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Circulate about his personal life. recently his assumed girlfriend appeared in public the former gymnast wore a loose-fitting red dress. social media is buzzing with comments about her possible weight gain and rumors that she recently gave birth have been rekindled. presented with a tone like an image a lot of russian men like to aspire to. reporter: the kremlin hall never confirmaled she gave birth and consistently dismissed talk of a romance between her and vladimir putin but analysts say one reezing putin and his inner circle might not mind the speculation is because it distracts russians from some of russia s real problems. brianna? and he did disappear a short time ago for a little while. right, brian? maybe it was paternity leave? reporter: a lot of speculation on that. he vanished from public view in early march for several days. there were reports that he was with alina and she gave birth to ....
Professional military there to partner with and those iraqi commanders in the view of the pentagon are responsible for stepping up and making that happen. brianna? leadership is so important. barbara starr, thank you so much for that report. and we are getting some graphic new video of that bloody battle for ramadi. we want to warn you that some people may find it disturbing. here s cnn s senior international correspondent arwa damon. reporter: brianne narcs the fall brianna, this raised a lot of questions and stirred up debated. a soldier brigade among the last to retreat. his narrative and videos provided give us insight into what went wrong. the chaotic final moments captured on a cell phone. [ speaking in foreign language ] [ gunfire ] reporter: come on, fight! a voice shouts. this one of the last firefights ....
Single person maybe more than one, but possibly one person possibly upsetting travel for so many millions of people brianna. oh, so inconvenient on a day like today. tom foreman, thank you so much. now to the war against isis and tough new comments by defense secretary ashton carter say that go iraqi forces showed no will to fight, to hold on to the key city of ramadi. our pentagon correspondent barbara starr conducted that exclusive interview. she joins us now. strong reaction to this all around the world, right? reporter: it is gettinging a lot of attention, brianna. and suddenly one of ash carter s backers is the prime minister in iraq a sunni, obviously a member of the opposition coming out today saying that he thought the army did not perform very well in ramadi. whatever did or did not happen in ramadi all of this setting off global controversy. a chaotic firefight just before ....
Floodwaters came through this area. these i can t overestimate how large these trees are that have been broken apart and were slammed into the bridges. that s what washed out several of the bridges. as you look at the one bridge we are on here a better sense of what we re dealing with, and this is the blanco river here brianna, and the water came up over the water where we re standing and it s receded dramatically but at the rain continues to fall a great concern. this is what washes out the bridge. this is is a massive tree broken apart, splintered, all washed up against here. so you can see the blanco river down there and all of this rushing heavily downstream and one of the big concerns now, brianna, is that this with these rivers and waterways, heading out towards the gulf of mexico a great deal of distance and all of the water is heading downstream. not just central texas, but ....
It apart and only then determined there was really nothing harmful involved here. they did find the driver eventually charged with operating without a license, but there did not seem to be a real threat here. you can see what s happening here amid the threats and problem wes have had, authorities say they just have to take everything seriously, even if this morning they find out it was one person making a bunch of what would be essentially prank phone calls. threatening airlines flying in from europe. brianna? tom, thanks for your report. now the explosive comments about iraqi troops by defense secretary ash carter who made them in an exclusive interview with cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr. barbara what did the secretary of defense tell you? reporter: hi brianna. a piece of remark candor. take viewers behind the scenes because i asked the secretary one basic question what did he think about what had happened in ramadi and how the iraqi troops fought? listen to what he ....