fox news alert. we are olympianing more about the dramatic raid by u.s. special forces that killed a top isis leader in syria. a senior defense official telling fox news u.s. delta forces and isis fighters were involved in hand to hand combat and whether shots were fired the terrorists tried using civilians, including women and children as shields. hello, everyone. i'm arthel neville. >> i'm eric shun. sounds like a movie spectacular. as u.s. commandos took out a commander we're told oversaw the group's illicit oil and gas operations resulting in millions of dollars being funneled into the terror group.

u.s. forces also capturing his wife and rescuing an 18-year-old he woman who was held as a slave. molly henneberg is live with the dramatic developments. molly, we're learning new details about what happened when the operation forces were on the ground in syria. what can you tell us about that? >> reporter: very dramatic detail attention. a senior u.s. defense official tells fox this was quote a real fire fight a no kidsing old school fire fight. some members of the force were fighting in hand to hand combat with islamic state or isis militantses, we're told. the delta team went in on ospreys and blackhawks from iraq into syria. they approached a multi-story building, guards started shooting at them. the target of the raid, a high value isis target, and others, started using civilians as human shields. fox learned the u.s. team separated the women and children away from him killed him when

he resisted, killed 11 other guards captured his wife, took lap tops, phones, files for intelligence purposes and left. here is what defense secretary he carter said about the raid. he said, quote last night at the direction of the commander in chief i ordered u.s. special operations forces to conduct an operation in eastern syria to capture an isil senior leader and his wife. he was involved in isil's military operations and helped direct the terrorist organization has illicit oil gas and financial operations as well. secretary carter says no u.s. personnel were killed or injured during this operation. the obama administration has largely relied on drone strikes and fighting isis, but within former national security advisor during the add m of president george w. bush says president obama was willing to take more of a risk here.

>> you face it this is a statement as well. the u.s. for the first team going in on the ground killing a high value leader, the rest of the leadership now has got to be more wary than before. >> reporter: the delta deem also found archaeological relics dutch as an assyrian bible. as for the woman found during the raid who appears to have been an isis slave the obama administration says it hopes to reunite her with her family as soon as possible. eric? >> thanks so much. a new mystery surrounding the amtrak crash. derailed train it may have been struck by an object in the moments before it flew off the rails. and that object may have left a mark in the windshield, raising new questions about the with deadly accident. federal officials now ordering amtrak to immediately expand use of a speed restriction system in the area of the crash. amtrak is hoping to restart

limited service along the northeast corridor starting monday. investigators finally interviewing the drain's engineer saying he's been very cooperative, but he still can't remember events leading up to the crash. now more from bryan llenas. >> reporter: it's important it note that the f.b.i. is analyzing the lower left windshield of the train at the request of the ntsb. also there appears to be a circular break in the glass there could could have been the recall of some sort of flying object did could have also happened during impact, we just don't know yet. an assistance conductor on board tells the ntsb she overherd heard the engineer talking do a local train engineer before the crash, acknowledging they had both been hit by something before the derailment. the local train engineer said he thought his windshield had been hit by a rock or that he was

shot at. if. >> she also believed she heard her engineer say something about his train being struck by something. this is her correction we're going -- recollection and we're going to be conducting further investigation of this comment. >> reporter: you that a train stalled in emergency stop in an other where they say they're used to things being thrown at trainsist trains. this is rare for an emergency stop to happen. a passenger on board said during the stop, amtrak train 188 flew past them and crashed minutes later. >> it was in the first ten inins of leaving. the engineer's window was hit by an unknown object, as far as i knew. i can't tell that you it caused a stir in the cabin. nobody freaked out until the news started coming out. >> reporter: now, another train

a southbound amtrak 2173 was also hit minutes before amtrak 188 crashed. madison calvert says he was working on his laptop when he hard a loud thump noise and he says that which left a basketball size impact on the window. amtrak authorities checked it out and deemed it okay. >> i was at the front relative leotard the fronts of the car i was on. it was just like a quick crash. it almost sounds like if you've been driving when your windshield gets hit by a rock. the people in the immediate vicinity were like wow somebody just hit the window. >> reporter: now, this new revelation brings a whole set of questions, mainly if this object had any impacting on the engineer before the train derailing. we do know that the 32-year-old says he does not recall anything

