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There was an expectation that outside forces would try and put their hands on the scale to influence this election and, frankly, that s why i m here. the opinion polls have put macron way ahead so if you just believe the polls, there s no story here. he s going to win. but these are unusual times and there have already been these reports going back weeks and a few months that russian backed groups have been trying to influence the election. there have been numerous terrorist incidents including one right on the eve of the first round of the presidential elections. so basically we re here because th kind ofhing could happen. it was expected that something like this could happen or at least we expect it. richard, in terms of the attribution for the attack, we have been reading reports, although it s interesting, we can no longer read french media reports about this because we re now within the blackout period, but we ve been reading ....
Have been reading reports, although it s interesting, we can no longer read french media reports about this because we re now within the blackout period, but we ve been reading reports that this suggests that this is a.p.t. 28, this is fancy bear, this appears to be the work of the same russian hacking groups that attacked the u.s. election. what credence do you place in those reports? we ve spoken directly to the investigators, and like i said, we thought this kind of thing would happen. there s a group called trend micro. it s a big cybersecurity firm. they have been following russian-backed groups for a long time. starting on march 15th, this group detected that the macron campaign was under attack, that it was getting what are called phishing e-mails. these are e-mails like the name suggests where they are probing for information, and these aren t the simple kind of phishing e-mails that you get on your blackberry or iphone that ....
Sort of document leak. there was an expectation that outside forces would try and put their hands on the scale to influence this election and, frankly, that s why i m here. the opinion polls have put macron way ahead so if you just believe the polls, there s no story here. he s going to win. but these are unusual times and there have already been these reports going back weeks and a few months that russian backed groups have been trying to influence the election. there have been numerous terrorist incidents including one right on the eve of the first round of the presidential elections. so basically we re here because this kind of thing could happen. it was expected that something like this could happen or at least we expect it. richard, in terms of the attribution for the attack, we have been reading reports, although it s interesting, we can no longer read french media reports about this because we re now within the blackout ....
We re now within the blackout period, but we ve been reading reports that suggest this is apt 28, this is fancy bear, this appears to be the work of the same russian hacking groups that attacked the u.s. election. what credence doou place in threrts? reporter: we ve spoken directly to the investigators and like i said, we thought this kind of thing would happen. there s a group called trend my micro, a big cyber security firm. they have been following russian backed groups for a long time. starting on march 15th, this group detected that the macron campaign was under attack, that it was getting what are called phishing e-mails. these are e-mails, like the name suggests, where they are probing for information. these aren t the simple kind of phishing e-mails you might get on your blackberry or iphone that says, oh, click here and you could win a cruise in the ....
Slot of snow in atlanta, you have icy conditions. be careful driving out there. this is what s happening right now in the san francisco bay area. plenty of heavy rain. it s been raining there since late last night and we expect more of it and in sonoma county, in particular, we had a flash flood warning and i ve been reading reports and not only do we have thunderstorm wind damage with trees down in san francisco and some of the roads are closed due to flooding, and what s happening now and we ve heard of the water rescues and it s ramping up. we have this huge area of tropical moisture coming in and it s a plume of moisture known as an atmospheric river and that s coming straight it from the pacific and nothing to obscure it from northern california and downward to the south and we ll see some of the rain come through southern california and some of the heaviest through the central coast and keep in mind, this is a warm system and it s coming over the higher, strong snow packs we alre ....