Also Indianapolis Colts linebacker josh mcnary charged with rape. Disturbing new details this morning. What the nfl is doing about it. And the climb of a lifetime. Feels incredible. To the top of el capitan in yosemite. A 3,000 foot climb and the picture of the morning. Lets talk. Live in the cnn newsroom. And good morning. Im carol costello. Thank you so much for joining me. We start this hour with a failed plot to attack the homeland. The fbi says Christopher Cornell, a 20yearold unemployed man from the suburbs of cincinnati planned to set off pipe bombs at the u. S. Capitol and then gunned down lawmakers and staff as they tried to escape. This morning his father is blasting the fbi accusing the agency of setting his son up. Were going to hear from him in just a minute but first i want to turn to Susan Candiotti. Shes been following the story and the investigation. Tell us more. Well carol, apparently the biggest mistake made by this young man was using twitter and social media and t
American being held by isis, jordan still reeling from the horrific execution of a captured pilot. Vowing to wipe the terror group off the face of the earth. Jordans air force meantime carrying out a large number of isis targets in both syria and now iraq as well. Connor powell is live in amman, jordan. Are we getting any word on the fate of Kayla Mueller . Reporter well, its been 4 hours since isis made this claim that mueller was in fact killed by a Jordanian Air strike in syria. There has been no evidence, theres been no proof to verify that statement and in both washington and here in amman, theres a lot of skepticism about whether or not thats true. Both the cia and the state Department Said theyre working to verify the claims and investigate and here in amman theyre calling this claim that it was jordanian planes that killed mueller a simple criminal propaganda. A lot of skepticism in both places, however, it is being taken very serious because she has been a hostage held by isis
Hear what happened next. Lets talk. Live in the cnn newsroom. And good morning. Im carol costello. Thank you so much for joining me. Some 60 nations are converging on the white house today to combat extremists and their social media campaigns aimed at recruiting tomorrows terrorists. In this mornings Los Angeles Times president obama said in this op ed quote, groups like al qaeda and isil exploit the anger that festers when people feel that injustice and corruption leave them with no chance of improving their lives. The world has to offer todays youth something better. So the u. S. Is ramping up its own social media offensive to combat the 90,000 messages per day pumped out by isis. Now the state department is tweeting messages like quote, isis is not the solution. Its spread has worsened social ills more homelessness starvation poverty and death so lets talk more about this. Lets head to the white house and cnns michelle kosinski. Good morning. Reporter hey, carol. I dont know if angr
Was killed in a Coalition Air strike. A senior official says the evidence was a photograph, a photograph emailed to the family and appears to show her dead with trauma injuries. The official says the injuries are not inconsistent with the sort of injuries that would be suffered by victims of an air strike but the official emphasizes they could be the result of number of other causes and do not know the timing of her death. Joining me now, keir simmons live in jordan and richard engel. Keir, you interviewed jordanian leaders and ive talked to officials here and theyve been denying any of the air strikes last week in retaliation for the death of the jordanian pilot, and the gruesome video of him being burned alive, that any of those air strikes were within 140 miles of where Kayla Mueller had last been known. That said theres no way of knowing where she was and again, no way of knowing when and where she was killed. Reporter yeah, thats right. In fact the commander in the Jordanian Air f
Attacked. Four marines killed. And we now anyhow their names. Lance corporal wells, skip he was called. Staff Sergeant David wyatt. Sergeant thomas sullivan. He earned two purple hearts only to have his wife stolen here at home. Lets get to cnns justice reporter evan perez. There was the chairman of the House Homeland Security agency saying they know of no link to isis or any other group. Is there a way to hash out whats going on . Infbi saying not so fast. Theres a lot of work left to be done. They do are looking at the possibility that this was isis inspired. The obvious choice given how much attention weve been giving to isis in the last year or so. The fbi says that at least at this point, there is no indication yet that this was inspired by anything other than by this gunman himself. We know that he travelled to jordan last year according to the jordanian government. He carried jordanian passports and travel documents but he was not a citizen, he was a citizen of the united states