just about 10:30 on saturday morning. this morning president trump s tweeting about the victims who were killed in the shooting at a veterans home in california. he said this, we are deeply saddened by the tragic situation in yountville and mourn the loss of three incredible women. the shooter was suffering from ptsd and was treated at that home. let s bring in dan simon there in yountville. what else have you learned? victor, once again you have somebody in this country who is apparently havingment mental he issues and receiving treatment and somehow he was able to get ahold of a gun and inflict this tragedy. in this case you re talking about an army vet who served time in afghanistan who was getting treatment for ptsd. reporter: tragedy at the veterans home of california in yountville. three women hostages and a gunman dead. the nearly eight hour standoff with police apparently started
multiple times. then the soviet union placed missiles on cuban territory. although he said he would die in power, fidel castro stepped aside unexpectedly in 2006 due to illness. his brother, raul castro, took over as president. but fidel remains an active figure in cuban politics. he was pictured thursday celebrating his 89th birthday with the presidents of bolivia and venezuela. the same day, he wrote an article, telling america to repay the millions of dollars it owes as a result of its longstanding trade embargo. the u.s. is still not lifting its embargo, a next step in the diplomatic thaw that will need the backing of the republican party, a step that will have a much bigger impact on the lives of everyday cubans. patrick oppmann, cnn, havana. now, there is another horrifying indication of isis brutality against women hostages, and that abuse is taking place at the top of the terror group s organization. u.s. government organizations say al baghdadi sexually abused
operation is formed to bring the most efficient aspect to the battlefield to get the job done with the least risk to the force. one of the other aspects now is it s not just the operators on the ground. it s an interagency force that we have formed after 9/11 throughout the intelligence committee and bringing this element, this exploitation capability which really becomes the main effort is how quickly we can exploit intelligence on the target back in the air and then back at the base to drive other targets so we can get inside the enemy. this was a very tricky operation because some of the reports i have read is that delta forces had to shoot around. the terrorists were hiding behind women hostages or wives or girlfriends or whomever so they had to work around that. again, that s what we train these guys to do. there s three elements to the raids. surprise speed and bounce of
behavior. they saw some efforts of groups to begin to coordinate attacks. they didn t go into further detail but he said that was on the record that is what he was here to meet with white house and pentagon officials to, you know, further discuss. when we discuss this a lot of us kind of instantly pop over and say isis but there are a lot of different terror groups. when the united states began bombing isis in sigh pyria, the interesting bit of that news is we also went after a group called khorasan. unknown for unknown for most of us, a group of senior al qaeda outfitters that we feared were planning major attacks in the united states. so we need to understand there s a lot of terrain out there underneath the surface. some of these groups particularly in egypt, are beginning to compete with one another over hostage taking and the kind of branded events that was recently this disclosh ush of two italian women hostages and some speculate that was an
seeing maybe the beginning of a solution. the polish president who is here with the french, german, and dutch foreign ministers have been in meetings with opposition leaders and the ukrainian leader viktor yanukovych. this may bring elections forward to this year and may perhaps result in a new cabinet government in the next ten days and perhaps could see a change in the constitution, a weakening of the power. that s what people have come here to try to seek peace. we have not heard from him at all apparently from other messages he s given to diplomats. what we ve heard from the government here, worrying messages from both the police and the military. the police say you ve taken 67 of our men hostages and therefore we re going to defend ourselves and the families. the military who stayed out of this until now and the chief of