karl, that's a pretty close one. >> 1.3%.emember this, though, real clear politics average and the rest of these averages are lagging indicators. this race took a dramatic shift three weeks ago this coming thursday. just before labor day, begich ran an ad accusing sullivan of being responsible for the early release of prisoners, including a prisoner who went on to do a brutal murder. it turned out, however, that the prisoners were released by a clerical error by somebody months before sullivan even became attorney general, and this sort of blew up in begich's face, and my suspicion is we're likely to see some polling data indicating this race has taken an even more pro-sullivan tilt here. >> now i want to put up a surprising state and that is north carolina. this was generally considered to be a very likely pickup for the republicans in red north carolina. but the democratic incumbent senator kay hagan is up against the state's house speaker, and joe, hagan who was thought to be in trouble is hanging in there. >> this one i t

karl let me go to karl first go ahead go ahead i think that this is you see the especially because of the downing of the airliner there was a mood of hysteria and people with different the different on the standings and also different mollett were scared to open their mouths and then you had stephen khan who opened his mouth and who explained things and of course i personally think that he is the author to go to if you want to understand a the rushes that putin inherited to rule so i he was raked over the coals in a new republic i won't call the new republic anymore a liberal journal by i mean it's not any more than. he said of course it's wonderful it's wonderful to see john murtha shimer now coming up and he is a choice who are you counting or him in the united states and i hope that his voice penetrates to some editorial offices. in europe because he says most of the responsibility lies with the united states and its european allies and he's dead right legal so ok. so i want to give i want to give me your word before we go to the break here go ahead and then we'll go back to st pet

karl penhaul is joining us from london right now.ow that they've posted still photos, karl, on twitter and elsewhere, is that right, this is coming from isis? >> wolf, in fact, a video has also been posted online. we're showing you right now, the stills, again, that is part of our editorial policy. not to show and reflect the isis propaganda videos that are going out and also to try to remember these people in life rather than in death. but, yes, this isis video, a little over two minutes in length. once against, we are seeing a man with an apparent british accent dressed in head to toe in black. apart from sand colored desert combat boots. he has a knife in his left hand. the opening words there from steven sotloff saying that "you know who i am by now and you know why i am here." that is the prelude, really, to what then comes, and later on in this video, we see, once again, that apparently british accented executioner then pointing his knife into the camera once again, as he did with that brutal execution video of james foley, say

karl penhaul, desde londres.a hoja de bounty sigue absorbiendo mientras las dos de ellos paran. (cheering) ¡más! por qué usar más si puedes usar menos. bounty. el que absorbe sin parar. >> hace poco entrevistamos en este programa a josÉ manuel mireles, el ex lÍder de un grupo de autodefensa en michoacÁn, mÉxico. las autodefensas surgen porque el gobierno no puede garantizarle la vida a sus habitantes frente a la amenaza de los narcotraficantes y criminales. en la entrevista, mireles retÓ al presidente de mÉxico, enrique peÑa nieto. mireles poco despuÉs fue arrestado por el supuesto cargo de posesiÓn ilegal de armas. esta es parte de la entrevista que tuvimos aquÍ con mireles, y empezamos hablando de las razones que tuvo para crear este grupo armado. >> no habÍa un absoluto control del crimen, veÍamos nosotros sin poder comentar nada que los criminales desayunaban con los federales, con los militares, con los policÍas, y sentÍamos los pobladores que eso era una burla hacia nosotros mismos, porque no tenÍamos contr

we have karl penhaul with more. >> reporter: david haynes is in his 40s from scotland. he was kidnapped by isis fighters in march of 2013. he was helping out with tents and delivering water and food to some of the refugee populations and displaced inside syria close to the turkish border. no word on any government efforts to negotiate his way out or perhaps rescue him. the government said all options are on the table. as you look at him and also look at the execution who is believed to be british as well, people in britain are saying what is in the mindset of britains to fight for isis in syria. over the weekend, i was talking to the family of the man who became britain's first suicide bomber in february. they described he was a normal person by all accounts. not within the profile you would expect. he was a pakistani origin. his parents were pakistani. he was born and bred outside london. he was in his 40s. he had a wife and three children. he initially went to syria with an aid project with the aid convoy that goes there. at the refugee camps, that is where he met isi