after leaving the station three-mile away from where the derailment happened bus he has a concussion. the question is whether or not this flying object had any impact. we don't know that. says he also can't remember anything and meanwhile the federal railroad association is mandating amtrak put in an automatic speed restriction system that was put in place on all you northbound trains -- i'm sorry. all southbound trains at this curve, but not put on the northbound trains. so the federal railroad administration is mandating amtrak put this automatic brake system on this curve for all those northbound trains and telling amtrak they need to increase their signage that high school the speed limit, as well as with make sure that they assess these dangerous curves around the country particularly the northeast cor consider to make sure this thing doesn't happen again. arthel? >> indeed.

bryan boone, thank you very much. finding a new purpose in life. what bryan stow is doing to make the world a better place. it was four years ago the san francisco giants fan was brutally attacked following an opening day a game between his time and the los angeles dodgers. you may remember it. now a new story. will carr live in dallas with the inspirational developments. >> reporter: inbound brian stowe was in a coma for months. he had to relearn how it eats, drink and how it breathe but he says that he survived for a reason, to help strike back against bullies. so on friday, he went to visit an elementary school near san jose california, speaking to more than 100 students about bullying and how to prehave not it. he says that his acing iters learned how to be violent at an early age. a. >> these machine were adult bullies. i suffered severe brain damage a, as you can see from the scar on my head. you need to stand up to

bullying. speak to an adult. lead by example with your own actions and words. >> reporter: those words seem to resonate with a lot of the kids. he spoke about bullying, but physical and on social media and after his speech, several of the students said they hope his message will make a real difference. >> you his story really inspired me, you know, to look out for bullying in more areas and stop it when it starts to happen. >> if someone had stood up to those bullies when they were younger t could have changed his entire life. >> reporter: stowe, a san francisco giants fan was attacked from behind and brutal lie beaten four years ago outside of dodger stadium. he had to have part of his skull removed and permanently disabled. his attackers both pleaded guilty. they're behind bars serving multiple-year sentences. the judge called them cowards saying they're the reason why some people don't want to go to professional sporting event.

last year stowe won an $18 million judgment against the dodgers. he says his purpose now is to fight back against bullying and also to try to inspire people, mentioning he recently swam 18en laps in a pool. quite impressive if you think of everything he's been through. >> he has such an important message. thank you. >> absolutely. very nice. let's see what mother nature is up to. severe weather rearing its ugly head again this weekend with dangerous storms targeting a 1200-mile chunk of the country stretching from colorado to nebraska. janis dean live from the fox extreme weather center with all the latest. what's up? >> reporter: hi. we are watching the potential for tornadoes this afternoon into the overnight and into tomorrow we have tornado watches meaning the conditions are favorable for tornadoes. behind the system, very cold

air, below average. so cold it's going to snow across the mountains of colorado and new mexico. severe thunderstorm warnings in effect for parts of texas through oklahoma and kansas. i want to point your attention to the fact that we could have some severe thunderstorms across the northeast. severe thunderstorm warnings being posted for around the dc area, as well as philadelphia. we have he a big horse race happening in the next hourer so for baltimore. i am concerned for thunderstorms. people helded to this in the area need to be prepared and need to listen to their local officials. we're look at the potential for thunderstorms right at race time. so we'll keep you up to date on that. back where we could see the poe continues for severe weather outbreak across the plains states as this low pressure moves eastward, very warm unstable air mass ahead of it. cooler than average behind it. and that low ejecting from the rockies, which is all we need, loan with that gulf moisture support, to bring us the potential for severe weather. so we're lock at this red shaded

