much. follow me on twitter @jake tapper and also @the lead cnn. check out our show pag page @cnn.com/the lead for video. you can subscribe to our magazine on flip board. i'm jake tapper. i turn you over to wolf blitzer in "the situation room." have a great weekend. mr. blitzer. >> jake, thanks very much. happening now, breaking news, ordered to land in iran. a charter plane carrying u.s. military contractors from afghanistan ordered to land in tehran. search and rescue mission trailed by fighter jets, an unresponse i was u.s. plane overflies cuba, crashes off jamaica. the u.s. coast guard is on the way to the scene. coalition to kill isis. president obama says the u.s. is now leading a group of nations determined to degrade and destroy the terror group. and joan rivers, the investigation, a probe into the comedienne's death. what went wrong with a minor move medical procedure that left

her in cardiac arrest? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> we're follow two breaking news stories. searchers are now racing to the site where a small plane crashed in waters off jamaica. it flew for hours unresponsive, past its florida destination, trailed by u.s. fighter jets as it approached cuba. we'll have full details on this story coming up. but first, a charter plane carrying american military contractors has been ordered to land in iran on a flight out of afghanistan. our correspondents and guests are all standing by for full coverage. let's begin with global affairs correspondent elise labott at the state department. what do we know about this plane carrying u.s. military contractors forced to land in iran? >> wolf, this contract plane was flying from bagram air base in afghanistan to dubai. it had about 100 americans and a

couple dozen citizens from other coalition countries. the air control tower in iran contracted the pilots, told them their flight plan was out of date and told them to go back to afghanistan. the pilot said they did not have the enough fuel. that's when the iranians ordered them to land or "be intercepted." mou now we understand that plane is still on the ground in iran. officials telling us they hope it will be resolved shortly. they're waiting for clearance to take off, wolf. >> i want to clarify. the plan was forced to land in bandar abbas, not in ta ran. >> that's right. we understand they're still trying to work this out, get clarence to take off. we understand that plane still is on the ground at this moment, wolf. >> as far as you know, any direct communication with the americans on board? >> not that we know of right now. it's being held between the u.s. and iranian officials. trying to get that clearance but as soon as we understand what's going on, we'll let you know. >> stand by.

i want to bring inning pentagon correspondent barbara starr monitoring the story, as well. what are you hearing over there, barbara? >> these are somewhat routine, if you will, contract flights between afghanistan and dubai. they are not run by the u.s. government. u.s. planes do not fly through iranian air space. so this would have been a plane, our understanding it is a charter called fly dubai, a dubai aircraft. these charter flights bring contractors in and out of afghanistan all the time. the question is, of course, what the jobs may have been that the u.s. personnel on board. it's our understanding that u.s. troops, u.s. contractors that hold very sensitive government contracts would not be on planes that fly through iranian air space. they do not board planes that fly through iran. this is most likely contractor who have other jobs. everything perhaps from being a cook to working engineering and road construction. but to be clear, the united

states government at this hour is not saying exactly who these 100 american are. as elise pointed out, the hope is to get in quietly resolved and get the plane on its way shortly. >> as far as you know, the discussions under way, i assume the united arab emirates that officials from the uae are involved. but are u.s. officials, as far as you know, directly speaking with iranian officials? >> we asked the question. the answer we got is it we don't think so the at this time. they do not believe here at the pentagon that there is direct contact with the iranians on all of this. in fact, dubai, of course, has relationships very close relationships in some cases with iran, the likelihood is at this point they're letting the government of dubai handle it, the dubai aviation authorities. it may be the quickest low key nonconfrontational way to get the situation resolved, wolf. >> how extraordinary, how

unusual is this? >> wolf, i have to tell you a few years back, i was on a charter flight out of afghanistan, and we took the same route, myself and our cnn crew and they announced that we had entered iranian air space. they announced when we had exited iranian air space shortly before crossing the gulf and landing in dubai. i think most americans who might be on a flight that the transits through iranian air space would breathe a little bit of a sigh of relief once they're past iranian air space. it is a routine flight pattern in many cases. but again, for non-u.s. aircraft. >> 100 americans 0 board? >> that is the estimate. i think several of us at cnn are getting that indication from u.s. government officials. they believe there are about 100 american citizens on board and about 40 additional passengers from a number of other countries. but they are really at this

point, they're trying very hard, keep it low key. get it resolved. get that plane back up in the air and on its way to dubai. they want to, by all accounts, what the obama administration wants to do is get this resolved. get that plane out of there. get those americans out of iran and not face yet another crisis, wolf. >> let's hope that happens. the plane takes off for dubai. we'll stay in close touch with you barbara and elise labott over at the state department, as well. there's another breaking story we're following. an urgent search and rescue operation off the coast of jamaica. u.s. coast guard aircraft are racing to the site where a small plane went down. unresponsive it overshot its florida destination followed by u.s. fighter jets as it flew toward cuba. our aviation correspondent rene marsh joins with us the very latest. >> at this hour, wolf, this search mission off the coast of jamaica is happening. at 8:45 this morning, this turboprop aircraft carrying a

businessman and his wife, we know their names, larry and jane glazer, we know that they took off from the rochester, new york, they were headed for naples, florida. the flight appeared normal until the plane was over north carolina. that is when the pilot radioed to air traffic controllers saying he had a problem. let's take a listen to a portion of that audio. >> we need to descend down to 180. we have an indication that's not correct on the plane. >> going to make things level. >> 250. >> we need to get lower. >> all right. well, so you heard there the pilot again requesting to descend. after that request to descend, controllers lost contact with the plane. we know they scrambled two of f-15 fighter jets to investigate.

when the jets intercepted the plane, its occupants were slumped over and the windows were frosted indicating the plane had lost perhaps pra cabin pressure. here is the scene one described. take a listen to that. >> it was the first time we could see that he was actively breathing. depending on how fast, he may regain consciousness once the aircraft starts descending for fuel. >> okay. so there you heard there, very vivid description what the pilots saw. the fighter jets continued following the plane till it flew over cuba. it flew back over international waters, finally crashing 14 miles off the coast of jamaica. that is a whole 4 1/2 hours after the flight began. question now, what happened on board? what happened in the cockpit?

