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explaining. this is cnn breaking news. >> good morning. >> i am christy. forces unleaching a dozen air strikes. >> that's according to ncc on the ground. well, now the intensity and frequency of the strikes have ramped up. that's after the burning death of that pilot and this according to forces. 11 people killed and two wounded after suicide bombers targeted a market in baghdad. >> we're going -- we do want to go becky anderson. becky, what are you hearing from jordan this morning? >> reporter: yeah, on the american hostage publicity stunt

that i would hope drive a wedge in the partners and the united states is how the jordans have described these isis claims soon after the news broke about kayla, this is what the spokes person said on the friday air strikes. have a listen. >> to my knowledge we have targeted and started ammunition and the training camps. it would be difficult for us to believe or expect the fact that an american lady hostage was there. what we know about this terrorist organization is that they are liars when they come to these things. >> isis thought that they would break it and they have miss calculated in the last year we

have heard it confirmed that a morning of new air strikes and the self-declared isis capital and clearly indicated that the lethal show of force is loaded with an une quiz cal message. this is what he vows will be the end of the militant group. >> okay. we so appreciate it. want to bring in phil black now. he is joining us by phone where the strikes are taking place. we need to point out that phil is one of the only journal irss, western journalists in the immediate area. he is calling us from a mountain top. phil, help us understand the scene where you are right now. >> sure, we're about seven miles from the gates and we can see it in the distance. what we can hear is what they're

saying. aircrafts and air strikes are frequent ever since we arrived over the last hour or so. we have heard a dozen of so detonations. they will occupy and have been blocked off through the path and holding the defensive line here. so the air strikes have really stepped up over the last few weeks or days i should say. ever since isis showed the video. we don't know if there's a link, but that's the observation that was made. these fighters have trying to circle the city and from every direction as well to cut it off and that is ahead of what is expected to be in the coming months and free the city from isis. >> becky was just talking about the hostage situation and how

isis had claimed a jordan air strike and that's what killed the american hostage. is there any -- you're there, is there any way to determine who is involved in the air strikes and to identify whether certain air strikes are by the forces or strictly -- >> yeah, not easily and credibly to be fair. we can see a large jet aircraft circling in the sky and it appears to be an observation craft. you can see and here and it's fast and moving. the one that we're responsible and they're flying and it's very difficult to make out what type of aircraft that they are and who is responsible for flying. we do know that the air campaign -- and so the

australian air forces as well. they are doing -- it's mostly the united states and that's been the basic responsibility in the weight of this and being handed out. no credible way to look up in the sky and see an aircraft and know just where it comes from. >> okay. good to make. phil we appreciate it. you take care there you and the crew. as becky was telling us just a short time ago kayla has been health captive for a year and a half. over night her parents released this statement. "we're still hopeful that kayla is alive. we have sent you a private message and asked you you to respond to us. we know that you have read the previous communication. you told us that you treated her as a guest.

kayla's mother and i have been doing everything that we can to get her released ". >> well, we learned that they sent them a letter of demanding 6,000 dollars in -- on friday a spokes person released new information about kayla and her strong desire to serve others. >> i am in solidarity with the people. >> 26-year-old native carla is what ultimately brought her to the turkish border several years ago. in 2011 she took part of this video and declaring her support and she is seen in this youtube video addressing the senator. the aide worker volunteered in

turkey where she helped people. in 2013 she was credited and told the newspaper that this story is not rare in syria and adding that as long as i will not live, i will not let the suffering be normal and something that we expect. in high school she volunteered with the save our corp. and won a number of awards and recognized as a young leader. she told the daily cur your i love cultures and language and learning about people's culture. after graduating in 2009 she lived and work with groups in the middle east. in august 2013 she was kidnapped in the city of lepo where she was leaving a spanish doctors without borders. >> isis has been collecting the

foreigners and -- >> after the beheading muller would be the last known hostage held by isis. >> the family spokes person said in may they made contact with the family confirming the captivity and providing proof of life. christy and victor. >> pamela, we yatd it. thank you so much. world leaders are racing to stop and top leaders and the counter parts are trying to work out a piece deal before more lives are lost there. new details on whitney houston's daughter. now they say that she has some injuries that need explanation. (melodic, calm music.)

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sea. according to the department of justice, all six people came from boz knee i can't. they say that two suspects plan to join terrorists in battle. let's talk more with anthony. he is a professor at georgia state university. you heard of these arrests for aiding terror over seas. how big athreat is isis to a homeland? >> it's focused on getting people to go and join the struggle and the fight that they're having in iraq and syria. it's starting to shift a little bit more to attack the targets, so it's something that we want to be individual lent of. >> it's a source that says that isis has been developing plans

since last year to kidnap western hostages in jordan and lebanon. how concerning is that? >> well, they have learned to the pieces that they have put out and continued to develop and that it's affective in getting the eyes on it across the world. in that sense it's a strong value for it. i would watch that going forward. >> you would study that going forward? we just heard before the break that part of this message that was sent from the family of kayla and the american -- what is the value of a message like that to isis? >> well, one of the things that they're going try to do is have some kind of, you know, speck cal depending on whether or not there's a validity to the claim. we have no reason to take them to the word for sure. so it's something that i am

concerned about because we do not necessarily know. that's part of what they know the sense of suspence. what are they going to do next. that's one of the things that people are focussing on. >> obviously it appears that this is a pr stunt. that's what they're calling it and many in the u.s. are calling it that. if they did not get if bang of the buck that kayla was killed by the air strikes, do you expect that they would try again and see her in a video? how many western hostages have tied in their custody or they have killed without some value? >> that's the big concern. the question about what they would do in that context because if you remember there was a month long period of false hope with regard to the the fate of the jordan pilot. that's something that it would not surprise me if there were some follow on. again, it's all speculation at

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we have new details in the case of whitney houston's daughter. she has been in a medically induced coma for a week now. now cnn has learned that they're focussing on her boyfriend as determining how they ended up in a tub face down. she has injuries that need to be explained. the nature of the injuries has not been disclosed. she was found unresponsive in the bathtub here in georgia last weekend. coming up joey jackson joins us and what it means. two officers have been arrested in phil live after they beat this man who was on a scooter at the time and then tried to cover it up. his girlfriend hunted down footage that undermined the

officers account of the brutal incident. we have been investigating it. >> vindicated by video nearly two years after he was brutally beaten by police, 23-year-old received a slice of justice. the two cops involved indicted by a grand jury and arrested this week charged with police brutality. >> there was a broken nose, approximately 20 staples to the top of the head from having it split open. >> it was may 29th when veteran officers said that he resisted arrest after running a stop sign. in an arrest they said that he attempted to flee on foot after being pulled off. he then slammed an afser against the wall before throwing elbows during the struggle. officer robin suffered minor

pain. after watching the video from the incident, a grand jury determined that the officers story was a lie. >> the video undermined every aspect of the officers account of the incident. another officer arrived at the scene and thought that he was thought since there was so much blood on the ground. it was the girlfriend that found the video to see if it was caught on tape. >> it's painful and embarrassing and brings a lot of issues that you see. we have 6,000500 sworn members. these guys do not represent the majority of the police officers. >> the attorney says that he knew this day would come. >> it's unfortunate for the police department as a whole. they're all a pretty good bunch of professionals who try to protect everybody in philadelphia. they have a tough job, it's a

sad thing that this occurred. >> he was awarded a settlement by the city of philadelphia. both officers have been suspended and he is look forward to the trial and called mcknight a good cop. cnn atlanta. >> all right nick. thank you so much. isis claims that an american hostage is killed. now, the u.s. is trying to see if kayla muler is still alive. plus we want to show you new video from the trans asia crash. a passenger banging on the window trying to get out of there. this as we learn more about the frantic moments that lead to the jets plunge. stay close. i guess i did take some risks. anncr: bode, bode miller!!!

