50 floors up inside a luxury apartment skyscraper. Emergency krouse battled it inside the torched tower for hours before they finally put it out. The skyscraper is among the tallest residential buildings in the world. Cnn producer john jensen of there and spoke with stunned residents. These are the dramatic images of one of dubais largest fires in recent history. Flames engulfed several upper floors of an Apartment Building in the dubai marina neighborhood. The fire broke out in the early hours of saturday morning. There were no injuries or deaths and the cause of the fire is unknown according to dubais civil defense. Hundred of people evacuate to the street and describe the confusion. All of us we run, run, run, run downstairs. Of course it was the panic, it was very panicked. Really i never seen like it before. A little surreal to be honest. I was concerned because you kept locking down to see if there was flames that will come up across the stairwell. And with the smoke, it was frig
Road conditions. This one is cold and ugly. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im john berman. Im christine romans. It is friday february 20th. That was a meek friday. It is cold. It was a meek cold friday. New this morning, the pentagon revealing plans to force isis out of iraqs second largest city mosul. Some 20,000 to 25,000 troops could be committed to retaking mosul months from now. This leads to the question if american troops could be involved. Correspondent Barbara Starr tracking that story for us. Reporter john and christine, the pentagon offering details about an upcoming military operation in iraq. Iraqi forces now getting ready to try to retake mosul. Iraqs second largest city. Isis capturing it last year. The plan is to find the iraqi forces and brigades to try to go to mosul, perhaps as soon as early april or may. Pretty specific information. More than 20,000 troops. Also Peshmerga Forces who will try to cut off any isis escape routes north and west of mosul. The quest
The accused road rage killer has to say after his client makes his first court appearance. I talked to him just a short time ago. Suffice it to say he presents a completely different theory of the case. Than weve been hearing up till now. We begin with security preparations under way in a place that almost every american visits, especially teenagers, visit it several times a week. Were talking about the mall. Minnesotas mall of america just outside minneapolisst. Paul international airport. The largest in the country. Tonight a designated target of the somali terror group. Al shabaab. Authorities are scrambling to assess the danger and the threat knowing that any mall is inherently a soft target. Understanding that al shabaab knows it as well. More now from brian todd. Reporter the mask al shabaab terrorists call on men with strong determination to vik. His inspiration, this 2013 attack on kenyas West Gate Mall where his group killed more than 60 people. Now he calls on al shabaabs sym
Support from the air. Really its amazing how much we do know. This centers around the critical city of mosul. The site of the an embarrassing defeat for the iraqi army last year. U. S. Planners and advisers i they will have the iraqi army ready to fight by next may. The peshmerga will operate the blocking force to go with block isil down. The u. S. And Coalition Air power will continue to pound isis. You cannot pock pie ground from the air. Isis is change its tactics. But what is stunning is they are making things public. It was not a leak, it was a planned Conference Call with Central Command and reporters. This public battle plan could go one of two ways. Some isis fighters might retreat in fear of the attack or it might gift enemy more time to prepare their defenses. But at best it appears a risky bet. We are aiding and abetting the enemy. I dont understand why the president and the Administration Want to aid and abet the enemy. It will expose our forces to certain risk because they
Closing arguments ended less than 30 minutes ago. I know you were listening in. What can you tell us . Reporter prosecutors really hammered away at eddie ray mouthrouth far from insane. With a personality disorder. On the gun range that Eddie Ray Routh led true colors show and let his freak flag fly and hammered away all of the excuses, describe all of the symptoms of psychosis and schizophrenia. Those were simply excuses made by someone a cold and calculated killer. Defense attorneys turned around anderson and hammered away at one of the central pieces of evidence weve talked about during the course of the trial. That was the lack of a blood test done on Eddie Ray Routh after he was taken into custody. If youre watching this closely, theyve been saying Eddie Ray Routh was in a voluntary druginduced psychosis that caused him to kill chris kyle and chad littlefield. That does not rise to insanity. If he was under the influence of drugs, why didnt they take a blood test . Thats a key poi