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possibly be every day and to the floor crew here, i know you don't like being on cam. liz, there you are, mario, thank you so much. thank you, team. there is no i in team. and thanks for being part of the real story. >> you realize you just put liz on television. >> i know. and she'll get me later on. >> you'll need a security guard on the way out. that's right. >> but i love her, so hopefully she won't be too mad. >> we all do. thank you. man, a busy hour ahead. new revelations about the security breach at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. >> an intruder walked in the front door of the white house and that is unacceptable. >> it is clear that our security plan was not properly executed. >> and now it turns out the guy got much farther inside than we first knew. ahead, we'll take you inside the white house and show you exactly what did happen and i'll speak with an insider who says, get this, and is this a quote, it's
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a moiracle that therehasn't bee an assassination. plus the man accused of be headi heading a co-worker. and the suspect who answered the reporter's questions. you'll hear what he says and you'll hear from investigators in a news conference expected to begin at any moment. like i said, it's a busy tuesday. so let's get to it. first on fox, today from oxford, mississippi, secret service is working hard are he at protecting its reputation than at protecting the white house. that is just one of the stinging blows from lawmakers to the head of the agency at the hearing. it comes after a string of security breaches and alleged attempts to cover them all up. in this latest incident, a man hopped the white house fence and made it all the way inside the president's home.
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now at first, the secret service was indicating that agents tackled that intruder near the entrance. turns out that is not true at all. sources revealed last night that the intruder made it through the unlocked door, kroeoverpowered agent, made it into the east room, and then went through to the green room. we have a picture about of the accused intruder who had a small knife and prosecutors say he had more than 800 rounds of ammunition this his car outside. a source tells fox news the agent who tackled the intruder was off duty and just happened to be in the right spot at the right time. the alarm never sounded because the secret service silenced it when white house staffers complained about all the noise. we have a virtual view of just how far the intruder got.
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ryan, show us. >> this is the door to the front entrance you mentioned. here you can see the stairwell which leads up to where the first family lives. that intruder ran towards this hallway right here. and then it hooked a left and ran down towards the east room. then he turned around as you mentioned, doubled back into the hallway. and got tackled right here in front of the green room which is that. >> all right. ryan, thanks. today the news of just how far the intruder did get there had lawmakers from both political parties on a tear. >> that would be half of a white house tour. that's what that would be. that isn't just getting inside the portico. that's half of a white house tour. >> when they jump the fence, there should be an immediate understanding this person should not be here and there should be an immediate understanding that there is not a restrain factor here. is this not the nice cuddly secret service. >> that sacred responsibility
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has to be uppermost in our minds. even if it that means that reputations fall, careers get interrupted, demotions occur or people get fired. >> have you ever heard of these guys? >> congressman suting that the white house install adt security. can you believe we're even talking about this? for her part, head of the secret service says she's outraged by the breach and vowed it won't happen again. she also takes heat on another security incident, this one happened back in 2011. a man fired shots at the white house, even hit a window near the first family living room. didn't even realize it had happened. several days went by before the secret service even realized that it had happened. the post reports that the bosses told agents to stand down while the home was under fire. commanders told them the gunshots were actually sounds from nearby construction. the report indicates that the agency realized only days later when a house keeper spotted a broken glass and cop create on
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the floor and an usher actually found a bullet at the white house. mike emanuels, what did she have to say? >> she confirmed how far into the white house the intruder had gotten. sources telling ed henry that it was an off duty sniper that stopped the guy. here is the secret service director. >> i'm here today to address the concern that we all hair following the incident of september 19 at the white house. it's clear that our security plan was not properly executed. this is unacceptable and i take full responsibility and i will made sure that it does not happen again. >> to be fair, protecting the president of the united states, protecting the white house,e sun again. >> to be fair, protecting the president of the united states, protecting the white house,ke s happen again. >> to be fair, protecting the president of the united states,
