. isis lost stronghold is in eastern syria located right nex to the border of those strikes continue at the last held town in syria not far from the border . they say syria doesn t help turkey but others in the region as well. withdrawing u.s. troops give a huge grin to iran and russia who have wanted nothing more than to have the united states withdraw and having a u.s. presence there has been an incredibly important component of our strategy to make sure th regime does not continue committing war crimes against the syrian people. an estimated 2,000 isis fighters remain in eastern syria . lucas tomlinson at the pentagon for us this morning. thank you so much. growing concerns about the presidents decision to pull u.s troops out of syria republican senator pat roberts on why he thinks the move is so risky. i think when you leave an area where it s very troublesom
a commuter airliner and two other planes dangerously close to one another. it happened at washington s reagan national airport. and in an extraordinary move, the faa administrator and the transportation secretary came out today to talk about what happened. our brian todd is at the airport. brian. reporter: yeah, candy. extraordinary because for the first time we re getting the hard information from america s two top transportation officials that this was really too close a call. they came out in a hastily called news conference to say, yes, it was too close a call. another part of that news conference they really want to brush back on initial media reports saying that these planes were on a collision course. they re saying they would not have collided. that would not have happened. essentially the way they lay it out is this. it all played out pretty much over where i m standing here tuesday afternoon. there was a whole line of planes coming in from that direction toward me
they call them an aftershock, but every aftershock is an actual earthquake and you ski the pictures from this one and imagine after the one a month ago 9.0, and things are rattling around like that, terrifying. this is 30 miles by the way southwest of the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant which is still having lots of trouble as well. they are pouring in fact this earthquake affected thele cooling efforts of pouring water on the plant to keepb the rods cool. a lot of power was knocked out when the quake happened and stopped the cooling for a while, so a terrible thing for this country and more and more and more. yes, it is awful. can we talk about libya? yeah. and we have the african union trying to work out a deal with gadhafi and the rebels and yet another attempt at a peace plan, but no-go? wellthe african union hammered in out, and they are i esaing that gadha i saying th regime has accepted this, and