we gave the sunni areas back to the sunnis to control. and so i think you saw what happened, as you said, carol, over the last several years, that dissolved. maliki kicked the sunnis out of the army. the police went back to being shia thugs that were taken advantage of the sunni population and describing, this horrible awful group has momentum, has money, and they have got leadership, the sun any -- sunni is attached to them. >> my fear is by bombing isis, in effect, bombing the sunnis, you are pushing them closer to isis. again, we have to force the shia leadership, the maliki leadership to give concessions to the sunnis to bring them back into the government, to answer their grievances. >> i believe american official have been trying to do that but nuri al-maliki has not been budging. i'll be back with much more in the "newsroom." when salesman alan ames books his room at laquinta.com, he gets a ready for you alert the second his room is ready. so he knows exactly when he can check in and power up before his big meeting. and when alan g

go well i think saddam hussein represented a minority sunni interests after all the sunni arabs are only some twenty two percent of iraq and yet he tried to run the country as a sunni minority government you talk about not doing outreach the only outreach he did was to go out and kill the as many shia as he could so clearly he cannot be part of iraq's future and i don't think it was such a terrible day when he lost power i think the problem has been trying to rebuild the country and trying to get the communities to work together and that is a long term proposition well ambassador hill you are believed to be one of the basque negotiators the state department ever had so i'm sure you know it better than most of us that in geopolitics the choice is not between the good and the bass the choice is usually between the bad and the worst and i'm sure you have plenty of misgivings about saddam hussein or even bashar assad but wouldn't you still prefer . bashar al assad or let's say even saddam hussein being in charge of baghdad or damascus rather than the man by the name of a blue box or daddy wh

sunni majority as well ambassador hill it's interesting what you said about the. understanding with turkey because prime minister earlier on that would probably disagree with you because he has been accusing. western powers of conspiracy against his own government over the last couple of months but i would like to. i ask you one final question and it may be a bit self-serving bear with me but there was a story recently in the foreign policy magazine suggesting that both the administration and the intelligence community in the united states were sort of caught flat footed by this rabid offensive by isis and here in moscow what surprises me is that americans are really surprised i mean it's gotten to a point when russians are really hating to be proven right all over again i mean as far as the ramifications of american foreign policy are concerned do you think the the russians the chinese and others have a reason to tell americans once again we told you so you know you can say i told you so as much as you want this is the right idea of the wife a lot but i'm not sur

part of what we have sehave see that a minority sunni population in iraq as well as a majority sunni population in syria has felt dissatisfied, and detached and alienated from their respective governments, and that has been a ripe territory for the jihadists and extremists to operate. and rebuilding governments in those areas, and the legitimacy for the stable, moderate, governing in those areas is go g going to take time. there is immediate concerns that we have to or worry about and make sure that isis is not engaging in the action s ths th could cripple the country permanently, and there is key structure inside of iraq that we have to be concerned about. my team has been vigilant even before they went into mosul about foreign fighters gathering in syria and now iraq who might potentially launch attacks outside the region against the western and u.s. targets. so there is a counter terrorism element that we are preparing for, and have been working diligently on for a long time now. there is going to be a military element in protecting the people, but the long term campaign of changi

areas they weren't able to keep a lid on the resistance that was growing within the sunni population and so that escalated things to a point where we had a very large amount of the sunni population that was completely politically disenfranchised not getting their voice heard at all in baghdad and the persecutions from the maliki regime continuing and so we had a giant percentage of the population ripe and ready for armed resistance against the government and then bring in a group like isis who was. came in and started taking over towns and going against maliki and that's why we have a situation that looks the way it does today and in a recent article you just wrote for truth really great article you describe daily life in iraq during the height of the occupation as being a walk in the park compared to how violent the country paint that picture for our viewers and just an average iraq what they deal with and i database. there's a man whom i quote in the article who is a sunni man who's married with three small children living in the middle of baghdad in a predominantly sunni neighborh