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protecting the white house, it's sensitive business so she may be able to be more foforthcoming a hearing behind closed doors. >> sure doesn't seem like lawmakers are satisfied so far. >> no, they want to see more passion and sense of urgency. chairman isis saying his confidence was not any higher in the secret service or specifically her leadership. top democrat elijah cummings says the jury is still out on whether pierson can fix the secret service. >> here is a sample. >> i know you have a lot of wonderful people over there. but this is not their best work. and we have a serious, serious issue here about protecting the president and his family. this is disgraceful. >> utah republican says the more he learns, the more it scares
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him. >> mike, thanks a lot. let's continue this with ronned aronald kessler. he broke the story of when agents were partying with hookers in columbia. ronald kessler has also written 20 books about the secret service, fbi, c chlt a, inclu including the first family detail. and he said and i quote, secret service agents say it is a miracle there has not been an assassination. mr. kessler joins us now. >> good to be with you. >> of all the research that i did it for today's program, that was the most as toupding thing that i read, that you say agents say it's a miracle there has not been an assassination. what is the context and the reason for that. >> the context is that there a cultural problem within management of secret service. not the he agents, but the management rewards agents who
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don't question security, punishes agents who point out problems with security. and that's why you have all these issues. but what is really disgraceful, congressman says their actions are disgraceful, is that president obama has not taken action as a good manager would to replace the director with an outsider who can shake up the agency. going back to when the salahis penetrated the state dinner at the white house you remember and president obama said he has confidence in the secret service. when the agents hired prostitutes, he said the same thing. when gunshots were fired at the white house and a uniformed officer reported it and supervisor overruled her and she was afraid to bring it any further, both obama and his wife were very angry according to the "post," but again, did he nothing whatsoever to change
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this. and even with this lat incident, tony blank and the deputy said they have confidence in the secret service. when any organization is failing, what you do is you bring in an outside ceo to shake things up and change the culture a mueller did when he became fbi director. fbi was not even in as terrible a shape. but we're talking about the life of the president. >> how long has it been like this some there had to have been a time when it changed. you can point to an administration or something? >> yeah. in my book, i say when the department of homeland security took over, the secret service in 2003, this started. as one example, when cruelly ie
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staff, mark ordered them to stop protecting the white house and instead protect his ope own assistant at home because she had been harassed. that's the kind of example of how lightly the secret service takes security. >> well, ronald, two things. first, if i'm the president of the united states and i know the people who are charged with keeping me from dying are not doing a good job, if i know that i'd probably try to fix that. nothing else makes much sense. secondly, what ought to be concerning is now everybody knows this. are we in position now where any old yahoo can get access like this now and how might it take to right the ship? >> we're not talking about a yahoo or lone gunman but rather
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10 terrorists, 20 terrorists, coming in with wmds, this intruder himself could have had explosives. and yet they say the officers exercised tremendous restraint. that tells you a whole lot. the secret service is so say r w arrogant that they think we'll accept this explanation. >> ronald kessler with us. thanks very much p. >> thank you. some breaking news now on this school shooting that we've been reporting here. and there is a manhunt going on in kentucky. police say a shooter opened fire inside the firm creek high school in louisville, kentucky. believe there say one person was wounded, apparently a student, but they can't be sure. and they say that person will likely survive. police tell us they're still
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shooting for the shooter. news crews caught students coming out of the school with their hands above their heads. a familiar sight in these situations. police say the shooting appeared to be an isolated thing as if the shooter we are specifically targeting the victim. said that it was isolated. we presume the rest because he said it was isolated. again, shooter still on the run as far as we know from police. the hunt is on and when we know more, we'll bring you that. first a realtor went to show a home to a possible buyer and her family never saw her alive again. now there is a suspect in custody and that suspect is talking to investigators. he has confessed. but not to the killing. his story and what investigators are saying on a loaded news afternoon. we'll be right back.
