Same. We are also seeing a rare cooperation between Kurdish Peshmerga and iraqi forces, two historic adversaries. They are now united against isis, a common enemy. Coordinating attacks and sharing bases. France and the cia are helping arm the kurds but they are still outgunned against isis, which is armed with our heavy weaponry captured from the iraqi army. We start again today inside the kurdish capital of erbil, iraq, with nbcs duncan golestani. Duncan, what is the latest . Reporter hey, abby. Theres 130 u. S. Military advisers. They arrived in erbil. They will be helping with the coordination of the humanitarian efforts of the yezidi people and from that briefing you just showed, we understand they will be looking at options for how to get them down from the mountains around sinjar. There are still around 20,000 to 30,000 yezidis on the mountain. They are up there with no food, no water, in scorching temperatures, exposed to the elements. So what are the options for getting them do
Morning to you. Ntsb investigators here are on the scene. They just arrived within the last hour. Now, six people were killed 15 injured. The jeep had stopped on the train tracks at the intersection. The driver got out to lift the gate. When she got out in an attempt to lift that gate she tried to then drive off and away and than when the train hit her, pushing her more than 400 feet down the tracks. Ntsb investigators will look into the gate. Theyll look into how fast the train was going. Now, at the same time when the car was hit, the third rail the electrified third rail punctured the front car, sparking a fire. There was lots of fire and smoke in the car. Passengers rushed to get out of the car. Some of them punching through the windows to make their escape. Now, Governor Cuomo said hes kind of surprised there werent more injuries here considering the devastation to the front two cars. The fire and the smoke damage. Now, investigators will be looking when they get here and theyre r
Start of a white house briefing. And it comes as the president issues a warning to the fbi director, he fired this week, welcome to the second hour of happening now. It could be a rocky one. Well, interesting. Something good to watch. Jenna im jenna lee. Sean spicer set to take the podium any moment. We expect him to address a new deal, strengthening trade ties between the u. S. And china, one of the big news items of the day that the white house is pushing forward. Wilbur ross joins us a little later on to talk more about that. In the meantime, the white house is facing criticism for the sudden firing of director james comby of the fbi. The white house defending that decision. Kevin cork is live with more. Kevin . Hey, jenna, youre right, you ready for this . Fridays are pretty relaxed but we expect there could be a knew fireworks. As we look forward to the White House Press briefing. John roberts, will be sitting in the front row, he will have a chance to question the press secretary
D. C. And that is a all u. S. Attorney jobs are important. Being u. S. Attorney for d. C. Is a particularly important prosecutors job. The d. C. U. S. Attorneys office is the largest u. S. Attorneys office in the country. Prosecutors from that office have jurisdiction overall sorts of things that have National Residence including all sorts of juicy stuff involving the federal government. In the Trump Administration, the u. S. Attorneys office in d. C. Has been particularly high profile because of the role of that office in either handling or taking part in the investigations and the prosecutions of a whole bunch of people who have been caught up in various Trump Administration scandals including the russia scandal. Jessie lius office in d. C. Has been involved in the criminal cases against sam patton, who is now cooperating with investigators among other things. Patton has links to cambridge and prosecutors say he helped funnel foreign donations into the trump inaugural. The u. S. Atto
Resonance, including all sorts of juicy stuff involving the federal government. In the Trump Administration, the u. S. Attorneys office in d. C. Has been particularly high profile because of the role of that office in either handling or taking part in the investigations and the prosecutions of a whole bunch of people who have been caught up in various Trump Administration scandals, including the russia scandal. Jessie lius office, that u. S. Attorneys office in d. C. Has been involved in the criminal cases against sam patten, who is now cooperating with investigators, among other things, patten has linked to Cambridge Analytica and to Konstantin Kilimnik and prosecutors say he helped funnel foreign donations into the trump inaugural. The u. S. Attorneys office in d. C. Has also pursued the maria butina base. She too is now cooperating with federal prosecutors after she was charged with acting a secret agent of the russian government. She was charged as working here in this country to i