The police about the attack and the investigation. Both of them had assault rifles came around the back of the car and started shooting at the police car. The Police Officer in that car began returning fire and struck both men taking them down. Obviously they were there to shoot people. We will continue to investigate. This is not going to be a real fast investigation. Weve got our suspects we continue to monitor social media, and other gather other intel to make sure that were not getting any more or any threats. So we dont know their intent other than we know that they were willing to pull up and start shooting on police. We think their strategy was to get to the event center into the event center and they were not able to get past that outer perimeter that we have set up which was part of that security. Our ed lavandera following the events in garland texas outside dallas and rose sa flores watching whats going on. Did the police say whether there was a specific threat made against
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Killers. Investigators apparently finding dna of one of the two men after more than two weeks on the run as we say good morning on a monday. Im bill hemmer live in americas newsroom. Martha dna was reportedly found in a cabin in a town called cowlshead its 30 miles west if you were walking from the prison to this spot. They are also looking in the area of a potential sighting near friendship, new york. Well continue to search this area until all leads have been exhausted. As we have in other areas of the state, well search behind every rock tree and structure until we are confident that area is secure. Bill rick, whats up with these two different locations . In owls head we see corrections officer local state and Police Setting up roadblocks and checking peoples trunks. But also through the rural roads that wind through this mountainous stretch. We were here last night based on a tip from Law Enforcement involved in the search that there was a manhunt and we found a command post that h
Islamic militants who demand they convert or die. We know that president obama has called saudi Arabias King Abdullah as he and his closest white house advisers strategize about what comes next. I want to bring in andrea mitchell. What can you tell us about this effort to communicate with International Partners about this operation . The call was to King Abdullah in jordan. And that is a key player right on the border with iraq. Weve yet to hear from the saudis and other Coalition Partners and there is a lot of reporting that they have been so dissatisfied with the president s response a year ago to syria and all this while as acise was metastasizing that they are reluctant to get involved militarily. Turkey did drop some aid in and is helping, and there has been more cooperation than weve ever seen before between baghdad and kirkuk and the leaders from erbil, the kurdish leaders in that peshmerga were routed by isis. That was the shocker saturday night. Since then there has been Coope
Minorities are on the run in the northern part of the country. Christians, shia muslims, others, forced out of their homes, out of their villages, as brutal isis militants, these terrorists, are storming through all of these different towns, and with these people with nowhere to go, theyre fleeing into the mountains, where were told some 40,000 people are now without food and medicine and water. Dozens of children are dying in the sweltering heat. Women being sold into slavery. And now new reports that 500 men have been slaughtered. Lets go straight to the white house to our Senior Correspondent there, jim acosta, who has just stepped out at that briefing. And jim acosta, there was a bit of a back and forth with you and josh earnest, i was watching, trying to get him to confirm, to explain when they talk about those military options, does that mean air strikes . We didnt get anything. Reporter no, we did not, brooke. And there are a couple reasons possibly for that. But youre right. Ma