Humvees and bunkers in iraq and syria. Joins are retired Major General. And at the Brookings Institution for cms policy. Thank you for being with us. As you are there at the border. Where that fierce battle has been going on between isis militants and syrian kurds. Are you seeing any fighting going on now . What its been like in the last couple hours. Caller rig reporter right now were hearing small arms fire out of eyesight. The Kurdish Forces have managed to push isis back. Gaining key territory towards kobani. This is the effect liually the t town standing against isis. It does appear so from the cheering that perhaps the kurds have made more gains. Whatever the crowd thats been here since this fighting first broke out this close to the Turkish Border yesterday they cheer whenever the kurds manage to make significant gains. Now what the kurds are telling us is that they do want to see more Coalition Air strikes. They want to see more support here because they are barely holding isis
Arriving at the scene and it was actually still an active shooter situation but they thought it could possibly be that when i arrived. What you can tell me about the man who was shot and is now in the hospital, believed to have been the one who did this horrific beheading and stabbed the other woman . You know, i think a lot of those details are still coming to fruition at this time. You know what we do know and can confirm is that he has quite the criminal background. We know that he has done some time for acts of drugs. He has had saab assault and battery charges in the past. We also know by looking to be what we believe is his Facebook Page that he is he a radical, as far as it goes is his religion in that he was very open and upfront about what he he believed. Do you know what he was saying to coworkers as he was trying to convert them to islam . Was it sort of a friendly conversion, forceful conversion . Going on for a long time . Something new. The sergeant at the police departme
Everywhere. Tom costello covers aviation for is covering the latest developments from washington. Its a mess. We have somewhere in the neighborhood of 800 flights cancelled or delayed at ohare and somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 cancelled or delays at midway. The police in aurora, illinois confirmed nbcs news reporting that the fire appears to be intentionally set by a contract employee. Atf, fbi are on the scene. There is no suggestion that terrorism is involved here. Its a contract employee who, for some reason, set the fire at about 5 42 a. M. , we believe. At that point firefighters responded. They found and village knit basement of the air Traffic Controller facility. Who had a selfinflicted wound, not a gunshot wound. They immediately evacuated the center. Its called chicago center. A facility that handles High Altitude flights. Its not at tower at the airport itself. When the employees evacuated the center, they then had to declare a ground stop affecting midway and chicago
Program. He says he was trying to help his family flee the war in syria now ahmed is serving seven years in the hunt kerry in prison after being convicted of terrorism. And its called the International Break over we look ahead to tonights big blunders made a phone call clash heavyweights for us your dog went much trace three playing host to a great german cup champions im chuffed frankfurt. With. A welcome to the program two major storms are raging towards vulnerable coastlines on opposite sides of the world are a confluence thats just made landfall on the u. S. East coast lashing the states north and South Carolina with strong winds and heavy right at the same time super typhoon. Is barreling towards the philippines packing winds of well over two hundred kilometers an hour hearkens and typhoons and names for the same phenomena tropical cyclones with different terms used in different parts of the world meteorologists say both storms threaten lives in the pots in North Carolina crews ar