The white house says their advisers, not combat troops, but they will be in harms way. David martin is at the pentagon. Reporter a pentagogo official said American Special forces will spend up to 60 days at a time in the headquarters of u. S. Backed fighters in syria. They will north, for the foreseeable future, go out on operations against isis. Theiei mission to coordinate a drive by various bands of arab and kurdish fighters on the isis capital of raqqa with the help of american airstrikes. The number of jets flying strikes out of a nearby base in turkey will quadruple from just six to 24. We want to be prosecuting as many isis targets as possible in said. American and allied jets have been bombing raqqa for months. Earlier this year, a jordanian raqqa. He was captured by isis and we are near iraq every day. Reporter but as Lieutenant Colonel mike jones told 60 minutes earlier this morning at the command center for the air campaign, a lot of time and fuel is wasted flying those stri
Pelley david martin at thehe pentagon. Thanks. Now, that is syria, but u. S. Special Operations Forces are already on the ground advising and assisting kurdish fighters in northern iraq, and that is where we find elizabeth h lmer tonight. Liz. Reporter scott, we know theyre here because we actually ran into a small group of them, quite by accident, in the headquarters of one of the kurdish commanders. They wouldnt say anything, but the kurds say theyre already an important part of the fight against isis up here. Some of them actually live and work with the kurdish fighters right on the front lines. Others help staff a joint command center here in the city of erbil. Theeission includes target spotting, helping to coordinate airstrikes, and also going on joint operations like the raid on the isis jail last week that killed Master Sergeant joshua wheeler. The kurds say theyre hoping for morereoint rates likik that and also further c operation. Pelley elizazeth palmer reporting for us toni
Would her family stand by her. And spooktacular morning. We revisit the legend of Sleepy Hollow. The headless horseman leads the way, the fearless gma team. Well, some of us. Braving a frightful night of surprises, the ghoulish fun as we say good morning, america. Happy halloween. Its saturday, october 31st. Its Good Morning America. Hey, good morning and happy halloween. Were going to blow it out this morning. Weve got kids. Weve got dogs. Weve got rob standing by in Sleepy Hollow, were all in. Look at the kids and its all coming up just a little bit later in the show this morning. And we also have you. Oh, yes. Which is always good for hall. But we do have to start with some tragic and breaking news from overseas. A plane with more than 200 people on board went down overnight. The plane was en route from the popular red sea resort of sharm el sheikh, egypt, to st. Petersburg, russia, when it crashed in the sinai peninsula. Now, it is an airbus a321, had more than 200 people on board,
Killed. Reporter a russian airbus 321 like this one took off around 6 a. M. Saturday morning from sharm he will sheik egypt a red see resort city popular with russians. The pilot of the st. Petersburg bound flight radioed and said the plane was experiencing technical problems. Russian state media is reporting the metrojet airliner changed course toward cairo. It disappeared from radar about 20 minutes into the flight and all contact was lost. Military search helicopters spotted wreckage of the plane in the sinai peninsula, the same area where government and Islamic State militants have clashed. Isis has claimed responsibility but provided no evidence and are not known to have the capability to bring down a plane at those heights. A caravan of ambulances transported the dead to a morgue in cairo. Victims family members gathered at a hotel near the st. Petersburg airport where grief counselors were on hand to help them cope. Secretary of state john kerry sent condolences from his trip to
Love it. The good news, looking at dry day today. So, for trickortreaters, for football fans, it will be just fine. Little cool though. Did you notice that when you walked out the door . I did, yes. I grabbed the coat because i was like geez thats a little chilly. We seeing some 30s, 40s, around the area right now. But pretty nice day on tap. We can expect this weekend is a sunny start to the day, some spooky afternoon and evening clouds, though. But much warmer sunday on tap. Taking a live look at the neighborhood network, check out the temperatures, drexel hill, 37 degrees, just 33 doylestown, 35 in hamilton and cinnaminson coming in at 39. Already in the 40s here in philadelphia. About 44 degrees right now, and you can see storm scan3 showing that the skies are relatively clear, just few clouds there, off to the west, but his is lurking further west, will start to fall apart, but will cause us to have few sprinkles on our sunday morning, i dont think game changer for plans. Looking