the people that are in the hospital? reporter: investigators say they are trying to talk with the people who were here at this party and what we have been told here initially is that they are not getting much cooperation from the witnesses who were here at this crime scene. whether or not they have been able to talk to, you know, just how many of those people they have been able talk to is not exactly clear but in the initial hourps hours of this investigation and hunt for this killer, it sounds like investigators are struggling to get concrete information to get clues who might be behind the shooting. so surprising when you got 750 people there as well. true. ed lavandera, thank you for the update. we continue to follow the breaking news out of syria as we learn more about the u.s. raid that is believed to have killed isis leader abu bakr al baghd
chief john kelly that he warned president trump he risked being impeached. coming up the words of advice that kelly says president trump ignored. the leader of isis is believed to be killed in a u.s. special operations raid. we will have the latest after this break. when i got my dna results, it opened up so many doors.
isis fighters still on the loose between iraq and syria. removing one man symbolically is extremely important but in practical terms, we will have to see. it s clear that isis, for instance, baghdadi was wounded in may of 2017, the u.s. officials believe, and it s plausible that starting back then a succession process was already in place. so removing one man doesn t necessarily mean that isis, as a phenomenon, as a network of terrorist organizations is about to disappear. yeah, they would have been, obviously, realizing he was a target and you have to have a chain of command and they probably have a second who is already in command. ben wedeman, thank you for the insight. thank you. the white house pushing back today on claims from former
in mosul. unlike bin laden, he didn t make frequent audio or video messages and didn t give messages to isis online publication. so he was a very low profile figure. isis, as an organization, as a group, has affiliates all over. for instance, it s got them in west africa, in libya and philippines and in afghanistan and operate independently of the leads-of-what is known as the islamic state of iraq and syria at its height was about the size of great britain and rolled over as many as 12 million people and that is gone. even in the absence of the so-called state that actually controlled territory, back in august, the inspector general of the pentagon put out a report saying that they still believed there were between 14 and 18,000
isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi is dead. they say this video shows the aftermath of the raid. it appears that baghdadi detonated a suicide vest as the military force raided. president trump is expected to have a press conference at 9:00 a.m. and we will bring that to you when it happens. looking at other news. one of the the president s former advisers says the white house staff is to blame for the impeachment inquiry that is going on on in the house. president trump s former chief of staff john kell said he advised the president hiring a, quote, a yes man, as his replacement saying it could lead to impeachment. kelly left the white house last december amid i know the