Protecting the identity of the cop who pulled the trigger. Plus a husky voice. Those sultry eyes. You know how to whistle, dont you, steve. Put your lips together and blow. This morning we remember Lauren Bacall. Lets talk live at the cnn newsroom. Good morning. Im carol costello. Thank you so much for joining me. We begin with breaking news out of iraq. The u. S. Weighing the option of air evacuations. U. S. Led air evacuations for those tens of thousands of refugees stranded by isis militants which raises the question whether well see american boots on the ground in iraq. 130 additional marines and special ops are in the country and may help advisors in those air evacuations. Well get to the pentagon in a minute. So far the u. S. Has completed six air drops to those yazidis threatened by isis militants. 100,000 meals and 27,000 gallons of water have been delivered. In the meantime the iraqi Prime Minister nouri maliki slammed what he called a conspiracy to remove him from office and vowed to stay in power. But u. S. Officials say he doesnt have enough support to pull off a coup. His successor has 30 days to form a new iraqi government. Political turmoil aside the question remains what is the best way to help those tens of thousands of yazidis who are fleeing isis. Cnn Senior International correspondent ivan watson shows us the desperate situation along the iraqi border. Reporter the scene is almost biblical, a modern day exodus. Thousands of people trudge across a river. On occasions loved ones separated by war tearfully reunite. Everyone is fleeing isis militants who many here refer to as dash. When the terrorists, you know, dash, they attack us and our neighbors they are joined them. And actually they kill us. I yes, people. Our neighbors. Reporter many refugees are members of a kurdish religious minority known as yazidis. One of them this University Student found his missing cousin here. We lost each other. We lost each other. They arrived. Reporter like many of the other refugees he and his family fled to the mountain more than a week ago after isis captured their town. They spent days camping on the mountain, desperately waiting for air drops of food and water until they escaped by foot, a marathon 15 hour journey to syria, a journey that claimed lives. Two of our brothers, small brothers. Actually i feel that i will die. We were put on the world, they die. Your brothers . Yeah. Two of your brothers died . Yeah. Baby. Reporter a senior kurdish official here is calling on foreign governments and organizations to prevent genocide. Translator use your power. Through the international law. To save the yazidis from the genocide. Reporter by the time these refugees reach Iraqi Kurdistan some are too sick and exhausted to walk. This family wont go any fourth. For the 11th night in a row they will sleep out in the open but this time by the banks of the river. Their dinner, two pilates of donated chicken for 12 people. Their beds, a few scraps of cardboard. Ivan watson, cnn on the Iraqi Kurdistan border with syria. We want to go to the iraqisyrian border right now. Whats the situation like this morning . Reporter we are at a refugee camp, about five kilometers from where ivans report was filed. The stream of refugees weve seen in the pictures have dried up at this refugee camp. They have erected makeshift shelter in this blazing sun. Now beyond that is where the u. N. Is setting up camps and this is something that is curiously happening because of the amount of people that have descend here on this refugee camp. This refugee camp was set up months ago for christians who fled mosul after the militants seized it back in june. The governor that i spoke topography this region said they werent expecting the yazidis to arrive en masse. They are trying to set up these tents. You can see the bulldozers leveling out the land as workers try and put these big tents up so people can get out of the blazing sun. Now, i must tell you, carol, that the governor is extremely upset with the national community. He said its not just a catastrophe, a crises. He singled out the United Nations is failing the yazidis. As he said, not enough is being done to save the yazidis, the oldest religion on earth. Where is the international community. He kept on telling me this over the phone, where is the international community. We need them here to be now helping these people who are facing slaughter, carol. Thanks so much. All right. More on that breaking news now out of the pentagon. As i told you earlier American Forces may participate in those refugee evacuations. Cnn pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr has been busy this morning getting us new information. What have you found out . Reporter good morning, carol. U. S. Military personnel are in erbil overnight about 130 more to assess the situation but make no mistake they are looking at the option were told for an evacuation of those yazidis off that mountain top. Right now there are two options on table. Get them out by ground, transport them out by vehicle and air. A u. S. Official tells me a good deal of the focus right now is on the air option, landing helicopters, landing small craft airplanes on the top of that mountain and starting an around the clock airlift. That may take some doing, however because its beginning to raise the question are we is putting u. S. Boots on the ground going to be the equivalent of u. S. Boots being in combat . I want to you have a listen what the Pentagon Press secretary had to say. President has been very clear