we've always had dirty air, we're going to always have dirty air. and the other side says if we don't plan now there won't be a future for our grandchildren. guest: thanks for that question. i think that the difficulties in congress and what some would call the gridlock in congress has happened over the last few years. certainly it is a relevant thing to say that it would be ce guest: i think what's hained and one of the reasons we've seen polarization is we've picked the low-hanging fruit. it's amazing how much progress we've made in cleaning up our air. you go back and i have some experience under the clean air act and the reductions on all these pollutants have been dramatic led most of us -- led 99%.een pro-- reduced by what that's meant is getting that next increment has become increasingly expensive and probably less important. and there's debate especially about the last part but as it's gotten much more costly for industry and consumers, you've tended to have this divide. and even back in 1990 that divide was apparent but president george h.

now the air is fresh. they're taking to an extent i think it's great is on his like no one is watching them what to do. you know they're doing funny this is because why do the e-mails keep disappearing? in 2000 the e-mails disappeared. a couple years ago, all these left wing organizations who back and forth. all this is about controlling the resources and not letting people move in, out in the west. >> host: a fight taking place over a voting map in florida. >> host: missouri. >> caller: i live in north county. and the issue in ferguson is not poverty, because ferguson has very strict rules on the property there. the people are concerned about the violence against people that live there and the police -- michael was visiting his grandparents. he did not live there in that complex. and he was shot in broad, open daylight at 12:04 any afternoon and he laid on the ground for five hours before the removed his body. they are concerned about people being killed, nobody is doing anything about it. the black peopl

air strikes in iraq.n war planes attacking targets in kurdistan belonging to the terror group isis. this is an area that has long been considered iraq's safest and the kurds are a crucial ally to the united states. that's why it is so support that the united states does not allow kurdistan to fall into the hands of the militants. >> reporter: america's air strikes in iraq highlights the importance of washington's relationship with the kurds. >> the kurds are the very best friends we have in the middle east. they've always been there, second only to israel. we have no better friends there. >> reporter: now the friends are facing their toughest enemies in two decades in the form of isis or known as the islamic state, the extremists who are ter terrorizing their way through iraq. >> reporter: the u.s. has been a strong ali to the kurds and president barzahni. the rest of the country has deteriorated along sectarian lines. the kurdish fighters have a good reputation but ammunition is running low. if the kurds

air force at wright patterson air force base. the museum has a mission of telling the story of robins air force base, and the people in the missions. we have 90 airplanes at the museum. well over half of those are inside our four exhibit buildings. we have airplanes that fly into robins air force base, we bring them to the museum. the f-100d arrived at the museum in december of 2010. we sent a team to massachusetts to recover it. they loaded it on to a semitrailer, and trucked it down. the airplane was on this trailer, coming down the highway. it came into the museum, was brought up to the back of the scott hanger, and taken often -- taken off and brought into the hangar. with the f-100, because it was in such poor condition, we needed to pull it apart. at least pull off the wings, pull off the tail, pull the fuselage apart. the major components so we could , give a good evaluation of the condition of the airplane. as we get deeper into it, we saw that it was in bad shape. what that means is, some parts we have to pull off comple

did begin its air strikes in iraq, its targeted air strike. the president gave the okay last night that americans could go ahead and conduct air strikes, if americans on the ground in iraq were put in any danger. well, there is violence around the city of irbil, that's where the u.s. consulate is located, and that's where the targeted air strikes took place this morning. two f-18s dropped 500-pound bombs on isis targets. we're going to talk a lot about that this morning. i have a panel of experts with us to help us understand this and to parse this out. matthew hoh, a former marine captain, he served in iraq and paul cruickshank is a cnn terror analyst. i want to start with you, captain hoh, because you served in iraq. you fought in iraq, that this is going on, how does it make you feel? >> well, you know, i have iraqi friends, not as many as i used to have, sadly, but as we're talking about earlier, to me this is a terrible mistake. if american bombs are the solution, iraq would not -- the situation in iraq would have been resolved in 2003. t

