isis money man who managed isis s oil and gas income and personally close to the isis leader al baghdadi. the fact that the united states was willing to mount a capture mission to grab him shows that he was a really important person in the infrastructure itself. reporter: the target did not go the quietly. there was a gun fight. even hand to hand fighting. abu safafter was killed along with a dozen or more isis fighters. stay with us commandos left unharmed taking with them his wife known as umm sayyaf. u.s. officials allege she helped manage hostages taken by isis. alex this is only the second time that u.s. special operations forces have gone into isis-held territory in syria. the last one was when there was an attempt to rescue hostages. u.s. special operations forces landed. it was what they call a dry hole. the hostages had been moved. this one an aggressive operation
immediately there to control the train s speed. talk about that. what exactly is that technology and how does it differ from what we ve been hearing about this past week positive train control? thank you, alex. atc is the traditional signaling system on the northeast corridor. uses track circuits and to determine train location. the signal system sends coded messages along the rails picked up by the locomotive that tell the locomotive the speed that the signal ahead is indicating. normally that system does not give speed. instructions for curves. what fra has instructed amtrak to do now and do it immediately is add another coded track circuit or a code message on the track to indicate a speed restriction for the curves.
hey there everyone. it s high noon in the east 9:00 a.m. out west. welcome. we begin with new reports about the mission special operations forces carried out yesterday in syria which killed abu sayyaf. the raid only the second time u.s. special operations forces are known to have ever conducted a ground operation in syria was intended to capture sayyaf to capture intelligence. new reaction from washington a day after the raid. first, richard engel has the very latest from istanbul. richard? alex, it was washington this time that seized the initiative. it was a very risky operation no doubt about that. some people are debating whether the target was worth it was he senior enough. but a decision was taken, the mission was authorized by the white house to go into syria do to initially the plan was to try and snatch and grab this isis
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from the white house. we ll see if they launch more of these after this last operation thank you so much richard in istanbul. in washington today, new reaction. here s the vice chair of the senate intelligence committee, senator dianne feinstein. my assessment is that it was a success, that this is the kind of one-two punch we should do more of. i believe if we re not going to put troops on the ground then we have got to use our special operations forces to go in and collect intelligence, also be able to capture people that might be able to be helpful. nbc s kristen welker joins us now from the white house. what else did we hear today on the topic? alex, we re hearing something we don t usually hear in washington which is bipartisan agreement. republicans and democrats largely supportive of this mission calling it a victory in the fight against isis senate