. >> good morning, barbara. right now i'm tracking scattered light showers on storm team 4 radar, so you not only need your umbrella now but keep it handy for the remainder of the day because of these scattered showers. the weather having a low to moderate impact on your day. it's friday, maybe your kids are going back to school on monday, you wanted to get one last pool day in. not a great pool day. plenty of clouds sticking around for the afternoon. it's humid out there too. we'll have showers at times throughout the day today, but the threat of a thunderstorm in my forecast quite low. here on the radar you can see this activity scattered about the area, pretty much everybody inside of the beltway seeing some rain right now. for the most part it is on the light side. the good news, barbara, the risk of strong to severe weather is very low today. now, there's a 70% chance you're dealing with rain, but again, just rain for the most part. the threat of a thunderstorm is very low. if we were to see anything later

mayor and former supervisor duffey and all of you without trent and barbara and all the participation we had from every single department this plan wouldn't have happened. we had an amazing group of people in the first month sitting at the table and one of our colleagues who's devoted her heart and soul sitting on the council meeting with the hotel council and the chamber of commerce was quite on experience for someone like me and after the first month everybody was getting long beautifully because our goal was to houses the chronically homeless. i want to mention when we came out with the report on june 29th i can't believe it was 10 years ago except i have a 10 years old granddaughter so i guess it was. gaming wouldn't building we actually did that it was such a beautiful plan of action. i talked to lieutenant governor newsom he's excited about the results the point it we are dealing go specifically with chronically homeless people and not the general population that's difficult because it is hard to separate it but your goal was preempt supportive housing supportive means animal do

. >> reporter: good morning, barbara. all of this hinges on the supreme court, but at this point the justices have not intervened, so here at the county courthouse they are ready to go. they have the new paperwork and they're going to begin issuing marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples at 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. we could even see some actual wedding ceremonies taking place in the plaza beside the court house. all is quiet at the arlington county courthouse today, but tomorrow -- >> we think we're going to have a big crowd tomorrow. we've had a number of people call and e-mail and express interest as being one of the first to get a marriage license. >> reporter: paul ferguson is the clerk of the circuit court, and his staff is gearing up to issue marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples beginning at 8:00 a.m. thursday. the new marriage license form was e-mailed to the clerk's office by the state late yesterday. unlike the old application, which said name of bride and groom -- >> the new form just says spouse

. >> we have breaking news and i want to bring in barbara starr. she's at the pentagon.is about u.s. efforts, right, to try to rescue james foley, the american journalist who was gruesomely executed by isis fighters in iraq. >> actually in syria. we have an extraordinary revelation by the obama administration in the last few minutes. earlier this summer, u.s. special forces several dozen of them landed inside syria for the first time we know of combat boots in an attempted hostage rescue of james foley and several other hostages being held by isis. these were the most senior special forces the u.s. has on the level of delta force, seal team six, we have seen spring into action so many times before. they had intelligence. they went to a site in syria. that location not being disclosed. they came in by helicopter, several dozen of them. they were backed up in the air by combat aircraft by intelligence and surveillance aircraft keeping an eye on them at all times. when they got to this facility, they engaged isis fighters on the ground. we are told they killed several of th

we'll see you then, barbara.to you. >> thank you so much, erica. >>> stress can cause health problems. but can it make your face break out? we'll sit down with dr. cheryl burgess to dispel some of the most common acne myths. >>> plus, why do you yawn? it may have nothing to do with being sleepy. we have the latest in yawn science. >>> parents, listen up. britta is recalling children's water bottles because kids could get cut by those bottles. they've received reports of kids cracking or breaking into piece with his sharp points. the recalled bottle features dora the explorer, hello kitty, spongebob and teenage mutant ninja turtles. 38,000 are under recall right now. if you have one of those, contact britta for a full refund. >>> orange swrjuice is using it juice with consumers. sales fell to the low eest on record. less people are choosing oj. higher prices have discouraged consumers. florida's orange growers are likely to produce their smallest crop in 50 years this year. >>> you yawn more during the summer. hav

