Confident the tide will turn back. He says very soon in ramadi. He says the air strikes the u. S. Led air strikes will continue. Are you getting that same sort of upbeat assessment what some are calling spin coming in from pentagon officials . Absolutely wolf yes. This is the line that youre hearing this morning across washington from the administration. Secretary of state john kerry already saying he thinks ramadi could be retaken very soon by the iraqi forces the pentagon saying its a setback, but its only a setback for today. That iraqi forces will move with u. S. Assistance to retake the city. I think many people believe that will be very problematic. This is an urban area. Iraqi forces have fled. The people are under siege. Isis has moved in ieds once again, a massive fighters a mass of fire power digging them out of an urban area is not something air strikes is going to be able to do. It doesnt work that way. Air strikes dont work unless that way until youre willing to take civil
To reintensify after being weakened over the mountains. It may get bumped up as we go throughout the day today. Not going to spend a lot of time on this cone because at the end of this hour we will be getting that new path in from the Hurricane Center and well see if this red center line shifts closer to the coast. As far as we have shortterm models we get in about every three hours. And this shows us at 3 00 p. M. Thursday the eye of the storm in eeport in the bahamas, that rcenteright there, thats the eye, this is a simulated radar what it would look like. As we go through tomorrow night around 9 00 p. M. , notice this is the eye of the storm, only 20 miles off the coast, Tropical Storm gusts. So the first strong gust tomorrow late in the afternoon. Then through the overneat hours, this is when its a very close call. This western eye wall is going to be very near indian river, vero beach, melbourne area, palm bay, up through the space coast. Thats during the night thursday. If we get
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The Ukraine Communications Group initiative will bring together like-minded partner governments to promote accurate reporting of Russia s full-scale invasion and expose Kremlin information manipulation, the US State Department said on Monday.