i don't get it. >> what did you learn? >> i learned nelly golan is calling for help. >> mika. >> no, i got her, we're going to do a project together. it's going to be so awesome. if it's way too early, what time is it? >> i think the kids say it's "morning joe." stick around right now. i know i'm going to. peter alexander. he's host of "the daily rundown." this is going to be mass im. today and today only, you know who they have on? >> peter, paul and mary. >> i thought it was paul simon. >> singing with franco harris. you'll love this. we'll be right back tomorrow. new fears of home grown aid to isis as the fbi seeks more info on a terrorist who may be american. amid tough talk from former defense secretary leon panetta, president obama heads to it s pentagon today. also, ebola patients in the united states get direct help from one of the first ones to be

treated for that illness. we will also hear from the governor tapped by rick perry to lead the task force on ebola. plus, still making headlines back home in arkansas. eric holder at his presidential library this morning to talk about community policing concerns in the wake of what happened in ferguson, missouri. good morning to you from washington. i'm peter alexander. it is wednesday, october 8th, 2014. the u.s.-led coalition is launching new air strikes to try and keep isis from taking over the syrian city of cobanny but it's appearing it may be too little, too late. later today, obama heads to it is pentagon to talk about strategy. they're now fighting street by street in a city that's roughly

the size of california. the u.s. did launch six new air strikes around that city in recent days. it simply wasn't enough to push isis fighters out. syrian activists are calling for the world's help to keep the city from slipping away. turkey has not been any help. calling the prime minister twice within the last 48 hours. the turkish troops have stayed out of the fight. the lack of accent frustrated kurdish proposters pouring into the streets, calling on the government there to help kurds in kobani. a dozen people died in clashes with police. at least 130,000 people from kobani have now escaped into turkey. the chairman for the house foreign affairs committee at home says, quote, a slaughter awaits those who haven't fled across the border. spokesperson jen sake indicated the u.s. would not move heaven and earth to save the city. >> it's obviously horrific to

watch what's going on on the ground. but it's important for the united states, for us, to also step back and remember our strategic objective as it relates to our efforts and our engagement in syria. >> instead, saiki pointed to victories in iraq as proof that u.s. plans are working. in fact, a u.s. official told our own richard engel that the u.s. is following a, quote, iraq first strategy. isis fears have spread beyond the borders of iraq and syria. on tuesday, british authorities announce forward arrests linked to what appears to be the first isis-linked terrorism plot in that country, in the u.s. at home, the fbi is calling on the public to help identify americans who have either gone to join up with isis or are trying to get there. specifically, they want help identifying this man. an isis militant that the feds say may be an american based on his accent. you can listen for yourself. >> we're here in the 17th division military base just

outside the city of araka and we're here with the soldiers of assad. >> joined by pete williams as well as nbc white house correspondent kristen welker. we're going to get to you in just a moment so stay with us. first, pete, with more on this fbi hunt effective ivively in t to identify this isis militant. where do things stand? >> the fbi's asked for public help. after two weeks of looking at this video, they've been unable to make much progress because there's so little to go on. the main thing you know you can see his eyes but they hope someone will recognize the voice. you heard in that clip what may be a sort of upper midwest american accent or canadian accent. he sort of says outside, a little bit sounding like he could be from that region. they're hoping this will ring a familiar bell to someone. it's a little unusual for the -- i should say it's not unusual

for the fbi to show videos and ask for help identifying suspects. but it is unusual in the case of an overseas terrorists. not a first time, but it isn't done often. >> as authorities said, no piece of information is too small in this effort. obviously there have been challenging in trying to identify these masked terrorists, give n the fact the u.s. and allies overseas are still trying to identify the man they believe had the knife and is responsible for the beheadings of several americans and others. >> actually, there, they've made some progress. both the u.s. and american authorities say they believe they know who that person is. they've not revealed the identity. but one of the reasons -- there are sort of several steps here. if they can figure out who this man in this video is, that doesn't mean they can get to him. because if he's in syria or some remote part of iraq, that's going to be difficult. if they do know who it is or have a high degree of confidence, they can try to figure out how and when did he go to syria, where are his

relatives, you know, was he in communication with anyone in the u.s., what radicalized him. so there's a lot of blanks that can be filled in. obviously, the ultimate goal is to get their hands on him. >> that's right. pete williams joining us in washington. thanks so much. i want to get to my colleague who's at the white house with the latest on the president's plans today as he intends to meet with members of his national security team and advisers given the series of recent events and what appears to be the fall of kobani. >> president obama will head to the pentagon later today. he's going to get briefed on the military's efforts to fight isis and also the efforts to train and equip the syrian opposition forces. something that we know will take a matter of months, if not longer. this comes exactly two months after the u.s. started air strikes in iraq. and it also comes as the obama administration is facing criticism for its handling of the crisis. particularly in the wake of the ga gains that have been made by isis in the kobani region.

