Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley u. S. Warplanes hammered the forces of isis in iraq today, opening an offensive that the pentagon hopes will be a breakthrough against the islamic extremists who are occupying much of syria and iraq. Iraqi kurdish troops, backed by 36 american airstrikes, moved to retake the town of sinjar, and they cut a highway that is used by isis to carry supplies from raqqa, its stronghold in syria, to mosul, the largest city that isis holds in iraq with more than a million residents. Charlie dagata is with the Kurdish Peshmerga forces. Reporter the battle to reclaim sinjar began in the air. U. S. Air strikes pounded suspected isis targets throughout the day. Thick smoke hung over the city as isis fighters lit banks of tires to try to block the dug in on the mountain side, Kurdish Peshmerga forces searched for targets, passing the coordinates to u. S. Advisers. This is one of the forward fighting position wheres the
Right now. In nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. We start with greig danger the sky which threatened nearly 2 dozen flights last night alone. The fbi is looking for potentially dozens of suspects who lit up the skies with laser pointers in 16 cities. One targeted the helicopter of our nbc station here in new york city which aimed its camera lens at the source catching the alleged culprit in the act. Tom costello now with a rare pilots view of this alarming threat from the ground. It happened 1,500 feet over brooklyn. A bright green laser light suddenly lit up the nbc 4 helicopter cockpit. Dont look, george. Reporter the reporter and his pilot nearly blinded as they hovered above the city. On the ground, a man who appeared to be targeting not only the nbc chopper but nypd chopper, too. We can see him standing outside the building in the back with the lacer in his hand shooting at us. Theres another arrest. Reporter Police Qu
That the pentagon hopes will be a breakthrough against the islamic extremists who are occupying much of syria and iraq. Iraqi kurdish troops, backed by 36 american airstrikes, moved to retake the town of sinjar, and they cut a highway that is used by isis to carry supplies from raqqa, its stronghold in syria, to mosul, the largest city that isis holds in iraq with more than a million residents. Charlie dagata is with the Kurdish Peshmerga forces. Reporter the battle to reclaim sinjar began in the air. U. S. Air strikes pounded suspected isis targets throughout the day. Thick smoke hung over the city as isis fighters lit banks of tires to try to block the bombers visibility. Dug in on the mountain side, Kurdish Peshmerga forces searched for targets, passing the coordinates to u. S. Advisers. This is one of the forward fighting position wheres theyre helping to pick targets for air strikes. Soldiers here told us with aircraft overhead all the time, sometimes its just five minutes from th
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