the 2014 4runner. toyota. let's go places. this is cnn "breaking news." good evening, i'm don lemon. i'm alisyn camerata. new air strikes targeting isis positions in eastern syria going after the money. u.s. and coalition war planes pounding oil installations isis uses to finance operations. >> britain's prime minister recalling parliament to seek per motion to gin the ajoin the air. passing an anti-terror

resolution. the president says those words must be matched by action. >> is there an unintended consequence to air strikes. is it possible by fighting isis the coalition is actually strengthening al qaeda? our terrorism experts will explain how that works. >> as we saw in the special townhall, former president bill clinton agrees with the decision to launch air strikes in syria. we're going to have what else he said. >> there is also breaking news in the case of the missing university of virginia student hannah graham. police in galveston texas have taken jesse matthew into custody. the suspect wanted on suspicion of abduct tgioabduction, a full. >> breaking news -- new round of air strikes against isis late today targeting oil refineries in sear yeah. go to jim acosta, senior white house correspondent. at the united nations for us tonight. so, jim give us the latest on today's air strikes. >> well, don, the obama

administration is making no, illusions here in terms of what this mission was about today. the air strikes were really going after -- the funding, the financing of isis hitting the oil fields and, in those oil refineries in eastern syria. a big part of the money. that goes to isis. and as you heard from the president today, john, this was not a leading from behind speech. he was really taking full ownership of this coalition that he is leading in the fight against isis. you heard at one point during the speech, president warning isis fighters to leave the battlefie battlefield. foreshadowing the strikes that took place later on in the day. the president going on to describe isis as a cancer that the world must eradicate. here's more of what the president had to say. >> there can be no reasoning, no negotiation with this brand of evil. the only language understood by killers like this is the language of force. so the united states of america will work with a broad coalition

to dismantle this network of death. >> and the president continued those themes throughout the day, he met with the iraqi prime minister, the new i lack kraqi minister saying in remarks this will not be a short fight against isis. really just the beginning. later in the day he presided over the u.n. security council session, getting the sequestration to dadopt a resolution. and really he is going to be sort of, taking this multinational cooperative theme and into this final day here at the united nations, he'll be meeting, with a conference of, foreign leaders tomorrow. to tackle the, the outbreak of ebola in africa. he is really looking at the same sort of coalition building effort there, don, to deal with that problem as well. it is a, it is a recurring theme with this president. he wants to lead coalitions in

every fight he is dealing with right now, don. >> busy day for the president. thank you, jim acosta. >> let's talk more about the president's address at the u.n. the challenge he issued to the muslim world. we also have individually to show you that was shot secretly inside the isis controlled city of raqqa, syria. it shows what life is like under terrorist rule. it is very grim. wait till you see this. >> yeah, can't wait to talk about that. . joined by fareed zakari, and a global affairs analyst and managing editor. fareed, the president's speech today at the u.n. as we were watching, i said, he seemed more forceful, little sterner, more confident. you said president obama's unga speech was eloquent, but is the strategy coherent? expand on this. do you find a flaw in his strategy? >> the moment when american

presidents look great. when they order military action. the united states has the most awesome military in the world. fire power is unbelievable you. begin to see, the bombs go off. it, it will all incredibly impressive. and rightfully so. the problem what we know is from iraq. from libya, from many of these examples, is, to get actual progress, lasting results. you need politics on the ground to go and work in your way. think of libya. got rid of gadhafi. chaos. iraq. got rid of saddam. the fact that you have impressive fire power ordered. doesn't mean you have solved the strategic problem on the ground. the strategic problem on the ground is this. attacking isis in syria. which is going to strengthen, the assad regime. the russians. and the iranians who are the, the sponsors of the assad regime. mean wheel -- meanwhile your big

goal is to in some way, or another. owe po oppose them. how do you make sense of this. find some middle course where you are attacking isis, but not helping isis' principal opponent the assad regime i you look at iraq, we say we are going to make this work, we will have an iraqi government that will include all the iraqis. it doesn't. you can say it. it hasn't actually happened. >> you say how do you do all these things. you said that you actually think that the president is right in leading from behind, what do you mean by that? on this issue? >> i think that the -- this is fundamentally an arab cancer. it need to be solved by arabs. we should be very deeply involved. we should be helping, organizing the coalition. it is not such a bad thing if saudi arabia and jordan, you know one of the things, are in the lead. one of the things the president said which i thought was very eloquent. most eloquent part of his

