for team owners, this as ray rice appeals this domestic violence punishment. off-the-field happenings taking center stage could cost the nfl big. good morning, welcome to early start. i m john berman. and i m christine romans. the general of joint chiefs of staff martin dempsey say he s open to putting u.s. forces on the ground this time to fight isis. dempsey saying iraq is capable of battling against islamic rebels. the president has ruled out putting boots on the ground. but dempsey testified yesterday, opening a surprise amount of daylight between he and his boss. it s a generational problem. and we should expect that our enemies will adapt their tactics as we adjust our approach. my view at this point is that this coalition is the appropriate way forward. i believe that will prove true. but if it fails to be true and if there are threats to the united states, then i, of course, will go back to the president and make a recommendation that may include the use of u.s. ground forces. if, if and then may, those are caveats there. the white house has renewed the decision not to put boots on the ground calling dempsey s response hypothetical. with moderate syrian rebels fighting the assad regime. republicans calling it snad quit and many warning that arms could eventually end up being used against the united states. even show, the authorization is expected to pass the house before heading to the senate later this week. also this morning, the president is in tampa, part of his effort to drum up public support for the fight against isis. he arrived tuesday night shaking hands with u.s. troops there. later today, he will be briefed on the battle strategy against militants. and secretary of state john kerry secretary of state kerry appears before the foreign relations committee to discuss the isis plans. and isis is pointing its nose to the coalition appointed to fight it. isis sympathizers have been goading the u.s.-led coalition with tweets like this we welcome america into syria with open arms and ans explosive belt. the downing of a syrian fighter jet that has not yet been yintly concerned, iraq s foreign minister met tuesday with bashar al assad. going to jomana karadsheh live in baghdad where u.s. air strikes are escalating. joe pl jomana, what is the assessment there? when it comes to air strikes, christine, everyone is welcoming this. there say difference to the area where is the air strikes have been taking place, facilitating and making it easier for to combat forces and make advances there. but when it comes to talking about u.s. troop presence mere, the reaction mostly from iraqi officials, yes, they do want to see more advisers, more trainers here because there is that commission, realization, that iraqi troops are not ready nor capable of doing this on their own with air strikes. that s not going to be enough. they need more training and advising and, thus, that cannot happen without more american advisers on the ground. iraqis say as long as this is not a mill attention presence, they do not want to see a u.s. occupation as they describe it. what we ve seen in the past couple days is reaction from the iranian-backed shia militias. if you recall, during the presence of u.s. militants here in the past, these militants are accused of carrying out deadly attacks targeting u.s. military forces. and the reaction so far, very similar rhetoric from what we ve been hearing from iran. the u.s. is using isis as a pretext to reoccupy iraq be these are the words of shia claire al sadr. and so there is word about the safety of these trainers on the ground. when you hear something like this something an adviser told me and iraqi expert saying this is what happens when you sideline iran here. it could use its proxies here to sabotage the military efforts towards isis. so many moving parts. jomana karadsheh, thank you so much. we mentioned concerns over the fact that weapons for the moderate syrian rebels could eventually end up being used against american troops but there are warnings of other ways this effort could be complicated. arizona john mccain blasted the administration s plan during joint chairman dempsey s testimony on tuesday. you d think that these people you re training will only go back to fight against isil? do you really believe that general? we do not have to deal with it now. what the senator was talking about there was the idea that the moderate syrian rebels would actually prefer to be fighting against bashar al assad would not use the training and weapons that the u.s. gives to fight against isis. the speaker of the parliament had a similar warning about insurgents fighting this government. he claims a solid moderate rebel sold the american hostage to isis. he said there s nothing to stop the rebels from doing the same with the weapons they get from the united states. one of the interesting things, he s sending a letter to leaders. an upstate new york man will be in new york charged with plotting to kill. prosecutors in new york say the third a naturalized u.s. citizen from yemen, attempted to buy guns from undercover agents to carry out his deadly plan. he expressed on numerous occasions his interest in killing american servicemen as they re returning from the war zones. he also spoke about also hurting members of the shia muslim community here in rochester. and grand jury indictment handed up tuesday. he s also charged with recruit for isis. his attorney is expected to enter a not guilty plea. the united nationsade $1 billion is needed now to battle the ebola virus. urging that they need field hospitals and other supplies. in the house there appears to be widespread support for president broc s $88 million request. the president expected to ask congress for another $500 million for his plan today. meanwhile, dr. kent brantly will testify at a hearing today. he s warning lawmakers there s no time to waste. a sentiment echoed by the president. it is a fire. it is a 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committee on veterans affairs. these two doctors say the inspector general downplayed the delays and deaths at va medical centers. reports earlier this year led to the resignation of the va secretary eric shinseki. cnn first brought you the story that 40 veterans died after waiting for medical care in phoenix. community action is to let house committee hold hearings this morning on the killing of chris stevens and three others as well. on tuesday, a report containing a point-by-point rebuttal to anticipated republican attacks. breaking news this morning, the vikings banning adrian peterson from all people activities. allegations of child abuse now forcing him from the field. a late-night reversal of a reversal. wow, whiplash, money talks i think. plus, a manhunt to find a suspected cop killer. investigators say he could strike again. we ll have that next. why do we clean? to help keep our homes healthy. but not all cleaners are equal. at lysol, we go beyond cleaning, we call it 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motor oil. i m surprised