Suburb. Heres what cnn has now just learned. The fbi did indeed warn texas authorities about one of the suspected gunmen here Elton Simpson, three hours before the attack. This coming to us from our justice correspondent, evan perez, having just spoken to the director of the fbi. A Security Guard was injured before officers at the scene killed simpson and his accomplice. Let me bring in cnn Law Enforcement analyst tom foounuentes. Explain to me as a former assistant director of the fbi, when the fbi tips off Garland Police and to be precise, it was that aln to simpson had expressed interest in this evident. Where does the ball go from there . I think the ball was always in the court of garland pd from the beginning of event planning. Even from that time, several months in advance, they knew this event would probably attract somebody who would want to initiate an attack with firearms. I think that the police in garland working with all the other agencies in the area federal, state, and
Wonderful. Yvonne is sitting on the street watching this happen. She cant believe it. Ill take you through the crowd a little bit. Much different scene. Don youve been here the whole time much different scene here than what we saw a week ago. People here feel good. They feel like something is happening that should be happening. They feel liker this in some ways vindicated that at least they can believe there may be something happening with the Police Department that justice in their eyes is actually on the right track, whether that happens in the courts they dont know but they do know one thing. This is about being together and thats what people are talking about now, about coming out, being together with one another, weve seen black folks, white folks, weve seen people from different neighborhoods from all around the country but a lot of the people who are here are from here watching whats going on worrying about their own homes, worrying about their own businesses, also there are fol
Lines everywhere. Already this morning, several videos popping up online, allegedly showing chaos in the aisles, as customers battle to save a few bucks. The International Council of Shopping Centers estimates black friday is now such an event in our country, four out of ten american shoppers do their holiday buying today. The question thats on a lot of consumers minds is do you actually go out and buy today or do you maybe play the waiting game. The answers both. You probably do a little bit of shopping today. And then you supplement that in subsequent days. Retailers hope this years falling gas prices will help accelerate sales it its estimated for every one penny drop in the price of gas at the pump, consumers have an additional 1 billion in congressional spending money. The outlook for Holiday Spending is good. Stronger than what weve seen in a number of years. Many folks are forecatting well see holiday sales grow overall more than 4 which is quite strong. For parents my teenage s
You know, when the news broke, one of the things that happened was some of the local media went to the house that they lived in. He literally, literally had to leave that house within three hours. His front yard, he was cutting the grass when he found out. He had to leave the grass, literally, half mowed. And he had to go into hiding. Lets talk about that hiding with sara sidner. Shes live in a snowcovered ferguson, missouri. Lets begin with that. How has this Police Officer, how has he managed the fly below the radar for all this time . Reporter its interesting, you know, to hear an little bit about how hes been dealing with this all along . Of course, weve been hearing a lot from Michael Browns family and their sorrow and their anger and frustration, pointed towards officer wilson and the Police Department as a whole. But now were starting to hear the details of officer wilsons life and what we went through. We do know one thing. He did come out in public at some point, because he ma
Because everything is 50 off. How it became 50 off, who knows, but thats what the sales are. Lets look, this is the mall at newport center. It has gotten a little bit more busy in the last couple of minutes. The doors opened at 6 00, even though some stores did stay open overnight. The big retail chains, macys and kohls, staying open 24 hours. Here its been rather calm. We saw a couple of college kids who did do the thing, stayed up all night buying things for themselves. But for the most part, its been rather civil. Across the country, a different story. Overnight, the hunt for bargains across the nation becoming a contact sport. Police prying the shoppers off the floor at this walmart in houston, texas. Refusing to let go of a discounted tv. One Police Officer even grabbing this shopper by the face and throwing him to the ground. Tempers flared at this walmart in michigan city, indiana. With shoppers clamoring for a bargain on sony speakers. And in los angeles, police were called to