the spokesman for the told al jazeera that he decide in a hospital in karachi pakistan, in april april 2013. the of a afghan it will ban saying these reports are not true. >> refresh our memory of who mullah omar was and what did he. >> omar was a young mujahideen leader who fought the soviets in the 1980s. he founded the taliban movement, which took over here in afghanistan in 1996, and led the taliban from 1996 until 2001 when it was toppled by the u.s.-led invasion following the september 11th attacks in new york. since then he has not been seen in public at all. he was always a very reclusive leader erica. only a few photographs of him exist. he never really appeared in public. even when the taliban overtook the afghan capitol he never came to the afghan capitol. he remained in hiding. he has led the taliban fighters for the last decade or so, and the fighting intensified here in afghanistan despite reports that omar has been dead for two years, according to the afghan government the taliban website has messages from him the latest just five days old. so if he hadn't been in contro

until, according to the afghan government, he died of a mysterious illness at a hospital in karachi pakistan. mullah omar's death would do more than close a chapter on 9/11. it would also create a void at the top of the taliban and give other terrorist groups like isis a chance to move in. jane. >> pauley: david martin, thank you. in colorado, a mother is trying to save the life of her son. the mother of james holmes, convicted of murdering 12 people in an aurora movie theater testified today in the sentencing phase of her trial. barry petersen is at the courthouse. >> reporter: a convicted mass murderer to the world, but a troubled son to an anguished mother, who communicateed in the final months before the shooting primarily by e-mail. >> i didn't realize that his loudest cry for help was his silence. >> reporter: arlene holmes said there was one critical moment when the theater massacre might have been avoided. it was a phone call she received about a month before the theater shooting from university of colorado psychiatrist dr. lynne fenton who was treating holmes. but, mrs. holmes testi

. >> reports are as you said more than two years ago he died in a hospital in karachi pakistan. why would it have taken this long for it to come out in a more credible way? doesn't that raise questions about the pakistani-s in pakistanis not sharing that information? >> it does. i think what you're seeing here is a covert way of the pakistani government signaling to us and the afghans that now pakistan will be serious about some sort of negotiated settlement at the negotiating table. the beginning of a preference to set up for taliban to make a tiny pivot in strategy or strategic goals where suddenly, instead of setting up for the islamic emirate that's going to leave an afghan state for the very first time since ever against a taliban insurgency that is still very much fighting insiding afs. >> what is your opinion about the u.s. withdrawal and what it will mean for the taliban? >> i think if we pull out all of our forces and stop sending the aid and assistance that the afghan military has begun to depend upon, to fight the taliban, one of the things will happen either the afgh

intelligence officials say mullah omar died in a hospital in karachi, pakistan in 2013.n claimed he was in charge of the terror group earlier this year. >>> now at this moment we are getting a feed from australia where warren trust the deputy prime minister is updating the media on developments on what could be a piece of mh370. let's have a listen. >> -- the refvelation that the parts may come from missing malaysia airlines flight 370. operated by a boeing 777. and the photographs suggest parts that are not inconsistent with a boeing 777. but there are other possibilities. people require examination by experts to prove established positively that the parts are indeed from a 777. another step to establish that parts came from 777 that operated mh370. work is being undertaken by various agencies to try and advance that investigation. there is a number on the part bb670. not a serial number or registration number. but it is possible that it could be a maintenance number. and that might help an early investigation. i'm informed it is a realistic possibility that wreckage fr

but karachi pakistan, we have heard no reports so far and i would think they would come out. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> pakistani police say they shot dead the leader of the banned group that has been behind hundreds of killings in the country. shot in a shootout with the security forces in forces forces in punjab region. >> the migrant crisis intensifies at the tunnel entrance. 15,000 migrants have tried to get in calais on tuesday night. a migrant from sudan was killed when he was hit by a truck. he's the ninth person to die near the tunnel entrance since june. migrants have been jumping on lorries on their way and others on trains. they're hoping to get to the u.k. well the channel tunnel between calais france, and folks in the u.k. it understand under the english channel and 400 trains pass through it each day carrying on average 50,000 passengers. >> there are two types of trains that go through the tunnel. there are shuttle trains that are filled with cars and vehicles. that has been the weak point in recent nights where migrants have tried to storm on to trucks in

