They share their side of the story. Good saturday morning to you. Thanks for staying with us. Nice to be be with you. Welcome to americas news headquarters from washington. This programming note. Neil cavuto and the cost of freedom will air at a special time today beginning at 1 00 p. M. Eastern. Meanwhile, a somber day in delaware and across the nation as the funeral of beau biden is set to begin in delaware. The 46yearold son of the Vice President died one week ago after a twoyear battle with brain cancer. Doug mckelway is standing by in the familys hometown of wilmington where people are beginning to arrive for services. Doug . Reporter hi, elizabeth. Weve just gotten word that the president and first family have arrived at the Delaware Air National guard air base here outside of wilmington and should be arriving at the church momentarily where people are already being seated in the pews inside the church. It is difficult to imagine the totality of the grief that the biden family mu
All right. That vote in the u. K. Which is expected to pass comes only days after iraqs Prime Minister asked for help in defeating the the extremists. But we should note todays vote does not address any action in syria. British Prime Minister David Cameron saying that will have to be a separate vote. Meantime, the u. S. And its arab allies launching new rounds of strikes on isis cash cow, Oil Installations in syria. Lieutenant colonel oliver north says airstrikes alone wont cut it. Ultimately someone, rough men with rifles, have to go take terrain, capture bad guys and free hostages. Cannot do it with an airplane. And, unfortunately, weve got a mystical belief in the power of aircraft dropping bombs, precisionguided munitions. Look at those visuals that were getting out of the pentagon. I mean, goes right down rough men with rifles. Speaking my language, colonel. But the administration believes the iraqi arm is Strong Enough to be those boots on the ground the defeat isis. State Depart
Humvees and bunkers in iraq and syria. Joins are retired Major General. And at the Brookings Institution for cms policy. Thank you for being with us. As you are there at the border. Where that fierce battle has been going on between isis militants and syrian kurds. Are you seeing any fighting going on now . What its been like in the last couple hours. Caller rig reporter right now were hearing small arms fire out of eyesight. The Kurdish Forces have managed to push isis back. Gaining key territory towards kobani. This is the effect liually the t town standing against isis. It does appear so from the cheering that perhaps the kurds have made more gains. Whatever the crowd thats been here since this fighting first broke out this close to the Turkish Border yesterday they cheer whenever the kurds manage to make significant gains. Now what the kurds are telling us is that they do want to see more Coalition Air strikes. They want to see more support here because they are barely holding isis