Its scary. Really scary. Now that im here there is a relief off the shoulders. The family says they will miss family gettogethers. Jareds birthday, father is on labor day. Thats right. Labor day. They also believe that the babys birth date will be on valentines day. In fredericksburg, virginia, richard reeve, abc7 news. Michelle thank you. New information tonight about the deadly apartment explosion in silver spring. In the last two hours Montgomery County Police Identified two more victims at David Morales who is 8 and 3yearold fernando ariana. Casa del maryland are trying to help people. Kevin lewis is live with the latest. Kevin this is the second of the three evening meetings at the Long Branch Community center. Officials inside right now are getting input from the 136 they are also trying to figure out the most effective way to divvy up all of the donation money and there is a lot of it. More than 500,000 has been raised. The money will be split between the 55 households that live
But these troops are in for the long haul. The white house says their advisers, not combat troops, but they will be in harms way. David martin is at the pentagon. Reporter a pentagon 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. Their 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 syria, the pentagon official said. American and allied jets have been bombing raqqa for months. Earlier this year, a jordanian pilot had to bail out over raqqa. He was captured by isis and burned alive. We are near iraq every day. Reporter but as Lieutenant Colonel mike jones told 60 minutes earl
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
Syrian rebels, mr. Obama is order, in about 50 special operations troops to step up the war against isis. U. S. Forces have struck inside syria before in lightning raids, but these troops are in for the long haul. The white house says their advisers, not combat troops, but they will be in harms way. David martin is at the pentagon. Reporter a pentagon 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. Their 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 syria, the pentagon official said. American and allied jets have been bombing raqqa for months. Earlier this year, a jordanian