Outfront tonight more americans in iraq. Another wave of American Military personnel landed today. The actual number of u. S. Personnel in iraq right now is higher than previously thought. Were going to have a full report from the pentagon in just a full moment. And on the ground in iraq today the deadly battle for control of the country is raging. A bomb blast killing 19 and wounds 41 more. A new attack in a market south of baghdad in which 13 people were killed yesterday. Then a car bomb explosion in northern kirkuk which killed six and wounded 21 other. Barbara starr is at the pentagon with details on what the United States is doing right now. Reporter in baghdad, nearly 500 u. S. Troops are now on the ground including 180 military advisers of the 300 president obama authorized plus security teams and intelligence analysts already there. Priority one, determine whether the capital is in danger of falling to the isis militants. The Current Assessment . The Iraqi Military will keep co
Good evening, everyone, out out tonight, america is once again attacking the enemy in iraq. A second round of u. S. Air strikes against the terror group isis. The United States military is defending the city of erbil where americans are on the ground and in danger. The United States thought erbil would be safe. But isis is now 19 miles from the city. Isis fighters would like nothing more than to kill americans and they said as much to vice media. Heres a look at the press officer. I say to america that the islamic caliphate has been established. Send your soldiers the ones we humiliated in iraq. We will humiliate them everywhere, god willing. We will raise the flag of ayla in the white house. And you heard right, the flag flying over the white house. As for how long the United States is going to continue this campaign against them remains unclear. The president has not laid out a specific end date were going to sort of take this approach in which those kinds of decisions are evaluated
Marine corps pilot, retired Airline Captain and aviation consultant. Jp, it does not sound good. Lets just say that right off the bat. Obviously, john, you pegged it with windows iced up and you have pressurization failure and you have unresponsive person and if there were other people in the cockpit, obviously they would be responding. So probably the worst case scenario, lack of oxygen and they have succumbed. We understand it was flying at 25,000 feet. If you lose pressure at an altitude like that, you have seconds or minutes where if you get to a lower altitude quickly enough, you can maintain control. Of course. 25,000 feet is not like 31,000 feet, but you would have not much more than maybe 2 1 2 minutes of cognitive response. You may be alive but unable to function or you are drifting off. You would not exactly wh know e was going on. The fact that the windows are fogged over, it suggests a pressure release and not just a pilot heart attack or Something Like that. My first thoug
Summit in wales, and hes offering up some tougher rhetoric vowing to, quote, destroy isis. Leland viet ard is live in our newsroom. What can you tell us . It took three press conferences, at least a couple of weeks, for the president to articulate a Clear Strategy for dealing with isis. Yesterday just before he left the nato summit, he stayed on message. We have to act as part of the International Community to degrade and ultimately destroy isil. We are going to degrade and ultimately defeat isil. You systematically degrade their capabilities. Now, republicans remain unconvinced, saying that while the president has defined a mission they point to a lack of plan as further evidence that the white house is bungling the response to isis and allowing the terrorist group to grow into a terrorist state. The fact that we have let this go and especially over the last seven, eight months as weve watched these columns of isis fighters travel city by city and have not hit them by the air, this is
Congress will pass some bills i cannot sign. Im sure ill take actions that some in congress will not like. Thats natural. Thats how our democracy works. But we can surely find ways to Work Together on issues where theres broad agreement among the American People. So i look forward to republicans putting forward their governing agenda. I will offer my ideas on areas where i think we can move together to respond to peoples Economic Needs so just take one example. We all agree on the need to create more jobs that pay well. Traditionally both parties have been for creating jobs rebuilding our infrastructure. Our roads, bridges, ports, waterways. I think we can hone in on a way to pay for it through tax reform that closes loopholes and makes it more attractive for companies to create jobs here in the United States. We can also Work Together to grow our exports and open new markets for manufacturers to sell more American Made goods to the rest of the world. Thats something ill be focused on