area as moderate risk, enhanced risk here in the orange, and then in the yellow, we still can't rule out the severe thunderstorms in the afternoon and the evening and overnight. tomorrow stretching across the ohio valley, upper midwest great lakes chicago minneapolis, st. louis you need to be on alert. watching this system, there is the cold front. so there is overnight on sudden. still the potential of severe storms. snow on the backside of this. also look at some thunderstorms across the northeast. when you is the bull's eye where we think we're going to have the worst of the weather perhaps severe weather outbreak. look at this behind irrelevant, incredible amounts of snow for parts of can did upper midwest. also want to mention we've seen loft video out of texas oklahoma and arkansas for the incredible amounts of rain they received in a very short period of time. feet of rain. they were in a huge drought in texas that. is being eliminated with all this rain, which is great news. but the flash flooding potential

is going to continue. there's a quick look the your highs. again, very cold air behind the system. warm unstable ahead it. that's why we'll see the thunderstorms continue as this cold front moves across country later on this week. back to you. >> are you allowed to use the word snow in mid may? >> no, probably not. i think i should have a black loin. >> you're getting a demerritt for that. >> thanks. we're gotting more information on that daring overnight delta force raid in syria that ended in the death of a key isis leader. what does did mean, on the verge of capturing another major city. coming up, a coverts operation officer will filling us in

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tile for a quick check of the headlines. another twist in the amtrak investigation. that cracked windshield leading to questions about whether someone was drying to hit the drain on purpose with some sort of projectile. the f.b.i. now investigating. hundreds of mourners from around the country paying their respects to 25-year-old officer. during his funeral at the west point baptist church in mississippi. he is one of the two mississippi police officers who was shot to death a woke ago during a

traffic stop. co-workers say tate had a con constant smile. let's now get raid in syria leading to the death of a top isis leader. new questions about whether it was carried out in cooperation with the syrian government led by president al aasked whose forces claim they killed at least 40 isis fighters in a separate attack. for its part, the white house insists it does not cooperate with assad's government. mike biker is here, former c.i.a. covert operations officer and president of diligence llc a global intelligence and security firm. always good to see you. >> thank you. >> let's start here, do you believe that assad had anything to do with this? then talk to me about the significance of this new development that we're reporting on and what it means to the overall fight against isis. >> yeah. you're pointing to one of the real problems we've got in terms

of how do we deal with isis in syria a when we don't with a to be cooperating with president assad, with the syrian military. in fact, are actively trying to train and arm syrian opposition. but at the same time, assad in a sense wants the same thing we want which is for isis too permanently disappear. are wele cooperating with them? no, i don't think so. where the delta force conducted this fantastic operation that, eastern part of seer why is where all the key oil fields, refineries are. so it's natural that the syrian military would be targeting this because part of the effort is deny them revenue deny them funds. and to the degree that you can if you can take away their ability to move oil gas and any form then yeah, you're hitting their revenue streams. i don't think there was any coordination or cooperation. but do you point to a problem. as we go along as this continues and we're trying to

figure out how do we ultimately defeat isis, we've got to figure out our strategy in regards to assad. right now it's sort of a hurry up and wait or mixed tactics. we're not sure how it conduct our selves in syria. the potential is with us doing raids on the ground and the syrian military out there, you can imagine and the opposition, you can imagine the potential for a complete go row. >> assad aside if we can for a second how complicated is it to coordinate and execute a mission like this? >> enormously complicated and as we know from other raids that have been successful and times not successful, you're oftentimes -- this is where it's at odds with people's per suspicions because of feature films and big novels -- you're working with imperfect intelligence. but you make this risk versus gain calculation and you got to get off the x. you got to make a decision. there are times when even with imperfect information you have to make the effort because the

potential gain is worth that risk. in this case, luckily the white house, national security council made the decision that it was worth it and that we should go and as we can see the delta force folks once again performed in such an admirable fashion. >> mike, will this embolden isis or cause them to retreat? >> it's going to have a bit of both really. not necessarily retreat, but will have them recalculating. this is a great get. taking care of him is a very good get. but we don't want to be unrealistic. we need to be pragmatic about their ability. they've got a deep bench within isis. we don't wants to be thinking -- in reality, in fact, my daughter, who i got all my talking points from, she pointed out ballotling jihaddists is a bit like captain america going after the organization. you cut off the head, more pop

