we're standing by to hear from the secretary chuck hagel and martin dempsey.y will be speaking about syria and iraq. a news conference coming up at the bottom of the hour in about ten minutes or so if not less. this comes amid barbara starr reporting there has been what they described as a tough memo from hagel written to the white house complaining of a lack of clarity as far as u.s. policy towards syria is concerned. we'll see what the secretary of defense has to say. presumably he'll be asked about the way isis is treating women and we have a special report that's coming up right now, women are not only being forced to leave their homes in syria and iraq, they are being humiliated, they are battered, they're being kidnapped and they are being brutally raped repeatedly by these isis terrorists. teenagers, turned into sex slaves, by isis. our senior international correspondent ivan watson spoke to one young victim. >> janna was a 19-year-old high school senior with dreams of becoming a doctor when isis first came to her village. >> translator: they came to th

this afternoon general martin dempsey will host a discussion. nbc's tracie potts is live in washington for us this morning. one of the big questions today likely will be concern that combat troops will be on the ground there. what can you tell us about that? >> reporter: it seems that's the big question for the 22 nations, including the u.s. the air strikes so far have had limited success. some success, yes, but isis continues to advance in iraq and in syria. and these nations, this coalition, they have to decide which country is going to put their own military in there to stop them. defense chiefs from ten arab countries and 11 others meet president obama and general martin dempsey at andrews air force base this afternoon. turkey is denying reports that the u.s. can use its bases for air strikes, but says it will help train syrian rebels to fight isis. the syrian town of kobani is barely holding on. isis is also closing in on baghdad. hundreds of u.s. troops are there. >> i believe the capability is there to defend baghdad. so i think we're som

this afternoon martin dempsey will host the discussion. tracie potts is live in washington. one of the big questions today will most likely concern combat boots on the ground. >> reporter: we've been told not to expect any major policy changes but you're right the key question is going to be of these 22 nations meeting including the united states, which one is willing to put its own military in iraq and syria to fight isis. defense chiefs from ten arab countries and 11 others meet president obama and general martin dempsey at andrews air force base this afternoon. turkey is denying reports that the u.s. can use its bases for air strikes but says it will help train syrian rebels to fight isis. kobani is barely holding on. isis is also closing in on baghdad. hundreds of u.s. troops are there. >> i believe the capability is there to defend baghdad. so i think we're somewhat confident. >> reporter: on monday iraqis abandoned a base in anbar province just 85 miles outside of baghdad. the u.s. says air strikes are buying time to retrain the iraqis. isis released this video of amer

general martin dempsey said he may have to fight ebola in a much more aggressive form. he sat down with kyra phillips. he's trying to get information from doctors to see if the virus can go airborne. we'll see if that could become a reality. stay right here. you do a lot of things great. but parallel parking isn't one of them. you're either too far from the curb. or too close to other cars... it's just a matter of time until you rip some guy's bumper off. so, here are your choices: take the bus. or get liberty mutual insurance. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. see car insurance in a whole new light. call liberty mutual insurance. >> general martin derncy, president obama's top military adviser fears one day he may have to fight ebola in a much more aggressive form. listen to what he just told kyra phillips. >> are you, general denvercy, worried about ebola here in the u.s.? >> i've been worried about ebola globally for about 90 daisy and i have had some on my staff that were probably a little more w

at 1:00 p.m., a replay of abc's "this week" with general martin dempsey, housing and urban development secretary, and representative mike rogers, chairman of the house intelligence committee. also on the program, dr. anthony fauci, director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases at the n.. hifment. at 2:00, it's fox news sunday. guests include the man who helped lead the legal team that challenged virginia's gay marriage ban. also tony perkins, president of the family research council. cnn's state of the union follows at 3:00 p.m. with the chairman of the republican national committee and congresswoman and chair of the democratic national committee. finally at 4:00 eastern, it's "face the nation" with the director of the centers for disease control and prevention, representative mike mccall, and former defense secretary and former c.i.a. director leon panetta. the sunday network tv talk shows are on c-span radio, and they're brought to you as a public service by the networks and c-span. again, the rebroadcast of the shows begin at noon eastern with "meet the press

