alexandra field is joining us from harlem. charlie rangel, a lot of our viewers know charlie rangel. he has been in the united states congress for 43, going on 44 years. 60% of the vote is now in. charlie rangel slightly, slightly ahead of his democratic party challenger adriano espaillat. but less than a thousand votes difference. that's not big 60% of the vote in alexandra. this is an important race. charlie rangel says it's the last time he is going to be running. he 184 years old. he certainly wants to win. it's going to be close. >> it's going to tells us a lot about what this community, harlem is today. it was just two years ago that the voting maps were redrawn. it was 2012. part of the bronx was added to this district. that's when we saw the majority of voters become hispanic in this predominantly -- >> hold on for one moment. hold on for a moment when i talk to you. get that microphone closer to your mouth. it's noisy. >> it is. it's pretty loud here. >> we're ready to make a projection. cnn projects that thad cochran

alexandra, tell me what your role is. >> i do a couple of different things with the study.'m the community outreach and translation core coordinator. so for the larger cohort of all 400 girls in the study we put on teen talks that let the families come and interact with us and the researchers and do some fun activities and get to know each other and stay engaged. then i also help run the youth advisory board, which is how i know these two lovely ladies. and we meet once a month and get feedback from the girls on different things that the research study is going and how we can improve them. >> right. you also do a lot of projects, too. i know you brought literature here. we've got dvds, literature, things for the girls. >> the brochure actually the youth advisory board girls put together for the larger cohort to kind of tell them what to expect in their clinic visits this year and to do it in a way that they can relate to. >> yeah. maya, i want to ask you, what's involved in participating in the study? what did you have to do in the beginning? >> we go to clinic once a year.

we've got to focus first on the origin as alexandra pointed out eloquently.of the crisis. the women, these children are fleeing a highly dangerous environment in these three central-american countries. amongst the most dangerous countries in the world. they're fleeing violence. they're fleeing intimidation. they're fleeing increased gang activity. drug trafficking and sexual abuse. and in fact, several other central-american countries as well as mexico, including coaei rica, belize, as well as panama have also experienced increases in asylum applications from these three countries. >> right. >> so there's a desperate situation to which they are fleeing and that's why we've got to step in. >> msnbc contributor alexandra pelosi, thank you for sharing that. congressman hakeem jeffries. thank you, sir. >>> coming up, there may be another bridge chris christie has to worry about now, and it's uglier than the other one. i mean that literally. it's literally an uglier bridge. the details are next. [ male announcer ] if you had a dollar for every dollar car insurance

msnbc contributor alexandra pelosi reports. >> reporter: this week the whole world was shocked when theythey are not letting any of us inside. what's going on? >> there are over 500 children in that facility. >> reporter: what age range? >> anywhere from diapers to walking, from about a year all the way up to 17. we are putting the law enforcement agency, the largest law enforcement agency in the country, in charge of children. >> it is like a more tragic version of kindergarten cop where arnold schwarzenegger is all of a sudden put in the place of having to care for a bunch of children. they are ill-equipped to do this. >> these are children. you can imagine. they are wondering what comes next. >> reporter: where are these kids going? >> they are going to three facilities. i think the military base, one in california, one in texas and one in oklahoma. that's where they are going to try their best to locate a relative, preferably a parent. that's what i understand from border patrol. so they can go and live with that parent while they go through a process. >> reporter: the border patrol

. >> cnn's alexandra field is in new york with the latest.se do we know about this truck driver? >> christi, victor, he's a 35-year-old walmart driver from georgia, now being held on $50,000 bail. he was behind the wheel of the tractor-trailer around 1:00 saturday morning. new jersey state police say he failed to see traffic slowing down, he tried to veer at the last moment and slammed into a limo bus carrying tracy morgan and fellow passengers. the middlesex county prosecutors office says investigators are looking into the specific cause of the crash, why roper didn't see the traffic slowing down. along with death by auto, he faces four counts of assault by auto. wall marlt, his employer has issued a statement. in it president bill simon says, quote, we are profoundly sorry that one of our trucks is involved. if it's determined that our truck caused the accident, walmart will take full responsibility. we will do what's right for the family of the victim and the survivors in the days and weeks ahead. now, in this crash, james mcnair who goes