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this is little rock, arkansas, where we're watching a news conference on the killing of a real estate agent last week. police say they have now arrested one man. he says he did not kill that realtor. but investigators say he told them he did indeed kidnap the realtor. here is a picture of the victim, beverly carter. investigators say she went to show a house on thursday, but never came back. cops say they found her body overnight in a shallow grave outside a concrete company where the suspect reportedly used to
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work. that area about 20 miles or so from the spot where the realtor was supposed to show the house last week. so that's how it all fits together. police say they got information on her whereabouts after they arrested this man, aaron lewis. he told reporters he is not the killer. >> did you kill beverly carter? >> no. >> do you have anything to say? >> i had a co-defendant. i haven't seen her for two days. >> how can you explain what happened? >> talk to trevor. >> who is trevor? what is your relationship to trevor? >> we texted back and forth. >> why beverly? why beverly? >> she was a rich broker. >> rare to hear that much chatting, isn't it? lewis pleaded not guilty to capital murder. jonathan, not that you would expect anybody to say, yes, i
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did it, but in this case, he mentioned another person. what do we know about that? >> this bizarre exchange, he said that somebody he named as trevor might be responsible. you just heard it, and he said trevor was on a nearby military base. well, the cops at the news conference we've just been watching have ruled that out, they said they spoke to somebody called trevor yesterday and they said quite definitively he is not a suspect. they the cops believe they have the only person responsible for this in custody right now. that clearly being aaron lewis. now, after aaron lewis pled guilty, he had another of these conversations with reporter as he left the court. listen carefully here. >> are you hurting for some reason? >> yeah. >> what is hurting is th? >> i got in a car wreck. i vcht behaven't been to the ho yet. >> you pled guilty. why? >> because my lawyer said to do
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that. i just want it all over with. >> he pled not guilty because in his words that's what his lawyer wanted him to do. and he might have pled guilty because he wants this all over. a very bizarre series of comments that will obviously play out during the judicial process. >> the victim's family speaking, as well. >> yeah, beverly carter of course 49 years old, a mother and a grandmother. her family released a statement today which said the following in part. quote, we are devastated at the loss of our precious beverly. there is now a hole in our hearts that will never be filled. mr. ylewis robbed us of an amazing wife, loving mother and grandmother. her grandkids will never get to know the magnitude of her greatness. one other thing coming from this news conference, prosecutors
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have just been talking and as the prosecutors said charging somebody, arresting them in a case like this, is just the very beginning of what will be a very long process. but police saying quite clearly they believe they have the only person who is a suspect in custody right now. that person they say is aaron lewis. >> jonathan hunt for us. thanks a lot. we got word today that the white house made serious missteps as the islamic state ramped up its bloody terror campaign. the red flag that reportedly went ignored for months. plus the response from the white house. that's all coming up. s charlie. his long day of doing it himself starts with back pain... and a choice. take 4 advil in a day or just 2 aleve for all day relief.
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woma bops in the search for the cop killer in pennsylvania. police were searching for eric frein and the pipe bombs were rigged so that they could explode with a trip wire or some sort of means. they're warning more explosives could be in the area. they say the area has moved a little bit to the south and still near pike and monroe county borders. hundreds of cabins and vacant homes in the area. deer season begins on saturday. and be anybody in the region knows that can cause all kinds of problems. officials are considering changing that as long as the suspect is on the run. when you start messing with people's deer season, that's not something you want to do. about but these are very extreme circumstances. headline right now is they have
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just find good ploes explosivee. the fear is there is a big shoot-out in the end. the hope is that police will find him, but so far more than two week later, this survivalist is still on the run somewhere. the white house says the obama administration took steps to confront the islamic state before the group started taking over huge chunks of territory. josh earnest says there were early indicators that the iraqis were losing their will to fight for their country. >> what had also been clear over the course of the end of last year and the beginning of this year, that the united states had been ramping up our assistance to try to shore up the capability of the iraqi sources, that there were hell fire missiles transferred. >> of course when isis advanced into iraq, the country's military melted away and left its american weapons behind for the terrorists. this comes following a report from the "new york times" that indicates the white house brushed off warnings about isis
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because it was preoccupied with other stuff. fox news earlier this month reported the officials had included the islamic state in the briefing at least a year before militants began taking over parts of iraq. ed henry is at the white house for us. what are they saying? >> reporter: as you mentioned on top of the "new york times" reporting today about how there were warnings to the white house and to the president specifically about the growing threat from isis contradicts it seems what the president told 60 minutes sunday night when he said this was the intelligence community, james clapper and others, have who acknowledged they didn't tell him enough soon enough. and jay carney the former white house press secretary about a year ago at the white house podium said there is a growing threat from isis and they could carry out sophisticated attacks. so just pressed carney's successor about that. listen.
