Humanitarian effort. Now dropping supplies in northern iraq. France is vowing to help with relief efforts, too. Still i. S. I. S. Is showing no signs of backing down. It released this video showing off military equipment it seized. This is day three of this latest u. S. Involvement in iraq. Yesterday before leaving for his vacation on marthas vineyard, the president reiterated his pledge not to send more Ground Troops into iraq but said his strategy for defeating i. S. I. S. Militants is lefrm. First, i dont think were going to solve this problem in weeks, if thats what you mean. I think this is going the take some time. If sometime turns into months, the president will have to turn to congress for permission to pursue his strategy. The war powers act gives him 60 days to do whatever he thinks is necessary without congressional approval. Late friday the white house gave this official notification to congress telling lawmakers about the latest military operation in iraq. Altz for what c
Were injured what appears to be an insider attack. We begin with barry mccaffrey. He joins us by phone. Were getting in the details attempting to learn more. Again, the u. S. Defense and military officials confirming a u. S. Army major general, a twostar general was killed in this insider attack. What can you tell us . These attacks had a dramatic reduction last year after we put in place very rigorous guidelines guideline s. A lot of them tended to clean out the taliban in the afghan services. This is a major blow to corrosive impact on the dwindling sense of trust that the u. S. Armed forces and nato officials will have in the Afghan Security units. They were meeting at the National Defense university in kabul when suddenly the gunman, wearing an Afghan Military uniform sprayed the gathering with automatics weapons fire. Unconfirmed reports saying as many as two were killed. These insider attacks reached a peak in 2012, i believe, its around 38 attacks have taken place. 53 deaths. Co
Lets get to Ayman Mohyeldin on the ground live for us. Ayman, lets talk about this proposal for palestinian officials. I know, its a multistage proposal here. Thats correct. In fact, what is significant about it right now is that it includes all of the palestinian factions. Really, for the First Time Since the conflict began its including some the other representatives in cairo who have made the presentation to the Egyptian Government hoping t egyptians can get some response from the israeli side and put an end to the ongoing fighting. The proposal would start with a 24hour ceasefire from both sides. That would be for humanitarian purposes. It would enter a face of rolling ceasefires. That means if the 72hour period after the initial date would be successful theres no violence it can be roll forward to pave the way for broader discussions about the core issues of why the conflict continue which is is for Israel Security consideration and the palestinian the lifting of the siege of bloc
But not at this point in time saying what president obama plans to do about it. Joy . Really quickly, is there any reason why the white house is being vague about who this religious minority is . Is there any reason why they are not saying what kind of religious minority . Reporter well, i think before the white house gets ahead of any of this reporting, they always like to know specifically what they are talking about. But, of course, the reports are that this religious minority is referred to and we just had the terminology here which just escaped me. I apologize. The point is, i think the white house doesnt want to get ahead of the reporting before they are absolutely sure what they are talking about. This is, of course, something that we see from the president all the time. He doesnt come out and address the situation until he knows specifically, you know, all of the facts. So i think that is what they are in the process of doing, gathering the facts. President Obama Meeting with h
Youre about to hear a duet youll never forget. Good evening. Its great to have you with us here on a monday night. We begin with the extreme caution across the country tonight, doctors in Emergency Rooms on the lookout for ebola. Tonight we have learned one person being tested here in new york city after having traveled to the region. That patient in isolation after being tested at mount sinai hospital here in new york city. The cdc telling dr. Besser tonight that since the outbreak began, about a halfdozen patients have been tested right here in america. Theres also news about the experimental drug used to treat an american doctor infected, now back here in the u. S. He is showing signs of improvement, communicating with his wife through a glass window. The doctor surprising everyone when we saw him walk out of the ambulance and into that hospital. Dr. Besser is standing by with what hes learned. But first Abcs Steve Osunsami in atlanta leading us off. Reporter while physicians in atl