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Issues. we havent done that in the last decade. the time has come for those of us in congress to realize if we dont maintain the forest health, if we dont provide the thinning, the forest management, these fires will rage out of control. and, yes, it is climate change, it is drought, but it also is that we, particularly congress, has not provided the money to properly manage our national forest and the bureau of land management land. >> congressman garamendi, thank you so much for updating us. w...

Im christine romans. john berman is taking the day off. it is 4:00 a.m. in the east. isis on the rampage seizing control of the ancient city of palmyra. the two stunning victories forcing the government to reassess the terror strategy. the focus is securing the province went of baghdad. i want to bring in senior correspondent arwa damon. i want to talk about the history and the city which was taken by isis. how important was it and what is happening? >> reporter: palmyra is stunning. syrian gove...

Syria and this happened back in february. right? >> yeah. this is a story weve been following for a while now. very tragic where isis took up to 300 of these christians hostage. these are sunnis who have been needed in these areas for thousands and thousands of years. right now in syria these christian leaders are in negotiations with isis to try to get these poor christians released and they are demanding up to $30 million. again, part of the two-prong strategy that isis has been following and ...

negative information about facebook before the stock offering. it is a nerve racking waiting game for former presidential candidate john edwards. jurors are half way through their fourth day of deliberation. still no verdict. edwards is accused of using almost $1 million in campaign donations to keep his pregnant mistress hidden. in pakistan the man who helped track down osama bin laden is sentenced to prison today. he had been on trial for the past two months and under tribal law ...

>>shepard: bottom of the hour and time for top of the news. the afghanistan president karzai dishing out hard criticism of the terror strategy if afghanistan. in a meeting with visiting german parliament speaker he said there should be a review of the strategy because the experience of the last eight years showed us the fight in the villages of afghanistan has been in effective apart from causing civilian casualties. well, the comments come as nato reports two separate roadside bomb attacks if s...

Has been at the center of the republican attacks. seems like he has a big political target on his back. >> eric holder will have his first appearance since he became attorney general. these are the key issues right now. the handling of the shahzad case, obviously the times square bombing case. other questions about dealing with terror suspects like sheikh mohammed, who she havent made a decision on, and wont make a decision until after midterm elections. >> we had george pataki on earlier this w...

After this break, we are going to have bernie goldberg about the lack of coverage this story is getting in the mainstream media. plus hell weigh in on the presidents new terror strategy and whether you can believe it. also you remember these pictures with the crowd going crazy for sarah palin back in 2008? just ahead, well show you polls out showing her, head to head, with other top republicans, including the president himself, and the results may surprise you.

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