we see more in world weather. >> hello there, the summer fire season is heating up in the western u.s. firefighters are very busy to seize the fires. we have video of one of the fires in washington state. hundreds of people in western washington were told to leave their homes because of a fast-moving wildfire, some 860 homes affected by the blaze fueled by low humidity. the plume of smoke 20,000 feet high was visible in seattle. 180 personnel were battling the flames. we need rain. we'll take a look at the rain forecast summer rain is likely in the inland parts of washington state, however, not enough to make a dent in those significant rain deficits. the south, popping up thundershowers are likely but it will be accompanied with in rainfall. thunderstorms could ignite wildfire so conditions are very critical. meanwhile, severe weather is happening in northern parts. we're looking at severe weather to continue in around alberta for the next 24 hours or so, tornado watches in effect and to the south, severe weather happening in the southern plains. we have reports of 280 millimeters of

in the western u.s., the word is that haved wildfires consumed 35,000 acres in oregon. people in chicago had to break out the sweatshirts today for unseasonably cool temperatures. our abcnected on all of 7 platforms, online and on social media. steve will be back here in a few minutes and he will update the forecast. >> moving on now, new at 11:00, a search for a gun man after a shooting in a silver spring neighborhood. shots rang out at 7:15 on bradford road, not far from the intersection. live tonight with details. tell us about it. >> allison, still a lot of unanswered questions as to what may have sparked the shooting in a rather quiet neighborhood. a part of silver spring that borders takoma park, a family neighborhood, a mixture of single-family homes and garden apartments. montgomery county police say they were called to the area about 7:15 tonight after residents reported hearing shots fired, at least two shots. they arrived to find a man down, lying on the side of the street. he was conscious, but he had been shot. forensic investigators began combing the scene

this is a special one-hour western edition. u.s. intelligence believes that a surface-to-air missile brought down a malaysian flight, flight flight 17 with 298 people on board crashed near the russian border where pro ukrainians are battling to break away from ukraine. there are no survivors. just yesterday, the rebels claimed responsibility for downing a ukrainian military jet and a ukrainian military transport plane was shot down on monday, but this evening the rebels who are backed by russia insist they had nothing to do with today's crash of the airliner. this video captured the explosion just moments after the malaysia airlines boeing 777 fell in pieces from the sky. the smoke rose above a village held by rebels about 25 miles from the russian border. wreckage, body parts and personal belongings were scattered over miles. flight 17 took off from amsterdam at about 3:30 this morning pacific time, bound for kuala lumpur, malaysia. less than four hours into the flight, it disappeared from radar. the 298 people on board included 28

the fact that high pressure is going to continue to build in across the entire western u.s. it is strong and providing a huge blocking pattern. the thing is with the fog on the immediate coastline, it will keep us cool there. but the one spot that's going to be sheltered from any kind of on shore wind is the tri valley. by sunday, 89 degrees. by monday, 97. and then by tuesday, 94. so getting a lot hotter for the tri valley in the next couple of days. but all in all, saturday is looking pretty good here. san jose expecting 83 degrees. palo alto, 81. san francisco in the 50s. northbound, eastbound and also the tri valley. and you will notice temperatures going up just a few degrees. napa, 84. and down here, temperatures in the mid 80s. so saturday, looking very sweet if you're not looking forward to any kind of hot weather, sunday is going to be the day things increase. the northbound expecting 88. looks pretty good to me. >> looks fantastic. >> a 60-year-old man is facing arson charges after placing a large part of cardboard on fire at the oakland airport. it happened inside

in the western u.s. a drought has states going to court to fight for water. >>> and german socceran

in the western u.s. a drought has states going to court to fight for water. >>> and german soccer fans are celebrating. the team, once again, world cup champions. [ siren ] >>> sirens over israel warning residents to take shelter as incoming missiles from gaza rain down on the country. rockets hit as far as tel aviv. in gaza the israeli bombing campaign is in its seventh day. the military is escalating its air strike campaign over the palestinian territory. tens of thous aned of palestinians in gaza -- thousands of palestinians in gaza have fled the fighting. israel warned 100,000 people in northern gaza to leave their homes. now a threat to the north as well. hours ago rockets from lebanon were fired into the country. the israeli military responded by firing artillery into lebanon. since israel launch the its military campaign in gaza 890 rockets have been fired into israel. 172 were intercepted by israel's iron dome. israel launched 1400 air strikes in the gaza. the casualties there are staggering. at

