spraying going on, a lot of scrubbing going on to make sure there would be absolutely no lingering problems or threat to anyone who uses this aircraft. ashley? >> david, amazing. thank you. what brave personnel. what brave personnel. thanks for watching everyone. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good evening, thanks for joining us. major developments on many fronts tonight, beginning with the battle lines of irbil. kerr fi kurtish defenders, f-18s and drones hitting missile targets. american humanitarian aid in the meantime appears to be getting through and judging by this crowd of people very much in demand. both kinds of assistance boosting moral in the region. that said, isis fighters made gains taking control of the mosul dam, the largest and over running a number of towns near irbil.

the price they are paying, 150 kurtish fighters killed in less than a week in battle. 500 have been wounded. again, tonight the angels from barbara starr, ivan watson, jim sciutto on the possibility of mission creep and jim acosta. we begin with barbara starr, what have you learned? >> good evening anderson. three strikes, one against an isis artillery position followed by another strike by a drone and a third round of strikes by a number of f-18s off the carrier in the persian gulf. they are striking at convoys, artillery, mortar positions. this is aimed at stopping the isis advance on irbil. they are going after mobile targets of isis and trying to push them back from the outer perimeter around irbil. very precise targeting by the

united states, they are using precision weapons, 500-pound precision-guided bombs. they are being as precise as they can. isis fights like an army. an army with heavy weapons, heavier weapons than they've had and taking ground and oholding ground. nobody is talking about defeating but simply pushing them back a bit, if they can. this is an army, this is a group that is fighting something that al qaeda only could have aspired two years ago. al qaeda never got this far. anderson? >> startling to see how fast they are moving. the humanitarian air drops, have they continued today, as well? >> we had one overnight. it's very fair to say there will be additional air drops.

you can see from the video, the desperate, desperate need on that mountain top. a number of other international organizations exploring ways to see if there is any way they can get aid to the people. what we have learned is after that first air drop, the u.s. flew a drone to come to the a calculations if the pal lets of food and water got to the people. they flew the drone and looking at the footage, all of them did about nine pallets. so they are very confident they are able to drop parachute pallets of food, water and supplies in very precise locations to get to the people. this will have to continue. there may be 40,000 people stranded. they need a lot of help. >> then the question how did they get out of there and to safety in kurtish areas? let's go to ivan watson in the path of fighters.

what is the situation like on the ground now? >> reporter: well, the kurtish leadership is grateful thanking the u.s. for stepping in with air strikes, which are seen as helping to protect irbil after a shaky 24, 36 hours. the last 36 hours were much quieter and gave the peshmerga routed from towns and villages and prompting a wave of basically refugees flooding into the zone. this is given the kurtis kurtish peshmerga time to bolster defenses against militants located in some locations just about 35 minutes, 35 miles away from irbil, the capitol of the region. meanwhile, kurtish officials reeling from the wave of hundreds of thousands of

displaced iraqis that have flooded the kurtishs the tan region and i seen sad scenes at places like churches today, youth centers, anyplace possible that these hundreds of thousands of people are taking shelter. there are efforts to try to distribute water, distribute food to the people but what is saddest of all to see is that this enormous wave of humanity, none of the people that i've spoken with think they will ever get a chance to go back to their homes, in some cases locate 50, 60, 70 miles away. a real despair among them. what will you do with these people while also fighting the isis military front at the same time. >> well, i also understand about 4,000 of these trapped yezidis were able to escape to syria. what more do we know about that? >> well, the international rescue committee, it's an aid

organization says it has rushed medical assistance to around 4,000 of these yezidis who were able to escape from the mountain to neighboring syria to a kurtish controlled area where they were treated for dee hydration. it does appear according to the media that some kurtish fighters created a corridor to help thousands escape. it appears this daring operation has been helped by fighters from the workers party or pkk. they are labeled by the u.s. government as a ter trorist organization but they are working alongside the government to help free, to help some of their kurtish escape. so here you have a strange situation where you have the u.s. working to help stranded kurds, tens of thousands reported to be on this mountain

