song. and i'm going to end this show with it, too. thanks for watching. "wolf" starts now. hello. i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. here in washington. 5:00 p.m. in london. 7:00 p.m. in jerusalem. 8:00 p.m. in baghdad. wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. up first, there's a huge political debate here in the united states over the fight against isis. president obama has now asked congress for authorization to wage the campaign that's actually already under way against the terrorist group. at a hearing before the senate foreign relations committee, secretary of state john kerry said approval from congress would send a strong message to isis, also known as daesh. >> there is an overwhelming

consensus that daesh has to be stopped. our nation is strongest, always has been when we act together. there's a great tradition in this country of foreign policy having a special place that politics ends at the water's edge and that it will act on behalf of our nation without regard to party ideology. we simply cannot allow this collection of murderers and thugs to achieve in their group their ambition. >> let's bring in our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. barbara, what are the main concerns that lawmakers have right now about the president's authorization for the use of military force, that request, the aumf as it's called? >> reporter: what the senators are talking about is one of their biggest concerns is could a new authorization open the door to the administration being able to send a large number of

ground combat forces into iraq. what we're talking about are those traditional military units, large battalions brigades, formations truly in combat. a lot of concerns if they vote for this, this is where it could all lead. secretary of state john kerry says absolutely not and he offers some very interesting reasoning about why the u.s. will not send ground troops into the region. have a listen to what he had to say. >> the implications of that would be actually to aid in the recruitment, to create a bigger problem than we face today. and in answer to the question asked earlier, why do these guys like taking us on because if it's just us, that's how they grow. and that's what they want. and we're not getting suckered into that. that's why we built this coalition and why we worked so hard to get these five arab countries engaged in the kinetic

activities with us precisely to deny them that narrative. >> reporter: what they're talking about is that this will be different, different, they say, than the previous u.s.-led wars in iraq and afghanistan. this will be a coalition effort and will continue to be a coalition effort because if it did become solely a u.s. ground effort that would give isis that edge to recruit even more fighters because the view would be that it's the u.s. again, invading, if you will, that part of the world. but isis it has to be said doing pretty good on recruiting still. wolf? >> as you know barbara, the president has often said in the past he already has the authority to act against isis doesn't even need any new legislation, any new authorization. the u.s. coalition has been carrying out air strikes for months. so why is the president now seeking a three-year new authorization bill? >> reporter: yeah, it's a great question. technically, the white house says they don't really need it. but things have moved on from the old authorizations that were

mainly focused on al qaeda. now 14 years or so later, focused on isis. and the sense of it is that this would send a message, if you will a signal to the coalition partners and even to u.s. troops that the administration very serious about it wants to dot all the is, cross of the ts, to have everything legally set out. but, again, this authorization vague in some areas. a lot of concern by members of congress that it is not as precise as they would like it to be. but the administration still wanting to give itself some leeway. >> barbara starr thanks very much. the secretary of state john kerry's call for unity against isis comes at a time when there's a serious partisan divide over iran's -- the nuclear talks with iran. in a letter to iran's leaders, 47 u.s. senate republicans warned that any deal reached now might not exist past the current presidency.

during today's hearing, the secretary of state was asked how he reacted to this letter. >> my reaction to the letter was utter disbelief. during my 29 years here in the senate i never heard of nor even heard of it being proposed anything comparable to this. if i had, i guarantee you no matter what the issue and no matter who was president, i would have certainly rejected it. i think no one is questioning anybody's right to dissent. any senator can go to the floor any day and raise any of the questions that were raised in that. but the right to the leaders in the middle of a negotiation, particularly the leaders that they have criticized other people for even engaging with or writing to to write them and

suggest that they're going to give a constitutional lesson which by the way was absolutely incorrect, is quite stunning. >> let's talk about this with one republican senator, one of seven who did not sign that letter, susan collins of maine is joining us. she's a key member of the senate intelligence committee. give me your reaction to what we just heard from your former senate colleague, john kerry. >> i think that the letter did represent the wrong approach. our job in the senate is to give advice to the president, to the negotiators, to secretary kerry. i don't think it's the right approach nor our job to write to the iranians and tell them how our constitutional system works. so i think the letter was a mistake, even though i, too, believe that congress -- that the senate rather should be

