Against. The star power working in her corner. Mosul offensive. The bloody battle, iraqi forces launching a new advance hoping to retake the second largest city from isis. Our Martha Raddatz reporting from the region this morning. And desperate search. A hiker gone missing, the daughter of a popular musician, hoping for the best. She could still the team scouring the treacherous terrain and praying theyll find her. Good morning, america. Dans off. Great to have tom llamas beside me. He just asked where is his cubs hat . Thats because this is the time when sports trumps politics. It might be my favorite day ever doing the show. Cubs. Thats your team, right . I spent six years there. Two of my children were born there. Fans were celebrating their big win. The Team World Series bound outside Wrigley Field, the sign that says National League champions champions. Champagne showers as players celebrated and in the clubhouse as well. I stayed up for this game and got three hours of sleep but
Its so important. The star power working in her corner. Mosul offensive. The bloody battle, iraqi forces launching a new advance hoping to retake the second largest city from isis. Our Martha Raddatz reporting from the region this morning. And desperate search. A hiker gone missing, the daughter of a popular musician, hoping for the best. She could still be alive. The team scouring the treacherous terrain and praying theyll find her. Are you biased . Good morning, america. Dans off. It is great to have tom llamas beside me, and he just asked where is his cubs hat . Thats because this is the time when sports trumps politics. Thats right. It might be my favorite day ever doing the show. And one day you can kind of be biased. So many were rooting for the cubs. Thats your team, right . I spent six years there. Two of my children were born in chicago so go, cubbies. Fans were celebrating the cubs big win. The Team World Series bound outside Wrigley Field, the sign that says it all, it says
Volunteers pulling people out of the rubble in syrias biggest city. U. S. Republican candidate donald trump says he is growing more confident of winning his partys presentation nomination after a caucus vote victory in the state of nevada. It follows consecutive wins in New Hampshire and south carolina. Early indications are that marco rubio came second in nevada, but it is not clear if he will be are trumps main challenger with ted cruz a close third. Here is some of what donald trump had to say we werent expected a couple of months ago to win this one. You know that one, right. We werent. Of course, if you listened to the pundits we werent expected to win too much. Now were winning, winning translation winning the country and soon the country is going to start winning, winning, winning. So i want to thank the volunteers. These people work endlessly. Were not going to forget it lets cross over to a visiting professor and an pert will campaigns. When you look at marco rubio and cruz, w
Well tell you why. The u. N. Says it has delivered its first air drop of aid to the besieged town of deir alzour. There have also been developed in the planned cessation of hostilities in syria agreed by russia and the u. S. Can moscow confirming that it started negotiations with rebel groups in the country. And there is evidence the ypg are coordinating with the Syrian Government and the russian air force. The group has previously been helped by the u. S. To push isil forces out of northern syria. James bayes is at the United Nations in new york. Tell us a bit more about this first air drop of aid. Reporter well, this is important, because the town of dare deir alzour is effectively cut off by isil. And this is the first time the u. N. Has brought aid in from the air. Any delivery at this point is not just to help the desperately needy people in those areas, it is also to try to encourage the peace process, because they want to get peace talks started again next week in geneva. The an
Are talking about. Find out why shortly. Hello. We begin in syria where the u. N. Says it has delivered the first air drop of aid to daraa zor. Our diplomatic editor, james bayes is at the United Nations in new york, and joins us live. Do we have any more details, james . Reporter yes, we have been getting more details when this was announced to the u. N. Security council. This is very important that this aid is getting to daraa zor, as you say a place effectively surrounded by isil. Its important that the humanitarian aid is getting in too, as part of the political process to try to encourage everyone this is seen as one of those items that could encourage sides involved in the conflict to take part in the cessation of hostilities, which is supposed to take place from saturday. Com mat cuss time. The announcement was made by the u. N. s humanitarian chief, steven obrien. Earlier this morning a wfp plane dropped the first cargo of 21 tons of items into daraa zor. We have received initi