alexandra, thank you. >>> i love this story.ol senior in south carolina was brought to tears when his soldier dad popped up and surprised him at his graduation. >> nicholas sharp was giving a speech honoring u.s. service members friday not knowing his dad is a few steps away. >> i had no idea. it's important to have both your parents here. with him being here, that concludes it. i have both my parents here. it is an amazing feeling. >> his father flew in from kuwait. >>> it is supposed to be the happiest day of your life, but one woman's wedding day has been turned into a target for criticism after she used, well, some unusual decor for the train of her dress. >> she attached a kid to it. here's jeanne moos. >> reporter: here comes the bride. >> omg. >> reporter: here comes the bride and the baby attached to the bride's wedding dress. >> horrible. is that a real baby? >> reporter: shall yeah, that's a real baby. even some of the guests couldn't believe their eyes as she walked down the aisle to become shawnecarter brooks with he

. >> alexandra, am i understanding this correctly? the congressman is talking about unaccompanied minors. your reports focused on women coming with children. that we're talking about el salvador, honduras, and guatemala. that both of these strains of immigration or refugee situations are born of the same kinds of rumors going around. >> right. the thing the congressman said, you can't tell by seeing a few pictures of kids in a greyhound station how desperate things are down at the border in texas and arizona. we're talking about a full-blown crisis. there are just people streaming through. and they're waiting for border patrol. so the point is that this is something they're going to have to come up with some answers. >> right. >> and, you know, we can waste our time blaming whose fault it is. you know what's going to happen. the republicans are going to go to the border and blame obama saying he's not enforcing the law. >> it's already happening. >> that's the scary part, right? what really needs to be done is grown-ups need to stands

meteorologists alexandra steel joins us with more of these storms. they're significant, alexandra. 35 million americans are potentially affected by this? >> absolutely. between yesterday, tonight and today as well. so 35 million americans. really the center of the u.s., but that is all spreading eastward. here's the current radar. the red delineate where the tornado watches are. they have expired. we've seen the whole axis of this move south of chicago. you see that. we're talking about some incredible storms, incredibly potent. certainly the most potent we've seen thus far this year. 11 tornadoes so far predominantly in nebraska. very strong wind as well. the wind 160 kilometer wind gusts and hail. you saw pictures of the baseball size. softball to the sides of a dvd player, that's the hail we've seen with this. here's the picture of the baseball size hail. you can see it being held here. how does this hail get so big? and why are we seeing tornadoes? well, it all has to do with what's happening within the storm clouds and the height of the storm cl

alexandra, what more can you tell us?ast two other victims that were hurt in the crash. representatives for tracy morgan also put out a statement that says in part, quote, his family is now with him and he is receiving excellent care. we don't anticipate much of a change in his condition today. this is a crash that left seven people hurt, sent to the hospital, another person killed that was a passenger in the limo bus with tracy. his name james mcnair, identified as a 63-year-old man. six cars were involved in the accident which happened overnight, about 1:00 in the morning on the new jersey turnpike about a half hour from here. police tell us they're still investigating the cause. they believe a tractor-trailer rear ended the limo bus that tracy morgan was in. they have not identified why that happened. there were at least six vehicles involved, two tractor-trailers, the limo bus, suv, and two more cars. we know tracy had performed just last night. he was at a casino in dover, delaware. a fellow comedian that opened for

it's hard to put into words, but i'm happy about it. >> finally, vladimir and alexandra are reunited.zabela was like no prison we've ever seen, the warden claims the unusual atmosphere here is effective. >> translator: it was a conscious decision. the area you've seen didn't exist before. we renovated it. as for the park, the sports facility, we built all that to make the serving of sentences here easier. i must say that we haven't had any major problems so far. there is only sporadic violence but no large-scale problems. no large-scale violence. >>> coming up next on "lockup: world tour," one of the newest and most high-tech maximum security prisons in eastern europe. it's built to house not only killers and kidnappers, but the leaders of poland's organized crime rings. what's your favorite kind of cheerios? honey nut. but... chocolate is my other favorite... oh yeah, and frosted! what's your most favorite of all? hmm...the kind i have with you. me too. how can a tablet replace your laptop? start with the best writing experience. make it incredibly thin. add an adjustable kickstand,

