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House computer system were able to access sensitive information. that includes nonpublic details of the presidents schedule. the white house had previously said last years breach affected an unclassified system. if are you set to jump on a plane soon, it pains me to tell you air travel across europe could be chaotic through the next 48 hours. frances largest air traffic control union announced they will strike today and tomorrow. >> part of a long-running dispute over work conditions. hundreds...

>> this community and the system failed this father. it failed him. >> reporter: todd reportedly was behind on his electric bills. the power company says it cut off the houses electricity because of safety concerns over the illegal power hookup. new details about a white house computer system being hacked. officials say russian hackers penetrated a nonclassified computer system for several months last year that forced the white house to shut down the system for several days. the system is used...

Washington with more on this. >> we knew there had been a hacking incident involving the white house computer system last year, which would have given hackers in theory, access to the presidents scheduling information as well as upcoming announcements. what were learning now is that the russians may have in fact been responsible for this. the presidents deputy national security adviser would not say much about this. listen. >> we dont confirm cyber intrusions. weve spoken to the fact that there ...

The russian cyber threat is more severe than we had previously assessed. >> russian hackers gain accessed to a unclassified computer system that contained president obamas private schedule. elise, how did the russians -- do we know the route in that the russians used? >> we do as of today, lawrence. in fact, the lawrence hackers broke into the white house by jumping over from penetrated state department networks. we heard a lot about the breach at the state department which they are still fighti...

With the ability to do substantial damage to an institution like sony or steal the f-35 plans as the chinese did. terrorists are not at that point but they could get there. there is a twitter feed which is insignificant in the grand scheme of things but certainly thats the trend where were seeing terrorists experimenting with these kinds of attacks. >> they could get into the white house computer system and might be able to get into the pentagon system as well. you used to work there. what do yo...

Youre in "the situation room." were following major breaking stories this hour including a disturbing online attack on the white house. sources telling cnn that hackers working for the russian government have accessed the white house computer system and obtained sensitive information about the president. also the deadly fighting in yemen which had been a critical u.s. ally in the fight against al qaeda. saudi-led air strikes on rebel forces reportedly hit a school killing students. the death t...

Has confirmed that that hack that took place at the state department which was publicized at the time was actually done by hackers working for therussian government. eventually they managed to get into the white house computer system as well. what can you tell us about that? >> well wolf first of all, im not going to get into details about our cyber security efforts. what i can say, though, is as you said, we were public about the fact that we were dealing with cyber intrusions in the state depa...

Is able to land on autopilot. the thinking is if the autopilot can land a plane, perhaps software can take the current system just a step further so that perhaps an aircraft coming too close to land would essentially be able to avoid it. but, you know when you talk too pilots, they say that they dont think that this is a good idea simply because theyre afraid that when you have technology like this and you essentially give over control of the aircraft to a computer system there is the chance tha...

Georgia runs into a burning home. look at this to save a baby. >> lets of smoke. theres a baby in here. >> the sergeant joe hudson trying to find a three-year-old in his grandmothers burning home. the body cam video shows him racing through the smoke and quickly locating the boy p. thank goodness he was in his bed. amazingly they both got out unharmed. true hero there. dozens of high school students suspended after one student pulled what you could call a ferris bueller. >> i asked for a car, ...

Before the break in part one of the cnn documentary, you met the teenage computer hackers in milwaukee who broke into major computer system including the sloan kettering cancer center and the los alamos computer center. the teen agers were charged with is kind of surprising in retrospect. heres part two of the 414. >> water drawing the attention is the fact that the commuter hackers got into the system. >> the computers of the research laboratory at los alamos new mexico. >> this group managed t...