we know that norad officials believe it may be a case of hypoxia essentially a lack of oxygen causing the occupants to lose consciousness. wolf. >> we're getting a statement in from the family of larry and jane glazer, the two people on board this plane. larry glazer a well-known developer in the rochester, new york, area. his kids issued the statement we are devastated by the sudden loss of our parents jane and larry. they loved and appreciated the opportunity to help build the community of rochester and we thank everyone in the community for their expressions of support. we understand there are many questions yet to be answered about today's events. we too are awaiting answers. at this time, we would appreciate the ability to mourn privately. thank you for your understanding. signed mindy glazer. and drew cuomo said i mourn the loss of larry and yan glazer. the glazers were innovative and

generous people committed to vee vitalizing downtown rochester and making it a better place for all. i offer my deepest condolences to the glazer family and friends during this difficult and trying time. more now on the search operation that's under way. the u.s. coast guard spokeswoman is joining us right now on the phone from key west. where does this search operation stand as far as we know, marilyn? >> right now, we're working with the rescue coordination center in kingston, jamaica. we have an air crew that has arrived on scene along with two jamaican can aircraft crew. they were unable to locate a debris field. we're searching in the vicinity where we know that the plane dropped off radar, which is approximately 14 miles off the coast of port antonio, jamaica. >> working in conjunction with jamaican officials, correct? >> that's correct. the defense force out of the

rescue coordination center in the kingston. >> are they in charge of the investigation and you're supporting them? >> we are work ing incoordination. we are leading the investigation as far as the search and rescue is concerned and assisting the agencies in jamaica. >> what have they told you about what happened? do you have any more information? >> we can't sfek late as far as what happened. i can tell you we're in close coordination with the faa. it flew through cuban air space as your reporter mentioned before descending into the ocean. the flight departed from greater rochester international airport at about 8:26 about a filed flight plan of naples, florida, at 12:00 noon today. >> so how many pieces of equipment, planes an, ships, whatever you're doing are involved in the search operation? i don't think it's a rescue operation. we could call it a search operation. >> that's correct. we do have the c-130 air crew

that launched out of clear water, florida. we also have the coast guard cutter bernard c. webber, 154-foot cutter. one of our newest cutters. it has an estimated arrival of about semp hours. >> have you seen any parts of this plane? >> no, we have not. >> but you have a good idea where it went into the water? >> we are searching in that vicinity 14 miles off the coast of port antonio. that's the port we're concentrating in right now. >> you're familiar with this small private plane. would it be most likely floating some place or would be submerged under the water? >> we can't speculate. but we are searching in the area. >> and you think something presumably in the coming hours will come up. is that what you're saying? >> as we get information, this is a developing story for us. we're getting a lot of information. we're in very close coordination with the faa, with norad, with u.s. norcon.

we'll make sure we make any information available to you an your viewers. >> do you know how unusual, extraordinary this particular very sad incident is? >> we've seen these incidents before and responded to plenty of search and rescue missions and search missions. the coast guard, one of its core missions is the rescue mission. i can't speculate as far as this case because it's still a developing case. >> spokeswoman for the u.s. coast guard. thanks very much. we'll stay in close touch with you and update viewers as we get more information. up next, president obama announces a coalitionings to "destroy isis." u.s. allies are getting on board. how will they carry out that mission? and the death of joan rivers. so what went wrong. >> investigators are now looking into a medical procedure that left the comedienne in cardiac arrest. >> where the reward was that what if tnew car smelledit card and the freedom of the open road?

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story. a dramatic announcement at the end of the urgent nato meeting. president obama says the united states is now leading a coalition of allies who are determined to "degrade and destroy isis." amid growing calls to expan the use of military force, the president says the dismantling of isis will be in his words systemic and methodical. jim acosta is joining us from cardiff in wales with the latest. jim? >> wolf, president obama did not mince words today at this final day of the summit after taking so much heat after saying he didn't have a strategy for dealing with isis in syria and later saying he wanted to reduce the threat to a manageable problem. he delivered a much tougher message today. here's what he had to say. >> you can't contain an organization that is running roughshod through that much territory causing that much havoc, displacing that many

people. killing that many innocents and enslaving that many women, the goal has to be to dismantle them. >> and also today, the obama administration announced it now has ten countries including the united states in what it considers to be an anti isis coalition. those countries will be doing different things based on their varying capabilities. secretary of state john kerry along with other top administration officials will be heading to the middle east in the coming days to start lining up arab participants for this coalition. it's a mission the president thinks will be successful. here's what he had to say about that. >> i think it is absolutely critical that we have arab states and specifically sunni majority states that are rejecting the kind of extremist nilism we're seeing out of sisal that say what is not what islam is about and are prepared to

join us actively in the fight. and you know, my expectation is that we will see friends and allies and partners of ours in the region prepare to take action, as well as part of a coalition. >> now, the president and secretary kerry both reiterated today there will be no u.s. combat boots on the ground taking on isiss in iraq or syria. secretary kerry in one nato session called it a red line for the administration. that's probably not the term the white house would use because obviously, red lines have been crossed before. during this presidency, but it also underlines, wolf how far this administration wants to go in assuring americans even though they consider isis a serious threat and want to go after this terror group, they're not putting combat forces on the ground to take them on. >> jim acosta traveling with president in wales. as the united states forms this anti isis coalition with some of the nato allies seeks to bring in some of the arab nations, as