karl penhaul, desde londres.una hoja de bounty sigue absorbiendo mientras las dos de ellos paran. (cheering) ¡más! por qué usar más si puedes usar menos. bounty. el que absorbe sin parar. mbre es roberto. hola roberto. un anuncio en la televisión dijo que pudiera reducir mi deuda por 50 por ciento. me dijeron que deje de pagar mis cuentas, y que no hable con mis acreedores. ellos se encargarían de todo. yo les di miles de dólares, pero la mayoría se fue a sus honorarios. [narradora] salir de la deuda no es rápido ni fácil. hay personas que le dirán cualquier cosa sólo para ganar su confianza. sonaba perfecto. hice todo lo que me dijeron que hiciera. nunca pagaron mis acreedores, ni siquiera estaban en contacto con ellos. resulta que estoy más en deuda, porque las tasas y los intereses de mis tarjetas siguieron acumulando. [narradora] malos consejos de los llamados expertos pueden empeorar su situación financiera. entonces, el banco me rechazó para una hipoteca. y eso es cuando me di cuenta que mi crédito se arrui

we have karl penhaul standing by. he has seen the video. he has listened to the message and he's assessed when he believes -- based upon mentions of the air strikes in amerli when this video was taken. we have bob baer joining us, kurt volcker, former u.s. ambassador to nato and christiane christia christiane amanpour. i don't know if you've had a chance -- >> i don't like to look at these things. >> i don't like to look at it either but based upon what we heard with the james foley video, the black masked terrorist speaking directly to the camera, wielding that knife, what do you know about it? >> i've been talking to a really renowned expert on this group and he said a couple of things. isis had to do this. it has threatened to do this and its credibility depends on it actually carrying out what it says it will do. so, unfortunately, when james foley, our colleague was executed a couple of weeks ago and they paraded poor old steven sotloff in that video as well, they basically sealed his fate. and now they have done the same to another ho

karl rove was the architect of george bush's championship.joe trippi has run a number of campaigns. welcome back. >> good to be with you. >> let's get an overview, who's going to control the senate. "the new york times," the upshot says republicans have a 56% chance of winning the senate. that's not exact enough for nate silver's 538. he says the gop has a 54.8% chance of gaining majority. karl, what are the republicans' chances and what are the key factors? >> look, i think it's slightly better than that but not a lot better. the republicans are fighting on good turf. they have three open seats, for example, in red states that i think everybody pretty well concedes are in their camp. montana, south dakota and west virginia. it is a dog fight in the rest of the country. four states with incumbent, three, four, five, purple states, one open seat and so it's going to be a very close contest. the dynamics are good for republicans, enthusiasm high, obama low, desire to send a message to obama very high. the one advantage democrats have is a big c

i want to bring in correspondent karl penhaul in london.i know karl you spoke with an aide worker in syria. what did that aide worker tell you? >> ana, we spent the whole day in the town of a hard scrabble blue collar town in northern england and that is where henning has the modest home that he shares with his two teenage children and his wife. down on the street, nobody really was in the mood for talking. at the taxicab company where he worked, nobody wanted to talk either, both out of respect for alan henning and also to make sure they didn't say anything that could provoke perhaps the hostage takers. but there are on lamp posts, on street signs and on some of the trees in that neighborhood yellow ribbons, well wishers who are hoping against hope that alan henning will come home safe and sound. we also talked to a doctor, doctor sulfiqua, one of the female doctors on the aide convoy, she rode in the same van as alan henning as they headed from britain through to syria. and she has a plea. she made a plea through cnn directly to isis. let

