al-qaeda affiliated group that officials say could be more dangerous and imminent threat to the united states homeland than isis. >> intelligence reports indicated that the group was in the final stages of attacks against western targets and potentially the united states. >> the pentagon says the united states has been watch the group closely for some time and the frists that were planning the attack were eliminated last night in the air strategic. >> developing news: capement of a massive wildfire burning between sacramento is increasing but so is the king fire growing by 2,000 acres. it stands at 90,000 acres, ten days after breaking out. this morning, it is 35 percent contained, up from 18 percent yesterday. evacuations are in affect for 2,800 people. cal fire says it is now threatening 21,000 structures. >> dense smoke is causing problems in lake tahoe again today. >>> meteorologist mike nicco joins us with the details on that and the rain on the way. >> wish they had a clear sky we have and the rain that is coming here wednesday and thursday will make it there during the same time. they have to p

fighters, many close to osama bin laden, were about to carry out an attack in europe or the united states homeland. they have been building bombs undetectable by the latest screening machines. and they addressed the five nations that help with the air fight. >> we have a severe and significant threat. we have seen a recognition of that threat. >> reporter: the president chairs a rare u.n. security council session with four heads of state. he will push for a resolution requiring countries to prosecute and penalize people who finance terror or travel abroad for terrorism training. now the marquee event is that rare security council session this afternoon chaired by president obama. it's only the second time a u.s. president has chaired the u.n. session. this will emphasize the seriousness of the threat. >> now for from the region. >> alexander marquardt join us live from turkey near the syrian border. what is the latest there? >> reporter: good morning, dan, reena, well, the pentagon said yesterday that two more air strikes had been carried out against isis targets. there were vehicles. those took p

in tampa that there has been no detection of direct threats by islamic state against the united states homelandbut the new york police commissioner says that isil is using special media to recruit fighters. lisa stark joins us with the latest on that. lisa. >> david this was a report of the house homeland security, we heard from officials in the administration, including the fbi director, and he and the department of homeland security secretary said they are very concerned about this recruitment. on the internet. they are concerned about what they colon wolf attacks here in the united states. here is the fbi director talking about that this morning. >> it's no longer necessary to meet someone in al-qaeda to get training and inspiration to attack here in the united states. these are the home grown violent extremists that we worry about who can get all of the poison and training they need to kill americans in a way that is very hard for us to spot between the time that they emerge from their basement and maybe kill ne kill -- innocent americans. >> they also talked about to become the number 1 gl

united states executed strikes against another terrorist affilation in northwest syria. the intelligence report indicated the group was in the final stages of plans to execute major attacks against western target and potentially the united states homeland. the strikes were done in three waves. the first started at midnight in syria or 8:30 central time. i draw your attention to the map. the first slide, please. in the first wave of strikes, the ussr in the red sea and the uss philippine sea launched more than 40 tomahawk cruise missiles in eastern and northern syria. that is the target area over here as you look at the slide. the majority of the tomahawk strikes were against manufacturing shops and training camps. f-2222 rafters were second, f-16, b-1 bombers and drones. they launched around 9 p.m. eastern standard time against targets in north ern syria. isis head quarters, training camps, barracks and combat vehicles. the final wave was shortly after midnight standard time. regionally based f-16 attacked targets in eastern syria to include isis training camps. coalition partners participated in the second and third waves supporting with a range of combat capabilities that began with combat air patrols to actually strikes on targets.

when they make these direct threats to the president of the united states, to the united states, that they want to take this to the u.s. homeland? do you take that seriously in intent and what about in terms of capability? >> i think the intent is almost certain, they would like to take the war to the united states. this group claims to be a state. it claims to be a cal iphate, ad like any war they take it where they can. they're certainly sympathizers and the question is capability. but what disturbs me is the longer american citizens are fighting in syria and iraq, the better they are at killing and when they come back, that's probably what they'll do. specifics on this, i don't have them but people that use tactical intelligence and deal with it every day say it's a very, very real threat. >> in terms the s ths of these you're looking at, do you have any sense of what they're doing next or whether they have these other americans that they say they have, what they plan for those from the sites you're monitoring? >> there is no information about other americans they have currently. we know now they have the next british guy th

officials say it was actively plotting an attack on the united states homeland. ma said about the group just before heading here to the united nations general assembly. >> last night we also took strikes to disrupt plotting against the united states