we know the administration has stepped up efforts there. it launched nine air strikes yesterday and today. six in the kobani region alone. you pointed out the administration have talked about gains made in iraq but they struggled yesterday to talk about gains made in syria. peter, you'll recall, president obama has said this is not going to be a quick or easy military campaign. but having said that, 51% of americans, according to a recent poll, say they disapprove of his handling of this crisis. so he's going to get briefed today. we will bring you the very latest when he does. >> thanks for that report from the north lawn at the white house today. there of course has been no shortage of criticism of the u.s. policy in both iraq and syria. now you can add the president's former cia director and defense secretary leon panetta to that list. on tuesday, panetta told our colleague andrea mitchell that the red flags were obvious all the way back in january when the militants attacked the iraqi city of fallujah.

>> once fallujah fell, that should have been a wake-up call that we were not just dealing with a bunch of, you know, rabble-rousers. we were dealing with a very sophisticated terrorist operation that was conducting a war on the ground that effectively was gaining territory. and that it was only a matter of time that if they could take fallujah, there's no reason why they shouldn't be able to take baghdad. >> joining me now is nbc military analyst and retired army four-star general, general mccaffrey. nice to see you, appreciate your time right now. i want to get your assistance, if you can, explaining this sort of u.s. air strategy right now. to get a better understanding of how it would seem possible isis could effectively walk right into kobani, just miles from the border with turkey, and appear to be taking it over, despite air strikes in that region without really anything, it appear, slowing them down. >> well, you know, peter, i would argue there's a lot of very confused thinking going on

right now, both the pentagon and the white house, over what to do about this. leon panetta's one of the most sober minded, knowledgeable experts on defense issues we've had in the u.s. government in decades. i think the problem is the train left the station on supporting internally the so-called moderate opposition or actually a giant struggle between kurds, sunni, shia, both inside syria and iraq. we're not doing very well. a handful of air strikes, pretty effective. 104 air strikes in syria alone. but you can't stop ground forces with an f/a-18 coming off a carrier out in the indian ocean. >> how frustrating then has it been that turkey hasn't been more involved here? it's obviously proven to be a significant foil in the u.s. effort to try to fight back isis. this is just blocks from its border. and they've been almost

nonexistence. >> well, it's interesting to me, you know, vice president biden is starting to look like the wisest man in the room on some of these issues. turkey has made noest esffort support what to them is the threat, terrorist movements. there's no interest in turkey. they want assad gone. he's an aloeite shiite so they're at odds with one another here. they've got a gigantic military enterprise. they could intervene and stop this tomorrow. they don't want to. >> senators wrote an op-ed in "the wall street journal" i believe it was this week, which read, among other things, the reality is defeating the islamic state also requires defeating bashar assad. will only postpone the problem. do you agree with that argument,

is the u.s. failing to best solve this problem by failing to attack assad at the same time? >> from a humanitarian perspective, assad is the enemy. he's murdered 200,000 people. primarily sunni muslims living inside syria. so, you know, he was the supposed objective of u.s. foreign policy. however, it seems to most of us, there's no vital national security interest at stake for the united states to intervene directly in that syrian civil war. that's what it is. and it's going very badly. >> isn't that sort of what we're doing right now by taking out isis? this is another party in that several war. >> well, of course. the rehetoric was we're going t destroy isis. nothing of the sort is taking place. we had an air strike a few days ago in which a high performance u.s. air force aircraft attacked a lone motorcyclist in syria. i found that data point pretty

important. it was just preposterous. >> we appreciate it, general, thank you very much. up next, we're learning more about emergency treatments for two americans infected with ebola and how cured patient stepped in to help. also, the doctor in charge of the ebola task force in texas weighs in on the response to ebola and efforts to contain its spread. we'll talk to him live shortly. first, a look at today's planner. 10:30 this morning, the former president, bill clinton, and attorney general eric holder, partnering up for an event at the clinton library. we'll have more on that event later in the show. you are watching "the daily rundown" only on msnbc. on my journey across america,