air strikes have begun very limited air strikes.ign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell and bobby goesh. there's a way you can look at this from two ways. the dilemma the president is facing. is it too little too late on the one hand. on the other hand, is there really -- can the united states be the solution in iraq? it seems to be the president himself you can see that dilemma. he feels squeezed by both issues. >> yeah. and, you know, you suggested earlier that according to some people started with mubarak and gadhafi not having an after-action plan. i think that's a part point. the other chipping point, i think, was a year ago. labor day weekend when we did not act as signalled to all of our allies in the persian gulf and europe and elsewhere with the red line in syria. that was the moment when isis really metastasized and filled the vacuum. when, also, american allies stepped back and said, whoa, we cannot rely on them to use military force. there are a lot of arguments using military force against then but having gone so far

air strikes in iraq. american war planes attack targets belonging to isis as the jihadists who call themselves the islamic state close in on a major city in northern iraq. hundreds of thousands of christians and other minorities are now on the run. u.s. aircraft have the also dropped food and water as the obama administration warns of what it's calling a potential genocide. our correspondent and guests are standing by with the kind of coverage only cnn can deliver. let's begin with pentagon correspondent barbara starr. what are you learning? >> we have now in less than 24 hours had three rounds of air strikes against isis militants in northern iraq. it began early today with a strike by f/a-18 aircraft against a mobile artillery position that isis had outside the city of erbil in northern iraq. a short time later, a couple of hours later two additional strikes. a u.s. military drone fired a shot against a terrorist mortar position when the isis fighters came back, the drone came back and attacked again. a

army air force could do. arnold said to cochran and allison, they wanted to get back into the big show, he finally enticed them into doing it by saying, to hell with paperwork, get out there and fight. there's very little in the way of actual paperwork which made researching this kind of a challenge. as i said, they were kind of young, young guys. they -- they had all these planes. anything that they wanted, they got. they not only got the planes, but anything else that they wanted. some of you military buffs may have heard of the m 1 a 1. the very first ones of those went to the air commandos because they found out they had them and they wanted them. they said, okay, you got them. they also demanded that each person in that group be issued a 45 side arm and either the folding stock caribbean or a 45 thompson submachine gun. they didn't stop there. they called the old a-2 jackets. they don't hold much. they thought we need something with a whole lot of pockets. you know, bad things can happen out there in the

it might be offering air strikes to open up that air corridor. it will not have boots on the ground. the boots on the ground will be iraqi forces and most likely kurdish peshmerga forces, the kurdish militias. >> jim, for some of us, today is the first time we heard of the yazidis and their sect. i just want to read to people a little bit what we have learned about those 40,000 people there trapped on the mountain. they're one of the tiniest minorities. they're of kurdish descent. their religion is considered a preislamic sect that draws some tenets from christianity, some from judaism. it's one of the oldest religious communities in the world. they have often been persecuted. in fact, some extremists have branded them as devil worshippers. so they are now the focus of this humanitarian aid from the u.s. because as the president said we don't turn a blind eye when we see genocide happening. and particularly when unicef says something like 40 children have already died of thirst. >> what it shows you is when it comes to isis, everyone is under thr

they pollute our air and they pollute the air waves with lies.blowing smoke to protect their profits. >> you're polluting the air waves with lies. >> certainly don't know why i could be accused of that. we all care about the environment. i certainly think climate change is a problem. but the reality is the united states, china -- >> you think it's a problem? >> i think it's a problem burks not a problem that justifies regulating the entire economy. >> let's get back to the pollution -- >> may i finish? not a single clean-up has occurred of any major pollutant due to voluntary measures. innovation is driven by regulation. right now putting pollution in the air is free. so why, if you're a utility, would you ever develop perhaps a slightly more expensive way to address that when putting the pollution in the air is free? >> he's certainly right. the epa, the environment is one area where my beloved free market won't just solve things. we've had great success. we have this chart of how air pollution is down. you provided this chart, which shows how i

