Stricken airliner make a fatal mistake in their desperate effort to save the plane and its passengers . Im wolf blitzer. You arere in the situation room. Lets get to the breaking news. The United States now rushing to investigate a shocking claim by isis that a Young American woman has been killed in a Jordanian Air strike on isis targets in syria. The humanitarian worker Kayla Mueller was taken hostage 18 months ago and held for ransom. But the terror group offers no evidence of her death beyond a photo of a collapsed building. Jordan claims the isis claim is a p. R. Stunt aimed at hurting the coalition. The claim by isis comes as jordan steps up its massive air assault on isis targets launched in retaliation for the gruesome murder of a captured jordanian pilot. Our correspondents and analysts are all standing by along with the top jordanian government spokesman. Lets begin with brian todd. He is here in the situation room with the very latest. Brian . At this hour we have no definit
In the faulken islands. Strong words for the author now. Good morning to you. So glad youre with us. Im christi paul. Im victor blackwell. 10 00 on the east coast, 7 00 out west during the cnn newsroom and were starting with a strong statement from defense secretary ash carter. He says the Obama Administration still questions its plans to pull out almost all remaining 10,000 u. S. Troops from afghanistan by the end of 2016 as scheduled. Carter arrived in the Afghan Capital kabul this morning. Its his first overseas trip since he was sworn in a few days ago. In a News Conference with the afghan president carter said he will assess the security situation against the taliban. President obama and i discussed in my first meeting in the oval office earlier this week just a few days ago, our priority now is to make sure this progress sticks. That is why president obama is considering a number of options to reinforce our support for president gaineys Security Strategy including possible change
Statement, first the fact that Brian Williams is taking himself off the anchor chair, not told by anyone to do so but also he said when i come back i will regain your trust. This is all the Television News industry is talking about right now, as you can imagine, poppy. One thing i keep getting pointed to is that quote, several days. Now a clock has started and now people like me and people like the executives at other networks are going to be asking how many more days how many more weeks until Brian Williams is back . It will create more pressure on nbc to get to this quickly because frankly every day Brian Williams is on the air is a better day. Every day hes off the air is a worse day. What do you think we might see in terms of an external investigation . Its one thing to investigate it internally but will we see an external body come in here . Doesnt seem like nbc has plans for that although theres a lot of external investigation going on by other news divisions. Its not just cnn th
A propaganda video showing him killed in a disturbing way, locked in a cage and burned alive. And lets begin with keir simmons in amman. What is the jordanian government saying about the claims regarding isis . Reporter theyve just issued a statement. Let me read it to you. The jordanian official from the government is saying we are looking into the claims but they are illogical and we are highly skeptical about it. It is part of their meaning isis criminal propaganda spinning campaign. They have lied this spokesperson said that our pilot was aliveing during the he was alive during the negotiation and we must be diligent when dealing with information generated by them meaning isis. What they are saying there, youll remember that the jordanian pilot captured by isis was executed by isis in a video of whoeffic a horrific video where he was burned alive. Jordanians say that took place a month before and that during a period of weeks isis was claiming that the pilot was still alive while,
A Deportation Force to move out 11 million undocumented immigrants. But is that possible . Well ask the head of u. S. Customs and Border Protection. Hes joining us. Hello, im kate bolduan. Im john berman. A key moment in the battle against isis. A major assault in northern iraq. U. S. Coalition warplanes, providing cover in this new intense fight to reclaim a strategic city . This centers on the town of sinjar. Kurdish soldiers are attacking isis there from three sides. Nick paton walsh is near the front lines of this battle with more. Reporter the key fight for sinjar seems to be what you cant really see behind me along the main road known as route 47. Now, that is vital because it heads from mosul in iraq, in that direction, to raqqa in syria, in that direction. The caliphate selfdeclared capital. Weve been seeing intense air strikes in the past hours or so. A lot of Coalition Aircraft in the skies above. While everyone understands that sinjar, the need to retake it is deeply symboli