will be to deny a safe haven for those individuals who seek to do harm to the united states and the united states homelandis is -- we had very clear evidence of that on monday night and there'll be additional steps that are necessary to ensure that neither isil nor other extremists operating in syria have a safe haven from which to operate and plan and plot against attacks against the united states. >> how serious is the imminent or immediate threat to the homeland from a group like khorasan? >> there is intelligence to indicate they were actively plotting to strike the west and including the u.s. homeland. and that is what required the president to order the military action. the serious decision required to order that military action to try to contain and mitigate that threat. again, denying them a safe haven is critical to protecting the united states of america. and the president will act when necessary to do it. >> now, a lot is blowing up online. this is part of the gig of being the white house press secretary. the president's latte salute or coffee salute when he was getting off of marine one, salut

united states. what we have not yet detected specific plotting against the homeland. i.s.i.l. leaders threatened america and our allies. the intelligence community believes thousands of foreigners and some americans, joined them in syria and iraq. trained and battle hardened, the fighters could try to return to their home countries and carry out deadly attacks. >> officials say there's no direct threat a this point from the islamic state group, to the united states homeland, although they view that as a long-term potential much one of the questions here is what will congress's role be in all of this. it's clear now that the president is not going to seek a vote to authorise an expansion of the air campaign, he said he'll welcome consultations from congress. >> let's bring into the discussion lisa, joining us here, a political analyst. >> what support does he need from congress to move forward. >> does not need support. does not seem politically on the air streaks, there's more tweets with member of the congress saying he doesn't need the authority. he needs two things, one, he

do they really, will, have the ability to threaten the united states homeland? in terms of technological capabilities. but they do have the personnel now. they have reportedly up to 100 people that are fighting for them from the united states. they've got several hundred from european nations that are fighting under their banner. a lot of those people are from visa waiver countries that could easily get into the united states. it would be very difficult for them to pull off anythinging in this country because of the security measures the administration has put in place since 9/11. but that doesn't mean they won't try. and the fact the united states is carrying out repeated strikes against them means they will probably try something against the united states. either in the middle east or here. >> i spoke yesterday with the chairman of the house homeland security committee, he said, i asked him, should the u.s. be worried whether isis or some other al qaeda-related group could launch some sort of attack coming up in a few days on the anniversary of 9/11, and he sa

. >>> in june more than 10,000 undocumented migrant children crossed in the united states. homeland security said that number is finally dropping. part of the reason mexico is cracking down on border security. immigration activists say there could be serious consequences. >> reporter: there's no escaping the swerting heat for -- sweltering heat for these migrants. the dangerous freight train ferries tens of thousands from central america north to the united states every year these days fewer and fewer are riding the rails. the mexican government is cracking down on migrants. this person tried to comfort his pregnant wife, tired of travelling for two weeks from honduras, they crossed the mexican border. now they are worried they may be deported. >> translation: it's getting harder to go north. we heard this police raided shelters and arrested dozens of migrants, filling 24 vans of people. they took some that are camped out in the courtyard of a church. >> a few hours later mexican security forces descended on the same spot where other migrants waited to board the train. >> some migra

firefighters, many close to osama bin laden were about to carry out an attack in europe on the united states homeland building bombs undetectable by the latest airport screen machines. yesterday, president obama addressed the five arab nations. >> we have significant threat. what we have seen is a recognition of that threat. >> president will try to rally more allies this afternoon when he chairs a u.n. security session with 12 heads of state. then the president will push if a resolution requiring countries to prosecute those who finance terror or who travel abroad for terrorism training. >> the isis tops the agenda but ebola virus and climate change are big items, too. >>> our coverage on the attack on isis continues right here with the latest at our news app and late breaking updates by following us on twitter@abcnews twitter@abcnews.com. >> we learned fate of san francisco embattled fire chief. union leaders want her out. nick? >> good morning. we spoke with chief hayes-white and spoke of pressure to resign. she made it clear she has no intention of going. the head of the unions including those re

. >> how advanced was the plotting regarding the united states? the homeland. >> we are tracking it carefully and had intelligence suggesting they were moving far along. that's as much as i can say. given that, it was important to act and to try to disrupt what they were doing. >> i was at a meeting with the president from iran and he said it was not legal because it was not authorized by the united nations and the syrian government did not invite the u.s. in. >> that's wrong. in fact there is as you know a doctrine of collective self defense. the iraqis asked us to take action and asked the united nations and wrote to the united nations asking the united states and other countries to act against isil because isil in syria threatens them. the border has been virtually erased and even as we take action in iraq, they are not able to do so in syria, they can plot and plan and build attacks including iraq from syria. this was at the request of the iraqis and fits into the theory of self defense. >> of the five arab countries, how many dropped bombs? >> i know the