. >>> hot weather threatens parts of the western u.s. what are we looking at greg postel. >> alex, thank you very much. the first heatwave of the year. it's been cooler than average. we have heat warnings out for minnesota and minneapolis. this is really for tomorrow where temperatures will be rising from their values today. look at this. 87 in minneapolis today but tomorrow, middle 90s for minneapolis. chicago, 92. this is real july heat finally. but what comes with the heat? severe weather chances. severe weather across the plains with big storms likely with all of that energy from that heatwave. in the northeast, it's going to hit up a little bit. mid-80s across parts of d.c. and new york and even a little warmer than that going into tuesday. even 86 up in boston. so slowly turning more summer-like in the southeast. in the southeast, it remains rainy and cool and hardly july-like weather. look at some of these numbers. 82 in atlanta. that's way below and it's going to last a few more days. >> dr. postel, thank you so much. >>> so many

that -- i'll quote again -- "climate outweighed other factors in determining burned area in the western u.s." these changes in temperature and precipitation are putting utah's iconic desert sage brush at risk according to peterald peteralder. sage brush is important to utah's ranching industry. dr. alder is working with faculty and students from seven area universities to better ngd the vulnerability of sage brush ecoal systems to climate change. these utah scientists aren't denying climate change, and neither is, for instance, utah state university. utah state has an entire new courses of study to train the next generation of students to predict and combat climate change. utah state has its own climate action plan. utah state has an active climate center, and i.t. not the only one. the university of utah has an active sustainability center and an army of students and researchers working on addressing climate change. each year the university of utah publishes an annual report on climate change. members of utah's delegation may be pretending climate change isn't real, but utah's universities

in the western u.s., drier weather was the problem, as a massive 3,000 foot tall dust storm swept acrossthern arizona last night. it knocked out power and canceled flights and fireworks celebrations. and farther west, in california, the dry conditions fueled several wildfires. in the mountain town of julian, fourth of july celebrations that draw about 5,000 spectators were canceled. the fire there is only 40% contained. >> woodruff: a little more than an hour north of those fires, about 120 demonstrators from both sides of the immigration debate massed again outside a u.s. border patrol station in the city of murrietta. they rallied as another convoy of migrants who illegally crossed into the u.s. from mexico was expected to arrive at the agency for processing. on tuesday, protesters at the same site blocked buses carrying migrants from central america. they had been flown in from texas, where facilities are overwhelmed by the influx. the department of veterans affairs is facing more criticism today after a veteran died just 500 yards from an emergency room. the man collapsed monday in a

make them more vulnerable and what kind of planning do we need to put in place to ensure that western interests u.s. interests on damage and this takes me back to the minister your friends research that i was talking about which of course is in a very very insulated with the pentagon you know we have a special relationship here with the u.s. and the u.k. and that research is looking very much of how we need to maintain the functioning of the global economy and access to distant. resources access to potentially endangered supply chains in the context of climate change in the context of all of these other kind of. uncertainties such as energy depletion or economic crisis so this is really about how do we maintain business as usual how do we keep the system going when costs increasing when dangers are increasing how do we also of course when that's making more and more people angry and upset and they want change how do we keep things going and how can be a hockey would be aware of where those things are going to hit and where those vulnerabilities are going to hit in the future so you can be prepared

sunni militants have taken control of a number of cities in an offensive across northern and western iraq. >>> u.s. vice president joe biden has indicated that his country could move forward with another round of sanctions against russia. biden spoke by phone with ukraine's president, petro poroshenko, about cease-fire negotiations that are going nowhere. white house sources say poroshenko told biden that the kremlin and pro-russian separatists in ukraine had rejected numerous proposed venues for peace talks. biden told poroshenko the u.s. is discussing with its partners in the international community the need to hold russia accountable for its continued support for the separatists. the sources say the two men agreed the separatists should immediately release captive ukrainian soldiers. they also agreed the organization for security and cooperation in europe should monitor the ukraine/russia border. last week, poroshenko told biden that his country's ready to implement another cease-fire, if the separatists lay down their weapons and meet certain other conditions. >>> "the new york times" has repo

this is a special one-hour western edition. u.s.gence believes that a surface-to-air missile brought

