Bin laden is long gone, and today the head of the f. B. I. Said that when it comes to threats to america, al qaeda has been surpassed by another terror group, isis. Heres chip reid. Isil is not your parents al qaeda. Reporter f. B. I. Director james comey told the Aspen Security Forum that the reason isis, also called isil, has surpassed al qaeda as a danger to the u. S. , is because it has mastered twitter and other social media. With al qaeda if you wanted to consume their propaganda, you had to go find it somewhere on the web. Reporter but with isis. If you want to talk the a terrorist, theyre right there on twitter direct messaging to communicate with. Reporter elliot zweig is with the middle east Media Research institute. The way that isis does it is it puts out a message among several accounts, but that message is then picked up and distributed and redistributed and reredistributed. In the way of crowd source, it sees thousands and tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands in a
No more. Bin laden is long gone, and today the head of the f. B. I. Said that when it comes to threats to america, al qaeda has been surpassed by another terror group, isis. Heres chip reid. Isil is not your parents al qaeda. Reporter f. B. I. Director james comey told the Aspen Security Forum that the reason isis, also called isil, has surpassed al qaeda as a danger to the u. S. , is because it has mastered twitter and other social media. With al qaeda if you wanted to consume their propaganda, you had to go find it somewhere on the web. Reporter but with isis. If you want to talk the a terrorist, theyre right there on twitter direct messaging to communicate with. Reporter elliot zweig is with the middle east Media Research institute. The way that isis does it is it puts out a message among several accounts, but that message is then picked up and distributed and redistributed and reredistributed. In the way of crowd source, it sees thousands and tens of thousands and hundreds of thous
This july has been one of the hottest ever. Yakima washington, hit 105 today. Eugene oregon, a record 102. And 101 in red bluff california. The heat and relentless drought are turning breezes into blow torches. At least 18 wildfires are burning in california. John blackstone reports tonight from clear lake. Reporter firefighters facing a wall of flames fueled by dry wind and tripledigit heat fought back against a fastmoving fire 100 miles north of san francisco. Air tankers and choppers were called in for support and 650 residents were evacuated quickly from the the rural area. Ive never seen flames so tall. 200, 300foot flames. Reporter nearly 1,000 firefighters worked through the night to hold back the rocky fire from jumping the main highway. The fire continues to grow to 18,000 acres. This house was lost today. At one point fire crews had to quickly retreat. The fire shifted back toward me. Reporter gill said the wind shifted and within minutes the fire beared down on his ranch. Th
Yakima, washington, hit 105 today. Eugene, oregon, a record 102. And 101 in red bluff, california. The heat and relentless drought are turning breezes into blow torches. At least 18 wildfires are burning in california. John blackstone reports tonight from clear lake. Reporter firefighters facing a wall of flames fueled by dry wind and tripledigit heat fought back against a fastmoving fire 100 miles north of san francisco. Air tankers and choppers were called in for support, and 650 residents were evacuated quickly from the the rural area. Ive never seen flames so tall. 200, 300foot flames. Reporter nearly 1,000 firefighters worked through the night to hold back the rocky fire from jumping the main highway. The fire continues to grow to 18,000 acres. This house was lost today. At one point, fire crews had to quickly retreat. The fire shifted back toward me. Reporter gill said the wind shifted and within minutes the fire beared down on his ranch. The fire was wild, and aggressive and it
Weather pattern could mean for commodity prices. And the end of the dreaded annual performance review. Why it is now falling out of favor at so many more u. S. Companies. First, though, lets check in and welcome sarah eisen. Hi, sarah . Hi, tailer. Well begin the show with the housing market, Home Building rising to the highest level since 2007, a key measure of future construction plunged. Diana joinings us live from washington with all the numbers and back numbers. This is stocked full of contradictions. Single Housing Starts took a nice move up, nearly 13 for the month. Multifamily down 17 . Look at the big picture from whens we came. Single family construction is 25 below the 30year average. Multifamily is trying to make up for a decade of underbuilding. The Single Family construction surge in july much needed, yes. And it plays into the home depot numbers that were so stellar. Even when people buy new, they fix it up to their own liking. Some say the retailer needs to play to prof