreciate it. So your r