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This announcement? >> not significant at all. it is just politics. ever since the guard was killed at the baghdadi airport, the political tensions have been inflamed inside of iraq, and in particularly the shiite militias surrogates for the iranians. they want us out. we have not been on a combat mission there in a couple of years and it is train and advise. we have been using air ops, and primarily trying to take the heat off of the iraqi minister and redefine the public face of the u.s. presence. >> practically speaking though, it was president obama who withdrew the troops in 2011 only to s...

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, appointed new heads of the Army, Air Force and Navy. He also appointed a new Chief of Defence Staff, Lucky Irabor, a major general.

Deconflict the hot zone. a senior administration official said it wore irresponsible not to warn the regime against interfering with our air ops. >> we're giving the assad administration information and wondering why they're getting decimated. it's insane. >> u.n. ambassador samantha power will sometimes help facilitate communication between washington and damascus. as you probably also know, it's not direct. what typically happens is she'll dispatch a deputy who will then reach out to a syrian envoy. by the way, we heard from white house officials today who tell us despite an apparent lack of...

Plains and warming up in the eastern u.s. >> the maria, thank you very much. stand by, if you would. we're getting breaking news out in l.a. remarkable what maria was telling about. a little bit of relief in california. in los angeles, check this out. you're watching live a live river rescue. apparently this is the l.a. river at shoredale. two victims, two people hanging on to a tree. the fire department confirming a dog is with them. the third victim is spotted by what they're calling air ops in a separate location. cannot really make out -- oh, that might be the dog there. jon: the dog is re...

There is not a lot of traffic and they should have known this. more significant, the data package, the till let me met tree. it's inexcusable that at this day and age malaysia decided not to put in that app. we would not be here ten days later had they been reporting continuous information back to malaysia air ops as the air france plane did. we would have had a bear hug with those satellites. >> it's about $10 a flight? >> insequential amount of money. look at the reputation nal costs, hundreds and millions of dollars that we're spending right now. that data package would not have solved this...