Fast moving day in ferguson. That happened on the same day in that a local grand jury started considering evidence as to whether or not the Police Officer who shot Michael Brown should be charged with a crime for that shooting. There is still a lot to see in ferguson, and a lot to report from ferguson, and we will have all of that coming up, including multiple live reports from the scene in downtown ferguson starting in just a moment tonight. But before we get to that news from ferguson, today was also a day of angry reaction, and denunciation by the president of the United States, by the Vice President of the United States and by leaders around the globe in reaction to the actions of islamic militants operating in iraq and syria, the militant group which yesterday murdered an american journalist in cold blood. They beheaded him on camera, and then uploaded the video of the killing so it could be seen worldwide. Today the family of that jurnist, the parents of jim foley, they were able to make a Public Statement today to answer questions about the loss of their son. Watch. Do you have a message for the people behind jims death . We beg compassion. And mercy. We beg compassion and mercy of jims captors, we beg mercy. They never hurt anybody. They were trying to help. And theres no reason for this slaughter. Jim was just innocent and they knew it, they knew that jim just a symbol for our country. Its difficult to find solace, but we know jimmys free. And we know hes in gods hands. And we know gods work, and we know hes in heaven. So were so proud of him, we have to be. Happy for him. Were the ones that we need the courage to continue without him. He was an inspiration to us and so many others. So we miss his courage and love, his determination, his laugh, his smile. He brought so much joy into this family. The mother and father of journalist jim foley speaking today along with one of jims brothers in front of their home in rochester, new hampshire. He was an accomplished journalist, he was writing for the global post in boston at the time of his abduction in syria two years ago. Today the editor of the global post did an interview with andrea mitchell. He told her for the first time that global post had had some communication with jim foleys kidnappers. At one point it seemed like they may be receptive to free jim foley. The editor also told andrea after the u. S. Started bombing, isis positions in iraq this month, the militant group got in touch with jim foleys family again, to tell them they were Still Holding him and that because of those air strikes, they were going to execute their son. Is isis even open to any kind of negotiation . Weve had communication with the captors. And there was a at one time receptivity to a negotiation that would lead to a release. Its impossible to say, because the kidnappers ceased to communicate with us, with the family. So i dont know what their plans are now. We know what theyve done, and we have to believe that theyre more than capable of doing this again. Did they cease to communicate when the bombings started . There was weve not released this, but there was one communication after the bombing began that went to the family that stated that jim would be executed and we hoped and prayed that it would not. And we did everything ourselves to communicate back to them that jim was just an innocent journalist who loved the syrian people. The ceo of global post, which is where jim foley was working before he was abducted in syria two years ago, and ultimately beheaded by isis militants in a video that was released yesterday. The ceo of globe post said there had been communication with the Group Holding jim foley during his time in captivity and that the group had sent a communication this month when the u. S. Started bombing isis targets in iraq, the group saying that they would kill jim foley because of those air strikes, and they did. We are not going to show the video that the terrorist group released. Doing Something Like this on camera, like similar groups did with daniel pearl in 2002 and Nicholas Berg in 2004 in iraq. And many other times since. The reason these militant groups do this on camera is to make it into more than just a murder. To terrorize and propagandize and extort. What they hope will be a global audience for this murder, if they can just make enough people watch it. If they can just make it horrific enough, light it just right, add just the right soundtrack and just the right terrifying verbiage to go with the visuals of their murders, they hope well all watch. They hope well all never be able to forget it. Theres good reason to not give them what they want. And to not help them disseminate the images of them killing people, which they so want the world to see. In part, its decency, right . Its not rewarding their behavior and there by incentivizing more of it, in part, it is a news judgment, the news value of these snuff films. If there is no additional news value that can be gained, no Additional Information that can be gained from seeing them commit the actual murder, rather than just being told whats what the tape describes, there is no reason for any News Organization to show the tape. Thats why it was disgusting that the New York Post today showed an image on the cover of the knife being pressed into jim foleys throat. Thats why nbc and msnbc and other responsible News Organizations have not done anything like that, and why no responsible News Organization should in my opinion. That said, an individual and very specific element of the murder tape that was released yesterday, did become newsworthy today. Its a detail that would not have been disseminated in a news context before this, but its now very much part of the news of this incident and of understanding how the International