As many as 40,000 iraqis into the mountains and took over the largest christian city less than three hours after president company obama declared it stable. With Ukrainian Forces making gains against prorussian rebels, nato warns russia has 20,000 troops perched on the border. With Vladimir Putin order an invasion under is the guise of peace keep. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper live in jerusalem. At this hour, president obama has called a meeting of senior advisors as a u. S. Official tells cnn that the white house is considering air strikes on the islamic militants who have overrun iraq. Were going to get into all of that, but first, the reason were coming to you live from jerusalem today, breaking news now about that 72hour ceasefire that went into effect tuesday and only has nine hours left in it. Now hamass military wing told its negotiators in egypt to reject any extension of the truce unless the demands are met. The last three days has been mercifully quiet. They say unless
We are live in iraq with the latest. Good morning and welcome to early start. Im Victor Blackwell in for john berman. Im christine romans. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. We welcome all our viewers in the u. S. And around the world. Tensions remain high. Order is slowly being restored. Peaceful protests, steamy rain keeping temperatures cool. Eric holder met with Community Leaders and the family of Michael Brown whose death has touched off nearly two weeks of violence. Hopefully, well have a calming influence on the area. People know that a federal, thorough investigation is being done. Meanwhile, prosecutors have begun getting evidence to see if the officer should be charged. What happened last night. Another night of relative calm. Reporter it was calm. I have to tell you, christine, the tone, the energy level, the engagement level of the people on the street was much more calm than the night before. A lot of people out there holding signs. We saw faces we hadnt seen before. One thing
We are k50e7ing a very close watch on ferguson missouri, very peaceful and Smaller Groups tonight. Theyre demanding justice in the death of Michael Brown. Lets show you the seen there these past few hours, live pictures for you now along that street where weve seen so many demonstrations and tonight seems much different. You have Law Enforcement out in force in case theres looting. They havent felt the need to trigger their response. As weve been telling you, eric holder is expected to arrive in ferguson in a few hours to get an update on the justice departments civil rights investigation into browns death. A number of interesting things will happen to move this story along when wednesday comes. A grand jury will begin hearing testimony from witnesses on wednesday in their effort to determine whether charges should be filed against officer wilson. Thats the man who shot and killed Michael Brown. Shooting his body multiple times. The teens mother spoke to u. S. Channel nbc. Listen to th
Until israel ends the aggression and cease of gaza. So what went so terribly wrong . So far palestinian Officials Say 1,229 people in gaza have died since the latest conflict began. Almost all of them civilian. Israel says 53 of the soldiers and 3 civilians have been killed in the fighting. Out front tonight, wolf blitzer in jerusalem. Karl penhaul in gaza city. I want to again with you, karl. Do we have that shot back . Sorry. I know where youre standing there have been flares. The fighting has been going on and on. Thats why theres been difficulty with the shot. What are you seeing now . Right now, erin, even if i step just a little bit out of shot, thats the picture. It looks like a big black hole out there tonight. And theres a reason for that. Its because gazas main and only power plant, in fact, just south of where we are now has been hit. Its been damaged. For much of the day. The diesel storage tanks were on fire. Its out of action. The chief of the power plant says it could be
Purcha curfew begins at midnight central time. I spoke with brown family attorney anthony gray, asked why the brown family is now going to conduct a second autopsy and why they chose this pathologist to perform it. Listen. Hes worked on multitude of highprofile cases. We think that there would be no problem with his experience or his stature within the pathologist community. We think weve got one of the best in the world that you can ever have in order to do a thorough autopsy on this particular in this particular case. Were conducting an independent autopsy, the family is, and so we want to have those results at our fingertips in order to be able to examine some information that we trust and that we can rely upon. Important to note we did ask him if they are going to release the i ruts is of the that autopsy to the public, they have not decided at this point. The st. Louis Coroners Office did already perform an autopsy on browns body and those preliminary results are not known to the