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And i proceeded to continue to stand there and request an ambulance, assistance or some police assistance to assist my son because i know hes still alive. i see him moving, but no one would reply to help my son or ms. jones. >> his sons funeral will be held saturday. im brooke baldwin, thanks for being with me. "the lead" starts now. thanks, brooke. north korea shakes the ground and shocks the world. "the lead" starts right now. nuclear backlash, the world reacting in emergency fashion to nort...

Gangs of young men, many described as appearing arab, are accused of raping, sexually assaulting and robbing women on new years eve, dozens of them. was this a coordinated attack? hello and welcome to "the lead." im jake tapper. were going to begin with the shocking development from north korea rattling the world literally and figuratively with the announcement that the rogue nation has successfully tested a hydrogen bomb. if this claim is indeed true, if the communist regime now has its hands...

During the previous and after the previous three nuclear tests have not stopped pyongyang so far. but we know that japan has sent two aircraft into the area of the sea of japan, or the east sea, which is just east of north korea where they believe any radioactive material would have been blown given the wind direction. theyre going to collect that dust. theyre going to analyze it and find out if that gives any clues obviously that the amount of kilotons that have been used would suggest how big ...

Streets following their governments bold announcement of a first for the isolated nation. a successful test of a hydrogen bomb, many times more powerful than the atomic bombs pyongyang has already developed. this man telling a reporter his heart is happy and he wants to dance. pyongyang believes photos of north korean leader kim jong-un signing the order for the test while international monitoring work to determine the exact power of the blast. >> signals were detected on numerous seismic statio...

Intelligence says it wasnt necessarily one. what would president cruz be doing right now with you by his side? >> well, what i would be advising him to do would be to make it very clear north koreans that there are ramifications for this behavior. the problem we have is that there have been no checks on them over the course of the last seven years, even perhaps longer than that. and so theyve been testing, testing, testing. if nothing else, last night they signalled that they are going towards a...

Of the first hydrogen bomb. the white house this afternoon saying that the latest intelligence has not yet provided any evidence that this device was indeed an h-bomb. we have correspondents here in washington, d.c. as well as china and south korea tracking this alarming development. lets first bring in chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. jim, what do intelligence experts think? does north korea really have a hydrogen bomb, or are they just bluffing? >> much more likely the latter...

Republican nominee, it could be held up in the court for two years. youre a constitutional scholar. youve argued before the supreme court. why do you think on the legal basis hes wrong? >> well, look, the legal issue is straightforward. the son of a u.s. citizen born abroad is a natural born citizen. >> reporter: but its never been tested. >> the constitution and laws of the united states are straightforward. the very first congress defined the child of a u.s. citizen born abroad as a natural bo...

After some of these shootings that we all are denounced, we pray for the victims. the president tries to criticize people who pray for the victims. he just wants to talk about gun control in a broader sense. and he doesnt stop here by the way, jake. if you look at what hes proposed in the past, it goes far beyond this. so anybody that thinks this is where the president wants to end, this is just the beginning. hes had a history of wanting to take away the gun rights of law-abiding citizens. and ...

Relationships with another rogue regime, the number one state sponsor of terror, iran, who we also know have nuclear ambitions. if theyve got an h-bomb, a hydrogen bomb now in their possession, combine that with ballistic missile technology and a lunatic for a leader, this is alarming. >> and what does it mean specifically, do you think, for the security of the united states? >> it threatens it. but again, this isnt our only security threat because of the feckless nature of president obama, unit...