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thats where you would normally see a famous bridge there, but were going to go right now to nbcs jesse kirsch, whos in grand rapids for us. welcome, chevy. how bad is it where you are? how much worse is it going to get, not only there, but across the nation as well? >> yeah, alex. i dont know if you could hear it, but it is the wind thats hitting us hard right now. we are in grand rapids, michigan. the western part of this state. this part of michigan, as well as western new york and t...

Into the isis-k attack. the pentagon released new photos and video from the karzai international airport days of the attack and leading up to the attack. with this report is courtney kube. is it a good thing or bad thing that they figured out this was not a complex attack? what does that say about our security measures? >> so what it proves is there was a lot of reports in the days afterwards, there was gunfire going back and forth. somewhere between the afghan crowd and somewhere from the u.s. ...

Took that year and many other years so many, so many grievous losses to the conflict in afghanistan. and on other tours as well, we lost people. it has been years of mourning. and it has been a time of reflecting back on all of those losses that even the most recent at kabul airport and that horrific suicide bombing. so many of us dont want to see anymore lives lost to this conflict. we want this to be success. we want to say, we got everybody out that no one is in harms way anymore on the u.s. ...

Let me ask you quirkily, lahav, personally for netanyahu, if he is not the prime minister as weve been saying most likely he will not be, what happens to him future, both in israeli politics and personally as a private citizen? >> so, my understanding is that netanyahu, if he doesnt remain prime minister which is what seems likely, he will go -- become opposition leader, which in israel is someone with an official title and you have the sort of status almost of a cabinet minister. the reason tha...

Daily global oil production. if about the strait were to close because of the threat of ongoing attacks, it would be a massive blow to the worlds economy. >> just this week, irans foreign minister said his country does not want an armed conflict. and the retired general says the u.s. doesnt want such a conflict either. >> im confident that from the u.s. side and from the coalition side that there is very little likelihood that we would escalate and try to be more aggressive than we presently are...

Spider marks. thank you general for joining us. >> sure. >> how significant of an escalation is this in your opinion? >> well, from the iranians, clearly this is escalatory. we anticipated this them doing this. im confident from the u.s. eystad and from the coalition side that there is very little likelihood we would escalate and try to be a more aggressive than we presently are as barbara described in terms of the deterrent effect of our presence and increased presence in the region. look in th...

Dictator assad he got him with other muslim countries into the coalition. the war was a success, it lasted only a matter of days and light casualties on the coalition side. i think he turned out to be the right man for the challenges that met him when he was in the office. >> sandra: brit, its sandra. finally if i could, i wanted to show this exchange with chris wallace and the former president about sending troops into combat and what that was like. >> its got to be the hardest thing for any pr...

Or renew their calls and demands for a cease-fire within 30 days in yemen. there has been a dialing down in the violence. and gist in the last few hours, there has been a statement published by the leader of the iranian-backed houthi rebels clinging onto the port city of hedada. that statement said, in part, they are prepared -- this is the houthi rebels -- to end their drone attacks and their use of long-range missiles as a sign of good will. there was an offer of good will that came from the s...

New dimension. thats the key. a longtime reluctant neighbor squarely in the fight. >> nick p paton walsh reporting for us. >> i want to bring in retired lieutenant rick francona. how realistic is it to seek to clear the isis threat out of syria? is it a game-changer? >> the involvement of turkey at this level is a game-changer. everybody on the coalition side is really pleased the turks are now involved. many would say finally involved. weve been waiting for this for a long time. the turks have ...

Surface-to-aramis aisle sites that the libyas man could bring down theyre going to have to look at all of that and decide how much of it across this coastline of libya they got, how much is destroyed, and when it will be safe for pilots to begin to fly ore libya in this no-fly zone configuration. but, you know, its really interesting. youve seen both sides rapidly put their cards on table here. the coalition side going for these very precise unmanned cruise missiles to go after these targets. an...