>> and karl, it's alisyn here. that video is obviously sickening. cnn is only going to play a small portion of the message, in part because it is clearly propaganda from this terrorist group. but here is the small portion that we will play so the viewers get a taste of it. >> continuing your bombings, despite our serious woman, you, obama, have yet again for your actions another american citizen just as your missiles continue to strike our people, our mash will continue to strike the noefx your people. >> karl, what do we know about this executioner? >> from what we have already gleaned, and that principally from the james foley execution video two weeks ago, that british intelligence experts in fact were saying ten days ago they were pretty close to identifying who he was. we haven't heard from them yet if they have in fact managed to identify who he is and where he is from. but he does speak with that pretty distinct accent that language experts is from a multicultural district of london. but beyond that, we really don't know publicly at least who

to karl's point, people are keeping cars longer. riding digitalis advertising. the product on the market is better than it has ever been. all the manufacturers are releasing more innovative products. we saw it with the jeep and the grand cherokee. as long as people are patient and wait out that 6, 7 years, that equity will him back and they will be in the buying cycle again at that point. >> dave winslow, what do you drive? s4 and wee and audi have a mini van to all the kids around. >> karl brauer, what is your vehicle of choice? >> i recently got a certified, preowned porsche 911. >> well done, both of you. all right, coming up, not cars -- tractors. from al meet someone tractor supply company. also, regulations growing for e-cigarettes. electronic cigarettes. is it all about a puff, or is it just a vapor? we will talk about the e-cigarette industry gaining steam. ouch. ♪ >> all right, where do horses shop? where do get just the thing for a herd of cattle? tractor supply company. last year they brought in $5 billion in sales. they have 15 stores. tractor supply

joining me, karl brauer, from kelley blue book, and from los angeles, dave winslow. all right, let's begin with you, karl brauer. jeep was the big winner for chrysler, right? >> up 49%. that is a pretty crazy number when you think about it. >> why is that happening? is it because people cannot get enough jeeps or is it about that segment of the market, the smaller crossover suv? >> it is a little of both. that segment of the market is on fire. any model will sell well because that is where the population is going for new vehicles. but then you have the new cherokee, which was perfectly timed to take advantage of this cultural shift in vehicle buying. now you have a well-received small suv in the small suv marketplace that is on fire. >> dave winslow, a cultural shift also in the way people buy automobiles. tell us what is happening with online, specifically with mobile. >> yes, absolutely, a big shift. a big increase in mobile. >> it was some data, if you can. what numbers? >> yes, 108% increase in august, year-over-year. we look at the consumer looking at a product

thank you, karl penhaul. >>> 37 minutes past the hour.ent launching a massive social media blitz against isis by using the terror groups footage. they hope the video "welcome to the isis stateland" hurts recruitment. more than 100 americans have traveled overseas to join radical groups. urging viewers to think again and turn away from the terror organization. secretary of state john kerry is heading to the middle east as early as today to strengthen the coalition against isis. >>> time for an early start on your money. mixed with the poll showing scotland favors independence causing uncertainty in the u.k. u.s. stock futures are lower. stocks are in record territory. s&p closed at a record high on friday. the bull market has been running for more than 2,000 days. this is the fourth longest rally since 1928. the average bull market is 900 days. this run is already twice as long as typical. so when will the rally run out of steam? some analysts believe stocks are in a bubble that could pop soon. there are plenty of optimists who say it is n

what are the republican chances, karl rove, and the key factors? it is slightly better but not a lot better. they have three open seats in red states that everyone concedes are in their camp: montana and west virginia and south dakota but it is a dogfight in the rest of the country, with four states with incumbent democratic citizen in red states and three or four or five states in purple seats with democratic incumbent and an open seat, or two open seats and it the dynamics are good for republicans and enthusiasm is high and obama is low and desire to send a message to obama high but the democrats have the advantage of a big cash advantage. they have booked between labor day and election day $107 million in television advertising and the republicans $25 million less. >> joe, democratic chances to hole the senate and to pick up specifically on one of the points karl rove made,0uww with approval of 40 percent why isn't this a wave election for the going? >> it should be. and it should be in this environment, a miracle for democrats to hold on. right