officials say it was actively plotting an attack on the united states homeland. listen to what president obama said about the group just before heading here to the united nations general assembly. >> last night we also took strikes to disrupt plotting against the united states and our allies by seasoned al qaeda operatives known as the khorasan group. it must be clear to anyone who would plot against america and try to do americans harm that we will not tolerate safe havens for terrorists who threaten our people. >> the latest developments on the air strikes in syria and iraq, the air strikes in syria were focused on the city of raqqa. isis considers it to be the capital of its self-declared islamic state. but other areas were hit as well. a u.s. official says four dozen aircraft took part in the strikes. bahrain, saudi arabia, the united arab emirates, jordan and qatar all joined in carrying out the operation. the u.s. fired 47 tomahawk cruise missiles. several of them took direct aim at what's called the khorasan group. that's the al qaeda franchise ] that offic

united states will not coordinate or cooperate with the assad regime. an all-inclusive approach to preventing attacks from isil to the united states and homeland. the united states will draw on intelligence, law enforcement, diplomatic and economic tools to cut off isil's funding. improve our intelligence, strengthen homeland defense and stem the flow of foreign fighters. the united states and our allies have been stepping up efforts to identify and encounter threats emanating from syria against our homelands. this includes increased intelligence sharing. working with dod's partners at the national counterterrorism center. the department of homeland security, the fbi, and across the intelligence community. our terrorist screening and analytical data bases now have special threat cases linking together known actors and potential foreign fighters, making it easier and faster to update them regularly with new information. department of homeland security secretary jay johnson has directed enhanced screening at 25 overseas airports with direct flights to the united states. a step that the united kingdom and other countries have already taken. the dep

united states. more on the plan to use planes and how we're protecting the homeland. plus, breaking news from ohio. the justice department is now investigating a walmart shooting after the officer who shot the gun is cleared by a grand jury today. >>> and a latte nothing. republicans brew up another ridiculous scandal and it shows they have absolutely no grand ideas, or should i say, grand eye? the nation sounds off ahead. . >>> one of the biggest talkers in our social media community is on coffee gate. some are calling it the latte salute. the instagram of president obama saluting marines while holing a coffee cup. he's the commander-in-chief which means he's the boss. a cup of coffee? are you sure? bush had a dog. oh, yes, he did. what did you think of the president's salute? we're going to talk about it later on in the show. but let us know what you think on our facebook page or tweet us at politics nation. you loved brad. and then you totaled him. you two had been through everything together. two boyfriends. three jobs. you're like "nothing can replace brad!" then

not have any indications at the present of active, concrete plotting by isil against the united states homelandthat was kate snow reporting. the security concerns intensified when the u.s.-led air strikes began in syria and now with more air strikes launching there and in iraq, nbc's richard engel has the latest on the battle to fight the militant group isis. >> reporter: there have been more air strikes yesterday and today against militants from isis, the group the u.s. government calls isil, the group that's captured large portions of iraq and syria and is continuing to terrorize the people under its control. in iraq there were five different air strikes, mostly targeting isis armored vehicles, and in syria, destroying four isis-controlled tanks. now, many of these vehicles were captured from the iraqi army earlier this summer. they are american made weapons, powerful weapons, that isis has been using effectively to take control of towns and villages, but there's also a downside to having these weapons, they are big, they are obvious, they are american made, so the u.s. knows how to find them

united states and around the world. we begin with the breaking news. the united states on heightened alert tonight. the department of homeland security warning of lone wolf attacks in response to air strikes in syria. now, this is as the pentagon says that the air strikes last night did not just target isis. they say they targeted perhaps an even more immediate threat. >> last night we also took strikes to disrupt plotting against the united states and our allies by seasoned al qaeda operatives in syria who are known as the khorason group. >> the khorason group. the pentagon says that group is an al qaeda-linked organization. they say it was ready to execute attacks on commercial flights. blowing them up using cell phones, clothes and toiletries that would fit in the carry-on size loaded with explosives. we'll have much more on that group in just a moment. our justice correspondent, pamela brown, begins our coverage tonight following the story about potential lone wolf attacks. pam, what are you hearing about this warning, which obviously is coming right after those first air strikes in syria? >> reporter: this warning is in

and certainly, we're got go continue watching as the world deals with this threat to the united states homeland and other parts of the world. well, thank you for watching. i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >> targeting evil. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. another beheading. this time a french citizen by an isis ally in algeria. the killers call it retribution for france joining the u.s. air strikes in iraq. this come as president obama calls on the world for action against isis demanding the country stop giving money and stop spewing the hate filled ideology that fuels the terrorist group. obama used all of his skills at the u.n. today. his goal was to recruit a global possie capable of degrading and eventually destroying isis. he made clear today he wants country to takes concrete steps and will be taeg keeping tabs on whether they may be delivered or not. only the we look at why the congress, democrats and republicans are shirking a vote on the obama-led air strikes. our "hardball" roundtable will look at these questions and look at the