air strikes.wo 500 precision bombs were targeted around irbil, is that what happened? >> what we know is that two f 18s attacked target. this was an artillery piece, mobile, that means it can move around very quickly, being manned by isis. isis, the u.s. says, was shelling kurdish forces in irbil where these u.s. forces are located. that was the reason for moving in, dropping in 500 pound laser guided precision bombs on the artillery piece and taking it out. this meets the president's standard of doing what is necessary to protect u.s. personnel in irbil, both military and diplomatic personnel at the u.s. consulate there. all indications to under score what jim was saying is that the air strikes will continue if isis doesn't back off. they are prepared. they now have u.s. war planes, mainly navy planes off the george h.w. bush at this point, in the air, on combat patrol, looking for threats, they can move immediately. they don't have to come back for additional authorization. if they see a threat,

air strikes. but i can tell you, steven, ultimately nobody in the white house, nobody in the pentagon, wants to get involved in a shooting war with isil. they realize with the first bomb drop the u.s. is not quite but almost all in. and one of the major concerns is that they don't want to become caught right in the middle of a sectarian war. they don't want to be seen as the baghdad's private air force attacking isis. they'd like to do whatever they can to restrict isis' ability to further its gains, to move about the country freely, potentially attack baghdad. but the last thing the u.s. wants to is get caught in the middle of that war. >> all right. nbc news pentagon correspondent jim miklashevski. thanks for your time tonight. really appreciate that. we should let you know, we are receiving word right now that president obama is preparing to address the nation at 9:30 eastern time. just about 20 minutes from now from the state dining room. he'll be addressing the nation on the subject of iraq.

it was not really used in an air to air role. it was used in the ground to it -- ground attack and troop support. the missionsof flown with this airplane in vietnam were interdiction fromons to block the roads the inflow of munitions and people and equipment into vietnam. air support, we had troops in contact, this airplane was a prime airplane for helping to defend the troops on the ground. it had a very broad range of missions during its lifetime. during the later part of his life, it was mainly an air to ground airplane for dropping 20 millimeter weapons, and also different sets of munition. this particular airplane was built in 1956. the airplane was designed basically in that time period, in the late 40's and 50's. the last one was active sometime in the late 80's early 90's. when it came here, we took it off the pedestal in massachusetts. it wasn't in great shape. it had a lot of corrosion, a lot of metal had corroded away. we had to place a lot of those pieces and parts. we had to fabricate different pieces of material in

expecting more air drops. they did make some progress overnight with the first initial massive air drop in those mountains, but there may be 40,000 people up there, and they are going to need food, water and supplies around the clock. brooke? >> we're thinking of those 40,000 people. also wondering about the pilots talking about the air drops. what is in the isis arsenal as far as weaponry goes. do they have the capability? machine guns that could potentially take one of those planes down? >> well, you're looking at two categories of planes. you're looking at high-speed, higher altitude fighter jets. perhaps unlikely that isis can get to them. you know, nothing is foolproof, but perhaps less likely that they can get to those u.s. navy fighter jets. th if isis is up in those mountains, they do have, it is said, shoulder-fired weapons, some models of shoulder fired anti-air weapons that could potentially put those aircraft always within range. but the military does take precautions very classified precautions to

he would -- he authorized targeted air strikes against isis convoys and targeted air strikes to break mountain. >> they have only been authorized. they would begin if u.s. personal military or diplomatic personnel were endangered and then the president would go ahead and not only authorize but the u.s. military, air force and others would launch the air strikes against isis targets in and around arbil. what already is happening is the humanitarian air drops the president earlier authorized. that's continuing. the desire is to save the lives of about 40,000 of these people who are stuck on this mountain, this small ethnic religious group in iraq and offshoot of the kurds, they speak kurtish but they are treated as infidelities who deserve to die. they have been stuck on this mountain top. they don't have food, water and they will certainly die within a day or two or three if these air drops don't provide them the food and the water and the other things, medical equipment they need. that's why the u.s. is dropping these containers to help save these lives but the air strikes will begin