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back now with more of your wednesday "daily rundown." doctors are turning to an earlier ebola patient to try to help the latest american diagnosed with ebola. it is expected to be administered to mukpo today. brantly was successfully treated for the virus and released in august. last month, bradley donated the blood to an american aid worker, dr. rick sacra. ashoka mukpo remains in isolation and is being treated with an experimental-type drug. they've begun building a 25-bed field hospital to treat six medical personnel there. of the 4,000 medical service -- excuse me, 4,000 service members, the pentagon says only a small number will.

doctors in spain said the nurse's aide who has become the first person to contract ebola outside west africa may have contracted the virus during an accident while putting on her protective suit. back in dallas, thomas eric duncan still said to be in critical but stable condition at this hour. nbc's charles hadlock is joining me now with the latest on that case in dallas. charles, what more do we know about his treatment and how he's doing today? >> the latest condition update came yesterday on thomas eric duncan. the hospital says he's in critical but stable condition. the family met with doctors yesterday. they were told that thomas' blood pressure is normal. his temperature is down. and that his liver function has improved slightly. however, he remains on a ventilator. he is on dialysis and is receiving that experimental drug. they say he has not yet turned a corner. the family says it was able to

view thomas on a video screen on monday. but yesterday, they chose not to. his mother says it was just too painful to watch. meanwhile, last night, the family joined faculty and staff here at the hospital for a prayer vigil led by the reverend jesse jackson who is advocating for the family. the family says even though there were misstarts in his care, they believe thomas is getting the best care possible now. the 48 people being monitored who came in direct or indirect contact with thomas during the time he was in dallas, they say that no one is getting sick, that they are -- that temperature and vital signs are all normal. the cdc says not one of them is ill. thomas, back to you. peter, back to you. >> i'll take it, charles, i appreciate it, thank you. we're joined now by the director of texas' new task force on infectious disease. we appreciate you being with us, doctor, thanks very much. >> my pleasure, good morning.

>> i want your help on some information that effectively is breaking as we speak. a passenger from an american eagle flight is being checked out for ebola. after displaying flu-like symptoms. that plane landed last evening. ebola we understand is highly unlikely at least according to a release from midland city government. the hospital was transf, patien transferred to a local hospital to be monitored. >> i do not have additional information from what was reported. i do want to say that at this time of the year, there's going to be many, many people who have fever and vomiting and diarrheal diseases as we move into the fall and winter. as i understand it from the reports, this patient was not from a west african country and did not pass through a west

african country, so would be extraordinarily low risk. >> give us a sense of what challenges this has really posed in your state right now and others obviously. you guys are the center of this conversation as it relates to the u.s. specifically. and what challenges are you facing that are greatest at this moment? >> right now, all our efforts are to support the ongoing care, contact and monitoring going on by the state, the county and the cdc working together in dallas. we have seen many challenges that we've had. all of them have been overcome. one of the purposes of the task force is to provide high level scientific and technical support to the team on the ground. but also to be the clearing house for less sob ons learned e future. i think it would be foolish for anyone to believe the first u.s. patient of ebola would not give us a lot of lessons that should be learned not only by texas but the rest of the country. >> is texas presbyterian hospital, we've heard talk about

the hospital in atlanta, we know omaha nebraska medical center there is particularly well suited to treat a situation like this. is texas presbyterian sufficient in terms of its ability to handle a patient like duncan? >> i did part of my training there in medical school when i was at ut southwestern. presbyterian is an outstanding hospital and particularly their intensive care units are outstanding. remember, there is no specific therapy for ebola. what mr. duncan is receiving is the best of icu care. i'm an intensive care physician myself. you've seen that. appropriate fluid management. being put on a ventilator. having life support systems. this is an expert team in the icu at presspy that is keeping mr. duncan's functioning together and keeping him arrive while his immune system rises and can cure himself of the disease. >> any news about that experiment treatment that he and