it will be hosted by martin dempsey. leaders from france and germany and kuwait among others will be attending. >>> a worry of late day selloff on monday sent stocks lower. the dow jones industrial average dipped 270 points. now the move dashing hopes for a rebound following last week's plunge. the market has been in shambles after fears of a global growth slowdown and big drops in the energy sector. >>> a 7.3 earthquake rattled buildings in central america overnight. it struck off the coast of el salvador. officials did issue a tsunami warning, but so far there have been no large waves. the quake was large enough for shaking in el salvador and honduras and nicaragua. >>> all right. it has been a scary 24 hours for many. storms raking through the country affecting millions. for more on the severe weather threat, let's go to alexandra steele. >> hi, john. are you speaking of deaths? we had two yesterday. one in alabama and one in arkansas. the first october tornado deaths since 2009. one a 33-year-old marine and a 75-year

steps up air strikes, general martin dempsey speaks exclusively to cnn and leaves open the possibilityps could be asked to fight. plus, new terror threat. u.s. intelligence deeply worried right now the chaos in yemen could help al qaeda succeed in its goal in attacking the united states. the hunt for hannah graham, the search for the virginia student entering a new phase. we have the latest details. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> escalating concern about ebola in the united states with a second texas nurse now diagnosed with the virus and the troubling revelation that she was on a commercial flight only hours before she was hospitalized in dallas. there are now growing concerns about texas health presbyterian hospital where the two nurses contracted ebola after caring for the liberian patient who died last week. the centers for disease control now saying the newly diagn

jon: president obama and the joint chiefs chairman, general martin dempsey will meet with defense chiefs from 20 coalition nations today essentially what will be a progress report on the war against isis as isis tariffs fight on multiple fronts in iraq and syria, capturing a key iraqi military training camp, holding roughly half the syrian town of kobani. and this. brand new video of coalition fighter jets over the skies in kobani. airstrikes have been ramping up in recent days. the u.s.-led coalition carrying out 450 strikes in iraq and syria so far. greg palkot is live along the turkish-syrian border. greg? >> reporter: john, we witnessed the heaviest barrage today of us air strikes bense the isis positions in syrian town ever kobani with at least one important result. take a look with we saw today. we have just witnessed another u.s. coalition airstrike on western side of kobani. we are told there have been multiple strikes in the last several hours and they might be having an effect. that isis black flag of terror we've been show you on the top of hill on eastern side of town, it is

top leader general martin dempsey talking about the topic with abc news, he says he is fearful kobani will fall. there is concern if militants take the city. terrorists could then enter into turkey. this as canadian lawmakers have authorized airstrikes against isis in iraq for up to six months. australia's prime minister announcing he wants to ban so-called hate preachers or radical islamic preachers through laws. the french government released this, these fighter jets were target mog sul. two people were hospitalized as a precaution in spain because of eboll ra. a health worker and a person that traveled to nigeria. >> that makes four in the hospital in spain where the first case of ebola was transmetro detroited outside africa t. dog, by the way, a nurse may be positive. authorities fear it could transmit the virus. it comes as we learn about possible risks too id to the military 'ition in liberia. tracy potts is in washington. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it comes as we are learning how worried americans are about getting ebola. in a few gallup poll only one in five tho

general martin dempsey of course is a decorated veteran and not somebody whose honor one would impugnif you were to get truth serum into someone at the white house they would say we defer to our public health officials when it comes to whether or not ebola is airborne. you won't hear anyone criticize general dempsey, his being the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. >> let me know when you find that truth serum by the way, tapper. we did have a columnist on yesterday that wrote this piece in "the l.a. times" a couple days ago talking about if it's not cdc who technically is in charge, it should be the surgeon general pointing to the nra for the reason this doctor has not been green lighted. >> it's true that nra opposed the confirmation of the doctor who the president nominated to be surgeon general. the white house was asked about this yesterday and the basic answer is having a confirmed surgeon general couldn't hurt but they are not out there making the argument that the surgeon general, a confirmed surgeon general, would be making a difference in what's going on right now in ter

different kind of advising and assisting because of the complexity of that fight. >> general martin dempsey meantime there could be at least 10,000 civilians trapped in kobani. the kurdish enclave is just a few kilometers from the border. nic walsh is right there. >> reporter: if kobani falls to isis, they'll be turkey's new brutal neighbor along a hundred kilometers of frontier. and nowhere is living next door to isis begun to seem so normal. isis's totem of fear, truly enormous here. the turkish military are asking us to move away. so large and in such full view, so close. boys say they know what to do if isis tried to cross. one of the residents said off camera, at least the civil war's violence doesn't spill over anymore since isis took over the town about a year ago. coalition air strikes have been reported here recently. but more visible is the him drum of life after the self-declared cal we ask how life is. only to a point as isis might kill us all if we crossed over. the turkish army are not happy. how could they be? life darkened for a generation. cnn. >>> take another break here.

