Isil speaks for no religion, they have no ideology of any value to human beings. We will be relentless against isil. Isil a lot of terms about isils vision. Isil. When the administration and the pentagon talk about who theyre bombing in iraq right now, and who they may want to bomb inside syria as well, they call the group isil. Everybody else calls the group isis. Why are there these two different names. The group in question speaks arabic, and what they would prefer to be called in english, the Islamic State, so that would be i. S. Frankly i think nobody cares what they would prefer to be called. There is this difference in how they are described in terms of english language acronyms. When they are called isis, that is sometimes translated as an acronym for the Islamic State in iraq and syria. Thats not where it came from. Its a related term, it started off as an Islamic State of iraq and alsham. It means greater syria, what we think of as the nation of syria plus what they believe t
Welcome back. Im christine romans. It is monday, august 25th. It is 5 00 a. M. In the east. We have good news this morning concerning an american hostage overseas. Journalist Theo Peter Curtis freed by islamic militants in syria after two years in captivity. The 45yearold curtis was kidnapped in october 2012 and turned over to an Al Qaeda Linked group. Curtis is expected to be reunited with his family, shortly. Nick paton walsh is following the developments for us. Good morning, nick. Reporter john, interesting to know he was handed over. One of the strangest parts was the Syrian Border partially controlled by rebels, but a long way away from where he was kidnapped in northern syria, held for six months in aleppo. We know he was held with another american. For six months together, they shared the cell, torture and hunger and shared an escape plan. That involved theo pushing matt up to a window in the cell. Matt got out. Tragically, when he reached down, theo was stuck. He left. Today,
Injured, six critically, including a young child. Thankfully, however, no one was killed. To help with the recovery, governor jerry brown declared a state of emergency. The economic losses caused by the quake is likely to be more than 1 billion. I want to bring in kyung lah, in napa, california, close to the epicenter of that quake and cnn meteorologist chad myers in atlanta following the wider effects. Key young, i want to start with you. First, youre right in the middle of it there, officialsing the damage could have been much worse. Why is that . What are you seeing there . Reporter because of the time of day this happened. The earthquake struck at 3 20 in the morning. You can see here just on this corner where all this debris, had it been the middle of the day there would van tables out, people having coffee, there would have been perhaps more injuries and someone killed. So the timing of this, even though this is a terrible disaster for Northern California, the timing of it is luc