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There, thanks for joining me. I m alex marquardt in this weekend for fredricka whitfield, and we begin with breaking news. We are learning that seven us troops were injured in a raid that killed 15 members of the islamic extremist group, i. S. I. S. That raid happening on thursday in iraq two of the seven were evacuated from the area for further medical treatment u. S. Central command says that the operation was targeting i. S. I. S. Leaders in order to disrupt the group s ability to plan for their attacks. Cnn s chief international security correspondent, nick paton walsh is joining me now. Live from london. So nick, what do we know about this operation? yeah alex, quite extraordinary development here. Essentially, because of the number of u. S troops injured in this instance, seven 75 of whom apparently during the operation to it seems from a fall separately related to that one of whom requiring followon care outside of theatre. Now we re getting a statement to iraqi military high co
His base, which is why many people were shocked when he muddied his position on abortion this week remarking on a florida ballot amendment that could overturn that state s ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy i think the six week because to shore, it has to be more time and show that. And i ve told them that i want more weeks you ll vote in favor of the amendment on voting that i am going to be voting that way need more than six weeks after backlash from conservatives, trump s campaign tried to clarify his position saying quote, president trump has not yet said how he will vote even though we did just hear how he said he would vote at that moment in time on the ballot initiative in florida, he simply reiterated that he believes six weeks is too short, then yesterday, this is what president trump said. Are you voting yes or no on amendment four in florida? so i think six weeks you need more time than six weeks. I ve disagreed with that right from the early primaries my marriage
Sometimes great challenge is right under your nose i hanako montgomery in tokyo, and this is cnn you are in the cnn and newsroom. I m jessica dean in new york and we begin with breaking news from the middle east where the israeli defense forces say they have located, quote, a number of bodies during combat in the gaza strip, seen an international diplomatic editor, nic robertson is joining us now, live from jerusalem with the latest on this, nic reminding everyone details now very scant. But what are you learning yeah, i have to say as well, this is unusual for the idf to put out this sort of statement to say that they ve located bodies during a combat operation. They don t normally sort of comment on things as actually happening and unfolding and that s what they so as precisely happening at the moment. They re saying that they are working to extract an identify the bodies in this ongoing operation and that asking for people to refrain from speculation, which appears to perhaps indica
For the next debate. State of the union live tomorrow morning at nih you re in the cnn newsroom. I m jessica dean in new york and this how are we are still following breaking news out of gaza, israeli forces saying they quote, located a number of bodies during combat in the gaza strip cnn international diplomatic editor, nic robertson is joining us live from jerusalem. Nic, we re still learning more details and expect more details. What do you know right now yeah, that statement by the idf is unusual. They would not normally talk about finding bodies and being in the process of a combat operation. They wouldn t comment on those details. Normal normally, i think the expectation here is for the people of israel when they hear this and for the families of the hostages, and we should be very clear here, the idf is only talking about discovering bodies, but obviously for the families of the hostages, when the idf says something like that, they re going to listen to this still stands to be p