sunny and cool, 78. tomorrow, beautiful, lots of sunshine, a bit warmer, 82 degrees, sunday starts to feel more humid. we have lots of cloud cover and some sunshine we get a shower at any point. it's not going to be a lot of rain, maybe 1:00 a.m. maybe a quick shower or thunderstorm in the afternoon. monday, partly sunny skies, 84. shower or thunderstorm. tuesday, humid, showers around at timement wednesday, clouds and sunshine, 85. thursday, partly sunny, 84. >> researchers have found that inner city children are likely to have food allergies than suburban youth. one in ten youngsters are allergic to milk, eggs or peanuts. the federal funded study led by johns hopkins followed children in baltimore, boston and saint louis. it's a wake-up call to investigate the causes and why it's widespread. >>> researchers say having a healthy baby may involved more than a healthy pregnancy. bad habits like smoking can affect genetics. it's not just the mothers on the hook, father have a greater role to play than thou

you have the sunnis largely in the north and the shiites in the south. the kurds have always sought an independent state. but they have turned northern iraq into a cosmopolitan area of peace and tranquility into isis showed up on their doorstep. they have always wanted to be an independent state. from population stretches iran, across iraq, into turkey and syria. they do want an independent state. let's also understand this crazy quilted border that created the convenientiraq was a artistic drawing by winston churchill with his french allies after world war i. these populations have lived more or less under the threat of terror from saddam hussein. saddam hussein was overthrown. each of them have wanted to go their merry old way. host: richard is next on the independent line. good morning. in 1936, sos born you can do the math as to how old i am. i have a question, maybe a two-part question. it is no doubt and is crystal clear hamas, which is an arm of islam has differences with israel. they also have differences with the united states of america. hisa b

iraq sunnis want a greater say. it boils down to finding a political settlement in order to win the battle. >>> thank you zooeina khodr, in the north of iraq. >> in syria the islamic state is claiming to have beheaded a u.s. journalist. james foley disappeared in 2012. the group says his killing is in response to america's aggression towards the islamic state. the white house says it's investigating the apparent murder. foley's mother appealed to people not to spread images of his execution. >>> there has been more arrests in the u.s. town of ferguson, where protesters are demanding justice after a black teenager was shot dead. >> reporter: relative calm returned to ferguson tuesday after nights of unrest. instead of the stench of tear gas, the airways filled with the chance of peaceful protest. the family of the michael brown, the 18-year-old who is slain at the hands of a ferguson police officer while unarmed touched off the racially tinged uproar, announced that his funeral would be held on monday, august 25th. t

dozens of sunni muslims were shot dead or wounded. these pictures show the moment after gunmen started firing. one man can be heard shouting that the attackers are coming back. >> now, it's believed the gunmen from from a shia militia. very worrying images on a mobile phone. and the latest from jane arraf, our correspondent in erbil in northern iraq. images like that, and incidents like that, jane, seem to hark back to the sectarian violence that we saw in iraq after and during the american invasion. there must be great concern about what is going on around the country, and, of course, where you are. >> there is absolutely. everyone has been terrified that this could be the incident that sparks another still war. now, what we have seen in the past is shia militias and sunni gunmen and fighters come in where there's a security vacuum, and with what we are seeing in iraq. fighters are regrouping and they have gathered at the invitation of senior religious leaders saying they are needed to help the security forces fight the islamic state

you need to be engagement of sunnis on the ground. everybody insists that the sunni political and tribal leaders. this is where they may turn a corner. so the sunnis on the other hand themselves would probably no longer accept sectarian rule by a shiite majority. the kurds, on the other hand, have lost faith in iraq. and they wish that they did not have to go back to baghdad. but they are doing so out of necessity and lack of choice. the kurds could not comprehend how essential government in baghdad could starve people from funds at at the time of war against terror. how they can deny -- arriving in kurdistan via the air when people are being slaughtered and religious minorities facing genocide and increasing number of displaced people need basic needs. that's the refugees internally displaced from all parts of iraq. in fact, yesterday, mr. maliki decided to give salaries to people from mosul and tikrit to only those in baghdad now and none of those in kurdistan reach. so had it not been for the u.s. air strikes and the international

