Repeating since last week options are being discussed. Now we know a little bit more about their thinking and what went on in that meeting with congressional leaders, an hour long closeddoor discussion. Now we know some top officials think that the iraqi Prime Minister has to go. Are we any closer to hearing a decision . Maybe. Americas four top lawmakers called to the white house on one of the several decisions facing this country now, what to do or not about iraq. But this was not, it turns out, a session for the president to lay each option on the table and start choosing but more an assessment. Nancy pelosi called it informative, interesting. Senate Minority Leader Mitch Mcconnell less enthused. The president briefed us on the approach hes taking towards developing a strategy. On a day that one analyst called iraq the start of the possibly the worst of both worlds, a deep division into two terror states, one dominated by al qaeda and the other by iran. The administration had to gra
Shortly after the shooting the victims mother spoke to cnn affiliate kmov. They wont tell me nothing. His girlfriend told me that the police was messing with him. He was fitting to get up and run, when he was trying to get up and run, they start shooting him. They wont tell me nothing. They wont even let me see my baby. They just got my baby laying out there. He been out there for about two hours. The shooting has already sparked some tense protests with Police Officer at one point, demonstrators threw a smoking object toward the officers. Some really tense moments there, as you can see. Let me bring in cnns George Howell in st. Louis. You just landed there, got on the ground. What can you tell us at this hour . Reporter well, randi, we have been in touch with his mother and certainly on any account a mother losing a son or daughter, losing a son in this case, its a tragedy here on this Christmas Eve that, you know, you can only imagine what shes going through, but again, looking at th
And the authorities will provide details of what happened at the Umpqua Community college in rosebu roseburg, oregon, that left nine dead and nine injured. At least two of the nine injured are critical. The gunmans ram page began in sni snyder hall on the southeast end of the campus, and from there he went to the science building. The shooter was killed there, and it is not clear whether he was shot by police or committed suicide. Witnesses say at one point the shooter started to singling out christians, and this is what the father of one wounded student told cnn. Are you a christian, he would ask them, and if you are a christian, stand up, and they would stand up, and he would say, good, because you are a christian, you are going to be seeing god in just about one second, and then he shot and killed them, and then he kept going up and down the line doing this to people. And more on the investigation into the campus massacre, and the latest on the victims of ana cabrera outside of the
Armistice halting the korean war. Go to our pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr standing by. Will ripley standing by in beijing, Alexander Field in seoul, south korea for us. Barbara, first of all what do we know about the reported launch . For example, what type of missile was launched today, do we know . And different than the last launch that took place on july 4th . Reporter all the things we are awaiting the pentagon to tell us, wolf, on this day, as once again world threats intervene on washington politics. The North Koreans fired this missile about 10 45 this morning each coast time. According to the pentagon it was quickly detected. The u. S. Has satellites and other intelligence Gathering Systems that can quickly detect Ballistic Missile launches, especially out of north korea. There had been a lot of indicators that they might be getting ready to launch. What were looking for now is the announcement by the pentagon about what kind of Ballistic Missile this was. There is a go
continue. fortuna, former governor of puerto rico, thank you so much for being with us right now. we appreciate it and good luck. we do have to run. we are getting some news just into cnn. this as we re waiting for secretary tillerson to speak. we have new reporting at cnn and a much closer look at how the administration s generals have been working with the secretary of state. i want tag to co go to cnn s ba starr with much more on that. barbara? let me clarify a little bit. we ve been poking around into this, and what we re finding is a little bit unexpectedly, we are seeing a growing number of generals and admirals, three and four stars, starting to speak up very candidly about their views on certain matters without the white house spin mysemeisters a their side. one of the latest examples, jeffrey buchanan, the three-star in charge now of relief efforts down in puerto rico. within hours of getting on the ground, saying that more was needed, more troops, more helicopters, mor