All the big moments and the networks new mission. Welcome back to early start. Im dave briggs. Im christine romans. It is tuesday, august 21st. 5 00 a. M. In the east. Lets start with the latest. Conservative think tanks in the u. S. Senate. United States Senate the latest targets of hackers linked to military intelligence. Microsoft stopped the attack last week. The company took control of six web sites operated by the same group behind the 2016 dnc hack. Lets bring in fred pleitgen. Reporter the organization that were talking about, the Hacking Group, called fancy bear. That is the group that hacked into the dnc and Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016. U. S. Intelligence highly likely believes this group is linked and possibly directed by Russian Military intelligence known as the gru. As far as the organizations and groups targeted by the attack, apparently, parts of the senate and then two think tanks. Hudson institute and International Republican institute. Both critical of President
the main threats. pittsburgh, jamestown and roanoke could be in store for strong storms for tuesday. this morning, thunderstorm activity with 1,200 lightning strikes across this area in the country. we have flooding rains in the forecast as we go in toward philly and evening hours. the cooling trend is there. cooler temperatures thursday and friday and saturday. the forecast for areas around chicago is 78 today. in thanks for that. while you re sleeping pop culture and politics collide at the mtv video music award. top prize of the year going to ka mill low for havana. cardi-b got best new artist. jennifer lopez paid this beautiful tribute to her boyfriend, former yankee, alex rodriguez.