well, could it also be teaming up with arch foal iran? brian todd has been asked to take a closer look into this part of the story. >> we know that the u.s. and iran have a mutual hatred of isis. in their efforts to drives the group out of iraq, there's a lot of buzz out there somehow the two enemies could work together. they may have done that in one recent battle even if it wasn't planned. in the northern iraqi town of amerli, residents were under sieging from isis and feared a massacre. but in recent days, the siege was broken. iraq's president acknowledges a combination of u.s. air strikes and iranian-backed shiite militias on the ground drove isis away. is there any cooperation or coordination between the u.s. and iran against isis? we do the not share intelligence with iran and have no plans to do so. >> an iranian official denies a report saying iran's supreme leader ayatollah approved

cooperation between his forces and the americans against isis. specifically the report says hamannny sanctioned the general, the head of the qods force of the revolutionary guard to work with u.s. forces. he may look like george clooney but analysts say a better comparison would be don core leon. >> he's a relatively mild mannered man but he has a done a very effective job at organizing the most brutal thugs that the islamic republic has. >> this photo posted by a group called diths of resistance is around the time of that siege. cnn cannot independently verify that. sulemanny would be among the strangest bedfellows america has had. >> as soon as you sit down with him, he's got the blood of americans on his hands. >> u.s. officials believe assume manny's units provided a lethal weapon against american troops.

>> it was his qods force which provided these very advanced explosive devices, it's a misnomer to call them improvised explosive devices that penetrated armor on american vehicles and killed an awful lot of americans. >> other reasons why a u.s./iranian alliance may not working? >> we want bashar an al assad out. we want a more inclusive government in baghdad. iran would prefer a shia government. >> there's also the matter of assume manny's dangerous reach beyond the middle east. u.s. treasury officials say he was involved in a notorious plot on american soil overseeing officers who in 20 tried to assassinate iranian's ambassador to the u.s. >> i remember when that story came out and the saudi

ambassador to the united states ja bir was targeted by iranian terrorists. you say sulemanny was involved in that specific plot to try to kill the ambassador? >> it is thought the qods force oversaw that plot. he's got his hands on everything the qods force does and was implicated in that plot. >> how much power does he have within iran? >> enormous. he's a legendry hero of the war. he said to really be answerable only to ayatollah khomeini. al answers to him and virtually no one else. >> brian todd, thanks for that report. let's bring in democratic senator chris murphy of connecticut right now, a key member of the senate foreign relations committee. what do you think? should the u.s. under these kinds you have circumstances team up at least a little bit, coordinate policy, strategy with iran in. >> well, i this i we spent ten years ignoring iran much to the

detriment of the u.s. national security. they are a player in the future stability of iraq. and i this i we'd be fools if we didn't contemplate some basic level of conversation with iran as to how we can make sure that if we are to wade into a more substantial fight against isis, we're not simply taking sides in a sectarian civil war. sulemanny is not your only option. there's a war going on within the foreign policy infrastructure of iran between the new foreign min sterl zarif, the new head of government rowhani and sulemanny who wants to exert iran's influence by agitation versus cooperation which is more where zarif is coming from. we don't have to talk to sulee n sulemanny. the politics are going to be messy. we'd better be prepared to get our hands dirty. >> the senator, i want to take a quick break. we have a lot more questions to ask, including this provocative

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can the united states and a growing coalition of allies actually carry out president obama's stated goal of destroying isis? we're back with democratic senator chris murphy you have connecticut, a member of the senate foreign relations committee. senator, you heard the president say today that in order to destroy, defeat isis, to destroy al qaeda, you've got to the in his words take out their

leadership. he pointed with pride to the fact that in recent days a u.s. missile fired from a drone killed the top commander of al shabaab an al qaeda affiliate in the somalia. here's the question to you, senator. would you support the united states starting targeted air strikes to assassinate the top officials, the top leaders of isis in iraq and syria. >> i think we have to have all options available to us, including counter-terrorism options, including targets air strikes. here's the condition for my support, that it be done in coordination with our partners in the region. president announced today that he's got the support apparently of nato allies. that's not the most important announcement. what we need is for our military operations in the region whether they be going after armies or individuals, to be cloaked and endorsed by sunni states and shia states in the region. the reality is that when the united states has conducted

these counter-terrorism operations how many times have we taken out the taliban or al qaeda's number two or three. they quickly get replaced because for every one we kill, we inspire two more to join the cause. this only work on any level if it's done in real coordination and partnership with other arab nations in the region. >> if the united states had great intelligence, timely intelligence that the leader of isis al baghdadi was at a specific location without a lot of civilians around or any civilians around for that matter in syria, would you support a drone strike with a hellfire missile to kill him? >> i would in part because this man has threatened directly the united states. he has made it clear that his intention is if he is able to establish a caliphate, establish an autonomous region to take that fight to the united states. this is an enemy not just of our partners in the region, this leader is enemy of the united states. >> does the president need

formal congressional authorization to launch this kind of military operation not only in iraq but in syria right now? assuming he doesn't want to do combat ground troops but does want to start a war in effect against isis inside syria, does he need authorization from congress? >> i believe he does, wolf. the fact is, he's got two authorizations on the books now. one gives him authority to go after al qaeda. isis is not al qaeda. the other essentially gave him the authority to go after saddam hussein. this is a fundamentally different fight. i think the president needs to come to congress for authorization. i get that's not an easy thing to do but there's the constitution which gives only congress the power to wage war. the fact is, that congress is the only way the american people are in here. right now while there is outrage at the brutality of isis, there is some concern we could get ourselves in the middle of a sectarian civil war that could

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of we're getting new information about americans fighting alongside the terrorists of isis. let's bring in justice correspondent pamela brown working the story. what are you learning >> we're learning americans who have fought with groups like isis are back here in the u.s. officials say they are closely monitoring them but as one law enforcement official told me today, there's a lot we don't know the about american who have become foreign fighters and that's the biggest fear. >> we are coming for you, mark my words. >> a 22-year-old from florida on the jihadi mission in syria. >> drives a truck full of explosives into a group of soldiers last may. that was abu salha's second time in syria. >> when i went back to florida, i was being watched by the fbi. >> that was his second time in syria. sources tell cnn intelligence officials didn't even know had he gone back and forth between the u.s. and syria.