cnn meteorologist alexandra steele joins us now.e southeast, not so extreme. >> that's right but the bottom line is, the numbers don't matter how many we have or don't have. it's just the one that makes landfall that does matter. so here's a look as an aggregate today, june 1st and we go through november 30th for the atlantic hurricane season. noaa is predicting a below average season. last season was the least active in decades, only two hurricanes and last year we had no major hurricanes, and the last time that had happened prior was 1994. so here's a few reasons as to why the expectation and using computer models we're expecting a low or below average season because we have a developing el nino, warmer waters across the central pacific and what happens with the warmer waters they essentially change the wind p patte pattern. we will develop strong westerly winds which not allow the storm to grow and become a hurricane. that's what the warming of the waters with an el nino do. here are the names, starting with arthur. its world met

. >> seth: so this is the 16th novel in the alexandra cooper series?well, thank you. thank you. [ applause ] >> seth: now is it safe to say that as -- you know, you're a prosecutor. she is a lawyer. does this whole -- is she -- is there a lot of you in alexandra cooper? >> there is a lot of me in alexandra cooper. there's also less of me. she is younger, thinner, a little bit blonder. >> seth: right. >> and -- but a lot of my personal experience in the professional life is in the book. >> seth: right. because she hasn't aged at the same -- like, she's only like two years older now right? >> that's correct. she was 35 when the books started. it's one of the great things you can control, like making the defendants be guilty, in a book that you can't always do in real life. she's only 38 now, 16 books later. >> seth: that's great. >> so it's very exciting. >> seth: that is a key aging tip is be fictional. [ laughter ] so you wanted to be a writer when you were younger, then you took this sort of side trip to be a lawyer -- a very successful lawyer -- for

alexandra field is with us live from new york. spoken with a reporter who faced the same fate. >> right. so few of us can understand what it is that sergeant bergdahl has been through and what it is he's going through right now. but i did speak to a journalist who used to be with "the new york times." he himself was taken by the taliban. he talked to me about what he did to survive day after day and how he really felt when he learned that he was finally coming home. >> reporter: sergeant bowe bergdahl somehow made it through nearly five years of captivity. now there are questions about what the soldier saw. >> psychologically, there will be a long debrief. they're going to want intelligence, who held him. i don't think he's going to know that much. i was kept with very young guards most of the time and didn't meet senior commanders that often. >> reporter: a former "new york times" journalist was held captive by the taliban for seven months, taken from afghanistan in 2008 and then held in tribal regions of pakistan until he manage

what is it like in harlem right now, alexandra, where you are?harlie rangel must be pretty nervous. >> we imagine so. but everyone involved in this race and in these two campaigns has been preparing for a very long race tonight. they had a tight fight on their hands. and they knew it. we're not expecting to see the candidates until much later. this is charlie rangel's headquarters. of course he's got his supporters here. but we know that we won't see either state senator adria adriano espaillat or charlie rangel show their faces to their supporters until they have a better hand of what happened at the polls today. flash back to two years ago, wolf. you the same two candidates in the primary in 2012 that was a razor-tight race. what you had happen in 2012 is senator espaillat conceded the race, later recanted and concede again on july 9th. the votes ended up being about 1100 vote ace part. that's why congressman rangel won the primary. it took more than a week after the primary to get the final count in. when you're talking about a race that is pr

i'm alexandra field.to cnn, radio and tv icon, casey kasem, has died at the age of 82. that's been confirmed by a representative for his daughter, carrie. kasem was suffering from dementia. last week, a judge gave his daughter the authority to have doctors end his infusions of water, food and medicine. kasem had said he would not want to be kept alive if it would "result in a mere biological existence." to many, kasem was the world's best known radio host, his voice counted down the american top hits each week for nearly four decades. casey kasem dead at 82. >>> a militant group in iraq appears to be getting closer to baghdad, a city they threatened to storm. according to a saudi intelligence source, eye sis has moved into a city closer to the capital and it's aiming to get near the baghdad airport and the northern suburbs. also today, eye sis released disturbing photos along with claims they are capturing and killing iraqi soldiers. cnn cannot confirm the authenticity of these photos. >>> chelsea manning