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barbara?> thank you, chuck. >>> right now, police and community leaders are talking about the increase of domestic violence cases in prince george's county. this comes after a deadly series of events in ft. washington where police say a father abducted and killed his daughter. shot her relatives after that, and died in a shoot-out with police himself. news4's megan mcgrath just spoke with the state's attorney. she's live in ft. washington with more and the latest on the investigation. megan, what can you tell us? >> reporter: barbara, that press conference wrapped up a short time ago. the state's attorney, several of the council members and clergy all in attendance voicing their outrage about the violence there weekend and their concern about the general spike in domestic violence that's been seen so far this year in prince george's county. they are calling on the community to get involved. they say police cannot tackle this issue alone. people, especially men, need to get involved. they need

and welcome back, barbara harrison. good to have you back with us after a couple of weeks. >> happy to be back. here i missed the best week of washington weather ever in july, midsummer. >> we've got another one coming up. >> i can't wait. thanks a lot, tom. >>> does your child play video games? if so, it may be a good thing. coming up, the fine line between good and bad if your child is a gamer. >>> plus a warning about a pure form of caffeine being used by some teenagers. first, here's a look at what's hot on nbcwashington.com. >>> you may want to start thinking about a road trip for next weekend. right now gas prices are at their lowest in four years, according to aaa. in d.c. you're paying $3.70 at the pump on average compared to nearly $4 last month. in maryland, gas is $3.51 a gallon. in the commonwealth, you'll pay about $3.30. that's some of the cheapest gas in the country right now. out in west virginia, a gallon of gas will run you about $3.58, so plan a trip. >>> walmart trying to win back customers from amaz

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hi, david. >> reporter: hi there, barbara. you can look over my shoulder and see what's left of the family home. seven family members lived inside that home. all seven right now staying in one hotel room. but even more devastating than the aftermath of those flames is the fact that with each passing day, this family is one step closer to becoming homeless. after a deaf stating fire, pictures become precious keepsakes. >> that's the little girl that saved everybody's life right there. >> reporter: and these photos just a handful of possessions that survived the flames. >> i see we have no home. we have nothing. >> reporter: for 21 years this was robin's home. three generations living under one roof. >> i thank god that we're all alive. >> reporter: her elderly brother, her daughter and son and her three grandkids. seven people called this home. but a fire sparked from an extension cord changed everything. >> i ran home real quick. by the time i got here, it was just gone. >> reporter: for the past two weeks, they have been in a

>> barbara, thank you very much. barbara starr is going to continue her great reporting at the pentagon for us. you see the breaking news, the president approved air strikes last night, but now we have learned at least the very first of what would probably not be the last of those air strikes had been ordered and executed in iraq. >> two f-18s sent off the aircraft carrier "george bush." no small irony that the aircraft carrier named after president bush, that's how long we've been in this situation in iraq. stay with cnn for the breaking news and how effective it is. we'll get you to "the newsroom" right now carol costello. carol? >> thanks, chris and kate. "newsroom" starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> good morning, everyone. i'm carol costello. thank you for joining me. we start this hour with breaking news out of iraq. the air strikes president obama authorized just hours ago have now begun. let's begin with white house correspondent jim acosta. jim, what can you tell us? >> well, carol, what we

>> i really didn't have any interaction with barbara. even though we had attended a session before we were even sworn in at harvard, john f. kennedy institute of politics, we were both selected as part of four people to attend a several week session at harvard. we met there. but frankly, we had never had a discussion from the time that we met, and i think it was december of 1972, to the time that we conducted these sessions. we never spoke to each other. >> but you ran into her once. >> i did. it was following another, for me at least, significant moment. president nixon refused to turn over the tapes originally, and had gone on national television. we had requested the president submit to the committee the actual tape recordings so that we could listen to them. the president went on national television and put up a series of -- stacked a series of documents saying these are the edited transcripts, and i will make these public and never have a conversation so private been made so public. this is all you're going to get. i then asked pete

