Several reports tonight mysterious light in the sky but really just gone into the newsroom no. They east bay beyond calling the milling this of this in the bay area after 6 00 tonight folks in much of the lesser for the country reported seeing a big bright light blasting his guy the airport invidious told local media it was not a plane on clear what is and what it was if you have pictures video like to share with us you and you so also email grant are other top stories crews were called to rule area and on the the county earlier this evening for a deadly plane crash wreckage of the plane located of singleengine aircraft lost contact with air Traffic Controller allout run 11 this morning and then jay r. Stone is at the crash scene brings us the latest some of j. R. flensing tuesday afternoon hours of the plane crashed and not the oakland this is the gift of how tough their partnership with abc seven news the man who died in that crash john f. Socko according to family members and to com
Live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. Here we go again. Tonight, the president authorizes new military action in iraq. Christin ayers on what the president had to say tonight. Christin . Reporter yeah guys t last american combat troop left iraq three years ago. The president says we might start fighting there again, but only from the air. Isis militants are surging across northern iraq. Today, they claim to capture 15 more towns, a military base, an the countrys largest dam. The military ran down their guns and ran away. Civilians fled their homes. 15,000 members of a religious sect are on a mountain surrounded by militants threatening to kill them if they dont convert to islam. They are also advancing on a city where american diplomats are based. They are just 25 miles from a city where 150 military advisers anne makovec unknown number of diplomats have been operating in a city once thought safe. We intend to stay vigilant. Reporter the president was quick to clarify
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Food and water to tens of thousands of people stranded on a mountaintop in northern iraq. These innocent families are faced with the horrible choice descend the mountain and be slaughtered or stay and slowly die of starvation. Reporter the catholics and others fled their towns as isis militants moved in demanding they convert to islam or be killed. President obama says he will call on the u. S. Military for air strikes if necessary. We can act carefully and responsibly to prevent a potential act of genocide. Reporter the militants are also threatening americans in the city of irbil. When the lives of americans are at risk, well take action. Thats my responsibility. Reporter the president says air strikes will be used to protect u. S. Military advisers and diplomats stationed there. As commanderinchief i will not allow the United States to be dragged into fighting another war in iraq. Reporter the president said he wont put troops on the ground. Michelle sigona for cbs news, new york. P
Bush in the persian gulf dropped at least one 500pound laserguided bomb on an isis artillery piece that was shelling kurdish positions near the city of irbil. Thats a city where scores of americans are operating out of the u. S. Consulate there and president obama said last night that he had authorized strikes in the event that isis columns started advancing on irbil. We do not know yet for sure whether the artillery piece has been destroyed, but we do know for sure that the two f18s are safely off the target. David, you mentioned the pair of f18s and this first strike. Do you expect there to be more . Reporter i do because in addition to defending irbil, the president has also authorized air strikes to break the siege around that mountain where isis has stranded these thousands and thousands of iraqi refugees. So in addition to those air drops, which are intended to keep them alive, that is only a shortterm solution, and sooner or later, if isis doesnt pull out of there, the u. S. Wil