jim clancy, cnn. >>> and there is some progress being made in the fight against ebola. to find out how you can help end the epidemic head to the impact your world section of our website. you'll find it at cnn dk oi cnn.com/impact. >>> a spacex falcon 9 rocket is due to lift off in just a few hours. it's headed on a cargo resupply mission to the international space station. and for the first time the company will try to land the main component of that rocket on a platform floating in the ocean. if everything worked as planned it will be a big step toward making reusable rockets. great idea. >>> as far as we know weather should not pose an issue for lift-off in florida. sometimes you get all excited, count down, watching the live feed and then the clounds mess it up. pedrad javaheri joins to tell us how many disappointed children there will be. >> pick just about any other place in the united states there would be disappointed children when it comes to what's going on. but in this corner of the country you take a look at the satellite perspective, this is actually the cur

joe clancy called for patience telling congress it's going to take some time to change the culture of his agency. that did not sit well with lawmakers who demanded answers about an incident earlier this month, when it's alleged two agents showed up as a suspicious package investigation at the white house after drinking at a party. clancy responded that surveillance video from the incident may reveal a less sensational version of events than was reported but the director admitted he wasn't told about it for five days. here's what he had to say. >> we had a good stern talk about that and then instructed the staff to go out to their management to ensure that these events any event of misconduct or operational errors have to be relayed up the chain. >> but clancy said changes are coming to thwart jumpers. a taller fence may go up this summer around the white house. and to address the outdated training facility we visited, the secret service wants to build a mock white house at a cost of $8 million. as for the alleged drunk driving incident they're awaiting the results of an investigation.

director clancy and four others were told not to testify alone. panel members warning he is the director that it is not acceptance. >>> a death threat against president obama's niece forced officials to tighten security during the ncaa basketball game with princeton and maryland. forward leslie robinson is the daughter of michelle obama's brother. a female caller left a voice mail for the police department warning a man with a gun was driving on campus possibly targeting robinson. his niece was not notified until after the game. >>> time for an early start on your money. stocks barely moving. yesterday, they took a break. the dow and s&p pulled back before the closing bell. nasdaq closed lower, but above 5,000. asian shares are lower after china's factory activity slumped. the latest in a string of economic reports fueling worries of lower growth. >>> 13 minutes past the hour. a shocking story of gang rape at college fraternity published in "rolling stone" and made headlines around the world. a police investigation revealing a very different story

>>james: secret service director joe clancy is asking for patience. he told congress it will take time to reform his agency. but lawmakers frustrated with security lapses don't seem to be in the mood to wait. jim acosta explains. >>reporter: he conceded he had big problems to fix. he would take time to change some of the cultural that did not sit well with lawmakers who demanded answers about and senate early this month to a to showed a suspicious package investigation at the white house after drinking at a party. i cannot believe this it will take time to change the culture can you explain to me is why it's ok for member of the sickness service to get so inebriated that they would take the car and run into a barricade? the directive admitted he was not told of the incident for five days we had a good start talk about the ship to step to go out to their management to ensure that these events of this, the operational after big relate of the chain. >>reporter: he became director just a month ago and he explained their deep-rooted issues to such a high p

. >>> jim clancy resigned as a cnn correspondent friday after 34 years with the network after he got in a nasty spat on twitter over the charlie hebdo cartoons. he said they never >> jim ed he said they never mocked moed mohamed muhammad. the coward ss. and he said get a grip, you need to pick on a cripple outside the herd. >> it's ashamepor is ending the career on such a sour note and it is a shame. >> now, are pundits fair of mitt romney exploring another race? are they ever? he is a big bow and expected the blow back but he got 21 percent of g.o.p. and his own party has been vocal i am not sure you can pin it on the pundits. >> compare mitt romney to st. elizabeth warren. >> message to pundits: why want did hear about 2016 every day. why? because we are only two or three weeks into 2015? ouch. finally, in our picks this media failed interesting piece that the olympic committee has approved three on three basketball and i played a lot of that on the asphalt jungle in rio and taken from a website which might have been a tip-off by the name before they said i wrote a post based on a

iromo sul sul >>> jim clancy resigned as a cnn correspondent friday after 34 years with the network after he got in a nasty spat on twitter over the charlie hebdo cartoons. he said they never mocked moed he said they never mocked moed mohamed muhammad. the coward ss. and he said get a grip, you need to pick on a cripple outside the herd. >> it's a shame a reporter covering war zones around the world is ending on such a sour note. >>> are pundits being fair about mitt romney exploreing a presidential race. are they ever? he got 21% of gop poll. and his own party has been pretty vocal. not sure you can pin it on the pundits. >> compare media coverage of mitt the punching bag to saint elizabeth warren. dana says, probably not but message to pundits, i don't want to hear about 2016 everyday. >> what because we're only two or three week into 2015? ouch. this media fail. pretty interesting piece on the media site dead spain on three on three basketball. i played a lot of that in the jungle as an official sport for the 2016 games in rio and it was taken from a website called the pit pitato advoc