barbara, back to you. >>> right now a recall.ccormick brandish you had a recall of ground oregano. this affects 0.75 ounce bottles with the best by dates of august 21st and august 22nd. it does not affect any other ground, whole or oregano leaves. >>> today we are hearing from a navajo woman who is a big part of the redskins legal battle. >> reporter: amanda blackhorse defeated the washington redskins back in june. >> and it seems like they're not budging. >> reporter: on thursday, the redskins rewound the game clock on their decade-long legal fight to keep their name. a lawsuit filed against amanda blackhorse and other native americans sends the case back to trial court. >> they're more and more coming up with these different tactics and antics to try to convince people that they should keep their name. >> reporter: in june, a federal board cancelled the team's trademark registration. that potentially wipes out the value of the redskins logo and other team logos on merchandise and other products. the board ruled the term "redski

good morning. >> good morning, barbara. plenty of clouds outside early this morning and those clouds continue to lower and thicken as raindrops are getting closer and closer to the metro washington area. there's the view from tower looking northbound toward the raindrops, which are across parts of northernmost montgomery and frederick county right now. plenty of clouds over bethesda and chevy chase. no rain inside the capital beltway just yet but northernmost montgomery county, frederick, maryland, hagerstown seeing light rain. these raindrops as you can see are traveling off to the east at 20 to 25 miles per hour. no severe weather out there just yet. in fact not even any thunderstorms just yet. a little more daytime heating, though, we may bubble up a couple of thunderstorms coming our way later this afternoon. rain chances will continue to increase over the coming hours. temperatures now are in the mid to upper 70s, even low 80s in washington and fredericksburg, so it's going to be a nice, warm, humid afternoon which wil

i'm barbara serra. also coming up, kurdish fighters vow to fight back, against the islamic state as thousands flee. >> the brunt of sunday's quake, as you can see, the place looks like a bomb has been explode he on it. >>> looking through the rubble of flight 17 for remains. plus: ♪ ♪ >> art of celebrating some of the best and bleakest literature on the se sen sen te centeniaryr i. >> lomg welcome to the newhellos hour. >>> the 72-hour ceasefire, their goal to come up with a permanent solution to the conflict. meanwhile the people of gaza are leaving shelters and returning home. the u.n. estimates that 72% of the victims of this conflict were slifnls. here's a rks beings -- civilians. 64 israeli soldiers have been killed along with 3 civilians, a thai national working in israel. gaza's health ministry says that 1875 men, women and children have been killed. more than 9563 gazans have been injured, that includes 2700 children and more than a quarter of a million people are taking refuge in u.n. shelters.

. ♪ saludos, soy bÁrbara vermudo bienvenidos a otro primer impacto extra el fÚtbol es cada vez mÁs populareren jugarlo, pero un adolescente muriÓ en una cancha mientras observaba una prÁctica desde merlyland claudia tiene los espeluznantes detalles de la tragedia. >> la pasiÓn por el deporte fue lo que atrajo ha devorado a esta cancha de su escuela. >> me decÍa quÉ color de playera vamos a llevar. >> pero ahora en el campo de juego solo quedan los recuerdos de la joven niÑa de padres guatemaltecos que muriÓ mientras observaba una prÁctica de fÚtbol. >> yo gritaba y llamaba a mi esposo y hagan algo, paren. >> los padres, hermanos y amigos de deborah vieron que un auto abruptamente entrÓ a la cancha y le pasÓ por encima. >> recuerdo cÓmo la niÑa abajo del carro dando vueltas y el carro no paraba. >> su muerte fue casi instantÁnea. >> cuando le levante la cabeza pola riz y por la boca. >> el vehÍculo tambiéarlo que hizo para escapar de la muerte. >> no ese es mi dolor pude haber hecho algo pero no pude el carro venÍa muy rÁpido. >> las cÁmara de vigilancia de la escuela registraron el acciden

