a plan for. it starts in the next few weeks. and that s long been our plan and we ll be capable of resourcing both. meanwhile, secretary of state john kerry says he still believes a diplomatic solution can be found to end the syrian conflict. we will also persist in our effort to find a diplomatic solution to the conflict i syria. we have to end the war. and this is as complicated a bit of diplomatic business as i ve ever seen. the problem remis there remains mountain of mistrust. as we try to chip away at that mountain, i will make and president obama will make zero apology for using every single diplomatic tool at our disposal to try and end this war. joining us live from erbil, iraq, nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley. in addition to the syrian news, there are reports that iraqi special forces are encountering increased resistance just outside of mosul.
shields before this final offensive. so this also casts some doubt on whether or not isis might try to move out of mosul and move back to raqqah as the secretary of defense mentioned. they re actually trying to move around and trying to raise a force to actually take raqqah in syria. it looks like isis is planning for a really long last stand with civilians as human shields in mosul here in iraq. louis? nbc s matt bradley reporting from iraq. thank you. well, scientific discoveries often change how we understand the world around us. the latest research changes a long-held belief about how the a.i.d.s. epidemic began here in the u.s. a new genetic and historical study finds that hiv arrived in the united states in 1970, years before patient zero, the man widely blamed for starting and spreading the 1980s epidemic in new york city. dugas was believed to have contracted the disease in haiti or africa before spreading it to dozens of men here in new york
they ll be in north carolina. donald trump will return to maine for a fifth time tomorrow, seeking a single electoral college vote in its second congressional district, where he was leading but a recent poll shows tightening there. this is the new nbc/ wall street journal /marist poll. 45% to trump s 36%. gary johnson still at double-digits with 10%. while a new monmouth university poll conducted slightly later shows merely a four-point race. clinton at 46%, trump, 42%. it s all tied up in nevada. this according to the nbc/ wall street journal /marist poll. 43% for both clinton and trump with johnson at 10 points. and there s growing doubt over whether house speaker paul ryan will be able to maintain his office once the november election is complete. trump backers angered over his one foot in, one foot out approach to the nominee could endanger his role as the most
them about location. in particular, with the cell phones, the gps, where did they travel to? would that give them indication of where they bought some of this stuff or who they might have met? as director comey said yesterday, there s a lot of evidence that just doesn t make sense and much of that is personal. the 6-month-old child. the family that seemed to be live the american dream. why would you just walk away from all that. yesterday, there was a scare at a local u.p.s. facility and it turned out this package addressed to them was just some clothes they had ordered online. why would you order clothes online if you knew you were going to mount an attack? a lot of evidence that they are looking at but so far the key question that is hanging out there is what was their motive and that answer is elusive right now, melissa. thank you to nbc s chris jansing in san bernardino, california. the shootings came less than a week after a gunman opened fire at a planned parenthood clinic in c
to commit this attack of terror. it would underscore a threat we ve been focused on for years, the danger of people succumbing to violent extremist ideologies. joining us is nbc s chris jansing. what kind of evidence are investigators focused on? one of the key questions is where did this come from, was this a lone wolf kind of attack, were they self-radicalized or were they in touch with other people? we said this morning there was some confirmation that right before this attack took place or almost simultaneously, the wife of this couple posted online that there was that she was connected not connected to but she pledged allegiance to isis. now our partners at flash point are saying to us isis is clearly saying we did not direct this attack. very important distinction between directing an attack and inspiring an attack. they seem to be trying to send