apply online or visit a bank of america near you. thank you for being part of a very busy "the real story" today. i'm gretchen karlson, more breaking news on ray rice with john scott in for shep. >> we now know when we will learn president obama's plan for fighting and defeating the islamist state. the terrorists have murdered two american journalist in addition to thousands of innocent iraqis and syrians. we have a timeline and it will apparently take years. >> a judge now on trial, accused of forgery, evidence tampering and using public funds to pay for personal expenses. she says she is not guilty. so what what happens when a jury has toju decide the fate of a judge? the nfl and the baltimore ravens dumping ray rice after tmz looked video of him burning his then-fiancee so hard he knocked

her out. >> first from the fox news deck, the white house will not say if president obama has decided to use our military to go after the islamic state in sierra. press secretary josh earnest said that's a decision the

strikes, not just in iraq but some now in syria, and there's going to be an international coalition he is seeking to put together, not just germany and italy possibly continuing to fund and provide arms, but air strikes by other nations and arab allies so this doesn't look like a west versus iraq situation. then going to prepare the politics of this with congress, and is preparing the american people for this as well. mind you, th@j public is not really inclined to get involved with this conflict and with the mid-east, having been through two wars, and so there's preparation there as well that is going to be the president to achieve.

>> he is the president who campaigned on the notion of getting us out of iraq. he is not a guy would wants to go back into iraq in any significant way. >> that's right. he has asked congress for $500 million to help to fund training and arms for factions within syria. congress has to make that decision. patrick o'connor has a story on this now. and "wall street journal" poll back in the spring, we found that by two to one americans did not favor getting involved in overseas activities such as this. they are) still smarting from te previous 12 years. so, all of that is going to play out over the next couple of days. the preparation of the politics, being done with congress tomorrow, getting this buy-in, as it's being called, just short of a vote but getting come to kind of put themselves forward where they stand. >> andu0&lx republicans, includg

potential presidential contenders like ted cruz and marco rubio, are really having a field day with this. marco rubio says american foreign policy is in the hands of someone who doesn't know what they're doing. >> you will hear politics on both sides for the next several weeks and the runup to the election in november. at the end of the day, what is happening? the u.s. is expanding its involvement once again in iraq. these strikes are increasing over the weekend, the most intense airstrikes of this campaign yet and the president will be talking about doing something similar in syria. so, we're expanding our involvement once again the region. >> i was surprised to hear that they're talking bat three-year campaign to get rid of isis. americans have to be prepared to hear about this for a long time to come. >> i think that's an important point, and that's the preparation i think that is being done this week to prepare an american public for an expanded campaign of the sort years, from the air primarily,

without combat troops in the field. >> john, thank you. brand new details on the story that broke this past hour. the baltimore ravens and the league finally cracking down on running back ray rice. it comes after the web site, tmz, leaked new, far more graphic video of rice hitting his soon to be wife so hard he knocked her out. now president obama has weighed in. that's< next.

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the hammer has just come down for the running back, ray rice. today the national football league suspended him indefinitely, the same day his team, the baltimore ravens, cut÷ him. it comes after the web site tmz leaked new and far more graphic video of rice hitting his soon to be wife so hard he knocked her out. this is in an elevator at a hotel and casino in atlantic city. until now we had only seen this video, rice dragging his unconscious fiancee out of the elevator and leaving her on the floor. after that original video emerged the league suspended rice for just two games.

that's significantly less than the penalty for smoking marijuana. trace gallagher has the news. what else are we learning about the nfl's suspension here? >> well, the bizarre thing the nfl keeps claiming it did not see the video until today, despite the fact the police had the video, the grand injury that sigh this video. nfl says it never saw it. even if the nfl did not see this part of the video, where they actually get inside the el elevator, his fiancee goes after him and then he burns her so hard he knocks her out. they only saw the part she was actually dragged out of the elevator unconscious and a security guard walked up after he did that. but keep this in mind, all along the police report said that ray rice admitted to hitting his fiancee in the face with his fist. apparently the nfl needed to actually see the evidence to react, because when this first happened, ronalder goodell, gave

ray rice a two-game suspension. after that he got so much said, yep, i blew it. then subsequently, for any domestic violence case, further on for nfl players, the fine would be six games for the first offense, and a lifetime ban for the second offense, and now we have the nfl coming out and saying that ray rice has now been suspended indefinitely from the nfl. this could mean the end of ray rice's career, john. >> in terms of the team, the ravens had not disciplined him act least not publicly, until now? >> not only not disciplined him but publicly supported him. they have the team's vice-president of communications actually wrote a column on the ravens' web site a short time ago saying -- i should say a few weeks ago -- actually supporting ray rice as a person saying, i like ray rice and i respect him. he is a good guy.