alongside a group that is labeled by the u.s. government as a terrorist organization. a strange situation to say the least, but uniting to help protect what is clearly a humanitarian catastrophe. officials telling me children and elderly to continue to die on the mountain day after day as they are exposed to the elements there and have a hard time reaching any kind of fresh water or food. >> all right. ivan, appreciate the update. the reality raises the possibility air power or kurtish may be enough to turn the tide. president obama made it clear, roc iraqis will have to win this. >> as commander in chief, i will not allow the united states to be dragged into fighting another war in iraq. as we support iraqis as they take the fight to toerrorists,

american combat will not return to iraq because there is no american military solution. >> what solution there is is not clear with war planes back from another raid and american advisors close to the front lines, the impulse to do more could grow stronger. jim sciutto has more and joins us. what did the obama administration say the main objective here is? >> as defined, anderson, two main objectives, one, protect and rescue the yezidi people who have been trapped. get them aid, protect them from a massacre, build a corridor to get them to safer ground. that's objective one. two, protect americans, not only in irbil but baghdad from the isis advance, the particular concern now, the isis advance on irbil. what is undefined is what does the u.s. do longer term? josh earnest, the white house spokesman referenced today somewhat obliquely a broader mission going forward. the president last night, as

well, talked about possible aid to the iraqis going forward as they stand up to this fight, but administration has not defined what that aid would be. >> right, and i mean, the bottom line problem is the iraqi military, largely because the upper echelon of the officer core is not able to stand up and fight despite the huge resources poured into it despite the overwhelmi overwhelmi overwhelming, without the iraqi military able to stand up, i don't see what exactly the end game is, obviously, then, the short term protecting these yizidis and american forces in irbil. >> the military cannot hold back advance let alone gain back territory. a good 40% of the country under the sway of isis. what do you do? you have powerful voices here in

washington, some in the democratic party. the chairman of the democratic chairman of the senate intelligence saying isis is an army. it needs an army to respond to it. she's calling for more american support, air strikes, et cetera to push them back, not just to keep to the two limited goals of protecting yezidis. administration saying there will be no mission creep. the only solution is an iraqi solution to the problem. >> some argue there has been mission creep, first the insertion of 500 or so american advisors, irbil was supposed to be safe. it seems like the u.s. is drawing the line of the kurtish north. they have an army that traditionally has been able to fight and they have been responsible ally to the united states. >> that's right. and there is mission creep even within the this very strictly defined mission. one is, what if other iraqi minorities come under threat of

massacre. you have hundreds, thousands of christians under threat. can't imagine leaving them in a similar situation as the yezidis are now. they want to hold back isis from making further progress but if you open a corridor, that might require air strikes, as well, and the u.s. said irbil is the priority now. if isis again threatens baghdad like it did weeks ago, the u.s. will have to act because you have hundreds of americans staffing both military advisors and embassy staff staffing there. even in this small strictly defined definition of the mission, there is potential for mission creep. it leaves open the question, anderson, that you raise, who will help the iraqis push back the isis advance. that's an open question. >> we heard nothing from european nations, gulf states, from other countries that could possibly also become involved here. jim sciutto, appreciate that.

for the concern about mission creep, one lawmaker took issue with president obama for in so many words ruling out mission creep. >> when the president says that we're not going to use -- we're not going to go beyond air strikes, i can't understand why a commander in chief would ever tell the enemy what we're going to do or not do. he can decide himself whether or not he wants to used a digs l force. >> president obama meeting in the oval office today seems to have gotten quiet support in both parties for hitting isis. he has not been seeking out legislation authorizing the force and lawmakers demanded he do so. we'll bring in jim acosta. the president announcing he had given authorization to the military to do the strikes for each new strike, does the military have to go back to the president or is this just an open-ended authorization? >> at this point, it's very open ended, anderson.