alexandra field. >>> it isn't just the midwest getting hit.igh temperatures expected elsewhere, plus tropical weather brewing off the southeast coast. karen maginnis has more on all of this. >> we've got just a soaking rain that just drenched portions of memphis, as you saw those pictures. early morning hours, big thunderstorms roared through but didn't move a lot. as a result, we saw these very heavy downpours. as a matter of fact, memphis is on par to see the second rainiest june since 1885. they've already picked up seven inches of rainfall alone in the past 24 hours. but it's not just around the memphis area. throughout northeastern sections of arkansas, look at rainfall totals. little dixie, arkansas, over ten inches of rain live picture out of a tower cam. temperature hovered around 70 degrees all day but because we've seen just warmer air move through, the thunderstorms have not been rebounding there as of yet. we're seeing thunderstorms erupt over northern bam alabama. in the three day outlook, look for rainfall totals 355 inches into

can't stop batching once you start. >> reporter: alexandra field, cnn, new york. >>> that's going to newsroom" begins right now. michael holmes here in atlanta. >>> hello, everyone. welcome, i'm michael holmes. welcome viewers right around the world this hour as we talk about iraq and the battle for who controls it. a vicious militant group fighting its w

dana bash in mississippi, alexandra field in new york city. gloria borger is also here in washington to help us break down. let's go to mississippi. a major win, the winner in mississippi, the republican senate primary, take a look at this. 51% over the tea party challenger, chris mcdaniel. thad cochran will be the republican nominee once again for the senate seat in mississippi. dana bash is in mississippi. this is sort of a surprise because a lot of folks that bought the tea party challenger would do well, they referred to this stunning loss to the tea party challenger and virginia. thad cochran manage to pull it out. how did he do it. >> it is hard to imagines that the incumbent senator that has been in the senate for 36 years being back and it is an of said that it is given the dynamic we have seen over the past few months. that is chris mcdaniel, the challenger have momentum on his side. he attacked the anti-washington sentiment we have seen for years, the question is the u.s. is headed he'd do it. they had a wake-up call three weeks ago

. >> cnn's alexandra field is in new jersey with more. good morning. >> reporter: christi, victor, serious charges for the man accused of causing a deadly crash. kevin roper, a 35-year-old truck driver from georgia, is now facing four counts of assault by auto and one count by death by auto. it's applied when one is alleged to have killed recklessly through the use of a vehicle. the middlesex county prosecutor's office is saying the cause of the accident is still under investigation but new jersey state police say it happened at 1:00 in the morning on saturday morning on the new jersey turnpike. they say the driver of the tractor trailer failed to notice traffic slowing down, tried to veer off at the last moment and slammed into a limo bus carrying tracy morgan and six other people. morgan was returning from a performance in delaware. he was brought to robert wood hospital in brunswick, new jersey, in critical khan. his friend, james mcnair, also in the bus, died in the accident. >> alexander field outside the hospital for us, thank you v

alexandra, what do we know now?f this case have been baffling to so many people but the latest is that this 12-year-old boy, carly bothuell, is in the care of his mother two days after being found in his father's baseman. his stepmother, as you pointed out, now in police custody but on an unrelated case. it's a probation violation for an unrelated weapons charge. meanwhile, charlie's father says he's not been able to see his son. here's what he told our nancy grace. >> can you just tell me whether you have seen little charlie t yet. >> i have not. >> i know that's got to be breaking your hear. why won't police let you see your boy? where is he? >> you know, i'm breaking the no comment rule but i was briefly on the phone with him when he called my mother and i need to go now because i'm not listening to the -- >> charlie, i understand. >> earlier this week bothuell was found in a basement, behind a barricade made of boxes and a 55-gallon container. police say this 12-year-old could not have put up this barricade by h

cnn's alexandra field is in detroit this morning with more for you. good morning. >> good morning, carol. there have been so many questions about this case and we know that the person who is able to answer a lot of those questions is a 12-year-old boy, charlie bothuell. he has been speaking to police but there's more that they need to know. they tell us he will speak to him again perhaps as early as today, whatever information they can get from charlie, that will go on to prosecutors who will determine whether or not we could see charges in this case. 12-year-old charlie bothuell is with his mother this morning after suddenly being found in his father's home wednesday, 11 days after disappearing. >> we have not done anything wrong to my son, nothing but to try to help him. >> reporter: on thursday, charlie's stepmother was taken into custody for a probation violation on an unrelated weapons charge as the boy's father, charles bothuell, tells nancy grace over the phone he has not yet seen his son. >> why won't police let you see the boy? where is he? >