and we have very high hopes for the new secret service director jim clancy. he has come back to the agency to try to solve these problems. i and john conyers, the ranking democrat on the committee and jason chaffetz the member of the oversight committee and his ranking member elijah cummings will be meeting with director clancy to talk about what measures they're taking to solve the problem. clearly there's a serious morale problem and a serious discipline problem at the agency charged with some of the most important responsibility the, protecting the life of the president and other people around him. >> when you're going over the events of that evening, you left out the part where a senior supervisor let the agents go home without forcing them to take a sobriety test. >> no breath test and yet the report is he smelled the alcohol on their breath and therefore, i don't think they're going to get away with this. but that again, is an example of you know protecting somebody's back rather than protecting the president of the united states. >> well then let me re

secret service director jim clancy testified this morning reiterated that calls to the secret service placed on that very day never actually said that doug hughes was on his way about to land. >> i want to be clear. at no time did the secret service receive notice this event was taking place. while the secret service received telephone calls on the date of the incident at no time was information provided in the calls that would have alerted our person knoll the fact that hughes was piloting to the capitol capitol. >> reporter: today agencies are laying out timelines of the day. the administrator of the faa testified hugh's gyrocopter showed up on radar but as non-aircraft and appeared intermittently. >>> temperatures right now in the 60s. we're at 69 in washington 64 in haggerstown and 66 in leesburg. beautiful sunshine and today simply spectacular. low humidity highs for the most part will warm into the mid to upper 70s. warmer than yesterday and we'll keep plenty of sunshine around. high temperature in washington 76. cooler for areas by the water. temperatures there only around 70 d

secret service director jim clancy will testify and he's expected to say callers to the secret service the day of the landing did not say the gyrocopter was already in flight. clancy's is expected to say that they saw it near the white house and they were telling their superiors as it landed. >>> we know some of you can't wait to watch the caps in the round two of the stanley cup playoffs. we know now when they'll play. you can watch them 7:30 tomorrow night. game two is saturday at 12:30. you can watch that one right here on nbc4. the teams will play at the verizon center monday and wednesday nights. center eric phair will be back on the ice. the whole team will practice in arlington this later this morning. the rangers are a nemesis. they have been a problem. so we're hoping now that we have advanced through round one, you know what i mean? go caps. yes. >>> well the race to the white house is expected to get bigger today. who can throw their name into the ring. >>> and the protesters clash with police in mexico. what demonstrators say was behind the violent clashes. >>> she died aft

jim clancy is going to testify. he is expected to say that secret service did not say that the gyrocopter was already in flight. clancy is expected to say secret service agents saw the gyrocopter near the white house. they were telling their superiors just as it landed. coming up at 5:45 news4's zachary kiesch has a look at some tough questions they'll face today. >>> we know that caps fans cannot wait to watch round two of the stanley cup playoffs. we now know when they'll play. you can watch them 7:30 tomorrow night. game two saturday at 12:30. watch that here on nbc4. the teams will play at the verizon center on monday and wednesday nights. go caps. the rangers our nemesis. but -- >> no pressure. >> no pressure. but we made it through round one. momentum, exciting. >>> caught on camera, a man slams his car into a senior but just when you thought he was about to get out and help think about. the search underway for a hit and run driver. >>> and a devastating earthquake in nepal, how crews from our area are trying

jim clancy reports. >> reporter: they are ordinary people, telling extraordinary stories. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> reporter: she says it never occurred to me that i would survive. suffering from ebola, you're more convinced of your death than your life. she tells how she drank the water, she took the medicine. of nine people in her family, six people died, including her father in a bed right next to her. but fear is not her message. it's true, she says, you can die of ebola. but it's also true you can survive. she is one of some 30 individuals who will be part of a media campaign titled "i survived ebola." it carries the images and survivors to newspapers, television, radio, the internet and mobile phones. >> we realized early on in our strategy that the biggest untapped resource in this fight begins ebola is survivors themself the. and really survivors offer three things, inspiration and hope. they can share actual facts that saved their lives that will allow others to save their own lives and the lives of their communities. and lastly, they can help tackle the profound i