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>> the white house didn't just pay attention to it. they were preoccupied with other crises. this was not a big priority. sounds a lot different what the intelligence community is saying and what this white house is saying. >> well, the leader of the intel against community is jim clapper. and today he put out a message to the intelligence community that directly contradicts the anonymous individual quoted in the "new york times" today. >> reporter: and in that message, james clapper says he's proud of their work this trying to identify this threat, but says they could not have known that the iraqi forces weren't able to stand up to them. >> ed, thanks a lot. let's get context on this. dennis ross is with us. served as secretary adviser to hillary clinton. he dates back to the administration of ronald reagan. mr. ambassador, thank you. >> good to be with you. >> one who asks a lot of questions about this, i realize
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that there are so many organizations that the american people have never heard of. dozens more organizations that they haven't heard of than they have. and what i have been trying to figure out all along is, did this just get lost in the shuffle? did they not sort of capability was there or did they brush it aside? i don't know if we know the answer to that yet. >> i think it's probably a complicated answer and i think you have to look at it from at least two standpoints. one standpoint is what capabilities did isis begin to develop over time, were are they beginning to replace al qaeda in iraq and at one point did you see manifestations of that. the other side of that is what about the capabilities of the iraqi military. the two issues intersect with each other. on the one hand, you have maliki who was prime minister of iraq not living up to the promises made to the awakening council. remember, there were 100,000 sunnis from the sunni tribes
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prepared to fight al qaeda in iraq and they're the ones who helped to defeat them in the first praise. they were supposed to be integrated in to the iraqi security forces, they were supposed to be paid. not only did he not integrate them, he stopped paying them. and then he began to go after the sunnis. and he got rid of all the competent tepts officers in tof. so on the one hand, you see much greater sunni defection which created a fertile breeding ground for isis to come back. i suspect we were aware of that, but didn't understand how completely isis was re-establishing itself. and we knew iraqi military had enormous fighting power advantage after isis began to emerge in fallujah and ramadi. huge quantitative advantages. outnumbering isis better than 10:1. so i think the combination of looking at the military and positioning they had the capability to resist them, that probably also created a false
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sense of security and even a degree of complacency about the nature of the threat. >> it's interesting you say that last part. because one person who i trust a great deal within the military who seems to know what is going on, said it's this simple. we gave them these weapons and we knew what the weapons were. we were 100% sure that no matter who came at them, these weapons will stop whoever that is and what we didn't think of is they would use the weapons like this, they would just give the weapons away. they're like that didn't occur that they might to that and that changed every single calculation. and what are we doing now? we're about to go give weapons to another group of them who we didn't know nearly as well as the ones who we thought would never give the weapons away. what are we, insane? >> well, gefr nation of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting to get a different result. but i would say to be fair, i
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would say this, what happened with the iraqi military was basically it was corroded from the top because of what maliki did. people forget that he didn't just remove all the sunni, he removed every shia officer who had worked with us. anyone who was competent and who showed a kind of awareness and was prepared to work with us, he removed. why you saw the military basically just give up and walk away, all the officers left and the people who were left to fight were left to fight without the officers, so they said no way and we're certainly not fighting for this government, it doesn't represent us. if you create a different command structure within the iraqi military, and that's not something you can do overnight, about it becomes clear that this is now officer and led by people who are competent, then you're much more likely to see people stay and fight. and we've seen more recent examples of it where the people were prepared to continue to