to hear that, so many of the brain science and child development experts like all of them say harsh punishment of a 2-year-old reinforces negative behavior and does not enforce positive discipline. watching that, having a 1-year-old. what do you discipline a 1-year-old for? being 1? he said harshly discipline. no-no longer has a team but ray rice has the nfl players association on his side. the league formally enforced rice s suspension claiming he was suspended twice for the same infraction. the union said the nflpa appeal was based on supporting facts that reveal a lack of a fair and impartial process including the role at the office the commissioner of the nfl we is have ask the that a neutral and jointly selected arbitrator hear the case as the commissioner and his staff will be essential witnesses in the proceeding. and we also learned that rice received training in 2008 as part of a rookie symposium. meantime, the singer rihanna is not hiding her anger from cbs from pulling her opening number from thursday night football. she took to twitter saying, cbs, you pulled my song last week. now, you want to slide it back into this thursday. no, expletive the one that has the f in it. y all sad for penalizing me for this. anheuser-busch became the first sponsors to criticize the league s action over it and child abuse. a company statement said we are not yet satisfied with the league s handling of behaviors that so clearly go against our own company culture and moral code. anheuser-busch is one of the nfl three major sponsors, spending $50 billion a year on sponsorships. that doesn t even going to the amount it spends on broadcasts. the league responded to the criticism saying there will be more action soon. 17 minutes past the hour, an early start your money. u.s. stock futures barely budging. a lot go on this week. authorities in pennsylvania have identified the suspect wanted in an ambush killer in pennsylvania last week. police say 31-year-old eric matthew frein is a survivalist and experienced shooter who has talked about wanting to kill law enforcement and commit mass murder. they ve now asked for the public s health as they commit an all-out manhunt. nothing you ve ever seen before. helicopters, police presence everywhere. it s quite disturbing, very disturbing. we don t know where he is, so we re going to look everywhere. this fellow, as we said, armed and extremely dangerous. people should take caution. bryon dickson was killed alex douglas severely wounded in that ambush. the school district has cancelled classes today as a safety precaution. now, the latest in in ferguson, calling for the immediate arrest of darren wilson. chants to arrest him now, i ve got my hands on my head please don t shoot me dead as they marched tuesday. the same group is also demanding that lead prosecutor bob mccollough recuse himself. in less than 24 hour, scotland is going to vote on independence. however, the united kingdom, 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re too close to call. and you can really not tell the story. on the newspapers, it says won the polls on the scotland. the poll has no on the lead but actually the yes campaign is closing the gap. and the herald the only newspaper in scottland supporting the campaign is making the point that yes the pro-independent campaign is closing the gap and could overtake by tomorrow. that s a suggest, at least. very clear on the daily mail 24 hours to save britain or to go independent. it really say date with destiny tomorrow. we talked a bit with how there s a lot of attention to the runup to tomorrow s poll. you know, this has been two years of campaigning and a lot of aggression, particularly on the yes side. a very simple message here, keep the heat and carry on. that s the message. to keep things calm really, it really is pretty tense at the moment. max, we have about a thousand questions here on this referendum. ask possibly ask them all. but let me ask one. scots want independence, they want to break away. but they want to keep the queen, they want to keep the monarchy. it seems as if they don t quite under this independence thing. reporter: i think this is a huge thing for the queen. she only came close commenting. she cannot get involved in politics. but she did say to a church gore recently she really hope that scots consider this. you can imagine there was a very big british empire. empires come and go. and the empire s been cut back, of course. but now you re talking about home turf. and her home state being split. i think she s pretty concerned about this. we have to say in all essence, we re not talking about her role but the yes campaign they do want to keep her as head of state. a breakup of the uk it s a huge moment in british history. to would be colossal, after 300 years that vote is tomorrow. if they do vote to split it would take 18 months. max, thank you so much. harvard economist ken rowbuck telling three az currency. what currency do you have. it s one of the first questions people will have, it s one of the first questions investors have. say say it s the pound. the british say it s not the pound people say maybe scotland with the euro, creates a lot of problems for the rest of the eurozone. and they could have their own currency but that s not a magic elixir when you don t have long-teller credibility. rogoff a yes vote could be. good in the long run, maybe a hundred years but the short term is the concern. he said basically it would be a mild negative for the uk and very big negative for scotland. he also said, look, when americans say why does this matter to me, why do i care? because the uk and u.s. have the strongest alliance in the world. and is this our best friend breaking apart. it has huge implications for international relations as well. to say nothing of america s nuclear position in northern europe, it s in scotland. fascinating. it will all be decided tomorrow. 27 minutes after the hour. could u.s. troops end up 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louder about the president s plan. we re live in iraq with all the angles on this developing story. breaking news this morning. banned from the team, vikings owners telling adrian peterson stay away from team activities. child abuse allegations costing his spot on the team for now. this as ray rice appeals his own domestic violence punishment. off-the-field violence keeping the nfl in the headlines. and we re now learning just how much this could cost the league. welcome back to early start. i m christine romans. i m john berman. great to see you, 31 minutes past the hour. a lot of questions from chairman martin dempsey. the general said he would be require that u.s. troops be put in iraq to defeat isis. the chairman raised concerns that half of iraq s army is incapable of partnering effectively with troops in the battle against u.s. militants. now, the president has said he would not use ground troops in iraq for combat. but general dempsey appearing from the senate armed services committee tuesday said if the situation changed