i heard from one deputy national security advisor, ben rods, who described this as a green light to conduct air strikes on one of two different targets if the case deems to be necessary, one target around irbil threatening american advisors and diplomats located in the capitol. it was isis shelling of the kur kurtish that prompted the air strikes. i should mention, anderson, you talk the about the yezidis. ben rhodes met to hear their concerns. the president is not authorizing each individual strike. he's making phone calls, talked with the king of jordan earlier today and members of the staff are reaching out to member the

of the yezidi community -- go ahead? >> is there a longer term strategy? i mean, i know i'm talking years but weeks or months, obviously, this is an emergency situation that the president felt it was in the u.s. interest to respond to both for american military personnel and other consular personnel in irbil and also protect the yezidis and christian minorities. is there a longer strategy here? i mean, youobviously, they woul like to see improvement of iraqi security forces. i assume there would be arming of forces that say they are out gunned. is this a whack a mole situation right now sgh it? >> it's starting to look that way. we heard conflicting statements. they said this will be limited in scope but at the same time, they are not putting a time frame on this. this is really an open-ended

military operation that the white house is conducting. they are not saying how far they are willing to go to put down the isis threat. the white house press secretary was asked whether or not they would be comfortable and they didn't answer the question. i think the preference would be for isis not to control any part of iraq but are not saying how far they will go. you mentioned the iraqi government. the white house, the president has been saying unless the iraqis can show the ability to form a unity government, president obama is just really not feeling it in terms of providing support, air support to the iraqis, but, now that that is starting to take shape, they are seeing signs of that. they feel like the air strikes aren't necessary. >> as long as there are military advisors on the ground in iraq and senior administration officials, i asked, are you willing to pull them out? they are not willing to do that as long as advisors are in iraq,

the president made it clear and josh earnest said they will not leave those soldiers in iraq without the protection of u.s. military air power, if it becomes necessary. as for winning the long battle against isis, the white house was clear today that is up to the iraqis. it's their job to settle. >> jim accoosta. a deeply problematic iraqi army and kurtish fighters seem to be getting pounded. we'll be right back.

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the uss george h.w. push in the persian gulf taking part in more air strikes. a second wave happening late today. isis fighters with a half-hours drive. sobering reports about the forces confronting isis on the ground. 150 peshemrga fighters. a discouraging picture. digging deeper with military analyst and retired u.s. air force rick francona and the recent author of "out of the mountains, the coming age of the urban gorilla." how effective are they to slow

down isis forces? >> they are effective in what they are doing but not enough to blunt the offensive. they are taking out small units, mortar positions, artillery pieces, several vehicles. i'm not sure that's going to blunt isis. they have a lot of equipment and vehicles. they can move quickly. >> they have tanks in some cases. >> they have not only tanks but m-1 tanks, u.s. made and a lot of the old russian-made tanks, as well. they can bring a lot to bear and quickly overwhelm what one carrier air wing could do. so there are other assets in the region, we may have to bring to bear on this. >> david, you say that the american air power totally changes the equation. how -- in what way do you think that changes it? >> well, as i think most will remember, we were the current

islamic state and they were operating as gorillas and moving around in civilian clothes with weapons in civilian weapons and would sneak around by night and plant bombs. what they have done since u.s. forces left iraq, they have been able to transform themselves into much more of a conventional army as we talk about tanks and technicals and so on and they have been operating in a much more conventional way. what gorilla warfare theoriests would call a war of movement. they swarm dozens of vehicles and attack them in broad daylight. you can do that when there is no air threat. as soon as there is an air threat, even if the strikes that have initially been launched haven't done a huge amount of damage physically to the movement, isis leaders have to sit down to say what do we need to do to make us survivable? we don't need to look like the

taliban in 2001 that operated the same way and lasted seven weeks. we don't want to look like the somali militia. there has to be some consideration of new tactics and possibly dropping back a stage to a more gorilla warfare approach and that will slow them down. >> you helped design the surge in iraq, especially in that, of course, was getting sunni groups which had been fighting against the united states this so-called sunni awakening, which involved in many cases paying the groups. those payments were stopped by the government of maliki. how important is it long term, not just this immediate crisis right now with the yezidis but how important is it to peel away the groups that have gone back and working in league with isis and is that possible given the leadership in baghdad? >> i think it's really important as you've noted, anderson, to

