Resignation telling Bloomberg News in part, quote, i think its in the best interest of the secret service and the American Public if i step down. Congress has lost confidence in my ability to run the agency. The media has made it clear that this is what they expected. Officials say president obama lost faith after learning he shared an elevator last month at the cdc with an armed man with a criminal record. Pearson only told president obama moments before it was actually reported. I can tell you that the white house first learned of that incident yesterday afternoon shortly before it was publicry reported by a news organization. She did not tell him about that, or the agency did not tell the white house about that. You didnt know about it until yesterday. Until shortly before it was report publicly. Over the last several days weve seen recent reports raising questions about the performance of the agency. The president concluded that new leadership of that agency was required. Lets get
Julia pierson, when a guy with a gun got on the same elevator with the commander in chief. Why did he find out about that event just minutes before you and i did . Good afternoon, everyone. Questions about how much the medical community is on the case as they race to contain ebola in the United States after the first diagnosis on u. S. Soil . How much is it after the hospital sends home the Liberian National and did not send anyone to dispose of his sheets and towels where he laid sick for days . They didnt send anyone until today after cnn began broadcasting his girlfriends concerns that the sheets were still on her bed. Race . Is that the right word . Authorities are getting in touch with about 100 people who might have had contact with duncan and monitoring a dozen of them, including five school kids from four different schools and heres how some parents in texas found out. Five students may have came in contact with an individual who has been diagnosed with the ebola virus. A roboc
We just dont know. This much we do. Those are the ones we know of. Dr. Jorge rodriguez saw all of this coming. He joins us right now. I wrote a blog that said its not a matter, but when. This study stated with the amount of air traffic, theres an 18 up from 5 , theres an 18 that within the month of september somebody unknown to us will come to this country with ebola. Doctor, you are eyly on top of that. What do you fear now, doctor . Well, neil, what i fear now is what you stated. We dont know exactly who came into contact with this man and whether he was contagious when he flew. I mean, the dogma is that someone is ebola is not contagious until he has symptoms. My concern is the few days before they had the fullblown symptoms. I mean, you know, im sorry to have been actually correct about this. We cant just stop people from coming in from one country or another. This man stopped in belgium, then came over here. What we need to do is that 9 cdc needs to start having policies in place
Cornell. Court documents state he wanted to plant pipe bombs around the capitol and shoot officials who tried running away. Investigators say he came to their attention last august when he used an alias to post proisis messages to twitter. Court documents also say he discussed his plans with a man that he thought was sympathetic. The man was actually working under cover for the fbi. Officials say cornell was arrested after he bought two semiautomatic rifles and about 600 rounds of ammunition at a gun range. The fbi says the public was never in any danger. Cornells father says his son did recently convert to islam but cant believe what hes being accused of. People that really know chris, they know hes a good guy. Like i said you know i was completely blindsided by this. This came as a complete surprise. Chris is he never leaves the house. Hes a mommys boy. He never showed any signs of any kind of violence or anything. Quiet, shy, good kid. So this comes just one day after another man in
Ramos wake will be held there one hour from now. A Memorial Service is planned for tonight with a funeral to be held tomorrow. Funeral services for officer liu are still being worked out. Liu just got married two months ago. This morning, his widow wept as a Nonprofit Foundation announced that it will assume mortgage payments payments of the homes of officer ramos and liu. Ismaaiyl brinsley posted threats on social media before he committed the crime. Miguel marquez is joining us live outside of the church where officer ramos service will be held. Miguel, set the scene there for us. It must be very emotional. Reporter it is. It is always hard to watch grown men cry, to watch Police Officers show such emotion. Its really, really tough to see that casket come in earlier, to see the seriousness with which they take this is amazing. Already, hundreds of officers from the 84th precinct where ramos and liu worked and ceremonial officers from nypd have arrived and for hours now, were still an