thanks so much, alexandra field. >>> a short time ago the u.s.ol was evacuated when a small aircraft entered the restricted airspace. let's get more now from cnn's erin mcpike. so, erin, very unusual on a saturday. how many people did this impact to evacuate the u.s. capitol? >> reporter: well, fredricka, obviously, not as many as if it were during the week. this happened before in 2005 and 2009 and actually those two times it was the same aircraft and it was a student with a teacher, a pilot teaching that student how to fly. so accidents in those cases. still waiting to hear more details. we fwh we know it was a mooney m-20, a personal civilian used aircraft that enterrd the restricted airspace about 1:35. no communication from the pilot, and so norad scrambled jets when they lost that communication, had to evacuate the supreme court and the u.s. capitol as well as the library of congress. they ultimately did make contact with that pilot. the secret service will be interviewing the pilot, sort of standard operating procedure, but at this point t

here is cnn's alexandra field. >> how is everybody doing. you. >> here in harlem everyone knows charlie rangel. at 84 years old he's been in congress for 43 years. >> charlie rangel. >> one voice, one community. right now he's facing a real challenge in the primary battle. there is a legitimate chance he could lose his seat. would you say he's too old to win again? how hard is it to break a seat to unseat someone who's sort of a legend of harlem politics. >> he's been in office for far so long. he has forgotten the little guys. >> rangel has been through this before. two years ago he narrowly saved his job after some health problems and after the house sentured him in an epic scandal. >> now, just two years later, the same opponent is back. >> i think back then i didn't have the support that i have now. >> what's changed since 2012? >> well, i don't have a walker. i don't have a spinal injury. >> he doesn't have the leverage that he used to have at one time. he had to step down from the ways and means committee what the heck could he do if h

alexandra field is joining us from new york. alexandra, are there a lot of u.s. to get out? >> reporter: the estimate is there are about 1500 u.s. contractors working in iraq, but the group of contractors we have been focused on are those working at the military basin balad. companies with contracts with the u.s. government have been moving their employees out of that area. one of the contractors in balad, tony, spoke to anderson cooper, rushed from balad after it came under fire from isis. here is what he described. >> local national security forces, they pretty much dropped their weapons, walked off base. not the iraqi army, they stayed, did what they were supposed to do. if it wasn't for the villages on the perimeter, might not be talking to you now. the villagers stood up, helped out the iraqi army tremendously. they can be very smart and very fast and they can be very threatening. >> reporter: back at home, families of american contractors in iraq are obviously staying close to the news, trying to make contact with loved ones. we were able to speak with tony

it all started with alexandra scott, the little girl who bravely battled cancer and questioned why theres no cure for kids like her. at the age of 4, she set up a lemonade stand so she could give the money to her children's hospital. in 2004, alex and her family appeared on the "today" show, challenging the country to help her raise a million dollars for cancer research. >> if enough people help with donations, then i think we can do it. >> reporter: two months later, alex learned that the foundation not only reached her million dollar goal, it surpassed it. she died shortly after age 8. this weekend marks ten years since alex's lemonade challenge, and next week her former first grade classmates will be graduating from high school. >> she was somebody who was always really positive and upbeat. >> and i always really admired her because she was so mature and so wise. >> reporter: her story also cm& inspired other kids living with cancer. katelyn cress was diagnosed with lymphoma last year. >> i'm going to be having my own alex's lemonade stand. and all of the money is going to support of

so maybe you and i've heard darcy and alexandra. i spent some time on the yale campus and others can comment on the issues of the different goals and to what extent reporting -- more reporting can be encouraged by pursuing all of the goals or whether some of them have to be chosen over others. >> i think that it's important that even as we're talking about streamlining that we domain tain all these different goals, precisely because survivors have such a range of needs both in the aftermath of the violence and in the years that follow. so we've heard many different stories from survivors across the country. some people at that moment really want public vindication through the courts. some people just want an extension on their english paper. some people don't want to have to see their rapist in their dorm the next day, and in order to, i think, really have a survivor centered approach, should really be embracing the fact we have this wonderful opportunity to pursue different goals through different processes depending on what the su