see that this intervention isn't really in support of the current government in baghdad and the u.s. has put some very strong conditions on the political requirements that will be needed before that kind of support would be forthcoming, which i think is very wise as a policy. i think rather, you should see this intervention as being in support of the kurdish regional government and peshmerga who is doing a good job dealing with isis. they have been fighting isis through a thousand kilometer front and groups from the syrian militia that's been fighting isis in syria who are engaged. so they are quite a competent military force that have just been over stressed in the last week or so by isis's growing strength and the way to think about this is unfortunately, people are recognizing that it may in fact be too far gone for

some tribes and trying to hold what remains in terms of a stable environment. >> and colonel, explain the risk for u.s. personnel in these aircrafts conducting these kind of operations. >> well, right now, they are staying above the threshold, if they are operating at 18,000 feet and using precision-guided weapons that's doable. if you provide close air support, you have to get down low and put yourself at risk. that's where you run the real problem. what happens if one aircraft gets shot down? do you rescue the pilot? you got to mound -- an operation that puts more americans at risk. so i think we have to realize that there are americans in combat. i think the government is playing with words when they say we're not putting boots on the ground but putting americans in harm's way.

same with the pilots dropping humanitarian relief supplies. they will be within the envelope. >> very briefly, can the iraqi military, i mean, a huge amount of money is poured into it, obviously, the leadership core that maliki put in, a lot of it these guys are appointees and don't have battle field experience or interest in protecting drops. is that solvable or throwing more money at it until there is a change of leadership in baghdad, is that worthwhile? >> i don't think so. i'm not necessarily a supporter of the administration but in this case, i think that the way that the obama white house approached this is exactly correct to say look, there are critical political requirements that have to be in place before, you know, there is any sense in supporting the iraqi military trying to push isis back. i think it's really important agreeing with him to recognize that as soon as this gets into a

serious fight, there will have to be joint terminal attack controllers as in u.s. guys controlling air strikes, either on the ground or they will have to be forward air controllers. the host -- the best example in iraq was 2008 during the battle and we required, you know, dozens of u.s. guys on the ground to end able forces to push back militants on the ground. so it's not a matter of just completely surgical and dudes in the air at 30,000 feet. >> appreciate it. thanks so much. appreciate it. isis brutality caught on tape and put online because isis wants it that way. it's part of the strategy. we'll dig into that ahead. you used to sleep like a champ.

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as u.s. air power begins to makes presence felt, isis is driving 700,000 iraqi christians from homes and yezidis on to a mountain top. it goes back to the early taliban in some respects and it has ambitions in the west.

[speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language]. >> here to talk about it, one of the longest-serving journalist on "iraq beat" and bob bear. isis fighters saying they will raise the flag. you said this is a kind of force that really has not faced before. >> yes, it is. we've heard this thing before from other groups, but this is a very different kind of group in that violence is directed at everybody including their fellow muslims and its the nature of the violence and the pure enjoyment they seem to take from

it. that is particularly blood curdling. >> you wrote something and said they are an unholy combination of al qaeda, boca haram and taliban. >> if you can think of evolution in terms of terrorism, this is a new evolved creature. it's specially monitorous. >> because of their brutality? >> brutality combined with efficiency and cold-bloodedness. this is a strange combination. >> some videos are almost like music videos. there is how production videos. >> they have media out reach, not through people like us but audience and a social media. their videos are high gloss and instruction videos how to decapitate a person with a real decapitation. that's the new level of horror,

the words just aren't adequate to express this. >> bob bear, you've seen a lot of brutality around the world up close firsthand. do you agree this is a level of which we haven't seen? >> bobby is absolutely right. we're seeing an efficiency in the group we've never seen in al qaeda. it's on par with hisbala and it's termed to reek havoc. >> the foreign fighters within isis, i mean, you know, it's easy to say they are a huge threat to the united states. we've yet to see that. this is this guy from florida in a suicide attack who "the new york times" reported came home to the united states before going back to syria and blowing himself up, but do you see this as kind of the wave of the future in terms of threats to