the air taking the air from -- >> the z duct technology hasn't a howed allowed you to filter the air. >> if ceqa requires you to provide filtered air -- i mean, i'm curious why -- >> anybody subject to article 38 would not be able to provide filter air. there hasn't been that much building in this time period so we're -- >> the small builders have -- because the air is very important to the building so we've been doing through z ducts and i would concur that the levels of how good these filters are is dependent where you are and so on. the other part is the [inaudible] is kind of expanded now so it's good government. there's no problem with trying to do what we're trying to do but how do we implement it. a lot of people say the z ducks work fine, but they're not working -- >> they work fine for delivering air, but don't have a way that filters the fresh air intake and somebody is working on that design and they'll probably get a great pats ent out of it if they come up with a filter box that works. >> i don't want to go design in here. if i could get mz cohen from your staff, just an

air strikes, humanitarian air drops? this is a disaster that's unfolding and the central iraqi government is mia, missing in action. >> well, wolf, first of all, geography is important. sin jar, which is the west of mosul, people keep talking about the mountains near sinjar. it's a rocky hill. and it is is your rournded by isis ice territory. what theya see tees have done, they've left their towns and gone to the top of the mountains. they surrounded. this is bastone if you revert back to world war ii history. it is going to be very difficult to support them with equipment, with food because you can't drop it on the top of a rocky mountain surrounded by isis fighters. when you look at the other side, more to the west, you're talking about the advances of isis into the kurdish region. i'm nor confident in the peshmerga in terms of holding and defending places like erbil. but still, isis certainly has gained a whole bunch of military capability in the last several weeks as we've been watching hamas and israel and the ukrai

guys controlling air strikes, either on the ground or they will have to be forward air controllers. the host -- the best example in iraq was 2008 during the battle and we required, you know, dozens of u.s. guys on the ground to end able forces to push back militants on the ground. so it's not a matter of just completely surgical and dudes in the air at 30,000 feet. >> appreciate it. thanks so much. appreciate it. >>> isis brutality caught on tape and put online because isis wants it that way. it's part of the strategy. we'll dig into that ahead. you used to sleep like a champ. then boom... what happened? stress, fun, bad habits kids, now what? let's build a new, smarter bed using the dualair chambers to sense your movement, heartbeat, breathing. introducing the sleep number bed with sleepiqtm technology. it tracks your sleep and tells you how to adjust for a good, better and an awesome night. the difference? try adjusting up or down. you'll know cuz sleep iq™ tells you. only at a sleep number store, mattresses with sleepiq start at just $999.98. know better sleep with sleep number.

air strikes. on whether we are on the verge of an american military intervention in iraq once more. joining us now is nbc news chief pentagon correspondent jim miklashevski. jim, thanks for taking the time tonight. maybe you can start by explaining something i think has confused me -- >> if i can interrupt you for a second, we've got some news here. >> go right ahead. >> u.s. military officials have told nbc news that those humanitarian air drops have been completed over the sinjar mountains where up to 40,000 of these members of that small religious sect had to flee from sinjar from the isis rebels. now, according to officials, there were c-17s used for those air drops that were escorted by american f-16 fighter jets. the tdrops, it's not clear just how long they took, but now we're told that those air drops of food, water, medical supplies, humanitarian relief, to those iraqis on the ground there, have, in fact -- has, in fact, been completed successfully and all u.s. planes are now out of that

the air strikes are authorised, there has been no air strikes according to senior administration officials, but they made it clear if they feel it is necessary they'll take the action. >> we could have a new prime minister in iraq soon. thank you very much. jane is in iraq, and has been in touch with some of the iraqis stranded on the mountain, in need of food and water. >> what we do know is the airdrops on behalf of the iraqi government have failed. iraq was dropping bottles and water and food from helicopters. as they hit the ground, the water shattered and it was lost. as we have seen, a problem on the mountain is that children are dying of dehydration. what the u.s. is doing is a proper air drop, which is food and water, cushioned by pallets dropped by helicopters. it's a better chance. there's a picture of what is happening, which is a very rocky outcrop. huge place, towns and villages on the lower parts, pushing forward. the people are peaceful people, protected by the kurds. they made a strategic withdrawal, as they say, and walked - in some places barefoot, up the mountain. they a

air strikes. air strikes really do put american military personnel in harm's way. they are not magic. they constitute a difficult decision to deploy american troops. a decision that our elected representatives in the u.s. congress constitutionally are supposed to make. it's their call. it was almost exactly one year ago when president obama said he had decided as commander in chief that he wanted the u.s. military to mount air strikes in syria. a year ago he said that. but not talking about mounting them against isis but against the assad regime, itself, because they used chemical weapons. he walked into the rose garden and said he wanted air strikes in syria, but he also said the congress should take a vote on whether to authorize those strikes. >> our military has positioned assets in the region. the chairman of the joint chiefs has informed me that we are prepared to strike whenever we choose. i'm prepared to give that order. but having made my decision as commander in chief based on what i am