involved in reviewing the ultimate agreement if there is one between our government and the iranian government. >> if the letter would have been addressed, let's say, to the president of the united states or addressed to the american people, would you have signed that letter? >> if the letter had been to the president or secretary kerry and had outlined what we think should be the goals of the agreement and the fact that the agreement should come before the senate for consideration, i would have signed such a letter. but that's not what this letter was. >> that's absolutely correct. what do you want the role of the senate to be because the white house is making it clear whatever deal there is -- and there's no deal yet. there might not etch be a deal. but it's say there is a deal. the white house says this won't be a treaty which would neverly have to go to the u.s. senate. they say the only role the senate would have and the house

of representatives presumably would be to ease sanctions imposed by congress against iran as part of this deal because only congress can ease or reverse some of those sanctions. >> it's certainly true that the sanctions are part of the laws. so the president has some authority to ease the sanctions. but if he's going to lift them substantially, he has to come to congress. but it's also important that he bring the agreement to the senate and have us look at it review it and give our advice and consent or our disagreement to it. the president is making a real mistake when he does not communicate with the senate. that's part of what's wrong here in washington. and he should want the senate to review an agreement that has such important ramifications for the security of our country, the

middle east israel. and it's an extremely important agreement, provided one is reached by the end of this month. i don't understand the administration's resistance to bringing the agreement to the senate. and that's why there's bipartisan support for a bill introduced by senators corker and menendez to require the administration to bring us the agreement and to let us express our view on it. >> would there be a formal roll call vote on this agreement? is that -- because reviewing you can obviously review it. everybody will read it. it will be made public. you can review it. the question is will it require some sort of vote in the united states senate in order to go into effect? >> it should, in my judgment. i view this as being very similar to a treaty where we

pass a resolution of ratification that either tells the president that he can go ahead and ratify the agreement or he shouldn't ratify the agreement that takes a two-thirds vote of the senate. and i would think the president would want to have the senate work its will on this agreement. and if it's a good agreement, then we would be happy to endorse it. if it actually leads to the iranians dismantling their nuclear capability i think all of us would happily be for it. but it's an important role for the senate to play. and in contrast to the letter which i thought was an inappropriate role it is appropriate for every senator to cast a vote on whether or not the president should proceed

with this agreement with the iranians. >> we'll see if they heed your advice, senator. i know you have a lot of members who would like the president to accept that advice. as of now, they're making it clear they do not regard any agreement, if it emerges, as a treaty which would indeed need to go to a vote at some point for a resolution of ratification in the u.s. senate. senator, thanks very much for joining us susan collins of maine. always good to have you here on cnn. >> thank you, wolf. coming u, isis making gains in iraq and now launching a new attack in syria. we'll show you where and what's being done to hold them back. and hillary clinton's news conference failing to end the controversy over the use of those private e-mails. now those who work with her may have to answer some questions as well.

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iraqi forces are pressing ahead with their offensive to retake the city of tikrit from isis. the joint military forces say they're now in control of the city's military hospital. troops have been steadily advancing on tikrit the birthplace of saddam hussein. it fell to isis last june. iraqi forces say isis fighters are retreating toward the center of the city. but today isis launched a new military offensive on another iraqi city ramadi. the city is being attacked, quote, from all directions. let's go to our senior international correspondent ben wedeman who joins us now from baghdad. ben, how significant is it that these iraqi forces together with their shiite militia allies iranian revolutionary guard advisers they've retaken at least that hospital in tikrit?

>> reporter: yeah not just the hospital wolf but also a neighborhood to the north and they've taken another hospital on the southern edge of the city previously known as saddam hospital. so they do seem to be gaining ground. and we understand that really the only isis fighters who are left are foreign fighters who are ready to die in the battle. many of the iraqi fighters perhaps not quite as committed to the cause of isis have left the city. they were the ones that we were reporting earlier who had received instructions to shave off their beards cut their hair put on civilian clothing and sneak out with fleeing civilians. but as they make process in tikrit the situation in ramadi is somewhat worrying. the attack is now over but the city is on extremely high alert after this attack which came from a variety of directions as many as 17 car bombs and truck

