overall too soon when bogart died from throat cancer in 1957. his parting words to her, good-bye, kid up. hurry back. somewhere bogey and bacall are whistling again together at last. i'll turn you over to wolf blitzer. he is next door in "the situation room." wolf? happening now, breaking news, the first images of a deadly helicopter crash in iraq underscoring the danger as the u.s. considers a daring rescue mission for thousands of refugees trapped by isis forces. cease-fire extended. israel and hamas have agreed to a five-day truce just as their last deal was about to expire and as sirens actually went off in israel. and hugging it out, hillary clinton about to make amends with president obama after slamming his foreign policy. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room."

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com we're following the breaking news including the worsening plight of tens of thousands of iraqi refugees stranded by isis forces. the united nations has declared the the situation the highest level of emergency calling it a humanitarian catastrophe and now the united states is considering mounting a massive rescue operation and that would mean more u.s. troops on the ground in iraq under the most dangerous conditions. we're also getting word of u.s. airstrikes against isil militants. we have complete coverage with all of our breaking news with our correspondents and special guests here in washington and around the world. let's begin with the pentagon correspondent barbara starr. what are you finding out, barbara, first of all, about a possible u.s.-led rescue mission? >> well, wolf, and, you know, that is unfolding at this hour. let me bring everybody quickly up-to-date. there has been another u.s.

airstrike and another u.s. drone struck an isis position west of singar. that is pretty interesting because it is on sinjar mountain that the focus is on ia rescue operation for what may be up to 20,000 people still stranded on the mountaintop. u.s. officials say president obama could have options to begin to look at within 48 hours. that does not mean a rescue mission will be under way in 48 hours, but they are beginning to assess the situation. two options remain on the table. basically, there are only two ways out of there, either by ground over transport vehicles or by air. some officials are saying the air option may look better at this point. it is quicker. some of those people are in such desperate shape they may not be able to make a long journey over land, but there is a lot of work to be done to figure out how to do this. how many people are exactly there. what will it take, where will it take them? what refugee camp, what u.n.

camp in the region will take these people once they're brought off the mountain? all of this remains to be worked out, but and they also, of course, want international help. they want the kurds, the iraqis and other countries to weigh in and assist with all of this, but this is going to be problematic and it's only the u.s. military that's going to have the muscle power to generate the aircraft to undertake a large evacuation from the mountain and that means one way or the other, u.s. boots on the ground. they may not be in the combat role. the white house says they are not putting u.s. troops back into a combat position, but make no mistake, there will be u.s. troops there and they will have the right to defend themselves if isis comes after them. that could -- that could well qualify as combat. the u.s. says they're not looking for it, but it may result in there. >> if it's by air, by helicopter or aircraft, is there a landing strip on top of that mountain?

that's the reconnaissance work that has to be done right now, wolf, to go up there at some point and look at what the situation is, and it appears to be fairly flat, enough of an area to land helicopters, to land v-22 aircraft because we have seen, of course, the iraqis and the kurds land helicopters up there over the last couple of days to toss out some aid and bring people onboard in very small numbers, but they're going to have to be a real understanding of how the u.s. military might do that and i think it's very fair to say that's one of the reasons you may have to have some u.s. troops on that ground on top of that mountain. they are going to have to secure it, and they'll have to keep this process orderly. these people are desperate. they've been rushing every helicopter that comes up there. so if the u.s. military will land helicopters on top of this mountain it is going to take some security element on the ground possibly beyond the iraqis and peshmerga fighters, some u.s. personnel to secure

that mountaintop. >> barbara starr at the pentagon. thanks, barbara, very much. it would be very dangerous. they have shoulder-fired, anti-aircraft missiles and they could be very vulnerable. the highest level of emergency. our senior international correspondent ivan watson is joining us from northern iraq. you've been to the area. what will it take to save thousands and thousands of these people? >> reporter: well, as barbara was just saying there is no kind of organization on the ground on that mountain for the people there. it's -- the description we heard from people is that every time a chopper would come they would rush it and many describe how they failed to get onboard and it was really first come, first serve and the situation up there

is so dire that people are sharing what water they have with bottle caps, pouring a little bit of water into that and sharing it and saving their food and water for their children first so people up there are desperate. there is more food and water arriving as we've seen, but certainly, you would need some kind of security force to organize these desperate people some of whom have watched their loved ones die as a result of dehydration and exposure to the extreme august heat, but presumably if u.s. forces were to be there, they could do that. let's add another factor that's important to consider. one of the military forces that has been active there helping the desperate, trapped yazidis is the kurdistan workers party. every survey offer i've talked to says that it is those militants who have protected them and brought them supplies that they shipped over land. the u.s. government officially

labels the kurdistan workers' party or pkk a terrorist organization because it has been fighting against the american nato ally turkey for 30 years. so u.s. forces would presumably have to coordinate on that mountain with pkk fighters that their government considers terrorists, may have to waive that considering how many thousands of people the tp cashing k have saved off that mountain over the course of the last nine desperate days. >> that's a major, major cop mrication. what about the iraqi military helicopter that crashed yesterday. we know it was trying to save people and new york times reporter e lisa rubin wassy is varily injured in the crash. what's the the latest? >> we know that it happened, the crash happened after it took passengers onboard, after it took these frightened civilians who have been trapped in such terrible conditions there and

from our experience flying on one of those helicopters, it was clear that they were making multiple flights a day. they were sucking dust into their engines and some of the pilots had told us that they were having some malfunctions with at least one of the aircraft and so overloading the aircraft and engine malfunctions led to that crash. they're lucky that it didn't get very high off the ground and that there was only one fatality, the pilot, the iraqi general who was killed on this heroic mission. wolf? >> ivan watson, you had been in a similar military helicopter just the day before. they've been airlifted to an american hospital and she's in an intensive care unit right now. ivan, thank very much for your reporting. meanwhile, another chilling development. a top isis commander tells cnn his forces are holding more than

100 yazidi women and children who were taken after many of their men of their town were simply massacred. our senior international correspondent nick paton walsh is in baghdad. what do we know, nick? >> reporter: it is limited what this isis commander was willing to confirm, but it is the first confirmation we're aware of of isis saying they have at least 100 women and children who were, they say, taken to mosul. not saying precisely which location or locations in mosul, but after their militants have entered the town of sinjar and killed in their words, a large number of the men there, they're now saying that these women and children are, quote, being called upon to convert to islam. that is common when isis take people that consider to be infidels into detention and they often give them a chance and a window to convert to their way of thinking and if they don't do

that significantly worse consequences and deeply chilling to hearing isis openly admitting to the fact they have an unspecified number that's greater than a hundred women and children in their custody, wolf? >> the whole nature of what's going on in baghdad now is pretty murky. is nuri al maliki going to step, walk away quietly? will he organize some sort of coup? what's the latest of that front? so much of the u.s. policy in iraq depends on some sort of stable government that tries to bring unity to all of the various factions. >> reporter: wolf, absolutely. the writing is on the wall for nuri al maliki, from united states to paris are echoing that, but waiting for his final word to step back from power is a state of real affair right now, wolf? >> nick paton walsh reporting

for us from baghdad. thanks very much. we'll get back to you. coming up, we'll talk about the breaking news with the deputy state department spokeswoman, she is here with me in "the situation room" and we're watching the breaking news in the middle east where the cease-fire between israel and hamas has just been extended, we hope. we'll go there live.