speech. when he took the muslim world to task and said, you guys, you have to denounce the stuff. you have to frontally confront it. i called it his sister soulja moment. like bill clinton he had credibility to take the issue on. nobody is going to think he is anti-muslim, right. he can say, look, telling you as a friend. you guys have got a serious cancer in your midst. deal with it. don't deny it. he called out the saudis. great. you want to profit from globalization by selling oil to us. then you want to use the p proceeds to fund it. the implication was clear. >> erin burnett sat down with bill clinton for townhall meeting that just ended. she asked him what he thought and if he supports them. and here is his response. >> i think what yisis was tryin to do was sucker us into soldiers on the ground to shift the blame from them to us for

all the violence in the area. what we learned repeatedly its that when the sunni tribal leaders not militant, not twisting islam for political objectives are willing to fight -- they can reclaim their country. we should help them. but not a fight we can win for them. >> did air strikes help them reclaim their country. >> it gives them hope. at the moment that's all right air strikes can do. it can stop momentum. change the narrative of isis. so far, isis has been seen as an irresistible force. taking all the territory. and an immovable object. holding on to the territory. refusing to cede. air strikes, and ground operations by iraqis change the narrative. it shows isis can behurt. if that narrative takes hold.

then some tribes allied with isis, hopefully begin to ask themselves should we really be in alliance with a group that is now facing the wrath of the world. do we really want to be part of that coalition, or should we find a we to pull out. that's the moment when, the iraqi political system is supposed to go to these people and say, listen. we will give you a seat at the table. address your grievances. more autonomy. that part has not begin to happen. the bombing campaign is, has got limited objectives. and can only yield limited results. a lot of other things have to happen. have to happen in the right time. for this to be a success. >> bobby, we want to show you this very chilling video. cnn has been given. it's, we understand, secretly taped. by of a young woman maybe a girl. walking through the streets of raqqa. an isis controlled city. what that landscape looks like. you see black everywhere. you see the black isis flag.

and women here carrying these what look like ak-47s. what's going on in the video? >> you are seeing the presence of isis as a policing force. in the city. a city of. 350,000, large city in northern sear yeah. th -- in syria. this woman is brave to be walking around, if caught, the punishment would be brutal, swift, could lead to death. she would be accused of spying, working for the west, would be the end of her. we are getting a glimpse of, some of these people aren uniform. others are, mostly, there was what seems to be a woman carrying an -- >> why would she be carrying a weapon? >> part of the force. patrols. supposed to look out for women who are breaking the rules. >> if the looks like there is a woman, some one stopped her, your face isn't covered properly. >> the woman carrying the

camera, cwhat the caliphate loos like? >> no. >> when you spock t spoke to hi would ask him about a solution? >> i am a trustee of the new america foundation, cnn rules require that i disclose that. he was less willing to, you know, with leaders at his level. what i find some times it is day-to-day, the mood changed. saw him tuesday, monday. he was talking about how there was possible political cooperation, that the united states could have with iran. and there were areas like, in afghanistan, and perhaps in iraq. today he was much more circumspect. first we have got to solve the nuclear issue. if we can't sochl tlve the nucl issue. nothing else was possible.

he was signaling to the united states in particular. this its our ask. you have got to, do the nuclear deal. if that happens. he did hint, that, that, political solutions in iraq, might be, furthered in syria. remember. one of the things they could solve for the united states and for everybody in syria is a path to a political settlement that includes the opposition and assad and you know a brokered settlement. they're the only one whose have influence. odd thing here, we are frying how to have hand effect on the ground. the only one whose have influence are iranians. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. you can see fareed's interview with iran's president, airs sunday, 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. eastern here. thank you very much. >> now to our breaking news tonight. could be a major break in the case of the missing university of virginia student hannah graham. sheriffs have taken jesse

