The air this thursday night. First, the downing of a passenger jet over ukraine. A Malaysia Airlines 777 wide body from amsterdam to kuala lumpur. U. S. Intelligence has concluded it was shot down by a surfacetoair missile. It came down in pieces without a distress call. The wreckage landed in the middle of a war zone. 298, the revised number of souls on board, all feared dead. It is almost too early to think about the International Ramifications of this. Hours after the crash came the news from gaza. Israeli soldiers, ground troops, infantry, armored mechanized combat engineers, all on the move in a Ground Invasion in the gaza strip. We are going to stay on the air for an hour tonight. If your nbc station does not carry our second half hour, it will stream live on our website. With our team in place, we begin our coverage tonight with the downing of this commercial airliner. The second disaster for this airline and emerging human disaster, of course, for the loved ones of those on boa
We see peshmerga soldiers in cages. They threatened them telling them to abandon their jobs or face a similar fate. Cnn can not independently confirm the authenticity of the recording. Cnn is on the ground in iraq. Lets go to Senior International correspondent ben weidman who is live in erbil. You have been on the lines with these fighters. Do you get the sense, do you surmise this video will have any impact on their resolve . Its clear from the video itself, george, thats the aim of isis in putting out this video showing 21 of their comrades in cages and certainly hanging heavily over this video is an implied threat that these people will suffer the same fate as so many others we have seen in libya and syria. And iraq but it does not appear this will make a major impact on the resolve of the kurds. They realize this is in a sense, a fight for their very existence. Isis has very little tolerance for the fact the kurds seem to want to determine their own fate and not throw their lot in
Can see fire you can see thick plumes of smoke. Several cars from metro link 102 derailed, three ended up flipping on their sides. Authorities say the driver the tractor trailer fled the scene found miles down the road and is in police custody. Why he did that . We dont know. Triage was a top priority after the crash. 30 people were taken to about a half dozen local hospitals four of whom are in critical condition. The good thuse isnews, no fatalitfatalities. This commuter train is a push train. The engine in the back so nothing to buffer the passengers from the collision. After deadly crashes in 2005 and in 2008 metro link put in Collision Technology that makes train cars expand instead of crumble. One former ntsb employee saying that could have made this a successful rerailment because no fatalities here and see the trains are all intact. We know the ntsb has sent a go team from washington theyre en route. They should be here later on today and they will be here trying to figure out
And expectations right now are high. Mrs. Clinton, mr. Trump, practically tied in some polls. Jenna Senior National correspondent john roberts is live at Hofstra University with more for us now. John . Good morning to you, jenna. The new polls show how much is riding on tonights first debate as people get their first opportunity to see donald trump and Hillary Clinton headtohead at the same time. Take a look at polls. Two polls nationally showing completely opposite things. Margin still very tight. New quinnepiac poll, nationally among likely voters Hillary Clinton leads donald trump 4443. The flip side of that poll, new Bloomberg Politics poll among likely voters shows donald trump leading Hillary Clinton by two points, 4341. Four way match up. Gary johnson at 8 points and other candidate, at two points. Jill stein. A poll in the state of colorado finds donald trump with a 1 point lead now in the Centennial State among likely voters. Keystone state of pennsylvania, both of these state
The public will see parts othe Intelligence Report on the hack. Handed toresident obama today. A lot of the hearing also a referendum on Donald Trumps antagonism of the Intelligence Community. Putin is up to no good and h better be stopped. This was a Multifaceted Campaign that also entailed, you know, classical propaganda, disinformation, fake news. We live in a big glass house and there are a lot of rocks to throw. The notion that the elected the soon elected leader of this country would put Julian Assange on a pedestal i think it should bring about a human cry noatter whether you are republican or a democrat. There should be howls. What we do is in no small part driven in part by the confidence of our leaders in what we do. Without that confidence, i just dont want a situation where our work force decides to walk. Andrea mitchell a and casey hunt both on capitol hill. Howie jackon at the white house. Kristin welker here at 30 rock. Andrea lets start with your general take on the hea