bombs at security checkpoints, at government facilities. we understand that four iraqi policemen were killed. as many as 100 have been wounded in this attack as well as more than 30 civilians. now, in addition to that there's been a car bomb in the hariya neighborhood of northeast baghdad where 11 people were killed and many more wounded. so isis may be on the run in some areas but it hasn't certainly retreated from others. wolf? >> we're also hearing that there's some new battles going on. isis making a major offensive along the syrian/turkish border. what do we know about that? >> reporter: that's in northeastern syria in a town which is right on the turkish/syrian border. according to the reports we're hearing, it's been a fairly concerted attack there as well by isis and looks like they may

be trying to repeat what they tried but failed in the town of kobani a kurdish town not far from there on the syrian/turkish border. the question is in kobani it was really due to the coalition air strikes that eventually isis was defeated in that area. so it may be another repeat of that. it may, however, be that isis is desperate for some sort of battlefield victory. it's been a while since they've had any, really since before kobani. and this may be a way to lash out as they're losing territory in parts of syria, in the north in iraq, in the kurdish areas as well as in tikrit. wolf? >> ben wedeman in baghdad for us watching what's going on, ben, thank you very much. coming up a u.s. military training mission goes horribly wrong off the coast of northwest florida. seven u.s. marines, four u.s. army crewmen, they're all feared dead in this helicopter crash. we'll get the latest on the search and the investigation. stay with us.

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that's where the helicopter was based. victor i know you have some new information on the investigation. what are you learning? >> reporter: new information from both the officials at camp lejeune in north carolina and from the officials there at eglin air force base. the only glimmer of good news in this entire story, that the weather is starting to clear there in the search area. the fog had been such a major problem hampering the coast guard efforts. the effort to find the victims of this now-determined still missing, some officials believe they're all presumed dead there. we also know that from official there is in camp lejeune that the relatives of the marines who were on board that blackhawk that went down they are in the process now of being notified and a command level official is en route from camp lejeune to eglin air force base. of course this all happened on a foggy night, last night, during a training mission involving two blackhawks from this station here at louisiana

army national guard. one of them went down the other landed safely. we're told the marines on board that blackhawk that landed safely they have not yet been questioned or screened but they will be screened to find out if they can give any indication any idea about what happened here. it was very foggy and we're told by a spokesperson from eglin that there were weather issues. it's not abnormal for these training missions to happen in inclement weather. but they have not yet determined if that is the sole contributor to this accident wolf. >> this investigation, victor clearly just beginning. once again, we're standing by for a news conference. we'll have live conference once it begins. victor don't go too far away. we'll check back with you as well. very sad story for these marines and soldiers. still to come his family says isis recruited him. the extremist group says his family was spying on him.

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welcome back to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington. isis is also waging a war on social media. brutal new video has emerged of an israeli arab man being shot and killed by a child. the video so horrific cnn's decided not to show any part of it that includes still pictures from the video.

in it isis claimed the victim was an israeli spy. elise labott is joining us live from jerusalem. tell us what the israeli defense minister is saying about this isis claim. >> reporter: the defense minister claimed that even though 19-year-old mohamed musallam had israeli citizenship, he was a palestinian that held israeli citizenship and his family lived in east jerusalem, he was not, i repeat not a member of musad. definitely appeared to be under duress in this period. >> i know you had a chance to speak with his family members, musallam's tell us what you found out. >> reporter: they were devastated. they called mohamed a warm, caring funny person.

he was a volunteer firefighter and they say he fell prey to isis recruiters online. take a listen to what his father told me last night. >> translator: mohamed told me and his brother that isis took him. they sent him money through the western union. they said you will have money, girls, cars, paradise. but after he trained, he discovered there is nothing. >> reporter: and, wolf he said that he tried to help his son get home. he wired him money, tried to enlist the red cross. he had seen him on a skype call. he didn't even recognize him. he had grown a beard and was armed. after about a month, he heard that his son was picked up by isis trying to cross the border to get home. and now this devastating video, wolf his brother told me that he saw it. he was devastated. but he will not show it to his parents who refuse to believe that their son is gone.

