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
reporter: we hear the story that chris watts toldaffidavit, said he woke up early on august 13th and told his wife he wanted to separate and went to work. she apparently planned on going to a friend s house, but never returned. later he told a different story. saying he had in fact killed his wife, shanann, but not his young daughters. he says that after he told shanann he wanted to separate, he went down stairs and when he came back up, he saw shanann strangled the girls and in a fit of rage, he strangled his wife to death. he loaded the bodies in the back of the truck and dotook them to the work site and dug a shallow grave and put shanann s body and the girls in an oil storage tank. police said he left out a detail. he had been having an an fashff with a coworker.