good friday morning. the chaotic situation in iraq shows no signs of letting up, as mill trants claim more territory. and president obama is weighing his options, as the insurgents creep closer to baghdad. will u.s. strikes be next? abc s christian fisher live from the white house. good morning, kristen. reporter: the u.s. military is going to do something. but after nearly nine years of war and sacrifice in iraq, one option not on the able is putting more u.s. troops back on the ground. this cell phone video shot yesterday, appears to show islamic extremists, through mosul, and vehicles seized from iraqi soldiers. the soldiers have been trying to stop the militants as they storm through city aftercy towards baghdad. as this youtube video shows, iraqi troops are losing. thousands of iraqi soldiers are seen here surrendering to the militants, with links to al qaeda. iraq s government is begging the u.s. to step in. yesterday, a caution president obama said help is on the
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say it is discriminating against the disabled community. good afternoon, i am noel walker in for tori campbell, texas governor rick perry is under fire for comments he made comparing homosexuality to alcoholism in a speech he made in san francisco last night and tara moriarty has this report. reporter: yeah, texas governor rick perry was responding to a question and he said that alcoholism is similar to being homosexual and last night he said that. now i may not be able to cure that but i can control that. and he came under fire for those comments he made in san francisco last night and we spoke to him and he said he was saddened by it. but sexually orientation cannot be compared to alcoholism, i think it is a sad thing, it can not be compared to that. and governor rick perry went on to say though he didn t understand the gay lifestyle he doesn t need to to have an opinion on it and they will have more on that later. tara moriarty, ktvu news, back to you. thank
that sort of thing on the roads, one of the reasons gloucester county, part of the flash flood watch is that is in effect until 2:00 in the morning. we even see in areas not in the flash flood watch moving through salem county heavier rain. so we will take a look at that as at this point no thunderstorms are out there but still we have skies and a lot of moisture that look like we could be getting downpours and you could fine them around. just take it easy out on the roads right now and we will be heading back in the studio, jessica. safe for you to take a photo during this severe weather, we would like to see it. send is us your picks on facebook or twitter just use hash tag cbs-3/storms. there is breaking news right now out of chester county where a music teacher is facing charges, police say that anton fauxman who was a music teacher at malvern school of music sexually abused three children. he was originally from russia has work at the school for four years. he also c
for his life at this hour. after he was shot and robbed in this parking lot behind me here. now as you can see, police detectives are still here gathering evidence as they continue to try to track down the suspects who were still out there. now, let s show you some video we shot just as soon as we got to the scene. police say the victim together with his 68 year old friend both were customers here leaving the gun range when a man and a woman both armed with guns approached them and announced robbery. police say both of the victims complied and gave up their wallets, cell phones, money and even their guns. but police say the suspects still turned violent. for some reason, after the robbery, our male perpetrator fired one shot striking our 67 year old victim in his groin. and he s present until critical condition. the suspects male and female then fled the scene in a dar dark-colored vehicle with dark tinted windows. so now these two perp straighters a male and female who ini