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Are checking into the hurricane harvey facebook safety check page. marking themselves is safe so family members and friends are aware of their status. we've seen these pages pop up after terrorist attacks in people communicate here like a message board. it's very helpful. sometimes people asking for help in some offering assistance. this is a facebook video poster from the police department by department showing their vehicles rushing back into the city after harvey made landfall as everyone else was urged to stay off. everyone either hunkering down or leaving. the police vehicles dashing in t...

Russian hack, got rebuffed, and then when he had this remarkable phone conference with state election officials, offering assistance, offering to designate state election systems as critical infrastructure, he gets this blowback from state election officials saying, no, you know, we don't want a federal takeover of our elections, so as a result, he put it all on the back burner. >> why would they target those specific states? was it something about their election systems? >> we don't know for sure. the two we know were penetrated were arizona, which is a purple state, leans red, and illinois, ...

Occupying but the kind of troops you're sending are actually the kind of troops that take ground and hold it at least briefly. >> again, i recognize that the -- that the service members that president obama has sent to iraq do have extraordinary combat capabilities. they have extensive training, the kind of combat equipment you would see in a theater of war, that you would expect our service members to have when they're operating in a dangerous place. but the mission they have been given is different than the mission they were given by president bush, that involved occupying a foreign country....

Yeah, it could be part of the -- clearly part of the cordoned. >> we are told checkpoints being set up with military monitoring them. i wanted to tell you we have just gotten word from the united states government relevant agents, fbi, cia, all offering assistance. an fbi statement is expected from headquarters shortly. the fbi new york field office has responsibility for france and connecting directly fbi attache stations in paris. i was mentioning earlier the band that was playing at the theater at the time the eagles of death metal, their drummer has just reported to the "the washington pos...

City. one official described, quote, carnage inside the building saying attackers had, quote, tossed explosives at the hostages. both officials say they expected the death toll to rise. as agency french press, the french press agency reports around 100 people dead. and in the attack on the paris concert venue. that would presumably bring the death toll to somewhere around 120, 130 as we are getting live reports from in from the scene and authorities are moving to cordon back so the police lines are being moved back further and further as the crime scene is expanding as people are told to go to...