up. we've soon that with al-qaeda and isis. a very good get but it's not -- if we think this is going to remove theiribility to function, to operate that's not going to happen. until we do the territory issue until we take away their territory, recapture it and hold it permanently, we're not going to solve this problem. we can have these occasional successes like this and that's a very very good thing. but ultimately, we've got to deny them the territory. >> you and i spoke about a weeking about the very thing and you said this can not be done on drone use alone. so what do you make of the fact that there was combat hand to hand involved in this mission? >> well, it's where it has to go ultimately. the air campaign, depending how you parce the manipulations, we have conducted thousands of air strikes. we are working hard to get what intel we can. we're work as hard as we can to rye to still train the iraqi

military to take the battle. we're pressuring the saudis and other allies. but what we saw here with this operation is unfortunately i think, where we've got to be going. we've got to be at the pointy edge of the spear if we're going to ultimately bury isis and never have to deal with them again. >> quickly, of the data that they collected there in this raid, what might they be looking for? what might they find? >> great question. look they're picking up everything they can. the phones, the computers filings, whatever they got their hands on that may contain data and that information is very perishable their look for actionable intelligence. operational leads to individuals, to safe house, to communicationses patterns, where potentially where hostages are being held. movements of isis personnel plans and intentions. they're trying to gather up that -- that high school to happen quickly because as soon as isis discovered this operation, they obviously knew

that certain types of information was going to fall into their hands our hands. so what do they do? start shutting down safe havens and start moving personnel. so i'm very hopeful that the intel that we gathered is already in the hands of the war fighters and we're acting on it. >> very good. how old is your daughter? >> she's in college. she's going into her senior year in college. very astute. i liked herrer captain america analogy. >> future c.i.a. maybe? >> one can only hope. i encourage anybody to look at that as a career whether they're thinking aboutomething that's challenging and extreme low rewarding. >> absolutely. thank you. good to see you. as you said, that raid certainly was daring and bold. but will it stop isis as closes in on ramadi. coming up, more on american boots on the ground. in boston, the boston marathon bomber facing death by lethal injection. one victim

calls it annoy for an eye. another says life in prison was more appropriate. what do you think? we'll have a legal analysis of all this coming up.

shocking new dedales emerging about laciniated's dramatic raid in syria that end with the death of a top commander. a senior defense official telling fox news isis fighters tried to use women and children as shields as u.s. special forces moved in on the group. john huddy live with more. john? >> reporter: this was a knock down dragout fight literally. one official told fox news that it was an old school fire fight that involved hand to hand combat. just picture that. this was an intense and dramatic situation like something out of a movie. we know that laciniated, delta force commandos u.s. delta

force commandos launched a raid in eastern syria near the oil field. this is deep into isis country an area largely controlled by isis there in syria. they attacked a building where syaff and his wife were holed up he's isis' cfon charge of the terror organization's financial organizations, the sale of oil and gas on the black market and the revenue made from that. isis guards outside the building opened fire on those u.s. commandos, but then took those guards out. we're hearing as many as dozen were killed. then those commandos stormed the building separating the women and children that were being used as human shields according to u.s. officials killing abu syaf ask capturing his wife. the commandos said amid all this rescued a young you woman who was enslaved. isis has been in involved in

human trafficking and this guy's wife is said to have been deeply involved in these human trafficking and sex slaves operations. senior u.s. defense official also told fox news that a treasure trove of information was taken by those commandos. we're talking about cell phones, laptops, basically anything that could lead to more intelligence gathering. u.s. secretary of defense carter called the operation hack, quote, significant blow to isis. so while this was a dangerous operation, it was also successful. isis continues to gain ground in iraq. we talked about this in particular the city of ramadi, located 70 miles west of baghdad. isis took controlling of them amp launching a ground offensive on thursday. this is the critical and strategic location. it's a main transportation corridor on the way do baghdad.

