Lets talk live in the cnn newsroom. Good morning. Im Carol Costello. Thank you so much for joining me. We begin this hour with a war on isis and battle lines drawn at home and overseas this morning, americas top military officer arrived in baghdad and Martin Dempsey is in the capitol as iraqi force wage their biggest offensive yet against isis. In ohio a reminder of militants far reached. A 20yearold cincinnati man, christopher cornell, said he wanted to kill the president and says he conspired with isis to launch a deadly attack on the u. S. Capitol. He laid out his plans in a riveting and wide ranging phone interview from his jail cell. In a few moments we will talk with a reporter with cnn affiliate. First, listen to some of their conversation. The event i planned on tuesday september the 20th, in washington d. C. Would have been a great attack against america. Even with my capture its repercussions will not stop. Although it would have been a major attack against america, events th
Thousands of people over the years. Will the dictator kim jongun come clean . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Our breaking news more shock waves in ferguson missouri. Police chief Thomas Jackson has resigned. We are awaiting a News Conference in ferguson. We plan to bring it to you live. The move comes just a day after the city manager stepped down and follows the departure of two Police Officers and the citys top court clerk. The mayor is hanging on for now but after last weeks blistering Justice Department report on racial bias and abusive practices, the City Government is going through a major upheaval right now. Ill speak live with benjamin crump, the attorney for the family of the slain teenager Michael Brown. Our correspondents analysts and guests theyre also standing by. We begin with two reports. Cnns sara sidner has been all over this story. Lets go to our national correspondent, Suzanne Malveaux here in washington with the very latest. Fergusons Infamous Police
Questions about whether aspects of it are true. Lets start at the beginning. This week the Washington Post reported on the troubling incident involving two senior agents who allegedly went out drinking and then drove a government car into an investigation of a suspicious package right in front of the white house. All of this was particularly frightening since one of the men is the numbertwo agent who directly guards president obama. But now two Law Enforcement sources tell cnn that story was overblown. Officials tell cnn that the agents simply drove up to the investigation scene, not into it and theres not clear evidence that they were drinking. Nor is it clear that there was any discussion of giving them a sobriety test. Still, there are serious questions about the incident. Lets go to cnns erin mcpike stand big at the white house with the latest. Erin . Michael, we should point out there has been no Public Accounting from this the secret service about what actually happened. It has a
Families alerted local authorities first they were missing. I it became apparent in a few days they went to National Security officials and went to the middle east likely trying to get to syria in the hopes of joining isis. And the fact remains, anderson that these families are frantic right now trying to figure out what actually happened to their children. So their exact location right now is not known. Reporter no and in fact Security Officials on the ground in turkey are trying to help canadian officials but as we just discussed, anderson there are many westerners right now that security authorities are trying to track, and its a huge problem. And the trail has, in fact gone cold. And once they step over to syria, it is very difficult to figure out exactly whats happened. You reported the canat canada started revoking passports. That did not happen here. Reporter we covered it for years and talked about in britain, whats different in the canadian cases . These families are alerting
Reporter thats right. Also the houston herald reporting that the shooter has been found dead in a parked car following a long night. The officials in tyrone missouri, are not releaseing a lot of information about the shooting and the suspect. There are four crime scenes they are looking at the possibility of a fifth crime scene and even potentially a sixth crime scene outside of texas county. Neighbors are telling some of our affiliates about the night that they had. One neighbor says that she was woken up at 3 45 in the morning. Authorities came knocking at the door. They were asking if anyone inside had been hurt injured in any way. Other neighbors also saying that they were asked by authorities to actually stay inside. Given very Little Information about what was happening out there but told overnight to stay inside to be safe to stay in their homes. We are again hearing from this paper, the houston herald that the shooter has been found dead in a car. We dont know the circumstances