the army. jamie mcintyre has a closer look. >>reporter: pentagonnted a confusing picture. 800 truck bombs, an ambush overwhelming a small patrol and sand storms limiting air support. thousands said to have been driven out in the advance of hundreds of i.s.i.l. fighters. it's what defense secretary ash carter was talking about when he told cnn about the forces fighting. >> they withdrew from the site. and that says to me, to most of us, that we have on issue with the will of the iraqis to fight i.s.i.l. and defend themselves. >>> pentagon sources say the iraqi forces in ramadi outnumber i.s.i.l. 10-1, enjoying what the pentagon term a substantial combat advantage over the enemy. there were 10,000 troops holding ramadi, including 7,000 security forces, and 3,000 federal police and special operations troops, that folded in the face of 1,000 i.s.i.l. attackers. the pentagon said after more fighting, the ramadi defenders were war weary, feeling ignored and badly led by iraqi commanders, who were not communicating with each other and had a flawed underst

the pentagon admits u.s. air strikes accidentally killed children instead of members of isil. ♪ >>> this is -- al jazeera america. the senate is down to the wire deciding what to do with the patriot act. it is a controversial act, and expires ten days from now while the senate is on recess. the senate is in session today debating on whether this law should remain. harry reid spoke about it a sport time ago. >> we have a piece of legislation where there are bipartisan efforts made and it worked. they passed this bill. and we should do the same before we leave here. >> as libby casey reports many are questioning whether the law should remain in effect. >> reporter: lawmakers and americans are still grappling with how far the government should go. >> i think the deintat whether the act has made america safer at the almost trillion dollars it has cost to implement it. >> reporter: he argues it has not made the country safer and the cost goes beyond money to civil liberties. >> when it was put together and rushed t

andy moved to the pentagon in a somewhat turbulent period in 1973. in fact, the move to the pentagon occurred in the middle of the yom kippur war, and for those of you familiar with the nixon administration, you remember '72-'73 were a very busy period for the white house. there was the opening to china, there was the renewal of the easter offensive in vietnam despite the efforts of kissinger and nixon to get us out of vietnam. there was the abm treaty signed in moscow as well as the strategic arms limitation treaty. and, of course, '72 we all remember was what, a presidential election year. and in june something funny happened in the watergate hotel which had all kinds of consequences in that period. .. decisionmakers, for his job as secretary of defense, and he needs to know what the trends are, of getting better off or worse off. where is the most important area to invest our funds. those of the broad issues, if you are looking at that assessment, it is diagnostic. so if you want to use the medical analogy marshall was trying to give the secretary

jamie mcintire is at the pentagon with the latest. >> coalition continues to pound i.s.i.l. targets from the air. this picture showing an i.s.i.l. position being destroyed in a ferocious fire ball. by the pentagon's own account destroyed more than 1700 buildings in a list of more than 6,000 targets hit since the air campaign began nine months ago. while the pentagon cannot confirm the wounding of abu bakar al baghdadi in mrch, or his lieutenant, it does claim to have killed many of its leaders something lloyd austin told congress has derate dedegraded i.s.i.l.'s power. not as important as the fighting of baiji. >> no doubt they will seek to exploit it as a propaganda victory. that's i.s.i.l.'s main objective to give the illusion of strength. they need to win in iraq because if you look around the rest of the country they currently do not have the momentum that they once had. >> pentagon sources say iraqis are essentially cornered, with i.s.i.l. fighters in control of more than 80% of the territory inside the perimeter fence. i.s.i.l. also controls the area outside the fence

jamie mcintire is at the pentagon with more on what's behind the decision. jamie. >> antonio, the pentagon says the increase of what it calls its force protection level from alpha, the lowest to bravo the second lowest comes on the orders of the four star admiral in charge of the u.s. home command, whose job it is to protect the u.s. from foreign threats. his concerns, no time for complacency and all areas are on their a game. in garland texas and the cartoon event there was no specific identifiable threat rather than an increase in social media and internet based discussions that has resulted in what he termed a generally heightened threat environment. the military's force protection level now moves from alpha to bravo with the threat going from increased general to more predictable. the next level charlie is one is likely and delta means an attack is imminent or has occurred. dire warnings about how social media has increased the likelihood of radical attacks. >> you might go your whole life without meeting somebody owho shared your views today it takes yo