theres not going be boots on the ground in a combat role. Thats very clear direction. But what he also told us to do, ws to take, to help alleviate the humanitarian crisis there in Northern Iraq and on and around mount sinjar. Theres no option at the moment but boots on the ground in some fashion because if youre going to do an air evacuation youre going to be landing aircraft on that mountain, youre going to have to have security and protection for the aircraft as they come in and take off. They will be based at an iraqi air base. Have to be security for them there. Why an air option and not ground . A lot of these people are in very poor shape. They may not be able to make a 15 hour journey and security is a big issue. Theyve got to keep isis back. They have to keep isis away from all of this to keep it secure. So also look possibly important u. S. Air strikes to be stepped up in the coming days to go against those isis positions near mount sinjar, thats the beginning of the effort, again, keep pushing isis back as theyve been doing and get them away from the mountain and get an evacuation under way, all of this, of course, will require the approval of the president. Carol. Barbara starr reporting live from the pentagon. Many thanks to you. I want to bring in a senior fellow at the council of foreign relations. Also advised u. S. Commanders in iraq and afghanistan. Welcome, sir. Thank you. What do you think of this latest news that the United States is considering directly participating in these evacuations off the mountain. Doesnt that mean boots on the ground . Wouldnt you want american troops protecting these aircraft as they fly in . I think that sounds like its very much called for but i think we need to look beyond the yazidis issue, tragic and heartbreaking as it is to look at the larger issue is which is now were involved in bombing isis positions. Were in fact at war against isis which we have to be because isis is a terrorist state in the middle of the middle east. My question is do we have a strategy to win the war beyond the issue of the yazidis or protecting erbil. I think we need to have a strategy for rolling back isis to break their hold on so much of iraq and syria and thats what im still waiting to see from the white house. Well, you know, the president keeps saying hes adamantly opposed to american boots on the ground. If he comes up with a larger strategy is he making a promise he cant keep . I think its a mistake for any american president to go into an intervention by ruling out options. He should keep our enemies guessing. Nobody is calling here for a large number of american boots on the ground or american combat forces. I think whats necessary is a larger number of american adviser, special operators, aircraft. Were basically talking about a force on the order of 10,000 to 15,000 personnel who would not be Ground Forces but fight the capabilities of the sunni tribes, of elements of Iraqi Security forces and help them attack isis and break its devastating and genocidal grip on northern and western iraq. Even with that strategy, those youre putting american lives in danger and frankly Many Americans feel iraq is hopelessly broken and should fight it out for themselves. Wouldnt it be better for the United States to arm the kurds and the Iraqi Military and let them fight for their own country . We should be arming the kurds and the Iraqi Military but what weve seen before is the Iraqi Military can collapse even with american arms unless they have american advisors and american aircraft on call and we can have american aircraft running bombing strikes unless we have american eyes on the ground from special operations forces. A lot of people want to throw up their hands and say iraq is hopeless. We dont have that luxury. You have a state like taliban or afghanistan thats stretching across the syriairaq border. This is an imminent threat to american interests and the interests of our allies in the region. We cant allow the islamic caliphate to consolidate its authority unchecked. We need to do more to help the people on the ground resist. Theres no question that the iraqis and syrians need to take the lead role. We need to do more to enable them to be effective. Thanks so much for entrepreneur sight. I appreciate it this morning. Thank you. Still to come in the newsroom as protesters take to the streets more violence breaks out in the missouri suburb where police shot and killed an unarmed teenager. Ana cabrera is following the developments for us. Good morning, anna. Reporter quiet here this morning but emotions are running very high in this small missouri town. More violence overnight. The investigation still ongoing. Well have an update on both the investigation and the protests when we come back. Violence exploding overnight in the st. Louis suburb of ferguson where an unarmed teenager was fatally shot by a Police Officer on saturday. As protesters face off against police blocks away gunfire rang out, a woman was injured in a drive by shooting and in another incident, an officer shot and critically injured a suspect who allegedly had pulled a gun on him. Protesters in the meantime want to know the name of the officer who shot and killed 18yearold Michael Brown. Authorities say they will not disclose the name because of death threats. I want to know what you think about this. Im asking you on twitter do you think the officers name should be released. Your responses are scrolling at the bottom of the screen. Thanks for your answers so far. Lets go straight topher argue