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the tesecretary of the state an the russian foreign minister is searching for some sort of resolution here. nick peyton walsh has the latest for us from ukraine. nick? >> reporter: it's the consistent heavy thought of fire. that's been happening all night and morning and people's republic here and it's not a backdrop to peace at all. we have the extraordinary with the head of the two largest ones in europe and going to do a peace proposal and leaving early the following morning and there was little to say other than the thoughts are being constructed. nobody went back to the cease fire that signed up and last year and behind me continually

that thought suggests that they're continue hearing the clasp and well equipped here and many are concerned the peace talks are perhaps uncertain in the success. if they fail and if there's no cease fire, then we could see a further ex kra lags and so they're caught in the middle here. we have seen in the frontline and ukrainians must furious that neither can stop it and caught in the middle. we have seen people caught down and just going for food. there's a lack of food and water. daily life is trying to go on normal, but this is a city that used to have a million people in it. they're terrified by the constant fear of the land next. all high that something can come.

they're sounding increasingly doubtful as the whether the violence is negotiated and exited from. nick peyton walsh. >> okay. thank you so much. we appreciate it. another big story that we're following. war planes are in the air over northern syria. jordan war planes are pounding and activists tell us that one killed 47 isis fighters. now president obama is going to send a proposal to authorize force against the terror group. how the u.s. plans to battle isis. cnn michelle has more for us. good morning. >> hi, victor and christy. at the same time the reports were emerging and we see the white house spell out the president's national security strategy and looking forward but also defending the decisions that have been made.

>> isis claiming an air strike killed an mourn hostage. against this brutal backdrop they lay out the strategy and the defense for the blueprint. >> with the world united of the horrific execution and it's the world's resolve. >> defending that collective effort against isis and other threats even when progress is slow. critics and some former members of the administration should have been done a long time ago. >> fighting terrorism is a long term struggle. there will be set backs, and there are no one size fits all solutions. >> the white house say that is the goal is strong and sustain

global leadership. also in what is called the obama doctrine and avoiding the constricts and what sounds like a hit back at critics and not over reacting. >> yes, there's a lot going on. still while the dangers that we face maybe more numerous and varied, they're not of the nature that we confronted in world war world war ii or during the cold war. we can not afford to be but you haved by alarmism. >> the challenge is trying to gain support for what could be a three year plan and targeting isis in iraq and syria. will the president leave up any leeway for using the ground troops? so far he has said not an

option. >> national security adviser talked about this process and this review that's been going on as to how the u.s. government deals with and communicates with the families of hostages. this came up and that's what prompted this review and the u.s. does not make conceptions to terrorists and does not pay ransoms. victor and christy? >> all right. michelle, thank you so much. >> let's bring in cnn tom to talk about this. tom, good morning to you. asthma shell just mentioned president obama is going to go and request permission. certainly a hot button issue is a deadline. can you gauge how long it may take to make a dent in the isis infrastructure? >> well, in order to determine that you have to determine what type of force we send in. if we keep on hoping that the

air and the neighborhood join and put their forces on the ground ahead of ours, you know that's a different issue. if you only send in one or two thousand or 3,000 people to fight, it's going to take a -- it's going to take forever probably. so that's the the choice. americans do not want to see tens of thousands of troops show up and going back to iraq and take territory that we already took since 2003. i think that it's all on what kind of actions we take and countries like jordan and hopefully countries like sa-- >> we just heard rice say that this is not world war ii. when you talk to people, i think that there's a fear do you not. do you not get a sense of fear that it could be if this is not taken care of. what is the hesitation?

we heard that the uk all con daeming this. what is the forces of them going in there and taking isis out? >> i don't know and until countries are outraged it will not require every single country to have a citizen murdered and they should see that this is a threat to them in their neighborhood and something that they should deal with. in comparisons to world war ii, the white house should think about how they phase the attempts to fight isis because this is a possibility that we want in iraq. whether we should have invaded, we did. we took over and handed it on a silver plater and he said to create what happened now you why we stood by and watched. so in a way we stand to be a

country that won a war and lost territory that we had won and considering that we have 5,000 american military killed in iraq and 55,000 wounded warriors and a trillion dollars driven in since the great depression and to go up in the smoke and isis has regained is a sad commentary. >> yeah. all right. tom, always appreciate your expertise here. >> thank you. coming up the new details on the train crash as well. all of this as we get new video. look inside the red circle. an attempt to get out of the plane. you can see a person banging on the window trying to get out.

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attention. that person was indeed rescued. now, the teams discovered a body as well. of the 58 people on board 40 have died and three are unaccounted for. we're hearing details on what went wrong on the flight. they say that the pilots dealt with the problems involving both engines before the plane clipped a bridge and before they were taking off. take a look here. the two engines stopped producing power one after the other leaving the plane without thrust for more than a minute. we want to bring in david and he is live for us. dave, good to see you. do investigators have any idea on what happened on the plane with the engines? >> hey, some delicate questions

to ask and just what happened in the cockpit. the flight lasted less than three minutes. it happened very very quickly. what we know is that at one point neither engine was producing thrust. the plane was going down and they did not have power. they attempted to restart an engine and they did that successfully and it came too late. the critical moment is 30 seconds into the flight. that's when they got a warning that there was a problem with the right engine. what happened next some sort of conversation about the left engine and that engine was shut off. now, i spoke to the lead investigator and the aviation counsel and he said that the critical thing here that happened in the cockpit is that the pilots should have had visual warning or a display explaining which engine had a problem and that it was the

right engine. he would not go so far as saying that the pilots made a mistake. that's one question being asked. he said that they're looking carefully into what the operating procedure would have been and how they should have responded to that warning and what they actually did. christy still a lot of questions here tonight about what happened in that cockpit. >> okay. so what is next. what are some of the top priorities at this point? >> reporter: yeah, they are working on a couple of things and this is according to the lead investigator. they're finishing up the transcript and the other big pro priority is taking a look and also canada where the engines were manufactured, and they're taking a close look at the entire wreckage and specifically at the engines and at the cockpit and hoping that it will

shed light on what happened and why this happened. christy, i should mention the search for survivors continuing here and three people remain unaccounted for, but efforts here will continue until all are returned to the families. christy? >> okay. david, grateful for the report there. thank you. still ahead jury selection is under way in the high profile murder of chris kyle. now, we take a closer look at whether the film's success is creating a problem for this trial. mouths are watering, lemons are squeezing, and stomachs are growling. or is it just me? every minute between you and red lobster's lobsterfest feels like an eternity. and who could blame you for craving our largest variety of succulent lobster dishes all year? dishes like dueling lobster tails. with one tail topped with creamy shrimp and a second tail stuffed with tender crab. i was hungry already, and now you show me lobster lover's dream® let's make this dream a reality.

