i want to bring in jonathan karl tonight. what can we expect? >> reporter: good evening, david. more than anything, this speech is designed to reassure americans that the president actually has a strategy for taking on the threat posed by isis. white house officials say this battle has entered a new phase in large part because as of yesterday, there is a new iraqi government. that opens up the door for more military support for the iraqis and a more aggressive campaign of usair.ssai.s. air strikes. beginning the process of destroying the group. the president will call for an immediate effort to train rebels in syria that are fighting isis, but he is not yet ready to call for air strikes in syria. david? >> jon, thank you. and our powerhouse political team will be cover, it all when more ahead on "world news tonight." the new warning about those traffic cameras, wracking up millimeters of dollars in fines. here's the question tonight. are you being ticketed for other drivers cars? >>> also tonight, the oval office picture going viral. the boy who did a face plant while his parent

jonathan karl, abc news, the white house. >>> an iraq war veteran who managed to scale a fence fridayun into the white house before the secret service could stop him is expected in federal court today. 42-year-old omar gonzalez was arrested and found carrying a small folding knife. his family says he suffers from post-traumatic stress syndrome and wouldn't have hurt anyone. president obama and the first family were not home at the time of the security breach. >>> all five inmates who escaped from a central california jail friday night have been captured. the fifth escapee was taken into custody in madera county yesterday following an anonymous tip. they were also tipped off before catching the other four inmates. they were held on various charges including attempted murder. it's still not clear how they escaped. >>> police in pennsylvania are closing in on that survivalist suspected in the deadly ambush of state troopers. after nine days of searching, they have new clues revealing several items recovered from the woods where eric frein is believed to be hiding. among them, a powerful

jonathan karl is in des moines where he just caught up with the potential president candidate. >> i'm back! >> reporter: it sure looks like a presidential campaign. hillary clinton at the annual steak fry hosted by long-time iowa senator tom harkin -- a must-stop for any democrat running for president. >> is it good to be back in iowa? >> it's great to be back in iowa. it's fabulous. >> reporter: there's even a campaign bus, and a well-funded group of supporters called "waiting for hillary" caught her husband's attention. >> i don't think we are supposed to have contact with them. but they are like energizer bunnies. they are everywhere. >> thank you. >> i will not. i cannot be -- i am waiting to be a grandfather. i want a happy grandmother. >> reporter: the last time she ran, mrs. clinton got trounced by barack obama in iowa. this time, her supporters say it's all hillary. mrs. clinton insists she hasn't made a decision yet to run. but there are supporters out here and her opponent. the campaign has already begun. >> thank you. >>> another story making headlines tonight. pope francis

for "nightline," i'm jonathan karl at the white house. >> the president's speech would seem to elevatethe stakes even further for any other american captives being held by the terror group. abc's chief investigative correspondent brian ross joins us now. brian, what can you tell us about what this may mean for them and the american homeland? >> well, dan, the turning point for the u.s. in dealing with isis came after those videos of two american journalists being brutally executed. there are at least two other americans and three westerners still being held and their fate tonight is in serious doubt. the search for the two remaining american hostages did take on greater urgency tonight with the president's speech. but given what has already happened to james foley and steven sotloff, people in the intelligence community say the reality is grim. >> i think the united states has to realize that the probability is, anyone held by isis is going to be killed in response to stepped up american attacks. >> reporter: now, the effort to track the identities and movements of the masked man seen

for "this week," jonathan karl, abc news, the white house. >> and the success of this long war depends so much on the strength, skill and commitment of the syrian rebels the u.s. will be training and arming, many of them doctors and lawyers. abc's bob woodruff brings us a rare inside look at the forces fighting both assad and isis. >> reporter: as the fight against isis in iraq grabbed attention, what's referred to as the moderate rebels in syria have largely been the forgotten story until now. >> we must strengthen the opposition as the best counterweight to extremists like isil. >> reporter: three years ago the in a popular revolt, the opposition rose up against dictator bashar al assad. now they're taking on the vicious terror group isis too. this week the leader of the moderates, haider al bahra, will address the u.n. general assembly to ask for assistance for a group president obama once described as -- >> blacksmiths and dentists, these aren't professional fighters. >> this statement makes me very proud of my people. this situation remind me greatly with american revolution. who