so right now we're hearing a at this point that a large iraqi military force three combat battalions have basically set up on the outsquirts of ramadi and getting ready to launch a ground offensive. that could happen within the next couple hours. we're going into the overnight hours here in the middle east. so we're watching this very closely. if this city continues to be controlled by isis, this would be a major setback for the u.s. coalition efforts and the iraqi military. >> lots on the line. john, thank you so much for that report. just over with years since the boston marathon bombing. it takes a major deal toward a conclusion after the jury returned the death sentence for the surviving bomber. dzhokhar tsarnaev. this despite several jurors who believed the argument from the defense that he was influenced by his older brother who died later in the week during that

shotout with police. victims of the terrorist attack responded to the news of the death penalty. >> this has been long, exhausting couple of months. it's been healing. i have met so many wonderful people. it does show that to through tragedy, people can come together and be warm and supportive. >> victim sydney cochran tweeted, my mother and i now think that now you will go away and he will be able to move on. justice in his words an eye for an eye. other victims say the death sentence was not appropriate in this case, is it? david brew snow a criminal defense attorney, former prosecutor and trial attorney who joins us now. first, welcome. what's the next procedure going forward? one would assume that the defense attorneys who appeal. >> the immediate next procedure will be the sentencing. so the defendant may have an opportunity to speak and the

judge will officially order the death penalty. he'll have ten days to appeal. the main question is will he appeal this sentence? he doesn't have do appeal. in fact, one of the things he wrote in with the boat was i'm jealous of my brother who is now dead. and allow me to -- he asked awill to allow him to return to him. so let me ask you why doesn't he just waive his rights? >> we're seeing a video of him in jail where he's giving the finger to the video. do you think there is a possibility he could waive those rights and say i'm not gog appeal this? >> sure. timothy mcveigh did it. he filed an affidavit with the court, said i'm waiving my the u.s. supreme court and further appeals. he said he would go into an evaluation do determine his competency to do so. and he could do the same exact thing. >> you others say the death penalty was not appropriate. martin richard the

eight-year-old boy who so tragically was killed that day his apparent had a heartfelt plea to the public a couple months ago saying don't give him the death penalty. it's not appropriate. some say he was 19 years old at the time. the defense attorney say he was naive and impressionable and all that. and the death penalty would increase the pain through this whole system. that is the debate. >> sure. i think everybody respects those opinions. certainly the department of justice took that into consideration but ultimately there are a lot of other people who thought that the death penalty was appropriate. that was the decision the department of justice had to make. they did. they moved forward with that and 12 jurors agreed with that position. >> does did make him a martyr to some like to the paris underworld? because a lot of times these terrorist, like one of the arc tickets of the world trade center bombing, they put him if super max the rest of his life, you won't hear thing from him

and he doesn't become a symbol. whereas maybe in death could that potentially make him a mortgage tore these terrorist groups? >> it won't for me. i know it won't for you. let's get away from that thought process. this was a heinous acting and it deserves death. and now 12 jurors have voted for the death penalty. >> if he had shown some type of remorse, do you think if he houston, texas written what he wrote in the boat, if the attorneys were not able to address some of this material, do you think perhaps he would have gotten life instead of death? could anything have swung this? >> perhaps. i think number within, he would have had to testify before this jury and a express the remorse. and let the 12 who ultimately determined his fate hear from him. he had that right and he chose not to for whatever reason. i don't know what advice was from his attorney. but he made the choice not to do so. i think could have helped, but that's a hypothetical.

>> and if when he had the sentencing he gets before the judge and let's say he has statement and says at this it for awill it's radical islamic terrorism, what then? >> the judge will sentence him to death. that's he not going to matter to this judge. if he does say that, i would expect the judge to say something in response that would be consistent with most of our opinions. >> all right. david bruno we thank you so much for your insight. >> thank you. >> disturbing and heartfelt case for all of us. >> i agree. >> thank you. up combing through the wreckage of the deadly amtrak crash, what investigators are looking for and what can be done to be sure it doesn't happen again.