he still using that process to practure the sunni political movements and fractured the sunni leadershipand in the recent protest movements in 2013 and early 2014 he moved with the iraqi military and security forces to physically fracture the heart of the sunni population in ombar and other prother proveranceserances. >> host: steve is on the line. >> caller: my question is about the kurdish minority in turkey. if we give arms to the kurds in iraq isn't there an issue they will find their way to the kurds in turkey and how would that work? >> guest: that is a good question. the turks and the kurds actually have been on a path toward significant reconcilation so i think there is less concern there would be a new kurdish uprising. giving people weapons isn't the same thing as successfully arming people. if you hand someone a rifle you need to spend months training them. many kurds know how to use a rival but advance surveillance, and artillery and other complex weapons that require crew service, that is not something you can do overnight. so i think the effectiveness not only against isis

mostly sunny skies. cool for august, normally we would be at 86 for your high, only 78 degrees, we have a cool breeze mixing in at times. 8:00 a.m., 65 with bright sunshine. 11:00 a.m., 70 degrees. 2:00 p.m., 76. mostly sunny skies, 5:00 p.m., 77. no weather related problems today you're looking good. the ocean temperature, 74 degrees at the shore. the air temperature not much higher than that, 78. saturday, mostly sunny, warmer and 80. sunday we'll see lots of cloud cover, sunshine, can't rule out a shower, 82 is the high, won't be a lot of rain, but a shower can happen at any point on sunday. feeling like fall, 69 for your high. tomorrow, sunshine and clouds, beautiful high of 74. sunday we'll see 74 and chance for shower around. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, a good one today, sunny and cool, 78 degrees for your high. tomorrow, beautiful, warmer, 82 for your high, sunday it turns more humid, cruel notice the difference -- you'll notice the difference, lots of cloud cover, as well. sunsh

forces believed to be a middle-ranked militant during a sunni insurgency. after his release he took over as head o of the al-qaeda iraq branch. the leader at the time was killed in an u.s.-led raid. al baghdadi rose in a newly state, last year he openly deified the leadership of when he joined forces with a militia fighting in syria. al jazeera obtained a letter ordering baghdadi to keep the groups separate, but baghdadi pressed forward. but most of the al nusra forces under his command expand parts of northern iraq and syria. it's clearly an embarrassment for the government of prime minister nouri al-maliki. it's more proof that the maliki government has been unable to take back iraq's second largest city or any territory from sunni insurgents. >> what does it mean to millions of syrians and iraqis in isil-occupied territory to be under the newly claimed leadership of a man who claims to be a caliph. there has not been a caliph for nearly a century. what does it mean for al baghdadi to claim that title. joining me, my guests. let me start with you. from th

it is one of many sunni groups fighting the government and tribal elders say as long as iraq sunnis don'tpower, the islamic state group will remain powerful. >> translator: arab sunnis sim pa thighs with the islamic state group because of the way the iraqi government dealt with us since 2003, we used to have positions in government, and the army, now we are in prisons. >> reporter: never before has there been such a urgency for reconciliation, the dimensions are growing, the state weak, and right now the islamic state group and shia militias linked to the government seem to be the authorities on the ground. >>> well, still to come here on al jazerra, we'll be live in ukraine as the country marks its independence day. >>> plus. >> reporter: i am in ferguson, missouri, an area synonymous with the death an unarmed black teaming tanker at the hands of a policpolice officers we'll be gg reaction from the white community. stuart! stuart! stuart! stuart! ♪ check it out. this my account thing. we can tweet directly toa comcast expert for help. or we can select a time for them to call us back. the

dozens of sunni ms. lemes were killed. we have this report from kirkuk. >> reporter: this family has been living in this room for three months now. they moved to kirkuk when their hometown turned into a battleground. iraqi plains have been bombarding the district. they no longer feel that it is safe. >> they're creating all sunni areas. it is not acceptable that the sunni areas are the only ones targeted 1234 sectarian tensions are not new. they targeted worshipers in a mosque, and could not have come at a worst time for a country dealing with serious divisions. sunni lawmakers initially threaten it had pull out of talks to form a new cabinet, but the leader of parliament, who is a sunni, was more conciliatory. >> they're targeting iraqi society and it's social structures. some have been responsive, and we thanks them for that. >> reporter: many iraqis are optimistic. it is not just about changing the leadership faces. >> we hope that all iraqis will be treated equally and the army will serve everyone. >> reporter: there i