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we're following the breaking news. the united states now considering a massive rescue mission to save tens of

thousands iraqi minorities after fleeing isis forces. adding to the crisis, a power struggle where prime minister nuri al maliki is resisting efforts to replace him despite his waning support. let's talk with the deputy state department spokeswoman marie, thanks very much for coming in. >> happy to be here. >> is nuri al maliki the longtime prime minister going to go quietly into the night? will he resist? will the new prime minister-elect or designate hader al arc bad abadi, what do we know? >> first,s it is never quiet. we never expected this to be a process that would move forward without any complications, but what's important is that there is a council of representatives speaker, there is a prime minister and now we have a prime minister designate who has broad support including from prime minister's maliki's own party in

parliament a am. we hope that process will continue, but they are on track here, wolf to have a new government in place, an inclusive one very shortly. >> he says, nuri al maliki, his word, conspiracy against him and he will resist. what happens if he does? >> we've heard words like this before from prime minister maliky and what we're focused on is the process that's under way. al abadi has a lot of support and we're hoping that process moves forward and we know there is a path forward for the iraq toy come together and given this incredibly urgent to form a government quickly to move forward in fighting against isil. >> the the immediate need is to rescue the thousands and thousands of people who are stranded on this mountain, the religious minority. >> absolutely. what does that stand from the u.s. perspective right now. >> the president authorized a group of 130 advisers to go in and assess the best and safest

way to get these people off of the mountain because dropping food and water is not a long-term solution here. those advisers are on the ground and will make assessments given how urgent the situation is and he'll be making decisions about the best way to do this. we have unique capabilities we can bring to bear and when there is the situation approaching genocide we're going to do so. we're going to help here. >> these 129 advisers, military -- mostly marines and special operations, they'll go on top of this mountain and take a look and see if there is a landing strip and if there is an area of u.s. military aircraft and planes can actually land and start taking these folks out of there? >> they're going to be doing a full assess am of what the best way to do that might be and they'll be looking at possible airlift routes and they'll be looking at land corridors. they'll be looking at all of this and they'll be looking at the surveillance and reconnaissance we have of the area and i would point out that the strikes, the kinetic action the u.s. has taken around the

mountain over the past 36 to 48 hours has helped set the stage for a possible rescue mission here. it's been really successful in hitting isil around the mountain. how much of a complication is the fact that this one group of kurdish fighters and the pkk is listed by the state department as a terrorist organization even though they are deeply involved in saving lives right now. how much of a problem is that for the u.s.? >> what we've been focused on is working with the peshmerga and security forces who are deeply engaged and we are bringing unique capabilities to bear and this is a team effort here and we need to figure out the best way to solve this immediate crisis on the mountain and also work with them on a long-term strategy to fight isil. >> the current peshmerga fighters, will you provide weapons to them directly? >> it's all coordinated and right now the central government in iraq is providing their own weapons to the the kurds. we're working to find our own weapons and our own stockpiles in coordination with the iraqi

government, but to be able to do that directly, as well, just given that it needs to get to them quickly. we need to see how much we can get to them again, as quickly as possible and we're all working together. >> you want to cooperate with the peshmerga. >> absolutely. >> they need more than just ammunition. if they're going to fight these isis forces which are well armed and they have armored personnel carriers and battle tanks stolen from the iraqi military, they can't compete with the state of the art military equipment unless the u.s. provides similar stuff to the peshmerga. >> or the iraqi security forces. >> let's be honest. they're america ia and missing in action. >> well, they deserted their bases. >> and they left tons of stuff. >> they saw a few isis guys coming in and they put their hands up and ran away. >> i think they had a very challenging situation a few months ago when they first confronted this threat and in all fairness some of the best units have gotten back on their feet and one thing that is a good sign and could be very good going forward is the iraqi

security forces have been working with the kurdish forces in a way they never had before. really unprecedented in iraq here and they are fighting this threat together. we hadn't seen the iraqi security forces providing air support to the kurds giving them ammo. there's something that shows there is an inclusive way forward. >> and you heard the report that these isis militants, terrorists, whatever you want to call them, they've abducted a hundred women and children, these yazidis, killed men and taken the women and children and basically making the women sex slaves unless they concert to their brand of islam. what do you know about this? >> we are looking into this situation and this is the latest in a long line of a nilistic actions this group has taken. not only are they trying to take territory with heavy weapons about we're pushing back on and they're terrorizing whole populations, not just yazidis, but kurds, shia, moderate

sunnis, the strikes around erbil, we are working with the iraqis on a long-term counterterrorism strategy to take up their leadership and cut off their funding and take apart their operational capabilities so they can't terrorize iraqis and let's be clear. this is a tough challenge and they were able to flourish in syria and they're a tough group to fight right now, but we will help the iraqis do that. >> what do we know about the cease-fire extension between israel and hamas. >> we are getting reports from our team on the ground that there may be an extension and we're awaiting final confirmation on that, and that's what we want to happen so we can continue working toward a sustainable cease-fire so eventually we can help rebuilding gaza and israel won't be a threat from these rockets anymore. our team is still there. >> your team, your team in cairo. >> they're participating or just observing. >> they're somewhat in the middle there. they ort ground advising the parties if they can provide help

had. obviously, we don't talk to hamas, but they've been on the ground monitoring and advising if there is a role the u.s. can play. we are not a direct party to the negotiations. the the egyptians have playeda i key, crucial role here in getting the parties to the table and hopefully if the reports are true. >> we know the prime minister of israel had a conversation with the president of the united states. has the secretary of state directly, i know he's coming back to the united states. he's in hawaii right now. >> he is. >> has he been involved at all behind the scenes? >> he spoke with prime minister netanyahu yesterday and the day before and has talked to a number of israeli officials over the past few days and he's been deeply engaged on the israeli side in helping to get them to a place where they can accept a cease-fire and that was always at the forefront of the secretary line. >> there is a five-day extension and we hope that happens and there have been any progress that hamas wants and the palestinian delegation wants and what the israelis want? >> wolf, that's what thir

working on in cairo right now. an extension of the humanitarian cease-fire is good and what we want to see is the sustainable cease-fire that addresses the issues that we're talking about. that's really what we need to see and they need to begin rebuilding gaza and move forward here in a different way. >> marie is the deputy spokeswoman at the state department. thanks very much. >> thank you, wolf. coming up, we'll have more on the breaking news in the middle east. israel's iron dome intercepts a rocket just as a truce expires and we're going live to jerusalem and to gaza for much more. later this hour, the shocking end to an exotic vacation as authorities in bali find a u.s. woman's body stuffed in a suitcase. stay with us. you're in "the situation room." [ brian ] in a race,

