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Kurdish factions fighting in iraq. and shortly afterwards, several of the kurdish fighters known as peshmerga, started to show signs that were consistent with chemical weapons. several were short of breath, had dizziness, and burns on their skin. it has been described as a small-scale event. there were no fatalities as far as we know. the kurds immediately suspected that a chemical weapon was used. there was talk that mustard gas had been used. they took samples. they shared those samples with c...

Mustard agent. when kurdish soldiers arrived at the northern iraqi hospital this week with blistered skin and difficulty breathing, kurdish commanders feared the worse. isis had attacked them with chemical weapons, one of two attacks this week now under investigation. >> these are traces of the weapons. almost 45 rounds in 40 minutes. >> the u.s. military will test samples from the patients and weapons to determine if they included mustard gas, a chemical agent that the u.s. now believes isis ha...

There in effect as an isis sex slave, helping the leader of isis, mr. baghdadi, to come there, they are treating her as knowledgeable and therefore treating that testimony as credible. >> so disturbing. jim sciutto, thank you so much, we appreciate it. we have more now on isis and the breaking news tonight. new confirmation that the terror group recently launched a chemical attack. our pentagon correspondent barbara starr has been digging on that. >> if isis indeed has a chemical weapon, the big...

Possesses in small quantities. >> its a game changer. because what it means is the introduction of chemical weapons when you do that, you have a real issue with protecting troops, you have a real issue with ensuring the safety of civilians that might be in the battle zone. >> reporter: samples from an attack a few weeks ago neconfir mustard agent was used near al hasakah. two attacks this week in kurdish northern iraq are being looked at. officials hope more testing will tell them if mustard or ...

President carter says he is rearranging his schedule to undergo treatment but did not say what type of cancer it is. joining me now is the director of the gastrointestinal research program in nashville. >> thank you for having me. >> does the surgery to remove a mass on his liver give any indication about where the cancer could have spread or how quickly? >> it will give us more information about where the cancer probably originated. with the samples that they took at the surgery, theyll be able...

That the data so far is showing the water quality does restore itself to its prior conditions so were going to be using that lesson as we move downstream. she went on to talk about this in an optimistic way that perhaps they are getting better footing here. but if youre getting conflicting information and youre a city leader, a state leader, then who are these people to rely on to get the accurate information here? >> well, i think thats going to be a challenge in the future because weve got the...

Drink it. there is nasty stuff in here. this all happened when the epa was trying to clean out this abandoned gold mine but it basically backfired and you had 3 million gallons of this water into the animas river. they took samples of the water and basically say the water chemistry has returned to its normal condition so they are optimistic the public threat may be waning but you take a look at the sludge here. residents are still worried about it and they feel like the epa still has a lot of ex...

After a spill. millions of gallons of sludge. and now flowing from colorado in new mexico and utah. what is it like along the rin river? sherry is owner of a camp ground. tell us where are you situated? is your business on the river. >> yes, my camp ground is on the river. >> what does it look like? >> it is real yellow and shocking. on saturday morning when it first arrived, i went down to the river and it made me cry. it was terrible. >> did you have any heads up it was coming your way. >> the...

Aluminum. >> the fragment samples contained steel and brass. the steel had the exact same combinations of iron, manganese and chromium. in the brass, copper and zinc were found in identical amounts. and all the samples had equal amounts of cerium, part of a compound used to ignite an oxyacetylene torch, a common item in machine shops. >> we examined all of them and could see the pattern that regardless of where they came from, they were basically the same kind of metal fragments, machining fragm...

>> we were still thinking she was going to come back. even when i was printing the flyers, i remember still thinking she was going to come back from some camping trip that she was having so much fun she just didnt want to come home for. >> investigators were stunned to discover tiny metal fragments on stephanies body, like the ones found in the arlene jensen case. >> the first natural thing you have come up in your brain is, oh, these two people are connected. >> at 100 times magnification the f...