$3.5 billion for unaccompanied child immigrants, israel's defense and wildlife response in the western u.s also three nomination votes, u.s. ambassador to the japanese republic and assistant secretary of housing and urban development and a board member for the washington, d.c. airports authority. the house will debate today whether to sue president obama. also their $17 billion plan to improve veterans health care, general speeches at 10, legislative work starts at noon eastern. see the house live on c-span. now live to the senate floor. the president pro tempore: the senate will come to order. the chaplain, dr. barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. the chaplain: let us pray. wondrous god, angels bow before you; heaven and earth adore you as the days past swiftly, we pause to thank you for surrounding us with the shield of your favor. your anger is only for a moment, but your favor is for a lifetime today, lead our lawmakers to greater maturity and wholeness in you. may they grow in grace and in a deeper knowledge of you, becoming better prepared to be your ambassadors, reconciling

let's focus attention across the western u.s.s is an area where it's the story of the haves and have notes. it's been dry across the north-west. inland we have a monsoonal moisture, showers and storms developing across the four corners. this is a look in the colorado. where unfortunately there has been two deaths related to lightening streaks and with the isolated storms that pop up, we can be in line for lightening. be very careful if you head out, and watch the skies. we'll have more coming up. >>> thank you so much. >>> a small plane crashed in montreal landing in the middle of this backyard. the woman who steered the plane appeared to be from a flight school. thank fully no one was hurt. >> americans use 100 billion plastic bags each and every year. many end up in the o. plastic bag bans are aimed at cutting back on pollution. in florida there's a law banning plastic bags. we have an report on an effort to change that. >> reporter: beneath the palm trees hugging the coastline there's muck created by man. a few times a week da

. >> much of the western u.s. is trapped in a serious drought. las vegas has come up with an ambitious plan for what would be the biggest ground water pumping project in the u.s. northern nevada is not so willing to cooperate. >> home on the range, and the skies are not cloudy all day in nevada's cowboy country. a few hundred people living an old fashioned life, ranching and farming in snake valley. >> in addition to raising livestock, tom baker's family gross alfalfa, bay, wheat and oat. he said the challenge is taking limited resources to produce as much as possible. >> water is the limiting factor to any kind of growth, whether agriculture or the city's or any industrial growth. if our water resources are depleted, we'll lose things like this pretty meadow and a lot of the economic viewability of the area. >> what tom baker worries about is this, 300 miles away, a dehydrated las vegas has plan to say build a pipeline running north that would access ground water in snake valley and suck the water out from under residents' very feet. >> we are th

u.s. or western style medicine would prevent transmission. >> the cdc saying not to panic but it is urging all doctors here in the u.s. to be on the watch for anyone traveling in that region that shows symptoms, fever, vomiting and diarrhea, they are even deciding to close some schools there. >> thank you sharrie. >>> in eastern ukraine, international investigators are denied access to the malaysian plane crash site for a fourth straight day. according to ukrainian officials there, there is another problem, they say that the rebels have planted land mines on access roads to the crash site. >>> they have remembered the lives lost in the shooting down of malaysian flight 17 and they talked of the researchers on the flight heading to an aids conference in australia. >>> still to come on "action news" tonight, the house votes to sue president barack obama and testing their mettle, we'll tell you which cars escaped unscathed if the latest crash tests and small scale terror, a small snake has a jersey shore town on edge tonight. >>> and this front is sitting off the coast and moving toward us th