matthew into custody. the suspect who was wanted on suspicion of her abduction. cnn's correspondent is live in charlottesville, virginia, with more. jeanne, great to see you. tell us how the capture happened? >> want to till you first i got off the phone with the galveston county jail. he has just been booked in the jesse matthew, found in galveston on the beach camping in a tent. learning how this came down. according to a judge in galveston, that a suspicious call came into the deputy sheriff avenue department that some one was on the beach. and, camping out. so, a sheriff went down there. and ran the license plate. and found the license plate was hot. that's when they approached him and arrested him. he did not resist at all. this was at 3:30 this afternoon local time. but they stayed out in the field with him for quite a while. he didn't come in to the jail

until 8:00 tonight. i was told. and they didn't book him right away because they were questioning hiquestion ing him. a missing person's case. the big question is, where is hannah graham. he was according to police the last person to see her before she disappeared. 12 days ago. now here's what is going to happen. tell morning at 7:00 there will be a court proceeding in galveston. this will be, an extradition proceeding. and one can waive their extradition and come back to virginia or one can fight it. virginia law enforcement is going to texas. next step in the hams of jesse graham. because he will be in texas and fight this or be on his way back to virginia. >> sure virginia authority want to ask him a lot of questions as well. very, very quickly, do we know when forensic tests of his car and apartment come back? >> the virginia department of science tells me that, later this week, they should have the results. they are still testing these

items, and it's dna pre fiofile. sensitive and takes time. >> jeanne. thank you for the update. >> much more to got to. bad blood between isis and other terrorist groups. but by launching air strikes and degrade and destroy isis is the united states and its coalition partners strengthening al qaeda and triferrorists. >> the military campaign against isis and the khorasan group is costing taxpayers ml yuillions. should the u.s. force arab countries to pick up the tab. we'll explore that.

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welcome back. our top story this evening. new air strikes launched today. this time, on oil facilities run by isis in eastern syria. let's get answers from david ross, senior fellow at the foundation for offensive democracies and senior fellow at george washington homeland security policy ens to the. thank you for being here. want to start with you. if you weaken isis, you strengthen al qaeda. how does that work? >> the two of them are competitor organizations.

isis kicked out of al qaeda since beginning of february. since then it aggressively made bid to get affiliates of al qaeda and others within the organization to join it. by targeting isis it creates an incentive to go back to al qaeda. because moving forward the u.s. is going to their rely target isis. when isis is degrade, u.s. strikes will do. >> paul, what does that mean? we shouldn't beep h hitting isi. we don't want to strengthen al qaeda. in a sense it is weakening both. the degree of danger. strikes against both groups. and the groups could find some sort of common cause, they could at least stop fighting each other.

a worrying prospect if they could pool resources. seen other al qaeda affiliates in the region. north africa. yemen. call for al qaeda and isis to patch up differences and, focus on hitting the united states. >> we have been discussing exactly how strong is isis. talk to us about khorasan? >> this is a pretty small group, don. maybe a dozen, more, few dozen fighters. this is al qaeda's a team. veteran operatives. in the field. all sorts of contacts. recruit westerners in syria. western militants there for plots. back in the west. it doesn't take a very large amount of, of these militants to put together sophisticated plots in the west. we saw with 9/11.

that was 19 hijacker. seen other plots since with fewer amounts of plotters. and al qaeda and yemen had a pretty small externl al divisio. i want to talk about your personal story. you have a fascinating background you. were born and raised jewish. then you converted at some point right after college, i believe. can you help us understand what on earth is attractive about isis, or al qaeda, or khorasan to westerners. i ended up working for a charity in the extremist constellation. ended up with, a more, extreme, interpretation.

i don't think it answered the question of radicalization. a number of pathways people take in. some are based more on personal understanding of religion or journey of faith. some are based on grievances. >> quickly want to play the president, he spoke about religion and faith. >> there is nothing new about wars within religions. christianity endured centuries, ambitious sectarian conflict. today it is violence within muslim communities that has become the source of so much human misery.