. >> well, barbara, summer has returned to the area. temperatures already very warm. 80 degrees is the temperature right now in washington, 79 in college park. we're going to continue to climb as we get on into the afternoon hours. not only is it hot today but humid as well. you could be dealing with an afternoon or evening shower or thunderstorm. because of that, the weather having a low to maybe moderate impact on your day, especially if you're really looking to get something done outside later today. you do need to keep the umbrella handy because of that threat of rain for the afternoon and evening hours. really not looking at anything too crazy. it's going to be that hit or miss activity that could potentially last for 30 to 45 minutes. this is the activity, barbara, that we're tracking that will be moving in later this afternoon. i'll have the latest timing coming up with future weather in just a bit. >> okay, we'll see you in here in just a few minutes. >>> new this morning, a woman is dealing with her boyfriend's death at the han

y para bÁrbara, cuando quieran venir a hacer de villanas estÁn invitadas... primer impacto. >> quÉ creativo, hay que tomar algunas clases de actuaciÓn. suerte, recuerden que ese gran estreno es esta misma noche que por su cadena univision, hasta el fin del mundo. no se lo pierda. >> y sigue creciendo la lista de famosos que enfrentan el reto de la cubeta de hielo. ven a thalÍa y en este barco lanzÓ su cubeta irritó al elenco de dos de nuestros programas hermanos, despierta amÉrica y el gordo y la flaca. ricky martin estÁ retando a renÉ de calle 3... ahÍ lo ve. lo mÁs importante es que para una causa importante. y tenemos la primera entrevista que otorga chayanne a una semana del lanzamiento de su nuevo disco. veamos un adelanto. >> es muy fuerte. >> ehm... regresando a... >> dame un minuto... >> bueno, y en sÓlo minutos les contamos que provocaron esas lÁgrimas y el que chayanne tuviera que interrumpir la entrevista de esa manera. no se lo pierda, detalles muy importantes de ese tan esperado disco. ................. ♪ ♪ >> bueno, todos hemos escuchado hablar

. >> bÁrbara, e cuentoue esta bastante complicada la situaciÓn.po buena cara. porque desde detroit hasta michigan mÁs de 1000 personas tuvieron que al condonar sus autos debido a las severas inundaciones estamos hablando de casi de mÁs de cuatro pulgadas de precipitaciones, que se han estado sintiendo. ahora estÁ viajando hacia nueva york, haa boston. habrÁ una mejorÍa partir del jueves, pero quiere decir que unnte zen emitido los alertas de inundaciones y si usted de carreteras inundadas, trate de no transitar para evitar menor caos. fuera de eso, donde las condiciones estÁn bastante placentera de es al norte del paÍs. y las condiciones del tiempo estÁn provocando cierto retraso en los aeropuertos de chicago, pero por aquÍ es debido las lluvias torrenciales, eso le sumamos los vientos de rÁfagas y las posibilidades de granizo. y no se descartan los avisos de tornado. mientras tanto, la mÁximas maÑana aquÍ en los 97 grados en los Ángeles. pero no te sobre montana, san norte del paÍs, temperaturas muy similares a la que va a experimentar los reside

barbara? >> thank you, aaron. right now, we're waiting to hear what people have to say about the death of robin williams. meantime, fans are remembering his life and legacy of work. >> 10,000 years will give you such a crick in the neck! >> pronounced a short time after being found at his home due to asphyxia. an autopsy and update from police is expected later today. eun yang has more on how he gave his characters heart and, in turn, touched our spirits. >> actor, comedian and legend robin williams made us laugh and smile with his unforgettable characters and original humor. while the shock of his sudden death is still setting in, people are celebrating his life and legacy. >> good morning, vietnam! >> whether you remember him as an alien visitor to earth or an animated genie in a lamp, williams, fans, generations will be part of our culture and memory. president obama captured his breath of work in this statement. robin williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang pet