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49 minutes past the hour and the jury selection process will resume on monday in the case of the texas man accused of killing two men and american sniper chris kyle. >> 12 will be selected and two alternates. opening statements expected to begin on wednesday. >> cnn has learned that they will not pled nothing by the reason of insanity. >> they have tried to delay the trial especially following the box office success american snipper. let's talk about the case with joey jackson. joey, are you surprised by this jury selection process as the film is out in theaters? it has to create a huge problem. >> i would think that it would. good morning to you and chris. you have to evaluate this to the backdrop and the popularity of

the movie. nominated for six acammy awards and in addition to that february 2nd is national chris kyle day, so the trial moves on against the backdrop and the popularity of the movie and then the hero and then closer to home in that community, so certainly there is challenges of picking a jury. another trial that we're following there was a juror that was a stealth juror and had things that she did not say when selected as a jury. the parallel is there. do the jurors tell you who they are and what's the important of service. >> we talked about the boston bomber and how difficult that's going to be as well. let's talk more about this mr.

ralph, do you think that he can get a fair trial? >> there are complexities on that for the reason that we discussed, and when you look at what he is accused of doing, it's compelling in terms of the admission that is he made to the police and his sister after the zpakt going to her home and the confession that he told her. that he stole the truck of chris kyle. the evidence is compelling and then you compound that by the fact that it's going held locally and certainly members of the community and hardworking and good spirited and kind and open minded. you have to wonder because of all of the pressures and implications whether that's the appropriate venue. of course defense attorneys have asked them to change and postpone it and the judge has

said no. >> the defense is ptsd. now difficult is it to prove that? >> well, it's difficult for the following reason. the burden of proof shifts not to the state but to the defendant to prove that you were insane by a preponderance of evidence more likely than not. they will evaluate the past history and the indication is that he is paranoid and psychotic and at green oaks facility and admitted there on two occasions. the state of mind will be an issue and remember the determination is whether he knew right from wrong at the time that he committed the offense with kyle and little if he would both dead at his hands. >> okay. joey, we want you to stick around because we want to get

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tarlthsing weapons depots, training center and activists are claiming that 47 terrorists that were killed in a single strike. >> and the family of the remaining hostage is begging for word of their daughter. even reaching out to isis themselves. >> also new questions surrounding what really happened to bobbi kristina brown. she has injured that need to be explained, and now the focus is on her boyfriend nick gordon. this is cnn breaking news. >> good morning and glad to have you with us. >> we're starting this morning with breaking news.

unleaching a dozen air strikes against isis in the city. >> this is according to a crew that's on the ground there. for weeks the fighters have maintained and the intensity and the frequency of the strikes of the city now has ramped up following that horrific burning death. >> we're also learning that isis has blown up a bridge in the city and the militants had recently used the bridge to launch an attack. 36 people have been killed and nearly 100 wounded after two suicide bombers targeted a busy margret and restaurant in the capital of baghdad. >> i want to get to phil black and he is here where the strikes are taking place. he is one of the few western journalists in the immediate area. what are you doing and seeing this hour?

>> reporter: from this position where i am standing we believe that we're especially ten miles from the southern outskirts and it's over my shoulder and what you can see is a commanding view. we're up high, and we can see right throughout the isis controlled territory from the southern approach to the city. what we have heard over head today has been a very constant air presence and regularly over the period of one who or so a series of explosions in the distance. over the last hour or so it's quiet. it does appear to be what we have heard and it's a constant air strike. the presence of fast moving aircraft is constant through the afternoon that we have been here. the fighters that we have been

talking to at the location and it's worth pointing out that this site is one of the closest locations that they occupy to the isis controlled city. they say an up tick around the last few days. they say that since they revealed in the fashion that they murdered the jordan pilot. no way to no if there's a link and that's the observation of the fighters that are here in one of the frontline positions. they have really set up a defensive line from around the south east of the city across the south cutting off the ability of isis to advance further into their territory which is ruled in a fairly good way. that's why they have their own fighting force and have a ground force with the help of power above and really stopping isis for advancing further.

not just stopping but in many cases and rolling back that they gained when they first moved into northern iraq. so from here and this point the strategy for these fighters is part of the international is to cut off and circulate it and choke it off from any supply across the border to the west in syria. that is all taking place ahead of what is expected to be a major offensive to retake. the time frame for that is still unclear. when you talk to fighters and hear from the government in baghdad, there are time frames, but it's tied into efforts to rebuild and reequip and retrain the iraq army. they lead and do most of the heavy lifting. they're i am ing to libber rate that city. >> i wonder if they can show us a little bit more of the landscape there?

the question is an official tells cnn that cincom believes that isis has resources stretched thin that they have difficulty in taking territory. do you know how thin the resources are in mosul? >> reporter: it's difficult to tell and why i talk to you ek see in the camera operator is able to zoom in behind us. it's a hazy day and the view is not clear. it's difficult to see into the distance and that view does change over the course of time, but we will see what we can do and zooming in past. that's the southern approach and i hope that you can see there. now, in terms of the isis ability and military in this region, there's no doubt that

they're having a harder time on the ground. you will remember took a lot of territory and the city and then they struck out further south and since then really it's the fighters that are able to mobilize and draw defensive lines and with the assistance of the coalition and the power. really they have and it would appear the isis ability to try and claim new ground as they were doing intentionally. so they have not only stopped the advance but rolled back the isis advance in many areas. isis is still lashing out and trying to attack on multiple fronts. it's clearly not doing so with the same affectiveness when it took the region by surprise last year. >> okay. thank you for the report. we thank the photo journalists for giving us a look at the

landscape. >> yeah, both of you take good care there. meanwhile planes over syria and they're pounding more targets around the militants. becky is in jordan and we have seen the force and the resolve that does not seem to be broken. that's what it looks like from our advantage point. you're there, do you get the same sense? >> reporter: yeah, absolutely. they thought that they could break it and they have miss calculated. in the last hour we have had it confirmed a new series of air strikes and that's the self-declared if you will that they take about and clearly indicating that the lethal force has promised the the nation and worse is loaded with a message. this is very much the beginning of what he vows will be the end of the militant group.

the goal manifested in the news in that past hour from iraq as phil was pointing out and a dozen air strikes. what we have heard is who is in the air and who is striking what. why it appears to be the jordans are in the air over syria and specifically for the targeting of roc skporks alongside cover of the u.s., they have also been flying over iraq as well. we do not have the details at this point. military intelligence is tight, but serply it seems that they are not just targeting syria but also iraq as well. >> okay. becky anderson, appreciate the update. the the u.s. is trying to determine if isis claims that an air strike killed a hostage is

true or if kayla mule sr is ali or dead. they say that she was bury in the rubble of the building. they have shown zero proof. the 26-year-old's family is asking isis to contact them priva privately. >> we're hopeful that kayla is alive. we have sent you a message and ask that you respond to us. we know that you have read the previous communications. you told us that you treated her as your gust. as your guest, her safety is her responsibility. kayla's mother and i have been doing everything that we can to get her released. the u.s. is trying to verify if that true. they believe that they're trying to create friction and saying that her death was a result of the strikes. live from the white house.

what is the administration saying about all of this? >> well, they're deeply concerned and skeptical about it. they have not seen any evidence or proof to back up the claim. now, the working theory right now is that kayla could have been killed some time ago or weeks or months. this claim by isis was held up as evidence. it kind of a conclusion for the death. we know that the obama administration is working behind the screens and they have been talking with the family and keeping up the communication with the muler family. of course isis has demanded nearly $6 million in ransom and something that the united states government does not pay. now, president obama's top national security advisor spoke

about the claims but the reason why they do not pay ransom. >> we do not at the presence have any evidence to coon rate the claims. we will keep on revealing the information at hand. we have a policy with respect to hostages gurnd the world. we do not make concessions. we do not pay ransom. >> they say that the administration is undergoing a review of the hostage policy. not in terms of making concessio concessions, but more important of how they communicate with families whose loved ones are in a hostage situation. this is not small comfort for ka la's family that's waiting to see if she is dead or alive. >> thank you. the forces continue to bound

target nothing the air a. the question is whether the u.s. will send ground troops. the united states is trying to gather intelligence of the isis offenses in iraq where the latest air strikes are taking place. as we mentioned earlier, isis has continued to reinforce the defenses around that city. if that continues, the pentagon could recommend sending ground troops. we want to dig deeper with lieutenant general mark. thank you for being with us. >> good morning christy. >> i have to ask the question do you think that the u.s. will be forced to put the boots on the ground here? >> they will likely put advisers on the ground. there will not be any large farm of forces. the president has already said that. i green with that. having fought for a year and a half around mosul and knowing that terrain and understanding