you said they were targeting either the europe or the united states homeland. >> right. >> i understandyou don't want me to know which it is, but do you all know? do you guys know what they were planning to attack? because the word "imminent" is important. that word "imminent" means you can do this. without imminent you do not do this. this is the linchpin. i'm just curious, what does imminent mean and do you know whether it was europe or the united states? >> the intelligence is an imperfect thing and it's layered. so i'd be loathe to say that we had every level of detail down. what we did know was an attack was coming soon, that they were in the end game -- >> days, weeks, months, years? >> i would just say very, very soon. >> in the grand scheme of things that might be three or four years. >> i'm not talking about years, shep. >> months or weeks? >> we know it was coming very, very soon. soon enough that we needed to act. >> soon enough that you needed to act. has what you did stopped that imminent attack? >> we're still assessing the results of the strike, shep. we do know we disrup

>> we do not have any indication at the present by concrete plotting by isil against the united states homeland. but we do know that they are dangerous, they threatened americans, killed americans in the region. >> reporter: this follows last week's revelation by jason chaffetz. he said i have reason to believe on september then were four individuals trying to cross into the texas border apprehended at two texas stations that have known ties to organizations in the middle east. johnson' replied to that i have heard reports to that but i don't know the accuracy of the reports. iranians and syrians were also apprehend at the border. >> reporter: we know the leader is age 33, born in kuwait. he ran an al qaeda cell. he's a top aide to usama bin laden. in february of this year he was instrumental in getting al qaeda to separate itself from isis. the u.s. offered a $7 million report for information leading in the to his arrest. martha: the new airstrike decimating isis targets as america seeks out the terrorist stronghold in syria and iraq. the president is set to address the u.n. general assembly.

united states will not coordinate or cooperate with the assad regime. an all-inclusive approach to preventing attacks from isil to the united states and homeland. the united states will draw on intelligence, law enforcement, diplomatic and economic tools to cut off isil's funding. improve our intelligence, strengthen homeland defense and stem the flow of foreign fighters. the united states and our allies have been stepping up efforts to identify and encounter threats emanating from syria against our homelands. this includes increased intelligence sharing. working with dod's partners at the national counterterrorism center. the department of homeland security, the fbi, and across the intelligence community. our terrorist screening and analytical data bases now have special threat cases linking together known actors and potential foreign fighters, making it easier and faster to update them regularly with new information. department of homeland security secretary jay johnson has directed enhanced screening at 25 overseas airports with direct flights to the united states. a step that the united kingdom and other countries have already taken. the dep

you knew of a possible attack against the united states homeland. >> we knew there was active plotting going on for an attack on the u.s. homeland. not much more detail, but we are aware of that. >> you believe that the threat was eliminated ? >> we believe that the individuals that were plotting and planning have been eliminated. and we will continue to assess the effectiveness of our strikes through today. >> admiral, thanks very much. >> thanks for having me. >> big headline, plotters taken out. >> takes your breath away. as you just mentioned, the other threat, the terror group that many believe is a bigger threat to the u.s. brian ross is here. he has many more details on that. >> reporter: corasan is a shadowy group of 50 fighters who they believe is far more dangerous than isis. officials believe they are using a facility in syria near aleppo to attack american aviation using undetectable explosives. they carried them out against training camps, explosives, am mi you in additions and command and control. they had migrated there under muhsin al-fadhli. >> you said undetectable ex

you knew of a possible attack against the united states homeland? e knew there was active plotting going on for an attack on the u.s. homeland. i won't be able to go into much more detail than that, but we were aware of it. >> but do you believe that that threat was eliminated? >> we believe that the individuals that were plotting and planning have been eliminated. and we will continue to assess the effectiveness of our strikes going through today. >> admiral kirby, thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. >> big headline, plotters taken out. >> really takes your breath away, thinking about that. but as you and the admiral just mentioned, the other threat, the terror group that many believe is a bigger threat to the u.s. abc's brian ross is here. he has many more details on that. good morning, brian. >> reporter: good morning, robin. khorasan is a shadow we group of 50 sfigtefighters that the u.s. admiral kirby said, considers far more dangerous than isis. officials believe they are using a facility in syria near aleppo to attack american aviati