reporter: the president will be there along with the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey, and more than a dozen defense ministers from all over the world. these are countries that are partnering with the u.s. to defeat isis. tomorrow, at andrews air force base, president obama is set to meet with defense ministers from 20 countries to talk about the fight against isis. air strikes continue. in syria, kobani is under siege. they are begging for international help. >> kobani does not define the strategy of the coalition. >> reporter: in iraq -- >> iraqi security forces are at full control of baghdad. >> reporter: -- but deadly bombings still dozens last weekend and the joint chiefs chair revealed isis came within 15 miles of taking control of the airport. u.s. apache helicopters went in and stopped them. >> they overrun the iraqi unit. it is a straight shot to the airport. so we're not going to allow that to happen. >> reporter: critics say the president needs a new strategy. >> they're winning and we're not. >> reporter: too slow, not enough fight says president obama's fo

joint chiefs charmt general martin dempsey said our only option was to call in apache attack helicopters to prevent them from taking things over completely. that's not good. also, despite the president's promise to degrade and destroy this group over the weekend isis claimed control of a critical military base. despite a series of coalition air strikes there just hours before. the leaders of anbar province, that whole region just west of iraq's capital were today warning there were some 10,000 isis fighters now in their neck of the woods. they're begging for ground support. isis has 80% of anbar province, which we fought so hard to secure. but when national security advisor susan rice just yesterday was asked about how this terror army is continuing to make such significant gains in iraq, here was her response. >> right now you're reassessing the strategy or no? >> no, chuck thrks is very early days of the strategy. the strategy's very clear. we'll do what we can from the air. we'll support the iraqi security forces, the kurds and ultimately over time the moderate opposition in syria. bu

can secretary hagel, basically siding with his generals, general martin dempsey and general ray or hear now, if they don't step up, they wouldn't beg a quarantine in africa. >> so many mixed messages coming out of so many governmental agencies, whether the military or the cdc, the governors of new york and new jersey, no one is on the same page. and they've had time to get their act together. i understand we don't know everything there is to know about ebola and how it could be evolving, but we do know a few things about how it is transmitted. and it seems that this quarantine from areas of africa that are particularly part of this seems reasonable. but when you have the military disagreeing with the cdc, you can't get anyone on this -- and the white house can't even -- they can't seem to pull people together into the same room and tell them simply lets all get on the same page for the confidence of the american people. i think that this is the real danger. lou: joe, is this a big deal that is going to last? this is a long-lasting rupture between the civilian leadership and the military

. >> reporter: in an exclusive interview, general martin dempsey talked with martha raddatz about the air strikes and the shadowy military group. they succeeded in disrupting their western targets. >> it's safe to say disrupted. but the unknown is for how long. >> reporter: here in the u.s., the fbi is enlisting the help of the public in tracking down home grown terrorists. in this chilling propaganda video, this man speaks as the man he's about to kill is digging a ditch. >> they are digging their ditch in the area they were stationed. >> reporter: the fbi believes he may be from the u.s. and hoping that someone might recognize this individual and provide us with key pieces of information. no piece of information is too small. the fbi is fighting this home-grown terror threat. they are asking anyone to call if they know of someone looking to join isis. >> thank you so much. >>> and the deadly crash of an air tanker helping to fight a wildfire in california. >> it went down on the edge of yosemite national park. the air tanker, like the one here, had one pilot on board. it hit a steep

