raising doubts about isis claims that kayla muler was killed in an air strike. kayla's family is holding out hope she is alive. jordan called the claim of the death is criminal propaganda. >> they are stepping up air strikes in syria and iraq. jordan is vowing revenge. leland viter has the latest. >> are jordan's air strikes having impact? >> doesn't seem as of yet. they are symbolic are unlikely to change the battlefield equation by that much. the jordan hit weapon depos. and experts point the law of the diminishing returns against the terrorist army. there is growing criticism on the administration's handling of the isis threat. susan rice doubled down on the president's policy for confronting terror. >> while the dangers we face are more numberous and varied. they are not of the nature that we confronted in world war ii or during the cold war. we cannot a forward to be buffeted by alarmism, and the nearly instantous new's cycle. >> it was a exercise in self congratulation. and the message is wow, we are doing so well and we'll give you more of the same. my bar

. >>> the family of kayla muler, the american aide worker has been been confirmed that she was quilled. some of her family and friends paid tribute to her this afternoon in a press conference. >>> the family of kayla muler, the american aide worker has been been confirmed that she was killed. some of her family and friends paid tribute to her this afternoon in a press conference. >> she was a free spirit standing up for those suffering and wanting to be their vote. >> i'm not sure how to live in a world without kayla, but i do know that we're all living in a better world because of her. >> mueller's family also released a copy of a letter. it include as passage that i read earlier. today president obama defended his policy of not paying ransom for hostages. >> my immediate reaction is heartbreak. i have been in touch with kayla's family. she was a outstanding young woman and had a great spirit. and i think that spirit will live on. the one thing that we have held to is a policy of not paying ransoms for an organization like isil. the reason is once we start doing that, not only are we

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in the hometown of kayla muler in prescott arizona the family and friend hope she is remembered if braverynk and compassion. >> the grieving family of kayla mueller releasing new details of the 18 months in captivity as they try to accept her death. >> kayla has touched the heart of the world. the world greens -- greens with us. >> the 26-year-old captured by isis while working to hope war refugees smuggle out a letter to the family. "the thought of you sends me into a fit of tears." >> the three other americans million hostage by isis everyone all beheaded. kayla was never mentioned or shown in any of the brutal caution votes. officials say they do not know how or when she died. >>> thank you. president obama predicts the supreme court will localized same-sex marriage this year. on monday the justices refused to put a hold on gay marriage in alabama where a judge struck down the previous voter-aproved ban on same-sex marriage. it signaled the high court is leaning toward ruling it is unconstitutional for any state to limit marriage between a man and a woman. >> my sense is the supreme cou

the president is under pressure to do more after the confirmed death of american aid worker kayla muler mueller. the pentagon is certain she died at the hands of isis not in a jordanian strike. president obama claims we'll bring justice to those who held her in captivity and brought her to her death. >>> and one of the first witnesses after opening statement will be in trial today. eddie ray ralph is accused of shooting chris kyle and his friend at a texas gun range in 2013. ralph's lawyers are pursuing the insanity defense claiming she suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. the movie "american sniper" is based on chris kyle's memoir. >>> and a videotaped confession from a man who murdered a little boy 30 years ago. pedro hernandez admitted to choking 6-year-old etan patz and leaving his body in a plastic bag of trash. the boy's body was never found and hernandez's lawyer says this was dreamed up by a mentally ill man. >>> and police are looking into reports of a fight at bobbi kristina brown's home a week before she was found face down in a bathtub. she remains in a medically-in

kayla muler, a humanitarian aide worker from arizona was taken hostage by isis in 2013 near alepo. is believed to be the last american hostage help captive by the group. today isis claimed she was killed in raqqa, buried in the rubble of a building hit by an air strike. but, as nbc news reporting, there was no u.s. or jordanian combat missions near that city. the raids took place 140 miles away. u.s. special forces attempted to rescue captives in july but they had been moved. the other hostages held with her were all beheaded. she has never been shown in front of a camera and her family has asked news organizations to not identify her by name. mueller is and was, or is by all accounts a remarkable human being committed to helping victims of civil war as she posted in this video. >> i'm in solidarity with the syrian people. i reject the brutality and killing that the syrian authorities are committing against the syrian people. >> she was a friend to the syrian people. she put her life on the line to aide them. tonight muellers family and the rest of the world await news of her fate.

the name of this hostage, now identified as 26-year-old aid worker, kayla muler, had not been made public. joining me now from amman, jordan, is simmons. >> reporter: what they are fundamentally saying is they don't know whether or not these claims by isis are true or not because those air strikes have been launched by the jordanians from here but they are air strikes. getting confirmation on the ground particularly in this area raqqah which is an isis stronghold in syria, is very very difficult. what the jordanians are saying, for example in a tweet, these claims by isis are sick. how can we believe a group like that and jordanians say in the past, actually just recently isis lied about when that jordanian pilot was killed. jordanians say it was a month earlier before the actual video was released. clearly, isis would think it would have a lot to gain from making a claim like this not just that a u.s. female hostage has been killed eded like this but also claiming she was killed by those jordanian air raids. >> thank you. joining me now, my guests. ayman, there's a clear mode of isis her