not have any indications at the present of active, concrete plotting by isil against the united states homelandthe answer to that at this stage is no. we do know, matt, that they are dangerous. they have threatened americans, killed americans in the region. they threaten our interest in the region. they threaten europe and they could, with time, be an approximate threat to the homeland. >> think of the things we're talking about here with the khorasan group, with isis, the threat to airline travel internationally, with beheadings that we're seeing on camera. what happened to the days when the administration was able to say it felt confident that we had dealt a crippling blow to al qaeda and its militants? >> understand what we've been saying. we've been focused for many years, as you know, on al qaeda in afghanistan and pakistan, that al qaeda core. that element of al qaeda that hatched the 9/11 plot and executed it has been substantially degrade and don't pose nearly the same type of threat that it used to. what happens happened is that al qaeda has metastasized. imagine a cancer that had an o

department of homeland security secretary jay johnson has directed enhanced screening at 25 overseas airports with direct flights to the united states, a step that the united kingdom and other countries have already taken. the departments of justice and homeland security have launched an initiative to partner with local communities to counter extremist recruiting. in the department of treasury's office of terrorist and financial intelligence, he is working with partners to disrupt isil's financing and expose their financing activities. >> the final element of the president's strategy is to continue providing humanitarian assistance to innocent civilians displaced or threatened by isil. alongside the government of iraq, the united kingdom, canada, australia, france, u.s. troops have already delivered life-saving and thousands of threatened iraq civilians on mount sinjar in the iraqi town of amile. the united states is the single largest donor of humanitarian assistance for the millions of syrians affected by the civil war. since the start of the syrian conflict, the united states has committed almost $3 billion in the humanitarian as

>> right now, we assess they do not have active ongoing plots aimed at the united states homeland. >>that's a different question of whether they have the capacity. we don't know of any active, ongoing threats, plots, but -- >> and we do not assess right now they have the capability to mount an effective, large scale plot inside the united states. >> large scale, correct? >> another piece of this you can't necessarily account for is grown violent extremists who may self-identify as acting in sympathy with or in support of isil. or perhaps never even touched leadership in any kind of command and control way. but in the aftermath of a potential attack, even here in the homeland might self-affiliate and describe. i don't mean by any means to minimize the threat to isil, that's not my intent. i was simply trying to describe and in a sense concentric rings where the levels of concern we have at present versus what we see developing more over time. >> thank you. >> no doubt what you've described with the foreign fighters is what gives them the capability to threaten the homeland over the lon

there is no evidence or indication right now that isil is actively plotting to attack the united states homelandhe fear is that westerners including brits and americans could return home to launch attacks after fighting for isis in iraq and syria. >> it is abhorrent that people who declare their allegiance elsewhere are able to return to the uk and pose a threat to national security. >> british authorities estimate 500 brits have joined islamist terrorist groups in syria and iraq a statistic brought home when a man with a british accent took part in james foley's execution. >> the threat is much greater in the uk. that's why you're seeing a raft of new measures to trien attackal this problem. they're very, very worried isis may try and retaliate in some form of way. >> and u.s. officials say about 100 americans have joined islamist militants in syria. about a dozen of them joining isis. in a statement, the national security council wouldn't comment on the specific new domestic measures in the uk announced today but says the u.s. is in constant touch with the uk about any threat. >> pam, thank yo

united states being isis. how do you gauge, how do you see the thought that isis is to the united states homeland in particularme people are hesitant to go that far just yet. >> well, obviously we're not that far just yet. but if isis is able to consolidate itself on the ground, to hall territory the size of some u.s. states, isis is going to be able to have people there who will want to do what osama bin laden was doing, that is having people train in camps for the purpose of attacking the united states. moreover, we've seen a lot of disaffected muslims from place like the uk, germany, france, u.s. and australia making their way to syria. none of them have joined the syrian moderate opposition. they've all been joining isis. i think we're organically linked to this mess and i think we need to find a way through it. and i suppose in the fullness of time the history books will look at the question of whether we really should have called for assad's immediate yourselfer when we didn't have a plan of backing anyone else apart from continuation of what are which has caused over 200,000 civilian deaths. we do have

united states or e.u. targets. what can you tell us about this group? >> this group is, according to officials, pretty much the most dangerous group because it is targeting the united states homelandeting western countries. it doesn't act much in the region. it tries to coordinate with all those jihadists returning to the united states or returning to the european union and then they want to get action here. most of them were al qaeda. i would even suspect they have still links to al qaeda. now these strikes are targeting isis, are targeting one group, al nusra and the korasand group as well. >> there is a reason to act, just like that group the yazidis were on these mountains, saved a lot of them. i understand the syrian kurds have been pushed out of the area by isis. 130,000 go flooding into turkey. at the u.n. yesterday there was a plea to act. i wonder what role that played. >> that could have been one of the reasons to prompt the leadership to act quickly. why? because the kurds in syria would have been among those moderates contemplating to train and help. isis heard us. isis did a preemptive strike against them, took about eight to nine villages, pushed tens of thousands ou

