Look at that. These pro democracy demonstra demonstrators demanding a change in the government. We are live with where all this is headed. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im john berman. Im christine romans. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. Good morning. The tough oversight hearing of the director of the secret service is facing this morning got tougher. We know the man who jumped the white house fence made it farther into the white house than previously reported. Cnns jim acosta has the story. Reporter hernandez made it farther into the white house than previously stated. Gonzalez managed to make it through a secret Service Officer at the portico doors and ran into the east room before he was tackled just as he was trying to head into the green room. No shots were fired inside or outside the white house. According to a memo used by the members of the committee this morning, there were multiple lapses that allowed gonzalez to make that far. One was a crash button which would have in
Brothers near Charles De Gaulle airport. Those two hostage situations played out in parallel for hours today in france with the entire nation watching, with global media watching. And then about two hours ago, around noon our time a little after that, as nightfall was happening youre seeing photos on the right of tape im sorry, tape of that moment, there were flash bangs and there was a raid by the gign forces of the French Special forces Tactical Unit into both sites. One after another separated by maybe four or five minutes at the most. The word we have is that the kouachi brothers who are in dammartinengoele near Charles De Gaulle airport. The one hostage was freed. In the case of the market Amedy Coulibaly was killed along with four hostages. Francois hollande moments ago expressing his condolences to the families of those four hostages. Those hostages remain at this moment unnamed. The number of hostages rescued also unknown at this moment although we have this striking dramatic p
Missing flight 370. U. S. Intelligence assessment shows that someone flew the plane off course deliberately. This report was prepared months ago and not intended for public release. A new analysis puts a spotlight back on the two pilots. Malaysian investigators say there is zero evidence of unusual behavior by the pilots or cabin crew before the flight. Meanwhile, on reunion island new debris washed ashore in addition to the wing component found earlier. Remnants of what looks like a suitcase were found thursday. For more on the investigation, Senior Correspondent nima elbagir has more. Reporter good morning, miguel. That new piece of debris is giving credence to the theory that investigators believe the countercurrent could be pulling the debris from what was presumed to be that initial search sign off the coast of australia. All the way to the other side of the indian ocean. They are trying to pinpoint that and the importance of that really is to give them a broader sense of where el
Some of them they are not ready to fly out here to reunion just yet. They have had their hopes dashed so many times, but one Family Member says if this does turn out to be a piece of mh370, they finally have a tangible piece of evidence that their loved ones are, indeed presumed dead. Ill take it robin. Great to have you on reunion island. The discovery of the debris comes after 16 months of nonstop search efforts for the missing airliner largely focused here off the western coast of australia. So how could debris wash from here thousands of miles away all the way here to reunion island . We are joined now from kuala lumpur on this exhaustive search. All the efforts since the plane vanished 500 days ago. Andrew . Reporter well, it is an extraordinary trip for the searchers and the countries involved. Now 16 months old, finally getting to the point where we can actually say that the plane did crash because there have been so many theories surrounding this flight. Lets take the headlines
It continues to expand and thats why belgium is the heart of tensions overnight. We have Senior Correspondent ivan watson whos been following from there. Ivan, whats the latest now . Reporter well, the belgium investigators announce they had carried out a series of a half dozen raids. And they were targeting a man, the family of one of the suicide bombers in paris, a man named bilal hadfi, a man who had been on the radar of investigators long before the attacks because he was suspected of going to syria to be a volunteer fighter with isis. They didnt know he would come back to europe until he blew himself up in paris last friday night. So police swooped into this area, before dawn this morning, and a number of other locations around the belgium capital. They say they detained at least one person for questioning. And this is coming as the belgium government, the Prime Minister addressed parliament today, calling for a raft of new measures to combat terrorism, to combat the serious probl