Them substantial opportunity to determine their own destiny within the territory that they control. That is what multisectarianism in iraq would mean. As you indicate, its a lot tougher in syria. But thats the objective that we have to have sunnis i would like to see the sunni tribal leaders that you met with be as successful as the kurds are. We would welcome that. Thats what were trying to stimulate. And were willing to do more as the chairman indicated and i indicated when we have a capable ground force that we can support the way we did support over the weekend the kurds in the north with air power. Thank you mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, i also want to agree with the line of your questioning earlier. I think it would be absolutely foolish for us not to clarify the rules of engagement for the syrian trained folks inserted back into the field to make clear that the u. S. Will support them if they come under attack by assad regime. For them to go in without protection, we would lose all cred
Internet and find themself spart, you see people who have had no training, no association with it, including americans, who go on the internet and find themself s themselves enthralled because of whatever lost souls they are or because of the violence with isil and selfradicalize and unfortunately undertake to do violence. So you see that spectrum there. You do see some effort by isil, meaning isil in syria and iraq to command and control, but its not exclusively that way. I say all this because thats very distinctly different from the al qaeda model. The al qaeda model was a very hierarchical, very clear command and control type terrorist enemy. And that meant they had discipline and it meant they could take on big things like 9 11, but it also meant that when we started to go after them they were vulnerable to attacks on the command and control structure and on their logistics structure. Isils more resilient because it is more decentralized and informal in that kind of sense. Takes a
The atlas fire burning in napa and sonoma counties scorched 42,000 acres, nearly double what it was last night. We have reporters all over the region. Lets start with nbc bay area pete suratos live in napa valley college. Now an evacuation shelter. Pete, we just got an update from firefighters. Reporter yeah, thats right, marcus and kris. Napa valley college, youre see a lot of people come here. Its one of the Evacuation Centers as were trying to get away from these areas because of these fires. I want to show you guys the crowds that are here right now, i went inside and talked to someone said hear at napa valley college, were talking about a few hundred evacuees as a result of a mandatory evacuation or the voluntary evacuation. As you mentioned, marcus, i did get a chance to speak with cal fire, they said the winds that are coming in, the low humidity, the red flag warning could lead to more evacuations. Our fuels are very low. Some are at historic low values, which means they readil
The heavy snow but winds topping 70mileperhour. Again that next update at 6 20. Okay see you shortly. The cold november rain means snow and a travel warning in the sierra, basically bring chains and soon perhaps skis and snow boards. Thom jensen joins us from the boreal ski area and we see the beanie and the gloves now. Which is good news for ski zbleers you can tell my cheeks are rosier than they were at 5 00. Temperatures continue to drop. The rain jeff was talking about down in the valleys translatesed into really wet snow up here at 7,200 feet. Going to freeze tonight and be cold and slick for folks out there trying to come over i80 on the pass. All of this translated into good news for the skiers up here. Drivers over the passes could present problems for drivers. Big rigs are required to have chains right now. And caltrans suggests all cars have chains over the sierra this we could. The early snow is welcome at the ski area. There are some seasons we had 78 inches and there are o
Streets of San Francisco. Hundreds of protesters rally against the trump right now at 6 30. Take their message to the streets of San Francisco. Hundreds of protesters rally against the trump administration. Good evening. Im terry mcsweeney. A national day of action. Hundreds of protesters in San Francisco join with demonstrations across the country demanding the impeachment of President Trump. The protests come nearly a year after the election. Nbc bay area Sergio Quintana in San Francisco with more on the message. Reporter terry, this is a peaceful demonstration. They arrived here at 24th and mission here just a little while ago and theyve been marching through the city, went through the Castro District but this is a demonstration that first started in union square. The group took over a corner of the busy square in the city shopping district. They celebrated recently announced indictments and a guilty plea from members of President Trumps campaign. The vast majority in this crowd are