iraq with more than 400 iraqis killed in the month of ramadan alone. large bombing or attack every day. general dempsey visit eight months after the end of the war also comes at a time when the u.s. can concerned a about iranian influence if n iraq. they are awaiting the first shipment of the f-18 fighter jets. they have visibility over 75% of the air space. they are training 13 iraqi pilots in tucson, arizona. dempsey says he is here to investigate ways in which the u.s. can help iraq.
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chase plane. it was basically filled with concrete. the mission was to find out how the mark 82 would separate from the airplane in an emergency mode. dozens of other cameras are also recording the critical test of the navy s newest fighter jet. they are all stuck all over the airplane and then i m there as the insurance policy. if something goes wrong and they lose the airplane, they have my film that can come back and reassemble what happened. little does he know, it s his plane that will run into trouble. when the planes reach 500 feet, the hornet releases the bomb flying at more than 500 miles per hour. we had just gotten into position and it came down a little bit and then turned on its side and took our right wing off. a slow motion camera on the f-18 records the bomb shearing
boot camp for suri? overnight reports that katie holmes didn t want her 6-year-old daughter in an intense religious training program. so was scientology to blame for her split with tom cruise? newsroom begins right now. and good morning to you. i m carol costello. thank you so much for being with us today. we begin this hour with the western wildfires, growing in size and claiming more lives. so far, 1.9 million acres have burned. that s equivalent to an incredible 3,000 square miles. to give you an idea of just how huge that is, it s roughly the size of delaware and rhode island combined. and then there s the human toll. two crew members are confirmed dead in the weekend crash of an air tanker in south dakota. cnn affiliates say two other firefighters aboard that c-130 were also killed. one family member spoke to wbtv just before the doomed flight. it s very exciting. i mean, you know, adrenalin is flowing. we re ready to go. hopefully when we get there, we ll be ready
about about this. they would have us tanker fueling. 1,000 miles to the target, 1,000 miles to get back. they would like refuel and electronic war capability to help with the air defense system. certainly they want our most sophisticated bombs to penetrate deeply. those are the primary things they would like us to do. of course they would welcome the air operation participation as well in terms of strike aircraft. so there would be a joint operation. i think that is highly unlikely. alisyn: general jack keane, i know a lot more than i did two minutes ago. thank you so much for your expertise. thank you, alisyn. have a good day. bill: he is terrific. as a friend of mind would say, that s why we keep you around because every time he talks we listen. a apartment complex hit friday afternoon after that f-18 crashed into an apartment building. the plane destroyed dozens of units. miraculously no one died. rather incredible stories are emerging and so too