Bin laden is long gone, and today the head of the f. B. I. Said that when it comes to threats to america, al qaeda has been surpassed by another terror group, isis. Heres chip reid. Isil is not your parents al qaeda. Reporter f. B. I. Director james comey told the Aspen Security Forum that the reason isis, also called isil, has surpassed al qaeda as a danger to the u. S. , is because it has mastered twitter and other social media. With al qaeda if you wanted to consume their propaganda, you had to go find it somewhere on the web. Reporter but with isis. If you want to talk the a terrorist, theyre right there on twitter direct messaging to communicate with. Reporter elliot zweig is with the middle east Media Research institute. The way that isis does it is it puts out a message among several accounts, but that message is then picked up and distributed and redistributed and reredistributed. In the way of crowd source, it sees thousands and tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands in a
Historic building out. The tenant made it, laura calls it surreal. I was yelling to get her out. I dont think that she realized how serious it was. Reporter too close for comfort. Reporter the National Parks spokesman dennis frye thankful that the historic area where john brown was hung after leading a slave rebellion that lead up to the civil war was untouched. Residence crediting local volunteers and firefighters from surrounding states for saving the town and the national park. As bad as this is, we could have lost the entire town. Reporter but the Business Owners like cindy dunn are in shock. Lost with a lost was a pub, an ice cream shop, and a shopping store. No one was injured here. In Harpers Ferry scott broom wusa9. Fire investigators have not added up the Property Damage just yet. Theyre still trying to figure out what caused the fire. A witness to one of three alexandria murders engaged in some emotional testimony today in the case against charles severance. Severance facing
T in a movienr theater last nightn lafayette, louisiana. He killed two young women and wounded nine others for no apparent reason. The gunman had anr history of mental illness. Omar villafranca begins our coverage from lafayette. Tense moments outside the grand 16 theater. Inside, people scrambled to escape the rampage. A crowd of people were trying to get out. Reporter Lucas Knepper was sitting in the secondtolast row of the ambassador screening room, six to eight inches away from thenit shooter. Did he sayni anything . Nothing at all. He just stood up and was shooting, blank stare. Not at anyone in particular just the crowd. Reporter as trainwreck played on the screen police say 59yearold john houser Fire Department twice hitting two people directly in front of him and randomly at least tenni more times. You could see theni reflecting from the movie and the flash coming from the chamber. It was awful. Reporter two teachers are credited for saving lives, onexd shot in the leg pulled a
Passengers alex murk of potomac and calvin lee of rockville. A 17yearold front seat passenger survived. 18yearold sam ellis of North Potomac was behind the wheel, but he has not been charged. Routinely these investigations where there is a death invo days. Reporter this is a community that has lawyered up and shut down according to multiple sources. Police are convinced teenagers and parents with information about the party preceding the crash have not yet come forward to investigators. They need more people from the community who may have seen something but even if they didnt see something might know something. Reporter social media including snapchat, instagram and twitter may provide critical clues. Using Snapchat Sam Ellis shared video from inside the party and alex murk shared video from inside ellis car just minutes before all four lives would be changed forever. In North Potomac andrea mccarren, wusa9. Sam ellis lawyer says his client is devastated by the loss of his friends and
This meeting, they had some questions, they s ad concerned. Over veral different things. One of the j f big onc had the evacuations were out of town. But that his parents lived lived in a trailer on his property. And they were not property properly notified. He came out today to. ep t the app that they were talking about on my smart kc the notification ;d and then ill go and talk to Solano County and leeop porter so good information. here. I can tell you that just because the fire has died down, crews will ;rnn still aqnnbvbe out here for several days. Making sure that the fire line they created holds and making sure that no more hot spots flare up anywhere. The exact cause og ally some . F for mjp i can tell you qnp relief that ter next time. They were two fires in the area. There was one last year in the area. So people here getting really used to fires. And theyre just trying to take as much knowledge as they can out of this time and incorporate it into one. Thank you. Scott rates r