air strikes and lack of support from the shia government in baghdad. pentagon officials tell a slightly different story. sources tell me, by the way, that the iraqi forces in ramadi had a 10-1 numerical advantage over the advancing isil fighters. there were about 10,000 iraqi forces including 7,000 iraqi security forces and then another 3,000 federal police and special operations. the pentagon believes they should have nefr been overrun by this much smaller force of 1,000 isil fighters. so what happened? they said a series of things happened that spooked the iraqis in ramadi. there was a series of truck bomb attacks that killed more than 100 iraqis and eight attacks at once. there was an ambush of a small patrol that kind of spooked the iraqi forces there. then there was some weather problems, a sort of haze over the city now that gave the impression that maybe the u.s. wouldn't be able to perform air strikes. all of these combined apparently prompted a lot to say, you know what? it's time to leave. the u.s. believes it was a huge tactical mistake that handed i

by the pentagon's prediction perhaps 30 years. this is the global war on terrorism, for a lack of a better term. it is not a singular war. susan: 30 seconds on the just released report on sexual assault in the military and the levels not changing all that much. megan: you will see a lot of reaction from the hill on that. perhaps it might revive the debate inside the chain of command, outside the chain of command. congress has past hundreds of provisions over the past several years to adjust this problem, but there has not been a lifetime for it to take root. he and other sources say, let's give this some time to see if this can make progress before we take more drastic measures. susan: for critics, will that be sufficient? megan: probably not. those in favor of taking the decision for prosecution out of the chain of command is the crux of one proposal, and believed to be the only way to address this problem. there is a broader issue of change of culture in the military. things like retaliation if you do report these crimes. kevin:

in washington, there is a large fire at the pentagon. the pentagon has been evacuated.there's -- you can see perhaps the second tower, the front tower, the top portion of which is collapsing. >> good lord. there are no words. >> it was so eerie to stand on the rooftop from where we were broadcasting from. >> you can see how tough it is for anybody to sort out the magnitude of what the city and what washington endured today. >> when the wind shifted, you could smell the jet fuel, you could smell metal burning. >> it's 1:00, 2:00 in the morning. it was late and i was tired. and i was crying. and i was thinking about -- my daughter was sort of in middle school, and i thought, god, her world is going to be totally different. it is going to be totally different. >> 9/11 forever altered the soul of our nation. we could never again take for granted our sense of security. and life has never been the same since then. >>> the winds have really picked up here. >> i had a satellite truck with me. i had a crew with me. and we were kind of on own own. you can see it, it's coming apar

today has been great. >> there have been attacked at the pentagon. icopter has crashed. >> i think we all knew it was the act of terrorists. introducing the kelley blue book price advisor. the powerful tool that shows you what should pay. it gives you a fair purchase price that's based on what others recently paid for the same new car and kelley blue book's trusted pricing expertise. kbb.com >>> it is believed that a 747 aircraft has exploded in mid air into the atlantic ocean. >> the bombing at centennial olympic park this morning was an evil act of terror. >> the french government has informed all of us that princess diana has died. >> i would not -- i did not have sexual relations with that woman, miss lewinsky. >> earlier today, two masked gunman wearing all black began shooting at least 18 people. >> the u.s. coast guard is conducting a search for a private aircraft that apparently has now gone overdue. >> the election left what is called a hanging chad. >> a plane has crashed into one of the towers of the world trade center. >> it was a day that

ground troops in if, in fact, what we hear from the pentagon is correct? in ramadi the iraqi troops, the american-trained iraqi troops had a 10-1 advantage over isil? >> if you look at just the iraqi security forces, i believe there's at least 15 brigades in baghdad alone. so the iraqi government actually has security forces that they could put into the fight as well as tribal forces. part of it is actually working together to be able to have, i think, a broad coalition that even includes some of the shia popular militias working alongside the more sunni arab tribal forces as well as security forces and police. it's a matter of better coordination and devoting more resources to the fight. >> this is an interesting point. i was speaking with jamie mcintyre at the pentagon earlier today, and both talk about this breakdown in communication. better coordination. at some point we've all been in iraq for a long time. this can't be that hard to figure out. what's holding everybody back? there seems to be a lot of people from different places, different organizatio

