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Have been reading reports, although it's interesting, we can no longer read french media reports about this because -- we're now within the blackout period, but we've been reading reports that this suggests that this is a.p.t. 28, this is fancy bear, this appears to be the work of the same russian hacking groups that attacked the u.s. election. what credence do you place in those reports? >> we've spoken directly to the investigators, and like i said, we thought this kind of thing would happen. there's a group called trend micro. it's a big cybersecurity firm. they have been following russian-...

Sort of document leak. there was an expectation that outside forces would try and put their hands on the scale to influence this election and, frankly, that's why i'm here. the opinion polls have put macron way ahead so if you just believe the polls, there's no story here. he's going to win. but these are unusual times and there have already been these reports going back weeks and a few months that russian backed groups have been trying to influence the election. there have been numerous terrorist incidents including one right on the eve of the first round of the presidential elections. so bas...

We're now within the blackout period, but we've been reading reports that suggest this is apt 28, this is fancy bear, this appears to be the work of the same russian hacking groups that attacked the u.s. election. what credence doou place in threrts? >> reporter: we've spoken directly to the investigators and like i said, we thought this kind of thing would happen. there's a group called trend my micro, a big cyber security firm. they have been following russian backed groups for a long time. starting on march 15th, this group detected that the macron campaign was under attack, that it was get...

Slot of snow in atlanta, you have icy conditions. be careful driving out there. this is what's happening right now in the san francisco bay area. plenty of heavy rain. it's been raining there since late last night and we expect more of it and in sonoma county, in particular, we had a flash flood warning and i've been reading reports and not only do we have thunderstorm wind damage with trees down in san francisco and some of the roads are closed due to flooding, and what's happening now and we've heard of the water rescues and it's ramping up. we have this huge area of tropical moisture coming...

Sensational than the original reports had kind of suggested. what did you think? >> well, kate, they were less sensational than perhaps what i envisioned from reading reports. it was less sensational there. but as you mentioned yesterday, you've been reporting on this for over three years. and what we have is we expect the very best. what decisions were made? why did supervisors make decisions to let people go home? and why was a sobriety test not given? what were some of the other issues with regards to the supervisory personnel there on the ground. so, yes, less perhaps -- i had envisions of...