that it has to be the iraq forces that take it back and secure it. i don't think that we will have a large formation, but we will have advisers helping the iraq's. >> the u.s. is seeing isis move out of mosul. what are they doing in order to know what the coalition is planning? >> well, this is a tough week for isis. i think that they have been hurt by what happened in jordan. they're op rational blunted and suffering losses across the board. they're attempting to reinforce and attempting to zrau the forces and air power away based on the attack, but they're not being able to do that. they realize that the fight is about to come in the city which the iraq call the mother of two

springs. it's the second most important city in iraq. they want to regain the territory sooner than later. isis, knows that. they know that and they're trying to reinforce, and they can not do it. we're going to prepare fair fight and an attempt to take mosul. >> i am sure that you have talked to people as i have and there's a sense of fear of this group and isis and what they could possibly do. when you have the uk and jordan and the u.s. and france all verbally condemning this, what is the hesitation? i have heard this so many times from people. what is the hesitation of pulling all of the military resources together and just going into take them out? >> most of the places where isis and al qaeda are located today

are places with bad governments. no matter how many forces that you put in, unless you can back it up, you will never win. people are saying why are we not winning? the attempt is to gain. the president's strat erie has seven lines of operations. the rest have to do with economics and information. so you can not kill your way out of this. no matter how many you kill, you're going to have viable information and the only government that can help is the government of iraq and syria. >> thank you. we appreciate the expertise and thank you for being here. next new developments in your crane. they're racing to stop the blood shed there. as we continue this morning top officials and counter parts are trying to work out a peace deal

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ok, well, good talk 19 minutes past the hour and more than 5,000 lives have lost and no peace deal in the vast unfolding humanitarian project there. fighting continues in the streets this morning and world leaders are in germany and they're now to stop the bloodshed and cnn's nick has the latest for us. >> reporter: christy and victor you can not hear it but it's the consistent strikes. that's happening all night and again this morning.

it's not a backdrop and we have the extraordinary and the heads of the two largest in europe. going to see and suggesting a peace proposal and leaving very early the following morning with the idea that there was very little to say other than the talks of being constructive. yes, there maybe more on sunday. last year and behind me continually and that thought suggested that they're continuing hearing the clashes and perhaps feeling confident. they're disciplined here and many i think are concerned that given how they characterize the talks and being uncertain in the success. nick peyton walsh with cnn. >> okay. joining me now the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine. good to have you. >> good to see you.

>> let's talk about the meetings. what do you think is happening behind closed doors? >> well, in the discussions that they have is two things. number one there's nothing negative that was said that took place. there seemed to be positive developments of the course and when they left, they did not have anything negative. they were positive and at least they were not negative. i noticed that it was important to notice that nothing was leeked in term of what they were about. that's a good sign in itself because the success in a lot is secrete si and in order to have each sides give the points of view and be able to talk back and forth. those two developments are dwrounds for hopes that something can develop out of what took place. >> so what has changed if you can detail for us and the agreement that all sides can say

have not been abided by, and now what's changed in russia you would encourage them to stop supporting the rebels there? >> well, a number of things are changing there. the war is changing and that's a cost to both sides. that's a heavy burden that's taking place. the sanctions have taken a deeper bite and the oil prices have fallen over the past few months and that's taken into the russian, so in terms of the cost of russia and the cost of the separatists, there's a lot of developments along the line that kind of warrant the sides to get together and try to get a solution that is peaceful. >> so the reports that the u.s. is considering sending lethal

air. they have said that sending this heatle aide and the weapons will not stop it or help it. what do you think? >> well, it's important to realize that the only solution to this conflict is a peaceful solution along the lines that they have been trying to achieve in the discussions in moscow. having said that, they're tracks here and for ukraine to be a little bit stronger than the table, it's probably good for ukraine to have a defense posture and a strong one needs a strong military backing in order to be able to achieve things at the table, so i see both the talk of the peace process as well as talk of supplying the arms by the u.s. administration as running parallel and being supportive for a peaceful solution. >> so would you support the

sending of the lethal aide. not in the affect of having them use it, but to have the big stick? >> as i mentioned i think that it's important for you crane to have some kind of underpinning to it and arm shipments and defensive arms can give them that at the table that's been lacking over the past few months. >> okay. former ambassador, thank you so much. >> thank you. coming up we have new revelations in the case of whitney houston's daughter bobbi kristina brown. there's new discovery and a shift for investigators. who they're focussing on now.

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27 minutes that's the hour. we want to share development itself with you in the bobbi kristina brown brown. she is still in a medically induced coma. the 21-year-old has injured not yet explained. now, what they are that's not revealed. now, they're focussing on bobbi kristina brown's boyfriend nick gordon. all of this how they try to determine how she ended up in a tub face down. joey, if gordon had something to do with the current condition, what would be the next step in the case. >> good morning. first let's certainly hope that bobbi kristina brown progressing and developments and is okay. the indications and we don't know what the injuries are, but

the indications are that there are injuries that are not explained. the as parts of what they should be doing are looking and seeing if it could be criminal. now, in the event that she does have the injuries, it would not necessarily mean that he is responsible for the death. perhaps that was an argument that morning. we don't know. perhaps as a result of a dispute that she said, she took matters into her on hands. police are going to focus and question him. he will get a lawyer and they're questioning max that was the friend that found her, and he want to determine how she ended up in this condition? >> yeah, could the alleged injuries be enough to prompt a criminal investigation? i guess i am asking what has to be there in order for that to happen? >> sure. it's certainly a start. when ever you look at an

instance when someone healthy ends up in a bathtub and unresponsi unresponsive, you wonder how it occurred. now, at some point toxicology is done to see what if anything she had in the system to lead to that. any circumstances surrounding that will be investigated. who did she text or not text before that. any posts on social media. what was in the house then and before. what things did nick have to do with this? what was the relationship between him and her? any past violence or abuse? what happened in the moments before? there are reports that they cleaned up or took blood away? is that true? we don't know. police are looking at athat to determine what if anything he had to do with her being put in that particular situation. if they find that he had a lot to do with it, you will see it broadened and trouble for him. it's early, and we do not know the facts and the police are

focussing on what they need to do to get to the bottom of how a healthy 21-year-old ended up in that position. >> yeah. i think that's what stood out to everybody that she was faced down and that's strange to a lot of people. joey, we appreciate it so much. it's just a sad sad situation. thanks. this is cnn breaking news. and the breaking news this morning isis is being hit in iraq and syria. a crew tells us that a dozen air strikes have targeted mosul, iraqs second largest cities. they heard the jets streaking over head. forces say that the frequency and the intensity has picked up sharply since the word of the burning of a pilot was

announced. we have word from phil black and one of the few western reporters, and that's at the top of the hour. also, war planes are also hitting isis in northern syria. act vaiss say that there have been ten explosions near the strong hold of r o oca. the white house 4has releasd the strategy and michelle has more for us. good morning michelle. >> hi, victor and christy. at the same time the reports were emerging. we see them smell out the strategy and looking forward but also defending desessions that have been made. isis claiming an air strike killed an american hostage. another this backdrop they lay out the strategy and depence of the president's blueprints with

defense around the world. >> with the world united with the executions, they should know that the barberism only fort identifies the world's resolve. >> emphasizing and defending that against isis and other threats even when isis is slow. critics and some say should have been done. >> there will be set backs, and there are no one size fits all solutions. >> the white house says that the goal is strong and sustainable. global leadership and only being a part of that and says that they need more funding. also in what is called the obama and avoiding long term conflicts and maximizing and what sounds like a hit back at critics and

not over reacting. >> yes, there's a lot going on. still while the dangers that we face maybe more numerous and varied, they're not of the nature that we confronted during world war ii or during the cold war. we can not afford to be but you haved by alarmism. >> as early as next week they ask congress to go after isis and the challenge is trying to gain support for what could be a three year plan in iraq and syr syria. will the president leave open any leeway? so far he has said, not an option. >> national security adviser susan rice talked about this process and the review that's going on as to how the u.s. government deals with and communicates with families of hostages. this came up in past cases with

james foley and that's what prompted the review. she emphasized that they do not make concessions and do not pay ransoms. victor and christy. >> okay. thanks. up next a political fight brewing over an agency designed to keep the u.s. homeland safe. why the fight over the immigration execive orders could limit funding for the department of security. [container door opening] ♪ what makes it an suv is what you can get into it. ♪ [container door closing] what makes it an nx is what you can get out of it. ♪ introducing the first-ever lexus nx turbo and hybrid. once you go beyond utility, there's no going back.