happen and there were leaks suggesting that in fact he had died in a hospital in april 2013 in karachi, pakistanmore for the presidential palace to issue a statement saying based on credible information, they thought that mullah omar was dead and had been dead over two years. the exact circumstance of his death are known. and afghan intelligence source saying this occurred when he was in a hospital of an unknown illness. questions reverberating. what word from a taliban, indeed they have said nothing in response to these statements and also to questions beginning to resound about how much did pakistan know? how long, as in the case of bin laden, was it the case he knew he was in their country. seismic moment for afghanistan's history. this man founded the taliban with their brutal reading of the islamic faith, who led the insurgency against the united states and nato, in the longest war america had that killed 2,000 american soldiers and who now, the head of a movement that is beleaguered, tired, experiencing great competition in afghanistan from isis and also heading in to complicated round of

intelligence services the afghan intelligence services confirming that omar died in a hospital in karachi, pakistanapril of 2013. of hepatitis. he was of course one of the most wanted men in the world. recluse reclusive, rarely seen. the one-eyed leader of the taliban known for sheltering osama bin laden for refusing to turn him over to the u.s. after 9/11. the government has had a $10 million reward for information leading to his capture for years. today this afghan intelligence official told nbc news that the government came to the conclusion mullah omar was dead two years ago and didn't reveal it because it would not have been help to the peace process. now, we should note that nbc news cannot confirm that mullah omar is dead and there have been a lot of reports over the years of his death including the latest just in may of this year. guys? >> we'll have to wait and see. kelly in london thank you. >>> next the trump effect. 2016 candidates looking for their moment in the spotlight and next week's debate. but will it backfire? politics ahead. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ geico motorcycle great rates for

afghanistan's intelligence service believes he died two years ago in karachi, pakistan. he led an insurgency after american-led forces your through the taliban regime in afghanistan. >>> 35 million americans are facing a dangerous heat we've. nearly every corner is expecting to see 90 degrees. that right. it's hot, hot, hot. virginia and new york may see the 90s and some parts of the west may hit 100 degrees. be careful out there. >> you're right, norah. that is hot. >>> thrn mog fast moving wildfires are forcing hundreds of people to evacuate. they now threaten others. there are now 15 wildfires burning in the state. john blackstone is tracking the flames racing toward homes. >> reporter: firefighters are struggling to keep pace with the fast moving rocky fire north of sacramento. after igniting wednesday afternoon, it's exploded in size. already burning through more than 3,000 acres. around 500 people were ordered to evacuate as wildfires across the state of california intensified. >> you don't realize what it feels like to be displaced until you are, but hopefully eve

. >>> a spokesman for the intelligence agency says muller omar died in karachi, pakistan.hanistan as the leader of its taliban government before the u.s. invasion in october of 2001. he then led the insurgency against the u.s.-led coalition. the courts about his death come two days before the next round of talks between afghan officials and taliban representatives in pakistan. >>> 8:42. the patriots' owner and coach speaks out this morning after the league decide to uphold tom brady's sen spun. hear what the nfl had to say about brady and the final decision. >>> and could the olympics come here to the bay area? the bid that could be in the works and the other city that may be a cohost. >>> right now. traffic is moving along pretty well if you are driving in san francisco along northbound 101. we'll tell you a little bit more about the morning commute. >>> fog came back but it seems to be retreating a little bit. it's still going knob warm to hot inland. a little cooler by the coast. but big changes maybe for late thursday/friday. we'll talk about that. feduring sleep train

