A moment he says the fate of this country hangs in the bat lance. One last chance to keep this country together. The president made a plan tearing iraq apart at the core is political. Thats the longterm problem he believes and has to be the longterm solution but because the immediate problem is military, sunni forces rampaging and the iraqi army cuts and runs in the north, mr. Obama today offering military help and American Military personnel not to fight but advice the iraqi military. After laying out the plan, he got a reminder as if any commander in chief needs one of the consequences of any decision to send americans to danger zones or back into them. He presented the medal of honor, excuse me, to retired marine corps machine gunner william Kyle Carpenter who jumped between a taliban grenade and his buddies in afghanistan helmet province. Carpenter spent two and a half years in the hospital. Tonight, well look at what sending advisors and planning air strikes can do for the situati
Survived and have terrible scars to remind them. We begin with breaking news. A cnn exclusive, the possibility of acts of terrorism committed by americans against americans who went overseas to wage the holey war. Eric holder spoke broadly talking about that florida man that blew himself up in syria. This is a very real thing. Last month or so the First American engaged became a suicide bomber. So this is not a though rs nois, its very real. We wanted to know the basis and Barbara Starr began investigating and what she uncovered could be trouble. Listen. Reporter u. S. Intelligence and law enforce the agencies have dozens of investigations underway tracking americans who travel to syria to join the fight worried they would attack the u. S. Now that they are back home or trying to get back hole. The fbi, members of the Intelligence Community made this a top priority and taking whatever steps they can under the law to monitor and prevent. The government has begun an intense effort and al
Even though the Central Government is driving them back, the front line remains as close as some 37 miles from the capitol of baghdad where i am. Faith remains low in many quarters, trust in the Prime Minister to look out for all i rockies seemingly nonkpes tablet. Against that backdrop, the Prime Minister requested and the Obama Administration is considering air strikes. This afternoon, president obama met with congressional leaders giving his perspective according to House Minority leader nancy pelosi but not running through a list of possible actions that hes planning to take. Tonight, we will run through a list of possible actions but first, a wrap of the big developments here today. Long live isis these sunni militants chant on the streets today. They are control of the city and at least part of its massive oil refinery. Black smoke fills the air as think set fire to at least five oil storage tanks. Clashes are still ongoing at this largest refinery. The loss of the refinery is go
The flood of unaccompanied kids into this country. Kids mainly from honduras, guatemala, el salvador, lured away by human smugglers arriving by the hundreds in the United States every day. Tonight in austin, texas after an airport meeting that almost didnt happen because of politics, the president met with Texas Governor rick perry. He said hes interested in solving the problems, not in photo ops. The pop ticks surrounding this, lawmakers he believes fairly or not have been putting politics first and had a clear warning for anyone thinking of sending their kids north. While we intend to do the right thing by these children, their parents need to know that this is an incredibly dangerous situation, and it is unlikely that their children will be able to stay, and ive asked parents across Central America not to put their children in harms way in this fashion. Now right now, there are more boarder patrol agents and surveillance resources on the ground than any time in our history, and we d
Become the first hurricane of the season, too, and the path it is on could send it straight into sandy territory right up the eastern seaboard. Seconds ago, the National Weather Service Released an update on the storm and where its headed. Lets go to atlanta and chad myers crushing the numbers for us. How big is this arthur and where is it going . Earlier today, it was nothing. It was 35 miles per hour. Now the Hurricane Centers latest forecast says by the 4th of july around 2 00, a 90mile per hour still category one but on the boarder of that. There is the storm. Much more menacinmenacing. The radar is not that impressive, thats because the radar doesnt go that far. Satellite looks down, radar looks out, by the time the radar gets there, the rainfall is on the other side, cant see it. Some of these showers are to tampa and sarasota, one of the outer bands will get many, many more bands. The biggest threat with this storm will be the rip currents. All the way up the east coast as the w