his case shows how easy it is for american jihadists to get to the front lineses in syria and iraq undetected. fighters can cover their tracks by first flying from the u.s. to europe, say belgium, then crossing borders into another european country like france before flying into turkey, the gateway into syria where the jihadist easily disappears into a black hole. >> you tell me if you're still in the chair that you wouldn't worry about 100 or 200 americans in syria who have good documents where we might not know they've crossed from turkey into syria or might not know they've joined isis. >> so far at least two americans have died fighting alongside isis according to u.s. officials including douglas mccain two weeks ago. an intelligence source tells cnn they have some identifiable information on every american they know of in syria and iraq, but experts say in some cases there's not enough intel to prevent a jihadist from coming

back to the u.s. eric holder tried to tamp down concerns on thursday. >> how confident are you that the u.s. knows the identities of the americans who have made it over there and those who have come back to the u.s.? >> i think we have a pretty good handle on who is there and also a pretty good handle on who potentially might want to go there. we have brought a number of prosecutions, we have a number of ongoing investigations in that regard. >> officials say it can be very challenging to arrest american jihadist who have returned to the u.s. >> you're always balancing let me not move too fast because i want to map the conspiracy, let me not move too slowly because this guy's a ticking time bomb. >> and it's actually the smaller, less sophisticated attacks by returning jihadists that keep u.s. intelligence officials on edge. >> it's the ones you don't know who show up on the radar and explode a bomb in someplace like new york or boston. if you're 98% confident you have everyone, it's the 2% i would be

sitting there worried about. how do we find the ones we don't know the? >> and part of it also makes this so challenging that not everyone who goes to turkey and syria goes to fight in terrorist groups. some of them have family and want to join humantarian or aid groups. there's a pretty high bar to put someone on a no fly list. this is a complex issue. >> very complex but potentially very dangerous, that's why u.s. law enforcement so concerned by these american who have gone over there. thanks very much. coming up, cnn obtained the audio of joan rivers' finally performance the night before her fateful visit to a new york clinic. she was telling jokes about death. also, the search for what went wrong. we have important information from new york city's medical examiner and we'll discuss with our own dr. sanjay gupta. when folks think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology.

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>> planning is under way for sunday's funeral services for joan rivers. a spokesman for the new york city medical examiner says an autopsy has been completed but more studies are needed to determine the exact cause and manner of death. rivers died yesterday a week after she stopped breathing and went into cardiac arrest during what was supposed to be a routine throat procedure at a new york clinic. miguel marquez is outside rivers' apartment in new york city with more. what's the latest? >> wolf, we know that that funeral will not only be right up the street at temple emmanuel temple but also close family and friends. we're outside of her house. there is scaffolding around here. you can see here are more fans dropping off flowers for her. you can see the beautiful

orchids people dropped off. absolutely gorgeous displays of flowers. i've never seen anything like this for a woman beloved by fans, this as there are now several investigations going into the superstar's death. >> do you understandened you have something it talk about for the rest of your life? >> joan rivers joking about her own death during her last show. >> i am now 81 years old. i could die any second. >> now multiple investigations into that very issue. >> an intense spotlight on what transpired at yorkville endoscopy. >> a procedure on her vocal chords or or her throat in the morning. >> didn't seem concerned. >> not at all. >> jay had dinner with rivers the night before she went in an early morning in what should have been routine procedure. >> if a patient was going to yorkville which you are familiar with, would it be for anything other than an digestive issue.

>> what they're advertise and they're very, very well-known for is for upper and lower endoscopy. >> anythinging from acid reflux to ulcers? >> correct. >> a patient would typically have been sedated typically with propofol. >> you call this a dwight light. it's not fully under. >> twilight anesthesia, you're not so deep you need to have your breathing controlled for you. you're breathesing on your own. >> a camera connected into a tube then inserted into the esophagus. >> tommy had an endoscopy done last year. >> this place looks like you're in a hospital in a professional setting. that reassured me there wouldn't be any issues. if there were, they would be an addressed right there. >> he says 10 million endoscopies are done in the u.s. each year. still anytime sedation is involved, there is risk. in this procedure considered

minor but still a risk. >> you can have a heart attack. you can have the heart rhythm not working well which can lead to other problems or you can have problems breathing >> the new york state department of health and accrediting agencies have opened investigations into ms. an auto now complete, cause of death still unknown. yorkville open in 2013. the state department of health only saying there have been no complaints or violations regarding this facility. the clinic has not responded from calls from cnn for comment. >> reporter: back out here live to ms. rivers home where you can see the number of flowers being dropped off. people coming up to the home throughout the afternoon reading the cards, many saying thank you, joan, we'll always remember you. fans clearly moved by her death. the medical examiner saying that the autopsy is complete. it will take some time before the toxicology is finished and

that's when we should have our first indication as to the cause of death and then see where the other investigations unfold from then on out. wolf? >> thanks very much. i think all of us agree if there were mistakes made as far as joan rivers is concerned, we want to learn from the mistakes and try to avoid them down the road. based on what we know, the autopsy result, have we learned precisely what happened? >> i don't think we can say that yet, wolf. these investigations take time for the very reason you mentioned. you want to make sure you're covering all of the different angles. when the medical examiner gets involved it doesn't mean there's going to be an autopsy. it could be looking at toxicology levels, how much medications was she given, what medications were in her system to really thoroughly looking at exactly what happened.

from a department of health standpoint, looking at these types of outpatient centers. besides accreditation and credentialing which are very important points, what sort of emergency plan was in place if something did not go smoothly. what would have happened in terms of anesthesia. was there an anesthesiologist available and ready? all of these questions really need to be answered. as we made the point yesterday, wolf, the vast majority of time things go well. but when something like this happens, regardless of whether it's joan rivers or any patient, an elective procedure in an out paint setting where the patient does not survive, that often prompts an investigation. >> it's usually a routine matter, an endos ski looking down the throat. how dangerous are these e?