son. Ana cabrera is there covering the story for us. Good morning, ana. Reporter quiet here this morning. Calm. A rare break in what weve seen in the past several days. There were more violent protests overnight. This community is angry. People are frustrated. They want answers. They want to know more details about what happened. They want to know why Michael Brown died. Peaceful demonstrations erupting into violence for the fourth straight night as angry protesters take to the streets, outraged over the death of Michael Brown. Clashing with police. Throwing bottles. Police in riot gears to disperse the crowds. Police still not releasing the name of the officer involved. Saying they fear for his safety after threats on social media and because at this point he hasnt been charged. Ferguson police chief saying the officer is horrified by what has happened. Nobody comes to work saying, you know, i want to kill somebody. Nobody wants to go home from work having taken a life. Reporter according to the medical examiners office, brown tied from multiple shots. He said there was a scuffle at the police car. Officers pulling him inside the car. Trying to pull away. At no time the officer said that he was going to do anything until he pulled out his weapon. Reporter there was a struggle over the officers weapon. There was one shot fired. Johnson said his friend never reached for the officers gun, instead he said brown broke free and started running down the street while the officer pursued him. His weapon was already drawn when he got out of the car. He shot again. Once my friend felt that shot he turned around and put his hands on the earth and started to get down but the officer still approached with his weapon drawn and fired several more shots and my friend died. Reporter was browns killing justified . Did his race have something to do with his death. In a town of 21,000 where 66 of the population is black, there are only three black officers out of 53 people on the Ferguson Police force. Theres still more questions than answers. The fbi is investigating. The Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department has opened an inquiry as well. Even the president is monitoring the situation saying in a statement we should comfort each other and talk with one another in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds. Browns parents have called for peace as they continue to demand justice. I want all of us to come together and do this right, the right way. The right way so we can get something done about this, no violence. Reporter but tensions still remain very high. So high, in fact, the faa has now restricted the airspace banning any flights over the town of ferguson until next monday, over those safety concerns after some of the protesters at one point reportedly were firing shots into the air. Carol . Ana cabrera reporting live for us from ferguson, missouri. I want to know what you think about releasing the identity of this officer. Should the name be released. Tweet me what you think carolcnn. Still to come fears on how the beloved comic Robin Williams died are confirmed. Suicide. But did the Coroners Office go too far on how much detail he provided the public . Can anything be private . Well talk about that. Old. Citracal maximum. Easily absorbed calcium plus d. Beauty is bone deep. Fancy feast broths. Theyre irresistabowl. Completely unbelievabowl. Totally delectabowl. Real silky smooth or creamy broths. Everything shes been waiting for. 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Officials confirmed that he hung himself inside his california home. Theres controversy over how many details were disclosed by marin county officials. Did the Coroners Office really have to tell a Live Television audience that much information, especially after Williams Family repeatedly and explicitly asked for privacy. I want to read a tweet. Lisa said i wish they didnt release the details of how Robin Williams was found. People will be focusing on that instead of the person he was. So many took to social media with similar sentiments we wanted to talk about this with our entertainment correspondent Nischelle Turner and dan simon who has been covering the williams suicide in california. Welcome to you both. Dan, i want to start with you. You were present, dan, at that press conference where reporters were asking the most insanely intimate questions. What was that like . Reporter well, you know, typically that happens during News Conferences. It doesnt necessarily happen on Live Television. I think that the difference in this case is that emotions are really raw, carol, and this information came out just one day after we learned about Robin Williams passing. I think if it came out, you know, a few weeks later perhaps the public reaction would be a bit different. Also the fact you had this live televised News Conference added more drama to it. If the Sheriffs Office had just sent the coroners report to all the media organizations and then we reported it, i think you would be seeing a much different public reaction today. What were some of the questions, just for example. Was he clothed . What position was the belt in . This man committed suicide. Normally News Organizations dont cover sue sipds but in this case its a famous person so we do. Im talking about those kinds of questions coming from reporters at that press conference, dan. Reporter yeah. I mean its a highprofile case, perhaps the questions went over the line. But, remember, you know, authorities could have put an end to it say