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Hearing that isis is merely a local threat but many people are using a cancer reference, metastasze around the world are conducting attacks in afanistan. Now we have attacks in eurorope, sewhere in the world. Why this change in isis strategy and what are they trying to achieve . It is a pleasure to be here. Objective has been building the caliphate in the borderlands of syria and iraq. Althouough they contitinue to hd sizable territory they have been under pressure by the coalition over the last...

Arena. Maybe we can get that on the program today. Hey look, were decorated for the holiday. Little pointsetia there, just kind of sprucing up the set. But we start with the number of the day, which is a four out of ten. Yesterday was a three. It is not raining right now, in a lot of place this is morning. Okay, there you go, there is our ultimate Doppler Radar picture, see a lot of dry slots here, as we look at the green. But there is plenty more on way. Well take closer in depth look at radar ...

This morning, we launch our new 5 on campaign, 5 on veterans. We re focusing on the role our military members have played in shaping the country. Randy we ll feature their stories and also the challenges that many face, and what s being done to help. There are more than 390,000 veterans living in massachusetts right now, according to the veterans administration. The Largest Single Group is those who served in the vietnam war, nearly 130,000 of them. Emily in our coverage throughout the day we ll...

For snow this weekend is negligible at this point. You are not going to run into weather problems as you are traveling around. It will not look like this on your way home and even at lunch time rain rolling in heavy at times this evening. 39 in durham and Holly Springs but 31 in wake forest. We have a range of temperatures. Most folks are above freezing this morning but not everybody. 39 in goldsboro, 38 at the airport. We have increasing clouds already and the rain arrives just after lunch time...

Reporter good evening. Planned parenthood clinics perform all sorts of services. Abortions are one of them. Attention, both positive and negative to the healthcare provider. Amy rooker plans to turn to planned parenthood for healthcare an not just an abortion. She is concerned about a bill before the legislature to take away the groups funding. It is going to take away access for pap smears, mammograms. Reporter planned parenthood held a protest outside the Lakeland Office of state senator kelly...

Sf sheriff ross mirkarami released him out of custody in april citing the citys sanctuary law. Sot tc we waited and watied for someone to take action, to take responsibility for kates murder and nothing and now we are taking another route. Hot reporter tes 1 40 swe reached out to sheriff, he said no comment on pending litigation. Family asking for an undisclosed amount of money. While sherriff Ross Mirkarimi is not commenting today. Pam in the past, he has publically defended his departments act...

Showed the partial number and we have an idea what was in here and the addresses. So far fire Officials Say they found homes. They forced the cancellation of the iron man triathlon event near lake tahoe. A shift of the weather could affect the fire. We have more with the looks and live doppler 7 hd. Firefighters today had optimum conditions. We 4 clouds and high relative humidity and calm winds. Take a look at the imagery. Tough to see the fire on a visible satellite because of the overcast skie...

Lawns. The homeowner stopped to water his lawn a couple of weeks ago you see its starting to dry. This perfect green lawn is relatively drought friendly. We had the Water Department out here. Looked at it. Looked at the sprinklers and theyre all good. Reporter mandatory cuts are now in effect but now the entire state is taking unprecedented steps. The control board voted 69 to enact new water restrictions. Theres people bathing out of buckets. Theres folks that are getting water trucks delivered...

The general plan. That concludes my presentation. And im available for further questions. Thank you thank you project sponsor. Good afternoon commissioner president wu and members of the commission. Greg miller for the project sponsor. First of all, i want to thank commissioner borden for her many years of service we owe a tremendous gratitude were here to ask for an Office Allocation weve received the final approval for the third floor of the property and we are converting the second floor whic...

Troops inside gaza. Israels Prime Minister threatening significant expansion of the military offensive. Were live in the rapidly escalating strike zone. Good morning and welcome to alJazeera America. Im stephanie sy. Im del walters. There have been Significant Developments overnight on both major stories. That Airlines Disaster in ukraine and israels Ground Invasion of gaza. We have reporters stationed around the world with the very latest. In ukraine, rescue workers are pouring over the crash s...