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The pentagon calling north koreas brazen nuclear test a serious provocation. President obama is promising serious consequences. Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr is here in studio with more on the u. S. Reaction. Barbara, great to have you here. Good morning. What are you hearing about what the u. S. Will do . This time around it is much different. This is not about the words. This is not about the rhetoric. If, indeed, the north korean regime did test a nuclear warhead, this puts them a huge step closer to being able to actually put a warhead on a missile, shoot off that missile, and potentially some day be able to strike the United States. What my sources have been telling me for the last several weeks is there is increasing concern the north koreans are Getting Better at this step by step with every test. Theyre havi ....
40 people were killed, including children, as a result of air strikes in damascus. it s obviously an ominous backdrop to this new cease-fire effort. what more do we know on that specifically? well, as you can see from the footage in front of you, we can t actually confirm any of this footage right now. it looks as though it was a very blood, bloody attack. right now the cease-fire is set to take place in a few hours and we already have an air strike hitting this school in rebel-held areas outside of damasc damascus. that bombing killed 40 people, many of them children. now, we can t as i mentioned, we can t confirm the veracity of this. it does speak to a wider humanitarian disaster. millions have been displaced across the country. northern syria is covered now by a layer of lethal frost. the need for this peace really is desperate as temperatures continue to plummet. as can you see in some of those pictures, people are fleeing ....
He attacked no one. got into a verbal altercation with the protesting outside damasc damascus. the protesters wanted him dead. he was later identified. he was peaceful and loved passion and wanted to be a model. his father says he was executed in cold blood. for days there have been running clashes as palestinians protest restrictions that prohibited men under the age of 50 from worshipping at the mosque. israe israelis have been visiting the mosque compound. now stone throwing and tear gas have escalated to stabbing and gunfire. the anger and passions captured on video. video that will likely make tensions worse in this already tense city. erin mclachlan, jerusalem. clearly, a very tense situation in jerusalem right now. we re going to stay on top of the story, update you with more information as it becomes ....
The russians felt compelled to about now. the regime some say but on its last legs, if you will, coming under increased attack in damascus and didn t have the manpower to sustain this ground battle anymore. thank you for explaining a complicated but vital story. still ahead, the latest on the storm s path and what you need to know about the flooding along the east coast. but first, why the phrase better late than never might not apply to hillary clinton s schedule. that s next. stay with us. ....
That program that costs about $500 million but hasn t been very successful. the u.s. is reluctant also to give them heavy weaponry out of fear that those weapons may ultimately end up in the hands of groups like isis. but their main fight is against the assad regime as well as against isis and they re now being attacked by the russian military. is there anything about what s happening right now that has prompted, triggered this russian action? the syrian government over the course of the last several months as definitely weakened. we put this number um to give you a sense. at the beginning of the war, the syrian army was about 300,000. since then, it s gone down to 80,000. a lot of people have left the country, recruiting has been difficult for the syrian regime. the most important thing, the syrian government really controls about 20% to 25% of the country. that means about 75% of the country is in the hands of either groups like isis or other rebels and really the damasc damascus ....