network. click on channel finder at foxbusiness.com. have a great rest of your sunday. "mediabuzz" with howard kurtz is up next. on buzz beater this sunday the ebola news gets worse, the coverage turns more alarming and the media plunge into that pathetic beltway ritual the blame game. >> the president should be cautious, safety first. but we're doing political correctness first. i think this is mass incompetence and arrogance. >> it's a pattern with this administration. don't worry, it's not as bad as it looks. >> do not listen to the hysterical voices on radio or television. the people who say and write hysterical thing are being very irresponsible. is shep right? is the saturation coverage

fueling fear. the president named an ebola czar. mid-term elections heating up with the press pounding kentucky candidate allison grimes for refusing to say whether she voted for barack obama and wendy davis for using a wheelchair against her disabled opponent. are journalists driving the agenda. a conservative commentator says something nice about president obama and faces a backlash. >> i get tons of hate mail. >> what does it say. >> that i'm a rhino. i'm a closet progressive. if anybody knows my politics i'm libertarian leading. >> on the challenge of staying independent. plus msnbc sinking in the rating, putting up its lowest numbers ever and cnn ten years ago to the day after this memorable showdown. >> here's what i want to tell you guys.

stop. [ laughter ] stop, stop, stop hurting america. >> the network cancels crossfire again. good riddance? i'm howard kurtz and this is "mediabuzz." as cable news devotes hour after nerve-racking hour to the dangers of ebola some commentators are blaming the obama administration. bill o'reilly says cdc chief tom frieden should resign and he gets push back from other folks at fox. >> believing that civilian airport people at jfk or newark or dulles airport can spot ebola that is dormant, believing that is stupid and irresponsible and puts all americans at risk. it's a dumb and dangerous ruse and frieden is the chief p

propagandaist. >> i won't call you hysterical. it's boarding hysterical. >> i think dr. frieden has done a good job and i want him to don't lead this and i think bill o'reilly is dead wrong anthony. >> some liberal commentators turning focus on republicans after the nih told "huffington post" the agency would have discovered an ebola vaccine by now if there were not congressional budget cuts. >> essentially blames republicans in washington for cutting the parts of government that we're now counting on to fight against ebola. >> cut. >> cut. >> cut. >> make a cut. >> i think that this one party that's been screaming for the government to do more is the party that has hampered the government's response. one of the strongest voices for media restraint fox's shepherd smith. >> we both know there's no widespread panic across the

country. we know that. i think we also know that if there is widespread panic, it's not based in fact. it's not based in reason. i think more than anything those are just words that people on tv sometimes use. for the media turning this into a slugfest. ed henry joins me now. matt lewis senior contributor at the daily caller. and honorary contributor at the daily beast. president obama is seething, he's angry, frustrated over ebola. >> no drama obama is so mad. no. it gets out there because the white house realized too late they had to show the president was mad about this. mad as hell so mad what he told his staff was guys this is not tight. i've never heard something so angry in my entire life. >> unmaimed white house aides gave you that story would you have gone on the air?

>> i would use that information how they are pushing back on the idea that he's been adrift and not paid attention and that's important. but i mock it a little because i just think it's sort of the media buying a story line that all of a sudden the president is mad as hell and won't take it any more. what took him so long. it was after days and days coverage of this when they finally said we have to change course. they told us for days in the briefing that the idea of an ebola czar is silly and now on friday here's an ebola czar. >> as the media narrative moved calling for cdc's tom frieden to being fired to calling for an ebola czar. >> yeah. look i think there are two things happening. one is irresponsible and one is perfectly legitimate. the irresponsible thing is spreading the fear and the worries that this is going to be a contagion that will spread like wildfire. it's very, very difficult to get ebola.

on the other hand, i think it's perfectly legitimate to raise public policy questions. on the left it's perfectly fine to say should we be spending more money on the cdc or other nih or whatever. for conservatives and republicans i think it's fair to question like, okay, they finally have a czar, is this guy a political operative. >> he's a political operative, no question about that. they have a lot of doctors at various agencies. we can argue whether ron klain is the right choice. matt says it's okay to question the level of spending. what some liberals are saying it's because of republican budget cuts. >> it's okay to question the amount of spending. the nih's budget is a billion less than it was in 2004. i think it's perfectly legitimate to say we as much as we should on nr infectious diseases. flu is the only infectious disease that's in the top ten.

