And hamas after talks in egypt fall apart. This morning, i am declaring the current outbreak of the ebola virus disease a Public Health emergency have international concern. The world holt organization raising the alarm over ebola. The almost effort and longest in history. I authorized two operations in iraq. Targeted airstrikes to protect our american personnel and a humanitarian effort to help save thousands of iraqi civilians who are trapped on a mountain without food and water. The president says the u. S. Military would carry out airstrikes against the group that calls itself the Islamic State. His concern, americans in iraq could be in danger if the rebels advance toward the capitol of the kurdish region, where a u. S. Consulate in located in addition to a joint u. S. Iraqi security base. We intend to stay vigilant and take action if our personnel are threatened in iraq. He is trying to avert a cries he calls an act of genocide. Tens of thousands of iraqi families are a member of
Strikes. U. S. Fighter jets and drones struck several isis to defend trapped on the mountain. Nbc news Foreign Correspondent Keira Simmons is on the ground in iraq. He filed this report this morning. Kurdish forces are battling with isis on the outskirts of this city embolden by the usairstrikes to take out some of that isis equipment that was so threatening. This city under threat, a bill that prompted president obama to act. Now, there are blood curdling stories from iraqs human rights minister saying that 500 members of the community have been killed saying that he believes 300 women have been kidnapped and even telling terrible stories about some people being married alive by isis. Little wonder that the civilians are so frightened that so many of them flee and there is such a sense that this city has to be protected. The question, of course, is if those battles between the kurds and isis combined with the air strikes do not push isis back what does the west do then . That was keir