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following the breaking news in the middle east where it's just past midnight. the truce between israel and hamas. the palestinians just announced that the peace talks in egypt need more time. let's get the very latest starting with cnn's john vause in jerusalem. what is the latest as far as an extension of the cease-fire? >> reporter: nothing official coming from the israeli side. everything coming from the palestinians saying that that humanitarian cease-fire which has been under way for 72 hours will be extended for five more days, and as you say, wolf, that cease-fire deadline just came 20, 30 minutes ago. now before that deadline there was rocket fire coming from gaza according to the israeli military in the two and a half hours leading up to the

deadline. five rockets were fired from gaza into israel and most of them landing in empty areas causing no death, no damage. no one was hurt, but of course, this now is a very difficult, political calculation for the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu. when we thought it was just one rocket fire from gaza into israel. a source told me they could move on from that and they didn't could what was going on. it could be a different calculation and benjamin netanyahu under a lot of political pressure from within his own government about accepting this cease-fire deal and we have not heard a word from the israelis. so what is the calculation here? will they accept this five-day deal? we'll have to wait and see, wolf. >> it's a half hour after the 72-hour cease-fire ended and it's about 12:30 a.m. over there. john vause, stand by. i want to go to gaza. cnn's fred pleitgen is standing there.

we saw the iron dome interceptor rocket and you heard five rockets have come in. what is the latest over there? what are you hearing and what are you seeing, fred? >> hi, wolf. at this point in time it seems to be fairly quiet. the mood here is one that is still very tense here on the ground. as you said, we did about an hour ago see the the iron dome intercept a rocket that was coming here. it was actually right over my shoulder where you being hear the boom of the rocket outgoing and then you could see that typical sign of the iron dome interceptor firing up like a fireball and you see and hear theec mroegz in the sky. it seemed as though that rocket was going to the ashkelon region. one rocket was picked off and as john was saying it's not the only one. we heard another rocket outgoing earlier today and got confirmation from the israeli defense forces that that rocket had hit in hoff ashkelon in

southern israel on the border with gaza. so right now gaza is waiting to see whether or not there will be some sort of israeli retaliation for all of this, but certainly it is something that makes everything more difficult here on the ground, wolf. >> it would be encouraging if they could implement a five-dayec tension of the cease-fire. fred pleitgen in gaza, john vause in jerusalem, we'll stay in close touch with both of you. coming up, hill rae clinton says she's looking forward to hugging it out with president obama when they see each other tonight on martha's vineyard. their first meeting since she slammed the foreign approximately see and the latest on uproar and fallout when we come back. so i can reach ally bank 24/7, but there are no branches?

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political eyes right now on martha's vineyard wherehillary clinton and president obama will be face-to-face. tonight it seems all will be forgiven. let's bring in our senior political correspondent brianna keilar. she's working the story and we're hearing a little bit from hillary clinton right now. >> we did. we heard from her, wolf, ahead of her book signing. she was concerned enough about this appearance of a rift with president obama to address this before this event on martha's vineyard and this is a book tour, but it's not all about selling books. this was also hillary clinton's chance to show that she's ready to run for president and what we've learned instead is that she needs a lot of work.

>> reporter: the most anticipated hug in american politics. no, not those, a hug still to come tonight on martha's vineyard. >> great to see you all. >> where hillary clinton is holding a book signing today and will meet up with president obama at a party tonight as he vacations on the island. >> are you going to hug it out with the president? >> absolutely. we're looking forward to it. we'll be there tonight. >> that after clinton secured the president's foreign policy in an interview with the atlantic. it prompted an uproar from liberal activists and obama supporters alike and an apology phone call from clinton. foot president indeed appreciated secretary clinton's call as he appreciates any opportunity to chat with the secretary of state. they have a close and resilient relationship. >> it's not the first coming up on clinton's book tour and arc parent rehearsal for a presidential campaign. >> we came out of the white house not only dead broke, but in debt.

>> right out of the gate she seemed out of touch lamenting her family's struggle to pay mortgages, plural. those comments dogged her for weeks as she struggled to explain herself in introduce, even before the book was out back in march, she described vladimir putin's actions in ukraine to hitler's in the 1930s and quickly back peddled. >> i'm not making a compare son, certainly, but i am recommending that we perhaps can learn from this tactic that has been used before. >> but today, given the chance to dig herself deeper, clinton declined. >> thank you. >> is he handling the situation in iraq right now. >> i'm excited about signing books. >> excited about signing books there, and we have learned, wolf, that this hug tonight which is in a private party at martha's vineyard. it's not expected to be on

camera. we won't see it and we do expect it to happen and hillary clinton in the white house says both are eager to put this behind them. >> i suspect both will have a camera there and put it on social media and we'll see a little picture at least a still photo, if not a little video of the hug that we're all waiting for. brianna, stand by. i want to bring in gloria borger is there a the pattern where hillary says something and she'll try to clean it up. >> i think hillary clinton is a probable presidential candidate who many people are saying, you know what? you have to be more authentic. if you behave as the person we know you to be the american public will embrace you and i think in this interview as she did in a couple of other interviews in her efforts to appear more authentic she stepped in it and she went a step too far. it's well known to all of us that she and the president has had some distance on syria policy. they disagree, obviously, over -- over whether arming the syrian rebels would have stopped

isis, but when she said, you know, that don't do stupid stuff is not an organizing principle for a foreign policy, i think that took it to a level of insubtle insulting the president of the united states. i am told that he doesn't take this stuff personally, but people around him do. >> how concerned are her advisers about this because you speak to them, brianna, all of the time. >> i think they had a pretty bad week this week. i think what they're focused on is not making any news. i think that they initially, i think her intention was not to make news on this in this interview with "the atlantic". >> why would she give an interview like that for a major magazine. >> i think she was trying to talk about foreign policy and the transcript which many people have not read the entire transcript and you read the pullouts of it. she does go on and it certainly is, there is more nuance in