nbc news freelancer in nebraska are being treated with right now? >> we've provided, along with the department of health and human services at the national level and the cdc options to the care providers. i want to emphasize there is no approved therapy for patients with ebola. and all of these therapies are at very early stages of investigation. and there is no such thing as a free lunch. some have side effects and others do not. so we provide that information and what may be appropriate to one patient may not be appropriate to another because of their condition. so we are all very hopeful the anti-viral drug that mr. duncan received will be a part of his recovery. >> and also just to conclude, your task force, one of the primary forces includes trying to better understand what caused the mix-up that allowed duncan ton arrive at the hospital and then be sent home before ultimately coming back in, even though officials have been told

he had gotten in from liberia. so what specifically has been done to this point now in texas, i guess, to make sure that doesn't happen again? >> the awareness could not be higher. of course, after the first patient, everyone's awareness is very high. not just hospitals. we're talking outpatient clinics. nursing organizations. pharmacist organizations. so right now the awareness is very high, which is the most important. a major focus of our task force, one of our six initial focuses, is hospital preparedness. preparedness of all personnel in texas to identify a potential patient, to perform immediate isolation of that patient as required. also not to break down the entire system of health care. because we could overdo this on patients who do not need to be screened, who do not need to be isolated and cripple our emergency rooms and we don't want to do that either. >> joining us from texas today, we appreciate your kindness in

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he's been on the ground reporting this story. he's on the ground with our third part of this special series we call how we got here. >> four years into the syrian civil war, the united nations now says more than 190,000 syrians have been killed. there's no doubt that this syrian civil war has become one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes in a generation. government and aid organizations are struggling to provide food, shelter and basic health services to those people. as we always have this problem with the technology aspect of it, 3.2 million people now nearly -- have been displaced as a result of that war. many of them going into countries like turkey, lebanon, some going as far away as egypt and iraq to a lesser extent. but right now, lebanon has seen more than 1.1 million refugees. in fact, turkey's quickly catching up. and they now have taken in about 1 million refugees.

for some of those lucky to get out of syria, their journey has been harrowing. [ speaking foreign language ] >> in neighboring countries, their conditions are bleak. families sometimes numbering in the dozens live in empty buildings, garages or makeshift tents. women are subjected to abuse with little access to health care. and more than half of syrian refugees are children with little access to education and are forced to work in harsh condition, to support families. and it's not going to get any better. the united nations top human rights chief is criticizing the international community for failing to end the conflict which means so too will the suffering of the syrian people. peter. >> 3.2 million syrians displaced. thank you for that reporting. ayman will be answering your questions about the syrian

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this of course follows the supreme court's refusal to hear appeals earlier charge week. the ruling was effective immediately in idaho. in nevada, they're waiting on a district court judge to issue a formal injunction. a family from hammond, indiana, is suing that city's police department for excessive force after police broke through a car window and used a taser on jamal jones during what at least appear to be a routine traffic stop. >> now they're about to mess -- no. now they're about to mess my window -- >> if you do that -- all right. i'm not in operation of this vehicle -- >> people are getting shot by the police. >> oh.

>> that's a clip of the video that captures only a portion of that incident. in the car along with her 7-year-old sister caught it on his cell phone camera. >> that's really why i started recording, because i knew it was wrong. i was scared for my family. i was scared for my little sister because she was in the back with me. >> my shoulder's just very sore. and my body's been feeling very -- ever since he put them jolts in my body. >> they left me on the side of the road. never even acknowledged the kids after they bust the window. when the ambulance came to pick up jamal, they never even asked if the kids were okay. they left. i had to get the glass out of the car by myself. >> in a statement, hammond police say jamal jones refused to leave the vehicle, quote, after a proximately 13 minutes had elapsed and upon request by at least three different officers. the statement also said police broke the window, fearing the occupants of the vehicle possessed a weapon.

there were no weapons in the car. jones was charged with failure to aid an officer and resisting law enforcement. in new york, the family of eric garner, who died after a confrontation with police in july, plans to sue the city and its nypd for $75 million. and in ferguson, st. louis county police say they plan to have more manpower on the streets this weekend for four days of stepped-up protests, which began friday. tensions are high. on monday night, mostly white, clashed with a group of mostly black protesters, demanding justice for michael brown. >> njustice for mike brown! >> community policing strategies after ferguson, attorney general

