President obama set to nominate the former Procter Gamble ceo tomorrow as Veterans Affairs secretary. The Va Department is reeling from a huge scandal over mismanaged and sometimes deadly wait times for veterans seeking medical help. Mcdonald graduated from west point in the top 2 of his class. Her isser offed five years as a u. S. Army captain. Question number two could the grieving mother of a toddler left in a hot car face charges as well . Lee anna harris defended her jailed husband at yesterdays funeral for for their 22monthold son. The little boy died after his father left him in a sweltering car for seven hours. Both the mother and father have told police they did internet searches on child death in hot cars. The father has pleaded not guilty to felony murder and seconddegree Child Cruelty charges. Question number three, what is a cal fate and why are we using that word when talking about the crisis in iraq in the Extremist Group rampaging all over iraq, taking control of cities
Get under way in this courtroom for a georgia father charged with murder and Child Cruelty after his son was left in his suv on a 92degree day. And right now, the closing bell has just rung ending a short but historic day at the New York Stock Exchange. The dow passing the 17,000 mark for the very first time. Hello, im jim sciutto reporting again today from washington. Wolf blitzer is off today. The first hurricane of the atlantic season is gaining strength and speed as it barrels up the east coast on the busiest Holiday Travel week of the summer. Right now, hurricane arthur is churning off the coast of South Carolina. It is a category one storm with 90 mile an hour winds but forecasters expect arthur will become a cat 2 with 105 mile an hour winds before making landfall on North Carolinas outer banks. Thats expected to happen overnight. Dangerous conditions are possible along much of the east coast now just as millions of people hit the roads and airports for the july 4 weekend myself
Myers, of course in the cnn Severe Weather center. Well get the latest from all of them as the storm barrels north but of course, brooke. The other big story tonight, tapper, that staggering, staggering story. The details from the courtroom in georgia during the hearing. This is a probable cause hearing for the father. Here he is, the father of this 22 month old toddler cooper died a couple weeks ago in the sweltering hot suv in a hot georgia summer day. The father is Justin Ross Harris. Judge denied bond today and ruled he will indeed stand trial on felony murder charges for leaving his 22 month old in that car, 90 something degree day in georgia in june. This lead Police Detective testified today that harris seated here in that orange jump suit was sexting with several women, one of whom was 17 years of age and not only that, by the way, this father was sending nude photos of himself to these women the day his son died. Also, we learned today that there is not just one but two Life I
The latest, a barrage of rocket who huge planes that seat more than 400 people almost fire from gaza into israel. Collided. This time it was actually dozens of rockets fired in just captured on video. We will show it to you now. One hour. 85 total fired by hamas today this is what youre looking at. Plane headed for a barcelona along. The military wing of that group runway. Confirms they fired those rockets. Now israel has given this operation an official name. Operation protective edge. Had to abort. Its now under way tonight. Hanging there as it today gain earlier five hamas members altitude again. That would have been a horrific killed by israeli airstrikes in collision. We will just watch it again. Gaza. This is the latest in an you can hear the engine escalating back and forth between israelis and screaming there as it tries to palestinians following the killings of teenagers on both get that altitude. This is just one of several close calls in just the past few sides. And the beat
Survived and have terrible scars to remind them. We begin with breaking news. A cnn exclusive, the possibility of acts of terrorism committed by americans against americans who went overseas to wage the holey war. Eric holder spoke broadly talking about that florida man that blew himself up in syria. This is a very real thing. Last month or so the First American engaged became a suicide bomber. So this is not a though rs nois, its very real. We wanted to know the basis and Barbara Starr began investigating and what she uncovered could be trouble. Listen. Reporter u. S. Intelligence and law enforce the agencies have dozens of investigations underway tracking americans who travel to syria to join the fight worried they would attack the u. S. Now that they are back home or trying to get back hole. The fbi, members of the Intelligence Community made this a top priority and taking whatever steps they can under the law to monitor and prevent. The government has begun an intense effort and al