When and where these images were taken. Armed with the ak47 and wagging his finger at the camera, the leader of the Group Boko Haram offers an exchange, the schoolgirls for his fighters jailed in prisons around nigeria, and the interior minister says there is no negotiations. So the search continues over the vast rugged area of north nigeria. And we are also learning today in cameroon interesting information that gives you a sense of how well armed this group is. About a week after the girls were kidnapped, the military tells us that they seized a large cache of weapons in ard o bo in a bordertown of this country and we have video of it which includes in that cache, rpgs and mortars and ant antiwarfare weaponry, and it is also hoe easily they can move back and forth between the borders, and this is a regional problem. Craig . Thank you, Stephanie Gosk in cam roon, and developing back in here, an investigation is under way in West Virginia to find out what caused a mining accident that
Today the most powerful military in the world fell victim to hackers. Tonight the f. B. I. Is investigating how they broke into the twitter and youtube accounts of the u. S. Central command, the command that overseas u. S. Military operations all across the middle east, including the war against isis. The hackers claimed to be working on behalf of that terror organization, and we have more now from National Security correspondent david martin at the pentagon. Reporter the hack lasted about half an hour and no secrets were spilled. But it left the u. S. Central command with egg on its face. Its social media accounts briefly turned into propaganda platforms for the enemy. Whether by accident or design, the hack occurred just as president obama was announcing new measures to tighten cyber security. If were going to be connected, then we need to be protected. Reporter the Central Command twitter account, which has more than 100,000 followers, suddenly showed this image and warning, america
Centcom, bake sales or whatever. They do not contain any classified information whatsoever and the official record is that as far as anybody knows, there was no classified information that was compromised. In fact according to one official, this is very embarrassing. But apparently no security threat, at least for the time being as far as we know. Now centcom has taken down the site. Who knows if they will get it up any time soon but they do say that they have the situation for the time being under control, joy. Thank you very much. And joining us now is michael mcnair. Mikey, what are we talking about in terms of going after the social media accounts of Central Command. What is the message here and the purpose . I think as it was pointed out, it was embarrassing but we have to know the compromising media accounts isnt as important. They are responsible for the strategy operations of significant campaigns around the world, including afghanistan. Sow can imagine the data and the intelli
Good morning. It is thursday, august 29. Ie ie and im ayman mohyeldin. We begin with Hurricane Dorian that is now heading to the bahamas. It could grow as it moves towards florida for the labor day weekend. Lets go to janessa webb. Good morning. We are talking about a major hurricane possibly developing here. We are seeing sustained winds at 85 Miles Per Hour at a steady pace. Category one just outside of puerto rico. We have the outer bands affecting the leeward islands. This is a very important cone we are about to show you here. We do have a rapid intense indication phase. Well go from a cat 1 to a major cat 3 hurricane by friday afternoon with sustained winds of 115 Miles Per Hour. What is happening with this storm system is it is really having time to simmer. We are seeing less wind shear. A warm body of water. By saturday, 120 miles an hour, really turks and caicos possible Tropical Storm warnings going to go into place. For main land florida, the uncertainty is really large. We
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