then coach john harbaugh took/x that a step further saying he is a heck of a guy who made a mistake, and then you had incidents wherery rice comes out the tunnel are tunnel and 60,000 fans give him a standing ovation. that was highly criticized. and now the ravens, had a chance for a do-over like a lot of ravens said they wanted and now they made the decision that ray rice is no longer a baltimore raven and, again,f"cx with that coupled with the nfl, very good indication that ray rice's career in the nfl is probably over. but in sports you can never say never. >> this thing has gone all the way to the white house. even the president weighed in today. >> yeah, the white house spokesman josh earnest was ask the by ed henry during the press briefing today, talking about isis, all about immigration and thençy ed henry posed this question about the ray rice

suspension to josh earnest. listen. >> this administration, this president, do believe strongly that the discourage of violence against women is something that needs to be aggressively combated. and i don't want to comment on the individual decisions made by in this case an individual nfl team but you have seen the president and the vice-president make very forceful public comments, in talking about how important it is for men, in particular, to step up and step forward, and make clear that violence against women is something that is not and cannot be tolerated. >> and you talk about forceful comments, john. i just want to read you this, this' this ills from the cocaptain of the denver broncos, tweeting, that man, ray rice, should be thrown out of the nfl and thrown into jail. shame on those deciding his punishment. i should also note that as far as legal proceedings against ray

rice, there's not much they can do. the grand jury did indict him but he chose to go into a diversionary program instead so double germed prevents them from re-opening the case. so ray rice's now wife and fiancee came out and saying she regretted her role in this, which now that you see what happened inside thep< elevator, also makes you wonder. >> very often, very often in cases where a player gets disciplined, the nfl players association takes up the case and really battles against the league. there is any indication yet, trace, that the nfl p.a. would try to get him reinstated with the ravens. >> it's a great question. that's what everybody asked this morning. let's look at this. if the nfl now wants to g back and retroactively punish ray rice for this, well, then wouldn't the nfl players association come in and fight that? and the answer would have likely been yes, because it is his

right to have his union fight on his behalf, and that would have tied this thing up maybe for quit so it would have meant that as of this weekend ray rice would have been back, able -- back playing football, and then while they battled this out with the players union and the nfl might have kept going. so maybe that's why the ravens decided it was upon them to make the decision because ultimately he is a raven and when the raven5á7j said, he is done, that ends any dispute the nfl might have had with the players association because you're exactly right, john in any dispute like this, roger goodell already gave his punishment. he said he blew and it would have done it different live if he had the chance. the players association would have argued just because you have the video now doesn't mean you can give a different punishment because you have delivered. you have to live by your sentence, roger goodell saying, i don't.

he is gone. he is released and the if a vens agree. >> amazing how he the release of one new camera angle changed the tenor of the story. as of today, sports betting is now legal in the state of new jersey. that's after the republican governor, chris christie, issued a directive allowing racetracks and atlantic city casinos to offer betting on sporting events. previous federal court rulings have found that nothing in new jersey law prevents it. professional and college sports leagues have opposed such efforts in the past, and analysts say they are likely to challenge today's actions. new englandh@ój -- the pentn insists-don't call it mission creep, but our military involvement in

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almost all of the 350 additional troops the u.s. is sending to iraq have arrived, according to a pentagon spokesman, he says that brings the total number of american forces tod= almost 1200. at we reported it's the first time we have had more than a thousand troops on in the ground sin the end of the iraq war in 2011. jennifer griff -- griffin is live at the pentagon. >> the pentagon denies it's mission creep. in fact they're defending what are now 15 airstrikes cared another round the dam since saturday. they're expanding military operations into a fourth are fourth location. the strikes started as a way to help the gentleman sid days, and then included the mosul dam and then help the peshmerga retake the town of amerli.