>> david, is he basically telling muslim nations to get their acts together. >> that's what he is doing. calling for people, from muslim states to stand up to isis. one of the reason he's conte contextualizes this in christian history is to make clear he is not signaling out one faith. but right now problems like this, al qaeda, that the muslim world does need to deal with. >> paul, you agree? at the end of the day the middle east will have to deal with it, don. >> paul, david, thank you. >> now that air strikes have been expanded into syria do americans need to do more to stay safe here at home? how serious a threat are

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we have been talking about this a lot. the most troubling aspect of all this. defense officials are warning an attack on the u.s. and western interests could be imminent though they know of no credible plot. so what does that even mean? what do we need to know to stay safe? >> we talk about it with cnn national security analyst. former police, new york city police commissioner and ceo of the kerouk group. are we going to see, doing enough, i should say to be safe in this country, kidding air strikes to start -- just started in syria? >> honestly don, any bed that looks at what is going on today in a post 9/11 world. you have got to be naive. that you are not being as proactive and preemptive as you can. in hardening up targets around

the country. schools, malls, tourist sites. synagogues, churches. >> bernie, you want metal detectors at the front door of every elementary school? personally i would like metal detectors at every elementary school. yes, bottom line. you have to secure locations. hack sure nobody can get in. you have to have access in egress areas. you have to have cameras. can't have, saw an incident in connecticut where it was a maniac that walked in and massacred children. we don't want that to happen now. especially when you have a number of thighs people that are abroad. holding u.s. passports. they're going to come back here. they're coming back to the country. where are they going to go to work in a convenience store. you know what are they going to do when they get back here. they engaged in brutal, savage behavior that we have ever seen.

on tv or anywhere. do you agree. is it time to harden up these soft targets like malls and elementary schools? >> the first is. well i probably come from this, with a different approach. i think the first is, there is peace. part of this. we have always had a level of risk. the threat changed. it goes up and down depending where we are in terms of global conflict. the other is, america was built unsafe. i think we have to begin to talk about that. realistically. we have open borders for a reason. we like commercial activity to be fast. i like going on amazon. buying my kids' books. and arriving the next day. we are a country about the movement of people and things and ideas. in some watz the challenge is balancing what makes us great. as a country. and, safety and security. often said after the boston marathon on air here.

i know huh to make a perfectly safe marathon. don't have it. but we are making choices, all the time. so when we have an increased threat. level as we do now. bernie said, increased vigilance by both individuals and law enforcement. to minimize the risk. also being very clear. that we never can get to zero. >> let's talk about some of the things. that we should do in order to be vigilant, right. this was distributed by the fbi homeland security to law enforcement. one potential retaliation from lone wolves. can put that up. it says, possible indicators of hop grown violent extremists. changes in appearance. behavior. weapons training. taking down social media profiles prior to travel. using religious text to sanction violence. so, is it -- is this fear mon r mongoring or is this real. much of this seems very common

sense. >> honestly, don, not fear mongoring. these are real things. real thing. they're common sense. we have to hope that our intelligence capabilities catch these things in advance. we are in a far better position today than september 11th, 2001. 100 times. better in the intelligence community. if you miss one it is, it could be, a major, major problem for us. we say its not fear mongoring. hypotheticals. no credible evidence that something is about to happen on the homeland. are we needlessly terrifying people? i think part of this is just, it was sort of, let's be realistic, adults here. we are in a conflict against two organizations in syria now. and loan wolves may in their own mind feel like they're affiliated with some larger meaning. but they're just sociopaths.

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>> the pentagon says it appear the air strikes against the 12 oil facilities were successful. oil is a lucrative business for isis. >> the pentagon estimates that all refineries the group controls not just the ones hit today generate don up to 2 million dollars a day. for isis to finance its terror operations. joined now by cnn senior international correspondent awra damon on the turkey/syria

border. tell us what the reaction has been there to the air strikes? >> well, we were speaking, a short while ago to -- an activist who was from raqqa. he said that they most certainly were welcoming these on going strikes against isis, especially he was saying the types of strikes that we saw taking place a few hours ago. targeting the oil facilities, strikes that were away from populated areas so there wasn't necessarily that risk of any sort of collateral damage. however, he also said that within the city of raqqa itself. isis movements, entrenching themselves amongst the population. a concern among the population. conflicting, and happy the strikes were taking place. finally the world was paying attention and doing something about the horrific nightmare that hey had been living for so long. and on the other hand, a sense of apprehension and fear that