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funding homeland security is turning into a political fight. they blocked republicans from moving the bill forward. the the reason is that all three bills had immigration tacked on and then president obama that threatens to veto any bill. >> legislation is going to be going to the senate that agains tries to block these actions. i want to be clear as possible, i will voe toni legislation that got to my desk that took the chance that grew up here and prepared to contribute to the country. i am confident that i can uphold that. >> so let's talk more about this with cnn common atanalysts.

>> okay. so we know what the president's stance is. why are they blocking that from happening. just vote and pass it and then let the president voe toe it. >> because what is in it now is a poison pill. what they need to do in the house is pass a clean funding department of homeland security bill. when you have republicans and the two heads of the homeland security with the past democratic head of security and urging republicans to pass a clean funding bill and not take on the other pills that have nothing to do with defending the nation, and in fact would put the nation in jeep were did i. that's when you know that the fight is between the republican house and senate. you have them telling that they

need to pass a clean funding bill. >> it's doa and why not let it die there? >> why not let the republicans do the people's job. when they got elected in november, let's remember they promised to govern. this is not governing. this is purely putting politics over governing because they want to make a point. if they wanted to stop the actions, they could pass an immigration bill that they failed to do for over a year and a half. >> why put it in the bill. you can not pay around with the funding of homeland security. >> well, i think that she should take her own advice. let the people do their job and that's not having executive action when you know congress will not give you what you want on immigration reform. i would say that the president of the united states of america, go ahead and take the action to congress.

have it independent and do not do it through executive action. when the american people sent people to washington to vote on the legislation but the president will not do that. the reason why is because he does not have the votes to let the people representatives do their job, so if you're republican and looking at this, you're saying hey mr. president you went around congress and the people that were elected just to come to washington, so we're going to force the issue here. the president's is going to argue and that's a direct fight with congress that the president does not like and want to work with even though that the job is legislation and he went around him. >> we're hearing this proposal from susan and seen the three

votes now. she is proposing possibly a new bill in the senate that would not fund the 2014 executive orders but let the dreamer executive order of 2012 and is there any appetite or support for that on the republican side? >> i think there maybe some and that's what you may see. congress always loves to get down to the wire. we know that. that's something that they obviously are planning for. i do think that this is going to be a fight that the president of the united states needs to really look at and say do i really need to go all in on a very toe that deals with the security and the threats of isis and all of the threats that we have and everything else that we have with the security at the border and again republicans -- i do not want to deal with it

and i will do it with executive action. i think that he is putting himself in the corner. >> do you think that they will go for the proposal? >> no, they had plenty of time to do what ben was talking about. that's taking the immigration that the majority of the american people want. they knew that it was going to pass. they do not want it to pass. what are they doing? putting the security in jeep were did i. >> they just got there. >> they're bounding the feet and they're not getting what they want. they're putting politics over policy and the american people know that. what they're in jeopardy of, they shut down the government once. it did not go well for them. if the department of hom land security shuts down, republicans will get blamed for it. >> okay. we have to call it here. we will continue this a little later in the morning. thank you both.

>> thank you victor. >> thanks. stay with us. jurors in the aaron hernandez murder trial take a field trip tro o the crime scene as well as the athletes home. we're breaking down what the judge wanted them to see and avoid seeing at the house. ♪

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well as another week goes they're going over the field trip to several kilo cases. yesterday they travelled by bus to the home of victim odom and the crime screen and the house. before that visit there was a contention on what was inside the former athlete's home. they argued that it was lined with newly added religious objects that was not in the house at the time of the murder. they agreed to remove the items before the jurors stepped in the house. first of all, mel good morning to you. is it common for jurors to take field trips like this? >> well, good morning christy. it's not common unless it's a huge politisized case and the judge feels that a field trip

like this will help the jury in weighing all of the evidence. we saw while it's uncommon for most cases, in a big case that's scrutinized if either side asks it's within the judge's authority to allow it. >> does it make a difference in a juror's mind as opposed to seeing pictures in the court? >> oh, it makes an enormous difference. so, for example, as a former trial lawyer, we used to call it putting the jury at the scene when we would meticulously describe a scene to a jury because we would want them to imagine it. but nothing, absolutely nothing gives the jury a huge impact as actually visiting the place where odin lloyd, for example, was murdered. so there's a couple things that's important that the jury's going to be thinking about. first of all, this is a very remote location. secondly, it is extremely close, less than a mile from aaron

hernandez's house. third, the prosecutors are going to try to establish in addition to the dna found at the scene, they are going to use technical testimony, christi, about cell phone triangulation. now the jurors have seen the cell phone towers that the technical experts are going to be talking about and the fact that they have seen them will likely mean they will pay closer attention. be saying oh, yeah, i remember that tow e it was super close. i could see it sfrom the industrial park. so it makes an enormous impression on a jury for them to actually be able to look, feel anding and be at the scene. >> thank you. appreciate it. >> great to see you. >> you too. >> coming up, new details in the moments leading up to the transasia plane crash, and all of this as we're getting new video. look at this, a frantic attempt to save a passenger. you see the person there banging

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new detail this is morning that isis is getting hit and hit hard by air strikes. activists claiming at least 47 terrorists were killed in a single strike. >> we're learning more about the u.s. woman who isis claims died in those air strikes. now there is word that terrorists demanded almost $6 million for her safe return. >> and new questions into what really happened to bobbi kristina brown, authorities now say she has injuries that need explanation. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> here on the east coast, i'm victor blackwell. >> i'm christi paul. we begin with breaking news. coalition forces unleashing at least a dozen new air strikes against isis. >> the latest offensive taking place in the iraqi city of plo

sool. let's get to phil black. phil is one of the few western journalists in that immediate area. phil, what are you hearing there, what are you seeing? >> reporter: behind me is the most important piece of territory that isis still controls in northern iraq. mossle. where i'm standing it's one of the closest positions occupied by the kurdish fighters who have drawn a defensive line around that isis-controlled city. from up here there is a commanding view. into mosul from the south and the towns and villages which surround it and which are still occupied by isis as well. on this day, overhead has been the constant sound of aircraft, fast-moving aircraft, we have seen what appears to be a slower moving, larger reconnaissance aircraft of some kind, then frequently, often very close to

one another, the sound of large blasts in the distance. it is a hazy day, not the best day to view mosul but you have a clear idea of what lies between the lines that have been established by the kurdish fighters around the south and southwest of this city, and that no-man's-land between leading up to mosul. the strategy is to circle this city, to cut it off and choke it off in particular from re-supply across the border in syria. that is what these fighters are aiming to do, not just on this front but also from the southwest and the west as well near the area of the syrian border. the idea is to cut off isis, weaken them, prevent them from re-supply ahead of anticipated major operation, an advance to try and re-claim this very important city from their control. that operation is still looks like to be months away.