i want to bring in abc's chief whouls correspondent jonathan karl tonight.eep us honest on this tonight. boots on the ground in iraq? that's not what the president said last week. >> reporter: that's right, david. the president has been clear that there will be no u.s. ground troops. he said just last week, we will not get dragged into a ground war. but the door seemed open a crack today when general dempsey said u.s. troops could be imbedded in with iraqi forces to help identify targets for air strikes. it all comes down to how you define combat. if such a mission were approved, the white house says those would not be considered combat troops, but make no mistake, david, that would be a dangerous mission, no matter what you call it. >> all right, jon karl from washington tonight. jon, thank you. >>> now to the other breaking news tonight involving u.s. troops. president obama sending up to 3,000 american military into the hot zone in africa, to help fight the dead little ebola virus. the president today calling it a national security priority, saying it is

let's get straight to jonathan karl now, and jon, on this threat from isis, and the new u.s. effort in iraq, sending hundreds of u.s. troops. the president getting some late help today? >> reporter: yeah, from congress, no less. the house just voted in a rare bipartisan vote to support the president's plan to train the mod rat syrian opposition. this is crucial for the white house, because they are counting on those syrian fighters, along with the iraqis, to do the fighting on the ground needed to defeat isis. as for those headlines about u.s. troops, the president was emphatic today, saying that american forces deployed to iraq do not and will not have a combat mission. but david, the white house has made it clear that the president does not rule out imbedding a small number of u.s. forces with iraqi troops on the front lines, but those would be advisers, not combat troops. >> jon karl, thank you. >>> overseas tonight, and to the queen in her castle, the one in scotland, and with good reason tonight. just a few hours from now, voters will head to the polls deciding if scotla

. >>> want to get right to abc's jonathan karl tonight. and jon, you reported at the time that the president left just four minutes before. how close was this guy? >> reporter: well, david, this building behind me is just not that big. he easily got far enough into the white house to reach the first family, if they had been at home. which makes it all the more incredible that the president and his daughters had left just four minutes before the intruder jumped over the fence. the first lady had left earlier in the day. now, the official line here at the white house is that the president still has confidence in the secret service, but make no mistake, he is personally keeping track of this investigation, in fact, he called the head of the secret service into the oval office just a few days ago to get an upkate and as you can imagine, the first lady is watching this, as well. >> jon karl, thank you and pierre tonight. >>> we're going to turn now to the other big story. the college football coach now under fire for that shocking moment on the

abc's jonathan karl questioned press secretary josh earnest about warnings from several top officialsincluding assistant secretary of state. >> this is one of your key people on iraq who was raising this alarm in november of last year. did this message get to the president? did he believe it? did he not hear it? what happened? >> john, this is something that the president's discussed on a number of occasions, that principally what we're talking about here is the rapid advance that isil was able to make across the iraqi desert and the success that they have had after that advance to holding large swaths of territory. >> but if i can just stop you for a second. >> okay. >> because two months after rhett mcgurk says this, the president calls isil the jv team. >> we've been through this, and that's not what the president was referring to. >> he was clearly talking about isil. the question was about -- >> that's not true. >> the question was specifically about what happened after isil took over fallujah -- >> that's not what the question was about. we can look at the transcript. >> as the

we begin with jonathan karl tonight. jon, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, david. after weeks of muddled and contradictory statements, the president will say tonight that he has a clear and comprehensive strategy to, quote, degrade and ultimately destroy isis. under intense pressure to prove he has a plan, the president will say tonight, quote, i can announce that america will lead a broad coalition to roll back this terrorist threat. what does that mean? first, in iraq, where isis controls a third of the country. u.s. air strike s will be expanded. also, more military support for iraqi and kurdish fighters battling isis on the ground. also today, secretary of state john kerry met with the new iraqi government. the u.s. is counting on them to take the lead in confronting isis. >> this is a broad-based, comprehensive strategy that is being laid out. it will not just be reserved to bombs or direct military assistance. >> reporter: then, syria, where isis has a safe haven and is believed to be holding more u.s. hostages. the president is asking congress to give him th