otherwise partly sunny. wednesday humid, partly sunny, 84.rsday we'll see a chance for some scattered showers, could be a thunderstorm in the afternoon and into the evening. still a shower chance on friday, highs in the low 80's but by next weekend, looks like we dry out it again, partly sunny skies saturday and sunday with highs in the low 80's so still no signs any big time heat coming in this week for the middle of august. how about that, no 90's. >> not a bad week after all. >> all right. >> look like the perfect week for some little league baseball. >> and not so much for the other baseball team in town. yeah, the phillies road woes continue. the a california road trip ends badly for them and how about those taney dragons, continuing that amazing run. sports is next. husavmore on car insurance.or everybody knows that. well, did you know the great wall of china wasn't always so great? hmmm...what should we do? geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. ♪ ♪all day and all of the night - the kinks♪ ♪all

sunni leaders say they are ready to support the new prime minister el baddie. u.s.ice name the officer who shot an black teenager ma missouri sparking rioting. >>> ukraine says they have engaged rush an force that his reached its borders. >> reporter: and i am andy richardson with the latest sport, we'll be hearing from luis suarez as the banned footballer is finally allowed to train with his new club. ♪ >>> there is signs the political deck lock could be broken. nouri al-maliki agrees to step down. crucially, the country's sunni rebels led by trialal sliders say they may also be willing to take up arms against the islamic state rebels. they have provided -- that's provided their own demands are met. >> translator: we condemn terrorism in all forms, that is of i.s.i.l., the militias of al-maliki or the terrorism employed by certain politician to his serve their own purposes. with respect to the demands raised by dr. roger ha i.d. we direct the government directly to take the necessary measures to put an end to the em barred. and withdrawal all the so-called security

as you mentioned, the sunni lawmakers, a number of main political sunni parties in parliament announced they are walking out, not taking part in the government negotiations until the. he were traitors of this attacking are arrested and brought to justice. after speaking to lawmakers last night. they're saying this is not an isolated incident that this is the late laest in a series of incidents they say targeting sunni civilians and no one they say has really been brought to justice and they have had enough they say that they have a duty to their constituents that they have to stand up right now even though this could really complicate the political process and the government formation process. and it's really not clear right now natalie, if this is political posturing during this time of intense negotiations for government formation or if this is a move that will hold, but nonetheless, it really complicates matters, makes it a much harder task for a prime minister designate hader al abadi who already has been facing big challenges to try and regain the trust of the sunni politicians, th

the coast will be partly sunny skies to mostly sunny today. some of us are waking up with white sky, maybe the blue sky, you can see the high witchy clouds -- wispy clouds. this is coming from post tropical storm marine. we'll be watching for the second half of your day. the temperatures are sitting a the 66 in antioch. most of it is similar to yesterday. some of us are a tad warmer, into the north bay areas, it's actually cooler this morning. 52 in santa rosa, half moon bay, 59 foster city, palo alto, you're checking in at 59 this morning. and we'll do one more shift and show you sunnyvale, 60 degrees right now. low 60s in area around san jose and the read area. 59 saratoga. if you're going to see the giants, partly cloudy skies and a buff day at the ballpark. we'll have an onshore bring that will be picking up in the second half of the afternoon. in any case, you've got 48 and 70 degrees in sausalito. there's quite a bitting about on around the area. 87 walnut creek. # 7 in hayward, oakland, 75 for your afternoon. 83 san hoe -- san jose. and

part of what we've seen is a minority sunni population in iraq as well as a majority sunni population in syria has felt dissatisfied and detached and alienated from their respected governments, and that has been a ripe territory for these jihadists and extremists to operate. inrebuilding governments in those areas and legitimacy for stable, moderate governing in those areas is going to take--it's going to take time. now, there are some immediate concerns that we have to worry about. we have to make sure that isil is not engaging in actions that could triple a country permanently. there's key infrastructure inside iraq that we have to be concerned about. my team has been vigilant even before isil went into mosul about foreign fighters andy hadists gathering in syria and now in iraq who might potentially launch attacks outside of u.s. targets. there is already an u.s. element that we've been preparing for and working diligently on for a long time now. there is going to be a military element in protecting our people but the long term campaign in changing that environment so that millions

