Average. Cubs and dodgers are in the running, and those are some of the top stories on this monday, it is october 17th. From abc news, this is world news now. Good monday morning, everyone. Were starting overseas this half hour in a battle taking place right now. Artillery and air strikes by the softening up the rebel held iraqi city of mosul as Government Troops begin to move in. Defense secretary Ash Carter Says it could be a decisive moment in the battle against isis. The group held the city for more than two years. Government forces are moving in from the south and east, and heres more from the front lines. Reporter battered humvees and soldiers roll out as iraq Prime Minister said and the liberation for mosul started. 30,000 troops are backed by u. S. Special forces advisers on the ground, and american jets carrying out air strikes. Isis has held the city for over two years, and its digging in to defend its biggest prize, burning oil and tires for cover, digging tums and setting t
Average. Cubs and dodgers are in the running, and those are some of the top stories on this monday, it is october 17th. From abc news, this is world news now. Good monday morning, everyone. Were starting overseas this half hour in a battle taking place right now. Artillery and air strikes by the softening up the rebel held iraqi city of mosul as Government Troops begin to move in. Defense secretary Ash Carter Says it could be a decisive moment in the battle against isis. The group held the city for more than two years. Government forces are moving in from the south and east, and heres more from the front lines. Reporter battered humvees and soldiers roll out as iraq the victory bell has won iraqs Prime Minister said and the liberation for mosul started. 30,000 troops are backed by u. S. Special forces advisers on the ground, and american jets carrying out air strikes. Isis has held the city for over two years, and its digging in to defend its biggest prize, burning oil and tires for co
Pumped up at the beginning. Reporter all this is a series of national and state polls showing trumps path to victory looking less likely with every passing day. Beyond the traditional battlegrounds, trump showing weakness in utah, texas, anesthesalaska, and our poll shows while Hillary Clinton holds on to her lead, Trump Supporters are sticking with him. Among likely 4743 points. That four point advantage, essentially unchanged from the twopoint lead a month ago, and this surprising finding. Clintons lead among female voters is actually falling. Off 11 points of white women without College Degrees rally to trump, and while republican lawmakers, especially those in competitive races may be running with him as democrats are with clinton. Her support among democrats, 89 . 86 of republicans are with him. As for those accusations of sexual aggression, 68 of voters say he probably has made unwanted sexual advances towards women, which hes denied, but 84 of republicans say it wont affect thei
A bloody ear during a performance, but she still powered through her set. So what exactly went wrong . The full story ahead in the skinny. Its monday, october 17th. From abc news, this is world news now. Not every day you see a performer like beyonce with blood on her shoulder. Yeah. But she looks at it, goes, all right. Oh. Move on. I can dusted it off the shoulder. Just dust it off. Talking president ial politics right now because theres a lot of accusations going back and forth, and not a lot of people are dusting it off the shoulders. No. Donald trump repeatedly telling supporters hes not getting a fair shake. As trump fired off tweets calling the election rigged, a new abc Washington Post poll Shows Hillary clinton with a four point advantage, but thats still within the margin of error so its a virtual tie. That poll shows enthusiasm twothirds of registered voters reject his claim he did not make unwanted sexual advances towards women. Its your voice, your vote, and heres the late
The city which is iraqs second biggest. We spent the day with Kurdish Forces here in the northern part of iraq. We visited several other bases that overlook both mosul and isis positions. Every fighter we met was eager, even impatient to get the battle started and push isis out of mosul. This is their last stand. They lost all the other cities they took over in 2014, and the question now is whether they put up a big fight or try to slip away acros syria. The iraqi and Kurdish Forces are backed up by american and other International Special forces advisers on the ground and u. S. Led coalition is carrying out air strikes as well. The Iraqi Military dropped leaflets on the city telling residents to stay away from isis positions that will be targeted. Around 1 Million People are expected to flee the fooigting. The u. N. And other agencies setting up emergency camps to accommodate all of them in what the u. N. Says could be the biggest humanitarian crisis in abc news, iraq. Back in this co