stupid and it's devastating policy which is harmful in the long run to the united states itself is so alexandra give you a last word twenty seconds alexander last word godhead. very simply what i did think that i personally think the momentum is for further escalation from the united states it's taking no risks with the international system all the to on an ideology of the u.s. preeminence in doing that it's losing its fret it's losing friends like in russia and it's creating problems for itself in the ukraine which you can only sold it seems to me by negotiation on that we're going to negotiate has a good way to end the program many thanks to my guests in london and in washington and thanks to our viewers for watching us here see you next time and remember couples. will see. signs right. side. i don't think corporations mind. can do and say. all this all about money and other families that for politicians write the laws for. public. hearings just to let. today's dying out. the scientists are going to be. more. like more to the story taking every minute. lead cut me no law no weapons of my own

it's devastating policy which is harmful in the long run to the united states itself that is so alexandra thank you for your last word twenty seconds alexander last word godhead. very simply what i did think that i i personally think the momentum is for further escalation from the united states it's taking no risks with the international system all the time to an ideology of the u.s. preeminence in doing that it's losing its fret it's losing friends like in russia and it's creating problems for itself in the ukraine which you can only solve it seems to me by negotiation on that we're going to negotiate as a good way to end the program many thanks to my guests in london and in washington and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at r.t. see you next time and remember problems. seem easy. right. see a series of a good basis try to play. the people are going to. want to come to life for the story changing every minute. cut me no law no weapons and my overlap like the claim. was false think this setting all time. these cases just to beat the odds. sometimes for nothing which. is so mean

alexandra answered with the first person propose confront possible an electrostatic field in one hundred fifty brodie's ideas in a letter to stalin but never received a reply but the second letter addressed to the central committee caused quite a stir and he's invited to moscow to discuss his ideas with soviet physicists andre sucker of an ego to tom and they were impressed by his originality and boldness sucker of recommended that will continue cliff fusion get started straight away but to find eleven inches i did using a circular magnetic field instead of physicist eagle chris shots of gave a talk in england where he revealed the soviet union's novel approach in progress the world was impressed the u.k. declassified its nuclear fusion research and international cooperation began in earnest the first magnetic plasma containment device the t one was created in one thousand nine hundred fifty seven the teeth three which will sucker of and tom had been working on was completed in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight it's a huge record temperature levels and plasma confinement times and th

let me turn to alexandra steele here. about the new allegations that we're just getting today of physical abuse. >> we're looking at these court documents. they tell us charlie was checked out in a children's hospital. he had a half circular scar on his chest, and charlie told doctors he got that after his father hit him in the chest with a pvc pipe, the documents go on to tell us, that charlie is saying he was placed in the basement by his stepmother and he was barricaded there and told to stay there no matter what, he was sneaking out when people left the house in order to get food. the context of these documents is really important. charlie's father and his stepfather have not been criminally charged with anything. these documents are a child protective services petition, they were used in family court during proceedings in which child protective services was working to have charlie's two half siblings removed from the home. they do give us insight into what this 12-year-old boy is saying about this time he spent missi

bell hop does not come cheap it will be used only for those residents who stay in the mega luxury alexandra eight suite which costs just ten thousand dollars a night the hotel hopes to expand the drone delivery service in the future for example it imagines if a guest is on a boat in the bay it could drop off a bottle of wine or even send over the guest sunglasses if they left it in their room and the hotel says since they've announced their drone service they have seen a spike in reservations. and boom bust is coming up next right here on r t aaron he joins us for a quick preview hey erin what do you have on the agenda today that's crazy who wants carbonated beverage delivered via drone that's a really stupid to me but anyway coming up on my show boom bust word jargon with markets with mark chandler the cheap currency strategist at brown brothers harriman is answering both my more basic questions about currency as well as the lightness and more macro currency issues and how they affect the economy then where is the u.s. economy actually headed and have we officially slayed the financial cri

