I know it is the middle of the night there. Well get to you in a moment. Also well talk about the iranu. S. Nuclear negotiations what is the latest erin mcpike will join us from the white house with that. We are live in baghdad with more on this seems like a sudden u. S. Troop withdrawal from yemen. We have seen this pairing down over the past few months because of security concerns there, embassy closing, et cetera but what is it that led to this sort of final evacuation of all of the rest of the u. S. Troops on the ground there . Reporter well sources in the region poppy, familiar with the situation say that the u. S. Is now in the process of evacuating these hundred members of these special Operations Force from the alan anad air base. Its not a specific threat that led to the decision but overall security situation. The security has been deteriorating over the past few months. We saw evacuation shutdown of the u. S. Embassy last month. Theres been a lot of concern about how this is going to impact the u. S. Counterterrorism operations there as we know. The u. S. Has been actively targeting the leadership of one of al qaedas top franchises the most dangerous in the world. Al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, aqap and the political situation, political crisis is worsening, the security vacuum also there in the country, the u. S. Lost its ally in recent months the government of the president , a close u. S. Ally in the fight against terrorism there pushed out by the shia rebels and theres been concern about how the u. S. Will continue this fight against terrorism there, and, of course the extremist groups like aqap consolidating their presence in the midst of this instability in the country, and, poppy, a lot of concern about the emergence also possibly of isis there with the recent attacks we saw on friday reportedly claimed by isis. Yeah i mean, more than 130 People Killed in the attacks yesterday at two mosques there in yemen. Isis saying it is us. Heres the thing. It was less than a year ago president obama really hailed the cooperation between the United States and yemen in terms of fighting terrorism saying this strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us while supporting partners on the front lines is one that we have successfully pursued in yemen and somalia for years. So what does this do now to the relationship between the u. S. And yemen . Reporter well the u. S. Was relying there on an ally that no longer has much power. Of course the president there pushed out now in the southern part of the country in the city there, and its unclear what the u. S. Is going to be doing. If you look at there is really no government in that country at this point in time. The rebels are in control of sanaa, but that does not mean they are a u. S. Ally. They are believed to be supported by iran one of their main slogans is death to america. Poppy, a lot of concern about what it means with no partner on the ground to help the United States in the fight depending on drone strikes alone is obviously going to be an issue in the fight against terrorism there, and, of course this is not only an issue in yemen only poppy. If you look at the rest of the region also a lot of concern about whats going on in libya, too. This instability in the post revolution countries in 2011 is a real concern for the United States and, of course the global terrorism threat there. It is absolutely and add to that what happened in tunisia, what weve seen as the one sort of Success Story in forming a new government after the arab spring coupled with libya and yemen, its a complete, complete mess. Thank you so much appreciate it very much. Nuclear negotiations between the u. S. And iran have taken a short break, but a noticeable upbeat tone. Irans president today saying a deal is possible by the end of the month, but did note that those final steps and details will be difficult. That optimism ceo korechoed later by john kerry in london for other negotiating partners in europe including germany and france saying, quote, substantial progress has been made but cautioned time is clearly of the essence. Erin mcpike has the latest. Reporter there should be pictures there of john kerry meeting with british, french and german counterparts and briefing them on intensive talks he had with iran earlier this week. As he said this morning, there are still some significant gaps that do remain on both sides. Good morning, everybody. We recognize that fundamental decisions have to be made now, and they do not get any easier as time goes by. It is time to make hard decisions. Reporter john kerry says they have made progress trying to put the finishing touches on the outline of a potential nuclear deal. In the days ahead, we will stay at this. We have not yet reached the finish line. Make no mistake, we have the opportunity to try to get this right. Its a matter of political be will. Reporter with the deadline just ten days away irans foreign minister assessed that progress. It is possible at any time. It depends on the political route to reach one. Reporter he warned on twitter its time rt u. S. And its allies to give a little to get a deal done. Major differences remain in a last ditch effort president obama made his own appeal to the iranian people warning no deal would make their conditions underwestern sanctions even worse. Irans leaders have a choice between two paths. If they cannot agree to a reasonably deal they will keep iran on the path its on today, a path thats isolated iran and iranian people from so much of the world, caused