karl rove joins us. good evening, sir. >> good evening. how you? >> very well.xplain what you mean by disconnected. >> well, look last week at his he started out by heralding the economy andsaying there's a lot of good reasons to feel good about the direction in the economy. and yet, that's not where the american people are. 22% say they are satisfied with the direction of the country in a new "wall street journal"/nbc poll. 71% say they're not. 35% think the economy's in a good place. 64% don't think it's in a good place. and then the president followed up this thursday performance with a couple of speeches over the weekend friday and saturday to democratic fundraisers. the first was in purchase, new york. and the other one in rhode island. and there without a script, a speech in front of them and no teleprompter. he made extraordinary statements. for example, if you watch the nightly news you feel like the world is falling apart. so get that -- it's the media's fault. it's not that the news is bad. it's that the news is not -- is not accurate. the world is not

cnns karl penhaul. it was a dramatic speech yesterday. >> reporter: it did sound dramatic, but it was a copy paste of what he said on friday before parliament came back from holiday. what he did do is put a little more meat on the bone. so the kind of powers he is going to be looking for to fight this dreaded radical islam at home is greater police powers to seize passports and question people at airports if they are suspected of heading off to join isis. he's looking to beef up control ordered or terrorist prevention measures here in britain. that could mean taking terrorist suspect, not arresting him, not putting him on trial, but essentially putting a number of restrictive orders in place that he can't associate with old colleagues or plot terrorist measures. one of the most radical measures he was proposing is withdrawal passports of britains who were already abroad and that would prevent them from returning, effectively a modern day abanishment. this is going to have to be debated by parliament. ma

karl penhaul thank you so much. >> thank you, karl. >>> sierra leone is on the final day of a three-daynwide lockdown to curb the spread of ebola. >> the government ordered people to stay inside their homes while 30,000 volunteers are now going door to door to educate people on the virus. aide agency "doctors without borders" criticized the move saying the lockdown is unlikely to stop the spread of the disease. >>> at least 2,600 people have died since march in the deadliest ebola outbreak in history. lot of people asked how they can help. full list of the organizations that are on the ground and for ways to get involved, we thank you and we give you our website, cnn.com/impact. we'll be right back. [ female announcer ] hands were made for talking. feet...tiptoeing. better things than the pain, stiffness, and joint damage of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. before you and your rheumatologist decide on a biologic, ask if xeljanz is right for you. xeljanz (tofacitinib) is a small pill, not an injection or infusion, for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did no

>> reporter: in north carolina tonight, flood waters submerging karls. up to a foot of rain in parts of virginia. while in north carolina, a confirmed ef-2 tornado ripping through these homes. now, david, that atmosphere is unstable tonight. you can see right behind me, severe storms already popping up and parts of iowa, missouri, kansas and nebraska, all under tornado watch until midnight. that elevated ris income orange will move to the southeast as we go into your wednesday and you check out places like st. louis, indianapolis, detroit, all along that line in the afternoon and evening, damaging winds and isolated tornadoes and hail. how about the flash flooding? those stunning pictures and now an update. the flash flood watches still in place in parts of california to colorado, but fortunately, david, out on the west coast, we're drying out. >> ginger zee at the weather wall for us tonight. ginger, thank you. >>> now, to that abc news exclusive, why we're here in california tonight. just take a look at this giant white building right behind me. it was

karl rove is here.hat would you tell the president to keep his numbers from tanking further? >> well, first of all, forget the numbers. stop looking at them. the president. >> maybe he isn't looking at them. that was just, you know, my. >> yeah. well, if he is, and i'm confident he is this president polls too much. pays too much attention to the polls. stop looking. is he a war time leader. whether he likes it or not. his numbers are bad because, and they are not recently bad, the last time his favorability outnourished unfankt was essentially 53 weeks ago. and the president has been upside down since then. when putin moved in to crimea and then began messing with ukraine. when isis spread across northwestern iraq. president obama began to have real deep problems with how people viewed his ability to handle foreign affairs, terrorism and whether or not he was a strong leader. so, excuse me. his problem is that people are looking at his policies and saying they don't work and he is not a strong leader. w