barbara starr is joining me now. barbara starr sta, what do you know?k, this information just coming into cnn right now. there have been two additional rounds of u.s. military air strikes against isis in northern iraq. everybody bear with me. i'm going to detail it for everyone the information just coming into us. shortly after 10:00 this morning eastern time, a u.s. military drone, a remote piloted vehicle, struck at an isis mortar position. they hit that position and then they tell us when the isis fighters shortly thereafter returned to the site, they were attacked again at that site by the u.s. military and that site we are told was destroyed. this is all, of course, just outside offer bill. so the first strike 10:00 this morning. a u.s. military remote piloted vehicle, generally they carry hell fire missiles. they are very precise going against very particular targets hit an isis mar tore position. that was at 10:00 this morning. an hour and 20 minutes later, 11:20 this morning east coast time, four f/a-18 aircraft we believe all off the deck of th

i'll hand you back to barbara. >> andy, thank you. the film world is mark the passion of an industry legend, the brich actor and director, richard attenborough died at the age of 90. it was his work in the director's chair that brought his greatest success winning him oscar glory for his film, "gandhi." doc 9 kane reports. >> it was a --.com 9 kane reports. >> it was the nadir of his career. the film won eight oscars including best director and best actor. the life of gandhi was a topic very close to attenborough's heart. >> if i can quote, the film has captured absolutely the spirit of gandhi. and that is as nice a compliment as i would wish to have. >> reporter: but it was as an actor that his career began. starting out in the 1940s with bit parts. as his repertoire grew, he would appear in films about the second world war. famously as a leader of what history remembers as the great escape from the german prisoner of war camp. >> by putting more men out of this perfect camp of theirs that ever escaped before. not a dozen or two doze

i'm going to ride on barbara's coattails all the way to palo alto. my parents looked at me and said, no, do not ruin barbara's chances. mom, do you remember that, lady? because i do. >> oh, so there's some issues in the bush family. >> there are no issues. >> there are issues still at "the bachelorette." we've been following it. most everybody but me. so tell us what the latest is. >> i watched this because -- >> of course you did, you admitted it. >> i admitted it. i'll admit it. my husband was out of town. i had three remote controls all to myself. >> that's a little bit of heaven. >> it is heaven. >> the baby was asleep. >> the baby was asleep. i did miss henry but i could watch whatever i wanted without him making fun of me. i was watching this. i didn't mind nick. i'm the only person in america. he came out and said something that was very below the belt. >> yes, he revealed, and we can say so, that they had slept together. >> which we all assumed. >> which we all thought was a little bad form, you never kiss and tell. and you never rrr and tell

what are you learning, barbara?reporter: at this hour, general green's casket is on its way to dover air force base where it will arrive in the next several hours. what we learn side the shooter undertook his attack and opened fire from a nearby building in a bathroom, shooting through a window at general green and the others standing out there. no indication he knew a u.s. army general was there. it really was very much a sneak insider attack, two or three short bursts and it was all over very quickly. we talked about how the u.s. hasn't really succeeded as it it might have hoped in training in afghanistan, and the forces there and we've seen those places run into trouble so as we come up on this press conference, why might africa be slightly different? because this is the fundamental strategy now in africa, post-had aflg of aing and post iraq, training african forces. it gives the u.s. a foothold in africa to conduct counter terror imoperations when it needs to, but short of another big land or air war. clearly, t

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barbara starr on the plan. jim accost to on the decision to launch the mission and ivan watson on the ground in northern iraq. we begin with barbara starr at the pentagon. so what do we know at this hour about the operation? >> anderson, tonight we can tell you iraqi officials are telling us iraqi air forces have been striking all day at various targets in and around the area. no u.s. fighter jets involved at this point. the u.s. clearly sharing intelligence with the iraqis. why the concern? there are 40 american troops there working as advisors, as isis advances, the top concern is the safety of the americans, the safety of american personnel in iraq is the marker for the president as you would expect their protection, their safety if that becomes at risk in the hours or days ahead, there will most likely be those air strikes to try and take out any isis threat, protect the americans and possibility even evacuate them from the area. we need to be clear, at this hour, none of that has happened but we are headed