Community will respond to this. Today, the Prime Minister of great britain, David Cameron rushed back to london in the middle of his vacation and started convening emergency meetings on iraq and syria within the british government, he did that, because intelligence sources in britain are very worried that the sound of the voice of the man who kills jim foley, theyre very worried that the sound of that mans voice specifically, indicates that he is british. That hes from london. The man speaks in english with a distinct london accent. This is james wright foley, an american citizen from your country. On the strength of their suspicions about that accent theyre just suspensions, no american sources are confirming that the accent has been identified as any one thing. David cameron rushed back to london to convene an Emergency Response in that nation. Is this what it appears to be . Which a british citizen has beheaded an american citizen . Are you any closer to knowing who carried this evil act out . First of all, let me condemn completely the barbaric and brutal act that has taken place. Lets be clear what this act is, it is an act of murder. And murder without any justification. Now, we have not identified the individual responsible on the video. But from what weve seen, it looks increasingly likely it is a british citizen. This is deeply shocking, that we know that far too many british citizens have travelled to iraq and syria, to take part in extremism and violence. What we must do is redouble all our efforts to stop people going, to take away the passports of those contemplating travel, to arrest and travel those that take part in this extremism and violence. To take extremist material off the internet and do everything we can to keep our people safe and that is what this government will do. British Prime MinisterDavid Cameron today saying from what weve seen, it looks increasingly likely that it is a british citizen, the isis militant who killed jim foley in the terrorist video released yesterday, this beheading video, the Prime Minister said it is looking increasingly likely that man is a british citizen. And for britain, you see this in the british press. You see this has caused some existential anguish about how a british citizen could do Something Like this, but more concretely, there is now the question of whether or not isis militants with british passports could freely enter not just britain but the whole of the European Union . Could they bring this home . The head of Scotland Yard told reporters last week, that 500 british citizens are thought to have joined the fighting in syria. Many of them with the most militant groups, including isis. The equivalent number of americans is thought to be several dozen. The prospect of european and American Battlefield trained militants coming back from syria to mount isisstyle attacks at home is something that u. S. Attorney general eric holder last month called more frightening than anything he has seen as attorney general. Today as britain grappled with the fact that this murder may have been committed by one of their own, and as jim foleys family was willing to show some of their grief publicly, and publicly pray for mercy for yet another american journalist held by the same group, and threatened by the same group. Steven sotlov, president obama made some of the starkest and damning remarks he has ever made as president. About anything. Denouncing isis and what theyve done. What happened to jim fol ne foley today. A group like isil has no place in the 21st century, lets be clear about isil, they have rampaged across cities and villages, killing innocent unarmed civilians in cowardly acts of violence. They abduct women and children and subject them to torture and rape and slavery. Isil speaks for no religion. Their victims are overwhelmingly muslim, and no faith teaches people to massacre innocence. No just god would stand for what they did yesterday, and what they do every single day. Isil has no ideology of any value to human beings. President obama speaking today, the president went on to say, while isis may claim out of expediency that they are at war with the United States or the west, the fact is, the president said, they terrorize their neighbors and offer them nothing but an endless slavery to their empty vision and the collapse of any definition of civilized behavior. Very strong remarks today from president obama. Then speaking today in connecticut, Vice President biden made a similar and similarly impassioned case. Watch this. Our hearts go out to the foley family. It is difficult to lose someone in any circumstances, but the sheer savagery and brutality of the method used by socalled isil, some refer to it as isis, has been has exceeded anyway, its shocked the whole world. Its because of people like jim, jim foley who had the courage talking to press people, they know this better than anybody, the press thats here. It takes an incredible amount of physical courage to do the job your colleagues do overseas. This is not something you go in and assist like a walk in the park. So many, so many journalists put their lives on the line every single day to bring the truth to the world and the truth to the country. Its a tripe phrase. We all mourn jims loss, but this is one of those cases where you dont have to know a single journalist, you didnt have to know jim foley or anything other than this was a man doing a job hurting no one who was victimized by one of the most outrageous groups of individuals that ive encountered in my entire career. And our hearts go out to his family. Vice President Joe Biden speaking today at Goodwin College in connecticut, soon thereafter, the pentagon announced and the white house confirmed that earlier this summer president obama had ordered