alexandra field joining us now from new york. how dire, how desperate is the situation?reporter: look, fred, the state department is clearly keeping a very close eye on the deteriorating situation there. they're concerned about security of americans still in that country, but at this point what the state department tells us is that it has not changed its staffing at the embassy or the consulates. the area we are focused now is balad, where evacuations of u.s. contractors continue to happen. those evacuations are led by the companies that employ those contractors. this is a response to the deteriorating security condition there. our own anderson cooper spoke to a contractor in balad and wanted to be identified only at tony saying he was evacuated from a military base in balad after it came under fire from isis. here's how he described what happened. >> local national security forces pretty much dropped their weapons and walked off base. not the iraqi army. the iraqi army stayed and did what they were supposed to do. if it wasn't for the villages on our perimeter, we might

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and claiming victory to our own alexandra field. let's hear what he had to say? >> did you consider waiting for him to concede before declaring victory? why are you declaring now? >> it comes through my mind, the frustration of all of these people in a hot room, it reached a point i was more concerned about them and the press than anything else. >> there you have charlie rangel declaring victory, his opponent has not conceded that race. he wants to see every vote counted. rangel up by 1800 votes. he defeated espaillat by 1200. we're certainly seeing spirited contests not only on the republican side but the del cat side. >> mark preston up all night, thank you very much. >>> now to the crisis in iraq, american personnel will try to help slow the isis surge. he have touched down, 90 military advisers have touched down to join the ones there already. isis keeps on growing. the u.s. estimates 10,000 militants in iraq and syria are joining the fight. let's go to time name ma elbagi. >> we're getting a broader sense of what the u.s. has already been providing, the depa

. >> reporter: alexandra field, cnn, new york. >>> that's going to do it for me. the next hour of "the newsroom" begins right now. michael holmes here in atlanta. >>> hello, everyone. welcome, i'm michael holmes. welcome viewers right around the world this hour as we talk about iraq and the battle for who controls it. a vicious militant group fighting its way towards baghdad, ever closer, and today, new and disturbing images posted online apparently by those isis militants and appearing to show captured iraqi troops being corralled in trucks and then marched to their own executions. cnn not able to independently authenticate the images but the buildings, the sign and and uniforms seem to indicate the photos taken in iraq. now, these militants are moving closer to the capital hour by hour. iraqi troops far from united. those fighting do so with the country's future on the line and the u.s. waiting on the sidelines but for how long? well, in just the last hour, the state department announced new security precautions for staffers at the u.s. embassy in baghdad. extra

cnn's alexandra field explains. >> reporter: from los angeles. >> my name is enry chapman.i am a full-time mom amend part-time student. >> reporter: to phoenix -- >> my name is cov. villery, i am 13 years old and in eighth grade. >> reporter: to atlanta. >> my name is andy shelly. i'm 50 years old. i work for eyed parcel service. >> reporter: wherever you live, whoever you are, it's what meant to define us. however we define it. the american dream. >> the american dream? it means that we go towards a better life and we'll be able to achieve more than other countries. >> i guess the american dream s is, if there's something that you really want, you're able to go get it. >> successfully i raised a family. no debt. so, yeah. i've reached the american dream. am irish? no. but i have peace of mind. >> reporter: peace of mind that more americans today can't seem to find. >> guns and violence. >> job security, crime, becoming a statistic. >> reporter: some reasons are growing numbers that say the dream is slipping away. a cnn money american dream poll finds about six out of ten a

i'm going to speak with her filmmaker daughter alexandra who has an incredible story to tell. >>> turning the tide in iraq. the iraqi army has driven isis insurgents from tikrit, the birthplace of saddam hussein. now president obama is weighing in on the threat that he believes the isis poses to the u.s. homeland. >> you know, i think we have been under serious threat my entire presidency, and we've been under serious threat predating 9/11 from those who embrace this ideology. >> they're gaining strength, aren't they? >> they're gaining strength in some places. we've seen europeans who are sympathetic to their cause traveling into syria, and now may travel into iraq. getting battle hardened. then they come back. they've got european passports, they don't need a visa to get into the united states. >> joining me now, retired four-star general, division commander in the first iraq war and msnbc military analyst. thank you very much. general, i'm glad to have you here, sir. the president talked about the european passports. maybe u.s. passports as well. which makes it easier to get back into