the united states, they have western passports, it's hard to track the guys sometimes? >> well, you know, anderson, the problem is a lot of people have been crying wolf about the second wave after 9/11 hitting the united states. let me tell you what i'm hearing locally. you know, there is supposedly 900 american passport holders fighting between syria and iraq who are supposedly ready to come home and fight within our boarders. that seems like a lot of people and i really doubt that number and reports out of mosul are conflicted, to say the least. i've also heard from law enforcement that there is a real problem of suspect isis members sneaking across the mexican boarder. these people don't have u.s. passports, of course, but the estimate is that they are intending to do harm in this country. i think the fact that isis is so efficient, they have efficient communications, a lot of money and they are very well-organized

and determined to hit the united states that i think we should consider that the threat has gone up significantly since this conflict has started and especially since this morning we supposedly hit a column in the open and killed a lot of isis members in iraq. >> do you agree that that, the u.s. conducting air strikes makes it the more likely that the u.s. will become a target? >> these people want to hit -- >> they don't need an excuse. >> exactly right. two things to consider, one, when we were hit in the homeland, it was not by people with american passports, so you don't need american passports to reek the havoc. what is an american target? when our embassies were hit in australia, africa, american -- >> uss cole. >> american target, a group of tourists a bunch of children on summer break. an american target can be widely defined and does not have to be america. >> bob bear, the problem of

tracking people, i mean, because these aren't people who are, you know, taking a plane from new york to -- they are going to turkey, lebanon, other countries. i would imagine for intelligence or westerners, once they have a passport, they can go anywhere in europe sgh arou. >> exactly. you take a taxi, walk across the boarder, in syria. you can disappear and move to iraq. it's open boarder, you can get to your training and i would like to say, bobby is right. we don't know where they will hit. it could be within the boarders or any target abroad. i just think that the more isis members we kill in air strikes, the more likely they will come back and hit us somewhere in the world. >> appreciate you being on. thank you. coming up, the gaza seize fire broke and no extension in

sight, the rocket hits and air strikes resume. next

. no extension for the broken mideast seize fire. the military says it carried strikes in at least 70 targets in response to at least 50 rockets fired in israel. a spokesperson says an israeli striking city killed a 10-year-old boy. a government spokesman joins me. so the egyptian foreign ministry says in a statement the negotiations so far yields what they said is quote the great majority of top picks of interest toestinians and the difference is a few limited points. is that your understanding? >> i'll afraid, anderson, i have to apologize, i can't go into diplomacy. i can say the following, those discussions were predicated on an agreement that violence ends,

in other words, we went to egypt and we'll not go back until the rockets stop. >> is there -- i mean, what -- to the claim by not just hamas but the rest of the palestinian groups that you were -- that israel was not being responsive, that really israel not was there to seriously negotiate. i mean, you had always talked about not just demilitarization of gaza but agreeing to some palestinian demands if there was a stable period of quiet but you would never specify publicly how long that period of quiet had to be. >> it's clear these negotiati s negotiations, if they ever resume will have to be done in discretion but the fundamental equation is clear. they end violence, no more rockets on israel, no more attacks by the sea or terror

tunnels. total sensation of all hostile activity from gaza against israel. and in return, israel can ease restrictions because if they are no longer hostile, we can have a more normal relationship. that is a frame work israel accepted. it's based on an end to violence and rocketing of our cities. if hamas isn't willing to do that, this process goes nowhere. it has to be based on a complete sensation of all attacks. israel won't go into those discussions until that stops and so the problem is hamas, are they willing to seize fire. >> the palestinians are speaking with one voice, we're on the same page here. do you believe that's true? do you believe that the palestinian authority, the plo, that they have control over the

military wing of hamas? >> i think you raised a good point to what extent. it's clear he doesn't speak for hamas and doesn't speak for the military wing and that's one of the issues here. i think internally, the majority of palestinians i believe were very critical of hamas for allowing seize fire to die for violating the seize fire and not extending it. i saw a survey, 92% of the people of gaza wanted the seize fire to continue. 92%. now that is amazing and it shows that ha hmas is out of touch. >> appreciate you being with us. thank you. >> my pleasure. hamas denies responsibility and says israel is trying to confuse the situation. chief palestinian negotiator joins me now. you say the palestinians speak with one voice, do you support