these bugs have no regard for life and have threatened to attack our homeland in the united states government must be prepared to prevent inaccurate happening. terrace with passports pose the rest of the homeland because many are eligible for visa free travel through the visa waiver program. terrorists could be just one piece of free flight away from arriving in the united states, bringing with them their skills and their training and their ideology and commitment to killing americans. all of the things they learned overseas. let us remember dr. rice moussaoui the so-called 20th hijacker actually traveled on the visa waiver program before he enrolled in a minneapolis flight school. richard reid the shoe bomber who tried to ignite explosive and issue also traveled on the visa waiver program. enron to use fast and was one of the main perpetrators of the 1993 world trade center bombing to get news of the visa to enter the country. these attacks occurred before the advent of increased scrutiny on the visa waiver countries and i think we are confident we can identify many threats today are the ele

many aren't sophisticated, don't have designs or the capability of attacking the united states homeland some are more inflein shl. some have greater capacity and some have built up and demonstrated that over the last several months, but the fact is that the time the president was talking about was drawing a clear distinction between core al-qaeda and organizations operating in this area. even isil, which has demonstrated military capacity, there are not indications right now that they are actively planning or that they have the capacity to carry out a widespread conspiracy along the lines of the plot that was organized by osama bin laden about 13 years ago this week. the capacities are different and that's the point the president was trying to make. it means our policy for dealing with them needs to be different and the president is put ng place a strategy to deal with the threat posed by isil before they can find the kind of safe haven that would allow them to eventually build the capacity. >> the president, janet napolitano, the president's former homeland security secretary said this

united states. now there's word department of homeland security in washington is warning of possible revenge attacks here in the united states by what they described as lone extremists. let's get some more with cnn counterterrorism analyst, the former cia official, phillip mudd. what do you make of this fear now that local, state, federal law enforcement agencies across the country have been told there could be revenge attacks by these lone wolves? i wouldn't call it fear, wolf, i would call it prudent planning. if you have seen what we saw out of australia the past week, an effort by extremists to capture somebody for beheading, not in iraq or syria but australia, we have seen the british security service raise its threat level, seen the fbi talk about 100-plus people going over for fighting in syria and iraq, i think its owes only prudent for the fbi and others to say in the wake of these attacks, better be careful about what we are going to see here in the united states. >> when you hear u.s. officials, phillip, and you have been on the inside, cia, elsewhere in the government, hear them say an a

take the fights to extremist organizations, they may have designs on attacking the united states or the u.s. homeland. >> reporter: president obama went to the home for an event. while there they called lawmakers to give them a heads up about the air strikes. the islamic state or isis has taken 60 villages in the last week, driving refugees into turkey. >> for them it's an all-out war. >> reporter: the air strikes are now under way fulfilling president obama's promise more than a week ago. >> if you threaten america, you will find no safe haven. >> reporter: back here reaction from lawmakers and while some say this air campaign will help. ultimately they argue it's going to take sunnis fighting on the ground to defeat isis. >>> now, the latest on atlantic casino crisis. the deadline for potential buyers is 4:00 this afternoon but it needs to be higher than a florida developer $90 million offer. that is set to begin tomorrow morning. >>> meantime the parent company of tromp plaza wants permission to sell-off gambling equipment and furniture to pay for proceedings. filed a motion in bankruptcy court ye

is planning to attack the homeland of the united states. >> the new fighters in syria pose the same riskisis and isil? >> that's a good question, and, you know, in terms of threat to the home land, perhaps they do. this khorasan group, so called, which i guess is out there, is potentially yet another threat to the homeland, yes. >> in terms of the khorasan group, these strikes were undertaken to disrupt imminent attack plotting against the united states and western targets. >> thursday, it is possible, maybe, maybe they're a threat, monday, this is happening, this is an iminnocent threat. >> you get the feeling that this is just a target of community. they said imminent threat plotting, but not an imminent threat. so they were imminent threat plotting. >> they said they were in the final stages of implementation. >> my basic philosophy is, whenever you have a chance to bomb al qaeda, bomb al qaeda. talking about it's the khorasan group, it's the bell labs of al qaeda, it's the research outposts. the core al qaeda which are allegedly on the run, but we now apparently have to bomb them. i