. >> reporter: kayla muler is from prescott arizona. she can best be described probably as a citizen of the world. in high school. she volunteered and sought protests for the cause. she became president of a group "stand" a student-led movement to help atrocities. she traveled first to india and israel and the palestinian territories working for humanitarian organizations. by 2011 syria was beckoning. she spoke about it in this online post. >> i am in solidarity with the syrian people. i reject the brutality and killing that the syrian authorities are committing against the syrian people. >> reporter: in 2012 mueller made her first trip to the syrian-turkish border. she was working for aide groups supporting syrians fleeing their company. in may, 2013 she spoke to her local paper saying quote when syrians here say i'm an emergency they say, where is the world? all can i do is cry with them, because i don't know. she returned to the region two months after that interview was taken hostage. she was in aleppo syria in a hospital when she w

there is confirmation tonight in the death of kayla muler the 26-year-old american held by islamic militants. her parents receive aid private message from her captors it was authenticated by the intelligence community. isis claimed that last friday the aide worker was killed in a jordanian air strike but there is no proof. >> there is no evidence of civilians in the area prior to the strike taking place. >> mueller's family released a letter she sent to them last spring, she said i have a lot of fight left in me and i will not give in no matter how long it takes. meanwhile president obama vows to fine those responsible for her death. there is more coming up on world news with david muir. >>> the man accused of abducting a university of georgia student is now charged in her murder jessie matthew jr. was indicted on a count of first degree murder in the death of 18-year-old hannah graham, he was charged with intent to defile and graham disappeared in september and her body was found a few weeks later matthew is also linked to the death of a virginia tech student who disappeared in 2009. >>> a

raising doubts about isis claims that kayla muler was killed in an air strike. ly is holding out hope she is alive. jordan called the claim of the death is criminal propaganda. >> they are stepping up air strikes in syria and iraq. jordan is vowing revenge. leland viter has the latest. >> are

. >>> good morning in kayla muler's hometown of resolution cot, arizona the appeal and friends share her hopping she is remembered if her spunk, bravery and compassion. >> the grieving family of kayla mueller releasing new details of her 18 months in captivity as they now try to accept her death. >> kayla has touched the heart of the world, the world frenches with us. >> 26-year-old from arizona captured by isis militants while working to help war refugees managed to smuggle out a letter to her fell "the thought of you sends me into a fit of tears." >> the three other americans held hostage by isis were all beheaded. mueller was never shown in the excuse videos and do not know how or when she died. >>> president obama predicts the supreme court will legalize same-sex marriage this year. on monday they refused to hold gay marriage in alabama where federal judge recently struck down the rest voter approved ban on same-sex marriage. it signals that the nation's high court is leaning toward ruling it is unconstitutional for any state to limit marriage to just being between a man and a wom

the terror group says kayla muler wasmule mueller was killed in a jordanian air strike. and friends are clinging to the hope that mueller is still alive. >> he told me that the capture of kayla had happened just a few days earlier. >> reporter: the man he's talking about, kayla mueller. they captured her on august 4th 2014. the threat from isis talk about or release her name and they will execute her. her father, in a fog of fear and pain happened to then arizona secretary of state ken bennett on the radio. >> he was totally desperate and didn't know what to do and turned to me just because i happen to be a few blocks away on the radio as he was driving home. >> reporter: bennett, as arizona's secretary of state, carries no international diplomatic pull but has friends in power. he then was connected to john mccain on their personal cells and the diplomat tech race was on to save kayla mueller. they received excruciating silence, speaking to virtually no one about kayla. >> it's not hard to keep a secret like this when demands of this caliber are being made. when you look

in this interview, i guess was done a couple weeks ago before the latest news of kayla muler. does the president believe that the -- mueller. does the president believe that the state of terrorism is overstated? >> the threat from terror that is faced by the american people in the united states is much different than it has been before. that the kind of terror act that we saw that was carried out on september 1 2001, was carried out by an organization that operated for quite sometime with impunity in the region between afghanistan and pakistan, that they had the time and space and plan to carry out this terribly tragic conspiracy to wreak havoc in the lives of thousands, if not millions of americans. because of actions that have been taken by the previous administration and this administration, terrorist organizations no longer have that same capacity and that means that the risk that is facing the american people is different. now, the president and his team continue to be vigilant because there are dangerous organizations that continue to exist and to operate. we were talkin

kayla muler is an aide worker taken back in august of 2013 while she left the hospital in syria.ting her family now in arizona. isis said back on friday that muler died in a jordanian air strike, but the jordanian government says what isis is saying is all propaganda. muler is the only known u.s. hostage being held by the radical islamic group. >>> world leaders gathered in germany on saturday for the munnic security conference to discuss the russian ukraine crisis and whether russia is helping to maintain the peace. the leader haves different ideas on how the crisis should be solved. mary malone has the story. >> president putin has to make simple start choice. get out of ukraine or face continued isolation and growing economic cost at home. >> reporter: strong rhetoric from vice president joe biden addressing the munnic security conference friday. he asserted future agreements with russia must be judged based on president vladimir putin's actions, not his words. >> too many time president putin has promised peace and delivered tanks, troops, and weapons. >> reporter: western le