perhaps they could end up killed by some of these air strikes or even by isis and some sort of revenge attack. because the organization has also continuously going around and detaining individuals at random. that being said though, there have been a fair amount of concerns voiced from other opposition activists. the ongoing air strikes by the u.s. strikes that were against nonisis groups. such as the front. and other islamic groups as well. might cause even more civilian casualties. we have been seeing some of that. some of those caused by the initial round of air strikes. so a lot of fear. a lot of concern. again. as it has been for so long for the syrian population. a lot of unknowns at this stage. >> very understandable. awra, thank you for the update. >> going to dig in a little deeper now. bring in lieutenant colonel, james reece, ceo and retired

delta force commander. retired colonel rick francona, former u.s. attache in syria. a dozen targets. tell us about the targets. >> these are oil fields. oil refineries located out in the desert. halfway between euphrates, and in the kurdish area. as awra said they're out in the middle of big desert areas. so the limit, limits the exposure. of the civilian population. and so, itdamage. it hits isis in the pocketbook. robs them of lucrative income. prevents them from refining oil they can use for their own use. so it's, it's a good target set. we saw this as a finance center and oil fields.

part of the economic punishment we are dealing to isis. >> congressman, we understand they hit 12 targets. does this make a dent into isis' funding? >> absolutely. think about it. they're selling oil for about half the price, i think oil went today, $73 a barrel. say they're telling at $35. at 300 to 400 barrel a day they could be selling on the black market, you are talking $3 million, $4 million. nice liftle chunk of change each day to finance their, their activities back there in their safe haven. >> talk about the money being spent on all of this. the cost involved in the campaign. first night, 47 tomahawk cruise missiles launched, each costs $500,000. that's over $23 million. plus the u.s. is using the new f-22 raptor, stealth fighter, which each costs $412 million. that is a big price tag for the u.s. taxpayer.

colonel francona. >> it is. okay. let's talk about the raptor. expensive piece of equipment. in the inventory. f-15 or f-22. the cost of the operation isn't that much different. we purchased the thing. a sunken cost. might as well use the best. the tomahawks, an expense every time you fire one, half a million dollars. but -- looking at it from the operators point of view. and i'm sure jim will back me up on this. you want our troops to have the absolute best equipment they can get. you want them to, you want this stuff to work. if you are going to put people in harm's way, carrying these weapons few a target or firing a weapon from a ship. you want it to work. >> no doubt. no doubt. you want it to work. still that is a lot of, this is being, all funded by the am can taxpayer. people at hope saying, my goodness i have to pay for this. >> we have to pay. an expensive proposition. alternative not off to take any action, let isis run amok.

>> isn't the alternative to get arab states to help pay for this. why are we footing the bill? >> i dent know that well are. we don't know what the contribution of the coalition is. states that aren't providing troops, but volunteered to be part of the coalition. for example. kuwait. heard that kuwait is providing funding for some of these operations. remember, desert storm. many arab states provided lots of funding. that we used to purchase the wep pn that we did use. >> i want to talk about, john kerr ye kerry. he spoke on cnn. let's listen and then talk. >> what we have done. we stopped the onslaught. that's what we were able to achieve with air power. they were moving toward irbil, towards baghdad. baghdad could well have fallen. irbil could have fall in. they could have control of all the oil fields. >> he is trying to justify the conflict here. baghdad could have fallen. do you buy that, secretary of

state. trying to justify the strikes here. >> anything is possible. but i truly believe right now. especially, we have several people on the ground in baghdad. baghdad is pretty much, bipzness as usual right now. there have been attacks down there. a push out to the west. baghdad international airport. baghdad, isis, a hard target with the militia. >> thank you so much for being with us. >> up next, it is being dubbed the latte salute. is it as bad as it looks?

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>> president obama's decision to launch air strikes against targets in syria criticized by "the new york times" in a stinging editorial. >> let's talk about it with this guy. chris cuomo, anchor. he's back. cnn's new day. so -- the editorial board was pretty tough on the president. stirring up a hornet's nest over there. do you buy that? >> look, who am i to question "the new york times." a far better mind. former president clinton dismissed it out of hand.

said the trick was to stay off the ground because isis wants you on the ground so that it can -- turn the tide of who've is responsible for the violence on to the u.s. that's why it is important off the ground. but the threat is obvious. the instability in the region is obvious. the need is obvious. >> "the new york times" argument, sorry to interrupt. it was that he has not laid out a convincing plan for victory in syria. they said he has not explained how this bombing campaign exactly will degrade isis. how is this going to degrade the threat. head in the sand. you never know what will happen in the campaign until you begin it. >> unknown, knowns, and known, knowns. >> true. what is ignored most in "the new york times" in my opinion. i think it was convenient.