a secret mission by u. S. Special operations troops to go to try to find the hostages, to go inside syria to try to find and rescue u. S. Hostages there, presumably including jim foley, although theyre not being that specific with names. The raid was not successful, the statement says that although u. S. Troops did go in and put boots on the ground in syria, the hostages were not where they thought they would be. Statement from the pentagon says, quote, the u. S. Government uses the full breadth of our military intense and diplomatic ability to bring people home whenever we can. The United States will not tolerate the abduction of our people and will work tirelessly to secure the safety of our citizens and to hold their captors accountable. To hold their captors accountable. The murder of journalist jim foley. The threat to murder journalist steven sotlov, these angry words from the president , emotional words from the Vice President. The treatment of this as an emergency in britain, our closest ally. This is getting close to a tidal wave of momentum on this subject. President obama started air strikes against isis targets on august 8th, since then there have been at least 84 separate u. S. Air strikes against isis targets just this month. The Washington Post asked an unnamed u. S. Official today whether the u. S. Would consider suspending the air strikes as the isis demanded in the beheading video, that they threatened another journalist with the same fate, unless the strikes stop. The reply was absolutely not. The only question is if we do more. And in fact since the execution video was released, and that demand by isis was made that president obama stop the air strikes or else, since that isis video came out yesterday, the u. S. Has launched more than a dozen Additional Air strikes against isis today. 14 at least just today. The u. S. Military announced today theyre thinking about sending more u. S. Troops into iraq. Another 300, maybe . In addition to the nearly 1,000 american troops that have already been sent back into iraq this summer. On days like this the pressure toward war can seem almost unbearable. And the pressure comes from all different directions. Not just from the always hawks of the world, who always want more more no matter the facts on the ground. This group isis, wants to be fighting the u. S. Military in iraq and syria, they want the u. S. Military in another war in the middle east, and they want it more than they want anything else. That explains their tactics toward the u. S. When you think they would be more focused on the assad regime in syria and the government in baghdad. Theyre focused on the u. S. And they want us there more than they want anything. Does the u. S. Want that too . Fighting isis . U. S. Troops fighting isis in iraq, maybe in syria too . Even if you dont consider the deployment of u. S. Troops back to iraq this past june. This past june, even if you dont consider that to be the start of u. S. Military operations in iraq again, even if you take the white house line on that and believe them when they say that those additional troops werent really the start of any military operations. The u. S. Didnt really start hostilities in iraq again until president obama ordered the air strikes on august 8th. Even if you just take the white house line on that, which is arguable, that starting on august 8th, theres a ticking constitutional clock that says the u. S. Congress must make a call here. The u. S. Congress must debate whether or not we want this war. The u. S. Congress must debate and vote on whether to authorize these hostilities in iraq within 60 days of them starting at the latest on august 8th. If it starts on august 8th we are already 12 days in. In to that 60day clock. Amid this surge of disgust against isis, and this murder and the videotape of this murder, and the 14 Additional Air strikes today. The United StatesCongress Must debate and decide on what we do next. Whats happening here now is turning into war. Congress must decide if that is what were doing or not what were doing. Theres no hiding from this any more, this is the responsibility that we cannot constitutionally shirk. This is charlie. His long day of doing it himself starts with back pain. And a choice. Take 4 advil in a day or just 2 aleve for all day relief. Honey, you did it baby laughs caman thanks, captain obvious. Wouldnt stay here tonight. Captain obvious id get a deal for tonight with deals for tonight from hotels. Com. And you might want to get that pipe fixed. Lets show em what a breakfast with whole grain fiber can do. One coffee with room, one large mocha latte, medium macchiato, a light hot chocolate hold the whip, two espressos. Make one a double. Shes full and focused. [ barista ] i have two cappuccinos, one coffee with room, one large mocha latte, a medium macchiato, a light hot chocolate hold the whip, and two espressos one with a double shot. Heh, heh. Thats not the coffee talkin. [ female announcer ] start your day with kelloggs frosted mini wheats cereal. With whole wheat goodness on one side and a hint of sweetness on the other, its a delicious way to get the nutrition you want. In a historic visit, the nations first African American attorney general eric holder arrived in fergusons missouri today. He spent day 11 of the crisis there talking to people all over town, talking about the Police Killing of an unarmed teenager a week and a half ago, Michael Brown. He spoke to students individually at a local community college, met with Community Leaders in the region. Also met privately with the family of Michael Brown. Officials did not allow press into that private meeting or release any pictures of it afterwards, but this was a very busy day for the u. S. Attorney general in ferguson, seems like he wanted t