Same. We are also seeing a rare cooperation between Kurdish Peshmerga and iraqi forces, two historic adversaries. They are now united against isis, a common enemy. Coordinating attacks and sharing bases. France and the cia are helping arm the kurds but they are still outgunned against isis, which is armed with our heavy weaponry captured from the iraqi army. We start again today inside the kurdish capital of erbil, iraq, with nbcs duncan golestani. Duncan, what is the latest . Reporter hey, abby. Theres 130 u. S. Military advisers. They arrived in erbil. They will be helping with the coordination of the humanitarian efforts of the yezidi people and from that briefing you just showed, we understand they will be looking at options for how to get them down from the mountains around sinjar. There are still around 20,000 to 30,000 yezidis on the mountain. They are up there with no food, no water, in scorching temperatures, exposed to the elements. So what are the options for getting them do
Strikes against isis militants. A u. S. Official telling cnn the strikes have curtailed the movements of an Extremist Group in Northern Iraq. Overnight, the u. S. Military dropped more food and water to thousands of iraqis stranded on mt. Sinjar. Members of the yazidi minority were trapped after escaping isis militants. But there is a sign of hope. Kurdish forces were able to rescue 20,000 yazidis from that mountain. Our Senior International correspondent ivan watson has just returned, hes just there, in fact, ivan is joining us now from zako, thats near iraqs kurdish region. Ivan, a kurdish official warning of po ten tial genocide. What have you learned . Well, im standing on the tarmac of a helicopter landing pad, and we accompanied a helicopter from the Iraqi Air Force and several peshmerga fighters on board on a dangerous chaotic and, dare i said, heroic mission, to deliver aid to some of those people, those acyazidi who have been trapped on mt. Sinjar for the better part of a week
Damaging winds went along with all of that. You can expect to see more of that as the day goes on, even possible tornados across the plains and midwest. One tornado was confirmed already in worcester, massachusetts. And in new york, rain falling so fast and furious yesterday drivers were caught in flash floods. The storm system virtually turned the northeast into a steam bath. Humidity levels extremely high and you know what that means, more, more rain and more, more bill karins. I guess that might be the Silver Lining is we get to talk to bill karins. Yeah, we dont like any bad weather, especially on a holiday weekend. We expect in september, especially the beginning of september, were going to get thunderstorm, the lightning and the danger and also deal with torrential rain. What you dont expect is tornados in massachusetts. I mean worcester, mass, is known for their major winter storm total, not tornados. But they did have a little one go through last night. Today were turning our f
Hello and welcome back to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. Im rosemary church. Good to be with you, rosemary. Hey, everyone. Im errol barnett. Coming up for you this hour it must be clear to anyone who would plot against america and try to do americans harm that we will not tolerate safe havens for terrorists who threaten our people. The white house uses the campaign against isis to attack what it calls an imminent threat to americans and western interests. Also coming up its going to end in a bloodbath if nobody stops it. Nobody were listening. They thought everybody was immune from this danger. A cnn exclusive. Iraqs new Prime Minister calls for more help from the United States, saying his country has paid a heavy price for the rise of isis. Plus the fight against ebola. A dire warning about what could happen if the disease continues to spread unchecked in west africa. Thanks for joining us, everyone. The united thagss General Assembly gets under way later t
There is also a newspaper report saying that they believe this raid averted another Charlie Hebdo style attack in belgium. That is not confirmed at the moment. If it is confirmed that is quite a big deal. It is unclear if this is directly related to Charlie Hebdo attacks in paris and whether or not these suspects had dealings or interactions with attackers out there. That is not clear at the moment. We also know that there were no police officers, no authorities injured during this raid according to the belgium tv reports. This is a very fluid situation and all of this information could change. A little background about belgium only about 11 Million People. Per capita they have the most foreign fighters in iraq and syria at the moment believed to be about 150 people fighting in those foreign wars as we speak. Certainly a tense situation in that country. As you have said the raids and the tension bleeding over into all areas of europe right now. This is just another example. There is a