it's sunny out there right now, adam joseph is outside enjoying it. another nice day. >> anything but hot out here, but that will change, a beautiful breeze and a bright, blue sky, here are the numbers right now, only upper 70s to the north and west. 80 in philadelphia, 81 in millville and at the shore with a northwesterly wind, no sea breeze today, 80 at the boardwalk in sea isle city and along long beach island, you probably felt the winds clocking in at 18 miles per hour. sustained in philadelphia, 12 in allentown and 12 in millville. that drives in the cooler air for august with high pressure to the north and the clouds are to the north and east in new england and clouds to the west near chicago and the high will be pulling over our region tonight. and that will relax the wind and create comfortable temperatures for some football, very fall-like weather, this evening at the linc, kickoff is at 7:00 p.m. and the temperature will be 71 as the winds ease. we'll talk about the holiday weekend with a big turn around and the chance for storms i'll vtd d

in a very important community, the sunni community.course, isis doesn't care for the sunni community. it's manipulating the sunni community to find a base. so the government would be able to integrate all social community into the government and deny isis what -- deny isis -- not only finance, but deny isis social acceptance but deny it in iraq. and a political solution for the conflict that has been raging for more than three years. as you know in the last 24 hours we have learned that almost 200,000 have been are killed in the last civil war. how do you end this war? if you don't end this war isis and other extremist groups will continue to flourish and be nourished there. >> it's certainly going to take all in to push back isis. the speaker of kurdistan said isis is a new form of violence that knows no boundaries. i guess you would agree with that as we close up here. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> the brother of james foley said the u.s. government could have done more to try and free the american journalist before he was assassin

friday partly sunny and 81. the coming weekend probably getting humid again and by sunday we could return to unsettled weather with perhaps a shower or thunderstorm. >> all new this morning, the gruesome discovery down south here what the coast guard found floating up the coast of florida. >> missouri teenager michael brown will be laid to rest today two weeks after he was shot to death by police. his father has one request. >> reporter: we're live in lansdale, doylestown road at county line road. a few cars out and about, everybody is moving along just fine. nearby there's a blockage because of a bad overnight crash. we'll talk about that and new construction zones after the break. >> we'll talk about the morning buzz and we'll look at the mtv music video awards >> taking a look at the wilmington riverfront at 5:13, 65 degrees on city avenue. in wilmington, delaware, it is 61 degrees and clear. >> and matt pellman is in for karen rogers this morning. matt we may see some school buses if you have to work this mo

friday, partly sunny, 79. the weekend looks dry and sunny.>> new this morning, a drive-by shooting in new orleans left two adults dead and three others wounded including three children. a car full of men drove up someone opened fire killing two people and the driver sped way. a 2-year-old an 4-year-old are in critical condition. 13-year-old girl is stable. >>> also new this morning, a family survived a failed flight thanks to a soldier and good samaritan. the small plane crashed in the middle of a soccer field over the weekend in utah. staff sergeant called 911 when he noticed the plane struggling to get attitude after takeoff. he was able to pull the man out of the plane before it burst into flames. >> two, three minutes, after we pulled them out, the plane was engulfed in flames. >> two people on board suffered serious injuries, the cause is under investigation. >> 5:52, up next details on a key deadline the philadelphia school district has set to avoid mass layoffs. >> we're following developing stories, the search for a driver who struck

and given them a sense of ownership, if it had targeted certain sunni some ofand alienated the sunni tribes that we had brought back in during the awakening that helped us turn the country2006, would not be holding together either. we would just have a bunch of troops on the ground. had, wemany troops we would now have to be reinforcing. i would have to be protecting them and we would have a much bigger job. we would end up having to go up again in terms of the number of ground troops to make sure that those forces were not vulnerable. that analysis is bogus. it is wrong. it gets frick only paddled around here by people -- often held around here. leaving. the lesson for afghanistan is at the fact that we have got force that will be capable of training and supporting afghan security efforts. if actions int is a country after a long. a wayil war do not find to come up with a political takemodation, if they positions and their attitude is i want 100% of what i want and the other side gets nothing, then the center does not hold. the good news is in part thanks to the excellent work of jo

