Its making headlines after that 9yearold girl accidentally shot her instructor. A losing bet. Three Atlantic City casinos set to shut down over this labor day weekend. Well take a look at the Ripple Effect in the economy there. In politics reverend al sharpton well see what he has in common with kentucky senator rand paul. May, there, everyone just past high noon welcome to weekends with alex witt, Dianne Feinstein giving her assessment of president obamas handling of the isis threat. I think ive learned one thing about this president , and that is, hes very cautious. Maybe in this instance, too cautious. I do know the military i know the state department, i know others have been putting plans together and so hopefully those plans will coalesce into a strategy. Meantime u. S. Military carried out a new round of air strikes in a town about 105 miles north of baghdad. Those strikes were in conjunction with humanitarian aid airdrops that have been surrounded by isis fighters for weeks now
Take over more ukrainian territory. World leaders outraged. The United Nations holding an emergency meeting. Welcome to early start. Im john berman. Im christine romans. 4 00 a. M. In the east. Very, very busy news day. Reports of imminent air strikes against isis targets in syria. They are premature. President obama says theres no military strategy there, yet, in syria. He is under pressure to punish isis terrorists inside syria. He made it clear, he is not ready to take that step. Doing that needs to be a regional effort. As i have said, ruling out a cancer like isil will not be quick or easy. Im confident we can and we will working closely with allies and partners. It will be important for congress to weigh in. Our conversations develop so the American People are part of the debate. I dont want to put the cart before the horse. We dont have a strategy, yet. The president says he is meeting with top advisers on the isis threat in syria and iraq and sending secretary of state, john ke
Damaging winds went along with all of that. You can expect to see more of that as the day goes on, even possible tornados across the plains and midwest. One tornado was confirmed already in worcester, massachusetts. And in new york, rain falling so fast and furious yesterday drivers were caught in flash floods. The storm system virtually turned the northeast into a steam bath. Humidity levels extremely high and you know what that means, more, more rain and more, more bill karins. I guess that might be the Silver Lining is we get to talk to bill karins. Yeah, we dont like any bad weather, especially on a holiday weekend. We expect in september, especially the beginning of september, were going to get thunderstorm, the lightning and the danger and also deal with torrential rain. What you dont expect is tornados in massachusetts. I mean worcester, mass, is known for their major winter storm total, not tornados. But they did have a little one go through last night. Today were turning our f
Approach in confronting them. I think it is a major varsity team and if you want to use those kind of monikers but i have seen nothing that compares with its viciousness. They crossed the border into iraq before we even knew it happened. So, yeah yeah, this is a group of people who are extraordinarily dangerous and they will kill with abandon. Iraqis will fight but there has to be a policy and a strategy to implement that policy. I think it starts with an understanding that this is a direct threat to the United States of america. Joining us now, retired Major General bob scales, fox news military analyst. General scales, you just heard senator john mccain who is on the Armed Services committee saying the iraqis will fight but the iraqi army weve trained has been pretty much pushed all over the place by isis. What is going to change that . Well, probably nothing, at least not for the short term, jon. Theyre having enough Trouble Holding on to baghdad and the shiacontrolled areas theyre
American, james foley, who was beheaded by ien isis fighter with a british accent. You remember the video. The root cause of the Terror Threat according to David Cameron is islamic extremism which cameron calls a quote, unquote poisonous political ideology supported by a minority. It believes in using the most brutal forms of terrorism to force people to accept a warped world view and to live in an almost medieval state. A state in which its own citizens would suffer unimaginable brutality, including barbaric beheadings of those that refuse to convert to their warped version of islam, enslavement, raping of women, and widespread slaughter of muslims by fellow muslims and of course exporting of terrorism abroad. The u. K. Is so concerned about the isis threat theyre talking about creating new laws to take away passports. Carl pin hall is live in london and attended that conference. Also, Security National analyst julian kie a. M. Carl, to you first, David Cameron said there is no specif