andy moved to the pentagon and a somewhat turbulent. back in 1973. effective the move to the pentagon occurred during the middle of the yom kippur war. if those of you familiar with the nixon administration you remember 72 and 73 were very busy. back at the white house. there was the opening to china and the renewal of the easter offensive in vietnam despite the efforts of kissinger and nixon to get us out of vietnam. there was the abm treaty signed in moscow as well as a strategic arms limitation treaty and in 72 was an election-year and something funny happened in the watergate hotel which have all kinds of consequences and that period. >> i would add a little bit to that. as barry said by the early 70s there is his recognition that we can't outspend these guys anymore. we can't just spend money and beat them that way. they have caught up to us and conventional capability and probably advantage nuclear capability. they are outspending us so systems analysis focused on questions like is this thing better than that tank come, is this plain better than

the pentagon raised the threat level at military bases.amie mcintyre is live for us at the pentagon. is the pentagon responding to a specific threat here? >> well no in raising the threat level from alpha, which is the lowest level to bah woe, which is a higher level of threat the pentagon says it is not reacting to any specific or identifiable threat. technically this order came from the commander in colorado who is responsible for protecting the home homeland, he looked around and sees what is going on in social media and decided it wasn't acceptable for military bases to be at the lowest level. here is what he said, quote: and that's the point they are stressing here. no specific threat. no specific group, but just an increased amount of the kinds of things they can't keep track of on the internet. social media, people talking to each other, the rise of extremism in some places. they felt like this was a prudent step to take. >> so interesting, particularly in the context of texas and what texas -- that event was all about. so what than

when i heard about the pentagon i had been the pentagon correspondent. where the plane landed. i knew what was going on. i knew this was an act of terror and i said to myself, this is going the change all of us forever. >> nothing was the same. thank you so much mr. wolf blitzer whose show starts in eight minutes. make sure to tune in tonight for our special report "breaking news 35 years of cnn." >>> was blues legend b.b. king murdered? his daughters claim they are sure he was poisoned. that story next. we got the new tempur-flex and it's got the spring and bounce of a traditional mattress. you sink into it, but you can still move it around. now that i have a tempur-flex, i can finally get a good night's sleep. when i flop down on the bed, and it's just like, 'ah, this is perfect." wherever you put your body it just supports you. like little support elfs are just holding you. i can sleep now! through the night! (vo) change your sleep. change your life. change to tempur-pedic. the network that monitors her health. the secure cloud services that store her

while the pentagon is stressing, there is no threat to the general public it is still quite inexplicable how a potentially deadly bioweapon could have been handled, really carelessly. bring in cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr. the centers for d.c.isease control is involved. what role do they play? >> reporter: at this point thetaking the lead looking at everything the pentagon did. the problem is the pentagon doesn't know what it did. 22 shipments, all potentially live anthrax and worse, for over a year nobody knew it. the military now scrambling to explain how it could have happened. >> it's a great question and that's exactly why we brought in the center for disease control and their investigators. >> reporter: the army contracted with fedex for the shipments. the company says it's working with the federal government. the anthrax was to be shipped as dead agent, supposedly a less dangerous form. >> that doesn't have much meaning to me. anthrax can exist for decades, centuries, underground in a spore form. this hard crusted inatment form that eventually can change into an active

it was very helpful to start off with the pentagon. we could share spectrum. the broadcasters were helpful with that. they got into it and really helped us work with the pentagon. no one really controls it. that is the nature of internet and everything else we do. that is a part of it that a lot of people have difficulty with. if you saw the net neutrality base, that was unbelievable in the sense that people understand that the internet should be free. there shouldn't be people who get faster access or not. when that occurred, that whole energy that happened with that when chairman wheeler with the overturning of the internet order, when he hinted that there might be privatization -- prioritization -- that they may have to pay for faster speeds or whatever, 4 million comments, that was unheard of. it demonstrated that people in this country have this feeling about the internet and free expression. obviously the chairman and the fcc came up with another solution. it balances out for everyone. free access and banning fast internet lanes for certain types of indus

. >>> the pentagon admits u.s. air strikes killed children instead of members of isil. ♪ >>> this is al jazeera america. live from new york city i'm randall pinkston. the senate is down to the wire to decide what to do with the patriot act. it is a controversial law covering everything from how the nsa collects information without a warrant to the handling of terror suspects and it expires ten days from now. right now the senate is in session, and the debate begins soon. minority leader harry reid spoke about it a short time ago. >> we have one piece of legislation for one of the rare times out of the house there's bipartisan foefrts made and it worked. they passed this bill and we should do the same before we leave here. >> as libby casey reports, many are now questioning whether the law should remain in effect. >> reporter: 14 years after the patriot act and the attacks of 9/11 lawmakers and americans are still grappling with how far the government should go. >> the debate is whether the act has immediate america