phil black, cnn, in northern iraq. >> phil black reporting. thank you. >> let's talk with former u.s. delta force commander lieutenant colonel james reese. thank you for being with us. isis has continued to reinforce defejss around city of mosul as we heard. if that continues, the pentagon could recommend sending u.s. ground troops. do you believe that will happen? >> christi, i do, but again, we've talked about this for several weeks now. i believe that those ground troops will be enabling troops, close air -- people who call close air support, people who can work with the isr, to do the -- some of the intelligence piece, i do not think you're going to see front line units going in and fighting side by side. probably special forces that are there in their train and assist mode to help bring the iraqi force, make sure they are synced

between the battalions but i don't see a brigade of u.s. forces going in and fighting side by side with the iraqis. >> we know this week jordan released video showing the world, basically, the country's operations against the terror group, they posted video of soldiers writing messages to isis on bombs, of women working on planes, there's even a pilot giving a thumbs up before a flight. was that a smart move, are there risks to that? >> well christi, we do the same thing. i mean, those pilots, if you watch any video of u.s. f-16 or the f-22s going up the pilots get set up, give a thumbs up to their crew, they salute and take off. that's standard s.o.p. for these teams. for the jordanians it's showing that they are fired up and they have got national unity going on right now. and even with the bombs, our kids did that on the carriers while they are doing those things, they wrote when we were going to afghanistan and iraq they wrote messages on them.

it's the young soldiers for all the u.s. did it, jordanians do it. there is a lot of passion and it's natural, i think it's fine. >> sure. so, isis is claiming that this american aid worker was killed yesterday and that she was killed in jordanian air strikes. of course, there's a lot of people think how do they know. there is no credibility in isis. we don't know if the we can believe that. what options are there to decipher where kayla mueller is? >> well, we think that she was in syria and we all know that in syria right now our level of intelligence is not as good as it is in iraq and other places so that's a key issue. the jordanians do have a very strong human intelligence throughout the entire area. so that could be one of the areas. it is very plausible that she is there, but we know that she was there during the air strikes but we know that isis is not

dependable and their word has not been kept at all, so it's a 50-50 right now, we have to keep working the intelligence pieces across the board try to get some human to see if we can confirm that. >> lieutenant colonel james reese, appreciate you being here. thank you. >> thank you. good morning. new this morning federal officials charged six people, five in the u.s. with aiding terrorists overseas. accused of conspiring to provide money and war gear to terrorists in steeria and iraq and other places. those materials are alleged to include military uniforms. the suspects all immigrated to the u.s. from bosnia. five arrested in this country, one arrested overseas is. we have tom fuentes with us. i want to talk about the uniforms in a moment. first, the defendants coming to the u.s. from bosnia. this is a country that for most people is new to this conversation, maybe not for those in the law enforcement community. are you surprised by that?

>> no, victor, i'm not. the country of bosnia might be new but bosnians are not new. isis has recruited people to assist them or go fight and join them from 50 different countries around the world including asia, including eastern and western europe, including north america, australia, so this is nothing new that you could have a group of individuals from a particular country get involved and come up on fbi radar trying to support isis. >> reuters reported this week that the isis flag was spotted in a small town in bosnia and was immediately taken down. a community, a small but growing community there of those who follow wahabism. the u.s. yunl form also they said they were providing, is this because in your opinion that that's what was available? or do you believe that there could possibly be some other plan here to infiltrate any

ranks that would be coming to that area? >> that's hard to tell. i think that if they were trying to infiltrate it would be more easily done if the we actually had tens of thousands of troops on the ground in syria and in iraq and they could try to slip in, maybe approach a check point and look like american soldiers and then when they get close detonate a suicide bomb or a truck bomb, ied. but we don't know. i think that it could be that they were just available, but we'll see when they disclose more about the investigation, what the intent was. >> how does the law enforcement community get this intel and capture them? is there chatter, is there following the website? how did they find this group of people? >> you can start with chatter, you can start with the website, social media, people telling friends. a group like this the fact there are six individuals, right away you know that not all six are going to be able to keep a

secret. they are going to talk to people. if the each one talks to ten other people that's 60 people that know about it. that any one of whom could call the fbi or the local police and report the intent of this group. so there's a spider web of communication that goes out among the members of the group or wannabe members. that's what law enforcement relies on that somehow someone will report that or pick it up monitoring a website, and get an idea that this is in progress. >> these people in missouri, in illinois, also in new york. tom fuentes, thank you so much. after more than 5,000 deaths, can world leaders work out an end to the blood shed in ukraine? we'll get some ajss from the former u.s. ambassador to russia. new details in the case of whitney houston's daughter. investigators now have a new focus and they are saying she has injuries that, quote, need

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died, nearly one million displaced according to the united nations and still no peace deal in ukraine's humanitarian crisis. while artillery fires continue in the streets this morning, world leaders are in germany right now and they are racing to stop all of this bloodshed. the latest for us from da nessing. >> reporter: you can't hear it behind me is the consistent heavy sound of artillery strikes. increasingly toward the city center, the capital of the separatist people's republic here and it's got a backdrop conducive to peace at all. we have a spectacle of the heads of two of the largest colonies

in europe going to see vladamir putin, suggesting a peace proposal and leaving early the following morning with the idea that little to say other than the talks have been constructive. there may be more on sunday, but nobody went back to the cease-fire they signed up to last year in minsk. that suggests that the separatists are continually hearing clashes with the military, perhaps increasingly confident, they are well equipped too and many concerned that given how angela merkel characterized the peace talks, being uncertain. >> joining us now is the former u.s. ambassador to russia. good to have you. >> nice to be with you, victor. >> help us understand what's going on this morning in munich, that would be different from what we saw with the meeting with hollande and merkel.

>> i don't think a lot. much is going to depend on whether the so called telephone calls for sunday are able to produce anything more conclusive than angela merkel and hollande and that doesn't seem to be an optimistic piece at the moment. the evident to get back to the minsk agreement is important that it's clear that president putin is not inclined in that direction. he is trying to shape a solution perhaps at the first stage, but maybe as an end stage one doesn't know, toward another frozen conflict so that, in fact, the eastern portions of ukraine dominated by the separatists and now supplied i think fairly heavily and very often by the russians, can become sort of semi-independent buffer zones and areas controlled by russia which then russia can try to use to continue to influence ukrainian

government outcomes. merkel and francois holland have wanded to preserve integrity which is important and shut down the fighting. and this is a tough row to hoe. that's against the backdrop obviously of the conversations and consideration going on in the united states about increasing our support, anti-tank weapon weapons, surve drones, radar to counteract some of the shelling a way to put on pressure. i don't think anybody believes that there is a military solution in sight here, but the idea some combination of further military pressure and the increasing economic pressure on mr. putin could perhaps bring him around to realizing that there's really in the long term very little for russia to gain for this kind of short-term tactical engagement of his. >> angela merkel has said when she came out of the meeting of

the three leaders that there is no solution that she's willing to be involved with that will go over the heads of leadership in ukraine. do you see that at any point in these negotiations there will be some ground, some purview allowed to be given to russia, to putin over the land that's now controlled by the ukrainian government? >> in one way we have to go back to the president who earlier on i think back in september agreed to a degree of autonomy and that obviously opened the door for russian influence and indeed some recognition of special rights in these two parts of ukraine, he is prepared to do it elsewhere for the russian speakers, something that in some ways looked like it was opening the door to a compromise without shredding territorial integrity in ukraine.

and that remains the basis, i think, for hopes here. but it doesn't this stage look as if the mr. putin is ready to settle for that kind of a deal. >> former u.s. ambassador to russia, thomas pickering, thank you. in a few minutes we'll have this conversation a little more. we'll talk about jordan as well. >> and as the conflict worsens in you kranl, civilians are falling victim to the crossfire for ways you can help support victims of the crisis in ukraine go to c nrks nrnn.com/impact. >> stay with us. there are new details in the bobbi kristina brown investigation. officials turning attention to one person in particular, someone close to the daughter of whitney houston.