, air combat plane air to ground. it had the capability to drop a nuclear weapon. this is a weapon of destruction. it is an absolute weapon of instruction and that is what it is designed for and that is how we use it. if a broad range of missions were assigned to this airplane is a came into the inventory. later in its life, during the vietnam war, this airplane did not have the skill set of the f4 for instance. it was really used in an air to air role. it was used in troops and contacts. the majority of the missions that were flown with this airplane in vietnam were interdiction missions to lock andinflow of munitions people and equipment into vietnam. close air support when we had troops in contact, when the fight was hot. this airplane was a prime airplane for helping -- for helping to defend troops on the ground. it has a very broad range of missions turning its lifetime. during the later part of his life it was an air to ground airplane for dropping bombs, strafing 20 millimeter weapon and also different types of

the only days when we do perceive air pollution is spare the air days, which we've had more of and this is a photo from august 1, which is the day i went on vacation to another part of the country so i do think it's something that we don't need to wait for spare the air days to educate ourselves about using because we want to edge we know that air pollution does contribute to all the five leading causes of death in san francisco, it's physiologically related to heart attacks, heart disease, strokes, copd. we just need to address it and i think it's a change industry wide. i think san francisco clearly will be a leader in the country, but that other cities will come to this same solution and the engineers that spoke with us one of them specifically said that as well. he sees this as the way buildings will be built in urban areas in the future. so we are learning together. i appreciate very much that these various stakeholders have been willing to meet with us and examine the pros and cons of different designs. our meeting with the engineers was in may. it was may p. 7. if you have any qu

one air drop. that's just basically the beginning in order to help these people and keep them alive. so you're going to -- there's every reason to understand that there will be additional air drops and when those air drops go into that area, they will be protected, as they were last night by fighter jets flying alongside them. because those transport aircraft th that, you know, push those bundles of supplies out the back, those are large, slow-flying aircraft. they can be vulnerable to enemy action. they will have fighter jet escorts at all times. >> the isis forces have surface to air missiles, shoulder fired, even more sophisticated surface to air missiles. i want to go to the white house press secretary discussing all of this right now. >> thank you, well, come on. setting the record straight. there we go. all right. i don't have any announcements at the top so we'll go straight to questions. darlene. >> follow-up on iraq and the air strike outside of erbil earlier today. do you expect there wil

we must have 24/7 air cover there. they dropped drinking water and thousands of meals ready to eat. >> elizabeth prann live, thank you, elizabeth. >> is president obama really taking the right action? is will it work to stop isis and what is next if the president says we won't have boots on the ground. thank you so much for joining us so early this morning. busy night. no doubt you have been monitoring what has been going or no. what does it mean when you hear targeted air strikes? (speaking on telephone) >> targeted air strikes means some sort of limited action. it means there's a limited set of targets and restrictions on what we will and will not do. it doesn't mean if we find an isis target we will de fete -- defeat it. he said to protect american personnel. that means potentially they may be up near the mountain where this potential massacre is about to happen. looks like the president is taking a humanitarian approach here as opposed to an offensive operation. it won't be an attempt to defeat isis. you have a pot

air force and navy air capability. but still, it's something, you know, for a wider to be concerned about. >> general, what about the kurdish military force, the peshmer peshmerga? what about helping them fight the fight? resupplying them. >> well, actually, we ought to be thinking about this in a wider context of fighting isis as a whole. and frankly, there's no better way to do it than on two fronts. on the kurdish front from the north and the isf from the south. not only a threat to iraq, to the region, but it's a threat fundamentally to the united states of america. so the best thing we can do is support the iraqi security forces and the kurdish forces to push isis back to the point where it's no longer a threat to iraq. and then eventually no longer a threat to syria. >> should we as americans, bob, be concerned as u.s. is going in and targeting isis that isis turns around down the road be it the near future or down, down the road and targets the west? >> yeah. >> yeah. first, any extreme group like this, you can'

