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 The man who climbed the White House fence and entered the building earlier this month may have made it much farther than previously 1 acknowledged. NPR's Brian Naylor says the intruder was tackled inside the East Room. 

The secret service first said that 42-years-old army veteran Omar Gonzalez was stopped inside the North Portico 2 door just after the alarm. But the Washington Post reports that Gonzalez ran down the main hall way to the East Room before being tackled. With more alarms inside the building to warm any intruder were scheduled to be shut off because ushers 3 complained the noise. Neither the president nor his family were in the building at the time of September 19 intrusion. A White House panel is said to question secret service director Julia Pierson about the incident. Brian Naylor, NPR News, Washington. 
 
Federal authorities have been indicting 4 the Pakistani maker 5 of a popular smartphone app that secretly allows users to monitor communications. NPR's Dina Temple-Raston reports while the technology similar to what police used to track suspect, private uses is violation 6 of federal law. 
The program is called StealthGenie. It allows users to track people secretly. It can monitor calls, texts and social media; track smartphone location and can even act to fake a phone's microphone to make recordings 7. Hammad Akbar allegedly created this spy work. He's arrested in Los Angeles over this weekend, and charges against him were just made public. It's marked the first ever criminal case concerning the sell of mobile spy work application. The concern is that this act can allow stalkers and domestic abusers to know details of the targets life without anyone knowing. Dina Temple-Raston, NPR News. 
 
Head of Federal Aviation Administration says he's now ordered to review of security protocol 8 on the heels of last week incident where a contractor 9 worker allegedly set fire to air traffic facility. What it appeared to be a failed suicide attempt. While a safer of attorney for the worker indentified it is Brian Howard who admits the incident was troubled on multiple levels. 
" That he did so in a way that inconvenienced and more many, many people is unacceptable, and he deeply regrets that."
The fire brought flights from Chicago 2 busiest airports to a stand stall for 5 hours as it today. Service on Ohio was about 80% of normal while Midway are reported operating about 90%. Agency says it would take 2 weeks to open the damaged control center. 
 
Fewer people were signing contracts to buy a home last month as an indication of home sells may be slowing a bit. According to National Association of Realtors, its seasonally 10 adjusted pending 11 home sell index dropped 1% over the past month. And it also said weaker wage growth couples the rising home prices as one reason sells may be slowing a bit. 
 
Stocks chopped after the open this morning, but recovered some at last ground at the close. The Dow was still down though, 41 points to 17,071; the NASDAQ fell 6 points today. 
 
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United Auto 12 Worker union and a couple of top labor 13 German groups have signed a letter of intent to work jointly 14 to organize Volkswagen disassembling plan in Chattanooga, Tennessee. That's according to a top UAW official who says the goal of the campaign is get majority staff among employees to plant recognition by Volkswagen. UAW lost the vote to represent 1,500 workers at the plant earlier this year after an extensive anti-union efforts by a group of "the National Right to Work". Chattanooga plant is VW's only major factory without any representation in its global works council. 
 
79% of American teens enroll 15 in college by the age of 20. By age 26, nearly 90% of teens have toured a four years program. But NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports a new study examines why fifth the national teens don't enroll in college after high school. 
The study commission by the National School Board Association and the Summit for Public Education provide this profile of a typical American teenager would not immediately go on the college. This student tended to be a male, poor. His parent may own a high school diploma but no more. He's likely to do living in a rural community in the south, and though he thought to go to college, money was the biggest reason he didn't. In high school he took the easiest courses and still got poor grades. He did little alone homework and did not do well in tests. And yet, as the study points out he eventually enrolled 16 college even if it was 9 or 8 years after he graduated from high school. Claudio Sanchez, NPR News. 
 
Researchers who looking for 16 cases of wild weather around the world last year, including heat waves on Australia, are blamed more than half the cases on manmade climate change. The study was organized by the US national Ocean & Atmosphere Administration. 
 
I'm Jack 17 Speer, NPR News in Washington.