there where she starts to say this is more of a political message than it is the governing premise behind his foreign policy, but it's just too late. she sort of buries the lead and comes out with something very blunt and that was the problem there. at this point her team is concentrating on not making news and putting this behind them and that's why you saw them come out on martha's vineyard and when she was asked about his iraq policy. >> if this were a calculated, political move, by the way, to her advantage in a democratic primary against someone who would clearly be running to her left, this had is not exactly what she would say because this reminds everybody that she is more hawkish than the president is on foreign policy, and so i think, you know, this was clumsy. she's been clumsy as brianna points out on the book tour so far. she's rusty and clearly she is distancing herself from the president to a degree on foreign policy, but i don't think it's

because he's at 30% in the polls or 36% of the polls because he's actually pretty popular with the base of the democratic party which by my last calculation she has to win with if she's going to get the nomination. >> when it comes to foreign policy her job approval number is with 36%, 37% according to the nbc/wall street journal poll which is not very good. the fact is she's trying if you read maureen dowd from "the new york times", and other columnists. because his numbers are so low, she wants to distance herself from the president. >> i don't really know -- at some point she is going to do that. i think we know that. she has to and in some ways, but in this sense she felt that syria it's on the record. they have very differing views on this. i think she felt like it was a safe spot. she kind of relaxed and she stepped in it, but i also think, i've been talking to a lot of democrats today, and i think the feeling there is, okay, yes.

what has all of this revealed? she is rusty, as you mentioned. she has a lot of work to do. she has these weaknesses and sort of what they would say is you had these lemons, make some lemonade. you have a couple of years here and you have to figure out how to fix the problems and the republicans are seeing openings. let's look at this and not just these comments, but the comments about her wealth. three months ago if you'd said to republicans do you think hillary clinton's wealth would be a big issue, i don't know if they would have thought it is. >> this is somebody who has been saying i don't participate in politics. i'm secretary of state. now she's in the political arena. she's clearly trying to sell books, but she is somebody that people have criticized for not being herself. she happens to be married to, like, the best politician we've ever seen in our lifetime. she is not a natural transactional politician in the way that bill clinton is, and as we've seen on this book tour,

she's either rusty or she'll have to go back to being scripted because she creates problems for herself. >> gloria borger, brianna keilar, thanks very much. we'll see if she does that hug later and we'll see if someone tweets a picture or whatever and we'll show it to our viewers. in the next hour of "the situation room," we'll catch up with the girl who has become the face of the refugee crisis in iraq. an exotic location, an upscale hotel and the body in a suitcase followed by a shocking arrest. stay with us.

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breaking news about the deployment of special forces in iraq. let's go straight to our pentagon correspondent barbara

starr. >> cnn has confirmed and learned, in fact, that about a dozen or so u.s. special forces have spent the last 24 hours on the mountain in iraq where about 20,000 people are trapped and the u.s. is now con ttemplating rescue mission. the u.s. special forces went there about 24 hours ago, spent overnight there to assess the situation to try and get a fix on how many people are there, what the ground looks like, could they land helicopters there, how would they get people down off the mountain, exactly what the situation is. i want everybody to know that cnn was aware of this information 24 hours ago, but we made a decision o to withhold it out of concern when u.s. officials asked to us withhold it until the troops were off the mountain. they were picked up a short time ago by u.s. helicopters. there's a good deal of concern and uncertainty about the

security situation there so they wanted us to withhold it and not reveal what we knew for the last 24 hours out of concern for the security of the u.s. special forces that went there. they went from erbil. it is public knowledge. that's where the u.s. sent additional forces to conduct this assessment. but the forces are particularly trained to go into uncertain situations like the mountain top, have a look around, see what's going on and come back and report what they found there, whatever they have learned will be formed the basis for the eventual recommendations to president obama about the best way forward. they are the first american eyes substantively to have a look at the top of that mountain. >> i know you're working your sources. we're going to get back to you at the top of the hour. you'll get more information. thank you very much. a dozen special forces out of

that area. standby for more information. in the meantime, there's another story we're following. it's a bizarre story. a chicago area family's getaway into bahly ending shockingly. >> new information tonight on this horrifying case in indonesia. we're learning domestic problems that could have culminated in the murder of a 62-year-old american woman and shocking images of what the perpetrators did with the body. >> reporter: a grotesque discover brings strong suspicious of a an american woman. the body of the 62-year-old was found stuffed inside this suitcase. >> from the existing wound, we found that the victim was hit by a blunt object on her face and

fore head. >> reporter: in custody shs the victim's daughter and the daughter's boyfriend, the couple told police an armed gang took them cap ty and killed sheila. they said they escaped, but they are skeptical. authorities flagged down the couple at the hotel. police showed this frame grab of video that shows the couple talking to the driver. the driver says they placed the suitcase in the trunk. then the couple went back into the hotel and disappeared. according to police, they were later found at another hotel six miles away. >> both suspects were sleeping when we arrested them. >> reporter: the daughter and her boyfriend were not immediately named as suspects, but there's history of conflict in the family. in their hometown in illinois, officials say police were called to her home 86 times between 2004 and 2013. most of the calls were for domestic trouble. there's no records, but back in bali, there's mounting evidence. the forensic doctor says the

body had bruises on both wrists, at least one broken finger and fingernail. >> i really believe that evidence of struggle. both hands are involved. there's substantial force involved such as a broken nail and broken bone. >> reporter: a top forensic pathologist says by stuffing the body in the suitcase, they created a second crime scene. >> they are folding up the body. now blood can be distributed, disseminated more widely. they are putting their hands all over furniture or things trying to get the body into the case. >> a lawyer apointed for the couple says the daughter did not want to comment on the incident and didn't give any information. he said she kept asking to be represented by an attorney from the u.s. wolf? >> additional details on the victim and her daughter. >> a long-time family friend