homeland. and the united states government must the prepared to prevent such an act from happening. terrorists with western passports pose an additional risk to the homeland because many are eligible for visa-free travel through the visa waiver program. terrorists could be just one visa-free flight away from arriving in the united states and bringing with them their skills and their training and their ideology and their commitment to killing americans. all of the thing that they learned overseas. theus remember that traveled 20th hijacker on the visa waiver program before he enrolled in a minneapolis flight school. richard reid, and the shoe bomber who tried to ignite explosives in a shoe, also traveled on the visa waiver program. perpetratorse main of the 1993 world trade center bombing again used the visa waiver program to enter the country. these attacks occurred before the advent of increased scrutiny on visa waiver countries. while we are confident that we can identify many threats today through the electronic system for travel authorization, which allalled esta, visa waiver app

united states. threat terrorist organization continue to target commercial air transportation as a means to move operatives into the united states or attack the homeland our focus operational efforts to detect and respond to the threats in the air environment. last you see vp process 7 million travelers that nation's airports, we developed and deploy resources to mitigate risks posed by travelers that every stage including when an individual applies for travel documents, reserves or purchases airline tickets, checks in at the airport while on route and upon our arrival and before for national travels to the united states, for is required to apply for 9 immigrant visa, travel authorization for travel authorization. before issuing the visa the department of state identifies the legibilities. cbp screens applicants in advance of travel to assess eligibility and potential risks to the united states. in this fiscal year cbp denied applications for 300 travelers for security related reasons. once travelers booked but before the flight departs cbp obtain and analyze his airline data including reservation information, passenger name records and manifest infor

number one threat to the homeland are americans or europeans who have passports who have been over there and who are trying to come back, who may try to do something in the united statesr homeland security janet napolitano says there's a good chance that we don't have a fix on all of them. so are we in a fix? welcome, everyone. i'm stuart varney in for neil cavuto and this is "your world." with the threat of home-grown terror on the rise the fbi setting its sights on minnesota. a dozen americans from the twinties are believed to have joined the fight with isis,

from using religious -- factors in identifying threats national security threats to the united states in the homelandeone was a religious extremist though they didn't plot to carry out an attack that could not be factors into an investigation into an intelligence investigation into identifying them as a potential threat to the united states. therefore, they would have to wait until they actually plotted to carry out an attack. well that's too late and unfortunately what we're seeing right now is the fact is that we've seen massive numbers, increasing numbers of volunteers going over from europe and asia and africa but isis is recruiting engineers, social media types, people who have expertise and carrying out sophisticated terrorist attacks, coming back to the united states. if you were -- i got an e-mail from an fbi agent yesterday and he said no one remembers what happened in the 1980s when the jihadists went to afghanistan to fight the soviets then came back. what happened? in february 1993 they plotted and almost took down the world trade center that time. they didn't. they failed. they returned

they take the fight to extremist organizations that may have designs on attacking the united states or the u.s. homelandresident's home last night for an event. we now know while there they called lawmakers to give them a heads up about the air strikes. the islamic state or isis has taken 60 villages in the last week, driving refugees into turkey. >> for them, it is an all-out war. >> reporter: the air strikes are now under way, fulfilling president obama's promise more than a week ago. >> if you threaten america, you will find no safe haven. >> reporter: apparently that's the thinking of jordan too, among the five arab countries that helped out, we're learning from a new statement that jordan sent in their fighter jets as well, saying that they destroyed selected targets and saying they wanted to send a sharp message to isis and i'm quoting here, that bargaining and recklessness is not going to be tolerated when it comes to the safety of their people. dara? >> tracie potts from washington, d.c. tracie, thanks so much for that update. >>> switching gears now to entertainment. quack attack is back. "the

homeland. now, the strikes against khorasan were unilateral, only the united states was involved but the strikes against isis were carried out by a coalition. five arab allies joined the united states attacking by air and by sea. there you see them. jordan, saudi arabia, bahrain, qatar. the united arab emirates. sunni governments in each of these nations taking action against sunni militants inside syria. that's a very big development. president obama praised this operation just a short time ago. >> we are joined in this action by our friends and partners saudi arabia, the united arab emirates, jordan, bahrain, and qatar. america's proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with these nations on behalf of our common security. the strength of this coalition makes it clear to the world that this is not america's fight alone. above all, the people and governments of the middle east are rejecting isil and standing up for the peace and security that the people of the region and the world deserve. >> not america's fight alone. a key phrase you will hear from u.s. officials all day. we're covering all angles

