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Putin has been attempting to hack our electric grid. which we rely upon to support our quality of life, economy, health and safety. our team covering this story is joining us from all angels, we begin with polo sandoval. government, u.s. government official, vermont, still unsure of the scope or intent of this in strugs. >> that's a great point. one u.s. government official tells me colleague, jim sciutto, if this was an isolated incident. they continue with that investigation, there is a few things we do know for sure. this is some of it. we understand that burlington electric, as part of thi...

And they've now achieved that. they invited me to st. louis for this demonstration. told me to get in a jeep and drive onto the interstate and then they told me they were going to -- i knew they were going to hack the vehicle. but i didn't know what they were going to do. the trick started with small things like turning up the volume of the -- >> we saw the radio goes out of control. the air conditioning goes out of control. the wipers go out of control. they even controlled the speed. >> eventually, they cut the transmission entirely. i was stalled on the highway with no ability to move the v...

Manufacturer, you know. we've really dedicated a lot of our lives to figuring out security vulnerabilities and we've gotten good at it. we feel, that you know we're really doing them a service by looking at these things telling them how we broke into it and then ensuring that they fix it and we did that with chrysler. they knew back in october about what we were doing, and they have been really responsive and communicated with us to ensure there were patches through to the customer. >> they knew you pulled it off. now for fixes and potential vulnerabilities moving forward. chris valasek, thank...

But it's not a movie plot. it's our other national lead today. cyber security expert named chris roberts claims he successfully commandeered a united airline looinline without ever stepping foot in the cockpit. hacked into the onboard entertainment system and managed to get the jet to fly sideways trying to expose security vulnerabilities. haven't haven't's justice correspondent pamela brown joins us live. does the fbi think this actually really happened? >> reporter: skepticism. a senior law official says there's no credibility information suggesting it be a manipulated but the fbi is worried...

Director clancy and listen to his own testimony on capitol hill he'll tell you every single one of the incidents we reported and broke exclusively is very troubling to him. it was a violation of security protocol in that incident. we did correct it before anybody else -- before it was ever publicly we were asked about that. we corrected it as soon as we found out. >> do you find yourself needing to challenge those sources? >> i'm sorry, i couldn't hear you. you said something interesting about the pushback. many agents and officials inside secret service who are sources of mine say they feel a...