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we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> this is cnn breaking news. let's get right to the breaking news tonight. american boots on the ground in the dangerous humanitarian crisis zone in northern iraq. we're learning more about the assessment of trapped refugees. this as president obama is deciding to order a rescue mission. he's exploring options for evacuating tens of thousands of members of a religious minority group targeted by isis and threatened with potential genocide. it shows an iraqi military aid helicopter that crashed. the pilot was killed and several were injured including rescued refuge refugees, a lawmaker and "new york times" journalist. correspondents are standing by covering the breaking news in iraq in the united states and

around the world. let's go to our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. she's got new information for us first. >> wolf, at this hour, more than one dozen u.s. special forces are now off the mountain. they have spent the last 24 hours on that mountain quietly and covertly looking around, getting a picture of what is going on. they were taken to the mountain about 24 hours ago. these special forces have looked to see to try and determine how many people are there, what the lay of the land is, what the terrain is to begin to o get some firsthand eyes on information for the united states about what would be involved in a rescue mission. whether it is done by air or by land, the u.s. had to put some number of small number of troops on the ground to get the firsthand look. we are confirm iing they left t mountain a short time ago. the reason we're telling you this is cnn has known this information for the last 24 hours.

but at the request of u.s. military officials, we withheld it while the u.s. forces were on top of that mountain for the last 24 hours. they were in a very uncertain situation. there was a lot of concern about their safety, about anybody really finding out who they were and that they were there. once it was confirmed to us that they were off the mountain and picked up by a helicopter and taken off the mountain, we were then made the decision to go ahead and report that information. it's just one indicator of how uncertain the situation is and how much more the u.s. needs to figure out about what is going on on that mountain and it starts with what they hope is the information they were able to gather about how many people are really there. >> the special operations forces clearly they were in harm's way. is it fair to say, and i think it is, that these were u.s. boots on the ground on top of this mountain. >> wolf, to the best of anybody's knowledge, this is the first time american troops have

set foot on top of mount sinjar. the question that everyone is asking, does this mean boots on the ground mean combat? there are already some 800, 900 boots on the ground, military personnel in iraq doing a number of jobs. none of them in very secure positions in iraq. there's a lot of unrest there. so there's a lot of concern about everybody's security in iraq. but this was a first, this was the first time u.s. special forces went to the top of mount sinjar. they had every right to defend themselves. they did not. >> barbara, standby. retired u.s. army, former nato allied commander is with us as well. you have let's say 10,000, 20,000 of these refugees on top of this mountain. you have seen the pictures. the u.s. military mission, save these people before they are

slaughtered by these isis terrorists. you can either get a convoy up there, some sort of secure land route or helicopter them out of there. what do you do? >> you really come up with several options. call them continue sis. we have done this before. we have done evacuation of nine combatants from just about every country in africa and elsewhere. we know how to do this. there are risks involved. the assessment being made by the troops, i u wouldn't call them boots on the ground if we're going to put in 200,000 troops, but it's an assessment that's made. stop the dying. here to save the individuals up there, they will do the planning, they will either take them back to a base in turkey or elsewhere, but we know how to do this. >> it's a dangerous mission. >> of course, it's dangerous. every time you put troops in an

area like iraq, it's dangerous. isis may take advantage of it. i would keep all options on the table here. i wouldn't telegraph what we're going to do if we can avoid it. but i think we can do this. and what we need to get is clarity in terms of exactly what you want that force to do. >> barbara, underscore what you told our viewers and you were very transparent. we have known about this at cnn for 24 hours. we withheld the information at the request of the u.s. military because they were concerned that if we broadcast that information, isis forces would know a dozen or so special operation forces were on top of this mountain and the fear was what? >> look, wolf, unlike so many american television news networks, we know here at cnn we are broadcasts, we are seen around the world. we are seen in some very sketchy places around the world. so there's always concern. it's a bit of a different situation for cnn because of our

worldwide reach. and so when i first learned this information about 24 hours ago, my sources, u.s. military officials said hold on to it. those people are up there. the essential forces on are on the mountain. we don't want anybody figuring out that they are there. we need to keep them safe. they don't know what they were walking into. but this is what special forces do. this is what we have seen u.s. command units do for years now around the world. from going and rescuing bowe bergdahl from taliban to osama bin laden's compound to terrorism raids in africa, these are the people in the u.s. military that walk right into the middle of it. when we found this out, we agreed we didn't want to do anything to put them at peril. one of the biggest issues in any rescue mission, you can get these people off the mountain, but what the u.s. is wrestling with, where do you take them

next? you have to have enough security to transport them to a u.n. refugee camp, to somewhere across the border in syria or northern iraq. you have to take them somewhere. many of these people are said to be in failing medical condition, failing medical health. so the clock is ticking. and right now what they hope to do is get some initial options to president obama in as soon as 48 hours. it doesn't mean a mission would start in 48 hours, but get some options to him and put some shape to this thing. >> i want you to standby. i want to go to the middle east right now. elsewhere in the middle east, i should say. the israeli military says it's targeting various target sites. let's go to gaza with more. what's going on right now? the cease-fire ended about an hour or so ago. we assumed it was going to be extended. there was reports it would be extended for five days. what's the very latest?

>> reporter: well, the cease-fire is still in place. there are several smaller breaches of that cease-fire which doesn't mean it's not still in effect. what we saw earlier today, we were talking about this in the last hour, there were outgoing rockets from gaza. we saw at least one that was fired leer from our position that was intercepted. the defense forces are saying several others were fired as well. now what we're hearing and seeing is limited retaliatory action from the israelis. we're hearing jets over in the skies and also seeing impacts here. there were at least four strikes that we have seen from the israel defense forces. the palestinians television confirmed two strikes. both of these strikes were in open fields. however, these open fields are some of them have in the past been used to launch rockets from.

it seems as though the israeli air force is going after these rocket launching sites here, especially to the east of gaza from where pretty much exact ly the position we saw the one rocket that was launched and intercepted by the iron dome. so the israeli defense forces are in the air over gaza right now. it seems as they are conducting operations. they seem very limited and seem to be limited to, wolf, the rockets launching sites that were used today in the strikes that were aimed at israel from gaza. >> i want to go to jerusalem right now. john, what the israelis say five hamas rockets came into israel. the iron dome intercepted. one of them heading to a populated area. we're seeing airstrikes going after i assume the launchers. some other limited strikes going on now. what are they saying where you are in jerusalem?