it could be a possibility. this would require a sustained effort over a sustained period of time. it s a generational problem. and we should expect that our enemies will adapt their tactics as we adjust our approach. my view at this point is that this coalition is the appropriate way forward. i believe that will prove true. but if it fails to be true, and if there are threats to the united states, then i, of course, would go back to the president and make a recommendation that may include the use of u.s. military ground forces. a white house spokesman later reiterated the president s determination not to employee ground troops for combat calling the general s remarks hypothetical. meanwhile, the u.s. house is scheduled to vote on the president s plan to arm and train moderate syrian rebels fighting isis. the plan is drawing fire from both sides. republicans calling it inadequate and democrats warn that the arms could be used against the u.s. even though, the authorization is expected to pass the house before heading to the senate later in the week. also this morning, the president is in tampa for a visit for u.s. central command as part of his effort to drum up support for the fightence isis. he arrived tuesday night shaking hands with troops. later today, he ll be there. and secretary of state john kerry appears to explain the president s plan. isis remaining defiant in the face of 40-nation international coalition to vote it. so far, the suts only kol six outside of iraq and syria who has actually fired a shot. isis sympathizers have been goading the united states with tweets like we welcome america into syria with open arms and an explosive belt. isis is celebrating the downing of a syrian fighter jet that has not yet been independently confirmed. meanwhile, meeting with syrian president bashar al assad even though u.s. officials say there is no coordinate with the al assad regime in the fight against isis. jomana karadsheh live there. jomana, we ve been talking about the shift in air strikes in the iraq. we ve seen it already some these military applications? reporter: absolutely, john. what we re seeing in the last couple days is what president obama has been talking about last week, the expansion here. it s not just expanding the geographic area, as you know very well strikes have been taking place since they started august 8th mostly focused in the more than part of the country. but what we have seen over the past couple of days increased strikes taking place very close to baghdad. about 22 miles from here. and this really is also a broadening of the scope of the mission. earlier when this mission started it was humanitarian intervention, and it was to protect u.s. personnel and u.s. facilities here. but this is what president obama was talk about. that they want to try and enable iraqi security forces to go on the offensive. and what we are seeing is this does help them. in the areas where these air strikes have been taking place. for example, southwest of baghdad. this has been a really problematic area where we have seen intensified fighting taking place between iraqi security forces and isis militants there for the past couple of months. and what these iraqi grounds fors really lack is precision air strikes. that air cover that they do not really have. so this kind of support they are getting does allow them and enable them to go on the offensive, as u.s. officials put it. but the real test, john is going to be whether these iraqi forces are going to be able to recapture territory on their own. and hold it. that s going to be the real challenge. it s the beginning of the next phase. the question is how far will it go and will it require greater u.s. involvement either from the air or from the ground. jomana karadsheh from baghdad, thank you. there are warnings now of other ways the effort could back fire. arizona senator john mccain blasting the administration s plan during joint chiefs chairman martin dempsey tuesday. he said the weapons would be used against the al assad government first and foremost, not isis. do you think these people that you re train will go only go back to fight against isil? do you really believe that, general? we do not have to deal with that now. the speaker of the parliament had a warning in a letter to u.s. house leaders. he claimed the so-called moderate rebels sold an american hostage to isis. he says there is nothing stopping the rebels from doing the same with the weapons they get from the united states. the united nations is calling for $1 billion now for battle the ebola outbreak in west ka. the u.s. votes on a resolution for field hospitals and other supplies in ebola-stricken countries. in the house there appears to be widespread sport for the president s $80 million request. meanwhile, dr. kent brantly an american ebola survivor will testify at a hearing today. he s already warning lawmakers there is no time to 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resignation of eric shinseki. cnn first brought you the story, 40 died while waiting for medical care in phoenix. select house committee holds hearings over the killing of u.s. ambassador to libya christopher stevens and three others. 30 minutes past hour. an early start on your your money. european stocks higher. asian stocks, and europe stocks and the dow reaching an intra-day high. today, it s all eyes on the federal reserve. fed chair janet yellen. her colleagues will wrap up a two-day policy meeting with a statement. who knew a statement could be so exciting. everyone wants to know if that statement says anything about interest rates. you know thousand party, christine. economic data is showing economic economy is improving. some analysts worry an interest rate hike could come closer sooner than we think. the statement, any hints on the time line to raise rates is going to be incredibly important to watch. and incredibly exciting. i know. breaking news overnight, the vikings 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stuff like that. for me, it was normal, i most definitely discipline my daughter. i have a 1-year-old daughter. i will definitely try not to leave bruises, but i will discipline her harshly depending on what the situation is. that s reggie bush running back nor the detroit lions, is he say he will discipline her ultimately. or will he say he disciplines his 1-year-old harshly now? he said he disciplines his 1-year-old harshly. i ve looked at it five times now. maybe he s trying to help out his friend. that s a pretty startling admission, a 1-year-old, i don t think there s any child behavior experts who say disciplining a 1-year-old does any good. with a 1-year-old, where s the difference between a good behavior and bad behavior? it s raising a lot of questions and a huge conversation about all of this. peterson has lost all of its biggest deals, castro motor oil terminating its deal with the star. and nike is standing by right now. and the biggest question i hear said, everything your parents did wasn t necessary right. you know, if you ve