He was abducted thursday morning while serving in their Community Near the capital of haiti. I want to bring in cnn National Correspondent athena jones for the latest on this. What are officialsg about this alleged abduction . Reporter hi, frederica. We know u. S. Authorities are working with our haitian counterparts and agencies to try to resolve this crisis. We dont know or it is unclear who is responsible for this kidnapping and whether theyve made any demands, whether for ransom or anything else. We do have a statement from the christian humanitarian organizationriginally from New Hampshire that alex was working for. Ey say alex is a deeply comp compassionate person. She has worked tirelessly to bring relief to the suffering of people of haiti in the name of jesus. Their highest priority is to return safely alex and her child. They want to limit the information they provided. They say it happened thursday morning at the campus near the capitol of portauprince. The context of all of
agent found a white powdery substance during a patrol of the west wing. this prompted a shutdown of some of the white house campus and. the d.c. fire department s hazmat team identified it as cocaine. and their dispatch initially said it was found in the library. then on tuesday afternoon, a secret service spokesman confirmed the details, but clarified the initial reports that it was found inside the library were incorrect. and then also on tuesday afternoon to law enforcement, officials told the associated press that the cocaine was found in area accessible to tour groups. but on wednesday, karine jean-pierre clearly appeared flummoxed when describing where the cocaine was discovered, where this was discovered is a heavily traveled area where many white house west wing. i should be even more specific ,a west wing visitors come through this particular area. i just don t have anything more to share. it is under investigation by the secret service. and yesterday, the story ch
service agent found a white powdery substance during a patrol of the west wing. this prompted a shutdown of some of the white house campus in the dc fire department hazmat team identified it as cocaine hydrochloride. there to smash initially said it was found in the library. then, on tuesday afternoon secret service spokesman confirmed the details. clarified that initial reports it was found inside the library where incorrect. also on tuesday afternoon, to law enforcement officials told the associated press that the cocaine was found in an area accessible to tour groups. on wednesday karine john a pair described without cocaine was discovered. where this was discovered in state heavily traveled area where many white house west wing, i should be even more specific, west wing visitors come through this particular area. i don t have anything more to share. it s under investigation by the secret service. yesterday the story changed again. the big change is, where this was f
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