amy: that was donald trump months ago. we will speak with pittsburgh s there is one city that the president can point to that would represent with that city is, it is pittsburgh. we have exceeded what we have promised in the paris agreement and that is been happening throughout this country, throughout the united states. amy: and we will talk with virginia governor terry mcauliffe. i am here because we need to send a message to the world. or yet would donald trump says, that we re serious about climate change. i m the governor of virginia and went trump moved out of the paris climate agreement allows the first governor to come out and say we re going to do it ourselves. amy: virginia governor tim mcauliffe about the climate and the political climate in his regime and socialist a transgender woman have just one race is or public office. all of that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. in zimbabwe, long-
early today starts right now. good morning. i m dara brown. in the war on terror, a new enemy and a new face of evil. he is muhsin al fadhli, he is the boss of khorasan. the terror squad that is small, just under 50 soldiers, but their specialty is so frightening it has the u.s. worried. here s nbc s richard engel. reporter: it s a crowded battlefield in syria with dozens, perhaps hundreds of extremist groups drawing members from across the world. they fight against the assad regime and against each other. the khorasan group is just one of them. it s a splinter group of al qaeda which moved to syria to locate and recruit westerners among the thousands of foreign fighters in the country. the khorasan group is considered a threat to the u.s. because american intelligence officials say it wants to bring down airplanes with explosives, a traditional al qaeda objective. the group s leader is this man, muhsin al fadhli, age 33, born in kuait. he ran al quaeda s cell in iran,
to iraq. the strikes started overnight with the tomahawk missiles. the u.s. is not alone in launching the air strikes. the american military officials say the partner nations involved in the air strikes are arab countries. saudi arabia, united arab emirates and qatar. we have complete coverage. let s start with senior washington correspondent joe johnson. joe, we have new information from centcom about the strikes. reporter: that is right, john. this is expected to be a long campaign. latest information from central command is a mix of fighter and bomber and aircraft and tomahawk land missiles with 14 strikes. the strikes destroyed or damaged multiple targets in the area of raqqa, albu kamal. it hit fighters and training compounds and storage facilities, and finance center and supply trucks and armored vehicles. they used 27 tomahawk missiles and fighter airplanes from the navy and marines. piloted aircraft and bombers as well. t the allies from bahrain and qatar all part
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