and she s on that team so she s a member, she helped form the team, she contacted several of her colleagues on that team. we don t know what she told them. we don t know what triggered her to call them. on the 10th of june he dropped out of school. they then thought, the team thought, we re told by our sources, the team thought they had no jurisdiction, they had no control over them so there was nothing they could do. we have been told no one contacted the aurora police department with any of these concerns. so moving forward from that time line. about six weeks later 12 people were gunned down at the aurora cineplex. a lot of people asking what they knew and whether they were legally obligated to call police with their concerns. in the next hour of early start we ll explore that very question with noted criminal defense attorney joey jackson. sources tell cnn president obama has signed a covert order authorizing u.s. support for syria s opposition forces. this secret d
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inconvened, thinking they had no control over holmes once he left. i think that s a signal that you should intensify your efforts, not walk away. under those circumstances, most well-trained threat assessment teams would have gone into action. reporter: but listen to what the university s chancellor claimed early last week. to the best of to this point, we did everything that we think we should have done. reporter: words under fire now, as those close to the victims now ask, could this all have been prevented? mark greenblatt, abc news, denver. we ll have more on this developing story, coming up later today on good morning america. politics, now. your voice, your vote. and with little more than three weeks until the republican convention, mitt romney is close to answering the big question. who will be his running mate? abc s tahman bradley is in washington with the latest. good morning, tahman. reporter: good morning, sunny. the anticipation is building. wit
first look at the forecast. good morning to you. good morning, eun, good morning, aaron. we re starting off this morning, especially in the rural areas, watch out for rather thick fog, especially near any open fields, but otherwise, near the city don t have any fog around. this is what s been happening over the last several hours. those storms we had yesterday long gone, and now we ve got weak high pressure over the region, getting us this clear sky and a gorgeous morning under way. as we look at temperatures, right now it is in the upper 60s many of the rural areas of maryland and virginia where they are getting some fog, as well as the shenandoah valley, around the mountains. right around washington, low to mid-70s, in the nearby suburbs, arlington, fairfax, prince george s, montgomery counties, near the chesapeake bay, tidal potomac and virginia tidewater, low 70s. atlantic beaches, cool, in the 60s there. here s the day planner for this thursday, 2nd of august, patchy
good morning, everybody. i m rob nelson. and i m sunny hostin, in for paula faris. well, it is nearly two weeks, now, since the colorado shooting left 12 dead. and now, there are questions whether warning signs about suspected gunman, james holmes, were ignored. here s abc s mark greenblatt with our exclusive reporting. reporter: abc news has learned that psychiatrist dr. lynne fennton, was a key member of the threat assessment team. these documents that abc uncovered show that fennton wrote the policy on threat assessment. what s more, that by early june, fenton notified other members of the team about concerns about holmes behavior. but on june 10th, three days after holmes bought an assault weapon, he told the university he was quitting. so, the assessment team never had a formal meeting and never inconvened, thinking they had no control over holmes once he left. i think that s a signal that you should intensify your efforts, not walk away. under those circumstanc