. >> obama discussed with defense secretary chuck hagel, martin dempsey and other officials at the pentagon. obama says this is not something going to be served overnight. strikes will continue in cooperation with country's partners in the mission. in a related development, australia's defense department says it has launched the first air strike against islamic state militants in iraq. a fighter jet dropped two bombs during the night on a facility occupied by the group. >> it kills everyone who doesn't share its narrow sectarian ideology. that's why it's important that australia do what we can in conjunction with our friends and allies. >> australian security officials last month uncovered a plot to kidnap a random member of the australia public and dress the victim in an islamic state flag before execution. the revolution boosted support for a abbott's position to join u.s. operations against the group. and it's time now to check on the world weather with our meteorologist. while people in japan are still recovering from typhoon phanfone, the next is approaching. >> this is the most intens

top military leader martin dempsey meanwhile talking with abc news about isis. he says he is, quote, fearful that kobani will fall. there is concern if militants take the syrian city of kobani terrorists could then enter into turkey. this as canadian lawmakers have authorized to have airstrikes in iraq for up to six months. australia's prime minister also announcing today he wants to ban so called hate preachers or radical islamist preachers from entering the country through tougher counterterrorism laws. and the french government has released this new video of airstrikes in iraq. these fighter jets were targeting isis holdings near mosul. >>> new developments this morning in the fast-moving ebola crisis. in spain, two more people are hospitalized, a health worker and a person who traveled to nigeria. this now makes four. and more bad news for the nurse who tested positive in madrid. her dog may be euthanized. authorities fear it could transmit the virus. all of it coming as concerns grow over the military's mission in liberia. nbc's tracie potts is in washingto

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. >> reporter: defense chiefs from ten arab countries and 11 others meet president obama and martin dempseyrkey is denying reports that the u.s. can use its basis for air strikes, but says it will help train syrian rebels to fight isis. the syrian town is barely holding on. isis is also closing in on baghdad. hundreds of u.s. troops are there. >> i believe the capability is there to defend, so, i think, we're somewhat confident. >> reporter: on monday, iraqis abandon the base in anbar province, just 85 miles outside baghdad. the u.s. says air strikes are buying time to retrain the iraqi. isis released this video of american peter after converting to islam. >> we haven't forgotten him. we haven't abandoned him and we certainly do love him. >> reporter: the 26-year-old former army ranger was captured last october. he was in syria helping refugees. his parents got an audio message two weeks ago. >> he described his time is running out. >> reporter: hostages, refugees and syrians at risk. the coalition needs to get the upper hand. that's the focus of today's tracie potts, nbc news, washington.

earlier martin dempsey says isis fighters are blending into sunni communities and cities near baghdadd predicted they will fire at targets in the capital. he said an out right assault on baghdad remains unlikely. join us on air and online tomorrow. i am hari sreenivasan. have a good night. >> captioning sponsored by wnet captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we are your retirement company. additional support is provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ >> i play this piece for curtis and he says the chopin was absolutely beautiful thomas that he asked me to play again. that was the main reason i got in curtis. ♪ ♪ >> we are doing duets about love. you can make out of that what you want. ♪ >> when

it comes as joint chiefs chairman general martin dempsey issued a mandatory 21-day quarantine for thoseing back from ebola infected countries. state officials in maine said they'll pursue legal action if necessary to enforce a home quarantine for kaci hickox. chris christie is taking some of his toughest language yet to take on the cdc and those criticizing hickox story. >> they're saying they can't on public transportation and would like them to work from home. it sounds like a quarantine to me. >> looks like you'll have to defend it in court. >> whatever. get in line i've been sued a lot of times before. i'm happy to take you on. >> do you have any -- the tent was inside a hospital. it's called an isolation tent because she needed to be isol e isolated because she was suspected of having ebola. the cdc offenwas on the ground monitoring the situation. she was in all kinds of malarkey about this. she was inside the hospital in a climate controlled area with access to her cell phone, internet, and take out food from some of the best restaurants in newark. she was doing just fine. >>> a n

. >> reporter: general martin dempsey talks with abc's martha raddatz about the airstrikes against isis the terror group khorasan. >> i think it's absolutely safe to say disrupted but the unknown is for how long. >> reporter: here in the u.s., the fbi is enlisting the help of the american public in tracking down home grown terrorists joining the fight with isis. in this chilling isis propaganda video a fighter in a black mask speaks as the men he's about to kill dig a ditch in the background. >> you can see them now digging their own graves in the very place where they were stationed. >> reporter: the fbi believes the man can be from the u.s. we're hoping that someone might recognize this individual and provide us with key pieces of information. the fbi web site says. no piece of information is too small. the fbi is being very aggressive about this home grown terror threat. they're asking americans to call them if they know anyone looking to join isis. tahman bradley, abc news, washington. >> a surveillance camera catches a bank rob at work in south whitehall township. the suspect walke

