could carry. children and elderly and everybody scrambling to get on that chopper. they can only carry a couple dozen people each one. there s only three of them right now because one of them crashed the other day in its evacuation effort. but there are reportedly thousands of people on the mountain dying by the hundreds from lack of water, lack of food and temperatures that are topping 100 degrees up there. just imagine what it is like for them. so the obama administration started today saying that they re looking at rescue options, but they did not want to see u.s. troops engaged in combat on the ground. here is a report from the state department today. would you say that mt. sinjar is located in a combat zone? i don t know technically what i would say. clearly there s a lot of fighting going on around it. people dealing with the rescue mission aren t engaged in some kind of combat armed combat? well, they won t be, period. the problem with that, the terrorists
religious minorities, we turn to greg palkot. first to the critical internal political news here in iraq. the now-acting prime minister nouri al maliki looks like the fix is in on this version. he went on state tv today and he claimed he would not step down unless the top court approved the decision to oust him. but even his iranian patron the iatola today endorsed a new more moderate successor to nouri al maliki. anymore inclusive government here could help with international help to the refugees including christians being targeted by militants. here are a few we caught up with today. take a look. feeding frenzy in iraq. starving, thirsty christian refugees looking for food, looking for water at a soup kitchen at a church in irbil. driven from their homes by isis militants, trying to survive. we saw whole families who had to flee with just the clothes on their back often robbed of everything they had by the isis fighters. we heard multiple times that they were threaten
could carry. children and elderly and everybody scrambling to get on that chopper. they can only carry a couple dozen people each one. there s only three of them right now because one of them crashed the other day in its evacuation effort. but there are reportedly thousands of people on the mountain dying by the hundreds from lack of water, lack of food and temperatures that are topping 100 degrees up there. just imagine what it is like for them. so the obama administration started today saying that they re looking at rescue options, but they did not want to see u.s. troops engaged in combat on the ground. here is a report from the state department today. would you say that mt. sinjar is located in a combat zone? i don t know technically what i would say. clearly there s a lot of fighting going on around it. people dealing with the rescue mission aren t engaged in some kind of combat armed combat? well, they won t be, period. the problem with that, the terrorists
religious minorities, we turn to greg palkot. first to the critical internal political news here in iraq. the now-acting prime minister nouri al maliki looks like the fix is in on this version. he went on state tv today and he claimed he would not step down unless the top court approved the decision to oust him. but even his iranian patron the iatola today endorsed a new more moderate successor to nouri al maliki. anymore inclusive government here could help with international help to the refugees including christians being targeted by militants. here are a few we caught up with today. take a look. feeding frenzy in iraq. starving, thirsty christian refugees looking for food, looking for water at a soup kitchen at a church in irbil. driven from their homes by isis militants, trying to survive. we saw whole families who had to flee with just the clothes on their back often robbed of everything they had by the isis fighters. we heard multiple times that they were threaten
captions by vitac www.vitac.com we re following the breaking news including the worsening plight of tens of thousands of iraqi refugees stranded by isis forces. the united nations has declared the the situation the highest level of emergency calling it a humanitarian catastrophe and now the united states is considering mounting a massive rescue operation and that would mean more u.s. troops on the ground in iraq under the most dangerous conditions. we re also getting word of u.s. airstrikes against isil militants. we have complete coverage with all of our breaking news with our correspondents and special guests here in washington and around the world. let s begin with the pentagon correspondent barbara starr. what are you finding out, barbara, first of all, about a possible u.s.-led rescue mission? well, wolf, and, you know, that is unfolding at this hour. let me bring everybody quickly up-to-date. there has been another u.s. airstrike and another u.s. drone struck an