The house subcommittee on oversight and investments. Chairman tim murphy will join us on a preview of that hearing. Watching for this one, amazon for the past week, touting this mystery launch today featuring an announcement by the ceo jeff besozs. The scuttlebutt is it includes this famous 3d screen. We think we know what a 3d screen would be, but youre not wearing the glasses. Who knows what it is. Were going to talk about the prospects for amazon. We will talk with mark mahaney at 6 50 eastern time. The screen is so small. We have two tvs that are supposed to be 3d. We even have the glasses. Does it work . If you wear the glasses. We had two movie nights in our house where we all wore the glasses. We had friends over. We tried to do the whole thing and watched avatar. You had enough glasses . We bought extra glasses. What is the bottom line . It was like why are we doing this . We all looked goofy. And thats a 50 incher, probably . Yeah, about. So what do you look at in 3d on this l
The pentagon confirmed today that the first u. S. Military advisers are on the ground in iraq. This comes as secretary of state john kerry meets with nato Foreign Ministers to discuss the challenges facing that country. Kerry flew to brussels after meeting with kurdish leaders in northern iraq. As everybody knows, this is a very critical time for iraq as a whole. And the government formation challenge is the central challenge that we face in recent days the Security Cooperation between the forces here in the kurdish area have been really critical to helping to draw a line with respect to isil. That meeting took place as iraqi soldiers battled with fight presser Islamic State in the iraq, levant just west the baghdad. Mike, what is the mission for the military 5 advisers now on e ground in iraq. Reporter 40 of the threat hundred that the press spoke about when he deployed them last week have now arrived in country. And their mission to is hes the readiness and cohesiveness of the iraqi
U. S. , because today isis militants stormed iraqs Largest Oil Refinery, just north of baghdad in the city of beigy. At one point, terrorists controlled most of the site. Meantime, reuters is reporting that oil giant, exxon mobile, is carrying out a major evacuation of its staff with its Branch Offices further south in both baghdad and basra. Bp is also reportedly evacuated 20 of its staff. All of this here as isis is moving evercloser to baghdad. But the word from iraqs Prime Minister today, everything is under control. Lets take you straight to iraq to cnns anderson cooper, host of ac 360, hosting out of baghdad every night this week. When we talk about the advance of isis on baghdad, what do you know about that, a. . And youre on the ground. What are iraqis telling you about everything. Reporter well, certainly bakuba is the latest town theyre fighting, the closest to baghdad, as we talked about, some 37 or 40 miles or so from the capital. Thats obviously of great concern. Still, as
Pulled troops out now considering, quote, a range of options. Troubled soldier. Bergdahls journals and email paint a picture of what it calls a complicated and fragile young man. Calling himself the lone wolf of deadly nothingness struggling to maintain mental stability, frustrated and longing to travel. You have the layering of leadership and the young man is apparently delusional. Chaos on camera. Knocked down tie vegas cop killers in the final moments. Shot herself in the head. And power vacuum. Hes been a very good leader. Cantors out. Who will take his place as the second most powerful republican . Lets talk live in the cnn newsro newsroom. This is cnn breaking news. Good morning, im carol costello. Thank you so much for joining me. Out of iraq, new fears this morning that the United States could be drawn back into the quick sand of a new conflict. The big story this morning, iraq is saying theyre open for america to conduct air strikes in their country. Terrorists are rapidly sei
this country if we would use natural gas to make ethanol, methanol, compressed natural gas, and stop depending upon these countries that really can t manage themselves, and yet we re dependent upon them for oil. i want to take a look at gas prices, where they are now and at their highest was back in july of 2008 at $4.11. they were at $3.68 today. you obviously have a unique per spective on this. in the next 30 to 60 days, will we be experiencing even more pain at the pump? if iraq continues to melt down and if the islamists continue to take more and more territory, it s going to put at risk the southern oil fields in iraq. if they are at risk, we could see upwards of 50 cents a gallon or more in the next 30 to 60 days, up at that high record level of gasoline prices in this country. if it gets worse from there, we