>> i think certainly the air drops have been protected by close air support.t was stated by the department of defense this afternoon. they didn't have to strike but there certainly was aircraft protecting those drops. in terms of simultaneity, he's protecting lives and the consulate in irbil. that's priority number one to assure american lives are protected but at the same time the second part of this equation and very complex situation is to stop a genocide and that's what these -- this two-pronged effort is doing. the strikes wouldn't be necessary if -- thlgs a genocide was taking place or unless it was at places where u.s. forces were. >> all right. well, let's get a better sense now of what the u.s. is actually dealing with. earlier we spoke with a jihadi who works to improve the political process and explains why he believes isis has been so successful. let's just listen. >> they reason they're so successful up until al qaeda focusing on spectacular terrorist attacks, isis went for territory and recruited to their senior ranks the generals who lost their

united states military considering air strikes in iraq, air strikes from the iraqi air force have alreadyun. the threat is growing threat from isis threatening to slaughter christian minorities. united states has begun humanitarian air drops to help the afflicted trapped in the mountains fear to come down. chief national security correspondent jim sciutto has been following the developments. jim, i guess the first question is and i just mentioned this with our panel a moment ago it feels so many ways a world falling apart. the world was looking at eastern ukraine, looking at gas. they stopped looking at what was going on at syria and iraq. how big of a threat did isis become. >> you can't exaggerate this. this is a growing threat. i hear it from so many agencies. let's talk about the immediate threat from isis. right now here just to the east of mosul you have a massacre looming, 40,000 yazidis, religious minority in iraq surrounded by isis fighters. really this is a rwanda potentially in the making. to the east of there in irbil more than a hundred u.s. military advisors and isis forces

we're doing air strikes. define the difference. >> an air campaign would imply a plan, which i don't think we've seen out of the white house with much. [ applause ] that said, what they're doing now is i think they're doing what they can. believe me, they've probably got a book that thick of rules of engagement of things they can't do. so they're being very specific. i don't think the president is more interested in helping them than he is not having any americans get killed, because it's bad press at the moment. if that's going to last, i don't know. the air force again and naval air can take care of these things but it implies an escalation. an air campaign would have specific goals tied to a ground campaign for specific goals. that isn't something we're going oh see. the kurds, the peshmerga, very good fighters, i know some of them, but they're not good at large unit operations. they're not a big force at the moment. so i don't see any big ground movement, even if we supplied them with all the weapons, bec

air strikes and do those air drops. that the president has come out and said i will on behalf of the united states take action to prevent genocide, as we have been discussing, this one rinky dinky helicopter that took those 20 people off that mountain is not going to be enough. and it's not just the united states here. it's really going to be i think an international effort that's going to have to really -- >> any progress at getting rid of nouri al maliki in baghdad? >> well, today you saw the iraqi new president appoint a new prime minister designate, which has the support of this large shia block, prime minister nouri al maliki's block. the question is, is he going to go quietly? it looks like he will not. >> hold on, gloria. there's a limit to what the u.s. can do. if no boots on the ground, no grouped forces, there is a limit with what you can do with air power alone. thanks very much. we're going to continue to watch the breaking news. that's it for me this hour. i'll be back 5:00 p.m. eastern, a special two-your

we're doing air strikes. define the difference. >> an air campaign would imply a plan, which i don't think we've seen out of the white house with much. [ applause ] that said, what they're doing now is i think they're doing what they can. believe me, they've probably got a book that thick of rules of engagement of things they can't do. so they're being very specific. i don't think the president is more interested in helping them than he is not having any americans get killed, because it's bad press at the moment. if that's going to last, i don't know. the air force again and naval air can take care of these things but it implies an escalation. an air campaign would have specific goals tied to a ground campaign for specific goals. that isn't something we're going oh see. the kurds, the peshmerga, very good fighters, i know some of them, but they're not good at large unit operations. they're not a big force at the moment. so i don't see any big ground movement, even if we supplied them with all the weapons, bec