the u.s. has carried out 148 airstrikes and is flying air support for the iraqi army which does not have a functioning air force. >> a new strike around the dam but it isn't anything different from that the president has said in his guidance to to protect the americans and infrastructure that would protect americans. >> the number of u.s. troops in iraq has now risen to more than 1,192 for the first time since the u.s. returned to iraq since the war ended in 2011. >> i ran for this office in part to end our war in iraq and welcome our troops home and that's what we have din. as commander in chief i will not allow the united states to be dragged into fighting another war in iraq. >> that was the president on august 7th. secretary of state john kerry raised eyebrows last week when hece suggested the 350 u.s. tros that the pentagon sent in recent

days to protect the u.s. embassy in baghdad were in fact military advisers. that is not why they were officially requested to do. quote, we have just put another 350 people on the ground in an effort to build up our adviser capacity. we're building up or isr platform and intel capacity. we also are building up the kinetic capacity and that will be part of this. chase very different from the humanitarian mission that the president authorized on august 7th and the mission to protect u.s. military -- u.s. embassy facilities and personnel in iraq. expect to hear from the president on wednesday how the mission has evolved and what the strategy is to defeat isis. >> the tone coming from the administration seems to have changed markedly, jennifer, since the president first admitted his team didn't really have a strategy to deal with isis. >> absolutely. that's when you started to notice the changing tone coming from administration officials,'ñ

john. >> jennifer griffin, thank you. the u.s. military will help fight the deadly ebola outbreak in africa elm that's what president obama told "meet the press." the president says the epidemic is a national security priority and military will help set up isolation units and provide secure fort workers. health official says the disease has already killed 2,000 people in five countries, more than all previous outbrakes combined. according to the "associated press," cases of ebola have been surging in parts of west africa where doctors say they thought they had beaten it. the national institutes of health reports it is now testing an experimental ebola vaccine on people. >> parents, if your children seem to be coming down with a cold you might want to pay close attention their symptoms. a virus that has sickened more than a thousand children will likely become a nationwide problem according to the centers for defers control and prevention. we first told you about the virus last among. at the time the breakout was

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>> more headlines from the fox news deck. u.s. and jamaican investigators have called off the search for the small plane that crashed into the caribbean on friday, hours after the pilot became unresponsive. they say the two people onboard

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weekend in cairo. they did not specifically offer support for any u.s. military action but did approve a resolution to constant front islamic state militants. the arab leagues members including egypt, jordan, lebanon, saudi arabia and the united arab emirates, and also qatar, which western officials accused of funding the islamic state. john is live in jerusalem. john? >> reporter: the arab league's involvement in all this could really help president obama as he tries, as you mentioned, to form the international coalition of nations and countries to identifying isis. not only american and nato allies but also arab nations as well. so let's talk about the resolution arab league released. it basically vows to combat isis' military and financial resources and the extremist ideology involved, and while the resolution doesn't specifically

support the u.s. airstrikes in iraq, at least not in the text of the resolution, anyway, diplomatic officials involved with the arab league say the ministers of the member nations are willing to coordinate with the united states, whether that means military coordination and support, though remains unclear. but all this as also the u.n., human rising commissioner, has called on world% leaders, johno make it a priority in fighting isis as well, skying that the militants have an absolute disregard for human life. >> john, hudy, recording live. thank you. u.s. and british intelligence officials say they now know the identity of an islamic state militant who appears in an american journalist james foley's execution video. according to the reporting of u k's daily mirror, intelligence analysts used facial recognition technology to provide an image of the british militant based only on his eyes, and they may

reveal his name in a few days. they're still no word if the same militant was responsible for the beheading of a second journalist, steven sotloff. james woolsey is a former director of central intelligence, also chairman of the foundation for defense of democracies which described is as a nonpartisan institute focusing on foreign policy and national security. no surprise, i suppose, that they are able to come up with an i.d. on this guy. how a big deal is that? >> i think anybody who has lost a relative or friend, even just another american, that people care about, would be delighted to see this guy be at the other end of a drone strike. but it's not the heart of the matter. we didn't win world war ii by going after adolph eichman. it's not the executioners you want to get. it's the heart of their military capable, and that's the heart of the matter. we have to be able to take out

isis' military capability. >> so as long as they have free rein in syria and large swaths of iraq, that is the bigger issue to you. >> absolutely. and president obama once said he was like aional scholar lost among the thugs and he is definitely given that impression. and they're now kind of running to catch up, i think, and trying to look a bit more forceful and come up with a bit more militarily related plans. even if they're not going to put boots on the ground, which i think is wise of them not to do. so, this is an important potentialwash transition point r where they may go with everything they're doing nat part of the world, and it was good sign yesterday, some of the sunni tribes, who had stayed away from working with us because maliki was doing such an awful job in iraq, they are now

