Former army sergeant, Staff Sergeant, will receive the medal of honor for his actions in july of 2008. Sergeant ryan pitts launched grenade after grenade, fired a machine gun at insurgents while bleeding profusely. He defended his post while nine other soldiers were killed. And 27 were injured. Pitts will be the ninth living recipient to be awarded the meddme meddel al of honor for actions in iraq or afghanistan. As soon as we see him and the president of the United States step behind that podium, we will bring you that special ceremony, live. But lets turn to the downing of mh17 in Eastern Ukraine. Couple of major developments to share with you this hour. First lets talk about the black boxes. So the black box, these data flight data recorders from the passenger jet, you can see what appears to be one here, that orange piece of machinery being removed from the scene. We now know they will be handed over to malaysia any minute now. But after five days, in the hands of the rebels, the q
Time to release this report. But this report is too important to shelf indefinitely. We are a national war. We have a problem with isil in iraq and syria and north africa. We have u. S. Personal, intelligence officials military and special operators in harms way. When you look at why would we release it now . What did we have to gain . In this case i believe we have been thrown under the bus and the politicians are playing political football with the cia. Martha what is the white house saying the potential threat inspired by releasing this potential report. Reporter a Senior Administration official tells us they have been preparing for the potential threat this report may bring about for five months. Diplomatic missions have been identified and now that americas enemies have access to all 6,000plus pages of this report social media is being closely monitored for any new propaganda that may pop up. There is an fbi dhs bulletin warning of more sea tracks at home and abroad. The taliban s
White house. President obama will make a rare address to the nation tomorrow night at 8 00 about what the government is doing to keep americans safe. The Oval Office Address will touch on the investigation into the isisinspired attacks in california that killed 14 people earlier this week. The white house said obama will also address, the broader threat of terrorism, including the nature of the threat, how it has evolved, and how we will defeat it. He will reiterate his confirmed conviction that isil will be destroyed and that the United States must draw upon our values, unwaivering commitment to justice, equality and freedom and prevail over terrorist groups that use violence to construct their ideology. The white house says the presidency updated him on the investigation into the California Shootings and highlighted several pieces of information that point to the attackers radicalization to violence. Now we already know about one piece of evidence suggesting radicalization. That was
Frances president and says he wants his country to join in the air strikes against syria. On friday, the United Nations unanimously backed action against isil in syria and iraq. Later this week, i will set out in parliament our comprehensive strategy for tackling isil. I firmly support the action that president hollande has taken to strike isil in syria, and its my Firm Conviction that britain should do so, too. And this is only a test, at least for now. New york city carries out an antiterror drill and they ramp up security across the country as americans relive the jitters of post 9 11. Lets start in brussels. A city at its highest security in years, bracing for an imminent threat. Fred flanpleitgen is there with more. There were some major raids that went on here in brussels over the past 24 hours. Netting at least 21 subjects. That was announced here by the authorities a couple hours ago. I want to give you a little bit of the scene around here. There really is a military deploymen
We begin with analysts who retrieved a suicide vest. Officers are not saying if the vests are related to last weeks attacks. The report shows the vest contained the same type of explosive used in the rampage. The official reports that salah abdeslams phone was tracked to the area where the vest was found soon after the attacks. Abdeslam remains at large. Cnns max foster from paris joins us, major developments from paris with the latest. Reporter yes, the item in the bin, that is the interesting item so far. Because everybody is wondering whether it was abdeslams suicide belt. And bfm tv has more information on that, were waiting for official confirmation on that. More information coming from u. S. Intelligence, really, with a cell phone found in the bin near the bataclan theater cwhic is the scene of one of the attacks, of course. We know there was a map on the phone, encrypted data. And what it suggests is there was some surveillance of the sites where the attacks were carried out. Al