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fight and resist, but they didn't have ammunition or support. so there is a whole structure here that has to be dealt with and it won't be something that solves overnight, that's for sure. >> no, not possible. mr. ambassador, thank you. >> my pleasure. so when they talk about these moderate syrian rebels and arming the iraqi army and then they tell you, well, from the north, helping up there in kurdistan, why don't you ask them. they will say, no, we want kurdistan. we don't want iraq anymore. so we'll give the weapons away. prosecutors are revealing more about the man accused of killing his co-worker. they say he cut off her head. details on what they're calling a revenge attack and terrorism versus murder charges. plus word of a different incident also in oklahoma, another man threatened to cut off his co-worker's head. what in the world is going on is
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. more of the headlines. thousands of u.s. troops will stay in afghanistan after the end of the year. this is part of the security agreement u.s. and afghan officials signed today. the white house says this deal will help share interests in the long term security of afghanistan. crews say new trimmers have forced them to suspend rescue effort again. at least 36 people have died since saturday. one forecaster says he's not predicting another big eruption, but anything can happen. and cops busted michael phelps early this morning for speeding and driving under the influence. they say he was going 84 in a 45 in baltimore. he got more than a year's
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24 before the hour. the oklahoma man who investigators say cut off a co-worker's head could face the death penalty now. some lawmakers are calling for the fed to investigate it not as a simple murder, but as terrorism. prosecutors charged the suspect with murder in the first degree plus assault. he walked into the food processing facility, killed one woman, stabbed another. we it initially heard it was after he had gotten fired, but now the district attorneys say he had been suspended, not fired. d.a. said the suspect was out for revenge after a suspect complained about him. he attacked her from behind and
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cut her head off. investigators say he turned his attention to the employee who made the complaint and stabbed her over and over again, but somehow she survived. the d.a. says some people tried to stop this man as he was in the middle of all this, but that he chased them away with his knife. finally an executive pulled out a rifle and shot him. as we reported, the suspect's family says he recently converted to islam. there is word that he'd been trying to convert his colleagues and that he was obsessed with beheadings. but the d.a. says that's not why the co-worker complained. >> my understanding is the altercation has to do more with race than it was him trying to convert nthi anyone and he basi said he didn't like while people. >> some want the attorney general to investigate it as an act of terrorism. virginia republican congressman
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frapg wolf writes this, he says his attack is the latest incident in a string of horrific beheading attacks which are emerging hallmark of radical islam terrorism whether in afghanistan and pakistan, middle east in general, europe and now here in the united states. again, he's really not alone with that sentiment. so far there is no response, but the fbi reports it's been on this case from the very start. a lot of politics mixed up in this. casey see gallon has this. this man hasn't appeared behalf judge at all? >> reporter: no, because he's still in the hospital being treated for the gunshot wounds. when he's released, he will go before the judge and put behind bars. today we got new information about what he was saying as he carried out the brutal attack.
