Get the establishments horns . The buried lead. He gets mobbed like hes a one direction drummer, if they had one. The pope spent the weekend touring through naples grabbing a slice, lecturing the mafia and oh you know, performing a miracle. Welcome to the lead. Im john berman pinch hitting for jake tapper today. We do begin with the world lead. In yemen, which just might be the most dangerous strip of land on this planet right now. Today, the west has all but abandoned that middle eastern country. Cnn confirmed hours ago that British Special forces departed yemen in just the last few days. This after u. S. Navy s. E. A. L. S and Army Delta Force troops pulled out over the weekend. This flurry of Movement Comes hours after isis suicide bombers sent shrapnel scattering through two mosques. The twin bombings there killed 137. Isis was quick to stamp its brand on these attacks, something that did not seem to sit well with al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, the other terror group in yemen,
Or has he already hurt the gop . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. There are major new concerns tonight about a possible threat to the u. S. Homeland. In a chilling online message, a group claiming links to isis post the names and addresses of dozens of u. S. Military Service Members and calls for attacks on them in their homes. Service members are now being warned to scrub personal information from their social media accounts. And a nation that had been a key u. S. Ally in fighting terror is now sliding into chaos. The United States and britain have evacuated the last of their troops from yemen. Isis is gaining a strong foothold and the local al qaeda affiliate which is already plotting attacks on the u. S. Homeland may soon be free to launch those attacks. Marie harf is with us along with our correspondents analysts and guests. They are all standing by with full coverage of tonights stories. Lets begin with our justice correspondent pamela brown. Tonight, sources say this
It is 4 00 p. M. In the philippines where super typhoon is pummeling parts of island nation with heavy rain. In this video, you can see how powerful the rising waters are beneath that ridge there. Thousands of people have been evacuated were happy to say. Strong winds uprooted trees and ripped roofs off homes. Storm made landfall early sunday local time shutting down roads and bridges. There are widespread power outages, flooding and landslides. More could likely be on the way as this storm is moving very slowly toward the west. For the latest, lets get to philippines correspondent paul garcia. He joins us from there. Paul, what are you hearing . Reporter hi natalie. [ inaudible ] in the northern part of the philippines. Been here for the past 24 hours. Since 8 00 in the morning yesterday. Its sunday today. Im showing the highways. This is one of the major highways in the area. The floodwaters here are flooding in the rivers here. They say that this is very unusual for them to experien
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 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 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 mountainside, Kurdish Peshmerga forces searched for targets, passing the coordinates to u. S. Advisers. This is one of the forward fighting positions where theyre helping to pick targets for air strikes. Soldiers here told us with aircraft
Lockdown amid a wave of terror. There are battles between violent protesters and troops in the west bank and at the gaza border as palestinians answer a call for a day of rage. Are things getting worse . Shootdown, after three warnings turkish jets down a mysterious aircraft near the border with syria. Russian warplanes are swarming the skies over syria but moscow denies any involvement in this incursion. Isis hack, u. S. Officials are trying to get their hands on a cyber attacker accused of stealing personal information of u. S. Military personnel and passing it onto isis. And dumb puppets, donald trump is back on the attack hurling insults at a fox news anchor and her guests. And hes going after the bush family over 9 11. Jeb bush hitting back on that. Wolf blitzer is off. Im brianna keilar. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Breaking news. An explosion of rage by Palestinian Protesters with jerusalem under tight guard against a wave of terror attacks, bloody cla