been whipped and switched and beaden, that doesn t necessarily mean that s the right thing to do. i think there s a lot of brain science and child psychology that i hope we can hear more about actually instead of the players. i think this raises a real opportunity to talk to child brain experts about what happens when you treat your kids this way. and it, of course, raises questions with the nfl which is dealing with so many issues including ray rice. he may no longer have a team but he does have the nfl players association on his side. the union appealed the league s decision. the said in a statement, nflpa appeal is based on supporting facts that reveal a lack of a fair and impartial process including the role of the office of the commissioner of the nfl. we have asked that a neutral and jointly selected arbitrator hear this case. and we re also learning that ray rice did receive domestic violence and conflict resolution training in 2008. it s part of the nfl rookie symposium that players go through. in the meantime, singer rihanna who herself was a victim of domestic abuse, is not hiding her ainge from cbs for pulling her opening number from thursday night football. she took to twitter saying cbs, you pulled my song last week now you want to slide it back in this thursday? no. there s an expletive there. you all are sad for penalizing me for this. then she sent another tweet saying simply the audacity. cbs said they would not use the song this week after rihanna swore at them on twitter. and the suspect wanted in the ambush of a state trooper in a rural police bearics. they say 31-year-old eric matthew frein is a survivalist and an experienced shooter. they re asking for the public s health as they conduct an all-out manhunt. like nothing you ve ever seen before. helicopters, police presence everywhere. it s quite disturbing. very disturbing. we don t know where he is. so we re going to look 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into the desert southwest with an awful lot of rain. some of that rain is going to come down, because there s no jet stream there, when it starts to rain in one spot, it s going to continue to rain in that spot for a long time. that especially makes flooding on the desert. watch out there. that s your flash flood forecast for tomorrow. sunny skies in the east and southeast. temperatures don t change very much. the cool front moves across the north east, takes the rain showers away brings you a high at 74. enjoy your day. chad, thank you for that. we got this new billionaire census out. how happy and rich are the billionaires? guess what, there are more ultra wealthy people than ever. who are they, john berman? and how did they get all that money. all right. let s get an early start on your money. european stocks high permanent u.s. stock futures barely moving. why? the federal reserve is meeting today. the fed chair janet yellen and her colleagues holding a two-day public meeting. they ll release a statement. they ll wait to see if she s changed any language, any verbiage on whether the fed is going to raise interest rates. the economy has been improving. even a slight hint in a time line change could be a big deal for markets. brand new on cnn money, the world has 2300 people, a 7% jump from last year. who s your standard billionaire? well, he or she has to average 1 $1.3 billion. most didn t reach billionaire status until late 30s. berman, there s hope for you. most are male, there s a chance they have a degree. apple s 8 software will be available, it comes with key updates like messages, e-mails, photos. new health app that can communicate with other fitness apps and get all your data in one place. it s available to it s available on iphone 4s and 2. and billionaires have someone else doing it for them. and the new iphone 6, a lot of them say the new operating system is the best part. so if you have the 5 or 5s, you can get all the benefits of the new phone without buying it. early start continues right now. fighting isis, perhaps with boots on the ground. could american troops be returning to a combat role in iraq? one u.s. general s new warning on what might be required to take down the terrorists. this as skepticism grows over the president s plan to battle isis. account syrian rebels, the so-called moderate rebels be trusted? we re live in iraq with the very latest on this story this morning. breaking news this morning. the nfl drowning in controversy. the vikings now banning adrian peterson from all team activities, reversing its earlier reversal.
you ll only see here. drew griffin s investigative teams to expose people who are letting america s wounded warriors down, raising millions in their name, taking your money, and lining their own pockets with the proceeds. tonight the focus is on a discredited charity, one that is amazingly still doing business, if you can call it that. and not only that, it s who we have learned is now running this outfit that is truly mind-bending. and it comes on a day when v.a. officials took the heat, a whole lot of it for yet another scandal involving veterans, the hospital mess. so drew has been busy chasing that as well. he joins us from our washington bureau. so you were at the hearing today. what happened? anderson, the big question at this congressional hearing was to what happened at the phoenix v.a. did veterans die waiting for care, and did the actual wait kill them? the report that we talked about that was released a couple of weeks ago by the inspectors general s office went out of its way it seemed to say this was no conclusive proof the waits killed anybody. well, today we learned the inspector general team actually didn t examine all of the deaths of veterans who died waiting for care, and in fact didn t look at the records of thousands of veterans who are waiting for care, which take a listen, some congressmen found just incredulous. there is 5600 veterans cases that apparently were not reviewed and that you have in the report. so i look forward to the determination why you decide not review those cases. because i fear there are more veterans that died. dr. david said there was nothing to review if they didn t get in the door. he was reviewing medical records. and if they didn t get an appointment, they didn t have any records to review. would you agree that wait list contributed to the deaths of veterans? it s a yes or no. please yes or no. words mean something. yes, they do. yes you do? no. i would say it may have contributed to their death, but we can t say it conclusively it caused their death. of course. and you can t say conclusively it didn t. the bottom line from this hearing is the phoenix v.a., anderson, was or appears to be still somewhat of a mess. no one has been fired in all of this. and despite the fact there are 93 v.a. hospitals under investigation across the country, and the fbi brought in to investigate possible criminal violations, no one has even been charged with a crime. which, again, brings us to this other outrage tonight involving veterans. and that s this