want to bring in our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. this has to be a huge question among many of the media troops right now. just how safe has this operation been and just how possible might it be for further operations, a broader operation against the rest of the isis force, barbara? >> at this point, what we are hearing from the pentagon and from the administration is exactly what admiral kirby said as the spokesman, the president is very clear, there are parameters about what the u.s. is authorized to do, what the u.s. military's authorized to do. i think it's fair to say there will be more air strikes, more humanitarian air drops. but against these isis targets in the north and only in bagh d baghdad, if it is to protect u.s. personnel at the embassy or the airport. that has not emerged as a target set yet. so, you know, we've seen sort of the first step going against a target in erbil they thought was a threat, and now more targets in northern iraq, if the isis forces move against those iraqi minorities. but this is pretty much wi

barbara starr live at the pentagon this morning. hi, barbara. >> good morning, carol.president obama were to order air strikes into syria? what would it look like? stay with us. we'll have more after the break. we'we're trying ourls. best to be role models. we don't jump at the sound of the opening bell, because we're trying to make the school bell. corner booth beats corner office any day. we make the most out of our time... and our money. the chevrolet malibu. j.d. power's highest ranked midsize car in initial quality. the car for the richest guys on earth. >>> good morning. i'm carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. the obama white house is weighing its options this morning on how to deal with the growing strength of isis fighters in syria. and the threat they pose to the entire region. an administration official tells cnn drones are already flying over iraq near the syrian border to gather intelligence. it's not clear if they've flown into syria, a step likely needed for possible air strikes there. it is the latest phase of a growing u.s. military buildu

. >> reporter: good morning, barbara. soon this school and schools everywhere will be full of young minds ready to be molded for productive futures, but at least one state official says maybe all that can wait a couple of weeks. let kids be kids and let summer be summer. that's part of the reasoning behind the state comptroller who wants to start the school year after labor day instead of in august. some folks agree on that point. >> i'm a big fan of starting school after labor day and to make the most of the summer. >> reporter: since there's a labor day break anyway, some people say the continuity of a post-labor day start makes sense. >> i think it's better than going to the school and then coming back after labor day. >> you always take that monday off right after so it makes sense. would they end later, i guess, in june? >> reporter: that's one of the myriad of questions raised by the proposal and there are other issues to be considered as well. >> there are things we haven't thought about, day camps and summer progr

. >> i just it is my first year at santa barbara california. politics inabout general and why i think the real reason people should want to get into politics is so that we can help this country. very dire situation right now. we need to have to save this country. howke what you said about it is our job to turn the entire liberal majority into a pro-conservative majority. is tough to talk about his with the elections coming up, ill we be able to do that party we have now, or will we have to fundamentally change the republican party. libertarianto more conservatism. this as this republican party, or we will have to change? >> question. uc santau well ant barbara. combatingu well in resistance from your professors on your ideology. downnk about how to bring that word politics into its constituent greek roots. it has two roots. pauline meaning many, and ticks which are bloodsucking parasites. [laughter] the best measure for wanting party can do in any election cycle has to start with a baseline for what it has done in the past two or three election

let's bring in our barbara starr over at the pentagon. what are you hearing over there, barbara, about this russian incursion? >> wolf, u.s. military intelligence began watching this very precisely over the last 24 hours. and they say indeed about 1,000 russian troops moved into this area in southern ukraine. this is something they've been worried about, something they were warning about. there are 18,000 to 20,000 russian troops on the border. they are so close it basically is a very short drive overnight for them to go on into ukraine. the satellite imagery that nato is now showing is some different areas of russian forces in ukraine, but it underscores it. let's go back and take a look at one of these images. if you look very closely, you see that line of essentially what may appear to you to be black dots. that is a convoy of russian artillery inside ukraine in a separatist-held area. the u.s. says -- nato says it's convinced it's russian weapons because the ukraine military does not have access to this area of their own country. the

personnel to secure that mountaintop. >> barbara starr at the pentagon. thanks, barbara, very much. it would be very dangerous. they have shoulder-fired, anti-aircraft missiles and they could be very vulnerable. the highest level of emergency. our senior international correspondent ivan watson is joining us from northern iraq. you've been to the area. what will it take to save thousands and thousands of these people? >> reporter: well, as barbara was just saying there is no kind of organization on the ground on that mountain for the people there. it's -- the description we heard from people is that every time a chopper would come they would rush it and many describe how they failed to get onboard and it was really first come, first serve and the situation up there is so dire that people are sharing what water they have with bottle caps, pouring a little bit of water into that and sharing it and saving their food and water for their children first so people up there are desperate. there is more food and water arriving as we've seen, but certainly, you would need some kind of security