>> only 19 years old, right? >> reporter: i'm sorry. i can't hear you. >> only 19 years old, mohamed musallam a young man indeed, a tragic story. elise, we'll get back to you shortly. i know there's a big election coming up in israel in six days. you'll have the latest poll results that are out there. stand by for that. isis is known for using children as propaganda tools. they even refer to these little boys as cubs of the caliphate. just ahead, we'll talk about the motive and the message behind these very disturbing images. i really admire my mother. despite what people said she bought me a sewing machine and she let me play with dolls and that was something that was kind of growing up culturally, it was quite unacceptable and she really dared to let me be different. [thunder and rain] [thunder and rain] [thunder and rain]

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want to go to eglin air force base in florida. news conference just beginning on the crash of a u.s. military helicopter with 11 service members on board. >> first and foremost i've seen

some incredible citizens come out today. we've had citizens that have brought us food water, soda. we've had a lot of local businesses that have donated food to us. it is extremely appreciated. we've shared that with the members of the armed forces that are here. and that's a gesture that you don't see. in this community, we're very tight. that's just a reflection of just how tight this community is. i'm proud of our citizens. at this point, our traffic is open. we don't have any traffic problems right now. navarre park is closed. the park on the south side is also closed. but other than that the citizens have been tremendous. and we're really proud to serve the citizens of santa rosa county. the boaters out there have closed the waterways. we've had some people try to go out on kayaks that may not be aware.

>> do you have any sort of [ inaudible ] -- >> not that i'm aware of. >> has anyone identified [ inaudible ] -- >> i can't speak to that at this time. >> this community is no stranger to navy, air force flying over. how devastating is it to hear that there was an incident just as a person who's lived here? >> the military is such a huge part of our community. we're surrounded by three, four different major military installations. it's a way of life here in santa rosa county. the blue angels flying over to the special ops, the jets -- i'm proud to be a citizen of this country because i live here and get to experience it firsthand how big the military is. it's an awesome thing. we're proud of what they do. and we're proud to serve our soldiers. any other questions? >> can you say and spell your first and last name? >> rich alloy.

>> there's the latest reaction we're getting. sad story, 11 u.s. service members, marines and soldiers apparently killed in a pretty shocking accident last night overnight. there you see a picture of one of those blackhawk helicopters. there were two routine training exercises but there was heavy fog. we don't know the cause of this crash. 11 members of the u.s. military presumed dead. much more coming up on this and other news we're following. we told you about the latest shocking video from isis that shows a child shooting and killing a man accused of being an israeli spy. of course this is not the first time isis has used children as part of its propaganda campaign. the terror group has released video showing militants training kids in physical combat. it shows the kids wearing black and holding up isis flags. the militants refer to these little boys as quote, cubs of the caliphate. that's a reference to the way isis fighters call one another lions.

let's bring in our cnn global affairs analyst, bobby ghosh, and paul cruickshank, cnn terrorism analyst and author. bobby, what is isis trying to accomplish by using these little boys, these kids in these videos? >> well they're doing two or three different things. they use kids because kids are much more easy to manipulate or to motivate and to do things like this. the message they're sending to the wider world is twofold. one is look our cause is so pure that even children can respond to it and children are drawn by it. and the flip side to that is our resolve is so great, we are such warriors that even our children are willing to wield a gun in this cause. it is a message that only makes sense to the source of perverse mentality that they have. but that's what they're trying

to accomplish and also trying to tell everyone -- to add to the general degree of terror that they're trying to spread. >> we've also seen paul as you well know these isis videos showing children in school. what are they trying to do? indoctrinate these kids at such an early age in order to become in effect isis fighters? >> that's absolutely right, wolf. they're trying to brainwash these young kids to become future isis fighters future soldiers of the caliphate. to some degree trying to blunt some of these young kids and involving them in these terrible crimes. and the propaganda message is also the caliphate is here to stay it's a multigenerational project and here are the next generation that are going to fight for isis in syria, in iraq and beyond. >> you heard on that horrible story, that young israeli arab man, 19 years old from east jerusalem, he was recruited his

father says by isis bobby, they told him, you'll have a great life lots of money, women, villas. you heard the father say that. so the 19-year-old, he sneaks out. he gets to isis territory and then they accuse him of being an israeli spy and kill him in a brutal video which is too brutal to even show on television. we at cnn have decided not to show still pictures of that video, murder of this young man or certainly none of the video. but what's intriguing is what the father said. they made all these promises to him on social media, special this promise of young women. come with us, you'll have a great time. this is common, isn't it? this is what's going on to recruit these young men. >> absolutely. that is the message they've been sending consistently for a couple of years now. come join this fight. it's being portrayed as a great adventure. the underlying sentiment is you can come and do all these things.