over there especially when you think about what is about to happen in kobani as a massacre, as martin dempsey said yesterday, is about to take place while the turks watch and we wait. >> 150,000 civilians fled to the turkish border when you hear general tem is -- dempsey say is about to fall. how many more parts of the world will have to get into isis' hands? >> it seems like the president will get a handle what is going on in isis today. for the second time in his presidency he's going to go to the pentagon for a briefing. that's right i said for the second time in his presidency he's going for a briefing. >> in between fund-raising in new york and greenwich. >> he's going to work at the pentagon today because then he's going out to the west coast for more fund-raising. leon panetta has a new book out called "worthy fights." he certainly had one last night with bill o'reilly over what happened at the administration during his tenure this. he was, of course, director of the c.i.a., secretary of defense as well. it's clear that -- and we've heard mr. panetta say this before -- that obama made

abc's martha raddatz tonight, and martha, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey, in that one-on-one with signaling that was the main concern here. >> reporter: that's true, david. it is alarming how close isis is to baghdad, infiltrating the towns where they have sunni supporters who are still dissatisfied with the iraqi government. this is inspite of hundreds of u.s. air strikes. more than 1,000 bombs dropped. the u.s. had to call in apache attack helicopters recently to protect the airport. the chairman of the joint chiefs telling me that iraqi security formss were being overrun by isis, just about 12 miles from the airport and if the apatch cheaps hadn't been called in, it was a straight shot to the airport. but the chairman says he's confident isis will not take baghdad itself. but it is also clear that eye si isis has a presence there with the number of suicide bombings increasing, david. >> indeed. those final ten miles so concerning. martha, thank you. >>> now to the breaking news from north korea tonight. is there an end to that mystery? this was the last

and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general martin dempsey acknowledged in an interview with abc's martha raddatz that isis is now changing tactics. >> the enemy adapts and they'll be harder to target, yeah. they know how to maneuver and how to use populations and concealment. >> reporter: the general also revealed today that isis in iraq had come within 15 miles of baghdad's airport. so close that the u.s. had to call in apache attack helicopters for the first time. general dempsey warned that he expects to start seeing isis firing into baghdad from nearby positions. he says, for now, there are no immediate plan for u.s. ground troops in iraq, but said the role of u.s. military advisers there may have to evolve with the fighting. cecilia? >> alex, thank you. >>> and now, back here at home, to a festive fall tradition that took a deadly turn in an instant. a halloween-themed hayride flup flipped over on a steep hill in maine, killing a teenage girl and injuring more than 20 others. tonight, some of those juries are serious and we're told the driver of a small jeep picking that flat

martha: brain asked him about martin dempsey, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and he said it's well known the military recommended we leave a residual force of 10,000 to 15,000. did you feel the same way? president bush said i did. i did feel the same way. he wanted to leave that force there. here's what he said after that. >> the president has to make the choices he thinks are important. i'm not going to second guess our president. i understand how tough the job is. to have a former president believatinbelievating and secong i don't think is good for the country. i agreed with general dempseys assessment. >> the president is saying i'm not going to second guess president obama but if you are asking my opinion and i'm reluctant to give it my opinion is yes, i would have agreed with martin dempsey. martha: another topic is whether presidents benefit from talking with each other and whether the clinton-bush relationship has become so much more public. in terms of the phone calms they shared and they spoke about it. brian asked that question, has president obama called you to disc

kyra phillips sat down for an exclusive interview for the chairman of the joint chiefs general martin dempsey. how did it go? >> general dempsey, wolf, made it it clear that those worn down iraqi forces will not be getting help from u.s. combat troops right now, but it's not off the table. this campaign, he says, will be carried out by a coalition of forces to not just degrade isis where it's manageable, but to defeat it. >> how confident are you that you can keep baghdad from falling? >> i'm confident we can assist the iraqis to keep baghdad from falling. the iraqis have established a fairly formidable defensive perimeter around baghdad and, you know, it's been awing waugmy militias and things and it's a very deep defense and i'm confident that baghdad won't be threatened directly and of course, isil can infiltrate and use vehicle-borne car bombs and they can, from distance, they can lob in rockets and things. so baghdad is going to be under threat r of attack, but in terms of losing control of bagbaghdad don't see that happening. >> what we're seeing iraqi forces not encouraging and they're

