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Month. and a los angeles democrat is now under arrest after blocking an ice detention center for an hour. councilman mi mike bow nan protests immigration policies after refusing orders from the police to leave. at least 16 others also arrested. ainsley, down to you. ainsley: thanks so much, pete. turning now to a story of courage and sacrifice ahead of tomorrows independence day. one of our nations very finest army corporal chris levy who lost both of his legs an an ied explosion in iraq. now be...

Airborne in a dicey part of iraq. he knew what he was signing up for. what happened when he was over there. >> i can tell you, michael has been very patriotic. felt it was his responsibility to serve his country. there was an ied explosion that killed two of his soldiers and then after that he read military intelligence reports that identified terrorists and al qaeda operative for being responsible for that attack. after he read those reports, they took him into custody. he was released. and the...

Good bet that that public defender would make a motion for some sort of mental competency evaluation. santiagos family of course has said he just wasnt the same after he returned from iraq, and that it affected him quite a bit to see two of his friends killed in an ied explosion over there. as we have been reporting in november, he went to the fbi offices in anchorage, alaska, and said that he was complaining that the government was controlling his mind and forcing him to watch isis videos. he s...

Eventually -- there was the wind down in iraq but this was still during some of the very heavy periods of combat. and during that time, he engaged in military activities that resulted in him getting a couple of very significant medals. he got the iraq campaign medal with a star. that means he was in a combat environment. he was also awarded a service combat action badge as a driver and mechanic. so here is the obvious question that we dont know the answer to. he was in a position to be driesk a ...

Person. >> i want to ask you about what we learned about a service member. a service member was killed in northern seeia from wounds sustained from an ied explosion. we now know his identity, senior chief petty officer scott cooper dayton, the first service person killed inside of syria. its very clear that this assistance role comes with a lot of danger. how do you see this changing or sort of changing perception of what people think about the mission of special forces inside syria and nearby? ...

Small black and white video of a much larger issue. >> following the apache incident, specialist mccord served for eight more months in iraq before he was wounded in this ied explosion. >> i learned how to live without a lot of things in iraq. when i looked in and i saw those children, the one thing i couldnt live without was my own humanity. i couldnt self-justify what i was doing in iraq anymore. what we as a nation were doing in iraq. i had to refigure out who i was as a human being and what ...

♪ ♪ jenna: i new information on a close friend of ours here at "happening now," army staff sergeant travis mills. while serving his third tour of duty in ask, an ied explosion took his arms and legs back in april of 2012. travis is only the fifth quadruple amputee from iraq and afghanistan to survive such devastating injuries, and we have followed his journey throughout his recovery at walter reed and beyond including his creation of a camp in maine for wounded veterans. now travis is tellin...

Theres also going to be plain clothes agents as well as nypd officers patrolling some of the roofs. >> the nypd will provide manpower. >> they will respond to potential attacks. >> another ied explosion, again, reports of 48 doa and 200 injured. >> theyre out there trying to kill us. the terrorists. squall, isis, islamic radicals. >> only ticket holders are going to get close enough to get a glimpse of the pope. theyre going to have to go through multiple security checkpoints. there will be a fe...

>> another ied explosion and 200 injured. >> they are trying to kill us, the terrorists, al qaeda, isis, islamic radicals and we need to be constantly mindful of that. >> reporter: only ticket holders are going to get close enough to st. patricks cathedral to get a glimpse of the pope. they have to go through multiple security check points. because there are so many office buildings here and so many pedestrians, there will be a fence set up and that is to ensure nobody slips through any contraba...

Young man was inspired over the internet. this morning, confirmation that a 15-year-old boy arrested outside philadelphia last month is accused of planning an isis-inspired attack on the pope. reports say the plan had been to target the pope in his history-making tour. a bulletin said including multiple attackers, firearms and explosives. that bulletin reportedly said the minor obtained instructions and spreading them through social media. in new york, officials are already gearing up for an unp...