Isil still holds half of tikrit. Turkeys coast guard has fired on a cargo ship carrying 300 syrian refugees. Turkey shot at the ship as it passed through the strait and ignored warnings to stop. 330 refugees are being detained, including 85 children Syrian Kurdish fighters are urging the u. S. Led coalition to launch new airstrikes on the Islamic State in iraq and the levant. They want to target isilheld regions. They want to help kurdish fighters. Theyve been on the front line and on the war of the Islamic State in iraq and the levant. These fighters say that theyre defending their land against isil. Theyre also the antiisil coalition on the ground. On the ground it occurred to us to fight isil. But its limited to airstrikes. It made us stronger, no doubt but were not receiving any weapons or ammunition. The u. S. Led coalition does acknowledge the advances and the air support that it provides, but its careful to avoid identifying the fighters as the ypg. In its statement it calls the
Good evening. It was an attack that drew comparisons to the Charlie Hebdo massacre in texas. This happened in texas. And the attackers were shot and killed before they could kill. It happened at a dallas suburb where a group the Southern Poverty Center has called a antiislamic hate group. Authorities are investigating it as a possible terror attack. The two shooters have been identified and it least one it turns out had already been on the fbis regard. Reporter this mangled car driven by the two gunmen detonated by police to get rid of potential explosives as authorities investigate whether this event was a terrorist attack. Were looking into that. We have knocked that out. Were work ing with the fbi. Reporter one of the suspects was known to the fbi. Convicted five years ago of lying to federal agents about his plans to africa. Some have called the group a antiislamic group. It sponsored a contest offering 10,000 for the best cartoon for the muslim prophet muhammad. Something consider
And each instance is unique. Each and every one is totally unique with a unique set of circumstances. But in this one, given the timing given the lack of information about any credible threat, given all of the ramifications that may have taken place had shots been fired, i believe they acted quickly, bravely and heroically. Before the gentlemen yields back. I got to ask you a question. Ive asked you directly in closed doors and in here whether or not you had somebody with a gun trained on these people that could take them out of the air and yet when mr. Cummings asked the same question in a different way you said no. You told me yes. What is it . We clearly have officers out there with weaponry. In this instance with the gyro copter coming at the capitol did you . And it may have been brief. I you said understand you didnt get much advanced warning. Right. But did you or did you not have guns trained on this gyro copter. Did they have guns on him in this instance. As he was landing. So
Classified information tell me this. Did this incident this incident that were talking about today has that caused you all to change anything about your policies with regard to shoot downs lethal force . We have not changed anything yet. But it has caused us like those other seminal moments you referenced to reexamine how we do business. Object twoin 2013 there was another incident. A woman drove on Capitol Grounds fleeing Law Enforcement and capitol place shot and killed her. We learned later she was mentally ill and not armed and that she had a oneyearold baby in the backseat of a car. Is that right chief dine . Yes, sir. Now, while some praised the response of the Capitol Police, others criticize. And chief dine, what impact, if any, did this incident that i just talked about have on your policies for using lethal force . Ranking member, cummings as you know that matter is under litigation. But i can tell you every time we face one of these situations it causes us to examine how we
Word of the latest whale to wash ashore in pacifica. Facebook. People posted on facebook. Ali were the first to see the humpback as the waves seemed to rock her. I thought it was a big rock and when i looked up to it it had a bunch of peeled skin on it. According to the Marine Mammal center this whale has been dead four to five days and no clue as to how she died. Researchers from the academy of sciences will wait until tomorrow to examine the carcass. The tide kept them from doing that today. Just three weeks ago a 48foot sperm whale washed ashore on the same beach. Scientists still dont know how that one died, but pretty much know how they got here. We have pretty strong onshore winds the last couple of weeks and that will lend itself to depositing floating Marine Mammals onshore more and this beach tends to be more of a collection site for dead Marine Mammals. Reporter it was as if people stopped what they were doing to take pictures of this creature. I saw the sperm one, and it did