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the glass before the deadly crash. investigators tried to figure out what caused the drain do dramatically speed up, sending it off the tracks. dr. gross is here, a former member of the national transportation safety board serving under the reagan administration. thanks for being here. >> you're welcome. >> i want to start and get your initial thoughts when you learned about this new information and how will this redirect the investigation? >> he the thing is, i thank you but i think about here, is the fact that f.b.i., even if they find out that a some missile or rock or object hit the train a what are you going to do about that? in other words, it doesn't impact a as far as i'm concerned how the trains with doing 106 miles an hour as it entered that curve. now, it could be that it might have hit some train control inside. it's not too like low however. this is a common thing in trains, is that they have all the time, whenever they pass

underneath a trestle or something else, the possibility of somebody launching something at it is common. so i think we should be prepared for that, but we got to look beyond that. >> got to look beyond that and prance no what, dr. gross? >> first of all if '66 train control issues, and i think that's what we have here, because even though the engineer has now been injured apparently entry cannot recall anything, something caused that train to rapidly accelerate from about 630 miles an hour to 100 miles an hour in a very short distance. so that is a train issue, as well as an operator issue. we've got to think about that with foresight rather than reaction. the thing about the railroad industry in general is that they do not manage risk with foresight. generally with reaction. and this is a case where right now we have reaction rather than foresights. >> as you know, the train's

engineer, he is cooperating with investigators, but he says he can't remember the events leading up to the crash. so i would like you to tell me kind of what more you're going to be hoping to learn from him once he is able to somehow recall what happened in those moments before and then also i want to pick up on something you just mentioned that the train industry and safety agencyies need to work with foresight. with that in mind, what sort of safety should be put in place to prevent this from happening again? >> i can tell you what we did here in washington dc when we put the metro in here. i worked on the board at that time. we had trains operating at minimum distance with 135 miles an hour of closing velocity. we had to be concerned about what could happen if one derailed into the path of the other. in other words, you have to use foresight. the way we do there is we write

scenarios of what could happen and then we stipulate whether kind of corrective action or counter measures to be taken against that condition. now, what has happened here, even if we don't get testimony from this engineer, he may not be able to recall due to head injury or something else. the thing is, we're still going to have to have some kind of measure if something was thrown in the way of there train. that's what we have to do. >> what do you plane by that, dr. gross? >> well, for example if there is guarding inside the engineer's space. in other words, if a missile came through the windshield and hit him we should still be able to operate that train automatically. and we've already talked about positive train control mentioned already. but if you have that, that would take care of the fact if he's incapacitated because you got do anticipate that possibility.

>> and it's very early in the investigation, as you well notify. what sort of possible charges might come from this in the end? >> he well, i the role of the ntsb is to not get involved in any legal action. in fact, they use the term he probable cause rather than a approximate cause because the lawyers would go after that. so the ntsb's role is not to be introduced in any litigation. on the other hand, since there will be parties bringing action against the railroad, against amtrak as i'm sure they will, then it's going to end up in court. but the ntsb's findings will not be generated for that purpose. >> any idea how long this investigation might take? >> well, typically this takes quite some time abecause generally in aviation, it may take us up to a year. i doubt whether it will take this long here. but maybe six to eight months before they really resolve what

actually happened and what we can do to prevent it from happening in the future. >> absolutely. dr. gross, i want do thank you for your expertise this afternoon. thanks. >> you're welcome. new developments we've been telling you about at the u.s. delta forces taking out that top isis commander. he oversaw the terror group's oil operation which are a major source of funding does this mean the fight against the terrorist group goes to another level? can they be crippled? what comes next? we'll ask the former top c.i.a. analyst in two minutes.

