Start because there was never any pow tore a crucial signal beacon . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were following two major score stories right now. Thousands of protesters taking to the streets in Madison Wisconsin after the Fatal Police Shooting of an unarmed teenager. Were following the latest details. Major battles are under bay right now on two fronts in iraq. In the north Kurdish Forces back are advancing against isis. Further south, iraqi troops and shiite are gang ground against isis near takrit as americas top general arrives in iraq to assess the situation. Well talk with democrat senator tim kaine, our correspondents and analysts and guests are standing by. Lets begin with barbara starr. She has the latest. The chairman of the joints chief of staff landed in baghdad today for consultations. Iraq has been relying on iran for help in many of its recent gains. General everyonecy perhaps reminding the arook kays that the u. S. Is putting a lot of muscle power of
Released by isis showing the suicide bombers in last weeks horrific attack. Stake a look at these. More than 130 people were killed in those terror attacks, hundreds more were injured. The worsening situation there leading to the deck collar ration from a United Nations envoy that the country is inching ever closer to a fullblown civil war. Lets go to our Senior International correspondent nic robertson. What can you tell us about these new images were now getting from isis nick . Wolf, one of the interesting things about these images, they are all yemenis. Theyre sort of in their deepest fighting at the moment. We hear of al qaeda killing houthis here. But these are potentially former al qaeda members, certainly isis members now from this part of yemen thats in a deep fight with the houthis. And this is propaganda nows a well additional propaganda on top of the attack. Isis trying to do what it does in other countries which is make a lot of propaganda which is attract people to its fi
I know it is the middle of the night there. Well get to you in a moment. Also well talk about the iranu. S. Nuclear negotiations what is the latest erin mcpike will join us from the white house with that. We are live in baghdad with more on this seems like a sudden u. S. Troop withdrawal from yemen. We have seen this pairing down over the past few months because of security concerns there, embassy closing, et cetera but what is it that led to this sort of final evacuation of all of the rest of the u. S. Troops on the ground there . Reporter well sources in the region poppy, familiar with the situation say that the u. S. Is now in the process of evacuating these hundred members of these special Operations Force from the alan anad air base. Its not a specific threat that led to the decision but overall security situation. The security has been deteriorating over the past few months. We saw evacuation shutdown of the u. S. Embassy last month. Theres been a lot of concern about how this is
International correspondent Jim Bittermann joining us from paris and cnn aviation analyst peter goels joining us from dallas. Jim, walk us through exactly what the copilot did on that earlier flight how investigators now came to the conclusioning that it was a rehearsal for what eventually wound up doing. Right. Exactly. Basically the earlier flight was the outbound flight from dusseldorf to barcelona and during that flight at one point, the pilot left the cockpit leaving the copilot lubitz in charge and he dialed into the setting on the autopilot, he dialed in the lowest setting, 100 feet. He had been ordered to descend according to air Traffic Controllers, descend from 37,000 to 35,000 and instead of setting it at 35,000 he set it to 100 feet and then just about a minute later, he again was ordered to descend by the air Traffic Controllers and they said to go down to 21,000 feet. Instead of setting in 21,000 he again set into motion the setting of 100 feet. So it was either a rehears
The police about the attack and the investigation. Both of them had assault rifles came around the back of the car and started shooting at the police car. The Police Officer in that car began returning fire and struck both men taking them down. Obviously they were there to shoot people. We will continue to investigate. This is not going to be a real fast investigation. Weve got our suspects we continue to monitor social media, and other gather other intel to make sure that were not getting any more or any threats. So we dont know their intent other than we know that they were willing to pull up and start shooting on police. We think their strategy was to get to the event center into the event center and they were not able to get past that outer perimeter that we have set up which was part of that security. Our ed lavandera following the events in garland texas outside dallas and rose sa flores watching whats going on. Did the police say whether there was a specific threat made against