general martin dempsey said this morning said they were needed to defend the baghdad airports. of all, how exposed are these apache helicopters? is this a necessary risk? >> well, i think it's a necessary risk. and the fact of the matter is, the apache is a very, very powerful platform when used with its operational safety zone with the systems that support it. we have to be very careful about that and where the apaches go home for home base, which i assume there is in the large international airport in baghdad. you heard general dempsey mention indirect fires. if isis can get long range fires and put them on the airstrip, that's a major problem. >> all right. >> now, some of the bunkers still remain that saddam had that you could put the apaches in, that would alleviate things so much, but i think the air force did a job of cleaning those out. >> thanks much. >> good to be on the air with you, alex. >>> the new york city subway system got creepier. what one man is stealing from women to sure to knock your socks off. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] united is rolling out global, satellit

and then there was the joint chiefs martin dempsey, and the president will be there shortly, expectedo speak afterwards, a pep talk as well as anything else to try to get the coalition to turn the tide. >> peter cook joining me from the white house. thank you. i am joined by indira in washington. is it working? do we have tangible evidence of that, and have the strikes inaged to roll isis back iraq? >> well, of course, that is the billion dollar question, whether the investment americans are butng is going to pay off, isis controls about the same amount of territory that he did before the campaign began, so officials say really they want and abilities, and that means command and oil fields and refineries, and apparently, they have done that, and in iraq, we have seen there have been advances, thanks to the coalition, and both of the iraqi dams are back in their hands, but iraq has forces on the ground, and that is a date difference. this is even though there have been mixed results, and we are hearing from and bar province right next to baghdad that isis now controls 80% of that proce

this, all of these military commanders who are both retired and currently serving have said, martin dempsey came in front of congress and said if air strikes do not work, we will have to send in ground troops, achnd th american people have said they support air strikes, and if they fail which they are failing -- >> how do you say that? >> they are moving on. i mean they are about to take another city. >> and raising the flag. >> if i was in new jersey, i would be worried about it. >> you know what? you make a joke about this, but this is a real threat to the united states. >> the americans shouldn't have to go and fight a war they should be fighting. >> but they want to. >> giver them a chance. >> the military is more than happy to see the military concerned about them, but they are more than happy to do this, they are trained to do this. it may be a holy war for our political te military as well as for them. >> they want to be part of this, they want to fight for freedom and liberty and for the gains we achieved in the middle east. >> let's talk about bob's favorite suggest, the administra

president obama, the joint chiefs chair general martin dempsey, and 20 countries, the defense ministers from 20 countries that teamed up with the u.s. in this fight. air strikes are continuing. kobani is under siege. deadly bombings in baghdad. dempsey admitted thad isis militants got within 15 miles of taking over the airport there. and the u.s. had to stop with low flying apache helicopters, which is a bit more of a challenge for the u.s. now, the criticism you were talking about, john mccain said this weekend this strategy simply is not working, that they are winning and we are not. we heard from former defense second leon panetta who said president obama is too much like a professor and needs the heart of a warrior to defeat isis. aaron? >>> tracie potts on the hill for us. thanks, tracie. >>> crowds have been confronting democracy protesters in hong kong. they're upset that the student demonstrators have been blocking main roads near the heart of the city's financial district. the protest started two weeks ago after beijing said it would prescreen all candidates. >>> new tension be

. >> defense chiefs are meeting president obama and general martin dempsey at andrews air force base this afternoon. turkey is denying reports they can use the bases for air strikes strikes. the syrian town of kobani is barely holding on. isis is also closing in on baghdad. hundreds of u.s. troops are there. >> i believe the capability is there to defend baghdad. i think we're somewhat confidence. >> on monday iraqis abandoned the base in anbar province, 85 miles outside of baghdad. air strikes are buying time to retrain the iraqis. isis released this video of american peter kassig, after converting to islam. >> we haven't forgotten him. we haven't abandoned him. and we certainly do love him. >> the 26-year-old army ranger was captured last october. he was in syria capturing refugees. his parents got an audio message two weeks ago. hostages, refugees and syrians at risk. the coalition needs to get the upper hand. that's the focus of today's meeting. and back here on capitol hill, the army's top general is telling congress he's concerned about money. ch aboutt cuts coming up in the ne