. >>> the pentagon now admitted that a u.s.ead air strike in syria most likely killed two children. the military for the last two months has denied that any civilians were killed in either iraq or syria as part of the campaign against isil. kimberly halkett has more from washington. >> reporter: this is the fist time we have the pentagon acknowledging civilian deaths. you are right, this is the result of a four-month investigation. the pentagon saying the civilian death of children likely occurred on november 5th and 6th. this was apparently an effort to target an al-qaeda cell. but the numbers do contrast some very respected numbers get from the syrian observatory for human rights they report 2500 people killed since the start of this complain. 131 of those civilians. now, the pentagon saying they are still looking into two other reports of civilian casualties. two deaths in iraq as well as one in syria. there's a lot of visiting of strategy in recent days. the president, of course defending the strategy acknowledging this is

both of yospent t time in the pentagon. anandrew, you were aop official. lk us throughhat the house and senate proposals are and how they are goioing to affect the current system that is changing as we speak. guest: it is changing. a lot of the effort has been to bring in aries parts of the system that support -- various parts of the system that support the systems getting them around a common plan that is well thought through. the two bills work toward a similar end. they are about trying to drive more responsiveness in the system. the house bill is morof an incremental approach designed to empower the program manag who is the person in the government responsible for the success of the program.m. under the packard commission approach adopted years ago. the senate approach is more disruptive to the current system. on the one hand, it t is focused onon trying to achieve responsiveness. on the other hand, it completely changethe authority flow of commanfor acquisition. that is a huge change. vago: steve? steve: i would agree with the general charactezation of

partly it makes it harder for the pentagon to mr. clinton for the future. -- to plan for the future. the rest of the story is there's a broader debate that's bigger than defense about fiscal responsibilities, about whether you can save money through the mandatory spending or entitlement programs or two-thirds of the federal budget is about what needs to happen to the other domestic programs and so that's where the differences are going to have to be ironed out. i still have hope that there are can be an agreement. even if you take the enyou tilet titlement -- entitlement reforms president obama proposed in the past and apply some of those savings to defense and nondefense digscregsarry programs, i think you can get a huge number of people on both sides of the aisle to support that. question is, does the president want to do that or does he want to play chicken and hope he can get more spending on his domestic programs? i think it will be interesting, i have to say, if we send the president a defense bill at exactly the level he asked

the pentagon says more than 20 personnel may have been exposed to live anthrax at a u.s. air force base in korea. after a military base in utah definitelily shopped the live an travel to labs. given preventive treatment and so far none are showing any sign of illness. officials also insist there is no public health risk. jamie mcintire reports from the pentagon on how this happened. >> the pentagon says it is cooperating in an investigation by the centers for disease control and prevention into how the u.s. military mistakenly shipped life anthrax spors spores to a laboratory on monday. it reported last week that some of its samples were live. that sparked a recall of similar shipments to laboratories in a total of nine states and a u.s. military base in korea. besides maryland the states are texas, wisconsin delaware, new jersey tennessee, new york, california and virginia. a pentagon spokesperson says all the samples are retrieved and are inspected to see if any also contained live active spores. the cdc says there's no threat to the public and no suspected or confirmed

jamie mcintyre reports from the pentagon >>> as syrian forces battle baz bashar al-assad army. they continue to fight. over 37,000 that volunteered to fight, the first 90 are being trained, not to overtake the territory but fight against i.s.i.l. >> many are motivated to take over. >> many are trained in jordan and another group will train in turkey but the training and equipping a fighting force is a long-term project and is months if not years away. >> we still have to train men to train over time. on the side of diplomacy and diplomats, there's the issue of finding moderate syrian opposition to establish a political structure to which the military force can be responsible. >> reporter: the war goes on the the pentagon says it's training anti-i.s.i.l. forces the reality means the u.s. could provide support and air strikes to soldiers fighting government troops. >> their mission is to fight i.s.i.l. so that is a combat we expect them to get involved in and expect to support them in that record. if they are contested by regime forces we would have a responsibility to help them.