u.s. has and western governments have, of course, is as long as this doesn't come right in various parts of the middle east, the u.s. and western powers either by choice or by force get dragged into this, and this for americans ends up costing lives and money. we do have some interest in wanting to see something that is going to be more economically and politically viable in the long run, what is that? what is that something? >> i think the biggest challenge is recognizing the time that it needs to have success take root in the region. when i say time i say particularly for a process we've tried military intervention and where we were the governance handing it over to a local government structure. we haven't been able to have have space where we see others in transition where that is a key element. in iraq a lot of vent went into iraq, but unfortunately we never saw a true national dialogue or reconciliation process. and until a from you dialogue and strong reconciliation takes place in country, iraq-- >> as we saw from patricia's piece, this was crucial to have dominant interests in iraq,

u.s. western relations. >> for someone watching right now, what is happening on the ground there? we are seeing these pushes from the ukrainian government to try to quell the unrest. we saw cease-fire and now we are seeing the end of that cease-fire. what is president poroshenko trying to do? >> well, the first thing that is happening there is a giant and needless tragedy, and i want to start with that, because we sometimes quickly get in, we talk about the conflict and kind of raising the conflict, this is one with that didn't need to happen. ethnic ukrainians and ethnic russians lived side by side for a long time. this is all fabricated by bad leadership and bad decisions and now you have hundreds of people dying in a place that had been peaceful for a long time. and that is frustrating to me as somebody who worked on the effort to try to make relations with the ukraine and russia better with the united states. >> well right now poroshenko is also frustrated. he has an over sure, a cease-fire plan. he then called for a cease-fire and he didn't get the response he wanted. maybe e

u.s. and western european sanctions.that came before reports new sanctions target the finance, defense and energy industries would be announced as soon as tuesday. for more, let's go to donetsk and eastern ukraine. good to have you with us. the u.n. high commissioner for human rights issued a report on monday focussing on flight mh17, and human rights abuse, including many people that have disappeared in eastern ukraine, and the u.n. is pointing the finger at the pro-russian separatists. >> yes, it was a damming report based around the findings of the passed month, up until 16 july. and clearly afterwards, on the 17th tlsks the malaysian airliner crash. now, the u.n. has said that this crash and what happened could be classed as a war crime, and there needs to be a full and proper inquiry. other reports in the report included more than 1,000 students died in fighting since mid-april. thousands have been injured. hundreds of people detained. some people have been executed or disappeared. and a lot of the infrastructure th

u.s. or western-style medicine, would prevent transmission. >> still the c.d.c. urges all doctors here to be on the watch for anyone traveling from that region that may show symptoms including fever, rash, vomiting and diarrhea. >> the american widow of a libeerian government official who died of ebola last week is sneaking out. she said her husband planned to travel toway next month. >> we don't need -- to iowa next month. >> they plan to put 340 volunteers out of liberia and guinea and sierra leon. but they say at this point they have no travel restrictions for the region. >> there's a push to stop sexual assaults on university campuses. >> how virginia senator mark warner is hoping to make that happen next. >> if you have missed the hot, sticky july weather, don't worry, it's coming back. doug's full forecast is next. >> coming up in sports, the nats reel in the fish for a first and head home. a local legend calls it quits at prep and horace holms sits down with one of the new d.b.s who >> a push by more than half a dozen senators to stop sexual assaults an ca

u.s.-led with western authorities.d we allow the people in the sishlg of suspicion for bringing down the plane to be in charge of the crash sintd allow the bodies to languish for days, complete indignity. how is that allowed if this local self-appointed militia is so unimpressive in so many ways, why are we standing in the current situation that we're in? >> we're standing in the current situation because we haven't acted forcefully against the russian government, frankly. the russian haves been supporting these separatists for months. they have been supplying weapons for months. now we know -- now we can see the weapons that they've been providing and we see the training they've been providing and the leadership they've been providing. the russian officials out of the military intelligence, the russian military intelligence are leading in this. we've seen this for some time. we've taken some mild sanctions, mild actions in the form of pinpoint sanctions that have only been recently expanded. it's now up to us to lead

