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A possible drunk driving crash at the white house. The agents reportedly were leaving a party for a retiring the run in tikrit. Iraqi troops and Shiite Militia forces squeezing militants on two fronts. A difficult search. Remembered at a vigil last night. New fallout from the university of oklahoma. Sae admitting the chant was a part of the Fraternity Chapter years. Were not going to put up with racist comments racist jokes. Jokes. Service restored to apple itunes and istores. The widely used services broke down yesterday. One colorado woman and repairs ahead for a pizza shop after a car plows right through the front window. All that last touch by henderson. Oh and all that matters. The medical people do you want them to meet you at the gate . An atlantabound jet, a pregnant woman on the plane and her water broke midflight. I wass thought i would have it on the plane. Utter disbelief. No regret about going directly to the iranian leadership . No regrets at all. Republicans are steamed saying if this doesnt work by not at god, theyre going to send seth rogen and james franco. This mornings eyeopener presented by toyota. Lets go places. Captioning funded by cbs welcome to cbs this morning. As you wake up in the west police in ferguson missouri, are searching for at least one gunman who shot two officers povernight. [ gunfire ] [ bleep ]. The cell phone video captured the moment of the shooting that happened during a protest outside Ferguson Police headquarters. The gunfire sparked a Dramatic Police response. The two wounded officers in serious condition this morning. Dean reynolds is at the shooting scene in ferguson. Dean, good morning. Reporter good morning. Were monitoring a News Conference by the st. Louis county police chief at this hour. The two officers were shot just a few feet from where i am standing. One in the face and the other in the shoulder. They work for Neighboring Police forces, and were brought in specifically last night to help with the demonstration. [ gunfire ] reporter these shot was fired just after midnight as hours of tense protests were winding down. Got an officer down, officer down. Reporter the gunfire came from across the street sending officers and demonstrators scrambling for safety. Everybody down on the ground. Police got shot. Once we got down we saw the cop shot right next to us. Bullets went really right past my head. [ sirens ] reporter the injured officers worked for the Webster Groves and st. Louis county Police Departments. One of them is seen here being take ton an ambulance. There were several Office Standing right there together when this happened. They were shot. Just because they were Police Officers. Reporter jon belmar is st. Louis county the police chief. The st. Louis county officer was struck in the shoulder and a Webster Groves Police Officer was struck in the face. Reporter the violence came hours after ferguson the mayor announced that the citys police chief, thomas jackson, would be stepping down. He felt that this was the best way forward. Reporter jackson is the sixth ferguson official to leave in the last week. Hes been heavily criticized for his departments response to last augusts killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown. And the departments reaction to the protests that followed. According to a report released by the department of justice last week, the problems are farreaching. Fergusons approach to law enforcement, it said both reflects and reinforces racial bias. In his Resignation Letter published wednesday, the chief of five years wrote it was an honor to serve, and that he will continue to assist the city in any way i can. Belmar says the vol tireatile relationship cant go on. Difficult to sustain this without injury to the public and to our Police Officers. Reporter this comes amid calls to have the entire Ferguson Police force dismantled. Gayle . Dean, thanks. There are new and disturbing allegations this morning of misconduct in the secret service. Two senior agents allegedly drove a government vehicle into a white house barricade last week after a night of drinking. Major garrett is at the white house. The homeland xumpltsecuritys Inspector General takes over. Good morning. Reporter its under new management, this story prompted reactions of shock and disbeliever here at the white house. More than one adviser to president obama thought it first it was some kind of joke laced with too much irony, but the story and the investigation are both very real. The two special agents under investigation, Mark Connolly second in command on president obamas protective detail and senior Washington Field Office Supervisor George Ogilvie have been stripped of their management roles and reassigned to desk jobs. Shortly after 11 00 p. M. On march 4th there was a suspicious package Investigation Underway near the white house. The two seniorlevel agents were returning from a Retirement Party for outgoing spokesman ed donovan and allegedly underthe influence of alcohol when they drove their vehicle through the plastic security tape and hit a barrier near the white house. The investigation will focus on suspicion of drunken driving and whether a secret Service Supervisor overruled the recommendations of Junior Officers to conduct sobriety tests of the special agents. This is the first real test for director Joseph Clancy a 27year veteran of the secret service, who