general martin dempsey refusing to rule out 100% the possibility of recommending combat troops in iraqseeing a case where we should reintroduce large ground combat forces in iraq. again, war is discovery. isil is a national security threat. if we get to that point, i'll make the recommendation. >> it is his job to keep options ov open. >>> the u.s.-led air strikes are pounding isis positions in iraq and northern syria. the pentagon rolling out the name. operation inherent resolve. 39 air strikes in the last few days. many hitting near the syrian down of kobani where kurdish forces are fighting hard to keep extremists from seizing control. let's bring in cnn correspondent arwa damon at the border with turkey and syria. >> reporter: good morning, christine. those air strikes do seem to have at the very least for the time being allowed the ypg fighters to at least maintain some of the key front lines preventing isis from moving forward from the critical border crossing with turkey. if they managed to take over the crossing, kobani would effectively fall. for now, that is holding. when it

fox news has confirmed the joint chiefs chairman, geneeal martin dempsey, has recommended a 21 day quarantine all of our troops returning from service in western africa. the white house today however refused to say whether the president agreed, despite the revelation that the u.s. army is already quarantining for 21 days, 11 individuals who arrived working in west africa. the white house also not denying reports that they had pressured the governors of new york and new jersey to ease their mandatory 21 day quarantine, which they put in place last week from health care workers returning from west africa. >> members of this administration have been in close touch with state and local officials in new york and new jersey over the last several weeks. and i'm telling you that i am not going to detail specific conversations. lou: the cdc admitted today that those two governors have the right to enact the very policies that they relaxed under obama administration pressure. and nbc today poll shows the public united in this white house position. 94% of online respondents say the way supporting mandat

general martin dempsey revealing new details about the fighting against isis in iraq.hey are determiningsly close to baghdad airport. 15 miles away. that's so close the general said the u.s. apache helicopters were called in for the first time to fire on the approaching isis army. >> you will not wait until they are climbing over the yard. they are within 25 kilombeters. >> of baghdad airport. >> and had they over run the iraqi unit it was a straight shot to the airport. we'll not let that happen. can they hit baghdad? terrorism analyst and author of the "lost spring" and the walid ferris. we haven't avoided isis. they are rolling up victory after victory and it will take us to stop them. >> it will. and speaking of baghdad, most predictions or projections do see a catastrophe maybe coming very fast. general dempsey talking about iowa sis from the the wall and we'll not have them come to the wall. and my concern is that isis may be inside of neighborhoods of baghdad and waiting for the wave coming from the outside to meet it. it is it a complex mission to defend baghda

yet general martin dempsey acknowledged that isis is making gains and revealed that u.s. officials were so concerned that the extremists were on the verge of taking over baghdad airport. the iraqi forces may not be able to stand on their own, leading to dempsey again being asked if it may be more effective at some point to -- >> the answer to that question will likely be yes. >> reporter: susan rice says no mill -- mission would benefit from them but a local iraqi official today told bloomberg that the city will fall within days without u.s. help. >> ed, thank you. >>> now to ebola, a health care worker in dallas is said to be in stable condition tonight. she is the first person as far as we know to become infected with ebola in the u.s. the first case of transmission inside this country. she was taken care of a liberian man who came here and later died. and her infection is raising all kinds of questions about -- a health care issue to a political one. but we begin in dallas tonight where precautions against ebola may not be working. >> reporter: yes, as concern grows, f

martin dempsey is refusing to rule out combat troops joining the battle. >> i cannot foresee the case to reintroduce large ground combat forces into iraq. again, war is discovery. isis is a national security threat. if we get to that point, i'll make that recommendation. >> he is refusing to rule out 100% the possibility he might ask for them. >>> u.s. officials continue to say the chances of an overthrow of baghdad at this point are really remote. >> and the u.s. says it will defend the airport which is incredibly important for personnel. >>> a u.s.-led air strikes pounding iraq and syria. ruling on the official name on wednesday. 39 strikes hitting isis targets near the northern syrian town of kobani where kurdish forces fighting hard from the isis forces from seizing control. i want to bring in cnn's arwa damon live at the syrian/turkey border. >> reporter: good morning, christine. that is kobani behind us. eerily quiet this morning because according to one kurdish official who has contacts inside kobani. he is currently in turkey. it is because of those relentless air strikes. tho

