I know it is the middle of the night there. Well get to you in a moment. Also well talk about the iranu. S. Nuclear negotiations what is the latest erin mcpike will join us from the white house with that. We are live in baghdad with more on this seems like a sudden u. S. Troop withdrawal from yemen. We have seen this pairing down over the past few months because of security concerns there, embassy closing, et cetera but what is it that led to this sort of final evacuation of all of the rest of the u. S. Troops on the ground there . Reporter well sources in the region poppy, familiar with the situation say that the u. S. Is now in the process of evacuating these hundred members of these special Operations Force from the alan anad air base. Its not a specific threat that led to the decision but overall security situation. The security has been deteriorating over the past few months. We saw evacuation shutdown of the u. S. Embassy last month. Theres been a lot of concern about how this is
Of deteriorating security situations in that country. Cnn correspondent ja mana joins us from baghdad with more on this. These marines being pulled out, does this mean there will be no more u. S. Personnel in that country . Well according to u. S. Officials, fred, these are the last of u. S. Troops these 100 special forces are the last of u. S. Troops in the country, but, of course, it is a counterterrorism operation and it has been surrounded with mystery. At least publicly these are thought to be the last of u. S. Forces there. Theres been a lot of concern about the impact of the chaos and deteriorating security situation weve been seeing in that country over the last few months and what impact this has on u. S. Counterterrorism operations there. We know the u. S. Military there has been targeting the leadership of al qaeda in the a Arabian Peninsula, aqap that has used yemen as its base. We saw last month the u. S. Embassy there, shutting down and pulling out the staff. That has als
Sobriety test. Still there are serious questions about the incident. Lets go to cnns erin mcpike at the white house with the latest. Erinl. Reporter michael, first we should point out there has been no Public Accounting from the secret service about what actually happened. It has all been background information. The only thing that we know from the secret service from their spokesman is that there is an investigation into this incident. Now, the incident occurred march 4th and what happened is that there was a Retirement Party at a bar in china town that is seven blocks due east of the white house. And these two Senior Secret Service agents were at this party for their colleague, they came back at the end of the night in a government car, so that the other agent could get his car which was located here. At the time there was an area blocked off by the barricade at the white house because there was some suspicious activity. There had been a bomb threat and there were secret Service Agen
Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Im john berman. It is monday 4 00 a. M. Americas highest ranked general just arrived in iraq. Martin dempsey is set to hold talks. The generals visit comes as the new war in iraq. Hundreds of troops are launching ground and air attacks against boko haram in northeastern nigeria. The offensive starts one day after boko haram pledges allegiance to isis. I want to bring in our correspondent nima live in london this morning. Reporter good morning, john. It gives you a sense that boko haram is feeling the squeeze. They have been losing territory to the multiregional force. The new offensive is part of. It is important to point out they have been pushing back. We have had the horrifying attacks across the north of nigeria over the weekend in which dozens of people lost their lives. This audio message purported to be from the leader of boko haram. If it is true most of those we have been speaking to, have no reason to believe it is not, this will g
Intentionally began its decent into the mountain side. The paper is reporting that he suffered from generalized anxiety disorder. It also says that in 2009 lubitz also suffered from severe depression symptoms and in 2010 he even received injections of and an tie sky cottic medication. And two sick notes from doctors were funding in his apartment. They apparently were meant to excuse lubitz from work on the day of the crash. And as i mentioned, the german tabloid magazine is reporting more details of the timeline of what happened in the last minutes of the Germanwings Flight. Will ripley has been following the story for us and hes joining us from cologne, germany, what else is in this timeline will . Reporter if the newspapers account is accurate in this cockpit voice recording, in an hour and a half of audio, this was a deliberate act that results in the deaths of 150 people and 149 of them were helpless on this plane, aware that something was wrong for a full eight minutes before the