it's good to discuss spending. the discussion how the president feels, or if he's angry enough, i mean that's not incredibly relevance. the question that i see all the time -- >> where is matt half wrong. >> like sort of -- >> we should criticize obama but i'm right -- >> who we should criticize is the actual policies being put in place. the czar thing, i think he gave into pressure. that wasn't a right move. i think ron klain -- i don't feel safer. >> do you feel safer today? >> i want to say something. what's wrong is to have this discussion about whether obama is doing enough. there is an empirical answer to that question. there's an imper cal simperrica empirical answer to this if you have an m.d. after your name. >> president obama and his administration the way they

handled it, the way they poo-pooed anything, this is no big deal. >> picture being, headline being better than a thousand words. let me put up the "new york daily news." there's the president for god's sake gate grip. the president doing televised briefings about the state of the ebola effort and cancelling campaign fundraising. >> they were telling us over the summer when the jetliner was shot down over ukraine you can be president from anywhere. of course if events dictate he needs to be in the white house he'll be back. in this case he could have done these briefings, secure phone lines on air force one. he's continued fundraising throughout all kinds of things. the benghazi attack in 2012 he went to las vegas for a political rally. key move forward and often does. this week they realized the

narrative hadding changed and what changed was the second nurse getting infected. and we found out that she went on a frontier airlines jet and people started freaking out a bit. now the white house in that position has to do something to calm everyone down. the schedule changing that was just part it. the broader issue is they had to focus 110% on it. >> here's my thesis. this is what people hate about washington and the media that the scoring of points seems to take precedence over dealing with an actual health crisis. true or false >> i think it's absolutely true. people hate that. democracy is messy. again -- >> talking about the way in which we in this business are blaring this 24 hours a day. >> i think -- >> score keeping, i don't know if we're doing that or not. what we're doing is challenging the president's words. dr. frieden's words. that's what journalists do.

>> i agree. that's different than how does he feel. where does he -- >> i agree it's a sidebar. >> the public cares about it because we care about it. if we didn't cover how angry the president is or what this looks like i'm not sure the american people cared. if we covered what's being done. what money success spent. where is that money going. >> i would say that optics do matter. >> they matter because we make them matter. >> not the superficial optics part. there's leadership. there's the fact that a president, part of a presidentess job, portrait of a president's job is to inspire confidence and trust in the nation that we believe that he can get things done that administration can get things done. part of that showing up and looking like you know what you're doing. >> they do matter. they are not everything. but there's concern. i want to bring this back to this question of the volume and tone of the coverage. to do that i want to play some of it compiled by that noted

media critic jon stewart. >> another case of ebola in america. >> a new case of ebola. >> a texas health care worker does have ebola. >> shocking hospital officials. >> fears ebola can spread. >> the cdc still doesn't know the point of contact. >> big question now is how did she get it. >> how could she possibly contract ebola. >> what is wrong with you people? [ laughter ] she was a nurse. in the ebola unit. he took care of the ebola man. >> would you concede that some of this coverage is getting out of control. >> yes. on the other hand, jon stewart does a great job of making fun of journalists ek september in that case wolf blitzer is asking a legitimate question. what he was trying to get at we were told by the government again and again health care workers would be protect, they

had these special suits on. it's a legitimate question to say what the heck happened. the government repeatedly told us it's fine. >> we'll turn this into a 24/7 story. every news conference, every development, every update. doesn't it convey a sense of crisis. >> absolutely. we could have this conversation about almost any issue. is cable news over blowing the controversy and the answer is always yes because that's what they have to do. >> yeah. it's always yes. i think, you know, this has been said before the comparison before ebola and the flu. there was a great onion headline i'm worried about ebola says man who refuses to get a flu shot. one person in america has died ebola. you're twice as likely to get the flu. under bush, three times as many people died of flu in a usual year. did people ask if bush was doing

enough. was he leading hard enough. 13,000 people died in the worst flu epidemic we had. >> everything that cable news does, all the networks including fox. >> including the live video of the car taking the nurse to the hospital. >> it can also be a reflection of how people are feeling. we shouldn't give into the worst idea and fuel it more i agree and we shouldn't scare people. by putting information out there. >> the danger is the boy who cried wolf. >> that's a very good point, ed. tremendous public interest and concern about this. we have 0 reflect that. at the same time we have to fine that balance where we don't scare people. media were initially slow on this story. there's a good piece in "the washington post" in june the world health organization said this is one of the deadliest outbreaks ever, more than 200 victims at that time in three countries, very little coverage. didn't make the front page of the "new york times" until july 28th until an american was infected. it's okay to have, not be super

