so you get it all. eric: america strikes back and mother nature s wrath about to strike here at home. two big stories breaking at this hour. first, hurricane ida, now bearing down on the louisiana coast as a catastrophic category 4 storm. you know, it s forecast to make landfall just hours from now and it could strengthen to a devastating category 5. in afghanistan, fox news confirms that a u.s. military air strike today took out several suicide bombers. they were in a vehicle we re told just northwest of the kabul airport. potentially stopping that second terrorist attack that we have all been warned about.
welcome back everyone. a pentagon investigation found the u.s. military air strike in mosul and iraq a couple weeks ago killed more than 100 civilians, likely the largest incident of civilian deaths since the campaign began in 2014. they found it triggered secondary explosions planted by isis fighters, causing apartment kbild dings to collapse with hundreds of people inside. they say the islamic state knew civilians were inside the building. former senator joe lieberman once a top contender withdrawn his name from consideration citing a conflict of interest. he told nicolle wallace that appointing him would have looked terrible after trump retained a senior partner at his law firm as his personal attorney in the russia investigation. news that he was a leading
it could be at some point. you may not know. in the past, you have been critical of intelligence capabilities when it comes to the fight against isis. so let me ask you this, now that a strike like this has taken place, what does it represent to you. what does it say about where things stand now. well, i think that over time the united states and the allies have developed much better intelligence. remember, we were caught i think a little flat footed when isis came out of syria and moved in over and took the city of mosul. we knew very little about them. as they morphed into isis, changed their op prapgs it became clear that we didn t really have a good handle on it. and you could tell that from our initial operations against isis. our pilots are returning to base with a lot of ordinance that they have not dropped. that tells me we don t have the intelligence to develop the targets needed to successfully prosecute a war against isis.
by all accounts he had been shuffled to the side because of his notoriety and his violence. you haven t seen him out there in months. does it change the war? no. stay hill hope to get the leader of the isis movement, but at least tonight they feel they have brought one person to justice. just so i m clear, this strike was conducted in raca, a strong hold of isis. again, the u.s. making it clear in carrying out the strike that they have eyes over that area. what s the message to isis? the message is we re watching, we ll find you, you can t run, you can t hide. we ll get you.
cnn, london. we will have much more on u.s. forces targeting jihadi john in a joint strike in syria. also ahead on the program, twin suicide blasts killed more than 40 people in lebanon. what one would-be suicide bomber who survived the attack is saying next e. plus, kurdish forces are battling to take a key iraqi city from isis. we ll head to the frontlines for the latest on the battle for sinjar. bring us your aching