They have rapidly gained control of key areas. Those thats where isis is in control in the red area. And iraqs neighbors, the Iraqi Government says thousands of volunteers have stepped up to defend their homeland. Even irans president said it will consider helping if iraq requests it. A u. S. Official sells a top iranian general has been in iraq this week. Were covering this story from multiple angles. And cnns arwa damon is in the Northern Iraqi city of erbil. And cnns jones in the white house. Arwa, tell us how far isis has advanced. The question is, will they make it to baghdad . Will they take over the city . Where are they now . Right now in diyala province just to the north of baghdad, theyre about 60 kilometers away from the capital, battling with Iraqi Security forces, who in one town in that area made a gruesome discovery, saying they found the bodies of 12 Police Officers who had been shot and then burned. Those bodies were found in an orchard. They suspect that isis was behi
A very good idea where the planes black boxes are even as they keep scrambling to pick up some more locator signals. Our correspondents are following all the new developments around the world. We also have our team of experts here in the situation room. To explain where the search and the investigation stand right now. Lets go to aviation correspondent rene marsh for the very latest. Wolf, as you said, to hear him tell it, Prime Minister of australia, youd think a breakthrough is right around the corner. Tony abbott is in china to update chinas president on the search for flight 370, but its his tone about how things are progressing thats receiving a lot of attention. Forget cautious optimism. Australian Prime Minister tony abbott is oozing confidence. We have very much narrowed down the search area, and we are very confident that the signals that we are directing are from the black box on mh370. We are confident that we know the position of the black box flight recorder to within some
He counted down the nations hit songs. Well find out as we count down the 40 hottest hits in the usa. Reporter his radio show featured kasems Long Distance dedication that tugged at americas heartstrings. Kasem, born to lebanonese parents, after his discharge in the military he worked as a deejay before landing in los angeles. American top 40 reporter in 1970 he cofounded the american top 40 franchise. He was passionate about radio and music. During the countdown he told audiences fun facts about the artist before the songs were played. It became his trademark. The police with the number song in the land last week every breath you take. Reporter his music countdown was brought to television. Welcome to americas top ten. Reporter he led countless commercials and several cartoon characters, most notably shaggy in scooby doo. He gave back to several charities and was never shy about voicing his political views. His final years were not peaceful. Dementia and other Health Problems and ex t
Iraqi forces dressed as civilians being held in trucks and then led by men with guns to their death. They claim they are fighting back. The ministry of defense released this video showing air strikes against isis in mosul. Thousands of volunteer fighters have responded to calls to protect their country and iraq claims it is taking key territory, even with reports that isis is moving closer to baghdad. Were covering this story in iraq and from the u. S. , of course, Nic Robertson is live for us and athena jones is in washington. Nic is joining us by phone right now. What do you know about the latest moves by isis . Reporter well, the latest were hearing is that they are attacking a ton just mosul and they are attacking an Iraqi Army Security base. Seven People Killed so far, 33 wounded in that attack. Isis still on the advance. They took the town of baquba late saturday after the army flew from there, taking their weapons with them. Baquba is so important because its only a 45minute dri
Married couple blamed for killing two Las Vegas Police officers as they ate dinner at a pizza restaurant held extremist views toward Law Enforcement. I apologize. Investigators say they found what appears to be a manifesto, backpacks and flags or insignias with marking on them at one of the shooting scenes. Lets go out to dan simon for more. Reporter this seems to be a very thought out and calculated attack based upon what youre talking about with those items that were found, the manifesto, the backpack and the flag and insignias. We dont know what they symb symbolize but it appears they went through the trouble to think things through. I want to talk through chronology with you. Its important here in sort of talking about what happened and the events that led up to what happened here at the walmart. So its around 11 22 a. M. When these two suspects were talking about a married couple enter a pizza restaurant and they see these two Police Officers and they shoot them dead. Then they ta