>> across the board, less than half a percent of a time you see the complications and concerns that joan rivers appears to have made, a rest pra toir arrest, cardiac arrest. one thing i should point out, when you're operating on the throat specifically, there are more challenges involved. you have to secure the airway. that's the trachea and there's tubes going into the trachea and you're also operating in that area. it can make it a little more challenging. but this is what they do. this is sort of what they're trained to do. so i would say that there's probably a little bit more risk involved. but overall, still a very low likelihood of this happening. >> so if folks are out there watching us right now and potentially the doctor says we should have a routine endos copi, what would you say. >> regardless of whether you consider yourself a held thil

person, get a preprocedure clearance, get your heart looked at, get your blood checked. second of all, know exactly what you're having done and which doctors are going to be performing this besides the doctor performing the procedure. will there be an anesthesiologist there? what is the anesthesia that i'm going to be having. you also should understand what is the emergency plan should something not go smoothly. this center is very close to a big hospital. and finally, part of this is for the patients out there as well, you've got to be absolutely forth right and honest with regard to your own medical history of any medications you may be taking. even if you think it's trivial, these things are important because they could have an impact on what medications you get during your procedure and

how you would be treated if something doesn't go well. these are no-brainers. these should be happening and maybe it all happened in this case as well. but for everybody out out there it really improves safety records to do that. >> critically important, life saving advice from dr. sanjay gupta. thanks very much. coming up, a plane carrying u.s. military contractors is ordered to land in iran. and trailed my fighter jets, crashes off of jamaica. a search mission is underway right now. thank you for being my hero and my dad. military families are uniquely thankful for many things, the legacy of usaa auto insurance could be one of them. if you're a current or former military member or their family, get an auto insurance quote

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to land in iran. a small plane flew hundreds of miles off course, crashing in jamaica with no response from the pilot. and president obama making its toughest remarks yet about isis and they tend to make -- we're covering these stories with our reporters and guests around the star. barbara starr begins our coverage this hour. with the plane with all of the americans on board forced to land in iran. what are you learning? >> at this hour about 100 americans still on the ground in southern iran. they were on a charter flight out of dubai. but the plane was coming out of afghanistan. the obama administration said these were military contractors on a dubai charter flying back to dubai out of the war zone in

afghanistan. they were in iranian air space. they got a call from the traffic call telling them that their flight plan was out of date and they needed to return to afghanistan. the pilot radioed, did mott have enough fuel to get back to afgan stap. and the iranians at that point said, land or be intercepted. so this charter plane has now landed. it's been on the ground for the last several hours. about 100 americans on board, another 40 passengers from other nationality ps. obama administration is being low key about all of this, they want to get it resolved, get the plane out of there and they want the americans out of there. so far all they'll tell sus these are military contractors. they will not say what their jobs are. there's in indication at this point that any u.s. troops were coming out of the war zone.

typically those with sensitive jobs would not be on a charter plane. >> why would any americans be allowed to transit iranian air space, especially coming out of afghanistan. it sounds unusual to me and potentially risky. >> i have to tell you i've done it, our cnn crews have done it. when you take a charter flight out of afghanistan, almost all of them go back through dubai. many of them -- most of them are not u.s. flag carriers. these are the flights you take. u.s. military aircraft certainly do not go through iranian air space. but the charters that run back and forth between afghanistan and dubai tdo. i'll tell you, you're on one of these charter flights, the pilot will announce you've entered iranian air space and when you

have left iranian sair space. >> i suspect there's going to be a revisit shall we say of that policy. let's see what happens. let's hope the plane is allowed to take off shortly. if you get word, let us know. thank you. now to the isis threat. it prompted urgent talks at the nato summit in wales where president obama has been struggling to deal with this. our senior white house correspondent jim acosta is joining us from wale sx right now. >> reporter: it was a different president obama at this final day of the nato summit. his message on isis was his toughest to date and predicted he'll have a broad coalition backing him up and taking on the terror threat. this time there were no mixed messages. >> we're going to achieve our goal. we're going to degrade and

ultimately defeat isil the same way we've gone after al qaeda. >> reporter: the president insisted he now has a plan for taking out isis. gone was any reference of simply reducing the isis threat. >> to the point where it is a manageable problem. >> reporter: as he had put it days earlier. instead -- >> you can't contain an organization that is running rough shod through that much territory, causing that much halve vac, displacing that many people, killing that many innocent, enslaving that many women. the goal has to be to dismantle them. >> reporter: the obama administration is counting ten countries as an anti-isis coalition. as secretary of state john kerry told one nato session, contrary to what you sort of heard in the politics of our country, the

president is totally kplited. there is a strategy that is clear. on russian aggression in ukraine, nato flexed ie lanes muscle. all for one, one for all. >> reporter: they formally unveiled a response unit, pledged nonmilitary aid for ukraine's defense systemance started plans to assist georgia and mall do va. >> russia is ripping up the rule book with its annexation of crimea. >> reporter: russian's foreign ministry tweeted the statements threat the peace process in ukraine. >> now it is very important that the cease-fire last long and during the cease-fire we continue the political dialogue. >> reporter: president obama was hardly convinced moscow would

allow the cease-fire to hold. >> obviously we're hopeful. but based on past experience also skeptical. so it has to be tested. >> reporter: and secretary of state and other top officials will be heading to the middle east in the next coming day to start lying up partners for this coalition. but the president said there will be no u.s. combat boots on the ground. >> we'll see what they can achieve on this mission. thanks very much. let's get more now. joining us is the former commander of the military central command. he's the author of a very important and very timely brand-new book entitled "before the first shots are fired, how america can win or lose off the battlefield." thanks for joining us and thanks for writing this important book which i recommend to all of our