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22 minutes past the hour. new developments in the case of bobbi kristina brown, the daughter of whitney houston and bobby brown is still in a medically induced coma. according to sources the 21-year-old daughter has injuries that have not been explained. >> nick valencia joins us now. where is this investigation going? what's happening with that? >> we talked about our sources

with knowledge of the investigation says that police have now turned their attention toward nick gordon who is officially the boyfriend of bobbi kristina t man she called her husband though there is no official documents of them being married. as you mentioned there are injuries she has that she sustained that police want to know how she actually got these injuries and how she ended up face down in that bathtub. we believe she is still in medically induced coma though officially her condition has not been released by the hospital. of course there is hipa privacy laws. on monday she briefly opened her eyes according to family sources and had a seizure. we don't know the significance of that but we can report that she is still hospitalized. >> what are you learning about this arrest warrant that apparently was issued for her days before she was found in the tub? >> seemingly can't get out of trouble. there's more and more legal things piling up. she had a failure to appear in court because she was driving around with expired tags. she was asked to go to court.

she didn't show up. because of that they have an arrest warrant. >> we know that her grandmother has now made it to atlanta. >> right. she is said to be at the bedside at emory hospital, she was transferred at one hospital about 45 minutes north of the city, now at another hospital closer to downtown atlanta and her family we're told as recently as monday was told by the hospital to prepare for the worst. we don't know exactly her current condition. >> all right. >> thank you so much. a peacemake e that's how a college professor describes kayla mueller, the u.s. trying to determine whether isis claims that the young american aide worker is dead. are true. and will brian williams be suspended from nbc? that's what a lot of people are asking.

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we are following breaking news this morning. >> coalition warplanes are going after isis in iraq, and syria as we speak. this is new video we're getting in to cnn here. our crew in northern iraq just sent it our way. you see the aircraft there streaking through the sky. >> the crew tells us at least a dozen air strikes targeted the stronghold of mosul, they could hear the the impacts, then across the border coalition warplanes are hitting isis targets in northern syria. there have been at least ten explosions near the militants'

stronghold of raqqa, 47 isis fighters have been killed. >> the u.s. is trying to determine whether isis' claims that a jordanian air strike killed an american hostage, whether those claims are true. >> and the family of kayla mueller is imploring isis to contact them and let them know if she is still alive. more on the young woman friends say only wanted to help. >> that's a common thread in her life, victor. she wanted to help others here in this town and around the world, her family choosing to stay private and still hoping that this is another one of isis' lies. police closed off the street leading to the mueller family home. kayla's mother and father grapple with how their child who gives so much is trapped in war's brutality. but it was the very atrocities

of war that drew mueller, in syria she felt compelled to help. in 2011 she posted this video protest online. >> i am in solidarity with the syrian people. i reject the brutality and killing of the syrian thorpts are committing against the syrian people. >> reporter: by the following year she would make her first trip to the syrian/turkish border oceans away from her quiet hometown of prescott, arizona. even growing up she longed to engage in the wrongs of the world, todd is a doctor close with the family. >> the daughter is one of those that looks for the good request in everything and in that vein she goes on ahead and tries to look for her god's center with the way she looks and acts day-to-day life. >> reporter: in high school her paper showed her marching through town as part of the save darfor coalition, lobbying congress and staging silent protests against genocide.

as a student at northern arizona university, mueller was president of a group called stand, a student-led movement to end atrocities. she joined aid agencies that took her to india, israel and the palestinian territories. she came home briefly in 2011, volunteering at a woman's shelter and hiv aids clinic. the director telling cnn, she was truly a remarkable woman. we are all very sad. but mueller could not ignore the unfolding cries is in syria. the children, she told her local paper, captured her heart. in may of 2013, she spoke at the prescott kiwanis club where her father is a member. she said for as long as i live i will not let this suffering be normal. just two months later as she left a hospital in syria she was kidnapped. her family would hear nothing until ten months later.

isis demanded a ransom of nearly $7 million or they would kill kayla on august 13. as jordan begins its air strikes against isis, this photo from isis, and their claim that those air strikes killed mueller, unsubstantiated likely a twisted ploy in the isis propaganda game. mueller's parents in a public statement directly to isis urged her captors to contact them privately and added we are still hopeful that kayla is alive. that statement continues to say that they had followed isis demands to keep kayla mueller's identity out of the press for so long, that they secured the work of journalists around the world, the cooperation including cnn as a news agency, that knew her identity and would not release it. they urged her captors to now reach out to them so they could speak privately about kayla

mueller. victor. >> is there any indication of how this family was communicating with isis or how frequently? >> reporter: it's a little unclear. the family has not directly said how they are communicating but the best way to describe it is that release that came from isis saying that the jordanian air strike is the one that killed kayla mueller, unsubstantiated. they released her e-mail address so there are suspicions it may be via e-mail. >> thank you so much. >> let's bring back thomas pickering now works as a brookings institute in washington, thank you for sticking around. first of all, how skeptical should we really be about isis' claim? >> i think we have to be skeptical until there is some proof. obviously, all our hearts go out to a family, this person, kayla

is used as a pawn in isis' effort to -- in one way or another to keep itself front and center with its brutality and the horror on the television and indeed in the news sources of the world, part of their own campaign i think to try to use this activity to influence public opinion. so far in jordan that's backfired and i think elsewhere in the middle east we'll see it backfiring. >> a lot of experts said the burning of that pilot was a turning point. how committed are they for a long haul night so >> i think knowing his majesty king abdullah and his determination and the reaction we have seen in the jordanian public which has been a shift, many were thought to be sympathetic with isis, that's shifted, the demonstrations have moved, the jordanian armed forces are not large.

they are capable, their air force and special forces and there is some discussion of sending ground forces i would presume that would be into iraq to support those who we are preparing with the idea in mind that we will be some kind of a push in the relatively near future, and that the jordanians and their air action will help to set the stage. but they are a relatively small part of the activity that has been primarily conducted by americans. recent figures showed something like almost 1,000 american sortees to short of 80 on the part of the non-american participants in the coalition. >> i want to read something quickly from a world affairs columnist. she wrote this on cnn.com. that, talking about the group's tactics. by advertising its methods isis intimidates the armies it faces, causing some soldiers to flee before battle even leaving their weapons behind as we saw when you esis took over mosul. the skuxs of hundreds of enemy

soldiers, those who chose to fight have appeared in videos, a warning to others, when you read that you wonder i mean, we know isis does not use traditional tactics and strategies here. how does that complicate this global fight? >> well, it does complicate it. it's part of what isis has mastered in what we could call asymmetrical activities to try to expand its own capacities, its own control, and where it's going. a really interesting question here is, how much is the sunni population of northern iraq, which was relatively sympathetic to isis because of their concern about past abuses on the part of the iraqi government, going to continue to put it this way, to enjoy living under isis, and how much can we and others persuade the present iraqi government, that it has an obligation and

indeed a serious interest, in treating the sunni population of iraq fairly and openly, or will in fact this population have to decide between what it considers to be two potential sources of oppression, and where will that come out? and indeed that's an important longer term factor. but politics and military here are intimately combined and isis has sought to try to use these. sometimes with good did effect, sometimes with bad effect. >> you know, thele pilot that was killed was a soony muslim. it made me wonder is that enough itself to bring the soonies to join some sort of forces with the iraqi government? >> probably not. the iraqi sunnis, while sympathetic with the death of a jordanian sunni pilot, will go back and remember their difficult times under the maliki

government and other iraqi governments. and of course, they themselves under saddam hussein ran the country and the shia had difficulties and problems, so this is a long standing, very difficult and somewhat tension-ridden situation that's not going to be easily resolved and it will be the backdrop of what we see potentially as many a coming military effort against isis in the north, but in my view, that is very important to accompany with political efforts and to attack and deal with the problems that you and i have been discussing just now, of how and in what way can the sunni population of northern iraq be brought over to the party inside of the iraqi government and much of that will be in the hands of the prime minister in iraq. >> sure. ambassador pickering, we appreciate your insight. thank you for being with us.