the mostly sunny.tty pleasant out there then tomorrow, more sunshine on the way, little warmer with a high of 86 but still a pretty nice day. on wednesday that is when heat and humidity will combine to make things more sweaty around here. 90 degrees is the the high. late in the day and more likely at night is there a chance of a shower or thunderstorm popping up, again that is wednesday. and as of right now it looks like that system sweeps out of here quickly enough where on thursday we have dry conditions, partly to mostly sunny skies. warm high of 86. the nice weather for the eagles and lincoln financial field at night for final preseason tune up and that is here on six abc. partly sunny then on friday, 81. nice day there. and heading in the the weekend it looks like it is going to be a little bit more humid, alycia, by sunday we could see showers and thunderstorms building back in. >> oh, boy not for our labor day weekend. >> unfortunately yes. >>> the "action news" team is out working on news stori

the courts trust him, and also the sunni trust him. so here is haid er al abadi giving them the opportunity to move on the political process. >> shia, dowa, haider al abadi he is coming from a similar background in some respects as you nouri al-maliki. >> i think your other guest gave a good summary of his background, but i disagree with his conclusions. i know al abadi well from working on resolutions and working together on subsequent crisis in baghdad i agree that he is probably the best kind among the shia coalition. i was quite relieved and very pleased by his nomination. >> let me have you pause there. president obama is making a comment in marth martha's vineyard in iraq. >> barac president obama: to keep them from advancing on the city of erbil. kurdish forces on the ground continue to defend their city, and we step up the advise and assistance to iraqi and kurdish forces as they continue their fight against isis. we continue to provide life-safing assistance to men, women and children stranded on mount sin gentleman sinjar. we

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control iran and the sunni control saudi arabia. and so that is the main thing, the saudi ruling family wishes to be seen as the spokesman because they control the two holy places, two holiest places in islam. but the sunni-shia sectarian battle is growing in the middle east, thanks in part to syria or iran is funding the syrians, and the saudis and others are funding the sunni fighters. so you have a growing sectarian clash across the whole region. >> how many times have you been there? >> i don't even know, scores of times. >> do you think you are watched when you're there? are you followed? >> i'm sure one is watched. if they want to know. i mean, i never assumed i was doing anything to me, it's like going to the old soviet union or to israel. i never assumed that if people want to know what you're doing, they will know. so i never tried to hide anything. i mean, i -- you obviously, because women are not allowed to drive in saudi arabia, i am either taking a taxi or hiring a hotel car. but you cannot take taxis. you can just walk

and shia, and taking sides. >> well, i don't noe agree with that there are sunni and there are sunnithere's al-an awful lot of sunnies who are very much opposed to isis. so i don't think if you go against isis, anymore it was seen as a war on sunnies when we went after al qaeda, and i think one of the hopes is -- and it's a big if -- if we can create this unity government, more inclusive government in baghdad that would bring sunnies, the more moderate sunnies involved in the anbar awakening as part of the troop surge in 2006 and 2007 if you get them involved you can split the regular sunnies away from the super radical group that is too radical even for al qaeda. >> we certainly had no partner in nouri al-maliki. it certainly sounds like in iraq what they did was, make things less inclusive, not more, and created some of this for themselves. >> oh, absolutely. there's no question that after we pulled out, in 2011, and we no longer had any r. over al-maliki, he kicked a lot of the top sunni commanders out of the military, kicked a lot of the top sunnis out of the government and it be

sunny skies, high of 85.t and humid on wednesday we'll get up to 90. we haven't had a whole lot of that this summer, but it could haen wednesday. we have a frontal boundary moving through, and showers at night. thursday, the temperatures drop down to 86 degrees,1 friday, t one, for endit a onsarday is dry, but humid. the. >> white is good to wear when it is hot outside. clever, matt. >> the mile high hack attack, cyber trols cause problems in the sky. >> reporter: good morning, erin we're watching a crash at ott road and perkiomen pike one ofm- >> 6:42, it is glorious day in the delaware and lehigh valleys. that's great for a lot of people out there, the ones who are returning to school this week. 64 degrees on city avenue, getting up to 84 today. >>> probably a lot of grumbling going on. >> reporter: matt sounds happy, are your kids going back to school, matt? >> next week. >> reporter: welcome back from vacation, matt. good morning everyone, i hope you had a nice weekend. we're looking at building traffic o