terrible charity we have been following despite our reporting and being prosecuted by the state of california continues to rake in money in the name of veterans. here is drew s report. reporter: help hospitalized veterans is one of the most troubling charities we have ever reported on. its mission is to take in donations and then help hospitalized veterans by sending them arts and crafts kits, models to occupy time of vets who are hospitalized. the charity has been raking in donations for more than 40 years, and in 2011 and 2012, the last two years the charity filed tax returns, it collected $64 million. those same filings showed its officers paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in salaries, donated money, paid for $80,000 in golf club memberships and directors and their spouses were approved to travel first class for any function related to the charity all money supposedly donated to help hospitalized veterans. hello, mr. lynch. reporter: when we confronted their then ceo two years ago about what this charity actually does, mike lynch told us he would explain it all tomorrow. all right. we ll see you tomorrow. reporter: tomorrow came and we got this. i have a statement that i have prepared. it says we hope that these unproven allegations will not diminish the more than 40 years of service hhps provided to our nation s most valuable treasure, our veterans. hhv looks forward to tell its story and hopes that this action will not impede its ability to provide vital support to hospitalized veterans nationwide. thank you very much. what about i got to ask you, about the money, though. i mean, that doesn t answer any of the questions about the money that they re that s it? that s all you re going that s all you guys are going to say? reporter: the state of california cracked down on the charity, forced it to change its board, retire its ceo and pay back $4 million in fines. and even more startling, cnn has just learned the veterans administration itself banned help hospitalized veterans from having anything to do with its veteran s hospitals or patients for the past two years, something help hospitalized veterans never bothered to mention on its website. but in a surreal twist, the charity survived. how? by hiring this woman to run its operation. and this is where poor management at the v.a., the actual department of veterans affairs, and the very bad veteran charities intersect. diane hartman was an administrator with the v.a. for years until this 2010 scathing government report found hartman taking luxurious trips to las vegas and san diego, misusing money, and then lying to cover it all up. according to the v.a. s office on the inspector general, hartman had misused official time and travel, failed to properly record compensatory time for her subordinates, and improperly used hundreds of hours of unauthorized compensatory leave herself. it wasn t enough at the v.a. for hartman to get fired. she retired a year later. after a more than 30-year career with the v.a. so what does diane hartman have to do with help hospitalized veterans? this disgraced charity was looking for a new ceo, and a disgraced former v.a. administrator apparently was the perfect fit. i can t believe a charity of that stature could possibly overlook that person s background. that was not merely an allegation made by someone at the veteran s administration. that was a long, thoroughly vetted report. and what they concluded are activities that no ceo i would say actually no charity employee should have in his or her background. reporter: hartman has been the ceo here for two years. but when we began asking questions, her status suddenly changed. she is now listed as interim ceo. and that ban on help hospitalized veterans from doing business with the v.a., well, it s just been extended another two years. at its warehouse in california, workers look busy, assembling what looked like those craft kits. at least that s what we were able to see until they shut the doors. in a statement, the charity says it is finding alternative avenues to distribute the craft kits. but where are they sending them? and why is this charity still collecting money? we wanted to talk to the new ceo. hello. hi. is diane hartman in? she is not available. is she in? she s not available. can we talk to somebody about help hospitalized veterans? my name is drew griffin with cnn. one moment. reporter: even though the ceo diane hartman is just upstairs, the receptionist calls the plant manager whose name is chip. hey, chip, drew griffin with cnn. i was trying to reach diane hartman. i understand she is here but not available. i want to ask you about this letter, which extends the ban you guys have with v.a. hospitals. you can t work in v.a. hospitals. you can t have any access to v.a. hospitals. and i want to know how does the help hospitalized veterans continue to operate if it can t deliver any products that it says it delivers to veterans in hospitals? i don t have any comment to that. you know, i m not i don t know how to comment to that. can anybody comment? i mean, you re asking the public for donations, and you re getting millions in donations. and yet the v.a. doesn t want you to have anything to do with any of their hospital services or veterans. it would seem that somebody at this facility should be able to explain what s going on. i m in not part of that operation. i don t have reporter: can you find anybody who is part of that operation? this is the operation, right? yep. reporter: diane is upstairs, right? yep. reporter: can she come down? i don t know. i don t know. reporter: can you go ask her, maybe, or just give her a call? i haven t been able to get ahold of her this morning. reporter: she is upstairs. she has been tied up. between meetings and reporter: does she have an assistant? no. reporter: okay. i don t know if you can make an appointment. reporter: we ve tried. we have tried. maybe i ll ask this person here. there any chance of making an appointment with diane? you can leave your information. reporter: okay, we tried that route already. haven t got a call back. i just answer the phones here. i m sorry. you know, what makes me so outraged about this, these people are so sleazy, they re taking people s money and if they were a real charity, if they were a legitimate charity, they would at the very least give you an appointment. they should be completely transparent. they should be completely willing to say here is how we deliver, you know, kits to veterans in hospitals, even though we ve been banned by the veteran s hospitals, we supposedly deliver these kit taos. here is how we do it. and chip, you know, is standing there like this is the first he has ever heard of it, like he doesn t even know he works for this sleazy organization. it doesn t make sense. and anderson, you re involved with charities that do good works. and that s the first thing they do? please come with us. we re going show you. they re eager for attention. exactly. they re dying for attention. these guys, to quote mike wallace from 60 