Kobani has seen the biggest clash in a week between isis terrorists and kurdish mill sharks and one of the bigger waves of u. S. Bombing runs of the entire campaign. Just in the last 24 hours or so, i am told isis brought in reinforcements, and they tried to take the offensive again against the kurdish militia, attacking at three different fronts and pounding the kurds with mortars sending in three car bombs across the battle lines. The kurdish offenders say they told the battle lines in ct, that town remain unchanged, and were told one hospital in isisheld syria received 70 bodies of terrorists in the last day or so. Centcom confirms lit today they have been on the offensive as well, hitting isis with 11 air strikes targeting 20 fighting positions, 5 vehicles, 2 occupied buildings. Analysts basically tell me as brave as the kurdish fighters are, these air strikes are the only thing thats keeping them still in the game and its still not clear if they will win out because another big fa
With our correspondents and analysts. Lets begin with our pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr. She has the very latest. Reporter wolf tonight King Abdullah of jordan leading his military in his new war, steppedup war against isis. Nearly two dozen jordanian f16s taking off today against some 20 isis targets in those strongholds in eastern syria. The jordanians targeting isis weapons sites, personnel, anything that could be found to in the words of experts, inflict significant damage on isis. Very interesting the jordanians living up to a longtime military tradition, writing messages on those bombs before the planes took off. Some of the messages included this one, saying islam has nothing to do with your actions and a couple of verses from the koran. One of them saying and i quote here drop upon them stones of fire and they will turn their back and run. Jordanian military personnel you see there writing these messages on the bombs before they took off. All of this coming as King Abdul
President Ronald Reagan to make the point about unity and growing the gop tent. A lot of republicans want donald trump to stay on message, stay focused on Hillary Clinton, and he seemed to do that upping his rhetoric calling her the queen of corruption. But his krcriticism this week w overshadowed. He ruffled a lot of feathers. This surprise endorsement was a big reverse until one way to end a bad week by stamping out at least one controversy. In your shared mission to make America Great again i support and endorse our speaker of the house, paul ryan. Paul ryan. Good. Good man. Hes a good man and a good guy. And we may disagree on a couple of things, but mostly we agree and were kboin to get it done and do a lot of wonderful things. Now, trump followed up by endorsing john mccain obviously and kelly ayotte. Mccain is a guy that trump said just a few days ago he was never a big fan of. Now ryan and mccain have both publicly endorsed donald trump but theyve also made no secret about publ
Were watching all of the above for you over the next hour. But first, weve got breaking news today in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, just a heartbreaking situation in hollywood, florida. At least six people have died at a nursing home after the facility lost its air conditioning three days ago. Firefighters are evacuating more than 100 other elderly residents from this particular home. Right now many are being treated for respiratory diseases, dehydration and any kind of heatrelated issues. The mayor of hollywood, florida lamenting how easily this could have been prevented. Im very disappointed that Something Like this could have taken place. I think there were certainly many ways Emergency Services could have been alerted to this circumstance and unfortunately, Emergency Services were called obviously too late. Officials are also saying that theyre conducting a criminal investigation to what exactly happened. Cnns miguel march questions is outside that Rehabilitation Center at Holly
Facilities and we know that we depend on those people and those facilities to care for our most vulnerable elderly population. Its really sad when Something Like this goes on. Wsvn reporter Lorena Estrada has more. What are we learning . It was a total of 115 residents evacuated this morning after police were called to the nursing home, after receiving a call about at least one death. We later learned that three residents died at the nursing home, three others at the hospital. The nursing home is right here. A Rehabilitation Center at hollywood hills. Its right across from the hospital, memorial regional hospital. So when police were called to the scene and they realized what was taking place, more than 50 medical professionals rushed, evacuated the building. Were told at this hour that there are more than a dozen residents in the emergency room when we asked the medical director whether the death toll could rise. According to authorities, the illnesses were heatrelated, dehydration an