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

cnn's karl penhaul is live with more in london and the isis media machine. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, christine. as you say, john cantlie, a photo journalist, was kidnapped in november of 2012. he was traveling with james foley, the american journalist executed. they were kidnapped at the same time. what the pair were working on was, in fact, a report about a previous kidnapping that cantlie was involved in in 2012 for a period of seven days and managed to escape. he was taken in 2012, november, that was the second time around for him. now in the hands of isis fighters, he has been there much longer. now this new video that isis has put out is very different from the previous hostage videos. it shows cantlie sitting at a desk almost broadcast news style and saying he will put out a series of reports in the coming weeks of the truth about isis. he says yes, you may think i'm saying this because i'm a prisoner. of course i am a prisoner. he also says he is doing this because he feels he has been abandoned by the british government at a time when

our karl penhaul is in london. karl, what is the latest on this?> well, it's certainly a long trail that takes us from an islamic radical purportedly who fought in syria to an attack in brussels, in europe, and what the french journalist came out today and said at a press conference was that he believes one of the men who is responsible for beating him and torturing him during his time as a western hostage in syria is one in the same. it's the man who carried out that killing spree at a jewish museum in brussels in may and he says he holooked at video and photos offered to him by police after the attack and positively identified the man who held him and other western hostages in syria. one of the key things here, of course, is that investigators will be looking at this and seeing to see what evidence they can get. but it's unlikely that they're going to get any actionable intelligence to save other western hostages held in europe because he came back to europe in december or january and that's when he was planning for the attacks in belgium, poppy.

what do you make of the secretary of state's editorial, karl?of all, i think that was unnecessary. it just simply demonstrates that secretary kerry has not gotten over the 2004 election. it added to nothing to -- nothing to his editorial, it is inappropriate. obviously, every american president who has to deal with these questions gives them a great deal of soul searching and asks a lot of questions. i thought the editorial, frankly, was not helpful. it spent most of its time describing what the united states would not do. very few people will ride to the should of an uncertain drum penalty, and if secretary kerry's job is to unite -- trupp trupp -- trumpet. there's also minor factual issues. the day before in his united nations speech, president obama talked about having 40 members of -- 40 nations being a member of the coition -- coalition, and in secretary kerry's column the next day magically that number had grown to 60 allied countries. so someone in the administration is either underestimating the number or, i think more likely, boosting t

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karl penhaul, thank you. >> $1.5 million apiece, incredible. more on the battle against isis after the break. we're going to be going live to iraq. >> also ahead the latest on the search for a suspect after a police officer is shot in the tense u.s. city of ferguson, missouri. >>> welcome back. >> we'll get to the top stories but talk about the war against isis. joining me now from irbil is cnn's senior international correspondent ben wedeman. so, ben, we're just talking to karl penhaul about the air strikes joining us from london and know there were air strikes around irbil southwest of irbil. how are the kurdish peshmerga forces taking advantage? >> well, they are taking advantage by trying to regain ground that was lost earlier in august. to isis and to a certain extent they've been successful. they've taken a variety of villages on the road to mosul which is just about an hour's drive to the west of here but getting back to what karl was talking about with the british jets flying over iraq, but not finding targets, it seems to agree with wh

commissioner karl hasz. that moves 5-0.commissioners item 13 will be taken out of order as it may affect item 12. we'll take item 13 preservation incentives in the planning code. >> and i want to recognize the vice chairman of the commission. >> good afternoon commissioners, rick sue krae department staff. i'm with scott sanchez the zoning administrator. with a follow up to july hearing, the department requested an authorization, and requirement of the review process to speaking controls for flexible use control for controlled resources. we prepared a short presentation on this and copies have been handed out to you since it looks like the laptops are not working. so just to give you an overview of what we'll discuss today. we will talk a little bit about the preservation incentives. we have divided the incentives into four categories. land use incentives, other requirements, financial incentives and miscellaneous. then we'll talk specifically about five of the code incentives that seem more period tinent to a lot of our di