>> cnn's barbara starr at the pentagon. thank you for that. i want to talk more about the first known u.s. ground operation in syria with chris heben. he's not just a former navy s.e.a.l. he was a member of s.e.a.l. team 8, a group reserved for exactly this kind of mission. also joining us author and terrorism expert and cnn national security expert peter bergen. chris, if i can start with you. first off, when this kind of a mission is set out upon and knowing full well that you probably and i know you can't say it, but you probably conducted missions very similar to this, are you given a degree of certainty, and are you also given what the unknowns are? >> you're usually not even launched for the mission unless there's a 75% chance or greater of success. and by success, meaning the person or persons you're supposed to be looking for or getting are actually there. and all of the unknowns are made known to you. the intelligence gathering is massive. it is massive. and it happens at a very high rate of speed. you've got guys chewing through inte

we get more this morning from cnn's barbara starr. >> john, christine, the american douglas macarthur mccain killed in syria, said to be fighting alongside isis. his family notified by the u.s. government, telling our jim sciutto they had not known that he was in syria fighting as part of the war going on there. u.s. counterterrorism officials say he was one of the americans that they were keeping an eye on, that they were investigating for possibly joining militant groups. and if he had attempted to travel at any point, traperhaps come back to the united states, he would have been subject to additional scrutiny. so what about u.s. air strikes in syria? what about the next step there? well, by all accounts, u.s. reconnaissance flights are flying along the border, staying for now on this side of the iraqi, the iraqi side of the border. but having a look into syria, trying to determine any location of potential isis targets that they can. the real question, of course, is whether president obama will take the next step and order air strikes in syria. but there is some concern at the pent

i want to go to our barbara starr, though, at the pentagon. barbara, can you just review what u.s.e been against isis over the last several weeks, since president obama has ramped up the efforts, particularly with air strikes, after sending in some 500 military advisers? >> sure, anderson. most of that, in fact, all of it, really, has been inside of iraq, against the isis elements operating in iraq. the goal of these air strikes has been very limited to protect facilities that could, if they were destroyed, such as the dam in mosul, that could impact the u.s. presence in iraq, to protect those yazidi civilians, the thousands of them, that were on top of mt. sinjar. that's the iraq side of the border for isis. and the u.s. is there, the u.s. military's there, at the invitation of the iraqi government. so the path is fairly clear for the u.s. military to move in and do those air strikes. but what we're talking about now perhaps is across the border in syria. which is hostile to the united states at the moment. and very difficult, if not impossible, for the u.s. military or u.s. agent

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barbara? >> thank you very much. we'll continue to follow this story. >>> developing in prince william county, chopper 4 was over the scene of a deadly crash. a motorcycle and truck collided. the cyclist was dead when investigators arrived. roads are closed in the area of aiden road between fleetwood drive and hershey drive. >>> in prince george's county, police are investigating a homicide. shots were fired in the 7800 block of riverdale drive. they found a man lying in the grass behind the apartment building. he later died from his injuries. >>> right now the loudoun county sheriff's office is asking for your help to find the man who assaulted a woman on a trail in sterling. the attack happened yesterday morning on the washington and old dominion trail near oak grove road. megan mcgrath is live near that trail with more. megan? >> reporter: this happened in the morning. it was light outside. a woman was jogging along the wnod trail near oak grove road when all of a sudden a man came up from behind her and knocked h