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the pentagon accidentally shipped live streams of the virus across state lines and around the world. ♪ >>> this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm stephanie sy. new fallout from the u.s.-lead investigation into corruption in fifa. the governing bodies in europe are calling for sepp blatter to step down. the president held an emergency meeting today about what to do next and europeans say they were clear. >> translator: we went to his office and renewed my advice to him to go and that he should resign. in that he should realize the moment was not a good one, and to have the courage, honesty and grandeur to realize it wasn't good. he said michelle we know and like each other, but it's too late. i can't leave when the congress is starting this afternoon. i said mr. president, that's a shame, i think it would have been great for your image and your situation for you to leave us now. >> andy richardson is joining us live from soour zurich. what is the significant of uefa's call for blatter to resign? i mean aren't they one of six federations? >> reporter: it's significant

the pentagon said that despite the mistake the public was never in danger but it also confirmed thatour workers in maryland and 22 at the base in south korea are being treated for possible exposure. the pentagon says the live samples have been destroyed and that investigators are visiting every lab that received anthrax samples originating from dougway. meanwhile the cdc investigators in utah are trying to figure out what went wrong. it is worth noting while these type of anthrax samples are routinely sent via commercial carriers, the pentagon points to a more likely culprit in this case less stringent protocol. >>> well weighing in on an international dispute, the defense secretary urges china to stop building islands in the south china sea. >>> plus another day, another candidate, a former new york governor joins the republican field trying to become the next president of the united states. ♪ ♪ >>> isil says it has killed 110 iraqi soldiers and shia militia fighters in the past 24 hours. the group says at least 70 were killed in ann going fighting and also targeted soldiers in suic

the pentagon and the centers for disease control and prevention are scrambling to find out what exactlypened. four defense department staffers in the united states and 22 people in south korea are being treated for possible exposure to anthrax. barbara starr is at the pentagon and has more for us. good morning. >> right now the pentagon says there are no signs anybody is ill but they are moving to take the actions you just described. what we do know is the military contracted with fedex sometime ago to undertake these shipments, but that may be about all we know. this morning the pentagon really scrambling to come up with a set of facts about what happened here. this morning fear up to 22 personnel may have been exposed to anthrax in an air base in south korea, and an investigation underway after an army lab in utah shipped live an anthrax samples to them and nine states over the last few days. 22 people being monitored in south korea join four workers in the u.s. who received preventive post exposure treatment, and a lab in maryland was the first to report receiving the live bacteria a

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late word coming in the pentagon accidentally sent live anthrax. the urgent testing now in nine states from new york to california from texas to wisconsin. a major investigation right now. the new storms hitting tonight. a tornado slamming into a shopping center. the system from texas to maine. >>> the major scare in the air. both engines failing. passenger plane then dropping 13,000 feet. >>> the fbi moving in after the u.s. lost the bid for the world cup. authorities say, now we know why. suit cases stuffed with cash? >>> and the major headline involving women and their health. the fbi investigating a key piece of hospital equipment. can it spread cancer? authorities asking who knew what and when? >>> and, the hunt for your made in america inventions. and the $100,000 surprise. >>> good evening. and we begin with that developing story tonight, the pentagon acknowledging a major mistake. sending live anthrax from a facility in utah. they sent samples to nine states one even sent overseas to south korea. they thought that the samples, the spores wer

the pentagon the air force, air national guard, vermont senators and the mayor turned us down.left fighting a military she served proudly for 30 years, afraid their expensive new weapon may spell disaster for her town. >> "america tonight"s sheila macvicar is with us. it seems clear from the community's stand point that the location makes burlington an unsuitable place for the aircraft. why would it be the choice the first flays that the national guard -- place that the national guard. >> to be clear, not the entire community is complaining. some think it's a good idea. there has been some lobbying going on and a lot of people are looking to vermont, powerful senators, senator patrick lay hi as someone who is lobbying hard and for his home national guard. >> what is it clear what the deaners would be from the air -- dangers would be from the coding on the aircraft. does it come up if there's a crash? >> we know from one person who worked on developing the f1-17 a. that they were required to wear full body containment suits when they were working, when the plane was cold. it had