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>> my understanding that he was using arabic terms during the attacks and search that's one of the many reasons why the fbi is involved. >> reporter: now, there is no terrorism statute here in the state of oklahoma, so if it is determined by the fbi that there are any terrorist links or ties in this case, they would then be pursued at the federal level. >> i mentioned another person in oklahoma threatened this sort of thing, right? >> yeah, you cannot write this. this is a completely separate incident. but on friday, a 30-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly threatened to cut the head off of one of his co-workers at a nursing home. this is his mug shot. he worked with a woman at the bellevue nursing home and she claims that he told her he represented isis and that isis killed christians and that he
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was going to cut her with a blade and put the pictures on facebook. hang god that of course was thwarted. is he now behind bars being held on $1 million bond. again a completely separate incident. >> thanks. tens of thousands of people are filling the streets of the hong kong financial hub. leaders said officials in beijing will not budge in their decision to limit voting reforms. it's not entirely independent but largely operates on its own. economists warn if the protests continue to escalate, this could shake up the larger global market because hong kong is a powerhouse for finance and trade since it serves as a gateway to mainland china. hong kong consistently ranks as the third most important
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financial center behind london and new york. government officials call the protests illegal, but they have not intervened. john bussy is with us. he lived and worked in hong kong for, what, a decade? >> pretty close to that. in the eight and th'80s and the 2000s. >> you get why they're protesting. but they're coming up on holidays and their economy affects the whole world. >> yeah, this is a city of 7 million people, but it punches way above its weight. it's an enormous financial center. it is one of the biggest ports in the world. it has something on the order of 1300 subsidiary of u.s. companies based in hong kong. and that's to do what you just described, do business in china, but have the benefit of the rule of law in hong kong. and it has more than 800 regional headquarters for u.s. companies that are doing business throughout asia, they
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base themselves in hong kong again for that access to china. but also for the rule of law. they will write contracts in china that say, hey, if there's a disagreement, we'll arbitrate this hong kong. >> has anything changed yet because of these demonstrations? has the business mechanism changed? >> well, there's been some closing down of businesses in hong kong but on the fringe. singapore is saying we've moved things as they got more sge expensive it hong kong. i think businesslikes the approximaproximity to china, bu be terribly difficult for them to back away from this argument that they're making that they must vet all political
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there are real concerns about ebola in the state of texas. an american was in liberia, came back, started showing some symptoms. so now he's in a hospital. they're waiting for test results. nobody in the united states has had ebola like walking around out in the public. there have been doctors who came over to be treated and they were kept this isolation, but no open cases of ebola. if this one is, it will be the first time. john roberts has the news live outside the centers of disease control and prevention in atlanta. what do we know, john? >> reporter: we're not learning a lot about this patient other than the fact that the patient was this liberia.
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he traveled recently to dallas. thankfully was asymptomatic, not showing signs on the commercial flight over, but became very ill not long after being back, showed up with high fever and perhaps vomiting and that's when texas health presbyterian put that patient in isolation. we're told they soo have thould results from a blood test within the last 4 45 minu5 minutes. and i'm picking up on some you are againstity. they have a go team at the ready to travel to dallas, three or four scientists who will leave immediately after they get confirmation of a positive test. if it's negative, they will not go. and dr. tom freieden will hold
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press conference about this which is unusual. ne in addition, there are two other people we're watching closely here in the united states. one confirmed case at emory university medical center just down the street here, another a there who was treating patients in sierra leone who is at the special bio capement facility at the nih, not to be symptom maas but it have exposure. globally, the outbreak in nigeria appears to be contained and that senegal may have avoided an outbreak. but still terrible news with more than 3,000 people now dead from this disease. >> john roberts at the cdc. and we'll have the results of the test either way. one of the united states' closest allies have launched its
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estimated 160,000 people have left syria and gone into turkey. lena gabriegabriel, this is new information? >> that's right. there were more than 40 coalition air strikes overnight and roughly half war in iraq. for the first time british jets bombed targets and two tornado jets dropped bombs to assist kurdish troops in the northwest. this as iraqi battled back militants near their capital. this shows soldiers firing 90 miles northeast of baghdad. today the pentagon spokesman spo voiced support. >> not every iraqi unit is as competent as every other, but they are holding ground. they did retake the mosul dam. and they continue to try to take
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back ground. but it doesn't mean it's over or that isil still doesn't pose a threat. >> and he also said the islamic state designs on taking baghdad are not new. they continue to man you're, but the u.s. military will continue to support iraqi defending baghdad. >> and some may have hit civilians? >> they say they haven't seen anything to assume the claims, but they are investigating. they're coming from activist group mis-syria and today the pentagon said nobody works harder than the u.s. to avoid collateral damage. >> we're coming any senany cognf the risk. but we're not putting civilians unnecessarily at risk.
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>> this video claims on show free syrian armies defending against islamists in kobani. now, activist groups say they hit east and west of the town overnight, but pentagon spokesman says forces on the ground ultimately will put the most significant pressure on islamic state militants. >> all right. thanks. we'll head you off to the top of the hour right after this.
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