where earlier theorists worried over the businessman karl marx seemed to speak to the worker.ing kaplan remembers the intoxication of the marxian theory. the idea that the worker the value of the product is the work put into it-- i had the feeling ever since that time-- is the key to the popularity of marxism in the working class. namely, i'm the big shot. i produce all these things. labor is raised to a level of the greatest dignity. preachers talked about the dignity of work, but this explained why i'm the source of all the value. the son of a bitch who lives so well is living at my expense. he's appropriated part of this value. as workers and businessmen continued to struggle in the postwar years prices continued to rise. the bubble burst in june, 1920. within a year, prices had dropped by 50%, while unemployment, virtually nonexistent during the war jumped to 14% in 1921. among the 19th-century economic theorists only marx had an explanation. robert heilbroner explains. marx was the first economist really to conceive of a self-generated cycle in which good times produced e

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thanks, karl. >>> and we want you to take a look at this map. it is where the pentagon is telling us that coalition air strikes have focused over the past two days. lots of isis targets deep inside syria. the cities of aleppo and raqqa, the place isis considers its capital. the list of targets is varied, buildings and even individual vehicles. the air forces of jordan, the uae, united arab emirates, and saudi arabia also dropped bombs on isis in syria and many of the u.s. flights started on board an aircraft carrier that's in the persian gulf. cnn's becky anderson is there. >> what you're seeing behind me is the last of the fighter jets and helicopters coming back from their armed sorties. the f-18 hit the deck at 150 knots, in what is known as an arrested landing. and those traps effectively pull them back. you can see the end of the aircraft carrier with the white lights, just below me here. this is 4 1/2 acres of vessel, just a very, very small area in which these pilots must land. it's 10:00 at night, and it feels a lot more peaceful on what

what about the knife, karl?> reporter: it does look very similar style of knife, if not even the same knife. it's a combat knife that we commonly call a combat knife here in britain. a serrated edge on one side. it's got a flat sharp edge on the other. the executioner who is or the man who appears to be the executioner is left-handed, as i say, and also uses the knife in the same way. he kind of awkwardly turns the knife so it's the flat edge that is passing across his victim's throat, brooke. >> karl penhaul, thank you, in london for us. >>> next, the isis plan is a complete takeover of iraq and syria. remember, they call themselves now the islamic state. they want this state. what would the state or the caliphate look like? what is key in stopping that mission of theirs? my next guest says one man may be the key. >>> plus, the centers for disease control says time is running out to control the ebola epidemic. as another american is infected with this deadly virus. the latest on his condition, the growing threa

. >> is there an author that you worked with and are working with that is better known as karl rove did he choose you or did you choose him and how did that relationship became quite >> i had to audition for it. he asked me to go down to washington and it was the first book that i was asked to edit. i've been a journalist for 30 years. and he had read up on me and what stories i had covered. we had the politics in common. i had actually covered him as an editor for many decades. basically my argument is you should hire me because this is my first job and i can't screw it up. and it worked. >> is it different working with a personality like that and it is working with maybe nancy and michael who are not as well-known? >> i think every writer has to put themselves on the page so it is a process by definition that makes writers feel vulnerable and i think the job is to protect them and also make them feel comfortable. no you can't start the book at age 30. you have to start with a lot of the pain of her childhood including your mother's suicide and father leaving the home and you find out

karl joins us. i should say karl rove. >> it will make the number grow an a little not a lot, but a little. >> in favor or disfavor. >> in stronger action against iraq. the republicans will do better over the long haul, because you will have democrat voices like senator udall, desperate to keep his seat. and what he did was come out in opposition of the president. 82% of americans think congress ought to vote to give the president what he asks for. >> the interesting thing about that is that what the president has asked for may not be the solution to actually getting rid of isis. i mean, he's not, he wants to do it essentially from arming the rebels in syria, and there are 26 groups to arm. he wants to help the iraqi government, and iraqi government is an a little shaky. yes congress is going to authorize that, but what are they authorizing? a solution or pay off our fear because americans are scared? >> let's give the man his due. there are three big things from the speech last night that are good.