viewers. is it wise for the u.s. military to be chartering planes, flying americans from afghanistan to dubai that go through the iranian air space? >> the military planes do not. >> to bring united statamerican afghanistan to dubai where they can fly back home. is that smart? >> they're treated as commercial flights from our point of view. i think we have to find out where the air clearance is all in order. what's the motivation for this and what happened before we jump to me conclusions. if this is iran just getting in our way and in our path, i think go to your point, you will see the charter planes take a more southerly route. >> i think a lot of americans working for the united states leaving afghanistan, if they're told, get ready, we're flying

through iranian air space, that's not a pleasant thought. >> these are not only american contractors, others out there too. >> maybe the iranians started questioning these people, what's your job, what do you do. this potentially could be a serious problem. >> yes. >> when the president of the united states says that the united states now wants to not only dismantle but destroy isis in iraq and syria, how do you do that? >> you have to destroy their conventional capability first. that's what got them into iraq and allowed them to fight against the iraqis and the kurds who were yushd armed. we've got to turn that around. destroy their conventional capabilities. the trucks and tanks that we've seen out there, they can be targeted pretty easily. then i think you have to go after their command in control. earlier i heard you mention do we assassinate or don't we assassinate.

i would look at this differently. a commander is part of a control system. there are people involved in the process and in the structure of a command and control system. if this is our enemy and they're targeting americans, and they're engaging our allies in the region, they're fair game. >> the commander of isis who may be in syria right now, would it be smart to kill him. >> absolutely. >> send a drone over syria or an f-16 or whatever, launch a strike and try to kill this guy? >> remember world war ii, we caught him because of intelligence in the plane. he was part of the command control system. >> can you really though destroy -- let's be realistic -- destroy isis. they have a pretty conventional military capability as well, a lot of generals and colonels and majors that work for saddam hussein, they're now working for isis. they have half of iraq and half of syria under their control with a lot of u.s. fire power

that they stole from the iraqi military. can you destroy them? destroy them without ground troops? >> i think it's going to be difficult to do that. i think you can certainly degrade their capabilities, you can degrade their leadership. the ground troops as i see this thing coming about now are not going to be american. i think we're looking at some sort of combination of iraqis, kurds, maybe others, questionable about how effective they may be, u.s. support, air support, logistics, advisers, they certainly enhances their capability. they could be gone tomorrow out of iraq with two brigades of american forces. i don't understand the hangup on the use of ground forces. remember when the kurds were brutalized by so dam, thrown into the hills of turkey? immediately president h.w. bush, we put in the u.s. troops and we had a 13-country alliance with us. we pushed back iraq's forces and brought them home. when the job was done we put the

no fly, no drive zones in and we withdrew our troops. >> it's one thing to put in troops in iraq. it's another thing to go into syria. >> i think if you push them out of iraq and you target syria, work with the moderate opposition groups, perhaps giving them capability and supporting them if they're willing to take on isis. there's a way to handle it differently in syria. but you've kwot to get them out of iraq. they're going to get into baghdad, not that they can take it but they can cause chaos in baghdad, bombings, assassinations. >> that's why the u.s. sent 350 more military personnel to protect the u.s. embassy in baghdad. >> we have 1100 troops in there now. i'm sure there are more. they're all wearing boots. >> there's still plenty of them that are vulnerable right now. >> absolutely. >> this important book that you've written, what is the most important message that you want to give policymakers and others

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we're following the breaking news. jamaican officials reported that they've spotted wreckage that may be part of the private plane that crashed earlier this afternoon hundreds of miles off course. u.s. fighter jets trailed the plane at one point because the pilot was not responding to radio call. rené marsh is working the story for us. what's the latest? >> a plane flying with a pilot apparently unconscious. as you mentioned, jamaican authorities told cnn that they've spotted what they believe is aircraft wreckage. the u.s. coast guard believes that these people were on board and tonight radio transmissions

reveal the pilot was in trouble just about an hour and a half after takeoff. a search mission under way right now for this small plane after it crashed 14 miles off the coast of jay ma ka. it took off from new york around 8:45 this morning, bound for naples, florida. on board, larry glazer and his wife. over florida the pilot told air traffic control there was a problem. he was cleared to descend to 25,000 feet but asked to go lower. >> we need to get down to 180. we have an indication that is not correct on the plane. >> maintain level -- >> we need to get lower. >> about an hour and 15 minutes after takeoff, the pilot stopped responding to radio calls. u.s. military f-15s tracked it along the east coast of florida,

one fighter pilot looked through the window. >> i can see his chest rising and falling. right before i left was the first time i could see he was breathing. >> the pilot was slumped over and the windows for frosted. the aircraft flew over the bahamas and south to cuba where a cuban fighter jet took over the pursuit. >> we've been in touch tw the two countries in whose flight space it went through, the bahamas and cuba. i don't have details on the conversations but obviously this is an issue of security and safety. >> four and a half hours after takeoff, the plane crashed near jamaica. the whole incident of this type, they're rare but they're not unheard of. in fact the faa lost contact with another plane just last weekend, another unresponsive

pilot, the plane eventually crashed. unfortunately in the atlantic ocean. so it has happened before. >> certainly has but it's very, very rare we how say. thanks. let's get more now, a spokesman for the jamaican force is standing by. first, our aviation analyst, miles o'brien. miles, base on what we know, the eyewitness account of this f-15, a fighter pilot that flew close by, what's your analysis? >> it's highly likely there was some sort of decompression event on this aircraft. and what happened between that pilot and that controller was an unfortunate exchange. on the one hand, the pilot had a problem or an indication of a problem. he didn't know for sure if it was a bad indicator or if he was dealing with some true emergency. did not say may day, did not say