. >>> and coming up in the kron 4 morning news, hundreds of wildfires burning throughout the western u.scanada, take a look at some of them coming up. heat shields are compromised. we have multiple failures. what's that alarm? fuel cell two is down. i'm going to have to guide her in manually. this is very exciting. but i'm at my stop. come again? i'm watching this on the train. it's so hard to leave. good luck with everything. watch tv virtually anywhere with the u-verse tv app. with at&t, the u-verse revolves around you. effe] i n't ve tthin out itugs u. [evi thizipsff si ca. sh iyes,leas oberdudeempupediis killg it cudds beer tn myusba. sp in d. she tohes.', [annncervisiyourocald reilernd me. >>> welcome back, tracking hundreds of wild fires burning across the west and canada. the pictures of one of the fires burning in washington state. this one has grown to more than 7,000 acres and destroyed two hopes near the twoun of twis p. and reports of more homes destroyed in -- jeff van zant spoke with residents, one describing the fire as a called ren of hell. >> everywhere you look, fire. r

the s amp-11, the western name for it. u.s. intelligence matched the voices to other separatist recordings. the rebels claimed to have shut down a military personal property plan. when it was clear it was a passenger jet, social media posts were quickly deleted and then there was this. further evidence of a rush connection. u.s. intelligence has identified a facility in southwest russia where rebel fighters have been trained on surface to air missile systems. the u.s. said that more than a dozen aircraft were shot down over eastern ukraine. could the ukrainians have shot down flight 17, the u.s. said no. ukraine has the same weapons but none of those weapons were in the region at the time. cnn, the pentagon. >>> and as barbara mentioned 12 planes not four. which was already told. why were commercial jets flying over this part of the eastern ukraine. and that situation may change after this. >> as soon as it was shot down, the tracking shows all of these airplanes diverting away. >> yes. hopeful it will stay that way. as thousan

government is increasingly over-whelmed by militant groups, a situation hitted by several western embassies, including the u.s., france and britain. they have evacuated staff amid growing security concerns. they said that could plunge into crisis a nation. >> in other world news, flags are flying at half mast on government buildings across france as three days of mourning begins for the victims f last week's air crash. officials here in paris are taking a leading role in the investigation. the pleap's two black boxes are back here in france where the contents are being analyzed. nicolas has more. >> the french foreign minister speaking five days after the to h of the ah-50 17 flying algiers says it is very much mission accomplished for the government. they have done a lot of things in terms of coordination. the security on the ground has been established. french troops are working in close cooperation with troops of other nationalities, notably from the region itself. secondly, the black boxes are here in france. they were found on friday. investigation of those boxes has begun. thirdly there is aagreement th

. >>> across the western areas of the u.s. quite hot and weather affecting the central rockies as well as southern parts of the plains. oklahoma city rain is on the menu on thursday and your high is going to be only 22 degrees that could be the lowest temperatures for the day on record. meanwhile, denver at 25 degrees with thunderstorms and boise up 37. it should be around 32 degrees during this time of year. watch out for heat stroke and across the eastern seaboard 13 degrees and sunny weather coming back on thursday. here is the extended forecast. >>> we have one more story to share with you before we go. chinese fans of japanese culture have plenty to browse at the annual hong kong book fair. japan central and local governments are promoting japanese manga and novels at the fair for the first time. the annual show is hosting a record 570 companies and organizations from 31 countries and regions. the japanese booths display about 200 novels and scientific texts translated into chinese. organizers are expecting a million visi

and other western recruits like abu salah have led u.s. officials to call the wars in syria and iraq a direct threat to the u.s. homeland. it is now a race against time to track them and catch them before they can strike. don? >> jim sciutto, thank you very much. >>> back with me is lieutenant colonel rick francona, and former u.s. military ash attache in syria. abu salah is his name. he is believed to be the first american to carry out a suicide attack in the syrian civil war. are we going to start seeing more of this? >> probably, as the recruitment of americans ramps up. this is one of the things that al qaeda and the other jihadist groups have tried for years to do. find an american who is willing to participate in jihadi operations, whether it be overseas or more importantly back this the states. because that american passport allows them to go back and forth with almost no questions. >> reporter: so how do they find them? how do they recruit them? >> well, they're looking for something. many of themself-radicalize. they find on the i

