Right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. A scene of carnage amid a rising death toll at the International Airport at istanbul, turkey after suicide bombings left 60 dead. This video appears to be the lower level of the international terminal. The tape not verified by nbc news. Another video, an attacker appears to be shot by police and moments later detonates his explosives. It was late evening in istanbul when the terror attack happened. The explosion sending workers and passengers for cover. Bill neely has late details. Reporter its minutes after the bombs exploded scores are dead and injured and there is panic. Hundreds of passengers and their families are fleeing the main airport in istanbul. Turkish Officials Say at least three suicide bombers blew themself up at the arrival area of the main terminal. This happened at the arrivals area. Yes. Did you hear an explosion . There gunfire . You know, guns
Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. A scene of carnage amid a rising death toll at the International Airport at istanbul, turkey after multiple suicide bombings left 60 dead. Multiple injured. This video appears to be the lower level of the international terminal. It appears to be the lower level of the international level. The tape not verified by nbc news. In another unverified video, an attacker appears to be shot by police and moments later detonates his explosives. It was late evening in istanbul when the terror attack happened. The explosion sending passengers and workers for cover. Bill neely has late details. Reporter its minutes after the bombs exploded scores are dead and injured and there is panic. And their families are fleeing the main airport in istanbul. Turkish Officials Say at least three suicide bombers blew themself up at the arrival area of the main terminal. This happened at the arrivals a
Statue of liberty, there is a poem by m. Lazarus who says bring me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses wanting to breathe free. 12,000 refugees at displaced population of almost five million. Weve seen these heartbreaking pictures of children who are being killed. And think about i guess were talking about 400,000 syrians being killed in this. What about what our and b is as human beings what our obligation is to other human beings. These are people who are fleeing isis. These are people are fleeing an assad regime that uses poison gas against civilians. The u. N. G process is first, refugee, first vets people hands them to us. Average a over on year and a half before we vet them, is that correct . Yes, thats correct, senator. Senator franken and have we had any dulls that came over in syria engage in some sort of errorist plot . No, senator, not to my knowledge. Senator franken you know, my grandfather came from russia. He arrived and saw that on the statue of liberty. He was o
All right. Senator klobuchar, were delighted to have a good prosecutor. Okay. Well, good. Well, thats a good way to begin. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman, and thank you to all of you for working on this issue. Senator durbin and i have been long involved in this issue, and also senator franken and i represent a state that has a lot of refugees and are a big part of the fabric of life in our state, leading businesses, teaching our students, on our police forces. So i think i would start with this issue with you, director rodriguez, on the Security Check. As you state in your testimony, refugees are subject to the highest level of Security Check of any category of traveler to the u. S. I believe we need to uphold these stringent Security Standards which require extensive by graphic and biometric checks, information vetting. Do you agree with me that refugees are the most carefully vetted of all travelers, and what has uscis done to ensure that the high security requirements for refuge
We need to cut off trade routes that terrorist organizations use to finalize goods. The same strategies we need to combat antiquities trafficking can be used in a broader strategy to combat isis. This task force discussed the roots that isis used to smuggle cash, we learn many of these routes run through turkey and jordan and has prepared marks for for todays hearing it was indicated that isis is using similar routes to smuggle antiquities of its territories. In addition he notes lebanon as was the volken route through greece and bulgaria are being used to smuggle illicit commodities. Currently theres ample opportunities for terrorist groups with a low risk of being caught. We need to do a better job police in these routes isis can no longer smuggle antiquities out of the territory that it controls. For the more we must curtail the laundering of antiquities that make it out of isis control of territory so these goods cannot be integrated into legitimate markets. As lawrence and mention