drone strike on a car in the city of raqqa in syria. jihadi john was believed to be inside that car. all of this unfolding just a day after isis claimed responsibility for a deadly series of bombings near a refugee camp in beirut. so joining me from beirut is our correspondent clarissa ward. let me begin on what more we know today with regard to the cents bombings. what more do we know about the bombers themselves? what we know definitively is at least two suicide bombers hit that area. this is a shiite/muslim enclave. we know that 43 people were killed, more than 200 people were injured. additionally, there appear to be conflicting reports about a possible third and fourth bomb er. cnn has spoke on to a lebanese security official who says there was a third bomber, who was
out because it is rubble. barely a building not half destroyed or severely damaged by the airstrikes, the suicide bombing, the car bombs, and the fight with the coalition. little really to live in left there. a lot to rebuild or perhaps you start from scratch. but the fundamental point of all of this is that it appears if the peshmerga get their numbers together, the coalition will back them up with consistent airstrikes and willing to work with each other. the question we don t have the answer to is did isis give up or simply unable to fill enough forces to hold on to that town. that s what e we don t know. they have left lift in the wake for those who fled the reign to go back to. nick paton walsh in sinjar, thank you so much. keep up the excellent reporting. next, back to politics.
from jordan and that pilot was executed by isis. either outcome is a step forward. given that intelligence, we can only hope that people are turning. the fact that jihadi john would be killed is a massive deal, a symbolic victory as well. what about the top chiefs of isis? do you think we ll start to see more strikes on them as well? we could, but we have been trying to kill the head of isis for the at least the last year and haven t been able to find him. maybe he s more disciplined. he didn t make whatever mistake jihadi john made. i think we should just go one step at a time. maybe we ll get lucky, but killing a senior leader would mean more strategically than just this strike today. president obama reacting to all of this here on good morning america. essentially saying isis is contained. they have contained isis.
you can t defend this total revers reversal. katie, calm down. please, people, let s be polite. the only time we re questioning what s presidential is when it comes to donald trump. that s not at all. we re questioning every single one of them. it seems as if it s a right of passage that presidential candidates have to go on ellen and dance. is that presidential? for our president to dance on ellen ? i m not asking anyone to dance. not sure how we got on that. we re talking about what s presidential and not presidential. he s sort of the poster child for lack of presidential. we re talking very important issues. these are issues that are germane to to being president. he brought up isis. he he also brought up immigration. this is some sound.
yeah. i couldn t watch the whole video. how did you expect did you ever even think about how we would get jihadi john? did can you ever imagine how he would be killed? honestly, i hadn t spared him very much thought. to me, he is just a symbol. i think the real criminals, the real culprits are not doing that much to address them in the long-term. so when that happens, i ll celebrate. with your knowledge of lebanon, we have been reporting these twin suicide bombings. 24 people killed in beirut near this refugee camp. as we re talking about victories with hopefully this jihadi john hit and sinjar with the peshmerga there, how influential do you see isis now when we talk about them or an affiliate claiming responsibility in