starting to come back. these are the people who fought side-by-side with news the surge back in '06 and '07. so, there could be some positive developments here. let's hope the president, whatever you think of him politically, let's hope that the president pulls this out. >> isis is the stepchild of al qaeda in iraq. president obama famously said so many times during the campaign that iraq -- i'm sorry -- al qaeda is on the run. >> yes. well, the problem is the facts caught up with the narrative and passed the narrative. so the narrative, which is that we have won the war and the war is over becausencb9ñ we left, ae killed bin laden, so terrorism is over, those all kind of fell apart with isis. and they're kind of racing now to -- the administration is -- to try to make what they're doing as something to do with their new narrative, which is a bit more forceful than their old

narrative. it creates a big problem when you're trying to make policy based on narrative, or what crops out publicly. >> james woolsey, the form director of the cia, thank you. >> good to be with you. >> a weather alert has very e severe storms hammer the southwest with record flooding. officials in fenix said today is their wettest day since they started keeping track a century ago. forecasters say some areas around phoenix already have had more than three inches of rain in the desert since this morning. that's more than what they normally get for the entire monsoon season. dozens of schools are closed. heavy winds have left thousands of customers without power. meteorologist janice dean is live in the fox extreme weather center. what's they latest on this system? >> the pictures tell the story better than radar. incredible rainfall in the desert area, three inches of rain in an hour. phoenix is going to dry out but

north of the region, where we'll see the potential for flooding. this is courtesy of what was hurricane norbert. phoenix got the brunt of it this morning with over three inches of rain. top five wettest septembers just because of this day, where they received 3.29 inches. sky harbor, a daily record, and really the pictures are incredible. flood advise riz, flashflood neglect tucson area now, and up towards nevada and california. if there's any good news, southern california needs the rainfall, and they're getting that moisture because of this system. looking at the forecast radar, arizona, you're going to dry out but the potential for heavy rain exists really for the next 48 hours for the four corners so we're going to continue to monitor it. for phoenix, arizona, today you'll see the potential for rain, improving conditions and it's going to be hot through thursday and friday. john, back to you. >> i'll have to check in with my sister in necessary a. thank you. >> you got it.

>> an ohio judge went on trial today, facing a variety of charges, among them, prosecutors say she forged documents to make it impossible for them to appeal her decision. is it possible for her to get a fair trial? we'll discuss it next. if you're suffering from constipation or irregularity, powders may take days to work. for gentle overnight relief, try dulcolax laxative tablets. ducolax provides gentle overnight relief, unlike miralax that can take up to 3 days. dulcolax, for relief you can count on.

the former mayor of new orleans, ray nagin, now a federal prison inmate. he spent his final moment0s of freedom lugging family members outside a minimum security prison cam no northeast texas. he is wearing the yellow shirt. he arrived today to begin serving a ten year sentence on corruption charges. nagin gained national prominence while leading new orleans in the days after hurricane katrina but a jury convicted him on charges including bribery and money laundering. he is appealing his conviction. >> an unusual scene inside a courtroom in cincinnati where lawyers began picking the jurors who will decide the fate of a judge.

hamilton county juvenile court judge tracy hunter on trial for a number of charges, including forgery, theft, and evidence tampering. prosecutors accuse judge hunter of back-date something of her rulings to prevent appeals. they also say she misused a county credit card to pay for personal legal expenses, and they accuse her of illegally helping her brother, a cower employee -- a court employee, get extra pay. the judge pleaded not guilty. there's another angle. prosecutor says the judge is partly responsible for the shooting deaths of two men because she kept one of them out of juvenile prison. police say both men died in a shooting in cincinnati last month. defense attorneys deny that the judge played a role and say the accusations could taint the jury pool as jurors consider those separate felony charges. if the jury convicts her on all of them it could mean a prison sentence of up to 13 years. joining us now, criminal defense attorney ashley merchant.

