used a car bomb to blow the gate, breached the perimeter, got inside, started to overrun that u.s. base in southern syria. now, the u.s. special operations troops who have been based there, they had left. they had gone out into the desert but some were there at the base. centcom says three were killed in the resulting fire fight. once the battle got started, it wasn t just syrians against syrians or isis against isis. according to multiple reports, that u.s. special operations forces who had hunkered down in the desert to try to avoid whatever retaliation might come from the missile strike, once the fire fight started at their base, they came screaming back out of the desert to try to save that base. and what followed, we re told, was about three hours of an extraordinary close combat fire fight between these 20 to 30 isis fighters and dozens of u.s.
quickly and took off into the desert so they wouldn t be sitting ducks on that base and they waited for whatever retaliation might come. in fact, after the special operators left their base and went out into the desert, all hell did break loose. but it was not a bombing raid by syrian planes or by russian planes. turns out it was a car bomb at the base. isis fighters rolled the car bomb up to the entry to al tanf, to that u.s. base, and blew the gates open and then streamed in. u.s. military is describing 20 to 30 isis fighters, some of them wearing suicide vests, they used a car bomb to blow the gate, breached the perimeter, got inside, started to overrun that u.s. base in southern syria. now, the u.s. special operations troops who have been based there, they had left. they had gone out into the
they re doing, but it s a total and complete embarrassment. when you say rattle the door handle, i assume the door was locked, right? we don t know whether it was locked. the intruder did not get into the white house. but to be able to touch the white house, come on. that s why we spend billions of dollars of personnel and dogs and technologies and fences and under cover people and video, surveillance, and yet the person is able to get up close to the white house and spend 17 minutes before he s apprehended. that s unbelievable. the rattling of the door handle, he may be able to get inside the executive side, the resident. the president was inside. none of that was in the official statement released by the secret service. and all of us do remember the 2014 incident when the intruder ran through the north lawn of the white house, got inside. and we assumed the secret
i want to tell our viewers, these are live pictures. being totally transparent. i don t know what s going on. this is some kind of comotion on the tarmac. passengers are rushing around to address whatever is happening. this is all part of this group including judah who heard something happen within inside of the airport for them to rush out again. judah, i have one more question are you still with me? yes. did the woman describe the gun? no, we got there, got inside, sat down for five minutes and she was crying and telling us her story, but didn t get very much. she was right there. and she heard three shots before
thousands maybe even tens of thousands who were stranded outside that would be frustrated and understand and be very disappointed. but you know what, they all got inside. and they re obviously very, very happy as we see what s going on. we can hear the sirens going on. security, jim sciutto, incredibly, incredibly intense. it is. think of this is about a 20-minute procession through central park. the sad fact of the security situation enormously managed. you drive down, you re surrounded by all those people. but as we said they all got in. and just in time. and you know they re not going to forget even us as we re up here and we kind of glanced at him through the trees from a couple hundred yards away, i m going to remember that sight for sure. and remember that well of sound rising from the park. he s giving a lot of people in new york something they won t forget. and take a look, john. you can see the people now leaving central park. they re exiting. they re getting away from cen