Ill ask the head of the in naacp. Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. President obama admitted today there still is no complete strategy for training iraqi troops to fight isis. After talks with world leaders, the president conceded that the United States and its partners are still suffering setbacks in that fight, even as the pentagon weighs a possible increase in the number of uss troops training and advising iraqis at the same time isis is now threatening a major iraqi base. Well take you to the front lines. Ille speak live with a state Department Spokesman, and our guests are standing by with full coverage. Lets begin with jim acosta. Hes in europe where the president has wrapped up his talks with the g7 leaders. What happened, jim . Wolf in a startling addition president obama acknowledged more than nine months into the battle against isis he is still developing his strategy for defeating this terrorist group. In the battle gentz eye says president obama conceded hes sti
What can you do to protect yourself. Good evening. And thank you for joining us on this saturday. Im cecilia vega. First up tonight, that historic victory at the Belmont Stakes. American pharoah over the finish line first, taking the triple crown. The first horse in 37 years to win the sports top three races, the kentucky derby, the preakness and now the belmont, too. And we will have more on American Pharoah and his extraordinary achievement later in the show, but first, that urgent search happening right now for those two escaped prisoners. Here they are. Both convicted murderers. One a cop killer. Breaking out of this maximum security prison in upstate new york. Carving their way out of a prison cell, sneaking out through tunnels. Emerging through this manhole. The governor there rushing to the scene. Tonight, Police Telling everyone, do not approach these men. Abcs phillip mena leading us off with their violent history and how they got away. Reporter tonight, an allout manhunt. Mor
Im erin burnett. A search under way at this hour. 250 officers searching for two convicted killers on the loose. Killers who staged an escape that sounds like a hollywood plot. Authorities tonight say they have no idea where the men are. Officials questioning a female prison employee. They say she helped the two men. A source tells us that she knew both of them very well. More on that in a moment. Richard matt and david sweat broke out of a maximum security prison. Officials baffled at how they got their hands on power tools, used them to cut through brick and steel, climbing through small pipes and shafltts and emerging out of a manhole a block away. They are extremely dangerous and desperate. Richard matt 49 years old doing 25 years to life for beating and then dismembering his former boss. David sweat, 35 years old, serving life without parole for murder. He shot and killed a sheriffs deputy at least 15 times. In a moment i will speak to the brother of that sheriffs deputy. We begin
Raising fierce of an isisinspired attack on the u. S. On the busiest weekend for these shores. Today the new july 4th warning issued by july and the awful subthat the former head of the kriismt i predicts we might be discussing one week from today. Good afternoon, Everyone Welcome to the lead. Wellbegin with breaking news in the money lead. The dow plunging close to 350 points taking many 401 k s along for the ride today. Alison kosik is live at the new york stock exchange. All of this is being blamed at the debt crisis in greece. Exact lyly heres the thing, the selloff happened despite the fact that the u. S. Has little direct financial exposure to greece. The reason we saw this reaction is because theres concern about it being uncharted territory. What are the Global Implications of greece not paying its bills . What would be the ramifications if greece left the European Union . The biggest concern here jake in the u. S. Is what are the shockwaves that greeces financial troubles coul
Thats when sweat took off, nearly making it to the woods when cook opened fire. The terrain is so dense, you cant see five feet in front of you. If sweat made the tree line he would have been gone. Sweat and his deceased partner in crime, richard matt used pepper to throw off tracking dogs. We had difficulty tracking so it was effective in that respect. Reporter matt was killed in a shoot out with police. It was an extraordinary circumstance. The first escape in over 100 years, but one escape is one too many. Reporter now, chris, Law Enforcement saying because of where he was found two miles south of the Canadian Border they believe thats where he was headed. To give you perspective, he was about 16 miles away from where his partner, richard matt was shot and killed on friday. He was unarmed. However, Police Authorities here are happy that he was kept alive because that is going to be key. Here at the hospital chris, they are working, trauma doctors, cardiovascular doctors working to k