"the jihadis return: isis and the new sunni uprising." can you talk about the latest news, the a sending of additional on hundred 30 more u.s. marines and advisers into iraq? more u.s.s a little commitment to the kurds. i don't think it makes an enormous difference. the most significant action was the airstrikes, although limited, a few days ago. that was important. that raised kurdish morale. it meant a new u.s. military involvement in iraq. so i think that is what is really significant. >> the situation of what is happening now in baghdad with the new prime minister, the current prime minister, and what this all means, who will be the actual prime minister? think that maliki is finished. i think he is been finished for some time. the question was, would he fight it out? he at military units that were personally loyal to him, but he found after the new prime minister had been appointed, the iranians had turned against him. he did not have any outside political support. was disintegrating or would no longer support him, the transition wil

partly sunny skies throughout much of the day today. 83 degrees, partly sunny.owers and thunderstorms and humidity goes up. >> we are still technically in summer. this is the kind of weather we get. we have just been lucky we have not had to deal with it. >> september is a whole different story. >> that's going to do it for us. the "today" show is coming up. we will see you right back here at 8:30. >>> good morning. severe threat. britain remains on high alert this morning after the terror threat that abruptly came friday. the public warned an attack is highly likely. what does that mean for us in the u.s.? we are live with the latest. >>> trapped underground. rescue crews working to save gold miners trapped in an avalanche of mud and rock. they received tears and cheers after walking out of the mines on their own. >>> tony stewart opens up about the dirt track accident that took the life of a fellow racer. >> it will affect my life forever. >> stewart prepares for what

mostly sunny and breezy and the westerly wind breezy at times. and cooler tonight. partly cloudy and cool and mid-50s in the suburbs and 60 for center city, when you wake up tomorrow it will be a cool one, for your thursday, high pressure is building in with nice humidity and tomorrow the high sitds high above, it's a gorgeous day with wall-to-wall sunshine and cooler tomorrow than it was today, with about 78 degrees for your high and lots of sunshine and a little bit a breeze once again. here is your exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, nice today and low humidity and tomorrow it's sunny and cool for this time of year, 78. saturday is beautiful and lots of sunshine and quiet and 82 degrees, sunday it get a touch more humid and we are watching for a few scattered thunderstorms and keeping an eye on sunday, 84 is your high and the pattern kind of sticks with us, monday, tuesday and wednesday and the chance for a shower or thunderstorm, it's humid each of those days, 84 for your high and tuesday clouds and sun and 85 and wednesday feeling humid and 84, today a go

it is an issue that involves all the sunni states in the region, and sunni leadership recognizing that this cancer that has developed is one they have to be just as invested in defeating as we are. so to cut to the chase in terms of your specific concerns, chuck, my priority at this point is to make sure that the gains isil made in iraq go back, and that iraq has the opportunity to govern itself effectively and secure itself. when we look at a broader strategy, that is consistent with what i said at west point, at the national defense college -- clearly, isil has come to represent the very worst elements in the region that we have to deal with collectively. and that's going to be a long-term project. it is going to require us to stabilize syria in some fashion. which means we have got to get moderate sunnis who are able to govern and offer a real alternative in competition to what isil has been doing in some of these spaces. last point, with respect to assad. it's not just my opinion. i think it is the international opinion that assad has lost legitimacy. dropping barrel bombs on innoc

i think the sunni political class is a little less clear because you do have sunni politicians in baghdad who are invested in the idea of a strong central government, they just want a bigger slice of it. the critics say, like that sheikh we interviewed, that's because they want to share in the spoils. the question i keep getting asked here, gwen, is where is the united states going to come down on this? a lot of people here, and also farther south into iraq proper, have said, you know, the americans' insistence over the last ten years under presidents george w. bush and obama on a unified iraq is unrealistic because the politics practiced here are sectarian, winner takes all and always alienates the other two groups. >> ifill: does iran have a role in the direction this goes? >> oh, absolutely, they've had a role here all along even all during the american occupation, as a matter of fact, but the latest sign of that was that, today, surprisingly, the iranian foreign minister showed up in erbil, met with the president and prime minister, had a press conference and the president of this reg