information is offensive. reporter: but one top senate republican suggests the president should look in-house. he talked about the articles that appeared there, and journalists identify some of the sources for their articles as administration officials. aides to the president, members of the president s national security team. mccain wants the president to appoint a special independent council to investigate the leaks. heather: thank you very much. molly henneberg reporting live. how significant are these leaks. a retired four-star general speaking out today saying the leaks are some of the most serious security disclosures he has ever seen. just one example, iran, which said is bound to retaliate against the united states for cyber attacks on their nuclear program. here is the general. they are an eye for an eye government. they will respond to this attack as they have in the past others. they may already have responded and we don t even know it yet. the fact of the
having anything to do with the leaks and vowed to crackdown on the release of classified information. molly henneberg has the latest information. molly: attorney general eric holder tapped a u.s. attorneys to lead separate investigations into several recent leaks. one of the probes have been started by the f.b.i. helder said in statement, i have confidence in their abilities to doggedly follow the facts. but the chairman of house intelligence committee has concerns that these attorneys who will report to holder will be available to investigate freely. he said, quote, i look forward to how they will be independent from the chain of command. president obama talked about the leaks yesterday and said his white house is trying to figure out where they are coming from. the notion that my white house would purposely release classified national security information is offensive. reporter: but one top senate republican suggests the president should look in-house. he talked about
we ll bring you any more information as soon as it develops. three people are expected to be okay have a downed electrical live wires fell in the downtown area. traffic is finally back to normal after the area was shut down for more than three hours. shortly after 4:00 this afternoon, wires from a muni bus broke off and fell onto the street. three people were hospitalized including a woman who was behind by the wires. market street was closed as was a part of fifth street. everybody is back up and running smoothly. on to politics, hours before we go to the polls. a new report reveals exactly how much a few big donors have spent to influence california s elections. this according to a media partner, a non-partisan project forcenter of investigative reporting. more from nannette miranda in sacramento. reporter: california watch called them rain makers, elite club of people and special interest groups influencing elections with their checkbook. it s on the state s top poli
drop off her child at school. our legal panel weighs in the shocking story. gregg: the only person ever convicted for the 1988 bombing of the jetliner over lockerbie is dead. he died today in tripoli, until three years ago he was serving time in scotland for the bombing that killed 270 people. he was released on so-called humanitarian grounds. in 2009 doctors claimed he had terminal cancer and three months to live. completely untrue. that unleashed a international wave of outrage. reporter: one more development in a long history of tragedy, heartache and outrage in the wake of the pan am 103 bombing. he was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer and died today in tripoli. he was convicted 2001 after moammar khadafy turned him over
he always denied he had done this. his family has continued to deny that to this day because it was the family that initially made the announcement of his death. he was let out of jail supposedly because he had only three months to live. this was scottish and british decision and low and behold he died three years later. questions have been raised whether or not he was let out of jail for different reasons. the british press and british government ever since his release have been looking into allegations that perhaps there was a trade between his release and british access to oil and gas in libya. and the son of moammar khadafy who is still a prisoner in libya is going to be accused of war crimes, he said after the