Deputy asks a federal court to decide if he must testify on capitol hill tomorrow. And sweeping evacuations and blackouts as wildfires rage in california. Residents ordered to flee fire disaster areas like Sonoma County and the wine country there. The millions of americans that lose power. We start, though, with the baking news, the leader of isis dead. All of this following a raid by the u. S. Military. Confirmation this morning from the white house that Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi killed himself as u. S. Special forces were closing in on him overnight in northwest syria. You see the after math right here of the operation. That would be the president making the announcement earlier today. He spoke for just about an hour and u. S. Officials tell nbc news the special ops mission included drones, jets and helicopters. Well, today, President Trump spoke for an hour. This is the location as you can see, just rubble left from all of it. Lets get to Kelly Odonnell who is at the white house for us.
Brought the worlds number one terrorist leader to justice. Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi is dead. He died after running into dead end tunnel, whimpering and crying and screaming all of the way. He reached the end of the tunnel as our dogs chased him down. He ignited his vest killing himself and three children. But test results gave certain immediate and totally positive identification. It was him. And this is where it happened in northwest syria and close to the border of turkey, and standing by to kick off the coverage we have nbc White House Correspondent hans nichols, and Foreign Correspondent kim kube, and also our Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel. What did you hear about this, hans . It is a terrorist leader who menaced the west so far and the president wanted to paint him as someone who is cowardly and w m whimpering and treated like a dog and even though it is an american dog who saw the final moments of al baghdadi, and this is the visceral descriptions and comments of what happened
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