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think it's a big fact yawn. david brooks says the 2014 campaign has been the most boring and uncreative campaign i can remember. democrats cry my republican opponents is an extremist loan. republicans cry my democratic opponent once shook hands with president obama. it's become clear the center of this stlaex whole lot of nothing by chris cillizza. it because republicans are running against obama and have not created a national platform. >> interesting stuff is happening in kansas and in states where weird things are happening. look aside from 1994, mid-terms are usually not about big grand ideas. right? so what do they want? does the media want this -- do they want sex scandals. would that make it more exciting. i think so. yes. >> i was nodding my head. is this a boring election sean it in part because democrats are whacking their opponents, running away from president obama. >> i don't think any election is

boring. i'm weird. i don't think so. i think there are always issues that are happening. i think it's completely irresponsible of columnists to say it's boring or about nothing because it's concretely about things. there are issues that get decided that affect people's every day lives. if you tell people it's boring, if you tell people this election doesn't matter they won't show up. as someone who would like to see more liberals in office that suppresses the liberal vote and conservatives turn out. anyone who calls this election boring they are doing a service to the republicans. >> will they nominate serious candidates who aren't saying stupid things. >> matt is about 22% right. i think it ties into the last thing we were talking about ebola. sometimes where we do err in the media, i would acknowledge, is overcovering another story to

the detriment of another. the story now is isis is now flying planes. we've been covering isis a lot but everyone dropped isis to move on to the other crisis ebola. that's a big issue in the mid-terms. who has a better plan to deal with the terrorists. >> has ebola affected this election. candidates on one side or the other say we need to this, that or the other. look what happened to the economy which polls show people care about. >> a couple of days ago we had the lowest budget deficit since 2007. president can't do anything to tout that because everybody is talking about the bin laden. he's tried a million different ways to talk about the economy and it doesn't break through. there are signs it's gotten better, a lot of americans are not feeling it. need is henry is the white house correspondent for fox. you'll personally be covering the serious issue and none of

the noise. >> i didn't say that nobody is covering serious issues at all and i take your point. of course sometimes we get in a horse race but we do try to cover these serious issues. >> it's cyclical and hard to break. we talk about it. the public thinks about it. we ask questions o of the candidates. that issue becomes even more important. some people have to individually break through the noise. i'm not entirely kidding. >> i can say so much. let's call journalists. the fact we think it has to amuse us says something more about journalism than it does about politics. not exciting enough. >> you're 80% right now. >> are you using a fan? >> yes. >> charlie crist. thanks very much for joining us this sunday. up next some tube talk with msnbc's ratings sinking and cnn cancelling crossfire and backlash over comments on

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"new york times" noted this week that msnbc fell behind cnn in the third quarter rating, even its biggest star rachel maddow posting lower numbers. >> what i'm amaze msnbc doesn't pull the plug. once you fall behind cnn, cnn is beating them where is there to go. they won't be successful. >> msnbc won't pull the plug but can it climb out of this hole? joining me from new york is a columnist for media eye. any network can have a bad quarter. what's behind the longer term slide in the numbers at msnbc. >> there was once a time when msnbc was relatively successful.

in 2009 first quarter they had 245,000. 70% of their audience is gone. partially because last year msnbc president said that they no longer did breaking news and the strategy was to go to more opinion. now the problem with going to more opinion is outside of the morning show which does have some dissents and diverse views from 9:00 a.m. to about 11:00 p.m. outside of matthews and maddow it's impossible to discern one show from another. every song sounds the same. i think when you don't have the scent it doesn't make for compelling television and people especially liberals are moving away in droves. >> you don't have as many nbc reporters appearing on msnbc. you have mostly with some exespeciallies, left leading hosts having left leaning guests. you report this week you broke

the news of a possible cancellation at msnbc. >> yes. that's ronan farrow. he does a 1:00 p.m. show. a lot of hype. he was on jimmy fallon before it launched. "new york times" did a feature on him. a lot of magazines said he could save msnbc. when you give a kid in his 20s who never hosted so much as a community access show one hour on a national news network, two things. it will be awkward, uncomfortable and the numbers bore that out. the first impression was ronan farrow should not be hosting a show. they threw him right in. put him on at 1:00 in the afternoon when no millennials are watching.