merge, which of course changes everything. all of the sudden you own the air space around you, they will move planes out of your way. meanwhile the controller who was busy, sort of said stand by and gave him a couple of thousand feet lower and did not seem to recognize the gravity op the situation. so you have a situation where the communication wasn't clear on both end and unfortunate within a few minutes at that altitude if you don't get an oxygen mask on, enough air in your system, you lose useful consciousness. in the case of hypoxia, your decision-making is compromised. and so we don't know if the pilot, how far along this situation was that the pilot wasn't thinking clearly perhaps. >> was you're a trained pilot. in a plaep like this, a small private plane, they do have oxygen masks, right? >> absolutely. this is a pressurized aircraft, a high performance turbo prop

airplane. cruises along in the mid 300s. high performance craft designed to go up to 31,000 feet. it has a backup oxygen for the crew and passengers. >> if you're a trained pilot, wouldn't you immediately feel, larry glazer, the pilot and his wife jane, wouldn't you feel something was wrong and immediately go for the oxygen masks? >> well, it's interesting. with hypoxia, you don't feel it coming on if it's gradual. if there's a sudden decompression, you'll hear a noise and your ears will pop. it appears he was getting some kind of indication and that's why when he reported to controllers. when you get an indication like this, it's best to air on the side of caution, get down, declare an emergency and get down to an altitude where if there is a problem with the presh pressureization, you can

breathe. >> this is the second time in recent days that we've seen something like this happen. >> you know, single pilots at high altitude need to be so vigilant about this because of the insidious nature of hypoxia. when in doubt, confess that this is a problem to controllers quickly. and if you're not getting the kind of response you want from a controller, declare an emergency, say mayday. on the other side of this is a controller who heard on three occasions a pilot saying i have a problem, i want to get down lower and frankly didn't seem to be dialed in to what the consequences of that was. if somebody is at 28,000 feet in a plane like this and says i need to get down lower, a controller should say, can you tell me a little more about this problem? and this would be a good response, frankly. >> this business utility airport as it's described, is this a

good plane? what do you know about it? >> it has a great safety record. built in france. it's high performance. all kind of redundant safety systems in it. the pilot himself was the head of the u.s. tbm owners association, had more than 5,000 hours in the type of aircraft. this was a brand new version of it. this airplane was just delivered to him in the spring, in april, amid much fanfare at an air show in florida. this was a few particular aircraft to him. but the type of aircraft is something me was extremely familiar with. we're looking at a situation here with a seasoned pilot in a very good plane with a lot of safety systems built in. an indication of a prb and what happened after that is something that we'll be talking about for a while. >> we assume it's hypoxia. what can cause hypoxia in a

cabin like that? >> well, you know, you can have a slow leak and that's the scary one. frankly the sudden decompress n decompression, it gets your attention and you're going to get down quickly one way or another. assuming out the not so catastrophic that the airplane can't fly. but the slow leaks, as it were, where you may not be otherwise aware of it, that's where the trouble begins because the hypoxia comes on in an insidious manner and you get this u foric feeling. wolf, i was in a chamber at nasa once and they took me up to, you know, virtually to 30,000 feet. had me take off the oxygen mask and had me doing math. was giggling and i couldn't figure out what two plus two was. that's important to be vigilant and controllers need to pay attention when a pilot of an aircraft at 28,000 feet says i

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the chief of the defense staff of the jamaica defense force, major general anthony anderson about to make a statement about what's going on. we believe they've spotted the wreckage of the plane that went down off the coast of jamaica, small u.s. plane carrying two americans, they were en route from rod chester, new york to naples, florida. that plane, something happened, hypoxia, they lost oxygen in the cappen. plane flew over cuba, followed by a cuban jetliner when it was flying and lost contact with the u.s., two u.s. f-15s and then later two f-16s were chasing it but then eventually it crashed off the coast of jamaica in the water. they're now looking for this aircraft. we'll have live coverage of the news conference once it starts. we'll get the very latest. we know u.s. coast guard gis officials are on the scene as well. we're tracking a critical

senate race. the latest polling seems to be another bad sign for democrats. in our exclusive cnn poll, the r a a democrat senator, the incumbent trails his challenger by two points among likely voters if op joe johns is back from arkansas. what did you find over there? >> wolf, that two-point difference make as dead heat. anybody's race in arkansas. it's shaping up as the kind of campaign the state has never seen before. the stakes of a critical election may not be as high as life and death but that certainly have not stopped mark prior and tom cotton from going there. no one in the state has contracted ebola but they're fighting to support. >> i won'ted for it, he opposed. >> mark pryor cannot be trusted

about what he says about his record when he's calling me pro-ebola. >> pryor is 51, a cancer survivor. cotton is 37, a freshman and a lawyer, a veteran who earned the army's bronze star in afghanistan. it's bitter battle. frankly less about the plague and more about the president. cotton linking the man in the white house unpopular here to arkansas's only remaining democrat in congress, $16 million in spending so far. the air waves saturated with ads. >> what pryor doesn't say is that law was obama care. >> in a five-minute speech cotton u uttered the name obama 11 times. the senator in allies hope that cotton's voting record is his achilles heel on things like a popular children's hospital here, money for veterans, even against the farm bill in a state

that depends on agriculture. >> should be called a food stamp bill. >> these are two candidates who would not be more different. pryor is political royalty in arkansas which opens him up to the charge that he's a creature of washington. his father was also a united states senator. pryor's dad david was also arkansas's governor. he remembers mark was a kid who didn't like it when things got ug ugly. >> we found a nak? our back yard and he refused to kill it. he said, no, i don't think we should kill that snake. >> cot season an upstart newcomer, harvard educated, a new face in congress with plenty of energy but will it make up for what he lacks in experience. he's also a lawyer. in the army e he served tours in iraq and afghanistan, growing up a high school and jv basketball player. we talked to one of his coaches.

