And we begin with a new government in iraq and new hopes that it will help turn the tide against the growing threat of isis. Abadi was sworn in on monday. The new government is supposed to include disenfranchised sunnis and kurds. And u. S. Secretary of state john kerry is calling this a major milestone. Just a few hours ago, overcoming the obstacle of ethnic and sectarian divides, the Iraqi Government approved a new government for a strong iraq, a united iraq, and to give those communities the chance to build the future that all iraqis desire and deserve. Secretary of state kerry is heading to the middle east later today to rally Regional Support for president obamas plan to defeat isis. President obama will take that plan to congressional leaders today before going public on wednesday. Reporter the white house brings president obamas speech to the country, the world on the isis threat which he will deliver on the eve of september 11 like this. To make sure that the people understand what is at stake for our nation in this ongoing violence that were seeing in iraq and syria. He also wants to describe what sort of tools are at the disposal of the american government. Does that mean the president may have something new to say in the speech . He might. Reporter but will that mean striking isis in syria . That remains to be seen. Heres how the president previewed the speech. Ill make a speech and describe what our game plans are going to be going forward. But this is not going to be an announcement about u. S. Ground troops. This is not the equivalent of the iraq war. What this is, is similar to the kinds of Counter Terrorism campaigns that weve been engaging in consistently over the last five, six, seven years. Reporter a new cnn poll shows 50 of the American People are ready and willing to use military force, thats up from 34 a year ago. When asked directly today, has a decision been made yet on air strikes inside syria, the white house would say only the u. S. Is willing to go wherever necessary to deal with the threat, comparing it to the decision to go after Osama Bin Laden in pakistan, and saying if that decision is coming it would be the president who would announce it. What is becoming clearer is that all of this is going to take a while. Secretary of state kerry told the new International Coalition at the nato summit that it could take three years to defeat isis. Also this last week from the Deputy National security adviser. Its going to take time, and it will probably go even beyond this administration to get to the point of defeat. Sobering, certainly. Two officials tell cnn they may have identified the masked man in the video that showed the killing of james foley. They believe hes tied to an Extremist Group in london. But the officials failed to name him citing the Ongoing Investigation and fearing it might endanger the hostages. Theres no word yet on whether its the same masked man seen in the video of steven sotloff, the second american journalist killed by isis. Another big story we are following. The World Health Organization worries that the number of ebola victims will rise in the next few weeks. Untreated patients are being forced to return home where they then infect others. A countrywide lockdown is being planned so authorities can go door to door and identify victims. Doctors without borders has warped that the plan could lead to more cases being driven underground. The government says its priority is to stop the spread of the disease. They only talking about it from the curative point of view, looking after the sick. Their caregivers. What we are more concerned about is the social mobilization. 0. 02 of the population. That is just about 1,000 people have been affected by this. We still have 5, 999,000 people who have not been infected. According to the World Health Organization, theres now 4,000 cases of ebola in west africa, more than 2,000 have been fatal. The highest death toll is in liberia where more than 1,000 people have died. More than 500 people have died in guinea, almost as many in sierra leone. One case in senegal. Back in the unit, ray rice was a star american Football Player at the top of his game. Now hes banned from professional football. This is all the result of footage released by tmz sports which shows the player punching his future wife. We have a warning here. The footage youre about to see is disturbing. People will be upset by this. But with analysis of this video coming out, rice was suspended from the National Football league, his coach could only wish him well. Its something we saw for the first time today, all of us. And it changed things, of course. You know, it made things a little bit fferent. I dont know if i want to get into all the details about it. I think its pretty obvious and pretty apparent. Everybodys seen the video, and well just leave it at that. Now this incident actually happened back in february. Ray rice back then was initially suspended for two games. Yeah, just two. Rachel nickels have more on how the newly released video changed everything for the football star. Reporter the controversy had stretched for months. But in the end, the resolution came quickly. First, this afternoon, ray rice was cut from the baltimore ravens. Then just minutes later suspended indefinitely by the nfl. The catalyst for this sudden change . This video acquired by tmz, showing rice punching his then fiance, janay palmer in an Atlantic City elevator, and dragging her limp body halfway out of the door, dropping her on her face with her skirt hiked up. He had already been suspended in july, receiving a twogame suspension. At the time he said he was sorry for what hed done. My actions were inexcusable. And thats something i have to live for, have to live with the rest of my life. Still, the light penalty sparked heated debate. The nfl was eventually forced to create a more stringent Domestic Violence policy with commissioner Roger Goodell acknowledging, quote, i didnt get it right. Simply put, we have to do better. But it wasnt until this morning when the public was able to see the incident unfold in real time that the debate transformed to outrage, even from fellow nfl players. Denver broncos terance nighten tweeted that man should be thrown out of the nfl and thrown into jail. Shame on those deciding his punishment. And sage rosen fells. I wonder how many games suspension would have been if that was Roger Goodells daughter lying there. They said no one had seen it until today. That only sparked more questions. If tmz had obtained the video, why hadnt the nfl . What other flaws had there been in the leagues investigation . Finally just after 2 00, the doublebarreled discipline to rice came down. But with other players currently active in the nfl despite having been arrested on Domestic Violence charges, steve young is one of the many still wondering how much further the nfl has to go. Fundamentally, ft. Nfl is going to have a notolerance policy for domestic abuse, we have to back it up. We cant be backing it with a video. Any company in this country, if that happens, they dont, they send you home. They might pay you, but you dont play, you dont come to work until we figure this out. And that was cnns Rachel Nichols there. A Statement Released by the white house said the president is the father of two daughters, and like any american, he believes that Domestic