you can kill people in the name of your cause. you can have a house. you can have -- we'll find you a wife you can have money. and the most important thing is, you can get away with it. there's no consequences. big part of isis' message, look we're successful nobody is standing up against us which is why the recent military activities against them are so important. you need to change that narrative. for a lot of people the biggest part of the attraction is you can go and do all these things and nobody is going to throw you in jail, there are no consequences. >> they're very successful in this propaganda on social media, promising all these young men. paul you've monitored these social media sites. they promise them everything. you'll have a lot of fun, just come over and join the fight. >> that's absolutely right, wolf. but the most important thing that isis says in these social media postings and their propaganda is that it's their religious duty to go and join

isis. these are the people who are brainwashed in a radical interpretation distorted interpretation of islam who believe it's their religious duty to go and fight with isis. they believe they will be rewarded for doing that in the afterlife by god, that by joining this struggle it's part of an end-of-day struggle for the religion. most of these young men and young women who are going to join isis are religiously brainwashed. >> paul bobby, guys thanks very much. a horrible horrible story unfortunately continues. on a very different story we're monitoring here at cnn, up next hillary clinton may have been hoping her news conference yesterday would put an end to all the questions about her use of her private e-mail system while serving as secretary of state. that hope though certainly has been dashed if in fact she had that hope. in just this one moment, your baby is getting even more than clean. the scent, the lather, even the tiny bubbles

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e-mail as a matter of convenience but that she fulfilled the request to turn over her work e-mails. >> the state department sent a letter to former secretaries of state, not just to me asking for some assistance in providing any work-related e-mails that might be on the personal e-mail. and what i did was to direct my counsel to conduct a thorough investigation and to err on the side of providing anything that could be connected to work. >> let's discuss what's going on. joining us to discuss this other question surrounding this entire e-mail controversy, our cnn political commentateoreor michael smerconish and our chief political analyst, gloria borger. gloria there's a lawsuit now

that's going on from the a.p. i take it and you agree with me the controversy continues, it hasn't been put to rest. >> i think the clinton people knew themselves that their responses yesterday were not going to quell any of the controversy. the a.p. lawsuit today specifically requests materials related to her private calendar to correspondence involving longtime aides. and you know this is going to stir up a whole hornets nest here among democrats and among republicans particularly on the committee investigating benghazi who are going to be interested to see what the a.p. gets. so this is going to completely continue, specifically because hillary clinton made it clear yesterday that she and her counsel, as she put it in your clip, are the deciders. they're the ones who chose which e-mails to reveal and which e-mails not to reveal to hand over to state department -- and

that remains a problem. >> but the state department says that was her prerogative like other officials, it was her right to make that kind of decision. >> that's what she said. >> you and i and gloria, michael, remember the '90s. is there a possibility the republicans could overreach in their quest for all this stuff? >> absolutely. and i agree with what gloria just said in terms of her assessment. this is a legitimate issue. there are still many questions that i think require answers. but the republicans could easily overplay their hand. i take note of the fact that trey gowdy has already said he doesn't think it's just one. he thinks it's at least two visits that this will now necessitate before that house select committee on benghazi. so much of the country, politically speaking is already dug in with regard to secretary clinton. they're for or against her. those who are neither are, i think, going to pay close attention to the way in which this is now handled and if they

perceive that the republicans are ganging up on the secretary, it will turn them off as voters in 2016. >> i agree. >> not that they're asking for it but my advice to the gop would be keep your powder dry and let the media now ent, of course where you had the obvious issues with president clinton, then president clinton, and then you had the republican overreach, which seemed to turn the public in another direction. and i think there are people i've spoken to on the republican side of the aisle giving republicans the same advice michael, you're giving them. kind of hold off and let this story play out a little bit. >> but there are, michael, legitimate questions still out there. she said yesterday there were about 61 62,000 e-mails, half of them basically were government-related. she said she handed them all over to the state department. the other half she said were personal and they decided to

