00:00Closing, capping up into that bag of cocaine that was brought into the White House West Wing earlier this month.
00:06A House lawmaker telling CNN the Secret Service does not have a suspect.
00:10Jeremy Diamond back with us. More reporting on this.
00:13Jeremy, you've got the new reporting here. What more are you learning?
00:16Yeah, Kay, well, the Secret Service is concluding its investigation into this matter.
00:21They have not identified a suspect, despite combing through hundreds of potential individuals
00:26who walked through that lower-level West Wing entrance where this small baggie of cocaine was found
00:32a little less than two weeks ago.
00:34Lawmakers were told that this was less than a gram of cocaine that was found here,
00:39but Secret Service officials were not able to identify a suspect,
00:43and I'm told by two people familiar with this investigation that they have concluded their investigatory efforts.
00:49Now, one of these sources familiar with the matter says that the leading theory remains
00:53that it was likely one of these individuals who was a visitor on a West Wing tour
00:58who likely left this baggie of cocaine, and that's in part because of where this baggie was found,
01:04not only at this West Wing entrance where these tour groups go through,
01:08but also because it was found inside one of these cubbies where West Wing visitors are asked
01:12to leave their phones before going on these tours.
01:16Now, one detail that my colleague Priscilla Alvarez has also learned is that apparently,
01:19despite the fact that there are security cameras, surveillance cameras in that West Wing hallway,
01:24those cubbies are a blind spot, and so they did not have cameras directly trained on those cubbies,
01:30and that made identifying who may have left it there that much more difficult.
01:36So at this hour, Kate, this investigation has concluded effectively.
01:40Lawmakers have been informed and no suspects identified.
01:44Kate?
01:44Very interesting. Good to see you, Jeremy. Thank you for the update. Sarah?
01:47All right. An historic approval this morning.
01:51The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill
01:55in the United States. It's called O-Pill.
01:58CNN health reporter Jacqueline Howard has more on this for us.
02:01Jacqueline, can you give us some sense of the efficacy of O-Pill and when it will be available to
02:06people?
02:08Well, Sarah, we could see O-Pill available in the first quarter of 2024.
02:13That's what we're hearing.
02:14So in early next year, O-Pill could be made available in grocery stores, on drugstore shelves, even online.
02:22So that's the timeline that we can expect.
02:24And to tell you a little more about O-Pill, it is an oral contraceptive.
02:28We do know that it contains only progestin.
02:31Progestin. And this is the first time that the U.S. FDA has approved an oral contraceptive pill for over
02:39-the-counter use.
02:41So you don't need a prescription.
02:42Now, I should clarify, this is not an emergency contraception.
02:47This is, again, a daily birth control pill.
02:50The idea here, Sarah, is this will be made more accessible for people.
02:54And it's just similar to the other progestin-only oral contraceptives that are available under prescription.
03:01So we have seen this drug before.
03:04And now this will be the first time that it is made available without a prescription.
03:10Jacqueline, how many women could this potentially impact?
03:14The FDA announced just this morning that we do know almost half of the 6 million pregnancies here in the
03:22U.S. are unplanned.
03:23So the idea here is that O-Pill will be just another option for women out there.
03:29And we already know it's estimated about two-thirds of women already use some form of contraception.
03:35So, again, this is one other option made available for women here in the U.S., Sarah.
03:40Easier to get it, not having to go to the doctor to get the prescription and all of that.
03:44Jacqueline Howard, thank you so much for your reporting.
03:46Kate?
03:46I don't know why that is so shocking to me that half of the pregnancies that Jacqueline just said, half
03:51of them are unplanned.
03:52That seems, that is really shocking.
03:56It's great that they're having this over-the-counter pill now made available.
03:59Coming up for us, not since Ronald Reagan led the Screen Actors Guild have we seen a strike of both
04:05actors and writers at the same time.
04:06And that is what is about to likely happen.
04:09What is behind this halt in the entertainment industry is coming up.
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