Violence is contemptible and unacceptable in a civilized society. Hitting a woman is not something a real man does, and thats true whether an act of violence happens in the public eye or far too often behind closed doors. Stopping Domestic Violence is something thats bigger than football. He goes on to say all of us have a responsibility to put a stop to it. Of course, in the past, the message has been its just fine. You just keep playing. Its not a problem. Maybe its time for a change. They call it the teflon nfl for a long time, because there have been a lot of times when players have been arrested for a lot of crimes and they seemed to have walked away and nobodys worried about it and now people are saying this could be a turning point. Well, a new mens tennis champion has been crowned. Marin cilic served 17 aces in a lopsided victory that barely lasted two hours. The first grand slam title for cilic. He took away 2 million for the win. And it was the first grand slam final in nearly a decade that did not feature federer, djokovic or nadal. A new report is expected on the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight 17. What the dutch findings pmay reveal about how the plane came down. 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He says he was boosting defenses in case the fighting continues. The preliminary findings into the crash of malaysian Airlines Flight 17 is to be released soon. All 298 people on board were killed. Ivan watson covered the crash and joins us live from hong kong. Ivan, it has to be asked. We know at this point dutch investigators have very limited access to that crash site. So where are they drawing all their information from . Reporter well, they say that they can put an investigation together basically using information from the flight data recorders, from the cockpit voice recorder, from radar, from satellite imagery, and even amidst the active fighting that was taking place in and around the crash zone. Investigators from a number of Different Countries were able to reach that location to look at it first hand, to take some of their own photos. Though, of course, it wasnt anything like a typical plane crash investigation. By any means. It was an investigation zone that was repeatedly contaminated by fighters, by residents, by journalists like myself who could just wander amid the rubble and very sad to say, amongst the remains of some of the victims. The Dutch Safety Board was never able to send one of its direct representatives to the scene of the crash because of safety concer concerns. And one of the chief things that were going to be looking for is what is the cause of the downing of flight mh17, the deaths of 298 people on board, the ukrainian government, the australian government, have openly accused, basically, prorussian separatists of bringing down the plane, firing a surfacetoair missile from rebelcontrolled territory that brought down that plane, that is an accusation that has been denied by the rebels themselves as well as by the russian government. So ivan, what evidence needs to be found to prove that . Reporter well, we dont know what the Dutch Safety Board exactly is going to say. So well be watching very closely to see what conclusions they come to. Theyre not supposed to be casting blame, but if they say it was in fact a surfacetoair missile that brought down the plane, then that will bolster the case that has been made, again, by the government of ukraine and by its, some of its western allies as well. The Dutch Safety Board is also supposed to be looking into why the Malaysian Air flight 17 flew on this path, this flight route over an active war zone, over Eastern Ukraine. It is also going to be looking into why it took some time for the passenger manifest to be released. These are two of its other stated goals. And its important to note that some of the work on the ground still hasnt been completed. You have the Malaysian Defense minister and more than 40 malaysian victims on board that plane, he just in the last two days traveled to kiev with at least 30 malaysian police, and they have been tasked with trying to recover the remains of some of the victims that still have not been repatriated. So that gives you a sense of still how much work is left to be done in those wheat fields in Eastern Ukraine where this apparent atrocity was committed. Many thanks to our ivan watson joining us live there from hong kong. Well, the European Union has agreed to expand economic sanctions against russia for the kremlins alleged involvement in ukraine. Russians say Oil Companies are the main target here. The sanctions could take effect in the next few days, depending on how ukraines ceasefire holds up. It says it will retaliate if the sanctions are adopted. We will take a short break here on cnn. 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Youre looking at pictures from a major city in the indian state of kashmir. As you can see from these aerial shots taken in the last 24 hours, the entire city lies submerged. Remember, there are no phone lines working in all of sr srinagar. The only way to save many of these people is on boats. And of course the army has deployed helicopters as and where it can. Reports of what were hearing is that the flooding is now 15 to 18 feet high. And the army is trying to do everything it can, but as you can see, the infrastructure there quite difficult and hampering all of the rescue efforts. Now john, on the other side of the border in pakistan, it is very much a similar story. The rains have continued to some extent over the last few days. But mostly what were looking at is heavy flooding, overflooding from the main rivers in that region, john. So the rescue efforts continue on both sides of the border, but were looking at a very, very desperate and difficult time ahead for the people of india and pakistan on both sides of the border in kashmir. Thank you for the update. Our new delhi bureau chief there live with what is really quite a desperate situation not just in pakistan, but much of the region, because the floodwaters came up i have, very quickly over the past couple days. We were talking last week that the monsoon season hadnt been as heavy, and now weve got this extensive nodding. And downstream flooding is expected. Lets turn to our meteorologist who joins us with more on that. And it is just devastating for people on the ground. Its going to get worse in some areas. We know the rainfall has topped. But what youve got to keep in mind is that pakistan is one of the most mountainous places on our planet. The second tallest mountain at 8600 meters is right there across northern pakistan. The reason i bring this to your attention is at a slope, the nation goes all the way down toward the arabian sea. All that water makes its way downstream and balloons some of these rivers. We have data readily available for india. This region, brief elieve it or is below average for the monsoon season. That doesnt matter at this point because of the a water thats come down in a matter of days causing this devastation. When you move next door to pakistan you can see what they look like from space courtesy of nasa two weeks ago and you see what it looked like in the past 24 hours. In spots, water levels have risen to 18 feet. Its about 6 kilometers across or about 10 kilometers or 6 miles across. So you take the u. S