. >>> our chief white house correspondent jonathan karl has been on this from the very start, asking the president last week if he still believed in his security team. >> reporter: you still have confident in the secret service? >> the secret service does a great job. and i'm grateful for the sacrifices they make on my behalf and my family's behalf. >> jon, the president telling you he was confident. what did the president know and when did he know it here? >> reporter: well, good question, david. what we now know is that the president felt the need to call the director of the secret service, julia pierson, into the white house, three days after he told me that the secret service was doing a great job, to get the full story. this was an extraordinary briefing. the first time all year the president has met directly with director pierson. the big question was, was the secret service misleading the president at first the way they misled the public? the white house won't say, but perhaps more revealing, the white house continue say whether or not the president was told the full story at

abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl is traveling with the president. jon? >> reporter: good evening, david. white house officials say the intelligence community is still working to confirm the authenticity of this tape, but officials tell me they have no doubt that it is real. the president has sought to downplay the threat post by isis, but now with the second execution of an american and fears that the group holds two more, it's becoming a threat that's harder and harder to downplay, and as the president meets here with leaders in europe this week, the need to come up with a comprehensive strategy to confront isis is at the top of the agenda. david? >> jon karl, thank you. i want to bring in abc's chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz. i want to remind everyone at home of one important number tonight. more than 120 u.s. air strikes on isis in iraq in just the last four weeks. martha, we heard that message from the president. will this change the u.s. strategy going forward? >> i certainly think the execution of james foley was a wakeup call an

i want to bring in abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl here tonight. jon, what can we expect? >> reporter: good evening, david. more than anything, this speech is designed to reassure americans that the president actually has a strategy for taking on the threat posed by isis. white house officials say this battle has entered a new phase in large part because as of yesterday, there is a new iraqi government. that opens up the door for more military support for the iraqis and a more aggressive campaign of u.s. air strikes. now no longer just defending against attacks from isis, but beginning the process of destroying the group. the president will also call for an immediate effort to train rebels in syria that are fighting isis. but he is not yet ready to call for air strikes in syria. that is likely to come, but not yet. david? >> jon, thank you. and our powerhouse political team will be covering it all when president obama addresses the nation tomorrow night, 9:00 p.m. eastern, 8:00 p.m. central, right here on abc. >>> as we said, the president expected

jonathan karl from answer pressing on the semantics issue about boots on the ground. >> it would be troops the ground, wearing boots, i assume, they would be combat ready, i know it would be in the line of fire. how are you not considering these troops? >> well, again, john, in a variety of ways. the first is they're not responsible for going in and occupying large swaths of iraqi territory. they're not in a position where we're certainly not talking about 140,000 or 150,000 of them. and wd not talking about their principal responsibility being to directly and personally engage the enemy in combat. they are not in a combat role. >> this has evolved, mort, this defining it. >> but this is not leadership. this is not war. if this outfit is worthy of going to war against, then you shouldn't just get an authorization to spend some money to help some people in syria. you ought to go straight out and get an authorization to go to war against isis. from congress. and that's what congress should be voting. >> would they vote for it? >> yeah, i think they'll vote for it. as in australia today, whe

