[Paul:] Good morning. Thirty minute past the hour. So grateful for your company. I'm Christi Paul.
[Blackwell:] I'm Victor Blackwell. Here are five things you need to know for your NEW DAY. Number one, security concerns at the White House. Last night, a man jumped the fence outside the North Lawn. Now, the Secret Service says this was 42-year-old Omar Gonzalez of Copperas Cove, Texas. He was not armed. A man then believed to be Gonzalez was loaded on to ambulance shortly after the security breach. The first family was not at the White House at the time.
[Paul:] Number two. Shades of the cold war, it seems. U.S. jets intercepted a half dozen Russian military planes flying too close to Alaskan air space. This happened on Thursday. But they didn't enter sovereignty territory. However, they came within 55 miles. A U.S. official tells our Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr it looks as though the incident was planned to coincide with the Ukrainian president's visit to the U.S. and Canada.
[Blackwell:] Number three: police in Pennsylvania appear to be closing in on a man they suspected killed one state trooper and wounded another. Officers are scouring a section of he Poconos where they believe 31-year-old Eric Matthew Frein is hiding. Now, earlier police exchanged gunfire with the man they think was Frein. The people who live there they're being warned to stay inside as this manhunt continues.
[Paul:] Number four, a man accused of deliberately starting a California forest fire is pleading not guilty. There he is. Wayne Huntsman, he's being held on a $10 million bond and he's facing one felony count of arson. The King fire, as it's being called, has grown to more than 76,000 acres. Only 10 percent of it has been contained.
[Blackwell:] Number five, it is the biggest IPO ever to hit Wall Street and it's growing. Shares of Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, generated nearly $22 billion in sales in its initial public offering. And after just one day, the price is up 38 percent. Company's CEO says he wants Alibaba to be compared with American corporate icons like Walmart, Microsoft,
[Ibm. Paul:] All right. Let's talk about the NFL. People waiting to hear more from Commissioner Roger Goodell and we got it. He said despite the league's domestic abuse scandal, he's not going anywhere. In his first public remarks in more than a week, he apologized yesterday for his mishandling of the scandal. But made it clear, he's never even considered leaving his post despite all the calls for him to step down. Goodell went on to promise sweeping changes for the NFL. Here's CNN's Alexandra Field.
[Alexandra Field, Cnn Correspondent:] Roger Goodell speaking at a Manhattan news conference amid calls for his resignation.
[Roger Goodell, Nfl Commissioner:] I got it wrong on a number of levels, from the process that I led to the decision that I reached. But now, I will get it right and do whatever is necessary to accomplish that.
[Field:] The embattled NFL commissioner apologizing for what he said was his mishandling of the Ray Rice domestic violence scandal. Here's a question from CNN's Rachel Nichols.
[Rachel Nichols, Cnn's "unguarded":] Roger, you've had pretty extreme unilateral power in making decisions, but as you've said a few times, you've got it wrong in a few cases and that tends to happen when there's no checks and balances. How willing are you to give up some of that power? And do you think that that would be the right thing for you to do?
[Goodell:] Well, Rachel, as I said in any statement, everything is on the table. We're going to make sure that we look at every aspect of the process of how we gather information to make a decision, how we make that decision and then the appeals process.
[Nichols:] Even as Goodell pledged to move ahead, questions still loom in the rice case about who knew what when after TMZ released the now infamous inside the elevator video.
[Goodell:] We asked for it on several occasions. According to our security department, we asked for it on several occasions over the spring all the way through June, from February through June. So, I'm confident that our people did that.
[Field:] Two security camera videos put the Rice case squarely in the public eye showing the former Baltimore Ravens star knocking out his then-fiancee with a punch last February. A source within the Ravens organization tells CNN that hours after the incident in an Atlantic City hotel and casino, the head of Baltimore Ravens security Darren Sanders spoke with Atlantic City police who described in detail to Sanders the elevator video. ESPN is reporting that Sanders then shared the information with team executives and that those executives started extensive public and private campaigns for leniency for Rice a source within the Ravens' organization say the Ravens never saw the video until TMZ released it. The Ravens issued a statement late Friday saying, "The ESPN.com "Outside The Lines" article contains numerous error, inaccuracies, false assumptions and perhaps misunderstandings. The Ravens will address all of these next week in Baltimore after our trip to Cleveland for Sunday's game against the Browns." Alexandra Field, CNN, New York.
[Blackwell:] Of course, we'll talk more about that throughout the morning. Let's talk about ISIS now, on the march in Syria and Iraq. But will the militants directly threaten the U.S. homeland?
[Paul:] And a doctor who performed Joan Rivers' last surgery is pushing back against claims that she snapped a selfie in the operating room when the comedian was under anesthesia. How new accusations could complicate the investigation.