responsibility yesterday, but al qaeda in the arabian peninsula has carried out a number of attacks in recent months. air strikes continue against isis militants in syria and iraq. war planes hit isis targets near khobani in syria on monday. in iraq targets were held near al asad. our barbara starr has more. the u.s. now believes isis momentum in iraq has stalled. also possibly slowing down the number of new foreign fighters traveling to iraq in and syria according to a seen your u.s. official. the u.s. believes about 150 people from the u.s. have
john mccain surprised everyone, family and friends included, with his short visit to syria on monday. mccain, a member of the committee on armed services, is in yemen today but on memorial day he spent several hours meeting with leaders in the rebel-controlled north of the country. a visit his daughter, meghan, tweeted she first learned about on twitter. one of which his colleague lindsey graham tweeted, if he doesn t make it back, i m calling dibs on his office. however, all jokes aside, senator mccain s visit comes at a moment when the civil war in syria is beginning to turn rather cold. russia, upset that the eu is about to let arms embargo lapse, is threatening to sell anti-aircraft missiles to bashar al assad s government. over the weekend, the head of the iranian-backed hezbollah
it s only about three feet high. witnesses say she overcompensated and made a sharp right, crossing over three lanes of traffic going in the very same direction, hit a curb that went over a fence, only again about two to three feet high, and went sailing about 50 to 60 feet. control of the suv. it could have been, authorities say, any number of things. maybe something physically went wrong with her. perhaps there was a mechanical failure, a distraction of some kind. these are all the things that they ll be looking at as some of the possibilities, don. all right. susan candiotti in new york. susan, thank you very much. this stretch of road is no stranger to bad wrecks. back in 2006, six people were killed in almost the exact same spot. i spoke to steve casamo about the safety of this particular roadway. back in 2010, this bridge was one of several in new york state that were determined to be functionally y functionally inoperable. what that definition means, it doesn t mea