they'll spend a couple of weeks actually pursuing the story, you'll see good reporting from jonathan karl and others and then it just falls off the wayside. >> you see a careful analysis of some people suggesting that this story today is only got the midterms. when they have told us for the last eight months or so that it doesn't matter in the midterms. so why do they worry about it so much? just listen to the testimony. >> why in the world do you think they would not cover -- >> they love obama. >> they don't all love obama, greg. there's been four watergates in the last six years, they don't cover it. i have said this before because fox news covers it. they say well if those guys are going to cover it, then we're not going to cover it. because obama doesn't like them and we still want to go to their cocktail party. it's fox news avoidance syndrome, if we do it, they won't do it. they still want too go to the upper west side cocktail parties and if you talk about benghazi, they're not going to let you in. >> one is going to have to start undermining the president or vice versa, are they

jonathan karl, abc news, in iowa. >>> former south carolina governor mark stanford is calling off hishe woman he once called his soulmate. sanford announced the breakup with maria on his facebook page blaming ongoing tension with his ex-wife jenny. he divorced jenny after his affair became public in 2009. sanford disappeared for five days claiming he was hiking the appalachian trail. he later confessed he'd been in argentina with her. >>> apple has sold out its preorders already. never fear. you can order one on ebay from an iphone scalper. the most common price you'll pay, $1300 or about twice what you'd pay for a phone without a contract. otherwise you have to wait for some time. at least until next month. >> still don't get it. >>> microsoft is expected to confirm it is buying the maker of the popular video game "minecraft." the deal reported to be worth $2.5 billion. minecraft is very popular on mobile devices. the top paid app for apple and android. but there's no version for windows mobile devices. microsoft may be buying the company to draw users to the windows phone and surfac

susan, jonathan karl had a question and apparently we don't have to worry anymore about al qaeda. >>phed into something more dangerous that can -- the core bombs metal detectors has their eyes on taking down a plane coming into the united states. they are considered far more dangerous. and the whole fight has evolved into this big mess in syria. where these people came to the president two years ago and said we need to do something about this and he said no. and now we have this gigantic mess in syria. on its face, ridiculous to say it's no longer a threat. bigger threat than had has ever been. corzine the one they are going after now is al qaeda affiliate. i don't know, that sounds like al qaeda to me. >> he they got really way too cute on this. this is clearly a big part of the 2012 campaign that we have disseminated core al qaeda. the idea that we put that little adjective in front of it the top three guys. we got one of them. >> american people aren't that stupid. >> um, this worked for them. remember. al qaeda is dead. and detroit is alive. detroit has now declared bankruptcy. y

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jonathan karl questioned press secretary josh earnest about warnings from several top officials includinghe assistant secretary of state. >> this is one of your key people on iraq who was raising this alarm in november of last year. did this message get to the president? did he believe it? did he not hear it? what happened? >> john, the president discussed on a number of occasions what we're talking about here is the rapid advance isis was able to make across the iraqi desert and success they had after that advance to holding large swaths of territory. >> but if i can stop you for just a second. two months after this is said, the president calls isil the jv team. >> we've been through this. >> we clearly are talking -- he was clearly talking about isil. >> that's not true. >> the question specifically was about what happened after isil took over falluja. >> we can look at the transcript. >> you don't want to be josh in that position. the president really messed up the other night on "60 minutes." he should have said i screwed up. everybody knows he screwed up. you have the intelligence co

ben rhodes continued the white house hedge when pressed by abc news white house correspondent jonathan karl>> is he considering air strikes on isil targets in syria? >> absolutely we don't rule out action in syria. >> i'm not talking about ruling out but actively under consideration. >> we're actively considering all options that are necessary. >> with all the attention on the threat posed by isis u.s. officials have not forgotten about al qaeda, especially with the coming anniversary of the 9/11 attacks next week. out of sight but not out of mind. >>ing 0, thanks very much. we'll have much more on sunday on "this week." >>> that hurricane in the pacific threatening to bring rough surf and drenching rain and ginger, of course, tracking it all for us this morning. >> yes, this is hurricane norbert here in the pacific ocean so we'll zoom in. a category 1 hurricane at this point. max sustained winds 90 miles per hour and hug along baja california and weaken and get closer to southern california. what it will do, bring extra moisture for that monsoon flow starting today, flash flood watches for