is anyone at the pentagon conceding that the fall of ramadi is more serious than that? >> you know, jake at this point, the washington the pentagon talking point setback is really holding firm. i think the issue is the military reality on the ground may be very different. tens of thousands of iraqis on the run, fleeing ramadi from isis's brutal takeover. now many sick and stranded in the desert. hundreds may have already been killed. >> one of the most horrific aspects of this is as the isis fighters went through the town they massacred children wives of the townspeople. >> less than 70 miles from baghdad, ramadi extends isis's influence. >> to lose this city to isis the new incarnation of al qaeda and iraq is a huge blow and it's one that we should not sugar coat and say it doesn't matter because it does matter and it matters a great deal. >> some iraqi troops had on the air lifted out of the city. >> police are abandoned positions one area of the other. >> in the end, there was no help from the central government in baghdad. >> the iraqi army didn't have a good sense

the pentagon saying that live anthrax spores were sent to at least 18 labs across the u.s. via fed-ex possibly along side everyday packages delivered to your home. we have the latest on the potentially deadly mistake. good morning, kristin. >> this is no longer a u.s. problem. this is a global problem. a senior defense official says 22 people may have been exposed at a u.s. air force base in south korea. they are being treated as are four others in the united states. the pentagon says the treatment is a precautionary measure and there are no suspected cases of anthrax infection. the question everyone wants answered is still how in the world does the defense department inadvertently shift live anthrax samples via fed-ex to as many as nine states and an air pace in south korea. >> this is not a situation where somebody is sending a threat in the mail and having somebody unknown answer it or something. this is a routine occurrence between laboratories or between facilities in terms of the shipment and transfer of organisms. >> the cdc is investigating but it is still in the sp

. >> the pentagon on alert. the united states military reports it's raising its security because of threats. this is a case at military bases across america. ahead, look inside condition bravo. >>> after freddie gray's death in baltimore the justice department agrees to investigate the city's spire police -- entire police force. >> the department of yates is opening an investigation of the batmer police force. >> ahead how this is going town fold. and reassuring news about our economy. the unemployment rate falling to a level we haven't seen in seven years. of course, the news about paychecks isn't quite as good. let's get to it. >> we begin today with a fox urgent. a live look in baltimore where the family -- the attorney for the family of freddie gray is about to react to the news the department of justice will do a top to bottom review of the baltimore police department. we'll monitor what he has to say. >>> first today the military bases of the united states are on nationwide alert. an air force concert has b

the pentagon says human error was not that blame for the mistaken shipping of live anthrax. army chief of staff general said a short time ago it says proper procedures were followed as john henry smith tells us it is not clear what went with wrong. >> well, exposure to anthrax can be quite fatal the centers for disease control estimates that exposure leads to death in 85% of cases. that's why authorities aren't taking any chance cans with with the people that came in the contact with this inadvertently dangerous cargo. >> officials say a frightening mistake was made at doug way proving ground in utah. anthrax samplers were supposed to be rendered inactive before sent to labs. but a test of the samples that remained in utah revealed some of them to be life but by that time, a sample had already been sent to a military research lab in maryland. and the maryland lab in turn, center pas of that samp to labs in eight other states. as well as to a u.s. air force base in south korea. certainly no members of the public have been exposed to the contained on the air base which can is

the pentagon ordered all military organization in north america to boost security following concerns about isis. >> patterson ohio cancelled the spring concert because of the precaution. >> flames shooting into the night sky. neighbors on edge. a massive fire in a natural gas well raging four hours. >> scary moments for passengers on board of a delta airline's fight when smoke fills the cabin 30000 feet in the air. >> and we may allow ourselves a brief period of rejoicing. >> events cross the globe. marking cent years since the end of world war ii in europe. it is all "happening now". >> and we begin with a fox news alert with a major storm brewing off of the east coast, and even more tornados in the country's battered mid-section. i am jenna lee. >> and happy mother's day to you for the first time. >> first time. >> tropical storm anna packing wind and rain and heading to the carolina coast and more severe weather predicted for oklahoma and kansas as people pick up the pieces of their lives. and we'll get the latest from meteorologist rick. >> we are three weeks away from the beginni

lou: and in stark contrast from what was emanating from the pentagon. and how the iraqis were preparing to take mosul there is no evidence of any force to begin such an assault from ramadi with their hands of the islamic states. >> absolutely they are consolidating but we can conduct was a significant operation across the militia. with eastern and western syria at the same time north of baghdad with the terrorist activities the explosions to kill innocent civilians has been rising exponentially over the last six weeks but they are expanding into libya and yemen at the same time all these other operations are taking place. we underestimate the force at our peril in terms of national security interest. lou: and we were beating our chest with us a delta force successful attack. one of the principal leaders of the islamic states that victory by delta force only lasted hours. this seems to be something terribly wrong the way in which the pentagon is constructing a hour view of iraq and the islamic state to. >> as late as friday of last week the pentagon spoke