>> they are confirming that now carrying out strikes in gaza in response to the rocket fire, which came from gaza two and a half hours before that cease-fire officially came to an end. that's when it started. it went right up until the midnight deadline. they are carrying out military operations. the question now is how can that be a cease-fire with both sides firing at each other. it clearly there does seem to be a violation by the militants in gaza. they say the israelis violated the cease-fire hours before by opening fire on palestinian fishermen. israelis breached warning shots only. but the cease-fire does seem to be violated two and a half hours before the deadline. and now the israelis are responding. what is really striking right now, we have heard from the palestinians saying this five-day cease-fire is now an hour or so, but the silence

coming from the israeli side is deafening. not a word. everyone we have contacted refusing to give us any indication of where the israelis stand right now. we're still waiting to hear where things stand with that five-day extension. >> the israelis have told me qui quiet, no more rockets or missiles coming out of israel. maybe that's why they are not saying anything right now. this is an extremely sensitive moment. i want both of you to standby. our global affairs correspondent jim sciutto. you have been getting some information from your sources that there's been an kbraemt for all practical purposes for a five-day extension. is that right? >> even as you saw the rockets coming into israel and the

israelis start ing ing to fall egyptian officials told me and there has been an announcement by the government of a five-day extension of the cease-fire. the israelis were saying this is one or two rockets. we don't know what this is about, but maybe we can live with one or two. there was a desire for everybody even if they weren't going to announce it to keep going, the concern is that if they become a retaliatory situation where hamas in response to these airstrikes continues to launch the rockets. then you get back to the cycle. that's what they have been trying to do in kentuccairo. start a cease-fire. keep extending it while they have these underlying issues addressed so they can continue with the cease-fire and bridging proposals have been presented. discussions have been very difficult. both sides staking out positions. the question is will this recent bout of retaliatory measures have it all fall apart? >> this is a dangerous situation

we're watching. you want to weigh in as a military expert? >> we have been going through this for decades. it goes back and forth. who is willing to take some risks for peace? that's going to be the challenge here. i hope this cease-fire holds. it's incumbent upon both sides that egypt is playing a good role, but the united states has to play a role as well. >> let's get back to iraq right now. we know these dozen or so u.s. special operations forces are out of the area where there are thousands refugees, these minority group who are stranded up there. they are out doing an assessment for the president. we have been talking a lot about what's called mission creep. all u.s. forces were supposed to be out of iraq a couple years ago. then it's going up 300, now another 100. special operations forces have been deployed to erbil. there's about a thousand u.s. troops, military personnel in

iraq right now. >> the administration is using a fairly narrow definition of what a combat troop is. they are saying they will not be involved in operations, but they are in danger. that's one reason they did not report that the special forces were on top of the mountain. if you're talking about an air or ground i vascularuation of thousands of people from a war zone, you're going to need boots on the ground again to discuss where you're going to land the planes, to secure the sites and the airfield where the planes la land. that puts those troops into harm's way, to some degree. they are not combat troops, but they are troops in danger. that's a measure of what mission creep is as well. even though they are under strictly defined objectives, the risk profile is gradually rising. >> the ground troops that the u.s. has in iraq right now, they

may not be engaged in combat. but the u.s. navy and air force pilots who are dropping 500-pound laser-guided bombs, my definition, that sounds like combat to me. >> it's combat. and what we're trying to do is littled objectives, protect the civilians. if there is a retrograde of those that some are by air or land, you're going to have a full array of forces, air, land, sea, intelligence assets all overhead assessing the situation. we are doing that right now. there's a lot of stuff in the air. and i think that's what my old position that's what we would be doing right now. >> i can understand we used to fly over that. you get a sense of what's going on, but there's nothing like sending a dozen u.s. special operations forces to see it and get a feel for what's going on o. >> what is the condition of the

people? how many are ambulatory? how many need to be evacuated? what's the total count you're dealing with? big problem. >> there's also the question of which people. right now the operation is focused on christians under threat as well. will a decision be made to protect them down the line? >> thanks very much. still ahead, a face that stood out of the crowd in the sea of refugees. a young girl who fled for her life. be a sound sleeper, or...l you a mouth breather? well, put on a breathe right strip and instantly open your nose up to 38% more than allergy medicines alone. so you can breathe and sleep. shut your mouth and sleep right. breathe right.

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we're following the breaking news cnn learned about a dozen members of the u.s. special forces spent the last 24 hours

on top of mount sinjar. also a new commander is revealing information about the group's brutal assault on iraqis. he says that more than 100 women and children are now being held captive by the isis forces. our senior international correspondent nick paton walsh is joining us. tell us what happened. >> reporter: two blasts, two dead and over a dozen injured. really this is a city gripped by political dead lock. nuri al maliki refusing to leave that city. normal has been awful here so long when they say it's worse than ever, pay attention. we heard the bomb that went off

on tuesday. a survivor filming the immediate panic afterwards. just down the road is the family home of prime minister designates. whether he was the target for these people. hours later furiously demolishing the check point of the police who did not protect them. shots fired in the air to scatter them. the next day police there enforce refusing to let us refuse them. making life tougher to live or to remember any other way of life. no, he says, i don't remember a time when there were no bombs. i don't go out on the streets because i'm afraid. business a z unusual for baghdad, shops closed, traffic jams missing.

this joub rush hour traffic and cars should find it impossible to move at this time of day around this key round-about. but in some areas of baghdad there's a sense of a city unwilling to venture out on the street and brace for the worst. shattered, locked and made a paralyzed government in advancing extremists saying it's never been so bad. right now, 2014 is the worst year yet for baghdad. the street is literally empty. down the road water pipes, hipster haircuts, things that would punish brutally. and the recognition that the political elites failure to organize is playing into isis's hands. when the old prime minister won't hand over power to the new, he says, isis can exploit that and enter baghdad.

isis won't get into baghdad, this man proclaims, but he's increasingly alone in what onwa once a crowded street. now maliki most people in baghdad believe is in the green zone with a lot of loyalists. very clearly he wants the federal courts to decide if the announcement is constitutional. but the political tide has already turned. people in iraq simply want him to openly say he will step down and let this government try and get its feet so they can offer aid to iraq. >> let's see if he does that. lots of concern. nick paton walsh, thanks for that report. the united nations describes the refugee crisis as a humanitarian catastrophe at the highest level of emergency. cnn captured the drama and suffering as the refugees were

ev evacuated. now we're following up on the fate of some of the youngest survivors in this humanitarian nightmare including a young girl whose tears moved people all over the world. our senior international correspondent ivan watson has been doing remarkable reporting for this on this crisis. you showed us that young girl when she was on the helicopter with you. you helped save her life. you tracked her down this young girl and her family. tell us what you have learned. >> that's right. her family is out of the danger zone. they have escaped isis and also escaped sinjar mountain. but the struggles to survive is still not over. in the chaos of an evacuation from sinjar mountain, several faces stood out. a 16-month-old baby and two very frightened sisters.

