Civilians trapped by terrorist fighters. Some members of iraqis yazidi religious minority have made it out of the mt. Sinjar area to a refugee camp near the border with syria. But according to latest estimates, 10,000 to 20,000, maybe even more, may still be stranded. Just a little while ago, the Deputy National security adviser to president obama, ben rhodes, said president obama should get options in the next few days on how best to help them. We dont believe its sustainable to just have Permanent Air drops to this population on the mountain. Some of them have been able to escape. Again, we want to get options in place to move them to a safer place. There are a range of ways for doing that. Again, were going to be cooperating with Kurdish Forces who are also operating in the region, other International Partners and, again, our goal here is to work with the iraqis and International Partners so these people can get off the mountain to a safer place. Again, we dont believe that involves
Civilians, families trudging across the bridge and part of this kind of ad hoc humanitarian corridor thats come together for people by the thousands, by the tens of thousands to flee the isis militants and make it here to Iraqi Kurdistan to safety. Theyre basically routing themselves through a kurdish enclave in syria. Theyre being helped by the group that rules that enclave which is known throughout the region as the Kurdistan Workers Party who have provided vehicles. The refugees tell me, and then they get repatriated across this bridge into Iraqi Kurdistan. Some of these people have escaped from mount sinjar, from that place that has become a bit of a trap for people fleeing the city of sinjar to escape account isis militants. They traveled instead of the way we did by helicopter yesterday, they trudged 10, 15 hours from the mountain under the protection of the Kurdistan Workers Party to syria and one young man that i talked to, wolf, he said that he buried two of his brothers, his
Good day to you. We are following extreme weather in both the United States and australia. And on the left here we want to show you the scene just west of melbourne. Firefighters struggling to control a brush fire that flared up, the high winds and temperatures there didnt help the situation. At least 116 homes are completely destroyed. And then to the right, severe flooding in the United States. Some families spent Christmas Day being rescued. Tornadoes which are rare for december, have been reported again. Lets start in the southeastern part of the United States, right here, and the threat of more Severe Weather, that threat is real. Just over the past two days, flooding has been reported in four different states. In the state of mississippi, our affiliate wcbi reports that a family woke up Christmas Morning to what you see right there. Their home of ten years ruined, completely flooded with at least two feet of water inside it. We dont have clothes, nothing. This is all i have, what
I wont suspend my desire to help the country. I will go back to iraq and afghanistan to get an update. The one thing i feel good about is is i did it with a smile on my face, i talked about things that are important to me and somebody better fix one day. Why are you getting out of the race . I have hit a wall here. My campaign has come to a point where i need to think about getting out and helping somebody else. Heres what i predict. I think the nominee of our party is going to adopt my plan when it comes time to articulate how to destroy isil. Cant you do more in pushing that conversation be being in the race than by leaving it . To be a viable candidate, you have to have finances and you have to e get on the big stage. My biggest problem is that a lot of people like what u say but not many people hear it. This whole process started in a strange way. You couldnt get on the main stage until you polled at a certain level. If you never run before its pretty hard. If you dont come from a
Donald trump now seems to have started a new war taking on fox news and anchor megyn kelly. He refuses to face her in the next gop debate, but she insists shes going to be there so trump now says he wont. Well, fox is playing games. Fox is going to make a fortune. I told fox you should give money to the wounded warriors. Im not a fan of megyn kelly so im going to be making a decision with fox but i probably wont bother doing the debate. Donald trumps feud with fox and Megyn Kelly Goes back to the first debate in august. He accused kelly of asking got you questions. Your twitter account has several disparaging comments about womens looks. You once said it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees. Does that sound like the man we should elect as president . Brian, it seems all of this was triggered by unusually by fox mocking donald trump, defending megyn kelly that seemed to push trump over the edge. It seemed to be the last straw for trump. Fox was responding to something trump