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new questions this afternoon about the battle against isis in the middle east. that after the u.s. delta forces killed a top terrorist commander of that group. it went down in a during and brazen overnight raid. there was hand to hand combat again our guys and the isis fighters. we're told they tried to use their women and children as shields. what does all this mean to the terrorist group? a former analyst and senior fellow with the from for security policy. fred always good to see you. defense secretary ash captainer in a statement calls this a significant blow to isis. do you think it is or will

someone else day over the money matters? >> it's god to be here. i think there is good news here concerning the fight against isis but i'm afraid it's overshadowed by bad news. this is a big within for the united states, big win for president obama. it was a gutsy call by the president to order this difficult and complex strike within syria. i think we probably gathered important intelligence against isis. this could mean we're changing our policy from the obama administration tendency of killing and not capturing terrorists, a policy which means we lose a lot of crucial intelligence. >> you're saying we are changing the policy from drone primarily to -- there were boots on the ground. the president has always ruled against that, exempt for the advisors. but for a period, we did have boots on the ground and they were successful. >> well, the president first said no boots on the ground. then he said no combat boots on the ground. we obviously need special forces to conduct this kind of attack. previously we were taking out terrorist leaders with drone we were

losing all the intelligence. >> do you think with the lap tops and computers they captured, that we're going to find out a whole network of the finances that supports isis? >> i think we'll find some significant information about isis funding isis leadership and maybe possible isis targets for attacks. >> oh, man. that would be big news. the beginning of the segment you mentioned what could be bad news and i assume you're talking about ramadi, which has about do or has fall ton isis. people could celebrate what's happened another he major iraqi and i falling to the radical islamic terrorist group. >> this is not just a major iraqi city. this is the city dominated by the sunnies. if this is not taken back by the iraqi government, our efforts will be underminded and the credibility of the iraqi government will be hurt. isis will be able to say to sunnies there we're all you have to protect yourselves from iran which wants to make their

province part of iran, and by the way if you don't go along with this, we're going to kill you. >> we're reporting several brigades are assembling, iraqi brigades. you think they can take this city back from isis? >> it's hard to know. part of the reason this is such a can it is strovey is because isis did this despite thousands of u.s. air strikes against them. they are using new tactics. the iraqi government was reluctant to send in reinforcements which is why did fell. soon yeses depot this. i think that's why this battle, the fall of the city is such a can -- coo castroy. >> but think of all the blood and treasure of our fellow american, of all those young men and women in fallujah, able to be successful at one point. what do we say to those families and our country when they've got isis potentially taking over the heart of that city and can we stop that? >> i mean, we could argue how we

got into this miss and whether we could have left u.s. troops behind. i think wed into to look forward and press the iraqi government to asteps to improve the capabilities of their army a to work with the iraqi sunnies to arm the iraqi kurd and get iran out of iraq. these things have to be continue or i think isis will make more gain. >> how do we do that? can you where will get iran out of iraq when they could potentially be running the place? >> i agree it will be difficult but we're not only not asking the iraqi government to get iran out of iraq, we're using iran as a proxy to fight battles in iraq because we don't want to send troops. we're talking to the iranians about with conducting attacks in iraq and helping the iraqi government. this is such a wrong headed approach 'cause it is driving sunni support to isis. >> fred, we thank you for your analysis. we'll be watching the effects of that trade that did kill the top isis leader, but at the same time, seeing what developments

there are in ramadi that hopefully will not fall to isis. so much. the feds ordering amtrak to assess the risks on all curves along the northeast corridor as investigators determine if an object hitting the windshield contributed to the crash. we will have a live report from philadelphia whether eric and i come back for a brand-new hour if inside america's news headquarters. you're watching fox news channel and for all the latest, go to foxnews.com. don't go. we're here in three minutes. >> that's the best. don't go anywhere.

we start with a knocks news alert. dramatic new details emerging about that daring raid by u.s. delta forces who took out a top isis leader in syria. hello, everyone. i'm eric shaun and this is america's news headquarters. >> i'm arthel neville a. senior defense official telling fox news as those forces moved in drawing their guns in a fierce fire fight isis fighters tried using civilians including women and children as human shields. that raid ending with u.s. forces killing the top terror leader capturing his wife and rescuing a young yazidi woman being held as slave. molly henneberg has the latest. what can you tell us? >> reporter: hi. this was