The shocking and bloody rampage at an officer Training Center near kabul apparently carried out by an afghan soldier. Some 15 Coalition Troops were wounded including a german general. Our correspondents and guests are standing by with full coverage. Our chief National Security correspondent jim sciutto, jim . A difficult day for u. S. Forces in afghanistan. Also at the pentagon. The most senior u. S. Officer killed since 9 11 and a significant casualty toll, as well began with what was a routine visit to the Marshal Fahim university where after gan senior military officers are trained. This was a senior delegation involving more than one coalition general and they were met with a brazen attack. An afghan soldier im told had completed a sevenstep vetting process opening fire with a russian made light machine gun killed the general. He wounded at least 15 others including eight americans and a german general and some of those wounded are seriously wounded. The attacker then killed as for
Give me an update whats going on in dallas with the new patient, newly named ms. Pham. Reporter in the hospital behind me, nina pham is in Isolation Unit where days previous she was treating Thomas Eric Duncan, who is now sadly deceased. People are looking for where any breach of protocol may have occurred and whether that contributed to her getting the disease. Thats one thing under investigation today. And, of course, we are all waiting for an update on how she may be reacting to that treatment that you mentioned, that she has received some of the blood from dr. Kent brantly. What we are hearing from the community here and from family and friends is that she is facetiming with her famimother other family members and in good spirits. I spoke to her catholic church, vietnamese congregation last night. They held a special prayer vigil, about 30 minutes from here in ft. Worth. And they called on the world to pray for a member of their flock, nina pham. One person i talked to after that s
Other side. Thanks for joining us. Barack obama has a couple of tough years ahead of him as voters took out the anger on the status quo on his fellow democrats. Tuesdays elections gave the democrats the upper hand for the First Time Since 2006. Leaders say they will look for Common Ground and republicans say theyre eager to get to work on what they see as the Biggest Challenges ahead. Some of the message also is a message that the American Public is tired of gridlock, theyre ready to see something happen and i want to be part of that. The American People put a stop sign out in front of the oval office. The president obviously cant see it. So i dont say this as people in america becoming republican. I see this as telling the president stop, reconsider where youre going. Theres such anxiety in the country about whats happened in washington and how things just havent gotten done. And i think what they were doing with governors was rewarding the governors they believe get their job done an
Of representatives is looking more like a house of cards. Dana bash reports. Reporter there is congressional chaos, then theres this. A republican meeting to vote for a new speaker ending abruptly after the frontrunner, Kevin Mccarthy shocked everyone. Suddenly dropping out of the race. You were behind him. Are you stunned . Yeah, totally stunned. No idea tf coming. You were just in there, what happened . Kevin mccarthy, just like john boehner did, put the country and the congress and the conference before his own interests. It was a very honorable thing to do. He recognized and shared with the congress that he was afraid his candidacy might further divide the caucus and the party across the country. Behind closed doors thats exactly what Kevin Mccarthy told his colleagues. I think i shocked some of you, huh . A a and. Reporter and what he repeated to reporters after the News Conference got out. If were going to remain united and strong, we need a new face to do that nothing more than
East Peace Process because so many palestinians recognize East Jerusalem as the capital of what they hope to be as a future state of palestine for the Palestinian People and asked about this just a little highway ago, the president was meeting with his cabinet earlier today, and he was asked whether or not this will affect the middle east Peace Process, he said hell talk about that here in a few moments. But undoubtedly when you look around the world from the pope to the palestinians and just about every u. S. Ally in between, there are grave concerns about what the president is about to do here. Certainly are. Were going to stand by and momentarily well hear directly from the president over there at the white house. Jim acosta, thanks. Well get back to you. Meanwhile Trump Administration officials admit it could take years to complete the embassy move from tel aviv to jerusalem. Our Cnn International diplomatic editor Nic Robertson is joining from us jerusalem right now. Regardless of