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Rates have gone up even more. >> thank you. the federal government still trying to figure out who launched the cyber attack that crippled sites around the world. preliminary evidence indicates it was not done by foreign government. web cams and dvrs. used those to bring down sites like netflix and twitter. michael tail vance may be armed with an a krk 47. and while he was fleeing from police, he posted a video online. >> reporter: john and christine, michael vanls has been on the run for more than two days now. authorities in oklahoma are tight lips about where exactly the search might be ...

Infiltrating devices in your home right now. this is serious. hundreds of thousands of dvrs and web cams were faken over by malware. >> yeah. this is an attack that caused widespread outages online. look at this. match a number of popular websites, netflix, spotify, twitter all going down. the fbi is investigating. no one has pointed a finger as one particular group or nation here. what led to this cyber breech. we want to bring in samuel burke who is joining us from london and looking at that. what have you learned about that question in specifics, samuel? >> reporter: well, we're just learni...

Clinton is hitting the campaign trail this weekend with her running mate, tim kaine, something she has rarely done, working saturdays and sundays on the road. she will be holding rallies today in pittsburgh and pennsylvania and heading to north carolina tomorrow. the clinton campaign is focusing on early voting, trying to capture this momentum now, to ward off any sense of an october surprise. victor and christi? >> all right, jeff, thank you so much. we just want to remind you, cnn cannot independently verify the authenticity of the wikileaks e-mails. a massive cyberattack was partly carrie...

It's time to start believing again. so was your internet acting a little wonky yesterday? a lot of popular sites came under a widespread cyberattack. in fact, we're learning now those -- the internet-connected dvrs, or the web cams that may be in your home may have been used to carry out this attack. >> we're talking some sites that are visited often. we're talking netflix, spotify, twitter, and there were others that went down throughout the day. and now the fbi, the department of homeland security, they are involved. it's not clear who's responsible just yet, but it's clear this attack aff...

Hundreds of thousands of those devices that you were referencing, drvs in people's homes, web cams in people's homes that were connected to the internet were actually helping this attack, which hit so many places, especially the northeast in the united states, as well as london, here in the united kingdom. and basically what happened was a middle man company, when you type in twitter, this company makes sure you get to twitter.com, they were attacked over and over again. so amazing to think that maybe the dvr sitting in your house that might be recording the show was taken over by hackers and ...