Assad despite the very vehement condemnation, and the accurate condemnation by secretary of state and president obama, and russia is going in to prop up that regime. and the first concern that comes to mind with the aircraft reck is sill ati reck reconciliations going in, what is it for? to provide denial of anybody going after their the advance on the ground. that is the stor y they would use. but clearly, it puts a bubble over their capabilities to act with complete impunity and to conduct air operations with support on the ground if they were in anticipation of something else coming after them. while asking for the same time about conversation of the deconflictions and pointing guns to the sky, and paul kruk shank what air capacity do the rebels
Isil which is fed off of the ethic and the sectarian areas of the assad regime. it is tragic, tragic, my fellow americans that we have reached this point a syrian conflict that has killed more than 200,000 people, and created the worst are refugee crisis since world war ii and spawned a terrorist army of tens of thousands and now created a platform for a russian is a autocrat to join with the iranian thee yo krat to prop up a syrian dictator. and those words are just spoken in the last little while with senator john mccain. and with me to discuss this is are retired general james sp spider marks, and paul cruikshank, and first to you, paul, the russian general who was releasing the information on the air strikes said on the official record that they were going after isiscenters and mun
Life-threatening. they go on to say they will monitor the situation. now, if there were u.s. servicemembers on board this train, they would not be traveling in uniform, they do not do that. that is standard procedure to be in civilian clothes. they would not have any military-issue weapons with them on board a civilian train. if they had personal weapons, that might be something else entirely. but by all accounts, they certainly were not armed. this appears to be an act of extraordinary heroism, to save civilians on a high-speed train in europe. the pentagon still though trying to put all the pieces together. one military member injured, nonli nonlife-threatening. paul kruk shank working his sources on what s going on, this follows a series of terrorist incidents in france over these past several months. this individual, this alleged terrorist on this high-speed train amsterdam to paris, we re
0 adult as princippirin as well. that s going to wrap things up. but stay contacted with me and let s keep the conversation going on twitter. time for a check of your top stories making news right now. you re in the cnn news room, i m joe johns in for don lemon. we begin with breaking news san antonio, texas is reeling this hour, floodwaters have been rising all around the city all day long. up to ten inches of rain have pounded the area since just last night. san antonio is one of the most flood-prone cities in the country. but no area could handle the kind of downpours they ve had today. and you can see the results the flooding has killed at least one person and another person is missing in, and the water is going to keep rising for a while. it simply has no place to go. it was under water 20 minutes ago. i came over here, i own the property, and my daughter said that she couldn t get to her car. her car is all flooded. the property is all, the water is swarming through the w
used. we ll give you a close look at this extraordinary piece of american history. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s begin this hour with the breaking news. algeria s official news agency has just announced the end of a rescue operation aimed at freeing hostages, including americans held by islamic militants. u.s. government officials tell cnn that may not necessarily, though, be the case. let s get straight to our pentagon correspondent chris lawrence working this story for us. chris, be what is the very latest that you re hearing? wolf, the latest that we re getting from u.s. officials is that some americans may have escaped but some may still be held by those hostage takers and they are still seeing signs perhaps of some intermittent fighting, suggesting that perhaps this isn t over yet. as the hostage situation stretched to a second day, u.s. officials scrambled to find a resolution and determine the state of the americans still in militant hands