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Ramadi used to house 1 million people. that would itself be an urban sprawl. >> a humanitarian crisis where the people of ramadi left with nowhere to go. nick thank you. the white house is making a big push for congress to take action on the patriot act. the law expires at midnight on sunday. if nothing is done russian roulette is being played with the security. we get more from michelle kosinski. >> reporter: the white house is making the big push urging the senate to act which it failed to d...

Be on board, but they long had issues of weapons to join the fight. we have seen the name of the operation answering the call of hussein. that is to answer the call of iraq but it is still called the shia militia doing the fighting. that gave a sense of branding that was far away from the iraqi feeling many in washington would have liked to have seen at the beginning of the fight. we will see a shia army at the end of the day. a shia militia to kick out isis, a sunni group. that issue for the la...

Iraqi suffering setbacks in the quest to take back ramadi. welcome to "early start." im christine romans. >> im john berman. it is thursday may 28th. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. happening now, authorities in texas ordering voluntary evacuations along two rivers. they are worried the predicted heavy rain will come today and cause more flash flooding. this as crews push ahead for clean up after major flooding this week. more than a foot of rain pushed rivers over their banks in hays county and el...

Correspondent nick paton walsh has the latest from baghdad. >> reporter: at this stage, they are working out the rhetoric of 48 hours ago, the launched operation to liberate anbar is translating to the ground. mixed reaction to the forces. 30 iraqis lost their lives to a number of car bombs near fallujah near anbar, but close to baghdad where im standing, it is one of two centers that isis controls. iraqi security forces got to the outskirts of ramadi near anbar university. they are saying they ...

Ramadi. it is around those two key population centers that the shia fighting groups are maneuvering at this stage. also the iraqi security forces claiming yesterday they got to the outskirts of ramadi. not something the u.s. can verify. they say that iraq security forces are near the university of anbar which is southwest of that main population center. it is an extraordinarily mixed picture and slow going. we have seen how sand storms have slowed down. yesterday, to the north of the anbar provi...

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Least, when will they know the concern has passed? >> reporter: well we are waiting for more updates. we have not heard anymore from the department of defense here. today, we hope to hear another update. what we heard is that the people so far have not shown symptoms. the bigger question will be what went wrong here. the anthrax left a lab in utah and went to nine states and south korea. all of the labs will have to check inventory to find out what is going on here john. >> kathy novak, thank yo...

Regular iraqi troops being sent to ramadi to help with these irregular militias but secretary carter suggested iraqi troops are in no shape to launch a major counterattack against isis inside ramadi were hearing of isis withdrew brooubrutality. killing really everyone they link to the pro iraqi government. now, tens of thousands of civilians are fleeing ramadi right now. but theyre stuck between isis fighters inside ramadi and pro government forces that are not allowing many civilians outside of...

Far greater ability to destroy the isis forces. if were going to sit back and have shiite militias do the fighting then its not going to go very well for a while. secretary kerry will be right, of course, over time if the entire shiite military force is brought to bear on ramadi they will win. but what we dont want to see is a situation where the iraq government is reliant solely on shiite militias meaning so reliant op iran. >> yeah. and because you know, jane the iraqi sunnis and they feel opp...

See the same movie over again and have it come out differently. thats not going to work. >> very quickly, jamie, do you agree the war in iraq was a mistake? >> well clearly the devastating consequences of the war in iraq far outweigh the advantage which is the end of saddam hussein but the great irony, wolf at the time dick cheney was promoting the war he argued there was terrorists in iraq iraq was supporting terrorist organizations and thats why we should go into iraq. the great tragic irony a...