>> barbara, thank you so much.wing those details from the pentagon for us this morning. thanks, barbara. >> chris? >> all right. we have the reporting now and let's do some analysis of this. major general james spider marks, former commanding general of the u.s. army intelligence center. general, thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you. let's just set some context here for a moment. 30,000 troops in afghanistan. yes, the number is going down to 10,000 by year's end and when you look at the difficulty and i know the numbers have gone down of the so-called green on blue attacks, but it's an existing dynamic. do you think that something like this is cause for reassessment of what the mission is. >> well, the mission clearly has been stated that we want to regress. we want to get out of afghanistan. i mean, that's been stated from the very top levels. the difficulty with that is in that period of transition the focus is probably on the administrative task of trying to make sure you're set, as you make this de

so this is an interesting development, barbara starr with the pentagon, thanks so much. >> barbara'sary spokesman for secretary of defense chuck hagel. rear admiral great to see you. i'm sure you heard what barbara is reporting. i want to get your take. tell us what the very latest is. is the focus on an air evacuation option and what does it mean for sending troops to that mountain? >> right now the focus of this team that secretary hagel sent into erbil yesterday is to offer a broad assessment of the entire humanitarian situation there in northern iraq. also, of course, on mount singer. no decisions have been made what we will or will not do. it's imprudent for me to speak about future operations that may be conducted. we wanted to get a better sense of the humanitarian situation up there, to run through the options, to take a look at what might be possible or feasible and certainly to work with partners in the area, interagency partners inside the u.s. government but international partners as well. >> from what we're hearing the options are pretty simple. air evacuation or by land

barbara starr, thank you so much. barbara joining me to talk about this and what the united states can do and should do to slow the isis surge. rick francona is a retired intelligence officer. he is now a cnn analyst. great to see you. a lot to discuss. let's get to the area and show the viewers the area we are talking about here. this is northern iraq. this is where the latest attacks, if you will, the focus of the isis surge has gone. this kind of spider web red area, this is where isis has taken over, over the last couple of months. when you see this area, you noted their strategy in the push isis is making, what does it show to you? >> they have come down the euphrates and tigress valley. if you look at what's in the valleys, are dams. all the power generation is located in these areas. if they take the mosul dam, they control all of the power north of baghdad. >> there's strategy behind this. this is not a rag tag group of militants pulled together. there is -- there is operational kind of, there's a mentality he

for barbara, it was too close. >> you see where the brush ends. >> reporter: at one point, the fire was climbing up into the trees. cal fire helicopter aided crews on ground, which couldn't drive trucks into the burning marsh land. vallejo fire says when it arrived, four homeless people were walking out of the fire. >> one of them came up to us, and advised that her daughter was still in the tent, and that she was trapped inside the fire. >> reporter: instead of its typical response to a grass fire, firefighters went into rescue mode, and rushed into the flames. into a homeless encampment, searching for a victim, none was found. vallejo crews say this wildfire started in one of several homeless encampments, where you can see clothes, a barbeque grill. even a child's swing, and melted toys. this is an ongoing problem in vallejo. >> they've been escorted out of these areas in the past, but they eventually come back to them. >> reporter: barbara says she figured homeless people were living in the wildland behind her home. >> i worry about the dangers. like right there, that could have take

your correspondent barbara starr mentioned the lone wolf. these people are much more smaller in networks, harder to monitor and detect, and that, of course, makes the job of counterterrorism all that more difficult. >> so that's one front with isis. the other front is there on the ground in iraq, and i know you've said that in the past few weeks, that iraq leadership under al maliki, for example, didn't seem to care that some of the cities had fallen. they're trying to take back fallujah right now. take it back from isis. what are the chances that this country can come together, sunis and shia, and unite in their government to try to do their part up against isis? >> well, the prime minister-elect of iraq, he has a very difficult job. he has to undo a lot of the damage that his predecessor nuri maliki created. maliki basically ostracized the suni arabs of iraq, discriminated against them, prevented them in playing a role in iraq's government. he turned the iraqi army into his own personal militia. basically, a lot of people were disenfranchi

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