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all day long washington will be consumed by the decision to fire james comey. jon karl starts us with the latest. good morning. jon. what a day and morning and night. reporter: good morning, george. this firing has stunned nobody more than james comey himself. comey first heard on tv. while in the meeting a letter from the president was hand delivered to fbi headquarters in washington. that letter from the president was read to comey over the phone. you are hereby terminated and removed from office, effective immediately. the president wrote, you are not able to effectively lead the bureau. the president also addressed the fbi investigation into russian meddling in the election. i greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate occasions that i am not under investigation. the reasons were outlined in a letter from the deputy attorney general who wrote that comey grossly mishandled the hillary clinton e-mail investigation saying among other things that this jul ....
our students to the charges against hodges. but john thai and perhaps other parents may have dodged a bullet. this person that we had trusted, trusted greatly, who only a couple days before he was arrested had solicited to come baby-sit for our 6-year-old. reporter: thai says this is what hodges told his child. i ll come over maybe on a friday night and baby-sit for you and then i can do magic tricks. reporter: as thai said he trusted hodges to teach his son to swim in deep water so why would he have not trusted him to baby-sit? vic lee, abc7 news. and you can listen to the full interview with the parent on our website, abc7news.com. new at iv, antioch police are searching for a man accused of robbing a bank inside a super market a few hours ago. it took place inside a safe way in antioch just before 1:00. sky 7 shows the police activity outside the store. the website east county today.net reports a man with a gun hopped the counter at the bank. a woman at the ....
and the alleged school plot. police flooding the school. a boy pulled from the classroom. his arsenal knives, gasoline, and a hit list right in his bag. good evening on this wednesday night. we begin tonight with new reporting here after that major shakeup in washington. the director of the fbi, james comey, fired, learning about it on television. the president s termination letter then read to him on the phone. tonight, here, major questions. why fire comey and why now? the white house saying the department of justice, the deputy attorney general recommending comey s departure. tonight, our team has learned it was the president himself who set this in motion. comey at home tonight as we learned what president trump said to the attorney general and to the deputy attorney general during their visit to the white house. what he asked them for and the time line leading to comey s firing. late word that p fired national security mike flynn has now been subpoena for dou ....
really shiny. here comes the he finally got it all off and he shows us the mask works. look at how much he pulled off though. look at that. that s so disgusting. look, he s beautiful. my face feels so good right now, y all. pain is beauty, right? no. it s not. don t ever do this. ever. thanks for watching today, everybody. don t forget to enter your buzzword on rightthisminute.com. see you next time on an all new rtm. take a look at this. take a look at this. an investigation under way to find out why the crane collapsed on to a prefabricated section of a viaduct in northern italy. construction workers could only watch in horror as all of their hard work came undone. amazingly the crane operator was able to jump clear of the crane as it started to tip. police in north carolina believe they may have prevented a school massacre. minutes to spare, officers pulled a 16-year-old boy out of class found what investigators say was a stash of knives, g ....
the 23-year-old hiker stranded in the wilderness with just her dog by her side. it was a huge mistake that ended up being seven days. lost after taking a wrong turn on a trail, the incredible rescue. now she s speaking out right here on gma. yes, some good news on this busy thursday morning. what a great survival story. oh, yeah, that hiker and her dog were lost for nearly a week in the montana wilderness with grizzlies nearby and thank goodness they both made it out safely. a lot of smiles for them this morning. also a lot going on. much more fallout over the president s decision to fire fbi director james comey. reports this morning that the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein threatened to resign if it wasn t clarified that this was a motion by the president, and not him. president trump s spokesperson sarah huckabee sanders is standing by to respond. a new headline in that bombshell. former director james comey had asked for more money and resou ....