. ♪ >> i am here in new york in west harrison, the hometown of nypd officer joseph lim, among six other killed last week in afghanistan. air nationalair national guardsmen top police officers from all over the region have all gathered to pay tribute and salute this hero. on the grand avenue bridge in white plains you can see this video, firefighters raise an american flag in his honor and actually saluted him on the bridge while the procession of his body was going on underneath the bridge. the name superman because he looked like clark kent, highly respected by his colleagues. >> baseball player or basketball player, the guy who does three tours overseas. >> a 45 -year-old westchester resident. he served as a technical sergeant in the air guard 100 5th they security squadron, survived by his wife and two kids. >> not only overseas but here at home. >> secretary of defense ash carter called the attack that killed officer lim a painful reminder of the everyday dangers of afghanistan. for more follow me on twitter and follow the show. bill: diana, you are chasing the republican primary bu

hundreds of mourners waiting to enter the church waiting to pay their respects to joseph lim. the nypd detective killed in >> very sad. but at the same time appreciating the united states that we live here and that we have soldiers out there protecting us. >> there's a camaraderie that nobody has like the military. god bless him. >> lem and five other troops suicide attack. 6 years he leaves behind a widow, a daughter and a 4-year-old son who rode into church today on a police officer's shoulders. >> i just talked to him and said how sorry we are for them and that whatever we can do for them i know tomorrow's going to be a day of full honor for them as they deserve. >>reporter: he grew up in nebraska nicknamed superman by his colleagues. now, a sad good-bye in his hometown. >> it's a shame for the family. but he's -- i guess he'll be missed a lot. >>reporter: and mayor deblasio expected to pay his respects at the wake which resumes at 7 to 9:00 p.m. tonight funeral mass tomorrow at saint patrick's cathedral. and the death of another cop. it happened at some training exercise.

detective joseph lim served as a member of the u.s. national guard. >>> in las vegas a woman is being held without bond tonight for a deadly car rampage on the strip. police say the suspect repeatedly drove her car in to a crowd of people on purpose. >> the usually busy las vegas strip was crowded instead with emergency vehicles. after the 1996 model oldsmobile deliberately plowed in to pedestrians. antonio just stepped out of the casino when the car sped past. >> people are like bouncing off the front of the car. the windshield was smashed at this point. she rode the sidewalk. she accelerated again and kept mowing everyone down. >> reporter: soon after police say 24-year-old lakeisha holloway pulled in to a casino parking lot and told the valet to call 911. >> good morning, everybody. >> reporter: clark county sheriff joe lombardo doesn't think this was an act of terror but still can't rule it out. >> as far as terrorism, we don't know what the intent was behind it. and we don't know enough of her background to make that determination

joseph lim will take place in west harrison. hawthorne. >>> visitation who is from long island and will be on thursday and friday afternoon. surfaces will be held at the funeral on saturday at new beginnings. and the burial will follow at the national cemetery. they were killed alongside four other service members during the suicide bombing last week in afghanistan. >>> well now to 2016, the candidates are back on the campaign trail after the holiday break. wasting no time going on the offenses. he's taking aim at hillary clinton threatening to dig up their old scandals if he campaigns for his wife. however they suggest that he is underestimating the appeal of the former president. >> he is playing that woman left and right and more upset about it than anything else including most men. any candidate on the other side of the aisle would raise bill clinton, the negative to their apparel. >> and clinton will come after the former secretary of the state accusing them of the pension for sexism. >> well he combined the basketball skil

. >>> four others were killed in the afghanistan attack identified as joseph lim a 15- year veteran of the new york police department. chester mcbride from georgia, michael cinco of rio grande valley and also from new york. >>> the first dc police would call it a justifiable homicide. now investigating the death of the 27-year-old man as the possible use of force death by privately contracted armed security officers. >> the family of alonzo smith family calls it murder. and when the entire incident began. >> reporter: well these are the apartments where alonzo smith died last month. where today his mother called on the united nations to open up the human rights violation and their investigation in to not only their son's death, but the entire u.s. judicial system. and they want charges, murder convictions. and that they want justice for her 27-year-old son alonzo smith who died on november 1 at the mulberry market northeast. >> that gives me the indication that there will be a cover up. >> they show metro pd arriving at the apartments in finding the armed security guard and not breathi

among them a former new yok city police department detective joseph lim. of the police force. also an air national guardsman who served two tours of duty in afghanistan, another tour in iraq. officials are now telling us that this suicide bomber who is riding a motor bike unleashed the attack on a joint patrol of afghan security forces and coalition forces. these six deaths i should now bring to you 25, the number of nato forces who have been killed in afghanistan just this year. >> and, alexandra, also getting reports of increasing violence in the south of the country including reports that there were requests for help. what more can you tell us about the situation there? >> yeah, actually a pretty unusual type of request for help. this was an open letter on facebook that was posted be i the deputy governor of hellmann province. he's been describing intensified fighting. intensified attacks from the taliban in hellmann province over the last few days and really fighting over the last month. but in this letter he describes attacks on a main bizarre and off

joint chiefs of staff joseph dunford testified before the house committee on the are strategy against isis, and he spoke of some 130-plus troops in iraq. >> i don't believe that we are lim limited by the number of 3500, and we are managing 3500, because that is the number of the troops that the president has ap prproved the date, but i assure you that i don't feel at all inhibited to make recommendations to vus grow beyond 3500 or the defeat isil. the enemy does not respect boundaries, and neither do we. we are fighting a campaign across iraq and syria, and we will go where the enemy is, and we will go the where they degrade the capabilities of the enemy. >> and now sh, joining me is th representative are from colorado who was there at the hearings, and are you satisfied by what you heard from the chairman of the joint chiefs? >> well, i think that we are moving in the right direction, and the notion of putting the special op erators in theater t take out the high-value targets is positive. going after the revenue sources such as oil tankers or trucks, it is positive. we could still be more aggressive in pursuing that the oil infrastructure which fuels isis and the loca