was brought out of retirement bip by the president in october to lead the agency. He replaced Julia Pierson ho stepped down following a string of embarrassing security breaches. The call to restore operation operationaloperation Operational Excellence was too urgent to ignore. Reporter a fence jumper made it into the east room before he was apprehended. And later that month, a report surfaced that in 2011 it took four days for the agency to realize the white house had been hit with gunfire. Without question the agency has been severely damaged in recent years by failures ranging from disgraceful misconduct on the part of some employees to operational breakdowns that undermine the trust and confidence that previous generations worked so hard to establish. Reporter president obama was personally briefed on this episode and made it clear he wants a of you it thorough investigation. The republican and democrats who lead the house dmat supervises, or oversees the secret service said the situation was not only embarrassing but potentially dangerous. Charlie . Major, thanks. In iraq this morning Government Forces are pushing deeper into the city of tikrit. Isis militants hold the city are fighting iraqi troops and militias. Holly williams is south of tikrit near samarra one of the few Senate Correspondents covering fighting on the ground and joins us now on the phone. Holly . Reporter good morning. I am in the town of al duo around five miles south of tikrit. Iraqi forces entered tikrit from both the north and south and are retaking the city street by street. Commanders here tell us they are days away from recapturing the entire city but its being slowed down by suicide bombers and roadside bombs deployed by the isis militants. One of the commanders tell us there were 500 roadside bombs discovered in this town alone in the course of one day. One of the commanders here told us isis may have fewer than 200 legitimate in the city of tikrit while iraqi forces number more than 20,000 men. Some of them are government soldiers others are local describesmen but the bulk of them belong to shiite muslim militias. They have close links with iran and there are iranian offices in the field as part of this offensive. That is with u. S. Increasing assistance in iraq and insisting the iranians are only advisers and tell us they will take any help they can get to defeat isis. Norah . Holly, thank you so much. This morning, irans Supreme Leader is backing his Nuclear Negotiators and blasting u. S. Officials. During a speech in tehran responding to a letter from 47 republican senators warning any Nuclear Agreement could be revoked in the future. He said every time we reach a stage when the end of the negotiations is in sight, the tone of the other side specifically the americans, becomes harsher, courser and tougher. This is the nature of their tricks and deceptions. The ayatollah also lashed out at israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling him a zionist clown. Military rescue crews resumed their search this morning for any sign of the seven marines and four soldiers after a Helicopter Crash in the florida pand handel. The troops were in a black hawk that came down tuesday night near Eglin Air Force base. The weather is making this rescue effort very difficult. Good morning. Reporter good morning. In the last hour the fog here has burned off, which should be a big help to search teams today. That is Santa Rosa Sound behind me where the search is going on. A search for a missing black hawk helicopter and 11 service personnel. Debris started washing ashore hours after the crash including twisted metal and a piece of landing gear. Searchers also found human remains presumed to be of the 11 servicemen although officially this remains a search and rescue operation. We always hold out hope anytime theres a crash. We have an incredible search an rescue team. Think do anything and everything they can. Reporter two hospitalelicoptering took off. One turned back due to Poor Visibility the other lost contact around 8 30 tuesday night. Hard to describe. Like a metal echoingtype noise. Reporter eddie says he heard something unusual out over the water. But it was kind of two baboom, like two together. Reporter he took this photo returning with what he said was debris and a body bag. Onboard, seven marines and an air crew of four national guardsmen. National guard Officials Say the chopper pilots were also instructor with the armys highest rating and several thousand hours of flying time in black hawks. They have to go through all types tests where you fly into a fog bank and instantly you have to start, stop flying visually and start flying on your instruments. Thank you, guys so much for coming out. Reporter on wednesday night, people gathered at the internationalnavarre beach pier to honor the servicemen lost in the fog. President obama consulted both commanders to offer condolences. A new black hawk carrying a black box reporter finding it could be key in solving the mystery of what went wrong in the waters behind me. Pliesolice in toronto, canada targeting the u. S. Consulate in the fourth largest city. Government lawyers say an undercover officer was told he planned to set off Remote Control bombs at the consulate and other buildings in torontos financial district. They say he is an isis and al qaeda supporter who moved from pakistan to canada 11 years ago. Testimony begins this day in the Boston Marathon bombing trial. The focus shifted wednesday to the death of m. I. T. Police officer sean collier. Prosecutors athe tsarnaev brothers ambushed and killed him once the fbi named them as the bombing suspects. Were in boston with the evidence. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Court is now in session with more on the murder of the m. I. T. Police officer. Yesterday jurors and sean colliers family members saw new Surveillance Video and aimages from the murder scene as well as an eyewitness who put Dzhokhar Tsarnaev squarely at the scene. Prosecutors say this grainy video shows dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev heading towards sean colliers m. I. T. Police cruiser moments before he ambushed him. Jurors got to see images of the crime scene for the first time wednesday. Oh, my goodness. All units respond. Officer down. Officer down reporter and listened to frantic Police Dispatch calls from that night. Get on it reporter its hard to make out much from the surveil is video but m. I. T. Graduate student captured on tape riding his bike is certain who he saw. Someone was leaning into the drivers side door he testified. He snapped up, stood up, turned around, looked eded startled. We made eye contact. The prosecutor asks do you see that person in the courtroom today . He said yes, pointing towards tsarnaev. Hes right there. He has a blue shirt on. Any better in terms of an eyewitness like that. It doesnt. An eyewitness certain what they saw and can make a positive i. D. , its a powerful fact for the jurors. Reporter tsarnaev executed collier in a failed attempt to steal his gun. Hours after the fbi publicly identified the brothers as prime suspects in the bombings. So it may be difficult, the nation is counting on those with information to come forward and provide it to us. Reporter jurors also got to see remnants of one of the Pressure Cooker explosives in court. Including a paint can filled with shrapnel and a detonator fuse. Right now jurors are hearing more about murder of officer sean collier, and laptter today prosecutors are expecting to put on the stand the man allegedly carjacked at gunpoint by the two brothers. All right, thank you so much. This morning, the Associated Press is suing the state department to get access to time at secretary of state. On tuesday, she said she deleted about 30,000 emails from her years at the state department. The Computer Security firm analyzed clintons personal email address, it reportedly found that for at least the first two months of her term her private server was vulnerable to hacking and spying. A horrible kaths cancer plagued the university of oklahoma campus. The word from sigma alma epsilon chapter advisory board. Its members say the stigma dates back at least three to four years, but this morning, more questions whether the fraternitys racist chant actually began on the campus. Jericka duncan is at the school in norman oklahoma. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Now the university of texas is looking into claims that the sae chapter there used the racist chant, but last night here in norman it was the students staff and people from the area that came together to talk about diversity. People look at me like im crazy. People look at me and judge me on sight. Reporter at a town hall wednesday night no one understood reporter many of the speakers we heard from hope the outrage over a video could usher in changes for the university and the city of norman. Lets start supporting each other. Reporter for days the campus Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter denied passing down or teaching a racist clant to its members but hours before the town hall the local chapters board of trustees made up of alumni advisers said wednesday they discovered a horrible cancer entered into the ou chapter of sae three to four years ago, and was not immediately and totally stopped. However, the National Headquarters of sae reiterated that they would not teach such a racist hateful chant. Never be a [ bleep ] in sae reporter one of the xaulds leaders in the video, 19yearold parker rice claimed in his apology letter the song was taught to us. Student groups have been Holding Events throughout the week in response to the video. A lot of people arent aware of the institutionalized racism we face here at minority irs on campus. Reporter the University Announces it will hire a Vice President who will oversee diversity programs. They will not be judged by the color of their skin reporter these students say the door has finally been opened to talk honestly about race. But by the content of their character, i have a dream reporter the University President david boren says he had been meeting regularly with minority groups before the sae incident. As for the investigation into sae, well that continues, and more students could face punishment. Jericka, thanks. Fema will soon review every Flood Insurance claim brought on by superstore sandy. The reviews comes after a 60 minutes investigation revealed fraud by some Insurance Companies and how they assessed damage. Insurers denied doing anything wrong. People who file claims will get a letter from fema about the process and also have access to engineering reports. You might remember the frightening video we showed earlier this week of an attempted kidnapping of a toddler. A suspect is in jail this morning. 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