karl penhaul is in london. karl, you spoke with people in henning convoy. what have they told you?porter: john, we spent a lot of the weekend up in his hometown in northern england. they describe alan henning as the taxi driver with the heart of gold. we have to remember about him different from the other hostages. he wasn't paid to be in syria. he was a volunteer. he went on an aid convoy from britain to syria at christmas time. we know from friends that he sacrificed christmas and family time and spent his weekend washing cars to raise money for the syrian effort. that is why friends and family say he shouldn't be there and does not deserve to die. talking to a doctor on the convoy with him. this is what she had to say to isis. >> please do not make him pay for the actions of western foreign policy. this is not his crime. and killing him will not change this. it will only undermine you and your cause. please let him go. and release him back to us and to his family and friends and his children who are waiting for him. >> reporter: alan henning was a taxi driver and nicknamed gadge

karl pin hall has followed this story. karl? >> morning, george. today somalia is bracing for backlash just in the last few moments, the security minister said there's a high alert across the country by they have information that al shabaab could be planning a waive of suicides against government buildings, united nations and peacekeeping force understand that las vegass as well across the country from retaliation for the death of its leader. but this comes at the same time that somalia's president is offering an amnesty for al shabaab fighters if they choose to lay down their weapons. the smallian president said that the death of al shabaab's top leader could provide an opportunity for smallians to embrace peace. give up your weapons within the next 45 days and we can start building the country together. mixed signals coming out of somalia. is it going to be peace? is it going to be war? certainly the united states assessment is this blow is a decisive blow but certainly not a death blow for al shabaab. >> a little context on this. what do we know

i'm joined now by abc's chief white house correspondent jon karl with all the details. >> reporter: good evening, dan. two weeks after the president said he didn't have a strategy for taking on isis in syria, he sought to reassure the american public that he does have a plan, a comprehensive plan for taking on what many in his administration call the greatest terrorist threat since 9/11. >> my mfellow americans. >> reporter: it was a remarkable moment. >> tonight, with a new iraqi government in place, and following consultations with allies abroad and congress at home, i can announce that america will lead a broad coalition to roll back this terrorist threat. >> reporter: on the eve of 9/11, president obama announcing a new offensive on islamic extremists in iraq and syria. >> our objective is clear. we will degrade and ultimately destroy isil, through a comprehensive and sustained counterterrorism strategy. >> reporter: key elements of the plan includexz sending 475 more u.s. troops to iraq to train and advise the iraqi security forces. bringing the total number of u.s. military personn

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

karl penhaul live for us. thank you. >>> the u.n.'s refugee agency says as karl was referencing, an estimated 60,000 syrian kurds were fleeing. isis has captured dozens of villages in northern syria in the last couple of days. turkey did open its border to refugees after livid yes showed how they were suffering. many show they were planning an assault on the kurd hitch town of kabani. >>> in egypt, two people are dead in a blast. according to state media, it happened at a police checkpoint in the central part of the capital city. the victims, the report says, were a major general and a police con script. >> the white house is dealing with the aftermath of a second security incident just one day after someone got into the white house. the secret service says a driver failed to stop at the entrance saturday. the man eventually got out of his car, they was then going to be charged with illegal entry. >> he's tried to enter the house from another gate. >> authorities say the man who bent it and made it into the building was armed. earlier

abc correspondent jon karl starts us off. >> reporter: with an assist from french pilots who are now flying their own missions over iraq, the u.s.-led air war on isis expanded. more targets, more bombs and strikes in syria only a matter of time. the president heads to the u.n. this week to make the case yet again for a global campaign to destroy isis. he's already made the pitch 5 times over the past 11 days. each time also making it clear what he won't do. >> the american forces that have been deployed do not and will not have a combat mission in iraq or in syria. >> reporter: the president's top generals seem to disagree. >> if there are threats to the united states, then i, of course, would go back to the president and make a recommendation that may include the use of u.s. military ground forces. >> reporter: the white house insists there is no disagreement, that the president is open to having u.s. troops embedded with iraqi troops on the front lines. just don't call them combat troops. >> these would be troops that would be serving on the ground, these would be troops wearing bo