he lost half the audience from the year before. >> msnbc has not confirmed this president it leaked out to you. let me turn to cnn. roughly a year ago or so the resurrected franchise crossfire came back on the air with newt gingrich, and others. let's take a look at that program. >> both agree that this is one of the most tumultuous period of change we can remember. >> cnn cancelling crossfire. why do you think the reconstituted version was a flop. >> when you go under the rule that i use you can't get a girl pregnant, you can't put a show on taxpayer and that's what cnn did. it was on for a couple of months, then preempted for whatever reason. on for a couple of more weeks. malaysia airline jet goes missing and you don't see it again for a couple of months.

how do you build an audience when people at home don't cho when a show will be on. the irony here is that ten years ago to the day that this current version of crossfire was announced it was going to be cancelled that's when jon stewart appeared and did that visceration of tucker carlson. >> thank you. ahead, nbc papers over a huge blunder by dr. nancy snyderman who has been ordered into mandatory quarantine. but bila rips predictable pundits across the political spectrum.

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. live from america's news headquarters i'm eric shaun. a grim task in virginia after police found those human remains on an abandoned property that could be those of missing

university of virginia sophomore hannah graham. forensic testing now being conducted for possible confirmation and parents have been notified. suspect jesse matthew is charged in graham's disappearance. she was last seen in downtown charlottesville on september 13th. a major clean up job this morning after hurricane gonzalo swept through bermuda. the category 3 storm weakened to a category 3 before coming ashore. crews are clearing away downed trees and power lines. more than 18,000 homes are without electricity. thankfully no deaths or any serious injuries. i'm eric shawn. i'll see you back at the top of the hour on america's news headquarters. now back to "mediabuzz" and howard kurtz. cable news likes to pigeon hole its pundits. these folks are on the right, these folks are on the left.

sometimes commentators don't fit neatly in slots. i spoke about that with jedediah bila. jedediah bila, welcome. >> thank you for having me. president obama gives a short speech when he launched the air strikes into iraq and syria. you said some nice things about his remarks. you said many in the fox audience did not like it. was your response. >> i thought he was direct. i thought he said what needed to be said. there's this knee jerk reaction. some in the conservative community feel they need to criticize president obama at all times whether he's saying that needs criticized or not. >> does it include fox news. >> it includes everyone at some point or another who feel they are compelled. they should be spewing republican talking points. people wait on twitter, waiting to pick on something. this president does a lot of stuff wrong. obamacare. foreign policy. i can name a ton of things that people have legitimate reasons

to take issue with. don't be that person sitting at home waiting to pick on him no matter what he says. give him a chance to speak. >> what happens when you say something nice and you get some push back from the audience that sort of like you're off the team. >> i get hate mail. tons of hate mail. >> what does it say. >> that i'm a rhino, i'm a closet progressive, i'm a closet leftist. anyone who knows my politics knows i'm libertarian leaning. i'm not interested in the petty knee jerking reactions. i saw my friend on the left for years do that to president bush. see i can read your mind. >> you wrote a column about this. you said that some of your liberal friends couldn't wait to criticize george w. bush no matter what he said. >> no matter what. the man could be talking about the weather and they could make it into a discussion how he didn't care about climate change. they would sit in my room

watching the television watching for him to say something. what i'm saying to people left, right, center, i don't care where you are. listen. form an educated opinion. you know if you have a rob with something the president is doing fine. but it's not your job to every minute of the day sit and search for something because you're supposed to. because a republican strategist or someone you used to work for told you that's your job. >> let's be candid. isn't much of cable news built on predictable partisan talking points. when the bookers call they get a guest on the left, a guest on the right and they expect them to fight. >> they don't get that when they book me. i'm independent. not registered with a television. fox news has a lot of independent minded people that get on television. i do a show called independence on fox business all the time. there are a lot of people that don't spew the talk points. there's a lot of people who are highly unpredictable. i support gay marriage.