minutes, they re running around like cockroaches, like scuttling from the cameras. that s exactly right. and the problem is the their target audience, the people who are sending in money are mostly, i hate to say it, anderson, they re not watching our show. they re elderly people. they re people who are soft sells through the mail, and they don t get the information that we re delivering right now to all of our viewers that if you get something from help hospitalized veterans in the mail, you should be very suspicious when they re asking you for money. and we can t tell that story enough. the name is so manipulative. of course you get something that says help hospitalized veterans, you want to do whatever you can. obviously, the state of california here agrees with this. the veteran s administration agrees. yet they continue to exist, taking donation. is there nothing that can be done to shut them down? like i said, this is what can be done. people need to stop giving to this group. it s unfortunate, but the laws are extremely weak. and there is no push to make them any stronger. we did receive a statement from this charity s new chairman of the board, basically saying that they did know, by the way, about that most recent v.a. letter that bans them from the v.a., and that the charity was trying to reinstate itself, get access to the hospital, hoping for a more favorable outcome. and that the new chairman also blamed employees that are no longer there. they are they say they are fully focused on rebuilding the trust that was shaken. but they re not going to say that on camera and they re not going to answer questions. how about one of these sleazy people actually come on camera, with you, with me, with us both together, rather than just give out statements that are yeah, we re aware the v.a. has banned us. well, yeah, i would hope you. i m sure they re aware. that s nothing enough. it s just outrageous. yep. the invitation is open. the last thing i want to do is truck back to this desert in california and have to knock on their door because they won t answer our calls. well, let s hope chip is watching, or whoever. all right, drew. thanks very much. quick reminder. make sure you set your dvrs so you can watch 360 whenever you want. ahead, another player facing charges. his alleged victim an adult woman and an 18-month-old child. plus the major reversal by the minnesota vikings. they finally benched adrian peterson, banning him from all team activities until his felony child abuse charge is resolved. take a look what made them change their mind. jonathan dwyer, facing charges of aggravated assault. in a statement the cardinals said they deactivated dwyer. his arrest hours after a reversal by the vikings. that team benched adrian peterson banning him from team activities until child abuse charges were filed. we have decided that the appropriate course of action for the organization and for adrian is to put him on the exempt list, until the legal proceedings are complete. we made a mistake. and we needed to get this right. the mistake he is talking about the decision on monday to lift peterson s suspension after the vikings got shellacked. the fallout was immediate. hasn t stopped. sponsors have suspended or cancels deals with the team and peterson. anheuser-busch one of the biggest sponsors hasened pull s out yet. it criticized the league now, another new development today the carolina panthers placed defensive end greg hardy, convicted of domestic violence on their exempt list calling it a voluntary leave. joining me, rachel nichols, host of unguarded and senior legal analyst, jeffrey toobin. these just keep coming. this its arizona cardinals running back, jonathan dwyer, second string running back important part of their team. came over from the pittsburgh steelers. the investigation into two separate incidents that happened on back to back days in july involving a woman the mother of his child, and after those incidents, she actually left the state and left him with the child. so the investigation has taken a while as they have tried off to get out of state medical record. court documents. they pufld hlled him out today question him. he is being arrested booked as we speak. of the vikings decision to deactivate peterson. if the it s really interesting. it wasn t out of fans or the public s uproar. it was when sponsors started to or a sense of moral responsibility. god forbid anybody employee that around here. it does seem more like once sponsors started to get nervous and speak out, that s when the decision was reversed. you could see the sponsorships and the sponsors were acting because the consumers were upset. absolutely. and right now we ve got this situation where the nfl seems to be levying punishment with an etch a sketch, that they scribble something out and erase it the next day and scribble something else out. adrian peterson in the last four days has been act deactivated, reactivated andy activated again. nothing has changed. both peterson and hardy were put on the exempt list. why didn t the nfl step in and suspend them under its new domestic violence policy? because i think the nfl is operating under a complete panic approach, that they are operating day by day, trying to figure this thing out as they go. they don t have a clear policy in place. and they are just trying to get from one not even one week to the next, one day to the next. because as rachel said, you have had the two most prominent people arrested in the nfl. the nfl has changed and the teams have changed their punishments immediately after public reaction. and there is no reason to think that these rulings are at all final and they re going to continue operating by the seat of their pants because they don t have a clear policy in place. i want to splay something the carolina panthers coach said about the hardy situation. there are a lot of circumstances that we don t know. there are a lot of situations we don t understand. and it s hard because you don t know how. you really don t. this is not a normal set of circumstances situation. and when you get into these types of situations, you try to handle them the best you can. what is kind of stunning about this is that there are a lot of circumstances we do understand about this. and i just want to point this out. hardy was found guilty, guilty of domestic abuse, according to his ex-girlfriend s testimony, he beat her, threw her on to a floor, into a bathtub, on to a couch filled with weapons, saying he was going to use those weapons to kill her. yes. what else do you need to understand? there was a 911 call of another witness to all of this. and then the reason the coach is sort of saying oh, these are unusual circumstances is that greg hardy, the player involved has gone to not only the team, but the police and said hey, she s making all of this up. his claim is that she got the bruises by throwing herself into the bathtub somehow. bruising herself. and that she is just make it up, despite, again, a witness calling in to 911. so he is appealing his judge