al jazeera's omar osa la with more on today's refinery attack. >> i spoke with one person who works at the refinery, and basically at noon this day the staff was at the refinery and were asked to leave. the fighters of islamic state in iraq and the levant as well as other fighters are controlling the refinery. officials around the refinery said 75% of the refinery, including the production unit is under the control of rebels. now the government is refuting all of this. they say they're in full control of the refinery and they repel the attackers and they gave the number of dead around 50 to 60 attackers were killed in the assault on the refinery. these are the reports we are hearing from the two sides. the situation remains really unclear. >> as we mentioned at the top of the program congressional leaders went to the white house this afternoon. they met with president obama to discuss how u.s. should respond to the crisis in iraq. randall pinkston is in washington for us. any word of what's coming out of that meeting? >> well, we do have some word. first, a statement from the white hou