i'm a strong fiscal conservative. i have certain opinions about our educational system. when you book me you don't know what i'm going to say about any issue and that's good tv. >> i hate predictable talking points. it puts me to sleep. i rather have candid opinions whether pro or con. you're a conservative but you're libertarian leaning. but you also wrote a column chiding republicans saying where is that alternative to obamacare. >> exactly. i think republicans oftentimes are viewed of the party of no because they allow themselves to be. if you criticize obamacare for years, which is what they are doing what's your alternative. if you have a problem with these policies and you should in many cases. obamacare is a disaster. there shubld pro growth, pro free market attorney that. if you don't have a solution the public will sit back and say why is that the better alternative. >> so in half a minute when you get this kind of push back, hate tweets from the audience does it bother you. >> it doesn't.

i grew up in new york city. i'm a conservative and i live in new york. i worked in academia. i love the challenge. i love to be able to call people on that. hold on a second what's your problem what he said. what have you taken issue with. challenge those people who are having those knee jerk reactions because either we will change hearts and minds and get people to understand why conservatism matters and these policies matter or turn people off. who do you want to be. do you open other people's mind or shuts minds down. i want to open minds. >> jedediah bila, see you on twitter. >> absolutely. thanks. and on "mediabuzz" math lawyer's emotional interview with a risk for ebola. and grimes and davis.

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. national media have pounced on some high-profile mid-term races. kentucky, alison lundergan grimes running against mitch mcconnell stumbled over this question and then as the pundits hammered her she doubled down. >> did you vote for president obama in 2008, 2010? >> this election isn't about the president. it's about -- >> i know. >> we put kentuckians back to work.

>> why are you reluctant to give an answer on whether or not you voted for president obama >> bill, there's no reluctance. this is a matter of principle. >> so how much is the coverage driving these contest? joining us now, editor and of the hill and, chief congressional correspondent for the "washington examiner." susan, let's stipulate that alison lundergan grimes made a dumb move. the media have decided this is her defining issue. fair or unfair. >> this is one of the best questions of the campaign. her entire campaign hinged on defining herself as not barack obama. so an editorial board asks her the question. in 2012 did you vote for the president. this is just a private citizen voting. >> not a gotcha question. >> this is about whether or not she endorsed the policies and legislation that the president approved of during his first presidency. if she voted for him that's an endorsement. >> chuck todd said this was

disqualifying for alison lundergan grimes and he wound up in a mitch mcconnell ad. >> it's okay. in every campaign at most you remember one thing. this is going to be the thing we're going to remember. i think this was the gaffe of the cycle. and you have to be straight. >> not that the media made at any time gaffe of the cycle. >> no. people were talking about it. she doubled downed on it. everybody knows she voted for president obama. she doesn't want to talk about president obama but now we're talking about president obama and alison lundergan grimes and that's part of the reason why democrats are no longer investing in that race. >> the grimes race say the national media is fixated on that but the local media led with issues such as coal. let me turn to the other candidate i mentioned democrat wendy davis in texas running for governor against greg abbott. here we have the focus being on an ad and we have a further doubling down when wendy davis appeared on msnbc. let's take a look. >> a tree fell on greg abbott.

he sued and got millions. since then he spent his career working against other victims. >> do you think the graphic showing the empty wheelchair focusing on his being wheelchair bound crossed a line? >> andrea, this ad really is about one thing and one thing only. he has been working to kick that ladder down and deny that same opportunity for justice to other people. >> i found the wendy davis ad offensive and somewhat misleading because i looked at the substance of the claims against abbott's record as state attorney general and supreme court justice. one of my pet peeves is no one looks at the substance of these ads. is it worth this week of coverage. >> she's double digits. people are asking questions about a big campaign mistake the image of the wheelchair. there's a way she could have made that argument. she double downed violating a

cardinal rule in the campaign which is don't go back and remind people of the mistake you just made and i think that's hat she did. they felt they had a great point. they wanted to portray her opponent as a hypocrite. someone that the voters can't trust. instead it turned all the negativity on her. she's back so far anyway it's a hail mary pass. >> when wendy davis goes on msnbc and repeats the same talking points, she knows she's keeping i want alive. >> she knows the media will continue to hound it. if you apologize and say we went too far the story goes away. i agree with susan in the last 25 seconds of that ad could have been made but you have to be more subtle than the first five seconds. >> too much national focus on the gaffes like, you know, charlie crist, the florida governor's race insisting on using a fan. governor rick scott refusing to come out. >> jon stewart loved that thing.

