Isis battle. Iraqi forces on the front lines as a firefight breaks out today. Our reporter was on the ground with rare access. The iraqis insisting a major offensive against isis is under way. But the u. S. Has major doubts about that. Just days after the u. S. Secretary of defense accuses iraqi forces of running from the fight. Nick payton walsh just returned from the firefight. He was with an elite group of iraqi soldiers who are part of the same division blamed for running from the fight in ramadi. Nick is in baghdad tonight. You were actually there, one of the people who could see what they could do see what theyre capable of. What did you actually witness . Well it was clear from what we saw that those Iraqi Special forces all of them actually american trained some trained here in iraq wanted to show us how keen they were to take the fight to isis. We saw them opening fire on isis positions. Quite sustained fire in fact. They wanted a very clear message for us and everyone in the
Pasties but only on the front of the magazines. Now hugh hefner is having his playmates put on their clothes and convince readers to read playboy for the articles. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Breaking news just in a military lab makes a massive mistake that could have very easily turned into a lethal blunder. An army facility shipped a live sample of anthrax, the fatal substance that killed five people in a terrorist attack in 2001. Lets get right to Cnns Barbara Starr at the pentagon. This is one of the deadliest pathogens in existence and it was just sent out for delivery like anything else . How did this happen . Reporter that is the question, jake, at this hour. That the centers for Disease Control and the pentagon are trying to answer. Heres what happened apparently last friday. Some anthrax was shipd. It was supposed to essentially be dead spores shipped under less stringent circumstances for Research Programs than what the pentagon ships live s
One more correspondent our justice correspondent pamela brown, let me bring you in to button this up. You know you were the one we were talking about, joe was mentioning the cameras in the Briefing Room were covered, many of them were the cameras were tilted down outside of the white house, theyve been allowed to return but still a lot of questions about this one. Theres a lot of questions and a lot of questions, brooke about the nature of this call but i can tell you in regards to what happened earlier today with that bomb threat on capitol hill were learning that it was a specific threat that was called in apparently the caller said that a device had been placed in the Homeland Security Committee Offices on the third floor of the Dirksen Senate Office Building and so because the threat was so specific that is why Capitol Police took the action they did, evacuate the area took the threat so seriously and as we saw interrupted the tsa hearing there. We dont know if its connected. Autho
Management says it was notified 4 million former and current Government Employees that their personal data was compromised in this hack according to investigators weve talked to in the last 24 hours, the top suspect is the chinese military. Theyve been compiling according to these intelligence and Law Enforcement investigators compiling a data base on americans and so whats happening now is the u. S. Government is trying to assess the extent of this damage. Were told that this is much bigger than just the opm office. It extends to virtually every Government Agency thats been hit by these hackers. And whats worse is that this happened months ago and it took a long time for the Homeland Security department for the u. S. Government to even figure out what exactly was happening. Theres a system that they put in place called einstein which is supposed to help detect these type of intrusions carol. And in this case it didnt really do that after it was discovered they deployed einstein to try
Breaking news. New Surveillance Video surfacing tonight of the horrific amtrak crash. The video shows the moment of impact. Let me show it to you. This was at 9 21 on tuesday night. You see that massive explosion. That is when the train controlled by the engineer Brandon Bostian hit a curve and flew off the rails. The ntsb revealed that the train akccelerated to 100 miles an hour. The seconds later, the train hit the curve and crashed. Investigators are telling us several new things tonight. They actually heard physically the sound of the brakes being applied by the engineer at the last instant. Thats something that bostian says he didnt recall doing. They say the trains brakes and signals all appeared to be in working order at the time of the crash. And investigators also say bostian agreed to meet with them for an interview. We have learned a lot about him today, including our interview with one of his Close Friends and former coworkers. Well begin with Jason Carroll out front tonigh