low hanging fruit for them. ignoring the real issue. should the president have been able to go over and declare war because he thinks this is the right thing to do? no, he shouldn't have. this is congress's job. so happy they're not here. so happy that they're not, playing politics with such important matters right now. it is their job under the constitution. it's been ignored. ignored at all peaair peril >> staunch republicans, president obama's biggest supporters. >> wouldn't they go on the record? >> politics. they want to get re-elected. this think the public is war weary. >> i'm no war mongor. we have to sacrifice ourselves in the situation. they're very dangerous. cnn very committed to it. i applaud the commitment and respect it in my own life. i don't want to run over there any faster than anybody else. their job under the

constitution. why didn't he take it to congress. they're giving him the power. he should have gone to them. should have had to stand on their principles way or another. >> i don't blame him. here's why. if you can get the power. you have obstructionist tendency. other presidents have. you have precedent. is it the right thing to do? i would argue no. this congress don't think has the right thing in mind. >> mark your calendars. i agree. in this situation it the right thing to do. that's where we differ. i office think you are right. if you have the purr to d power. do it. people would be. shouldn't the president. this is also in the times. shouldn't the president have to explain to us exact low whly shouldn't the president have to explain to us exact low wh the evidence is. explain what the evidence is. >> i dent thon't think we shoul every single thing. don't think we should show our

hand to people. by telling us information maybe giving it away. >> wasn't this the problem with george w. bush. wanted to go to iraq. >> to your point. >> even colin powell had to go in front of the u.n. security council. the vial of anthrax. later criticized. at lest thast they were fryintr find evidence. >> senator obama. in 2002. even the war against iraq will require u.s. occupation of undetermined length. that's what it goes on to say. sound lick is agreeing. he became what he didn't want to become. he within for two reason. one, iraq stinks, i'm getting us out. second one, john mccain said i am no expert on the economy the i know huh to keep us safe. the economy tanked. mccain effective low opted himself out of analysis by

voters. >> are we at war? >> we are at war. there is no question about it. >> no one wants to say it. >> they're saying it. he is saying it. changing the dialogue. the question is why didn't they say it. they didn't say it because they know war means congress. they don't want to get into that thicket. >> i think isn't it orwellian. >> let me take a drink. >> to believe that, the president, who railed against george w. bush for having a pre-eminent war with scant evidence. not having. >> different circumstances. >> sorry, preemptive war with scant evidence. same if thing. >> no. i think it is. >> we have evidence of people being beheaded on tape. we go to war now because two americans were beheaded? >> you know what. give me a little of this. i will fell you why. you are right. here is why she is right. i'm afraid. because that's war, trying how

to avoid it. it didn't matter enough until the americans were killed. now, the british man who showed, trying how to do all the right things, wrong things happening to him. isis a threat for years. syria was a real place that we should have taken seriously before. but now there is mote vags the to act. this would seem small. no human life is meaningless. smaller precipitating factor. off awe c can i get this in before you go? what is senate. >> the salute. >> the latte salute. >> i could not care any less. but now, making it more of a story, don lemon. >> all social media, conservative media. >> don't give it attention if you think it is not a story. >> people are talking about it. >> multitasking. doing too much. talk about optics. put the latte down before you salute. >> doesn't have to salute at all. not require that he salute. some presidents don't do it. >> find me, he looks casual, not respecting what it is. find me some one who is upset

about this that didn't already hate the man. >> think we have a picture of a time george w. bush had something in his hand. he tried to salute. it doesn't work. you have got to put it down, guys. >> what it comes done to, what does america value more, coffees or dogs? >> thank you. thank you for joining us. watch for us, every morning, on "new day" 6:00 a.m. eastern through 9:00. we will be right back. "hello. you can go ahead and put your bag right here."

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>> a whole hour. >> it was fast. >> that's it for us tonight. i'm don lemon. >> ac 360 starts right now. >> thank you for joining us. live edition of ac 360. breaking news on two fronts. an arrest in the disappearance of hannah graham. after a big day here in new york. new video of co-legislation forces hitting targets today. these c