eric holder and former president bill clinton will speak to mayors and police chiefs from around the country in little rock. today's event marking the 20th anniversary of clinton's services or cops program. kacie hunt is on the ground live in little rock. this event falls at the end of bill clinton's two-day arkansas swing. and this one as important as any one of his visits there. >> absolutely, he mentioned as he was campaigning here that arkansas for him is a lot more than just coming back for politics. he has this clinton presidential library here. he is hosting this gathering of about 70 mayors and law enforcement officials and, as you said, it's centered around the 20th anniversary of this community policing initiative that clinton instituted when he was president and sometimes credited with driving down what were really high violent crime rates in the 1990s. the paper actually editorialized bill clinton helped have a

national conversation about race and about violence and about how to help police forces become better integrated with their communities. and that's what they plan to talk about here today. >> also, want to follow up, quickly. made a little news yourself. your interview with mike pryor on ebola. the headline being with a lot of hs. ahh. because pryor has trouble answers questions. i want to get a sense of how the campaign responded to that conversation with you. >> sure. he put out a statement saying he had better answers to tougher questions but that he went through to outline some of the steps he thinks we should take. he didn't answer the question of whether or not he thinks the obama administration has done a good job in addressing the ebola outbreak and its potential to spread in the united states. i think that illustrates how difficult it is for any politician to say anything positive about president obama.

his name is really toxic here. and that's what -- the sort of tight rope that mark pryor has been trying to walk. >> double duty for us today. appreciate your help, kacie, thank you. we want to bring in our guest, the president of the national urban league. joining us from new york. we appreciate your time. there's a lot of news obviously on this front we want to address. from hammond indiana to new york city. these new allegations of these excessive police force. a man tasered in a car. i believe it was a 7-year-old, as we said, a 14-year-old. two kids watching. what's your take on this right now? what needs to be done to sort of heal the growing sense of distrust that many people, specifically african-americans, feel of police? >> you know, peter, one of the things that's so important about the incident in hammond is but for the 14-year-old capturing

the events on videotape, we would have been in a cross of words about what really happened. so it underscores why i strongly believe that body cams and dashboard cams should become standard and require standard operating procedures for police departments across the nation. we need to create transparency. it will hold police officers accountable. it will also protect those police officers. many of whom are trying to do the right thing. i think what's happened, in the post-9/11 america, we've gotten away from the philosophy of community policing that i embraced when i led northernew . it led to a decline in civil rights complaints against the department. a decline in violent crime. and a building of trust. and we've got to rebuild that trust. it's good to see president clinton and attorney general holder buy together mayors and police chiefs because mayors are key. because they appoint police chiefs and they oversee police

departments. >> the takeaway with the president and teric holder. i want to get a sense from you, the most important lessons for those cities. you talk about body cams and dash cams. beyond that, what can they do as leaders to effect change in real ways? >> they've got to bring police leadership. not only chiefs but front-line commanders into conversations with community leaders about the shared interest of a safer community. but also the concern of how you build trust. and those relationships and that relationship building is the foundation of community policing. so to the extent that you can get mayorschiefs to embrace that philosophy, take it away from the presidential library there in arkansas, back to their local communities, i think we can make some progress on this issue. substantive changes like body cams, dashboard cams i think are

going to be essential to how we go forward in the future. we've got this technology. let's make sure we use it. >> our time's limited. just quickly before i let you go. the name you'd like to see picked up as the next attorney general as the united states? >> i don't want to pretempt it but i think we want an attorney general who, in fact, has a commitment to civil rights, who understands their role as not only the chief law enforcement officer in the united states but also the chief justice officer. >> sure. >> we're looking for that profile. i wouldn't want to preempt anybody or jinx anybody who might be under consideration. >> mike, thanks for your time. coming up next, senate candidates go head to head in five key battleground races. we'll tell you who's pulling ahead. also, one of the nfl's boast offensive players on defense again today. adrian peterson just minutes away from his first court appearance to fight charges of injuring his son. we're there live for the latest. first though, as we like to do,

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>> his whole career has been as a partisan operative. he says elect me, then i'm going to suddenly be bipartisan. >> is harry reid the best to lead senate democrat, yes or no? >> i think we can do better in both parties moving forward. >> ten years ago, you supported a federal constitution on marriage. do you still support that? >> when i was chairman, it was the platform, calleded for a federal marriage amendment. as chairman of the rnc, i stood for the platform. >> did you personally -- >> as a united states senator, i'm talking now about my policies -- >> in north carolina, kay hagen and republican statehouse speaker tom tillis also were quizzed on where they've taken on their party's leaders. >> at this point, it's kind of hard to say. because in the senate, which i'll speak for the senate, not for the house, harry reid hasn't allowed anything to be passed. >> the keystone pipeline. i disagree with the president. i think we need to build the keystone pipeline.

