General eric holder meets with all sides and gets a firsthand look by a city shattered by violence and protests. Wolf blitzer is off. Im brianna keilar. You are in the situation room. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com were following two breaking stories this hour. Americas top Law Enforcement official is now in ferguson, missouri. Attorney general eric holder has meetings with police and the family of slain teen Michael Brown and hes getting a briefing on the federal investigation into the Fatal Shooting and president obama vowing to seek justice for an american brutally beheaded by isis terrorists as the u. S. Carries a fresh round of air strikes and insurgent targets in iraq and risk sending in more troops. Our guests are standing by with full coverage and we begin with cnn pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. Give us the latest. Brianna, a fresh round of u. S. Airstrikes against isis positions in iraq. The state department asking for 300 more military troops on the ground in baghd
We do know 47 people were arrested, some of them for threatening. That was what was said last night. In terms of the description of why this happened, but certainly no shots fired. Thats huge. Captain ron johnson notes a change in dynamic saying this may be a turning point, but this turning point did not come easily. Police did have to respond forcefully several times. Most notably after a small group of whats being called agitators lost control. You need to get back. Youre risking peoples lives. Like so many nights before, tuesday in ferguson quickly overcome by chaos. Disperse immediately. The agitators, the criminals embedded themselves and hid behind media and began throwing bottles. They threw urine on officers, and thats what caused officers to take action and begin to make arrests. Reporter today began with high hopes that this night would be different. Protect and cover every peace officer that you would protect and cover every protestr. Reporter clergy and Community Leaders pr
The report will put american lives at risk. The white house knows, in fact secretary of state john kerry was urging Dianne Feinstein to reconsider the timing of this release because it puts americans at risk across the globe. The president still supporting transparency. Josh earnest, press secretary, had this to say. Really admitting that there is risk to americans with its release. There are some indications that there is, that the release of the report could lead to greater risk that is posed to u. S. Facilities and individuals all around the world. So the administration has taken the prudent steps to ensure that the proper security cautions are in place at u. S. Facilities around the globe. 100 unnecessary for everyone to do this. If you want to put out an explosive book, if leon panetta who went to bat when he was head of the c. I. A. Said you cannot do this, stop targeting the c. I. A. Youre not going to arrest these people, not going to prosecute these people, finally the adminis
Communities. We have whether federal investigations will really make a difference. But we begin with Rick Leventhal in new york with more reaction to the death of eric garner. Hi, rick. Bret, many people say they were shocked by the grand jurys decision not to seek criminal charges in this case. From eric garners family to politicians to the officer who testified on his own behalf, and tonight the protests continue with a crowd estimated at more than 1,000 strong gathering down at foley plaza in Lower Manhattan near the the federal court buildings. The nypd on high alert wondering how much higher tensions will rise. Cell phone video of the arrest of eric garner shows the officer using what appears to be a choke hold to subdue the 63, 350 pound man. Garners death on the sidewalk was rule ed a homicide by the medical examiner, due to compression of the neck and chest. But a grand jury found no reason to bring charges against the officer, and a Police Spokesman says it was a textbook take
Thank you for spending your sunday with us. Im e liz best in for shannon. Nice to have you with us, elizabeth. Im leeland. Welcome to the election headquarters from washington. Hermine continues to churn up storm surge warnings along the east coast and killed at least two people. Watches and warnings remain in effect from virginia to new england. It is not all bad news. Kristin fisher keeping an eye on things from maryland where the storm is farther east than we thought. Hi, kristin. We are in really rough surf, big waves, about ten feet. We are also getting, there we go, high tide passed about two hours ago. We are dealing with strong rip currents. Nobody is allowed in the water for that reason. We have life guards up and down the beach making sure nobody gets in that water. So, right now, hermine is about 300 miles out there off the coast traveling eastnortheast at about 10 miles per hour. So, the thing they are really worried about here is the rough surf. Anybody who tries to get in