ago when his first book was published, "instant city," which chronicled a day in the life of karachi, pakistan. and he's back now to talk about his second book, "jackson land." in it steve goes not abroad, but back in time in the united states to the era of andrew jackson. he tells the story not only of jackson, but of john ross, the tribal chief of the cherokee. once military comrades, these two men ended up on posing sides of an epic struggle over land seize sur and resettlement of native american tribes that severely tested america's young democracy. it was a transformative chapter in our nation's development and also a very tragic one. and as steve notes in his acknowledgments, authors have grappled with that period and its protagonists in different ways at different times since. jackson has been portrayed variously as the hero of democracy and a malevolent indian hater, ross as both the moses of his people and a stubborn egotist. and the expulsion of the indians or trail of tears has been treated as either a practical inevitable response to the needs of white settlement or a shameful low

to review the reports say that he was killed in pakistan two years ago dieing in a hospital in karachiou rightly pointed out paul, we have to figure out what is going on here and, in fact, why did it take so long. the afghan government is involved in direct negotiations to happen in pakistan to take place in pakistan with the taliban. those negotiations are set to restart in just a few days now. and so the question is if the taliban is, in fact leaderless, how will that effect the negotiations? is there an internal power struggle going on? has it been resolved since the reported death of mullah omar. a lot of questions after the reports from the afghan intelligence services before we can draw any judgments about the impact of this reported death and whether or not it's going to have any impact on the u.s. timetable for withdraw. that's unlikely, but on the region as a whole. paul? >> mike viqueira in washington. thank you. we'll be following that and the other big story of the day the iran senate hearings. coming up next, we'll have more on both stories. i'm paul beben. thankthank you

>> in the shelter for a long time in pakistan whether karachi or qatar.h omar was for a long time and we also need the pakistanis to their intelligence services were more or less protect in him. a big shell game between afghanistan and pakistan. he benefited from santa monica and we get news today this comeback is dead. a radical islamists, one of the original gangster radical islamists. we had a price on his head. it seems time got a hold of them thessaly. unfortunately it hasn't changed dynamics on the ground. the taliban has been surging for the last two years which is bad news. stuart: it doesn't change the bad taste in your mouth when you realize pakistanis were protecting osama bin laden clearly protecting him. and now it seems as you say they were protecting mullah omar. what is going on? don't we give them billions of dollars the year? >> we do. george bush gave him an ultimatum after 9/11. you are either with us or against us. they chose to be with us. at the same time they played a duplicitous double game because they are the heart of the radica

pakistan has grown. such as here in the port city of karachi where they've been gaining support. the death of omar is a blow to their organization. the naming of a new leader makes sure their network of influence remains. >> let's get analysis now from a journalist in afghanistan during the time the taliban was in power there. thanks very much for joining us. let's start with the fact that the taliban tried to hide mullah omar's death for so long, now admitted he has died, we don't know when. did they fear divisions after such a revered leader had passed away? >> we're not quite sure about the time, the date of such death, so we cannot claim that they have been hide that go news for so long. all we know is that there was that sudden announcement by the pakistanis, i believe and that was it, but nobody knows for sure when the man passed away. >> where do you think this leaves the peace process? >> people have been talking about divisions ever since taliban swept -- >> because some of the taliban are said to be in favor of peace talks with the afghan government others not. >> i've

but their presence in neighboring pakistan has grown such as here in the port city of karachi where they have repeatedly been gaining support. the death of the taliban leader has been seen as a blow to their organizations but their network of influence remains. neave barker, al jazeera. >> for a second day on capitol hill, top administration officials were grilled by members of congress over the iran nuclear deal. today the senate armed services committee demanded to know how the new agreement would affect u.s. defense strategy. libby casey is in washington. libby. >> reporter: john, senators raised concerns today including whether the deal actually emboldens iran. whether be the be u.s. is relying too much on dploim diply and not enough on strength. whether there are side deals in play. top of military brass took turn on complol capitol hill. adding their voices to the white house plan. >> it's a good deal because it prevents iran from getting a nuclear weapon in a defined and categorical way. >> leaving open all options if iran walks away from the deal. >> and i've said trt start thatt