Background checks. This legislation with desperately needed Immigration Reform. Still not clear what all of that means. Thats why were waiting to hear more from the president. Whats your sense . What are you hearing from white house officials about what does the president mean when he says strong background checks are needed . Reporter they are not going to answer that right now because the president will have to answer that for himself. Aids aren aides arent clear what he means by that. He has mentioned this in the past. Democrats have treed to strengthen the checks before. Lengthening the time of review from tree to ten days and requiring the checks for every firearm that is sold. The president seems to present a new idea of marrying legislation on gun reform with immigration refo reform. Two extremely difficult issues. We should mention this isnt the first time hes made a call for stronger controls like this. After the shooting at Marjory Stoneman douglas high school, he said the sa
Southern california. Reporter the home behind me was destroyed when flames raced up the hillside and as you can see, neighborhoods like this are still in danger. Gusty winds and scorching temperatures are in the forecast for another day. Firefighters in san marcos, california, worked through the night to keep flames away from homes. But they couldnt save them all. Just go back to a safer spot reporter wednesday, thousands of residents grabbed what they could and evacuated, many of them spending the night at evacuation centers. You leave your house, hoping i can see it when i come back. Reporter several fires are burning throughout San Diego County. In carlsbad, about a dozen structures including homes burned. The fire over here, theres fire over here, everywhere. Were surrounded right now. Reporter this carlsbad neighborhood suffered some of the worst damage wednesday. The recordbreaking heat that helped create the dangerous conditions here in San Diego County is expected to be worse t
Where did all of the cops go . And the pop culture lead. First came appear idea of mourning. Now a mystery after losing b. B. King two of his daughters claim their dad was murdered. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Breaking news in our National Lead. At least five people have been killed by the flooding in texas. Your others by extreme weather in oklahoma. Theres so much water on the ground it has krooe yated a purr pech chul high tide that has much of the city of houston submerged under shoulder high water. Texas state officials mobilizing a fire and police and dispatching them in zodiac boats to pull anyone stranded in the waters. Its unclear how many people need help as roads are saturated, driveways swirled thick with mud. In many areas only evidence of cars is the windshields. There is no trace after 12 people in central texas, including a mother and her two children. They were last seen in their cabin by the river with several other families now also missing, ralph
Because it shows the type of smart thinking military type strategy they used. They bypassed that town because they knew it would put up resistance. They swept south, then went back to deal with it and have taken control of it. This comes at the same time theyre releasing horrific images they say are their fighters killing iraqs security forces. Chilling images inside the country on the brink of another civil war. The radical Islamist Terrorist Group i. S. I. S. Apparently capturing dozens of iraqi soldiers dressed in civilian clothes, lining them up for execution. The bloodshed leaving no doubt about their brutality as eye sis seizes talifar, another major city in iraq, the terrorists possibly gaining control over its army base which would mean more Armored Vehicles, weapons and ammunition up for grabs, some of the weaponry provided by the u. S. Asking his identity be concealed, cnns arwa damon interviewing an iraqi colonel who says his unit alone left behind 20 humvees, tense sniper r
When and where these images were taken. Armed with the ak47 and wagging his finger at the camera, the leader of the Group Boko Haram offers an exchange, the schoolgirls for his fighters jailed in prisons around nigeria, and the interior minister says there is no negotiations. So the search continues over the vast rugged area of north nigeria. And we are also learning today in cameroon interesting information that gives you a sense of how well armed this group is. About a week after the girls were kidnapped, the military tells us that they seized a large cache of weapons in ard o bo in a bordertown of this country and we have video of it which includes in that cache, rpgs and mortars and ant antiwarfare weaponry, and it is also hoe easily they can move back and forth between the borders, and this is a regional problem. Craig . Thank you, Stephanie Gosk in cam roon, and developing back in here, an investigation is under way in West Virginia to find out what caused a mining accident that