Friends, come to have grief. And at the the white house the call to send hundreds more troops, back into iraq. Tuesday night, the big story on action news tonight is the beheading of a second american in two weeks by the Islamic State isis. Thirtyone yearold steven sotoloff was a apparently executed today by an isis militant with a knife, who had these words for president obama, our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people. The authorities have yet to confirm the videos authenticity, but it comes two weeks after beheading of american journalist james foley. Isis says it is acting in response to u. S. Air strikes against the group. In miami, mourners are coming to the sotoloffs home. Spokesmen says that the family is grieving privately, and there will be no public comment. And early tonight, president obama approved sending another 350 troops into iraq. The additional troops mostly army, some marines will help protect the u. S. Embassy in baghdad, this latest deployment wi
The call to send hundreds more troops, back into iraq. Tuesday night, the big story on action news tonight is the beheading of a second american in two weeks by the Islamic State isis. Thirtyone yearold steven sotoloff was a apparently executed today by an isis militant with a knife, who had these words for president obama, our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people. The authorities have yet to confirm the videos authenticity, but it comes two weeks after beheading of american journalist james foley. Isis says it is acting in response to u. S. Air strikes against the group. In miami, mourners are coming to the sotoloffs home. Spokesmen says that the family is grieving privately, and there will be no public comment. And early tonight, president obama approved sending another 350 troops into iraq. The additional troops mostly army, some marines will help protect the u. S. Embassy in baghdad, this latest deployment will push the number of American Forces in iraq to over 1,
No more information about the investigation itself, but still very active. We are expecting police to be here on the scene for a while yet. And this is having an impact on traffic in the area, although i should say there is some improvement now. With more on that, well go to Melissa Mollet. We have been chatting here throughout the morning talking about this situation in suitland. And what we know from the scene from megan, theres silver hill road now open. Suitland road near huron avenue is still shut down. You dont have to go back around the rear of the federal center. Your best alternate is pennsylvania or southern. Take a live look here at a traffic camera, 270 at middlebrook road is looking good at this point this morning. No major issues or problems there. Tom, coming up in the next couple of minutes, a wider look at the beltway. The only real problem on the beltway is near Central Avenue where we have lanes blocked because of the earlier crash. The traffic looks good there and t
Monitoring all of these developments. We have correspondents making source phone calls to try to get to the bottom of who this might me. Cnn correspondent Arlette Saenz is on the trail in bidens home town. So let me begin with you. What do you know . Reporter well, as our colleague jeff zeleny reported, joe biden has made his decision about the woman who will join him on the democratic ticket and he has told his advisers who that will be and an announcement could come as soon as today. Were still waiting to find out exactly who that woman is. But this will ultimately cap off a months long process where biden has been searching for his running mate. The women who are under consideration went through intensive vetting interviews with his Search Committee as well as interviews with the former Vice President. And the list had about initially 11 women to begin with and it has been narrowed down over the course of the past few months. Biden last week saying that he had narrowed down that lis
Capital of mekele. Its the third week of open conflict between the Central Government and regional leaders that has forced thousands from their homes. Prime minister abiy ahmed has also said that he wont let African Union envoys to travel to tigrye for mediation talks. Government troops have warned civilians living there they would be encircled by tanks and subjected to artillery fire. Abiy ahmeds federal troops have taken a string of towns during Aerial Bombardments and ground fighting, and are now aiming for the tplf stronghold home to some 500,000 people. Let me bring you some breaking news. This is coming into the last half hour from the united states. This is coming into the last half hourfrom the united states. Reuters news agency reporting a little bit more on that court case mentioned earlier, the one in pennsylvania, which tojudge earlier, the one in pennsylvania, which to judge throughout. Interestingly, a republican judge who was appointed to federal court in pennsylvania by