. >>> well, the pentagon has ordered u.s. military bases to raise their security level since the first time since the tenth anniversary 9/11. this is after isis-inspired attacks from domestic terrorists. nbc's tracie potts is live in washington for us this morning. so, tracie, what is the pentagon doing to thwart any possible isis attacks here at home? >> first of all, they're getting word out and they have raised security at military bases. the concern may be there may be some recruiting at military stations, but they don't know who and they don't know where. there are more i.d. checks and vehicle searches on 3,000 military bases this morning after isis claimed responsibility for the deadly garland, texas attack. they put the pentagon amid more general and growing fear of home grown terrorists. >> really, terrorism has gone viral. >> reporter: isis not planning, but inspiring lone wolf attacks right here in the u.s. >> you do it, we take credit for it. >> reporter: the fbi is taking another look at whether they're watching th

they say the iraqi forces squandered a substantial combat advantage in ramadi. pentagon sources say they outnumbered the isil attackers 10 to 1. there were 7,000 iraqi security forces in ramadi plus another 3,000 police and special operations troops and they got in their vehicles and drove off as the 1,000 isil fighters were advancing. the pentagon says none of those fighters who were in ramadi though were trained and were part of the forces recently trained by the u.s. it was something that the white house was quick to point out. >> we would expect that forces that are augmented by u.s. and coalition trained troops forces that are augmented by local fighters from local sunni tribes, and from the population mobilization force, will be able to improve the performance of the iraqis on the battlefield against isil. >> reporter: so what happened in ramadi? pentagon sources say they believe essentially the iraqi troops there psyched themselves out by a series of events including a surprise ambush on a patrol. these big truck bombs that were set off until the city and then the

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mystifying the pentagon can't answer all the questions. for other work in the united states also on prevechbltntive care the centers for disease control has taken charge of the investigation, talking to the pentagon and the army talking to these labs across the country, trying to figure out how 22 shipments, which began in march of 2014 how nobody noticed it was live anthrax. wolf? >> and what about those civilians, military personnel, who actually handled the anthrax? first of all, has anyone been sickened? have they all been put on cipro, a major medication preemptively to deal with this? what's going on. >> reporter: at this point the pentagon is saying there are no reports anyone is sick and they do not believe it's a threat to public health. that's really important, of course. this is not a terrorist attack. this is not like in 2001 when letters full of loose anthrax went through the u.s. mail and killed five people. this is not that situation. they were shipped in approved containers but those containers were supposed to be for dead

. >>> the pentagon is trying to figure out how they mistakenly send live anthrax. for now there's no rif tock the general public but some lab workers are being treated. susan mcginnis is in washington. susan, good morning. >> anne-marie good morning. this is bringing memories of 2001 when anthrax was purposely mailed to members of congress media organizations, news organizations, and five people were killed. these labs were supposed to get dead anthrax for research purposes and research is under way what could have happened, and it's not the first time. close to 2 dozen people at a u.s. air force base in south korea are under medical care getting vaccinations and getting antibiotics after a possible exposure. they were notified by the pentagon that live anthrax samples were inadvertently shipped. the samples were supposed to be inactive. >> >> no known rif tock the general public and no suspected cases of the anthrax infection. >> it was part of the defense program to develop new ways to identify biological threats. samples have include delaware new jersey tennessee

there's no way the pentagon should get away with this. so i urge a yes vote on this amendment because unauditable is unacceptable. thank you, mr. burgess, and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. burgess: mr. chairman, at this time i'd like to yield 30 seconds to the chairman of the full committee, mr. thornberry. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for 30 seconds. mr. thornberry: thank you, mr. chairman. i support this amendment. i rise just to make two points. number one, unfortunately there's a lot of federal agencies that can't pass an audit. and i hope that all the other committees of the congress are as diligent as our committee is about making sure they get their agencies to where they can. our committee in particular, led by c.p.a., mr. conaway of texas, we have pushed this issue, held many oversight hearings, and will continue to push this issue. i think the gentleman's amendment helps that effort. but i want to be really