verdict for a jury trial, which he is allowed to do in that state. however, anybody on the outside of this team has said over and over again, he was convicted. and yes, he has the right to appeal, but while he is appealing, there is no way he should be on the field. anderson, if i could just add one thing. you know, just one corner of this bizarre series of developments is the cult of the head coach in football is a big thing. they are the leaders. they are supposedly masterminds of these complicated operations. and we have seen two of the dumbest comments from harbaugh, the coach of baltimore and rivera. i mean, that was just a word salad. what he said made no sense at all. and it s just embarrassing that these guys who are supposedly so smart on the football field can be so dumb when it comes to human relations. and again, dumb after all of this stuff has hit the public s radar. it s not as if these statements were made a long time ago, especially even for harbaugh, who came out in the wake of all this and said stuff that is kind of stung. thank you very much. rachel nichols, we ll have more in the 9:00 hour tonight. as always, you can find out more on the story now and others on cnn.com. up next, facing what he says is a clear 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you or not. first president obama. i want to be clear, the american forces that have been deployed to iraq do not and will not have a combat mission. that s today at centcom headquarters in tampa. secretary of state kerry also testifying before the senate foreign relations committee. listen. isil must be defeated, period. end of story. and collectively, we are all going to be measured by how we carry out this mission. it s a simple commitment. and that s about as far as the clarity and simplicity go. now listen from just a day ago. here is general martin dempsey, chairman of the joint chief of staffs on sending troops. we reach a point where i believe our advisers should accompany iraq troops on attacks against specific isil targets, i ll recommend that to the president. so now as a member of the military, dempsey doesn t make policy. he does have clout, and his words got noted by the president s supporters. the new york times treated it as a betrayal, quote, there is no way to read yesterday s testimony by martin dempsey other than as a reverse federal the firm commitment mr. obama made not the immerse the country in another endless ground war in the middle east. well, there are other doubts as well such as these from bipartisan former defense secretary robert gates who served president s obama and bush. they re not going to be able to be successful against isis strictly from the air, or strictly depending on the iraqi forces or the peshmerga or the sunni tribes acting on their own. so there will be boots on the ground if there is to be any hope of success in the strategy. and i think that by continuing to repeat that, the president in fact traps himself. keeping them honest, we have senator john mccain on the program several times. we asked him tough questions about the risks of getting deeper and deeper into the mess in iraq and syria. earlier tonight i had a chance to do the same with white house press secretary josh earnest. josh, you said today the president wouldn t even consider a combat role for u.s. troops in this expanded fight against isis. the president said as much in front of troops, saying there won t be a combat mission. as you know, general dempsey said if the situation change and he felt u.s. ground forces were necessary, he would recommend that to the president. i want to play for our viewers exactly what he said. okay. if we reached the point where i believe our advisers should accompany iraq troops on attacks against specific isil targets, i ll recommend that to the president. special forces operators accompanying iraqi troops on attacks against isis forces. that sound like a combat role. anderson, what he was talking about is he is talking about the advise and assist role that american service personnel already have in iraq. handy was contemplating situations in which american personnel, american military personnel could be forward deployed with iraqi security forces. and from those forward deployed locations could be offering them some tactical advice as they carry out combat operations. but going out on attacks? when iraqi security forces are carrying out attacks or engaged in combat with the enemy, you can imagine a scenario where american servicemen and women could be forward deployed alongside them, offering some assistance, maybe even calling in airstrikes. but those american military members would not be in a position where they would directly or personally engaging the enemy in combat. that s the distinction that the president is drawing here. but combat, as you know, a messy thing. it is. and the best laid plans change once bullets start flying. you can t actually say that forward deployed u.s. military personnel with iraqi troops on an attack are not going to be in a position where they have to use their own weapons to either defend themselves or to go after the enemy. you can t now say that, can you really? the president directed the deployment of some military personnel to iraq to do things like secure the embassy and to staff the joint operations centers to coordinate with iraqi and kurdish forces. those forces were equipped because they need to be in a position where they can defend themselves. but ultimately, their mission, their role will not be to engage in combat directly with the enemy. that will be the responsibility of iraqi security forces. it is the president s view that the united states military should not be in the position where we are providing security for the iraqi people. the iraqi people, the iraqi military, and the iraqi government need to step up and take responsibility for their nation s security. they need to, but their capabilities are under question at best. i mean, as we ve seen on the battlefield, their general core that was put in by maliki is basically incompetent in most cases. the soldiers have not been able to actually fight or retake territory, certainly in any sunni-controlled areas. and probably the most efficient fighters they have right now are the shia militias. are you seeing a scenario, or under what scenario do you see the iraqi security forces and the military actually being capable of engaging in combat successfully? how is that suddenly going to change given all the money, all the training we have already given them and they ve been inept. why in the next few months is something going to change, they re suddenly going to be able to actually work on the battlefield? well, anderson, there is something really important that has changed, which is there is a new government in iraq. the previous government under prime minister maliki had divided that country. that prime minister maliki governed that country in a way that exposed the sectarian divisions that are evident in that country. the new government took office, took power in