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Comcast business. built for business. more scattered thunderstorms in arizona at this hour after a record breaking wave of showers brought heavy rains and flooding to phoenix and other cities. snapping trees and at one point forcing closings of major highways and the airport. thousands of residents report they still have no power. th 1.6 inches of rain saturday broke the record set back in 1903. texas center ted cruz once again topped the straw poll at the values voters summit here in washin...

About what he says about his record when hes calling me pro-ebola. >> pryor is 51, a cancer survivor. cotton is 37, a freshman and a lawyer, a veteran who earned the armys bronze star in afghanistan. its bitter battle. frankly less about the plague and more about the president. cotton linking the man in the white house unpopular here to arkansass only remaining democrat in congress, $16 million in spending so far. the air waves saturated with ads. >> what pryor doesnt say is that law was obama c...

I was personally very surprised to see these people just kind of showing up and walking into these unfinished buildings, these office buildings or apartment buildings and just starting to camp out there, not having any other place to go. >> no water, no food? >> no water, no food, nothing. >> nothing. >> anything. >> and it just i think illustrates how overwhelming these scenes of people on the run have been. >> what we do? what we do now? we want solution to this problem, please. >> and beyond ...

Drones began with bombs. isis cutting a swath of terror through syria and iraq taking command of the territory. late today officials said u.s. air strikes killed at least 16 isis terrorists. hundreds of thousands of civilians, of course, are still in hiding from the threat. they are on a mountain range in the north. those civilians getting desperately needed help in the form of air drop supplies. two u.s. military cargo planes dropped on to mt. sinjar where children have reportedly been dying fr...

They are defending a front line against isis of some 900 miles. and theyre only left with a little chunk, about 15 miles of space that still connects them to territories still controlled by the iraqi central government. i hear from a high-level kurdish official that there were two isis assaults to the south of the kurdish-controlled city of kirkuk overnight. those forces claiming that the forces succeeded in repelling that assault with the help of an iraqi air force. so one positive sign, after ...

Quite literally bounce off those vehicles, which were supplied by the u.s. government to the iraqi army, which folded last june and those vehicles have been captured by the isis militants and are now being used against the kurdish front lines. thats why the kurds say they need this u.s. air power to help protect them and this city that im in right now is full of desperate, newly homeless iraqis coming from the iraqi christian minority, from the ethnic turk kurdish, shiite minorities. they have f...

Couple of days. more now from ivan watson. >> reporter: they flee anywhere they can, packed in trucks and cars, some of them moving on foot carrying their babies cradles over their shoulders. thousands of iraqi families seeking sanctuary in iraqs kurdish north fleeing islamic militants. "were afraid of the islamic says" says taibi. they say theyre muslims but they dont act like must littles. they attack everyone, christians, even our prophets grave isnt safe. her family has been hurt by the isis...

We can act carefully and responsibly to prevent genocide. thats what were doing on that mountain. ive therefore authorized targeted airstrikes to help forces in iraq as they fight to break the siege of mount sinjar and protect the masses trapped there. >> meanwhile, other refugees are fleeing to the iraqi city of irbil. thousands of people have arrived there. cnns ivan watson has that. >> reporter: they flee any way they can, packed in trucks and cars. some of them moving on foot carrying their ...

Displaced iraqis who have flooded in now. >> among the half million who fled there, i think the americans thought as much as well positioning the military advisers there. can you talk about the americans and the refugees? >> i havent got a look at the u.s. military or diplomatic presence on the ground here. but ive certainly seen this -- enormous flood of displaced iraqis and its pretty emotional to see. all of these people left in a matter of hours wednesday night as the kurdish peshmerga were ...

Airstrikes to protect the civilians trapped there. >> it was only this past weekend when extremists stormed the iraqi town forcing members of the ancient yazidi religion to flee to the mountains. >> other refugees have been fleeing to the nearby city. thats where the u.n. says some 180,000 people have arrived in the past few days. you can imagine the urgency that that creates. ivan watson is there. >> reporter: they plea any way they can, packed in trucks and cars, some of them moving on foot ca...