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
bennett alleged argento assaulted him when he was 17. the times received the documents through encrypted e-mail. he played her son in the 2004 movie the heart is deceitful. cnn has reached out for a comment. the new york times has been trying to get a response from her since thursday. heavy rain in the forecast for the ohio valley and in the east, we have an update with pedram javaheri in the weather center. we are watching what is happening in the ohio valley for heavy rainfall this afternoon and really setting the stage here for some major cooling trend into the forecast the next several days. here is the culprit. the disturbance over the ohio valley could lead to travel d disruption and east of the region. that impacts 16 million people. large hail, damaging winds are