the session will be hosted by martin dempsey. officials from bahrain, britain, canada, egypt, canada and jordan and kuwait are among those attending. >>> a 7.3 earthquake rattle td buildings in el salvador overnight. officials issued a tsunami warning, but no reports of large waves. the quake was strong enough to cause shaking felt by millions in el salvador and honduras and nicaragua. there is one fatality reported along with some damaged buildings. >>> it has been a scary 24 hours for a lot of people in the united states. severe weather raking through the country. for more on the severe weather, let's go to alexandra steele in atlanta where the weather is coming. >> it is coming. we have have a tornado watch in atlanta. you know, yesterday, two deaths because of the tornadoes. it was the first deadly october tornado since 2009. one is a 33-year-old marine and the second was a 75-year-old woman. they were in arkansas and alabama. you can see a classic comma shape. the extending front along it. we will see this move east rapidly

attorneyny, we heard from the defense secretary, and the joint chief of staff, martin dempsey. now secretary hagel gave a progress report on how the forces are doing. their initial progress is encouraging, but these are first steps in what we have said will be a long and difficult multiyear effort. by the local forces on the ground, support from the u.s. as well as coalition partners. >> training them is a critical component, and the chairman did address that, he did say there is a control that has been set up, coalition members are providing trainers, but here is the key, no training has actually happened yet. that's still to come. >> so libby, secretary hagel was asked today about a memo he wrote to national security about the strategy, what do you have to say? first what did he write? two weeks ago, the defense secretary wrote a personal met mow to susan rice. sharing concerns he has about the strategy in syria, specifically related to the u.s. plan for it's leader and whether or not this can backfire if a plan isn't put into place. the secretary wouldn't go into the details

general martin dempsey said i.s.i.l. was 15 miles from the airport. i.s.i.l. has been making games, requesting more military help from international partners. richelle carey spoke to mikey kay a retired officer. he said unifying the forces is the key. >> i don't think we should, but there are problems when it comes to coordination. i'll stay away from the political. my few is military activity needs to be fused, and they are absent across the region. if you look at iraq you have the peshawar, the yazidi, the iraqi army, and a host of forces. the u.s., brits, dutch and all of this requires coordination, all of this is ineffective unless you have coordination. it requires ground forces to be on the same frequency. >> you are talking a lot about what happens on the ground as opposed to air strikes we heard so much about. do you think it's necessary for the united states to put boots on the ground to make this work? >> i don't think the u.s. should be looking at that. >> what i think we need to do is we need to harness forces there already. what we need to do is w

that's what general martin dempsey spoke about yesterday about the isis encroachment on the airport. let's listen. >> you will not wait until they were climbing over the wall. they were within 20 or 25 kilometers. >> of backed airport. >> sure. had they overrun the iraqi unit, it was a straight shot to the airport. so we're not going to allow that to happen. we need that airport. >> when he said, "we're not going to allow that to happen," what's the plan? >> reporter: well, i think ben will tell you there are significant defenses on the west front of the approaches to baghdad. there are u.s. apache helicopters, which have been used to push isis back. there are also regular drone flights overhead keeping an eye on isis. right now it is becoming tougher by the day, isis fighters are changing their strategy, they're blending into local population. they move in small groups. when are you a fighter bomber aircraft at 30,000 feet looking for a target to strike, they are getting tougher and tough tore see day-by-day, so this is going to be exactly what the pentagon promised. airstrikes alon

. >> reporter: and john, general martin dempsey, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, will host the push to plan the coalition campaign from here on out. >> heather hurlburt, welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> explain why you think turkey has been so reluctant to get involved in the fight against i.s.i.l. >> turkey has two objectives different than the u.s. and the coalition. one is they care much more about getting rid of president assad, syria's brutal ruler than i.s.i.l. they see assad as a much more large threat to them. and further, the town that the i.s.i.l. is threatening to topple, they are allied with the with other forces that threaten it and weal they don't mind so much if i.s.i.l. takes over that town. >> so they're more concerned about kurds than they are about i.s.i.l? >> yes. and you know, again, from their own narrow perspective you have to remember that the kurds and one particular kurdish group fought a more than a decade long civil war inside turkey in which tens of thousands of people were killed. >> so the syrian town of kobani is right on the turkish bord