the fact that rockets were fired into israel two hours before the seize fire expired? >> no, anderson, no. we don't want the rocket to be fired. we want to sustain the seize fire. we want to extend the seize fire and exerting every possible effort to do that, and as i'm talking to you know, meetings are on going with our delegation in order to extend the seize fire, but at the same time, what people should note, anderson, is that the situation is very, very dire in gaza. people expect, you know, an immediate relief as far as electricity, running water, sewage not there, shelter is not there for 480,000 people. medical supplies for 10,000 wounded people in the hospitals. so i really uplifting and by air, by sea, by land and jordan and to allow israel seeing and

the needs for our people and at the same time i hope by tomorrow morning a formula. i really hope failure. >> i understand your position to maintain front as a palestinian group, are you upset at all or whoever it was. at the very least from a standpoint i don't understand if you are at a neg yaotiating tab how holding a gun to their head, firing rockets at the people you say you want concessions from, how that helps the negotiation. does it upset you at all that this occurred? >> well, you know that the whole idea was a 72-hours. it was not an open-ended seize fire. >> right, but it didn't last 72

hours -- >> wait now. it lasted 70 hours and we are going to hope, we hope it will last and will be open-ended. that's what we're doing. you have to understand the situation under ground is difficult. i want rockets not to be fired. i want israel to stop bombarding because i think six palestinians were killed today and that's not the point here. the point here is that the balance is between extending the seize fire and not allowing israel to use the medical supplies, food supplies, water, and electricity as instruments to pressure us in the negotiations. >> but again, i know you are in a very difficult position and there are many different factions in many different groups but it doesn't sound like that you speak for every body. there are certainly military actors on the ground in gaza who have a different of opinion that

are actsing no matter what negotiations are doing. >> you're right. there are political parties and factions and luckily we don't see with one eye and ear and spoke with one lips. we have differences. we do. at the same time, we have a common paper, hamas and this paper, i helped prepare it last week. >> that's the political wing of hamas, you keep talking about this common paper, a piece of paper doesn't seem to be stopping rockets from being fired from gaza. >> well, rockets firing from gaza, political leaders have a say. s they are saying a lot now. we haven't reached the level of perfection to have things come down in gaza. we're doing everything humanly

possible to get our act together, to sustain and extend the seize fire and i think it will help a great deal if the negotiating behavior will not employ medical supplies, electricity and water as instruments for the negotiating behavior. >> appreciate talking to you. thank you very much, sir. >> thank you. up next, breaking news in the fight against ebola. it's a global health emergency. a live update from the hot zone, next. that's keeping you from the healthcare you deserve. at humana, we believe the gap will close when healthcare gets simpler. when frustration and paperwork decrease. when grandparents get to live at home instead of in a home. so let's do it. let's simplify healthcare. let's close the gap between people and care.

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more breaking news tonight, the world health organization is against sounding the alarms about the ebola outbreak. the who is declaring it a public health emergency saying a coordinated international response is necessary to stop the spread of the disease. that's what is needed but it's not what the people of west africa are getting. david mckenzie is doing remarkable reporting from the ground and joins us now live. so the who declaring this health emergency. what is the reaction on the ground from that? >> reporter: well the ground reaction from doctors without boarders is one thing but what is needed is boots on the ground, people, knowledge and infrastructure. the latest news we have from here is yet another well-known physician at the pain referral hospital here has fallen sick, tested positive for the dreaded ebola virus, just another number

to the scores of health workers affected by the ebola virus in the last few weeks. it's a dire situation, it's good the who is taken seriously but they need words taken into action. >> what is it like being there? how concerned are people in the streets of there and elsewhere? >> reporter: it's what everyone is talking about. everything you hear is a positive sign, of course, and then you just see the situation that our hotel is practically abandoned when we've been out on the street we see charity workers trying to make their way out of the country in liberia, the u.s. embassy said family members should leave. there is a sense that these countries are being blockaded from without and within. hundreds of soldiers blockading the eastern part of sierra

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