two days after their airbore escape, we found their pold older brother who was also on the helicopter. he led us to the place where they found refuge. after fleeing isis, this is how thousands of iraqis are living. up on the third floor of this building, we find our friends from the helicopter. >> hi, guys. look at you. i remember you. hi. >> reporter: it turns out 16-month-old is a cousin of the teenage sisters. >> hi, it's good to see you. >> reporter: she says she had mixed feelings when she escaped aboard the chopper. >> translator: i was happy we survived, but i was sad and

worried about my father. >> reporter: the ordeal began a week and a half ago when they immediately fled upon hearing news that isis militants were fast approaching. amid-the panic, her older brother says his father refused to leave. we all tried hard to convince my dad, but he refused to go. he said it would be a humiliation. i decided i couldn't let them capture the girls and woman so we left. >> reporter: the family didn't make it far in their car before they ran into isis fighters shooting at civilians on a bridge. >> translator: i jumped out of a car and off the bridge because i was scared of isis. >> reporter: the family of 12 fled on foot up sinjar mountain from the frying pan into the fire. >> translator: if we were able to find a tree where we could

rest in the shade, we were lucky. for the first four days, we had no food, only water. any bread we found we e fed to the little kids to keep them alive. >> reporter: the family lsted a few more days thanks to aid drops from the sky and several sheep that they caught and slaughtered, but they realized they wouldn't survive much longer unless they escaped. the family says they tried and failed several times to get on board a helicopter to escape the mountain. when our chopper landed, they say they were lucky that they were the only people around in that particular area. the fact that in that chaos, all of them were able to get on board the aircraft is just short of a miracle. now safe in iraqi kurdistan, this family lives like thousands of other refugees on a few square feet of bare concrete. the family got amazing news. a phone call from their missing father. he escaped isis and made it up to sinjar mountain.

like thousands of iraqis on the run, the family's story is one of grit and survival against terrifying odds. it is a story that's far from over. >> the family is lucky because they got off in a helicopter. many more people trying to escape the mountain have chose on to take a dangerous 12 to 15-hour trek by foot to neighboring syria. we're hearing more and more about families who lost loved ones on that marathon hike through the desert, who quite literally left loved ones behind as they succumb to dehydration and the extreme heat. this family is lucky they are now like so many other families, tens of thousands now, trying to figure out how to feed

themselves as refugees here in this part of kurdistan. there's not an organized system for feeding these people, for giving them medical care. what is heartwarming is seeing the kurds of this city that i'm in stepping up and trying to help this refugee population, whether it's bringing them clothes or helping them wash out the derelict buildings they are sleeping in or bringing them bowls of soup. >> the building is derelict indeed, sort of half built, if you will. it's hard to believe, ivan, you and your people on the helicopter, we all saw the video as you guys brought out about 20 of these refugees including that family, the dad left behind. but let's keep some perspective. there are at least 10,000, maybe 20,000 people on top of that mountain who are still waiting for help right now, isn't that right? >> i mean, the figures are hard to nail down.

i have heard one official saying it maybe as much as 70,000. we saw hundreds on the ground, but there's no question from what the family told us that the conditions there were very, very grim. they said everybody was trying to survive. they were rationing out, one family we talked to, rationing out what water they had in bottle caps and taking turns taking sips of that water. some of the aid is getting to the people, but it's also first come, first serve when bags come raining out of aircraft in the sky, it's the strongest and fittest who can get ahold of it. and a brother, he was so worried that his children might die from hung hunger and starvation that he took a dangerous hike back down the mountain towards the city of sinjar to sneak some food back up the mountain. >> there are so many, so many

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we're learning details about the police shooting of an unarmed teen. michael brown's death set off violence in a st. louis suburb. jason carroll is on the scene for us. what's the latest? >> reporter: wolf, a few more details about the officer that was involved in that shooting. that officer apparently received an injury to his face that occurred before the shooting and the police chief tells me that officer is still emotionally rattled over what happened that day. new details emerging about the moments before an officer shot and killed this unarmed teen. the police chief in ferguson, missouri, telling me the officer sustained an injury in an altercation before the shooting. >> the officer was taken to the hospital and treated for swollen face. that's pretty much all i know. >> police said michael brown attacked the officer in his car and then tried to take his gun.

the officer, they say, then opened fire. bl it's a devastating thing to take a life under any circumstances. so he's going to have to deal with it. >> reporter: dorian johnson was with michael brown and says his friend was unarmed and his hands were in the air when he was shot. >> at no point in time did they struggle over the weapon because the weapon was already drawn on us so we were trying to get out of the angle or aim of the weapon besides going towards the weapon. because it was drawn on us already. >> reporter: tensions are running high since 18-year-old brown was shot while he and johnson walked home from a store. johnson says the officer is white. there are calls for the officer's name to be released, but officials aren't naming the officer involved in the shooting. . >> there's also concern for the officer's life.

there has been death threats to many of our officers. hackers have tried to find personal information and display it online on social media. asking people to target our police chief, county police chief's own home was put on instagram and people asked to go there and assault it. >> the lawyer representing the brown family says the officer's name should be released. >> that doesn't give the community the confidence. that doesn't make it transparent and remember we have a long way to go for this community starts to believe that the police are going to give them all the answers and not try to sweep it under the rug. >> reporter: protests have erupted since the shooting. overnight police fired tear gas at demonstrators who threw bottles at them. the latest protests follows clashes with police and looting on sunday and monday. michael brown sr., the teen's father, renewed calls for people to steer clear of violence and says he just wants justice for his son. >> i need all of us to come

together and do this the right way so we can get something done about this. >> reporter: wolf, in terms of the investigation, a lot of the physical evidence has already been gathered. once all the information is gathered, it will be presented to the grand jury and the st. louis prosecutor says that the grand jury will decide whether or not charges are filed and when asked about a timeline, he said, quote, there is no timeline. wolf? >> jason in missouri, thank you very much. in addition to the criminal investigation of the death, investigators from the justice department are also looking into possible civil rights violations. joining us here in "the situation room," jeffrey toobin and tom fuentes. the fbi has opened the civil rights investigation. they are involved in looking at what's going on. what are they specifically looking for?