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. >> we have been praying and talking about isis and doing it in a way in regards to kayla's situation. >> the mulersave stayed silent pleading with the international press and the press community to keep their daughter's name out of the newspaperssh hoping that would keep her alive. there was the attempt to rescue her. but when u.s. special forces arrived, she and three other captors were gone. on friday, the world finally learned who kayla mueller was. yesterday, a girl even in captivity tried to make peace with the guards that imprisoned her. >> kayla tried to teach the guards crafts to make origami, the peace cranes she would stand on her head. >> kayla mueller, the will to live and the drive to help others in the face of evil. >> on behalf of the people of arizona and the united states congress i want to express the deepest condolences to kayla's parents. >> she wrote i see something good in every situation. that's right now what we are all trying to do. >> the family released a handwritten letter in her time in captivity where she re-assures her family she is safe and unharmed. she writes with

no word until this isis claim on friday that kayla mueller was killed in this building. the mulers still afraid to say the wrong thing remain home behind police cars still suffering alone in a hell few can ever imagine. they released a public statement to isis to reach out to them privately and directly. >> i think it's one of the amazing pars of the story that out of their love for their daughter they've had to almost bear this alone. and i don't know how they as a family have that. >> reporter: alone no longer prescott arizona, now knows and praise. >> we love you, and we pray for you every day. we hope to get you back. >> reporter: here's the amazing thing -- last summer when that ransom democratand was made approximately according to a family spokesman, about 100 people may have known this was happening to kayla mueller. news organizations around the world knew her name. yet still the information did not get out. all of this is credited to the parents who became so personally involved trying to protect their child. cnn, prescott arizona. >>> there's another american hostage in

today mulers friends and family in her hometown of prescott arizona shared their grief. >> kayla has touched thehearted of the world. the world grieves with us, the world mourns with us. >> i'm still not sure how we're going to live in a world without kayla but i do know that we're living in a better world because of her. >> reporter: in a letter, kayla wrote a letter to her family where she said she was being treated well. and apologized for bringing so much pain to her family. >>> at issue police tactics and the use of force during demonstrations. amber lee is live with the decisions already coming out of a meeting. >> reporter: julie we're at the old city hall where the meeting is under way right now. the city council voted to approve body cameras and dashboard cameras for police but no vote yet on the other police related issues. tonight's meeting was proceeded with a rally and march. they marched from uc berkeley to old city hall. >> the community wants us to take some action. >> reporter: actions that will require change to police policy when it comes to crowd control during pr

kayla had to die. >> we asked and tried and they put policy in front of american citizens' lives. >> muler er mueller's family is starting a new foundation to remember her. learn more on the nbc news facebook page. >>> and a standoff over immigration and the homeland security budget. thousands of dhs workers could be furloughed within days. tracie potts is on capitol hill with a look whether a deal is >> reporter: brash barks the money more homeland security caught up in a big fight over immigration here on capitol hill. some lawmakers, republicans, do not want to give that money to homeland security because they're over immigration and thess do not like the president's new policies on immigration allowing as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants to stay in this country without fear of being immediately deported. they want the president to roll that back before giving up the money. but now it looks like they may be willing to stand down because a federal judge has ruled in their favor. they're going to let it work its way through the courts and go ahead and work out way to fund homeland security bu

kayla. >> she continues -- she's being remembered in her home town of prescott, arizona. president obama says the u.s. government tried to win muler's even launching a risky rescue operation. >> i deployed an entire operation at significant risk to rescue not only her but the other individuals that had been held and probably missed them by a day or two. >> but the president defended the u.s. policy of not paying ran some for hostages. that president obama says would only make americans even greater targets for kidnapping. >>> and this morning, president obama, as expected, sent congress a request for authorization to use military force in the fight against islamic state militants in iraq and syria. in his request, the president tells lawmakers that isis is responsible for the deaths of kayla mueller and three other american hostages. >>> the u.s. has closed the embassy in yemen and evacuated the staff. the state department says the security situation is unpredictable since shiite rebels ez sooed control of the capital. france and britain are closing their embassies in yemen. >>> authorities raided a home in australia and arrested tw