air strikes. i can tell you, ultimately nobody in the white house nobody in the pentagon wants to get involved in a shooting war. with the first bomb drop, the u.s. is not quite, but almost all in. one of the major concerns is they don't want to be caught in the middle of a sectarian war and be seen as the baghdad's private air force attacking isis. they would like to restrict and move about the country freely and attack baghdad. the last thing they want to do is get caught in the middle of that war. >> jim miklaszewski, thanks for your time. we are receiving word right now that the president, president obama is preparing to address the nation at 9:30 eastern time about 20 minutes from now from the state diming room. he will be addressing on the subject of iraq. woo will have full coverage when that comes again about 9:30 tonight eastern time. let's bring in the chief foreign affairs official. andrea mitchell, the first thing i want to start on is the point that jim raised. the first of several mi

"eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan tells us that this years air show did not disappoint. >> reporter: there were prop planes that tumbled and jets that soared. but below hundreds of thousands of people, ooed and aaed at 2014 atlantic city air show thunder over the the boardwalk. >> amazing. you can't have a better location for an air show. >> reporter: marry bet caller took in the sites with their nephew nick whose aviator sunglasses made him look the part of the next generation of dare devil pilots. >> i like how it is all amazing and has planes, with the stunt planes and stuff. >> reporter: thinks largest air show in the east coast with private and military pilots showing off their aircraft maneuvering capabilities. some highlights included the golden nights parachute team and air force thunder birds who weren't around last year because of sequestration. >> we have been here two or three years and loved it. happy to have thunderbirds back report report family friendly festival is the

the president wants to use air force, air power and not u.s. boot on the ground in any engagement with the islamic state, what he has done is set a condition where he can fulfill this promise, air power is very, very good at dealing with attacking troops, you know, you are moving, you shooting, you are creating a signature that can be seen from the air, and it is pretty easy for air power to engage tarts like that, that is their element, that's what they do best. when you start talking about pushing them out of cities where they are dug in or hidden in buildings, their power has some real, air power has ream real limitations and that will take boots on the ground at i don't think the president will go there. >> so much of this is dependent on iraq forming a government. >> the best care scenario iraq forms a government, are they strong enough to combat this on their own? >> >> it really depend on the type of government that comes together and whether they can really get all three sides. all three sides have something to give here. the curds have

new air strikes in iraq. we were out, they pull us back in, said the united states of america. and also michael corleone. >> there are meetings going on at the highest levels here at the white house. >> these air strikes conducted by two u.s. navy fa-18s off the aircraft carrier "george h.w. bush." the administration knows that politically it is unpopular to become engaged in the middle east. >> if you're going to get in, get in big and get in decisively now. >> i will not allow the united states to be dragged into fighting another war in iraq. >> he's been dragged into this. he doesn't want to do it. >> it is 1:00 p.m. on the east coast, 10:00 a.m. on the west and 8:00 p.m. in northwest iraq. that is ground zero for the ifrt u.s. air strikes in that country since ground troops left in 2011. any minute now, we're expecting live briefing ofs from the white house and the state department. we're going to bring you both as they begin. just this morning, less than 12 hours after president obama announced military

the israeli air offense is under way.hin the last hour or so, the first air strike seen to hit a target not far from where we are here to the west of gaza city. there was smoke, which could be seen rising up from a building. there's also been at least two other air strikes in the vicinity of gaza, the city that is, over the last hour or so. we are hearing artillery rounds have been fired in the northern part of gaza. the rocket fire from the militant groups began the moment the cease-fire expired. islamic jihad, one of the groups taking responsibility for that rocket fire. they say they began firing, because israel violated the cease-fire by refusing to give into palestinian demands at the negotiations in cairo. the israelis say the cease-fire was violated hours before it was set to expire after a number of rockets were fired from gaza into the southern part of israel. the israeli government spoke about that with cnn a short time ago. >> the cairo talks are based on one crucial assumption. that is unconditional cease-fire

