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Circle being in and around the president. condition at the white house, the security condition would have elevated to a certain level. and there are certain protocols that agents would have followed but at no point in time would the president have been relocated to a evacuated from the white house or anything like that for this situation. >> this is all around the periphery of the white house. you see all this law enforcement keeping those streets clear as they assess the situation, go through this car. josh campbell, describe the immediate area for me around the white house. >> we look at pic...

South portico entrance. >> what can you tell us about the security condition at the white house and the details that we're learning as well? we have tom fuentes, but let's start with the reporting. >> reporter: we're just piecing together the reports we're getting. as you mentioned what it appears happened here is that a man gained entrance to the white house security perimeter at around 11:38 friday night and actually made quite a bit of progress into the white house perimeter before finally being captured there by the south portico entrance which is on the back side of the white house. this ...

By the fact that when ryan reported the white house had an elevated security condition, i think ryan reported it went up to a condition orange, what that indicates that is that the white house went into a very comprehensive building defense posture where multiple tactical teams were deployed not only on the south grounds, but remember part of the protected is ensure 360 degrees of coverage of the white house at all times. at times of an elevated threat, that has to be fortified. you had tactical teams going on the north and south grounds to mitigate this threat. you had all of the sensors and ...

Home. authorities are racing to evacuate many of them already. alexandra field joining us now from new york. how dire, how desperate is the situation? >> reporter: look, fred, the state department is clearly keeping a very close eye on the deteriorating situation there. they're concerned about security of americans still in that country, but at this point what the state department tells us is that it has not changed its staffing at the embassy or the consulates. the area we are focused now is balad, where evacuations of u.s. contractors continue to happen. those evacuations are led by the comp...

Way up the line. manufacturers don't have the stores to sell to. so jobs are lost all through the economy. >> the program costs about $25 billion a year. republicans oppose an extension of it in the bipartisan budget agreement unless the cost was offset elsewhere. by all accounts syria is most likely not going to make its tuesday deadline to give up its chemical weapons cache. al assad's government reportedly has not yet begun moving them and u.n. officials say the deteriorating security condition in the country is complicating things. syria agreed to hand over about 40% of its stockpile by ...