the other concern, rather than fear, i had, that when i was command that i would make the right decisions and get the job done and get fewer marines hurt or injured. it is pretty tough to make a decision, when i tell you four to take out that machine gun and you get mowed down and i turned to the next four, and i say, you get them. we have to take out that machine gun or we are all going to go. those are the fears, scares, concerns. it is semantics. the whole thing is emotions you have to control. you don t say go to this. you say, follow me. [applause] i had a brief question for both gentlemen. what does wearing the medal of honor me to you, your family, and to the menu fought fought side-by-side with? to me, humility. there is no greater pride to me than anything in the world. i never would have believed what happened. r the medal of honor, to receive it, it changes your life. what you used to be, you are not anymore. you are a different person. you have to expect your
u.s. warplanes hammered the forces of isis in iraq today, opening an offensive that the pentagon hopes will be a breakthrough against the islamic extremists occupying much of syria and iraq. iraqi kurdish troops, backed by 36 american airstrikes, moved to retake the town of sinjar, and they cut a highway used by isis to carry supplies from raqqa, its stronghold in syria, to mosul, the largest city that isis holds in iraq with more than a million residents. charlie d agata is with the kurdish peshmerga forces. reporter: the battle to reclaim sinjar began in the air. u.s. air strikes pounded suspected isis targets throughout the day. thick smoke hung over the city as isis fighters lit banks of tires to try to block the bombers visibility. dug in on the mountainside, kurdish peshmerga forces searched for targets, passing the coordinates to u.s. advisers. this is one of the forward fighting positions where they re helping to pick targets for air strikes. soldiers here told us
good evening. we start with a growing danger in the sky which threatened nearly two dozen flights last night alone across the country. the fbi is looking for potentially dozens of suspects who lit up planes and helicopters with potentially blinding laser pointers in at least 16 cities. one targeted the helicopter of our nbc station here in new york city which aimed its camera lens at the source catching the alleged culprit in the act. tom costello now with a rare pilot s view of this alarming threat from the ground. reporter: it happened 1500 feet over brooklyn. a bright green laser light suddenly lit up the nbc 4 helicopter cockpit. don t look, george. reporter: the reporter and his pilot nearly blinded as they hovered above the city. on the ground, a man who appeared to be targeting not only the nbc chopper but nypd chopper, too. we can see him standing outside the building in the back with the laser in his hand shooting at us. there s another arrest. reporter:
a deportation force to move out 11 million undocumented immigrants. but is that possible? we ll ask the head of u.s. customs and border protection. he s joining us. hello, i m kate bolduan. i m john berman. a key moment in the battle against isis. a major assault in northern iraq. u.s. coalition warplanes, providing cover in this new intense fight to reclaim a strategic city? this centers on the town of sinjar. kurdish soldiers are attacking isis there from three sides. nick paton walsh is near the front lines of this battle with more. reporter: the key fight for sinjar seems to be what you can t really see behind me along the main road known as route 47. now, that is vital because it heads from mosul in iraq, in that direction, to raqqa in syria, in that direction. the caliphate self-declared capital. we ve been seeing intense air strikes in the past hours or so. a lot of coalition aircraft in the skies above. while everyone understands that sinjar, the need to ret
The son legendary neurologist who cared for thousands during his tenure at Carney Hospital before his own life was cut short during the early weeks of the 2020 pandemic outbreak will run the Boston Marathon next week in his late father’s memory. Andrew Mahoney will run the race to help raise funds for the foundation named as a memorial to Dr. John F.X. Mahoney, MD, who had a