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. >> reporter: during his two years in the army mattson never once saw combat or deployment overseas.n after arriving here in syria, he says he ended up in a battle against isis. >> the second day in i got hit a by a mortar. >> while recovering mattson went to work online recruiting more foreigners to help the ypg fight against isis. >> i've had ex-military calling from eastern europe, western european, canada, the united states, australia, you name it, they've been asking, you know, isis has threatened all of these countries i named to push their agenda in those nations and the veterans who love their countries don't want to sit by while this is happening. >> reporter: back home in wisconsin mattson used to work in a food packing company. >> other than that, we just hang out in here. >> reporter: now he lives in places like this former strauvent converted into a militia camp. what are the picture. >> all men that have died fighting against isis. >> reporter: the ypg are very lightly armed guerrillas. >> is this a flak jacket? >> no, just a vest to carry ammunition. >> reporter: so ba
. >> reporter: during his two years in the army mattson never once saw combat or deployment overseas.n after arriving here in syria, he says he ended up in a battle against isis. >> the second day in i got hit a by a mortar. >> while recovering mattson went to work online recruiting more foreigners to help the ypg fight against isis. >> i've had ex-military calling from eastern europe, western european, canada, the united states, australia, you name it, they've been...
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lou: 28-year-old army veteran jordan mattson also in syria to fight the islamic state. he's now recovering from a wound in a hospital. mattson tells usa today he went to battle because he couldn't sit and watch christians being slaughtered anymore. we're coming right back. stay with us. >> ebola fears throughout the country. experts now warning about the unavoidable spread of the virus in europe. what happened to that vaccine for ebola? one of the the top scientists dr. anthony fowchy of the national institute of health next lou: our public health officials are now working with the obama administration to create new screening rules. those rules we understand will be released in coming days while the obama administration itself is working very hard to reassure americans about the spread of the deadly virus. dr. anthony fouci is the director of the national institute of allergic and diseases. the man leading the effort. dr. fouci great to have you with us. we've seen a change in attitude it seems on the part of the administration now talking about screening and moving up
lou: 28-year-old army veteran jordan mattson also in syria to fight the islamic state. he's now recovering from a wound in a hospital. mattson tells usa today he went to battle because he couldn't sit and watch christians being slaughtered anymore. we're coming right back. stay with us. >> ebola fears throughout the country. experts now warning about the unavoidable spread of the virus in europe. what happened to that vaccine for ebola? one of the the top scientists dr. anthony fowchy of...
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one of them has now been identified as a 28-year-old named jordan mattson from racine, wisconsin.ld them last month he was heading to syria and he's now appeared on a kurdish television station. >> i am from wisconsin in the united states. i was previously a soldier in the united states army. i wanted to come join because i got sick of watching so many innocent people be killed as daesh grew and my country doing nothing about it for over a year. i got sick of everyone saying how bad it was but doing nothing about it, so i made up my own mind to come over here to do something about it. >> all right. let's talk about this with our law enforcement analyst tom fuentes, he's also former assistant director of the fbi and retired colonel james reis a cnn global affairs analyst joins us. tom, let me start with you. if it's been confirmed he's travel to syria and is an american citizen from wisconsin, is he breaking the law? >> hi, poppy. i don't think so. i think we've had cases where americans went to join in some fight overseas. he's not involved in a civil war to overthrow a form gover
one of them has now been identified as a 28-year-old named jordan mattson from racine, wisconsin.ld them last month he was heading to syria and he's now appeared on a kurdish television station. >> i am from wisconsin in the united states. i was previously a soldier in the united states army. i wanted to come join because i got sick of watching so many innocent people be killed as daesh grew and my country doing nothing about it for over a year. i got sick of everyone saying how bad it...
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stick with 320 or mattson ford road.724 in pottstown area speeds there not bad and getting word of motorcycle crash in valley township chester county rainbow road at front street. but earlier sinkhole pep talk ep at 3 that's been patched. so need to worry about that any more. let's grab the ipad and do the commuter report. out and about elsewhere in south scerzy our friend using waze app and not reporting prog lemz 70 towards medford somebody just saying oh, animals near the road in southampton township. watch for them. we don't want you to hit the animals. we'll check coming up in the next half hour. >> ipad comes in handy doesn't it? >> absolutely. >> the "action news" anchor monica malpass is live in the news room with that story. >> hi, rick, this family had decorations still and days before they have to place them in a hurry it's been all too familiar surveillance captured imannuals of suspect after removing item after item out of their house we'll tell you why they are not familiar with the crime. we'll have that a
stick with 320 or mattson ford road.724 in pottstown area speeds there not bad and getting word of motorcycle crash in valley township chester county rainbow road at front street. but earlier sinkhole pep talk ep at 3 that's been patched. so need to worry about that any more. let's grab the ipad and do the commuter report. out and about elsewhere in south scerzy our friend using waze app and not reporting prog lemz 70 towards medford somebody just saying oh, animals near the road in southampton...
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helping fight back against isis at least one american, kurdish commanders tell cnn jordan mattson, a8-year-old army veteran from wisconsin believed shown here has joined the fight along the iraq/syria border. they call him a good fighter and say he was injured in combat. for days the fighting has been playing out like a war game visible from just across the border in turkey. and now turkey may join the fight. with isis on its doorstep and tens of thousands of syrian refugees flooding across its border turkey's parliament voted to authorize military action against isis in both syria and iraq. turk/can the second largest military in nato after only the u.s. could provide both its air power and ground troops. u.s. and coalition forces may also fly strike missions from turkish air bases. >> if the turks decide to conduct military operations in syria, they are far, far stronger than anything that they're going to face. so they could move into northern syria, set up a security buffer south of the border and that would put a lot of pressure on isis. >> reporter: today the architect of the 2
helping fight back against isis at least one american, kurdish commanders tell cnn jordan mattson, a8-year-old army veteran from wisconsin believed shown here has joined the fight along the iraq/syria border. they call him a good fighter and say he was injured in combat. for days the fighting has been playing out like a war game visible from just across the border in turkey. and now turkey may join the fight. with isis on its doorstep and tens of thousands of syrian refugees flooding across its...