>> let me get our scores for who won. >> first of all the democrats can't seem to get a win lately. has a lot to do with the president. this week the nation was liking for leadership from the president on ebola. we saw conflicting headlines. on one hand you see the president say look public don't give in to the hysteria. then he looks indecisive. >> republicans, partly because when we had that big press conference about the second ebola patient no one from the federal government there was. and that dominated the week. republicans doing better. alison lundergan grimes issue and democrats pulling out of kentucky. republicans won. >> thanks very much bob and susan. after the break dr. nancy snyderman breaks her ebola quarantine. did her apology go far enough.

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which called for our team to avoid public contact for 21 days, members of our group violated those guidelines and understand that our quarantine is now mandatory until 21 days have passed. we remain healthy, and our temperatures are normal. as a health professional i know that we have no symptoms and pose no risk to the public, but i am deeply sorry for the concerns this episode caused. >> you know what happened right there? nbc gave nancy snyderman gave her a pass. it said members of our grab, it was dr. nancy that went out to pick up takeout food. give her credit for leaving the confines of 30 rock and going to liberia to help. "today" show land an exclusive interview with a nurse in the ebola unit that blew the

whistles on the mistakes and at one point matt lauer get personal. >> you are now saying a lot of things that will make people at that hospital look very, very bad. are you worried about the fallout for you personally? >> i'm very concerned about losing my job. it is -- it's the best job i ever had. i'm the breadwinner of my family and i'm terrified. >> if you were to start to experience symptoms of ebola, texas health presbyterian hospital would be the recommended hospital for you to go to for treatment. how would you feel about that? >> i would try everything and everything to refuse to go there to be treated. i would feel at risk by going there. if i don't actually have ebola, i may contract it there. >> that was a very moving interview with briana aguirre. matt lauer handled it very skillfully and elicited a lot of information about the mishandling of the ebola at that dallas hospital and you have to admire that woman, that nurse, despite her nervousness and

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arrest. reporter for the jewish paper called up and was told you can't go on this trip. your passport shows you've been to israel, and best not to say if you're jewish. this is a truly awful idea. here are a few of your top tweets. as the media ebola coverage pushed the president to be more visible, naming a czar and weighing a travel ban. a combination of media frenzy and public sphere, he finally stepped up enough to show his actions. it's pushed obama into naming a czar so the press will blame someone else rather than him. a former "new york times" reporter, absolutely. from a u.s. medical standpoint none of this was necessary. from a political one it became necessary. dave robertson, one question taken by potus on thursday was czar question planted by white house? will the media tell public if it were. that question wasn't planted. the media has been clamoring for days and days if the president would appoint an ebola czar. neal young, his song about the

kent state killings in the nixon administration and he's still doing it as in this incident with stephen colbert. >> the last time you were here you tried to get me to sing a song about impeaching the president who at the time was george w. bush and you wanted to impeach him over getting us into the war in iraq. now that obama is getting us into a war in iraq, are you up for impeaching him, too? >> no, no, no? >> no? >> well, then you're a double hypocrite. >> yeah, really? >> you don't care this time? >> i think we should impeach him for fracking. >> i'm a big fan of crosby, stills, nash and young. does he want every president to be impeached? has he heard of the phrase high crimes and misdemeanors. colbert in comedic fashion nailed him. that's it for this edition of "media buzz." i'm howard kurtz. hopefully you'll like our

facebook page. we post a lot of original content and if you want to chat with me on friday right to media buzz@google news. we're back here next sunday with the latest "media buzz." we start with a fox news alert. attacking isis and winning. the u.s.-led coalition launching new air strikes today near the syria town of kabani, radical islamic terrorists invading that sieged town. they are mounting another fierce offensive to try to seize that location that's right along the turki turkish-syrian border. welcome to america's news headquarters. >> those air strikes are in support of kurdish forces who are said to be holding their ground as the fighting ramps up. in fact, greg palkot is near the border with more. greg? >> reporter: the last 24 hours in the syrian border town of