so much hardship for iranian families, and deprived so many young iranians the jobs and opportunities they deserve. The allies and iran are still working on such issues as how long a deal would last a system for verifying iran is complying with the measures put in place, and not secretly developing a Nuclear Weapon and when the tough sanctions against them would en. The president believes and i think with some justification, that we need to see the iranians demonstrate some sustained commitment to implementing the agreement befr we talk about removing all the sanctions. Reporter now there is still significant opposition on capital hill but the white house got relief this week when the Senate Republicans decided to kick back a vote on acquiring congressional approval on any kind of deal that president obama can reach until midapril after the frame work of a deal would be reached by the end of march, poppy . That seems like a really big deal to me erin the fact that corker and other republicans said all right, hold off for three weeks to see where it goes. Any idea why the change of heart there . There are democrats opposed to the deal too, poppy, but they have not liked the way this came together and democrats are listening to the white house when they say that having a vote before this deal would reach would have a profoundly negative impact on getting anything done. At this point in Time Congress listened to the white house on this. How about the back and forth between Benjamin Netanyahu and the white house this week . President obama calling him two days after he won that key election a lot of people say, why wait so long using the word reassess when talking about the u. S. Israeli relationship. You wonder how that impacts negotiations with iran. Poppy, we are seeing its crystallizing the opposition because, of course Benjamin Netanyahu feels like he has a mandate, and hes going to do everything he can to stand in the way of this kind of deal, and republicans, especially a number of Senate Republicans on capitol hill support him on this one. All right, erin mcpike at the white house, appreciate it. New developments in the deadly attack at the tunisia museum. They arrested more than 20 suspected militants, this three days after a gunman opened fire in the museum and 23 were killed most of them Foreign Tourists 44 others injured. Meanwhile, hundreds of tunisians gather for a memorial mass lighting candles to remember victims. Isis claimed responsibility for the horrific attack saying the bloodshed is just the start. Cnn cannot independently confirm the authenticity of that message. All right. Another story well follow out of new orleans. We told you about the airport attack on a tsa agent at new orleans main airport late last night. We are expecting a press briefing to see how the victim is doing and what we know about the suspect. Thats next. Bring us your baffling. Bring us your audacious. We want your sticky notes, sketchbooks, and scribbles. Lets pin em to the wall. Kick em around. Kick em around, see what happens. 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I want to thank the public and passengers after the event did not panic, but worked with us and the airport, as you know a lot of the flights moved from concourse b to c, and everything went about as well as it possibly could go urn the most difficult of circumstances, so with that, id like to turn it over to jefferson parrish, the Sheriffs Officer, norman here last night, working throughout the night with all the team of the First Responders and then well follow that with the acting administrator. Sheriff norm. Thank you, mayor. I really appreciate your comments and all of the comments of all of the participating agencies here. The airport officials were second to none not any panic, acted in a deliberate way, made the airport safe and secure and immediately put plans in place to move incoming and outbound flights to a different concourse to shut down and work through our crime scene issues that we had on concourse b. To the mayor, i thank you as well as the pd who showed up on mass. We accomplished a lot of things last night we would not have been ail to accomplish without the police assistance, as well as fbi, atf and state police and so many others. Obviously, the tsa. So not unlike other incidents like this around the country, there was a desire on the airport officials and my part to get as much information in the hands of the media as possible in a very short period of time. Based on some original witness statements there were a few things that were mentioned in the First Press Conference last night that were actually factually incorrect, and i would like to try and address those first. There was not a member of the traveling public who was actually had a bullet graze wound. That was a mistake. There was a couple of members of the public that had some cuts and bruises, none of which from the perpetrateor, and i think thats how that story took off is they saw folks with a bleeding arm or Something Like that, and it took on a life of its own. The tsa agent that we put out, everyone thought that she had gotten hit by the machete. The fact of the matter is that while trying to she was being chased by the perpetrator with the machete. He was probably within three to four feet of her as they were running up the exit ramp to the concourse. The run running towards the officer. The officer began to fire because he was gaining on her very quickly. Fired the first shot i believe in this point in time were not certain, is the one that actually struck