u.s. and western intelligence officials have watched as large numbers of westerns have traveled to syria toht in the civil war. they celebrated the westerners who joined them. there are as many as 7,000 foreigners in syria and now possibly in iraq. the number of americans is believed to be near 100. the concern is then that westerners sometimes receive less scrutiny when traveling making them attractive to al- qaeda in the arabian peninsula. aqap bomb makers have been responsible for past bombing attempts on u.s. bomb planes. the underwear bomber in 2009, and there were explosives in printers on two cargo flights bound for the united states. none of the bombs were detected by airport security. jeff pagays, cbs news, washington. >>> coming up, fired for eating a bag of chips. this former walgreens employee gets 180 grand. >> a bay area city votes to give away medical marijuana for free and not just any pot. it's got to be a life well lived deserves a beer well brewed. fewer calories. fewer carbs. more refreshment. it's what makes a superior light beer... superior. michelob ultra. so you reac

number of westerners in that group is one that's unprecedented and i think is a larger number than we ever saw in the ungoverned spaces of pakistan and afghanistan region. >> deep fears about u.s. and other western recruits like abu sa led officials to call the wars in syria and iraq a direct threat to the u.s. homeland. it's now a race against time to track them and catch them before they can strike. jim sciutto, cnn, washington. >> all right, jim, thank you very much. >>> next, as doctors in west africa try to deal with the worst ebola outbreak in history, they are running into a major roadblock. some of the people there think it's witchcraft and it's making people sick and not ebola. so they're refusing treatment. next we'll talk to an expert on africa's culture who can explain their beliefs and what can be done to overcome this hurdle. don't just visit san francisco. (water dripping and pipes clanging) visit tripadvisor san francisco. (soothing sound of a shower) with millions of reviews, tripadvisor makes any destination better. that's a good thing, but it doesn't cover everything. only about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. so consider an aarp

u.s. and western sources, as one u.s. official said today, they're essentially going to have to shut down. private banks aren't being touched. if you take the arms area, again, they're going to use export license restrictions to prevent future sales of arms to russia. then the energy sector, they're going to use export license restrictions to prevent russiann companies from giving the russians access to future technologies particularly in deep water and shale gas. the key thing is nothing will interfere with current projects, whether b.p., exxonmobil, the friend -- what they're trying to do is not hit western businesses too hard but make it clear to the russians future investments will be really crippled. >> woodruff: tell me why europeans have been reluctant to impose critical sanctions on critical sectors. what caused them to change their mind? >> talking to both europeans and western officials, it's a shift of attitude of deep arrange about the downing of the plane and the russian's reaction to it which is, as the pres

this is our special western edition. u.s. intelligence believes that a surface-to-air missile brought down a malaysian flight, flight 17, with 295 people on board the second disaster for the airline this year. flighted 370 is still missing presumably in the indian ocean. flight 17 was en route today from amsterdam no kuala lumpur when it crashed in eastern ukraine where pro-russian separatists are fighting the government. there were 298 people on board. 283 passengers and a crew of 15. there were no survivors. bob orr is in washington with the latest on this. bob? >> reporter: scott, as you say, u.s. officials now strongly suspect the jetliner was brought down by some kind of surface-to-air missile but so far they tell us it's not clear who fired it or more importantly whether the passenger jet was being deliberately targeted. some of the answers will ultimately come through intelligence but some will have to come through wreckage in the plane's black boxes. the trail of debris clearly shows the jet began breaking up in midai