alexandra, great to have are you. >> great to be here. >> walk us through it. >> essentially this isthree things. first we let women review and share their opinions through quizzes. we let them essentially read and search for information. and the third is the topics and conversation can get access though that anonymous data to learn and improve. >> some of the descriptions of the guys, the content beyond just the number rating. it's all in hashtag form. on the con side, a lot of it is not poept fappropriate for tele. some are glass half empty, gone by morning. who comes up with them? >> we have professional writers in house. the content is structured. girls are really can't just write what they want. they can select from a series of our own content. >> you launched a little more than a year ago. you raised $5 million. it's free in the app store and google play. a billion profile views? >> yep. >> how is that axccelerating at this point? >> we have had a great year since the launch. many millions of users signed up. over 52% of users create content on the platform which is way above i

alexandra field is following the story from new york.s the latest on the invest and his condition? >> reporter: yeah, fred, talking about serious charges because there ice a serious accident. we know that tracy morgan is in critical condition. as for the driver who's alleged to have caused the accident, he has surrendered to police and made attempts to reach his attorney. we haven't been successful yet but the driver's employer, walmart, is speaking out. >> i'm tracy morgan. >> do you have anything on your person that say that is? >> how about my face? that's on my person. >> reporter: actor comedian tracy morgan and two others in critical condition. his friend james mcnair the comedian known as jimmy mc ki killed after the sprinter bus flips over. >> devastated. we're devastated. james, i love you. >> great comedian, great writer. but very giving. >> reporter: a walmart truck driver faces serious charges for causing the six-vehicle wreck. one count of death by auto, four counts of assault by auto. new jerseys say roper failed to see tra

i'm alexandra field. "state of the union" starts right now. >>> this morning on "state of the union," for the first time, eric cantor tells us the inside story of an epic election fail. what brought down one of the most powerful men in washington and what does it mean for the republican party? >> obviously we came up short. >>> and in iraq, desperate days. a state of emergency and an urgent search for next steps. >> the united states is not simply going to involve itself in a military action in the absence of a political plan by the iraqis. >> senator lindsey graham on the nightmare scenario, a bloody conflict that could drug in every country in the middle east. >> i think it directly impacts our security here at home. >>> and hillary clinton, off and signing, and plagued once again by the dicey politics of iraq. >>> good morning from washington. i'm dana bash. >> i'm gloria borger. candy crowley is off today. dana, you've got the big interview of the day with the number two man in the house republican pa

. >> alexandra, thank you, alexander lebenthal, lebenthal and company. gierk 13%?pro, if youing will, it's had an amazing move. it was actually up on the day. we talked about it last week, i wore my gopro, we called eight go pro. actually it was 32. at these levels you got to boy it. this stock has the momentum behind it. >> micron up 5% in there the first thing that got this going is d-ram prices. it's not only d-ram and nan the pc business is not dead. now you have three reasons why micron can defy gravity further. i think you should be taking some profits here. >> allergan has dropped today down 3%. karen. >> drop in the spread, allergan is sort of presenting tear case of what their fantastic stand alone strategy is. i think it's all postureing. i think we see a deal here. >> we got a pop for true car up 11% on news the auto site will join the russell 23,000 and 3,000. it's up 50% since the ipo in may. let's bring in the president jonl krajicek. john, great to have you here with us. >> great to be here. >> i have to ask you this, you said to our segment producer

it all started with alexandra scott.rl who bravely battled cancer and questioned why there was no cure for kids like her. she set up a lemonade stand so she could give the noun a children's hospital. in twint 04, alex and her family appeared on the "today" show challenging the country to help her raise a million dollars for cancer research. >> i think if enough people help with donations, then i think we can do it. >> two months later, alex learned the foundation not only reached her million-dollar goal but surpassed it. she died shortly after age 8. this weekend marks ten years since alex's lemonade challenge and next week her former first grade classmates will be graduating from high school. >> she was somebody who was always positive and upbeat. >> i always admired her. she was so mature and wise. >> her story inspired others living with cancer. katlyn was diagnosed with lymphoma last year. >> i'm going to be having my own alex's lemonade stand. and all of the money is going to go to support pediatrics. >> today alex'