i can't imagine how difficult to seat a jury pool when the accused is a judge. >> right, right, definitely difficult, especially given the prosecutor's comments about her being responsible for these two young children's death. essentially what they're saying is they asked for prison time. she didn't give the prison time. one of the gentlemen got out. committed a murder, himself murdered during the incident, and had she followed their advice and kept him in jail, neither of those murders would have happened. so both juveniles would be out on the streets. and so that is going to taints the jury pool because the jury just heard that in the local media last week. that will be fresh in their minds. >> one of the charges has to do with misusing public funds. she apparently was using court creditn( cards that had been issued to her by the county to pay for filing fees for cases that had come before her or cases that she had to pay for? >> right. what all of this stems from,

john, is the fact that she was delayed in her rulings. so she was not ruling in the times prescribed by ohio law. so what happened was she went and backdated -- this is what the state is arguing -- backdated her rulings so they would comply with law and not get overturned on appeal. she was sued by several entities, the public defender, the d.a.'s office and several private attorneys. those lawsuits incurred filing fees. she then went and used her county credit card to pay the filing fees in lawsuits"htfq)e she herself was a defendant. >> what she is looking at in terms of jail time if convicted? >> if she is convicted she could get up to 13 years in jail based on all nine felonies she is on all nine felonies she is charged with,g be able to seat a jury pool and that's not going to necessarily be an easy exercise. >> right. not something i'm envious of. the lawyers will have a hard time. the defense will have a hard time trying to seat a jury that hasn't heard this and isn't prejudiced by the facts of the

case. she has been involved in the public spotlight for several years now. >> she has been in the headlines as well. ashley, thank you. >> thank you. >> a fox report now. more headlines from the fox news deck. another royal baby is on the way. and the palace reports duchess katherine has severe morning sickness again. this time she is not in the hospital but did cancel an appearance today with prince william. >> she is feeling okay. we're thrill. it's great news. >> prince george is now 13 months old. the royals have not announced a due date for in the new baby but kate has not yet passed the 12-week mark. >> at home a car crashed into a low tell in lexington, kentucky, and cop says it hit a gas line, sparking an explosion. the manager says alarms went off so the staff managed to get everybody out before the blast. no word of any serious injuries.

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another nba owner is giving up a team after comments he made about race. bruce leaven sendes selling this controlling interest the atlanta hawk after he informed the nba about an e-mail he sent about

other the hawks' low attendance. his theory was the, quote, black crowds scared away the whites and there's not enough affluent blacks to build a season ticket baste. he says the remarks were inappropriate and offensive. today an nba legend came to his defense. kareem abdul-jabbar wrote, levinson is a business man asking reasonable question lows to put customers in seats. that comes a few months after the gossip web site tmz posted an audio recording of l.a. clippers owner donald sterling making racist comments, telling his supposed mistress not to bring black people to games. he was punished withg5 a lifetie ban and forced to sell the team inch this any cause, bruce levenson says he voluntarily told the league about the e-mail and is it in the hawks' best interests for him to sell his

stake. jonathan, a lot of differences between the way that the sterling and levenson situations were handled. >> yeah, that's right, john. in fact, one could argue that at levinson's e-mail was an admittedly awkward attempt to boost ticket sales among an underrepresented demographic, in this case white suburbanites. perhaps not as insend area as a team inner telling his grandfathered not to bring african-americans to games which it what happened in april when the i'ms surface in l.a., but when donald donald sterling's ry charged comments were made public, itsit rocked the nba and forced the league and its owners to change the way they deal with these types of issues. listen. >> i think that donald sterling is going to be the bell weather for situations like there is and in the case of bruce letch venson it was an immediate recognition that something serious is going to happen if i don't come forward.

>> and that's exactly levenson did. he reported that two-year-old e-mail to the nba. apologized to everyone, and now he says he is going sell his controlling interest in the team. >> what this reaction in atlanta? >> it made a lot of people uncomfortable. for a number of reasons. some people[( interpreted his comments as a slight against african-american fans, treating them as second class fans. some thought it underestimated the tolerance of white southerners in a city that prides itself on friendly race relations. in a statement yesterday levenson says, quote, if you're angry about what wrote you should be. i'm angry at myself, too. itself was inflammatory nonsense. we all may have assault biases and preconceptions when its comes to race but my role as a leader is to challenge them, not to validate or accommodate those who might hold them. john in. >> thank you, jonathan. ever wonder how much pasta and

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break in because breaking news changes everything. "your world" is next. stuart varney is in for neil cavuto. we except shep to be back tomorrow -- expect shep to be back tomorrow. >> ahead of the 9/11 anniversary this week, should all eyes on >> the number one threat to the homeland are americans or europeans who have passports who have been over there and who are trying to come back, who may try to do something in the united states. >> and former homeland security janet napolitano says there's a good chance that we don't have a fix on all of them. so are we in a fix? welcome, everyone. i'm stuart varney in for neil cavuto and this is "your world." with the threat of home-grown terror on the rise the fbi setting its sights on minnesota. a dozen americans from the twinties are believed to have joined the fight with isis,