. >> part of the problem is that it's been very hot and dry in the western part of the u.s., and that has really helped to fuel those wildfires. >> yep, it is called drought. and so much of the west coast is enduring it. >> exceptional drought. we have the fuel that the fires need, of course, to get going. anytime you get some kind of fire going in california, it is easy to spread. the good news is that the wind is going to be helping things out. we don't want strong winds because obviously that would spread and increase our acreage. we've already burned about 3,000 acres. this is what we're dealing with. this is the setup, 100% in drought. and 36% in exceptional drought. and even if it rained incredibly through the fall and winter, we still have to do it again, i think, in another year to begin to get a dent in it. that's how bad it is. inland, very low relative humidity, in the teens and 20s. everything is dry. we don't get the rainfall and the temperatures have been in the upper 90s, right, talking upper 30s in celsius. but the winds are, that's a critical factor that will allow us

but there is no rainfall to improve the drought conditions over the western areas of the u.s. up into british columbia and temperatures are quite sizzling. take a look. nearly 30 degrees in seattle. over 40 degrees in las vegas and nearly 26 degrees in los angeles. but to the north, it's cooler than average as i mentioned, only 20 in chicago. that's more like september. and in oklahoma city, 22 degrees. if it hit 22 degrees it could be the lowest temperature for the day on record. across the eastern seaboard going down to the 20s across washington, d.c. as well as new york city. across europe severe weather has been continuing in and around the balkan peninsula. funnel clouds have been reported in several places and a lot of thunderstorms and hail too. meanwhile dry air continues -- dry area can be found across the western areas of the countment including the iberian peninsula and france. temperatures are on the scorching side. near 35 degrees in several places. watch out for the heat. but sunny weather will continue. nice weather will continue in paris at 27 degrees and on mo

u.s. and western intelligence officials have watched as large numbers of westerners travel to syria to fight in the civil war. militants have even celebrated the westerners who have joined them. intelligence officials say there are as many as 7,000 foreigners in syria, and now possibly in iraq. the number of americans is believed to be near 100. the concern has been that westerners sometimes receive less scrutiny when traveling making them attractive to al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. a.q.a.p. bomb makers have been responsible for past bombing attempts on u.s. bound planes. the underwear bomber on a detroit bound airplane in december of 2009, and there were explosives hidden inside printers on two cargo flights bound for the united states in october of 2010. none of the bombs were detected by airport security. the new security measures are not expected to disrupt domestic air travel, scott. overseas there may be delays as the security measures are put into place. >> pelley: jeff pegues in our washington newsroom, jeff, thank you. as jeff mentioned this terrorism threat stems directly from

externality, a missile, fighter jet, or what have you, what might, if anything, be the most appropriate western and u.sresponse? >> vladimir putin is started to play footsie with being a rogue regime. he may want to blame it on rogue xlanders. if this is russian commitment going to the russian separatists and if there is not adequate command and control, that's simply not an excuse. buck has to stop with the kremlin which means we can't just put mild sanctions on russia. the united states has got to start being serious about the aggression that vladimir puten now personifies. you need overwhelmingly sectarian sanctions. go after whole sanctions. actually, the russian economy is much more tenuous than people believe. vladimir puten before his invasion of crimea was being mocked by russians as being the second coming of leonid brev nerve brezhnev because of the stag nation russia was undergoing. we need to be able to take advantage of that leverage. unfortunately, today, in the white house and the state department, it seems that leverage has become a dirty word. >> just to wrap up, we had the former dire

u.s. western movies used to be the calvary was coming. after people don't -- from foreign countries that about the united states. when we had it by totalitarian. i am one of them. i never would have lose. the people didn't either. what happened whether it's the 94th congress, they were the ones who destroyed everything that we did. our military never lost one battle and the tom. i am just talking right now wherever my mind have is to go. people are going to look at iraq. but president bush did in iraq i think that any american would have done if they repress and did the united states and had the information he had. people say the cia told them all wrong. perhaps, but so did the am i six of great britain, which gave him the information. so did the chairman security very, very long images came pronounced with. so does the fridge. so did amazingly not noted. he was in office. then prime minister. the u.n. had 17 resolutions that they disobeyed. who would do that coming right for 9/11 were everyone in the united states today, you know, there