>> he was a good athlete. very focused education wise. the ads in arkansas started running a year ago in a red state in a time when republicans are running strong nationwide. one of the most closely watched races and have a potential to be a cliff hanger. >> thanks for that report. let's dig a little deeper right now. joining us, ryan liser. a lot of folks are looking at these close races where there are democratic encouple bants and they're wondering what role the president of the united states might play. nationwide in the brand-new gallop tracking poll president obama's approval number, there you see it, 38% approve, 54% disapprove. but in arkansas in our exclusive cnn poll you see his approval number, the president only 33%, you go to kentucky you see the president's approval number in

kentucky only 29%. how much of a problem would the president be for these democratic encouple bants in a state like arkansas or kentucky? >> i think those numbers that you just showed pretty much explain joe johns' excellent report on why one candidate is talking obama and the democratic is not mentioning the president at all. that tracking poll, that national gallop poll, that is a big landmark number today. because if you go back and look at the last 20 to 30 years of midterms, you look at the worst midterms, reagan in '82, president bill clinton in '94, george w. bush in 2006 and barack obama in 2010, 38 is lower than any of those numbers. it matches george w. bush in 2006. those were all wipeout years for the encouple want president. so he is truly in the danger

stone right now with presidential approval. and presidential approval, that's the number to watch as we come down the home stretch pap that correlates well with how many seats the party in power generally loses. >> that would explain why the democratic challenger in kentucky or senator pryor in arkansas may not necessarily want the president to come into those stauts and start campaigning for them. >> i think it's tricky because they want the president who is still popular with his liberal base. they want him to raise money and he's still popular with base voters that didn't always vote in democratic midterm elections. the voters who didn't vote in 2010 but did turn out for president obama in 2012. it's tricky play. they want his money and they want him to turn out the base. but with a lot of other voters he's very unpopular. the big prize of course in these his terms is the senate.

and some of these races over the last month, the democratic position has slightly strengened where this week a lot of the political conversation was republicans anxious and worrying that maybe they weren't going to take back the senate. let's talk about "crimes of the century" -- chris christie. he was asked about immigration. listen to what he said. >> i have no role in the immigration debate expect for how it may affect the individual citizens of new jersey. i won't have anything to say on immigration unless and until i become a candidate for the president of the united states. if that happens, then i'll articulate a full position on it. >> he's get criticized pretty severely for refusing to tell us what his positions were on illegal immigration, immigration. what do you make of that comment that he made? >> well i think politically it looks like a mistake. if you want to be known as

someone who aspires to be president and and chris christie and advisers are constantly promoting him, you know what the press is going to ask you. you know what probably the most important bilateral issue is between mexico and the united states. this issue of immigration. i would contrast it with rand paul who was in gat maul la recently and he met with the president and talked quite a bit about immigration and made sharp comments about obama. if you're an aspiring con date or you want to be talked about as a candidate, you're going abroad, you got to deal with the foreign policy issues that are relevant to the country. >> especially if you're visiting mexico and you're asked about immigration, you got to respond. you can't say i can't articulation a position unless i become a candidate for the

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and almost always polite, joan lifrs was so thunder cloud. >> we got engaged and we each opened our own door an now that we're married, he makes me run around and open his door. >> she said in the early days she wasn't allowed to do standup with johnny carson but forced to sit alongside. yet river was part of the revolutionary flood of richard pryor, woody allen, a new type of comedy that was more personal, more cutting and she was a woman. >> a girl, a girl, you're 30 years old. you're not married you're an old maid. a man, he's the 0 years old, not married, he's a catch. >> this is why in new york, los angeles and everywhere in between the tributes continue to pour in. >> i knew her and i loved her. i don't know what to say. it's too shocking. it just happened. >> on the late night circuit

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football season is back, last night the seattle seahawks beat the green bay packers, 36-16 even after avoiding richard sherman. famous for the rant that went viral last season. give us a preview because we are look forward to the interview

later tonight. >> you may remember that after his exuberant post-game interview, sherman was hit with a bunch of racial slurs on social media. it ignited a national conversation on racial stereo types and how we see young black athletes and men in general. i asked him about the events in ferguson, missouri. >> you're from compton. you grew up among gang violence. how does that complicate the relationship between the police and the community and how can it get better? >> it's people are just minding their own business and driving around and trying to make a living are being mixed up with criminals and that's never what you want.

>> won't surprise you, wolf, that sherman did not shy away from any social issue or topic of conversation in our interview. "time" magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. >> what else tonight? >> tiger woods and rory mcilroy. i asked tiger if he is going to win another major. we also interview coach k, mi mike -- there is controversy over whether they should be playing in international competition. should they be in spain playing? i asked coach k about it. >> we will be watching. glad the show is back later tonight. you can see the interview with

richard sherman later tonight. "unguarded" 10:30 p.m. eastern here only on cnn. >> finally a personal word about a loss to the cnn family. bruce morton died yesterday. he was 83. he worked for cbs as well covering the vietnam war and watergate. he was in iowa in 1976 when a southerner made it a mandatory first stop for would-be presidents. >> this is a good state for a man who can spend time on organization. that may help former governor jimmy carter. >> i worked with bruce every week when i anchored cnn's "late edition" the last word in sunday talk. >> it's easy to look around america and thing that it works pretty well. we are all somewhat free. so we have some freedom, some

optimism, some hope. to reason to think we can rise in the world. >> he wrote so beautifully. it was a perfect way to end "late edition" every sunday. i loved hearing his essays and what he had to report. something i said back when bruce retired in 2006 holds true to this day. his voice was unique and wry with a perspective you could only get by covering politics for five decades. as one of our colleagues said if there were a journalist hall of fame, bruce morton would certainly be in it. bruce morton passed away at 83. our deepest, deepest condolences to his family. >> you can always follow us on twitter. tweet me @wolfblitzer. join us again on monday, 5:00 p.m. eastern. you can dvr the show if you

can't catch us live. thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in the "the situation room." erin burnett "outfront" starts erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com a plane full of american contractors forced to land in iran. a live report coming up. two u.s. fighter jets forced to scramble. and new video of the fight against isis. what the battle looks like on the ground tonight. let's go "outfront." "outfront" the breaking news, the plane carrying 100 americans forced to land in iran. iranian authorities forced the plane to land or be