trade deals. i've voted against trade deals because they sent too many north carolina jobs overseas. and i've voted against my own party's budget because it has too deep of cuts to our military. >> here's the one you really needed to see it the crowd was rocks in georgia. supporters started screaming before the debate began. democrat michelle nun did her best to distance herself from national democrats and jumped on republican perdew's comments that he was, sort, proud of his outsourcing career. >> he would be the only senator that from his own words has build a career around outsourcing american jobs. >> this is another attempt by my desperate opposition to use one line out of 186-page document -- out of 186-page document to define a career. >> that's an old school debate with the raucous crowd behind them. in west virginia, they competed

to be the coal candidate. and in colorado, a lightning rod of yes or no answers produced some less than succinct responses. democratic senator mark udall said he would support the keystone pipeline but only after scientific studies are completed. republican congressman corey gardner punted on climate change. >> do you believe humans are contributing significantly to climate change? >> i've said all along. >> yes, no. >> this is an important issue, i don't think you can say -- >> you've got 60 seconds -- >> i believe the climate is changing. i disagree to extent it's been in the news -- >> congressman -- >> this is a serious issue and i don't think we should shortchange serious issues with yes or no answers. >> our senior political editor mark murray is here with more. five debates. plenty to weigh in on. >> three big takeaways. one, the sharp difference between the parties. you can't say as many were saying back in 2000 there aren't big disagreements between the political parties. you saw a really sharp contrast

between the republicans and the democrats on the five different stages last night. the other big takeaway, just how much republicans are trying to president obama with the democratic candidates. the virginia debate kept calling it the obama economy. >> three times. >> you see the strategy there. then, peter, the third take away is how republicans, particularly in a lot of blue purple states are retreating on the culture wars. we ended up seeing ed in virginia, cory gardener in colorado back away from any opposition to the supreme court's gay marriage ruling or inaction on that front. both said, you know, i personally opposed to gay marriage but i'm fine with the supreme court ended up doing. i'm willing to accept it. we also saw the republican candidates say they support contraception behind the counter. and so in some ways when the political debate is turned to contraception, gay marriage we're seeing republicans in the

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changes to the league's policy on personal conduct at the top of the day's agenda. nbc gab ambiguityi gabe ambigui gutierrez. peterson is expected to plead not guilty. the question is what the judge will do. whether he could set a trial date and whether it happens before the end of the 2014 florida season. so far the vikings said peterson is off until the legal case is resolved. if convicted he faces up to two years in prison, peter. >> live on the scene, gabe, thank you. coming up right here next jose diaz-balart. he'll be watching the developments in the texas courtroom. a lot more on the morning's event with eric holder and bill clinton. all live next on msnbc.

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good morning. i'm jose diaz-balart. you're looking at a live picture of a courtroom in texas. nfl running back adrian peterson expected to make his first court appearance any moment since being indicted on a felony charge of abuse charge. last month the minnesota vikings star accused of using a switch on his 4-year-old son. he's expected to plead not guilty. his case, of course, is coming in the middle of a national conversation about behavior in the nfl and its players. my colleague gabe gooutierrez i at the court. we'll keep an eye on the developments. several new fronts on the war against isis. just a couple of hours president obama will meet with senior military leaders. that meeting take place at the pentagon. as u.s. lead air strikes enter their third month.

fierce fighting in kobani. turkey's president warning that the city is close to falling into the hands of isis. if that happens militants would control a large area of the turkish syrian border. over night u.s. led forces launched nine air strikes in syria. six of those near kobani. five other strikes were aimed closer to the iraqi border. u.s. officials are expressing frust rax over turkey over refusing to commit to military involvement. 14 kurdish demonstrators were killed tuesday in clashes with police. here at home the fbi is asking for the publics' heallp in an international manhunt. authorities are looking for this man seen in the latest isis propaganda video. the fbi fears he may be from the united states. with us now is pete williams. pete, good morning. >> good morning to you. >> what do we know about this man? >> not