The team player and knowing ive got his back and hes got mine. Thats what i reflect. Thats what i what motivates me. President obama will award the medal of honor to Clint Romesha on monday at the white house. He will also be honored at the pentagon on tuesday, after which he will come back here to minot, north dakota, and continue with his new job. Meanwhile, the war in afghanistan continues. More than 60,000 American Service members are right now in that country fighting that war. Im jake tapper for cnn in minot, north dakota. New developments in the allout man hunt for a suspected cop killer. Right now police keting a california indian reservation. And bracing for a snow making monster. A blizzard taking aim right now at the entire northeast. Major cities like boston, right here in new york, smash dab in its path. Thousands of flights have already been canceled. Good morning. Welcome to early start this morning. Im Christine Romans. John berman is off today. Thanks for joining us, e
Burnett. Breaking news a major offensive against isis under way tonight. This is the battle to retake ramadi. Iraqi forces have launched a massive drive to push isis out of the city a little over a week after it fell to the militants. They claim to have the city surrounded on three sides and claim to have biten isis back, to cut off supply routes to a key supply refinery to the north. A huge sandstorm blanketed the region reduced visibility to near zero. Isis saying the storm was sent by god to protect them. Isis took ramadi on may 17th. The end came sweftly after suicide bombers broke through town walls with explosive laden bulldozers. More than 55,000 people have fled the town in the last month. The vast majority of them headed to baghdad. Some 70 miles to the east. Arwa damon just returned from the front lines of the front. Shes outfront tonight in baghdad. Arwa we heard iraqs Prime Minister saying over the weekend that ramadi will be retaken in days. Is he right . Well that might b
Killed last weekend in the outskirts of aleppo, syria. U. S. Officials confirm the 33yearold was fighting for isis. Battling other groups who are all battling the assad regime. Mccains devastated family told cnn he converted to islam years ago and eventually traveled to what they thought was turkey. They communicated with him over facebook only days ago and say they had no idea the father and onetime san diegoarea restaurant work we are a history of minor arests and citations had devoted his life to violent jihad. Thats not who he was. For him to be in syria fighting for a terrorist group, that doesnt make sense. My mom and my dad and our family, were like we dont understand it. Reporter u. S. Believes more than 100 americans have traveled to syria to take up arms. Youve never won reporter earlier this year this 22yearold florida man became the First American to carry out a suicide bombing in syria. You have citizens that are getting radicalized, going over there and then theres a real
Crushing a relatively mild fall. Freezing temperature in northern minnesota, getting slammed with heavy snow, temperatures plunging as far south as oklahoma and the texas panhandle. If you are in the thick of it, you have our sympathies. Billings, montana, one of the coldest places you could be tonight. Gary tucker is there to report on the misery firsthand. How is it . Reporter people of mountant are used to freezing temperature, but not usually this early. Were only in the middle of the autumn. Right now, autumn seems like a distant memory. It doesnt matter how cold it is. Billings, montana, billboard installer mason hyman does his job. This frigid cold spell has come much earlier than hes used to. I wear a little bit of extra layers and i would wear thicker gloves but i kind of need to use my fingers a lot for the j hooks down here. Reporter montanans are hearty people. With the overnight temperatures plunging close to record lows for the date, billings is very empty. We just watche
And we begin with the arctic blast, a huge swath of the country. 200 Million People in its grip. Wicked cold Winter Weather that decided to show up early from the rockies to the heartland. Crushed the remnants of a relatively mild fall. Talking snow, builter wind. Freezing temperatures, northern minnesota getting slammed with heavy snow. Temperatures are plunging as far south as oklahoma. Texas panhandle. If you are in the thick of it. You have our sympathies. Billings, montana one of the coldest places you could be tonight. Gary tuchman is there to report on the misery firsthand. How bad is it . Reporter it doesnt matter how cold it is. But the frigid cold spell has come much earlier than he is used to. Wear a little extra layers. I would wear thicker gloves. I kind of need to use my fingers a lot for the, the jay hooks down here. Montanans are hearty people. With the upcoming overnight temperatures plunging close to record lows for the day, downtown billings, heart of montanas larges