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18 minutes to the top of the hour. question this morning, can brian williams survive this controversy? that's what a lot of people are asking. nbc launched an internal investigation into false claims

made by its nightly news anchor. in a memo to staffers nbc news president wrote, quote, this has been a difficult day for all of us. we have a team dedicated to gathering the facts to help us make sejs of all that has transpired. we're working on what's the next step -- the next best steps are, rather and when we have something to communicate we'll share it with you. this broke wednesday when williams apologized for repeatedly lying about a personal experience from 2003. williams claimed he was aboard a helicopter hit by a rocket propelled grenade in iraq when he was on a different helicopter. let's bring in now my colleague and cnn senior media correspondent. we have ceo of brighthouse consulting here. good to have both of you. >> thank you. >> i want to start with you, brian. is there any indication of what this investigation looks like and will it expand beyond this

iraq chopper story? >> i can tell you they started to interview some of the soldiers involved. as of last night. nbc producers are reaching out to the people that were actually aboard the helicopter that actually took this strike and trying to figure out their stories and verify their stories so they know what brian williams said that was wrong. we don't have guidance whether this will expand to other stories that are now starting to be scrutinized. the biggest one is brian williams accounting of hurricane katrina. several statements he made on the air and in blog posts now coming under scrutiny, people asking if the he had all of the facts straight. i won't go too far on that. it's early and we don't have all of the facts. the question is whether people are now going to skrut fliz and if nbc is going to take that seriously. >> we were talking during the break. you said one of the biggest problems is silence, not hearing from brian williams for so long. >> silence in this case is not golden. p actually, you know, people

tell lies with words, but they also tell lies with silence. a good watchout is that the word silent and listen have the same letters in them. and when people like this are silent, other people want to listen. and people want to hear something from brian. >> and joe, when your brand is trust, when your brand is i have been there, they have these promos, i have been there, i will be there, and you have a person on air who is being investigated at the same time, that has to undermine the brand. >> absolutely. trust that turns into rust the rust ruins the brand and this case i think after 30 years and i think almost 10 million viewers i think he is in good shape. >> what do you think? you think he's in good shape? >> i am -- i'd be surprised if brian williams is not sitting at the anchor desk next week. i think nbc has a very tough

decision here, you know, what's going to hurt more, take disciplinary action or not. the fact in the tv industry people are speculating about whether he will survive and talking who could succeed him. this is the an extraordinary change for him. like you said he is the number one anchor in the united states. something that is weirdly funny, on wednesday before this broke i was going to write a story how brian williams ratings were on the rebound. he had been losing to little to david muir. he is firmly number one now across the nation. he has been in a good place and renewed his contract two months ago, reportedly a 5-year deal that takes him almost to the end of the decade. he was in a strong position. but then these questions came up. >> you mentioned a moment ago the hurricane katrina coverage now scrutinized. he said he saw a dead body float by the 5-star hotel he was staying i. there have been questions about what happened there.

let's listen. we've got part of the interview. >> when you look out of your hotel room window in the french quarter and watch a man float by face down, when you see bodies that you last saw in indo fleeshia and swore that you would never see in your country, i beat that storm. i was there before it arrived. i rode it out with people who later died in the superdome. >> now the new orleans advocate reported that that area was saved from most of the really traumatic flooding but they have released pictures there showing there was water but if you look, it's shallow enough where you can see the sidewalk through it. still t boat bobbing here. you don't want to get in the pattern of checking every story because there will be maybe one small detail and for that you have your main anchor

apologizing. >> this is a complicated one because it's hard to verify some of the rather vague things he said. he wasn't naming individuals and we don't know whether people he was quoting for example, but there is real scrutiny now on these hurricane katrina stories and other that are coming under review. so the question at nbc will review them. i agree with your other guest, silence is only making it worse for brian williams. i'm sure nbc is advising or requiring him not to speak, but in that vacuum everybody else is speaking. everybody else is reviewing it. and that only makes it worse for him. >> the bottom line for brian is that nbc in this case stands for not being canceled. >> what should they do? keep him on the air? >> absolutely. he needs to follow the you know, follow the abc's. anchor himself in trust. be brian, be authentic. the word authentic and authority came from the same root. most importantly clear the air.

this guy's got to come forward, stand up f. he does not define himself the public will. >> he does have decades of credibility. he has gained good did will over a long period so that doesn't vanish. maybe. >> thank you so much. >> thanks. the death toll is continuing to climb following the transasia plane crash. all of this as some amazing new video is released. we'll show you more of this rescue of one of the survivors. introducing preferred rewards from bank of america, the new banking rewards program that rewards our customers, every day. you'll get things like rewards bonuses on credit cards... extra interest on a savings account... preferred pricing on merrill edge online trades and more... across your banking and investing get used to getting more. that's the power of more rewarding connections.

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i want to share new video released this morning. look at this in the circle there. a passenger banging on the window. this wasmonds after transasia airline 235 plunged into that river. you see the survivor trying to get the attention of workers there. from all reports this person did get out alive. recovery teams discovered however, another body this morning. hundreds of meters from the site. of the 58 people on board, 40 died, 15 survived and three are unaccounted for. and we're hearing new details about what went wrong. aviation officials say the pilots dealt with problems involving both engines, before the plane clipped a bridge and crashed into the river. i know you've seen this video. you can't probably believe it every time you see it. two engines reportedly stopped producing power, one after the the other leaving the plane without thrust for more than a minute. david is in taipei. investigators know, do they know why the engines may have shut

down, both of them? >> reporter: the pieces of the puzzle certainly coming together, yes, it's true investigators say both enbegins did stop producing thrust at some point during that flight. remember, this happened in less than three minutes. the plane was in the air for a matter of minutes. and pilots did did attempt to restart one of the engines. they did dew point so successfully restart it but it happened too late to be able to avoid that crash. what the lead investigator here is saying with the aviation safety council, that's the organization that is looking into this, is he is saying yes, it is clear that the right engine warning went off about with 30 seconds after take-off. he is saying that there were conversations that among the pilots talking about the opposite engine and that other engine was then shut down which was working. he said specifically the pilots should have had some sort of

display or visual indicator saying that the other engine, the right enbegin, had a problem. so they are looking into that. he stopped short of saying that the pilots made a mistake. they are using delicate language, they are looking into the carefully. they cannot rule out there was something mechanical. they are looking at all factors at this point. i should mention investigators are saying the big priority for the next day or two will also to get eyes on the wreckage. it's in a warehouse. investigators wanting to take a close look at what's left of the engines and see if that can shed light on what went wrong. >> are david, we appreciate it. thank you. coming up on the top of the hour a break. we'll be right back.

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this was in detroit. he got a brand new car and over $300,000. after james roberts journey a college student set up a go fund me account. >> thanks for watching. "smerconish" starts right now. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> i'm michael smerconish with breaking news. new information on kayla mueller t american aid worker held by isis. after almost two years of keeping her capture secret her family has gone public. u.s. intelligence officials are skeptical and turns out they may have new evidencele on where kayla has been. cnn correspondent is in kayla's home town of prescott, arizona. what have you learned? >> reporter: michael, what we know is that there was a rescue attempt, a daring rescue