>> they are looking at whether the shooting was not justified and michael brown's civil rights were taken away from him. the difficulty for the investigation is that they are interviewing witnesses. you have a separate police investigation being conducted by st. louis county to determine whether or not the police officer was justified and possibly committed manslaughter or a serious crime. so you have, in a sense, supplemental investigations going on. both sides don't want to taint witnesses. they don't want to have one side cause problems for the other side if there's an ultimate prosecution. so it's a very sensitive matter on both sides. >> one of the big legal issues here at play? >> the first issue is factual. what happened here? we have obviously talked about the shooting a lot, but at this point, it's still very much up in the air about how this shooting took place. was it justified? that's the most important issue. then what you have to decide is

were there any violations of missouri law. was it manslaughter or given the fbi's involvement, is there a civil rights violation. but this is a complicated thing. it probably took place very fast and you have lots o of witnesses who may have information. all that's going to have to be assembled. it's going to take weeks if not months. >> i spoke last night with the young man who was with michael brown when he was shot and killed by this police officer. listen. to this little excerpt of what he told me. >> we didn't have a sharp object on us. nothing. i didn't even have pockets on my shorts i had on. the police did not interview me at the scene. it's almost like he wasn't paying attention to me anymore. it's like he was in shock himself. his vision wasn't on anything but my friend. >> what do you make of his account? >> that's one witness. it accounts for a lot because he was with michael brown, but they also need to be interviewing

other witnesses who were present and if other police officers were present, including the officer who pulled the trigger in the situation. there's a lot of investigation yet to be done. i think in fairness here, we have a tragedy that's affected the family of michael brown, the community that michael brown lives in. but also the law enforcement community. if it they have a tragedy of a police officer that's made a terrible mistake, let's say, and killed somebody he shouldn't have, that's bad for all law enforcement also. this is a no-win situation for anybody. >> young man i spoke to, he had not yet been interviewed by the police even though he was walking with michael brown and has a story to share. sl that's certainly surprising. i listened to your interview at its full length. he tells a long and complicated story that frankly is not that easy to follow. what has to happen with a witness like that is he has to sit down with investigators and say, okay, where were you

standing? where was he standing? who said what to whom? it's a meticulous, difficult kind of interrogation to go through. it takes time and its indispensable if you want to find out what happened. >> thank you very much. just ahead, the latest on the fighting in ukraine amid-growing fears of a possible russian invasion. a humanitarian convoy is raising serious suspicion right now. after hillary clinton seemed to criticize her former boss, did she and the president actually tonight on martha's vineyard hug it out? we'll tell you about their meeting scheduled. moderate to severe is tough, but i've managed. i got to be pretty good at managing my symptoms, except that managing my symptoms was all i was doing. when i finally told my doctor, he said my crohn's was not under control.

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fighting going on between government forces and pro-russian separatists. the intensifying battles are making the humanitarian crisis worse. will ripley is joining us from kiev. how bad it is? >> reporter: the united nations is so concerned, wolf, they just put out alarming new numbers. the death toll has skyrocketed in recent days. now more than 2,000 people confirmed killed including at least 20 children. and the u.n. is saying that that's a conservative estimate because in the city of luhansk they haven't been able to get updates because the city's been cut off from the outside world for nearly two weeks. no food and no water for the families who are trapped in the middle of all this. meanwhile, you have a huge convoy nearly 300 trucks, military trucks painted white coming from russia heading towards the border right now. we know that they headed for charact kharkiv.

the convoy took a detour. its location is unknown. the president is saying within the past few hours if this convoy were to enter ukraine illegally, they would consider it an invasion. >> we know vladimir putin was in crimea today. how was he received? >> reporter: he's meeting with his top security advisers in crimea and tomorrow with some of his biggest cabinet members at his side including the prime minister. he's going to be making a big speech. he's going to be talking about a lot of things. we're going to be watching that speech closely to see if he addresses the situation unfolding in eastern ukraine. just the fact that he's in crimea is very offensive to the new ukrainian government here. they say essentially having putin so close in an area that was annexed, taken from ukraine earlier this year, they're very concerned, they're very upset about it. they want to see what he has to see. >> thanks, will, very much. just ahead, cnn asks hillary clinton about some fence mending with president obama. the two had a meeting this hour. there was talk that they would

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giving an interview that was sort of pretty critical of the president's foreign policy. our senior white house correspondent jim acosta is joining us now. you had a chance to catch up with hillary clinton on martha's vineyard. you asked her about all this. how did it go? >> reporter: that's right, wolf. sounding very much like a presidential candidate doing some campaign cleanup, hillary clinton made a brief statement to reporters before a book signing here on martha's vineyard earlier today. as you recall earlier this week she laid into the president's foreign policy suggesting that he was partly responsible for the rise of isis in iraq. she also said that one of his foreign policy principles, don't do stupid stuff, is not an organizing principle for the united states. she did say during her comments that she looks forward to hugging it out with the president later on this evening. but she did not necessarily walk back her comment. i asked her about that call to the president. here's what she had to say. was it a hard choice to call him? >> no. read in the book. we agreed we are committed to the values and the interests and

the security of our country together. we have disagreements, as any partners and friends, as we might very well have, but i'm proud that i served with him and for him and i'm looking forward to seeing him tonight. >> reporter: do you think he's handling the situation in iraq right now? would you be doing it differently? >> i'm excited about signing books. >> reporter: and there was no response to that question. now, for anybody who wants photographic evidence of this encounter, sorry, that's not happening. the white house says they're not allowing any photographs of the president and hillary clinton hugging it out later on this evening at the home of verner jordan, the former democratic aide to the clintons. we should point out when we asked the white house spokesman here, eric schultz, about that, he said that hillary clinton and president obama, he said tongue in cheek that they've had many hugs over the years and that many of those hugs have been photographed and that they would provide a readout of this encounter later on this evening,

wolf, but honestly how do you read out a hug? i just don't see that one happening. >> there will be a lot of people at that party at vernon jordans house. his wife ann jordan, it's her birthday, i assume a lot of people have little smartphones they'll be taking pictures and tweeting on instagram. i assume we'll see that picture at some point. >> reporter: it's hard to stop it, wolf. we do know from some fund-raisers, sometimes the cameras, the smartphones are taken, but i doubt that's going to happen out here in tony martha's vineyard. i can't imagine taking away cell phones. we'll have to rely on technology here later. >> i can't imagine taking smartphones talking about vernon jordan's house and the former president will be there and hillary clinton. we'll see how that hug works out. jim acosta, thanks very much for that report. you can always follow us on twitter. go ahead and tweet m

me @wolfblitzer. you can tweet our sho show @cnnsitroom. be sure to join us here tomorrow right here in "the situation room." you can watch us live or dvr the show so you won't miss a moment. that's it for me. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. next, breaking news, american boots on the ground in iraq. u.s. special forces in the country laying the groundwork for a major rescue mission. plus israel launches new air strikes on terror sites in gaza. we're live on the scene tonight. and remembering robin williams. a co-star from "mrs. doubtfire" and potsie from "happy days" tells us about his triumphs and struggles. let's go "outfront." good evening, everyone. i'm erin burnett. "outfront"