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the air force and air component commanders are worried about big effects on big battlefields. our job is to fight the big fight. how do we reshape our thinking to think about executing the five core missions that are only job was to mark there are only five of them. how do we get to doing more of those jobs in the multiple domains the secretary mentioned? do we do more isr? more command and control? more strike of different types? what kind of targets of an up to us and what can we produce now that we could not before. that is the change the cyber the main. -- domain. make it mainstream to the five core domains instead of a niche capability with talented people doing it behind the green door. that is what it is calling us to figure out how to do. >> are you fighting hard to preserve the funding for cyber in particular? >> i think the funding we have in there now is pretty stable. there's no intent to pull it out of that domain. we have to become experts in that domain, just like we are experts in others. >> if you remember what i said, this is a framework that is designed to i

we just had another air strike about five minutes before we came to air. these are pretty hefty explosions. so that's a telltale sign it is aircraft being used here for the delivery system and they've been happening about every 20 minutes or so, you get a very loud thud or some coming maybe as close as a mile or two from where we are right here. many people wonder, is that the way it's going to be sort of for the receipt st of this uncertai future. in other words, they fire rockets and then the israelis respond in kind. >> i guess the big question right now about cairo and the fact that the palestinians still have a delegation there where those cease-fire negotiations were, do you think from your sources on the ground there, there are any hopes of cease-fire talks starting back up? >> there's a lot of hope. whether it's a real hope is i think the question mark. and the other big question here is how serious were those negotiations really in the first place. admittedly, everyone was there. it seemed like everyone went in with the idea. they couldn't agree t

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precision air strikes going on right now. sunni extremists have been operating for months now in the region. u.s. interests in iraq are said to be directly in the path and that's why the u.s. is involved. all this coming with what the u.s. now fears is the potential for genocide against christians, yazidis other minorities inside northern iraq and that's why the u.s. is now acting. joining us now is susan johnson, thanks very much for joining us. are you afraid that iraqi christians, iraqi yazidis, iraqi kurds, other religious and ethnic minorities in iraq are now in danger of genocide? >> i'm very much concerned. it's not an immediate reaction actually. this has been going on for quite some time. it's escalated recently in these recent years. i'm very much afraid i'm applauding the president for taking a risky but very much needed move. >> what do you think the united states can do about this? you know this better than anyone on these issues all over the world. why is the u.s. all of a sudden come to the aid of these people

when the airplane was first designed it was designed for air-to-air and air-to-ground. it had the capability to do both. it had the capability to drop nuclear weapons. it is a weapon of destruction then is what it is designed for and that is how we used it. a broad use of mission as it came into the inventory. later in his life, this airplane did not have the skill set of the f-4. it was not used in the air-to-air roll it was used in the ground. the majority missions were flown in vietnam were to block the roads from people and equipment into vietnam. close air support when we had troops in contact when the fight was hot, this was a prime airplane to defend the troops on the ground. it was a broad range of missions during its lifetime. later in life it was dropping bombs, 20-millimeter weapons and different sets of ammunition. this particular airplane was built in 1956. the airplane was designed in that time period, earlier in the late 1940's and 1950's. the last one flew actively in the late 1980's, early 1990's. we took it off the pedestal in massachusetts. it was not

now considering emergency air drops and even air strikes in iraq. fewer than three years after president barack obama declared iraq stable, the u.s. is weighing its military options. want you to take a listen to the white house response to cnn's questioning about what these military options may be. >> well, i'm not in a position to provide you a tactical assessment of the situation on the ground. what i can do is, i can give you some insight into the president's thinking in general about the kinds of principles that would apply to contemplated military action. that would include no combat boots being put on the ground in iraq. the president has been clear about that, and that principle continues to hold. the president has also been clear that any sort of military action that would be taken in iraq would be very limited in scope and very specific to addressing a core american objective. >> that was the white house just a little while ago. as you look at these pictures, here's the context of this whole story today. religious minorities, women, childre