Of victims. His defense chief is reportedly executed by antiaircraft guns for dozing off in front of kim jongun. And isis leader killed . Iraqs military says the terror groups number two man has died in a Coalition Air strike. Ill ask the president S Deputy National security adviser about that and more. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in thethe situation room. The breaking news, federal investigators now say an amtrak passenger train was apparently going more than 100 miles an hour when it hit a curve rated at half that speed in philadelphia. All seven cars left the tracks. One was almost obliterated. At least seven people are dead. Some 200 others were injured. Rail traffic is shut down on a crucial transportation corridor. And there are urgent new questions about what went wrong in this crash and about the nations rail safety. Our correspondents analysts and guests are all standing by for full coverage. Lets begin with cnns brian todd. Hes on the scene for us in philadelphia. Brian . Reporter
Explosion as it knocks down the door. A canadian hockey player now living in russia described it like this. I hear this loud bang i live in a 24story building on the 23rd floor and all of a sudden i looked up and the lights are shaking and i hear car alarms going off. It was incredible. The meteor streaked across the sky at 33,000 Miles Per Hour rocking a Mountain Range about 900 miles east of moscow. In total about 3,000 buildings were damaged. The worst was at this zinc factory where the roof completely collapsed. All of this damage was caused by a meteor about the size of an suv, too small for anyone to know it was coming. These things happen once every few decades of the centuries. As bad as that was, keep in mind that this happened over one of the more remote places on the entire planet. Just imagine, derek, if this had happened over a very populated place like manhattan with all those skyscrapers just made entirely of glass. What would have happened there . All that glass would h
There. No, christi. It is important to stress that baghdad doesnt appear to be under threat at the moment. Keeping in mind saz sprawling city of 9 million. And the majority certainly would not welcome isis. Where they are making progress is of course in Anbar Province, iraqs largest province. Provincial officials tell me more than 80 is under isis control and they continue to expand. We understand now the town of hadifa is now completely surrounded by isis. Some good news, apparently what we hear from also provincial sources, a police official, that this afternoon there was a strike on a large isis convoy by Coalition Aircraft describing many military vehicles including two apcs being struck in that hit. But by and large the worries are the Iraqi Military simply isnt capable of keeping isis back. We heard this provincial official appealing to government in baghdad to get the americans to deploy Ground Troops but the Iraqi Government has rejected that and certainly it is a political hot
Thats an explosion in the Syrian Border city of kobani where much of the documentary style images are set. We wont show you the most horrific images of isis victims but it also uses clips of reporters reporting from the besieged area and news reports from western media showing World Leaders condemning isis actions. Another clip right here appears to show isis fighters shooting down a military held continuer in iraq. If we have that clip. Jim sciutto, cnn chief National Security correspondent with us now. Theres also a mention of president obama, president bush is mentioned. What is the purpose of this video . All these videos have the same purpose, they brag and threaten theres a clip about shooting down ang iraqi helicopter, pictures of the dead ypg fighters, and they also threaten all of this intended to attract recruits and supporters but the threat was interesting and ill just read the translation of it. It says in obama promised you with defeating the Islamic State then bush has a
I dont know if it is important new information or not frankly, peter. I think this has been overlooked in the week since the shooting. This is something that our investigative people came across the sunday of the shooting because florida has a very open policy about its records. Didnt get much information at the time, but lets go back and talk about it a little bit. It was on april 5th that mateen basically transferred the ownership of his apartment to his sister, sabrina, and her husband. Was basically a transfer of property, what lawyers would call a quick claim deed. We dont know he did it. Its interesting. Does it mean, for example and this is what porauthorities are trying to figure out too. Does it mean april 5th, more than two months before the shooting, he was already starting to think about this . I wouldnt have been necessary, of course, because if he and his wife owned the apartment jointly and they were married in california, maybe they were thinking about the fact they wer