delete, to destroy, in effect all of those e-mails. that's raising a lot of questions, isn't it? >> it is and she worked feverishly not to use the "d" word although you're using it properly in your explanation. the "new york times" in its first sentence used the d word. i'm sure she thought is sounded rosemary woods-ish. i took a look through my e-mail trash bin before this conversation and admittedly i'm not the secretary of state, but so many of me e-mails are neither entirely professional or personal. i may interact with a colleague and make a personal statement. interact way friend and make a professional statement about my work at cnn. i'm not assuming she's any different than the rest of us in that regard. so weren't there some e-mails out of the 60,000 that contained both the professional and the personal and if so, what became of them?

that's just one question. >> michael, just to add to that point is the question of whether it was embarrassing really the point here. none of us want our embarrassing e-mails aired, but some of those embarrassing e-mails may actually have something to do with policy or with people. >> right. >> that -- that for archival purposes that historians might find very interesting that are now lost. >> yeah. we'll see where the story moves but we thank both of you for joining us and don't forget for our north american viewers, don't miss "smerconish" the name of the show airing saturday mornings 9:00 a.m. eastern only here on cnn. still ahead, the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is facing the election fight of his career and only six days. will he be re-elected? live to jerusalem for the latest poll numbers. plus more on the man who potentially could replace him.

the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu could be out of a job soon, up re-election in six days and danger he could lose that election. go to our global affairs correspondent elise live from jerusalem. new poll numbers showing he's

slightly behind his party -- slightly behind. isn't he? >> reporter: wolf israel you know it's not even slightly. i'm going to look at this israeli channel 2 poll released yesterday, and it has the labor party chairman and the labor party ahead of likud, which is prime minister's party by about four seats. you know the israeli parliamentary system revolves around forming a coalition. not what gets the better seats but whoever has the power to coalesce everybody around them would be able to form a government. now, if netanyahu was neck in neck, if lookikud was neck and neck with labor could have a chance to form the government as livn was offered in the last election. she won a few less seats than netanyahu. a few more seats, but in the end netanyahu formed the government. it really depends on who all the

other parties are willing to form a coalition with, but it definitely looks like prime minister netanyahu is slipping in the polls and we deponent know where the voters are going, wolf. just away likud. and a sense of momentum it's turning way from the prime minister. >> looks like he's losing support every day. he might have gotten a bump from his controversial address before the u.s. congress last week but that bump has clearly gone away. hasn't it? >> reporter: well, you know he got bumped and everyone looks at everything in seats. how many seats in the kanesset and the israeli parliament would get and maybe he got seat or two for a day or so but then the pollings dipped again. now the fact he is behind four seats after this stunning speech that he went and really doubled down and put so much political capital on is really amazing, wolf. >> tell us a little about the opposition leader, isaac hertzog?

>> reporter: well isaac hertzog is the labor party chairman in opposition for a very long time. this is -- a lot of people call him the most boring politician in the world but he's un, amatic, mildamatic -- uncharismatic. an attorney by trade, son of a former president of israel has a real long legacy here. some people compare his family to the kennedys here in israel. he's a former retired army in the army and also basically has been working in the national security cabinet. he has a long and illustrious career in politics but very little known. you know wolf i talked to a lot of israelis and they say they don't want to vote for netanyahu. they're kind of tired of the whole security platform, but they don't know isaac hertzog. he told me in an interview recently he understands he has a lot of explaining to do to voters about who he is but he's confident when israelis go to

the polls they'll vote for him. >> see if he becomes the next republican of prime minister of israel. and "cnn newsroom" with anna cabrera starts right now. hello. i'm anna cabrera. thanks for joining me. we begin with a search for a u.s. military helicopter. this crash happened here in the waters off pensacola, florida, in the gulf of mexico. officials now say all 11 onboard are presumed dead. seven marines plus four members of the army air crew. new pictures just coming in of the wreckage beginning to wash ashore. this near elgin air force base. also the pentagon confirming human remains have been found and the army black hawk crash