> you get that sense every now and then and you can certainly point to individual journalists, jonathan karlhis kind of thing straight and hold him accountable and certainly ed henry and our guys at fox are great about this kind of thing. but there is -- there is still this ability that obama to simply rhetorically check a box and make an issue go away in a way that no other president could. i mean, the -- president bush, you know, whatever flaws he had, if he made a rhetorical slip up called our fight against al qaeda a crusade. it became a six month issue. people are saying do you attract that admit your mistake and all of this. obama can say we dick columbus things. isis jonah goldberg in washington. s'mores under fire. the government wants to take the chocolate out of your camp fire snack the forest service telling what you to eat. wanting to know if you have the best deal when you go shopping in the asterisk. that's the clue. insider secrets hidden in plain sight. the man who has cracked the shopping code here next. when a pro at any 2014 pga tour event sinks a hole-in-one, quicken loan

runback jonathan dwyer was arrested at the arizona karl practice facility on wednesday. police say they're investigating two allegations of abuse last july involving a 27-year-old woman and an 18-month-old child. the cardinals deactivated dwyer in the wake of the arrest. >> meantime, greg hardy is taking leave with pay to focus on his legal matters. the leave was approved by nfl commissioner roger goodell. the judge convicted hardy of domestic violence against a then girlfriend last july. but he's been granted a jury trial, which is scheduled for november. >> adrian peterson is on the same leave with pay list as greg hardy after he was indicted last week on a child abuse charge. corporate sponsors including nike have suspended their endorsement deals with him. his attorney claimed peterson didn't mean to hurt his son. it was just how the boy was disciplined. >> hardy's pay, almost $800,000 a week. peterson, still getting paid while on lead, almost $700,000 a week. >> it's sparked incredible debate across this country about how you discipline children and how you treat yo

jonathan dwyer was arrested in phoenix on wednesday. they're investigating two incidents last july involving a 27-year-old woman and an 18-month-old child. the karl deactivated dwyer in the wake of the arrest. >> meantime, the carolina panthers issic taking leave with pay to focus on legal issues. the leave was approved by nfl commissioner roger goodell. a judge convicted him of domestic violence against his then girlfriend last july. other players are accuse ochd domestic abuse is ray rice. he's been suspended indefinitely from the nfl after a video emerged of him punching his girlfriend who then fell unconscious. >> and adrian peterson is on the same leave with pay list as greg hardy after he was indicted last week on a child abuse charge. but some of his minnesota vikings teammates want him back on the field. >> in an about-face, the minnesota vikings have now decided that adrian peterson should stay away from football with pay while the legal process runs its course. >> we made a mistake. and we needed to get this right. on monday, the team was adamant that photos showing injuries to peterson's 4-year-old son, the star running back should pla

jonathan, thank you. heather: the president says he wants to make isis manageable. lieutenant colonel is next, but first there is karli earlier. >> these beheadings are an expression of the violence and urbanity of isis. a lot longer timeframe in which he should have acted. he should have acted after exploding onto northwestern iraq early june. >>> 10:31 in new york. president obama condemning the brutal execution of a second american journalist by isis. he is facing heat over the lack of a defined strategy to fight the terrorist and saying we can shrink isis to mangable size rather than eliminate it. thank you, colonel. whales tomorrow and thursday and they will talk about the need to adopt a plan that applies to ukraine and vladimer putin. what about a plan for isis? what would you do? >> you know, bill, i think the best thing the president can do is get on the phone with prime minister dave cameron and ask him what to do. he has done a good job explaining to the british people and parliament what the threats are they are facing. we face the same threats, if not more, but our president hasn't stood up to tell us ab