As kron 4s mike pelton shows us there were many creative costumes in the crowd this year. Mike . . From creative costumes to nothing in all we saw a variety of costumes today with the pink gorilla out front bay to breakers is back this is the most clothing ive worn in 24 races my costume is super woman Mike Spongebob Oompa Loompas whatever that is and sharks we saw costumes from the creative to the crazy how toes a turkey run . Fast feet fast feet pizza pie come in through mike nearly 50thousand people signed up for bay to breakers. An increase over last year. For some its a race for most its a party on the pavement im going to try and rock all the way to the finish line mike and speaking of food whats bay to breakers without bags full or tortillas drafter definitely much faster than bananasgiraffes ok guys show them what you do mike while certainly not everyone finished the race. For those who did no real strategy just go with the flow everybody is having fun its San Francisco baby mi
Orders to try to capture this man. But apparently a firefight broke out. Handtohand combat he resisted. He was killed in the firefight along with other isis fighters there. His wife captured and taken back to iraq. The big question why this guy, why was it worth risking so much u. S. Military lives to go after him . What we are being told is he was an isis leader if you will in their oil and gas operations. So thats very key. Because of the Financial Impact the financial benefit to isis. But perhaps more serious even there had been a sense by the u. S. That he was increasingly involved in isis command and control. And isis operations. And u. S. Officials are beginning to indicate there may have been a reason to believe he might have been in contact at some point with abu bakr albaghdadi, the very reclusive leader of isis. The guy the u. S. Of course wants to get. All right. Lets talk more about this Senior International correspondent Nick Paton Walsh is with us from beirut. Nick you ha
Morning. Lets bring in pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr, Senior International correspondent Nick Paton Walsh and National Correspondent Sunlen Serfaty and cnn military analysts retired Lieutenant General Mark Hertling and retired Major General james spider marks. Lets start with Barbara Starr, who broke the news this morning, tell us what we know. Good morning, well it was a commando raid overnight, deep into syrian isisheld territory. U. S. Army special Operations Forces and that means delta force, went in by helicopter under orders to try to capture this man. But apparently a firefight broke out, handtohand combat. He resisted. He was killed in the firefight. Along with other isis fighters there. His wife captured and taken back to iraq. The big question why this guy . Why was it worth risking so many u. S. Military lives to go after him . What were being told is he was an isis leader if you will in their oil and gas operations. So thats very key because of the financial impact.
Control portfolio, as well. So this was a significant hit this morning. The white house, of course has said that we would not put boots on the ground in syria, it seems like we just did that. Have we established a new precedent . Oh, no. These boots were look lets not call them boots. These are special operators that went after a very highvalue target eliminated the target and were able to come back safely with abu sayyafs wife um sayyaf who is the deputy to her former husband. This was a highrisk, highreward operation executed phenomenally. In other words, youre saying there could be great military significance. Intelligence gathered from the wife. Absolutely correct. The interrogation that will follow ing this is significant. Thats kind of point number one. Point number two, as a result of this raid special operators walked away with a lot of documents. A lot of information. Hard drives, computers, et cetera. We will go through, we, the Intelligence Community will go through that ver
To kill Lyle Mitchell. As you know he is the husband of Joyce Mitchell the prison steamstress now accused in helping these two men get away from that prison. Whats unclear is why they intended to kill Lyle Mitchell when they intended to kill Lyle Mitchell and how much Joyce Mitchell actually knew about that plan. We know she was aware of it but the question is did she know all the details that there was a plan in place to kill her husband . The same source also telling me tonight, anderson that Joyce Mitchell was having a sexual relationship with richard. He killed and dismembered his neighbor. Its unclear, anderson tonight how long that sexual relationship was going on but all of this new information coming to us tonight as we are learning more about their stunning escape. Reporter they could practically taste freedom, but that didnt stop convicted killers david and richard from leaving a series of snarky postit notes for authorities to see. The one that says have a nice day on it. I