Surfaces in spain. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to early start. Im john berman. And im christine romans. It is wednesday, halfway through the week. Its 4 00 a. M. In the east. This morning, the u. S. Wants your help, posting a video on a website in hopes someone, someone knows this man and can help identify him. He speaks perfect arabic and perfect english with a northern american accent, listen. People are here in the 17th military base just outside of city of iraqa and were here with the soldiers joe johns is following the story for us. He has more with the hunt for this apparently american fighter. A jihadi speaking very good english with a north american accent, alternating speaking arabic, delivering an camera tirade before they appear to shoot a group of syrians dead. The syrians were apparently digging their own graves. He has a mafblg which makes him unrecognizable. Authorities are using advanced technology but coming up short. Theyre not sure if hes american or canadian. Th
Cleveland to dallas on monday with a temperature of 99. 5. Thomas frieden said she should never have set foot on an airplane knowing nina pham had been diagnosed with ebola. A federal official tells cnn that vinson informed the cdc of her travel plans and not told she should not fly. The cdc is reaching out to the other people on vinsons flight. The cdc is also considering adding 76 hospital employees on the governments nofly list now. Cnns ed lavandera is in dallas with more on vinsons case. Reporter john and christine, the Second Health care worker vinson, was moved from dallas to atlanta to begin treatment at m emory hospital. There were questions about the day she travelled as the Health Care Workers treated Thomas Eric Duncan last week. A prominent nurses union saying the Health Care Team was simply not given the protocols and not prepared to handle the situation in which they were entering. A lot of questions about the protective gear they were wearing and if that could have been
Johnson, former l. A. Lakers matt barnes, goalie. And the list is growing. Well tell you about the latest professional athlete at the center of a Domestic Abuse allegation and look back at the lenient penalties for some highprofile offenders. We welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world to our continuing News Coverage here on cnn. Im george howell. And we begin with the u. S. Secretary of state john kerry who is now in cairo. The egyptian capital is the latest stop on his tour in the middle east as he works to build an International Coalition against isis. Hell meet today with egyptian leaders and secretarygeneral of the arab league. In ankara on friday, kerry urged turkey to do more in the fight against islamic militants. Turkey participated in the coalitionbuilding talks in saudi arabia on thursday but did not sign a formal commitment. So far kerry has built a tenstate Arab Coalition consisting of egypt, lebanon, jordan, iraq and the six gulf states of saudi arabi
Ahead. Welcome to early start, im john berman. Good morning, im christine romans. Its thursday, august 28, 4 00 a. M. In the east. A mothers desperate plea to the leader of isis to release her son. She asks the head of the terrorist group to send her son, stephen, whose been helds for a year home. I was always learned you can grant amnesty. I ask you to please release my child. Stephen sotloff was captured. When they executed foley, they said sotloff would be next. Karl penhaul is live. Karl . This statement is important. Its an excellent strategy. What he says the statement is doing is really focusing on sotloff as a human being. They are looking at him as an individual and moving away from the idea he has an influence over what the u. S. Government does. Now, what this kidnapping expert said was this plea, yes, it is a desperate plea by a distraught mother, but its a way of opening up lines of communication establishing some dialogue with the kidnappers, with isis in this case that c
Contractors are found guilty in a mass shooting that left more than a dozen civilians dead. How this marked a turning point in u. S. iraqi relations. And well tell you about the new rules for travelers arriving from west africa. We will begin once again in ottawa where a canadian soldier and the man who shot him are dead. Authorities are looking into possible links to terrorism. The scene was utter chaos wednesday morning as police say michael sahalf bee bow fired shots. E panic in the building when the gunman began shooting. [ shots fired ] so chilling to hear the gunshots echoing through parliament there. The dead soldier has been identified as Corporal Nathan a cirillo. We will not be intimidated. Canada will never be intimidated. In fact, this will lead us to strengthen our resolve and redouble our efforts and those of our National Security agencies to take all necessary steps to identify and counter threats and keep canada safe here at home. Well, our Susan Candiotti is looking in