Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were following two breaking stories right now. An urgent hunt is under way for whoever shot two Police Officers outside the Police Station last night. Watch this. [ gun shots ] the shots rang out as a protest against the troubled department was winding down. Two officers were wounded. Police and witnesses say the shots came from long range. The attorney general of the United States eric holder is calling it a disgusting and cowardly ambush. As tensions rise county officers and state troopers are about to take over the security situation, the security duties from Ferguson Police. Meantime stunning new details emerging in the latest scandal to hit the u. S. Secret service. Two top ranking officials plowed their government car into a White House Security barrier after a night of partying and reportedly disrupted a bomb investigation that was under way. President obama is disappointed. Lawmakers are furious. Our correspondents and analysts are
Bulldog oooh mattress discounters 197 mattress Sale Television announcer get a serta mattress any size for just 197 each piece when you buy the complete set. The 197 mattress sale. Bulldog oh boy Television Announcer . Ends sunday. Mattress discounters hey there, everyone. Im Errol Barnett at cnn center. And im zain asher. Welcome back to our breaking news from energysonferguson missouri. Now two Police Officers were shot outside the Police Department. One was from the st. Louis county Police Department. The other from a town of Webster Groves. There were a number of jurisdictions at this Police Department because the chief of that department spoke to the media and said both officers are conscious. One was shot in the shoulder. The other shot in the face. The officers were helping with the crowds in ferguson during a protest that built after the citys police chief announced that he was in fact stepping down. We want to bring in our sara sidner now. She has spent many months in ferguson
Protesters probably 40 Police Officers left at this time. Were thinking its thinning out. At 12 00 a. M. We hear three shots, three or four shots ring out. Some of you have seen that on the media. These are shots that arent in the air, not in the ground. One way you can tell when you listen to the audio you can actually hear those shots singing. Those shots immediately strike two officers standing next to each oefrmt i would like to underscore that these officers are also standing in a line of at least 20 to 25 officers. We have a group of officers standing there. Its very evident we have a group of officers standing there. The Webster Groves officer is shot right here high point of the cheek, right under the right eye. The bullet lodges right behind his ear. That bullet is still with him. Hes going to have to have further evaluation to figure out what theyre going to do with that round. The st. Louis county officer was struck right here on the shoulder and the bullet came out the midd
The choice of a new police chief in Webster Groves could come as early as next week. City Manager Marie Peoples said gathering community input on that choice was the