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The president-elect still questioning the whole thing. plus we are learning more tonight about just how big the trump organization. one of americas top 50 private businesses, involved with more than 500 businesses a rn the world. yet donald trump says untying his business tie is no big deal. lets go to jim sciutto, in washington. you can see the capitol over his shoulder. why do use first believe putin most likely gave his cyber experts broad direction in the election hacking. >> in the intell...

Have to figure out what is his russia policy because russia is blocking american interests in many areas. there are areas where it could cooperate. but what does he want to do under ukraine? does he really want to sell out ukraine? does he want to sell out the security of poland to make some deal with vladimir putin? who by the way hes never met. so the idea that they can -- theyll get on famously and do work together, you know, its all guesswork at this point. and trump is a guy for whom first ...

The polls. >> we dont know what we dont know. there may be hacking tools and software in systems around the country waiting to be used on election day. it would be hard to detect. >> reporter: the department of homeland security uncovered signs hackers from russia tried to penetrate voter systems. theres no indication they have been tampered with. dhs is coordinating efforts with every state in the nation. scanning computer systems to identify vulnerabilities. in washington they are monitoring n...

Create doubt to sow uncertainty about when the system is, as donald trump says, rigged, an founded claim. heres cnn justice reporter pamela brown. >> reporter: heightened concerns over russian-led efforts to undermine the u.s. election. u.s. officials warn hackers could tamper with local data bases of voters names and addresses to cause confusion at the polls. >> we dont know what we dont know. there may be hacking tools and software in election systems around the country just waiting to be used...

Vote yes on 51. federal and state authorities are now on the lookout for possible russian cyber attacks tied to election day here in the united states. our justice correspondent, pamela brown, has bigging into that. how worried are u.s. officials right now? >> u.s. government officials telling us just today, wolf, that they are very concerned russia will cause mischief on election day by deceiving voters and creating doubt about whether the system is rigds. -- rigged. tonight heightened concer...

Breech when a group offered to sell the nsa hacking tools and other information for half a billion dollars. they say the group and martin have some of the same material. still ahead, president obamas calling it a turning point for the world. weve got the latest on the climate deal that will soon be taking effect. plus, there have been long gas lines, and some stations even running dry as people across the southeastern united states brace for hurricane matthew. bill karins is tracking the tro...

Of a deal is it? >> well, it is a big deal according to federal authorities. they say unauthorized disclosure of the top secret documents that harold martin allegedly stole from his workplace could cause exceptionally grave dang to the national security of the u.s. this is a picture of him right here. and furthermore, martin worked at booz allen hamilton for the national security agency, the same contractor that employed edward snowden. among the documents they believe he stole were the hacking ...

He sees something unjust, like a nazi forum online, he will hack into it, mess with the members, and take it down. but how he makes his money, he sells hacking tools on the dark web to anyone. listen to what he said to me. >> i dont really ask questions about what they do with it. you know, they could be using it for horrible purposes or could be using it for good purposes. >> how much do you think youve made selling some of these tools? >> just like $1,000 for one day, just so i can bypass curr...

The question is, whos behind it all? who are these so called guardians of peace. sony is investigating links to north korea. today, wall street journal reported the malicious code is nearly isle dent kal to the hacking tools used against an attack against south korea. if north korea has the capability, it may also have the motive. >> so what can we do you for? >> the c.i.a. would love it if you could take him out. >> like, for drinks?

One has seen yet. the f.b.i. also confirmed its investigation of the hack. and then yesterday morning, an anonymous source with a link to thousands of sony web sheets. the question is, whos behind it all? who are these so called guardians of peace. sony is investigating links to north korea. today, wall street journal reported the malicious code is nearly isle dent kal to the hacking tools used against an attack against south korea.