the tsa agent in the tricep of her right arm. Two more shots were fired by the officer. The perp was hit three times. Right now, preliminarily, we believe the through and through wound on the tsa agent actually struck the perpetrator as well. So those were a couple things that initially that we had from witness statements and there were a couple other things that we cleared very late last night. When we got an stunt early on in the evening to see the security video, as i said earlier, he came down one of the lanes, ducked under one of the ropes, got into the tsa prelane, got out of the tsa prelane, got in a regular lane and approached the first tsa agent. He had a bag in his hand. We didnt know that at first and, in fact, all the witnesses, of course so being chased with wasp stray and a machete, never noticed the bag. Once we determined in a security videos he had a bag, we secured the area off, and within 12 to 15 or so minutes, we began to smell a gas smell, so we immediately moved all of the passengers that were outside of concourse b across the terminal building to the other side and secured that area off and called for our bomb squad. Simultaneously we found his car. The car was parked on the upper ramp. Once we were able to determine that he was to longer a taxi cab driver we were looking for a taxi. We began running plates in order to determine any other cars that were abandoned, and we came across his car on the ramp. The bomb squad went into the car, found some smoke bombs that you use at new years eve and fourth of july in the car, and we also found three tanks in the trunk of the car in a freon tank and oxygen tank. We dont know at this time what the intended purpose of those being in the trunk of the car actually are. We also began, as i said simultaneously to process the bag. We noticed a liquid was leaking out of the bag, and once the bomb squad cleared the automobile we then moved to the bag. What the bag revealed was six half pint may onjars with cloth wicks into a liquid we now know to be gasoline which you would commonly refer to as a cocktail. He had a barbecue lighter in the bag. He also had a letter opener plastic, and it was some crushed powdery material found near his body with green fuses or wicks which we determined preliminarily at this point in time to be smoke bombs that had been crushed. Obviously, he has been unconscious. Hes still alive. We very much want the opportunity to talk to him. Were not sure that thats actually going to happen. His family has been very cooperative. We have been able to determine that there is a Mental Illness component here thats presented. Theyve been very cooperative. Some of the witnesses that the media have interviewed about his demeanor, weve been able to validate calm cool collected, nothing out of the ordinary. No one in this point in time has any notion to what may have triggered this behavior. Not up like dealing with the mentally ill, sometimes you will never know what triggers some of this type of behavior. So i want to thank his wife and his kids. You know they have been very cooperative with us. In fact we made special arrangements for them to go see him at the hospital which is against our policy. But because of the level of cooperation, the nature of the situation, the family being so forthright in cooperating with us we all felt it was the right thing to do. He is a jehovahs witness so theres certain time of medical care hes refused at this point in time. Were in Constant Contact with the medical officials at the airport. Lieutenant, my officer, is doing well. We never want to have to pull our gun. I have to say in the case of a fairly large man with a machete and a can of wasp spray running towards you and right on the agents tail so to speak, she did an incredible job. She stood her ground. She exhibited deliberate leadership in every way, shape, and form one can think of and ended up having, unfortunately to fire three shots. You know when you get into situations like this bad things happen. Good things happen. Unfortunately, hes injured, but fortunately, he did not seriously hurt anybody. I have to say in summation relating to all of this, all the folks at the check point did everything humanly possible they could do in my view to ensure the traveling public was safe. None of these people are armed with anything. Just their hands. Thats it. Hes wielding a machete this long and spraying folks to disable them with wasp spray in the face so that they dont confront him and they dont get app an opportunity to fight or encounter with him. But they stood their ground as much as they could. In many cases, delayed certain things and i think caused some confusion to where he headed back up the exit lane into our officer. Had he made it down the concourse, who knows. Nobody will ever know. Im sure someones going to ask that question. We just dont know. We dont know what his intent was because we have not really been able to debrief this particular subject. So with that i think we have some other folks and tsa ad min straiter. Thank you very much. Let me add my thanks mayor, sheriff, and executive director and to the board as well. Yesterday was an example of what heroism is really about. I am so proud of carol and the work force we have at this airport. Its app example of what focustomission is about, to secure the traveling public. You know immediately after this incident occurred members of tsa in the work force were back on duty doing their responsibility of securing the traveling public. Thats focus to duty. Its because of the training with the memb