number one threat to the homeland are americans or europeans who have passports who have been over there and who are trying to come back, who may try to do something in the united states. >> and former homeland security janet napolitano says there's a good chance that we don't have a fix on all of them. so are we in a fix? welcome, everyone. i'm stuart varney in for neil cavuto and this is "your world." with the threat of home-grown terror on the rise the fbi setting its sights on minnesota. a dozen americans from the twinties are believed to have joined the fight with isis, including a 19-year-old show mali -- somali woman, and the first american to die while fighting with isis. and now reports, a mosque in massachusetts may by linked to eight suspected and convicted terrorists, the same mosque the tsarnaev brothers, blamed for the boston a marathon bombing, attended. and thence this guy was also a regular worshiper at that mosque and is said to be in charge of isis' sophisticated media wing, promoting behead examination other atrocities. to former fbi agent bill daily what is needed to stop it i imagine the fbi is swarming all over minneapolis and boston. >> they ha

united states. we have seen what isis is capable of executing, crucifying, beheading its enemies, innocent journalists among them, but does isis truly pose a direct threat to the homelandthe western world? today, president obama talked about that in his interview on "meet the press." i want to bring in peter bergen to discuss this. thank you very much for being with us, he is our national security analyst and covered this very closely. ed president talking about the the three isis poses and go after them. hear more about the plan wednesday when he addresses the nation, in your op ed, you say two thirds of those surveyed in the recent pew poll thought isis is the major threat to this country. you question if it really is. why? >> eyes is is a highly unpleasant organization and together with the al qaeda affiliate that is fighting syria and iraq, control more territory than other group us in this history, they have brutal tactics. does that mean a threat to the united states? a dozen americans gone to join isis, a dozen too many. more many a one-way ticket exseen two americans who died, americans going of over don't have battlefield experience, a very dangerous war. seen

united states secret social security and currently a partner at command consulting group. the honorable todd keel is the former assistant secretary for infrastructure protection at united states department of homeland security, and is currently a senior adviser to touchdown pauj. per student to the committee's rules i ask that you please all rise and raise your right hand to take the oath. >> do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? please be seated. let the record reflect that all witnesses answered in the affirmative. in order to allow sufficient time for discussion and questions, please limit your testimony to five minutes. your entire opening statement will be made a permanent part of the record. with that, director pearson is recognized. >> good morning chairman issa, distinguished members of the committee. i'm here today to address the concerns we share following the incident september 19th. it's clear our security plan was not properly executed. it's unacceptable and i take full responsibility and i will make sure that it does not happen again. as director, my primary concern is ensuring the readiness of my

their passports and saying, we're going to come back to the united states, we're going to deliver a blow to the united states in the homeland. we would be silly not to heed those warnings. but-w he have to put it in context. we have to evaluate each threat as it comes. a bit of intel yesterday from the iraqi prime minister that turned out to be bogus. a lot knew it was bogus before we even heard it was bogus because it isn't sound right. just because there are some misreports here and there, some people hyping the threat. make no mistake, there is a real threat. >> evan, the terrorists from these beheadings videos has gotten a lot of attention because it sounds, when you listen to it, this is a western, a brit, british accent. the fbi, i guess, saying this week they think they are narrowing down who this is, the uk also says they're on this trail. won't give out any identity or anything like that. do you have a sense from your own reporting, any more indications of how far along they are in that process of where this is going? also, just to get to that question we were talking about earlier, i guess there's some value here.

as they take the fight to extremist organizations, they have designs on attacking the united states or the homeland. the examples we publicly discussed are yemen and somalia. each situation is very different, but they are hoping to deploy a strategy that has been successful in mitigating we expect that strategy will be successful in syria as well. president has made it clear that tax reform is a priority and regulation will be coming soon over the weekend and they are putting finishing touches on the regulation. can you tell us what has been holding it up? is gettingpriority congress to pass legislation that would get it past best to close this loophole. you will recall the last time congress passed legislation addressing a loophole like this was in 2004. that was a law passed with bipartisan support and was signed into law by a republican president before election day. there's no reason congress should not be able to act to address this loophole in that timeframe. the other thing i will point out a lot was passed shortly before election day that was retroactive and prevented companies from trying

. >> new numbers show fewer unaccompanied children are entering the united states illegally, the homelandecurity department says more than 3,000 unaccompanied miners were apprehended in august. that is a 45% drop from the 5500 who crossed the border in july, and it is a huge decline from the nearly 11,000 apprehended in june. it comes as some of the tens of thousands of unaccompanied miner whose are already in the united states are starting school. many them in places far from the border, more now from san francisco. >> mario is 15 years old. and like most teenagers, getting ready for a new school year. i came to the united states for school, to make progress for my studies and to learn another language. >> he is starting school here at international high. 3,000 miles from the home he left behind, in honduras. he risked his life to come here. >> in mexico it becomes much more difficult, because there things change, there are thieves that rob you, you may even have to sleep on the straights and it is very difficult. when you get to the border you have to walk allot and be strong, because t