a way that sort of reflected the diversity of the nation of iraq. as you know, though, iraqi security forces, they have been designated by the politicalization of their officer corps. and a lot of those generals didn t even have military experience. they were appointed for political reasons. i mean, you re telling me reforming the entire iraqi military is going to change just because they got a new president or a new prime minister? no. what i m saying, anderson is those who are serving in the iraqi security forces can now be confident that they re actually fighting for a central government that reflects the interests of the whole country. i certainly hope the sunnis share your enthusiasm into this new government. will u.s. military personnel or intelligence personnel be reaching out to sunnis, to sunni groups, just as we did during the to advent the sunni awakening in 2006-2007? will we be trying to make direct contact, or are we going to be solely relying on what, you know, this government which you clearly seem to believe has a desire to reach out? well we have seen a positive indications from the new central government in their commitment to unifying that country. will u.s. personnel reach out? i do anticipate that will be part of their responsibility if american personnel interact. more importantly, there are other governments in the region, sunni-led governments in the region that do have a stake in this outcome. that isil is this extremist organization that is wreaking havoc and perpetrating interpret arguments of violence on the doorstep of these other sunni-led governments. so it s in the interests of these other sunni-led governments in this region to count their threat. i know i have to let you go. will u.s. personnel be working with shia militias? i m confident that what we will see well, let me say it this way, anderson. we have been clear that the united states will not coordinate our military activities with iran. what we will do, though, we re going to work very closely with iraqi security forces and kurdish security force. but as you know, shia militias are the ones defending baghdad. they re enmeshed now with iraqi security forces. and what the iraqi security forces are doing is they re working with some militias. the united states and our coalition partners will be working closely with the iraqi and kurdish security forces to make sure we re coordinating the effort to take the fight to isil on the ground that will be the responsibility of iraqi security forces, and they will be backed up where appropriate by the use of american and allied air power. i do think that will make them more effect offensive tonight battlefield. we don t have a direct policy. there is no way u.s. personnel will be directly advising shia militia? the responsibility of the american military on the ground in iraq will be to work closely with iraq security forces to advise and assist them as they take the fight to isil on the ground in iraq. all right. as you know, it s a complicated situation on the ground. it is. shia militias are working hand in glove with iraqi security forces on the ground there. up next, a cop killer who may be hunting for more targets. today authorities releasing new details about who this guy is. the manhunt is going on right now. he is a cold war role player. and how they say he is now bringing that role to deadly life, right now. as i said, this manhunt is under way. we ll have the latest on that. create things that help people. design safer cars. faster computers. smarter grids and smarter phones. think up new ways to produce energy. be an engineer. solve problems the world needs solved. what are you waiting for? changing the world is part of the job description. join the scientists and engineers of exxonmobil in inspiring america s future engineers. energy lives here. welcome back. a troubling story right now. a manhunt is on. authorities say he is out there somewhere tonight, armed with a rifle, an ak-47 and a vicious hatred for police, according to authorities in northeastern pennsylvania. they say he ambushed and shot these two state police officers late friday night, killing corporal bryon dickson and wounding alex douglass. the guy s name is eric frein. he is 31 years old. this is a picture of him. he is on the run, dangerous, thought by police to be bent on killing again. we have new details from jason carroll. reporter: pennsylvania state police are piecing together a profile of a man they re calling a killer. 31-year-old eric frein. this fellow is extremely dangerous. reporter: pennsylvania police commissioner frank noonan describes him as man with a mean streak who had separatist leanings, a love for guns, and a hatred of law enforcement. his head is saved very closely on the sides and with long hair on top. it s wider than a mohawk. he was last seen with no facial hair and was wearing a brown and gold wind breaker, khaki shorts and sneakers, carrying a dark green backpack. they also have determined frein belongs to a military simulation group known as an airsoft gun team. this particular group reenacted the goal of eastern european soldiers during the cold war and simulated combat. in his current frame of mind, frein seems to have assumed that role in real life records investigators say frein was socially withdrawn and had made angry statements about police to people he knew. that s one of the real focal points on our investigation is why now, why blooming grove. we really don t know. but we re talking to everybody that we can find that might have any information concerning that. reporter: investigators spent much of the day not only searching for frein, but also interviewing his neighbors, his friends, and family. investigators continue to come in and out of the frein home. also right outside here, you can see there is a state patrol car keeping guard as well. the suspect lived here with his parents. the suspect s father telling investigators that two weapons are missing from the house, an ak-47 and a rifle. investigators found a book in frein s bedroom titled sniper training and employment. his father, an army veteran told police he trained his son to shoot, and that he does not miss. these pictures from frein s high school year book from his senior year show him on the school s rifle team. his, quote, i feel that we could have done a lot better in matches this year if it wasn t for the fact that in anticipation for the rifle team being canceled. frein s love of guns and the military continued into adulthood. he is well-known for walking around the small community of candensis in full military uniform. he is a very serious young man. he always wore green. i always thought he was in the service. reporter: elaine did not want to give her last name. she runs a gardening store in town and says she has known the family for ten years. i was devastated. and it didn t surprise me, i guess. reporter: why didn t it surprise you? i guess because my children are so outgoing. you know what i mean? when my kids meet you, hello, how are you, they shake your hand, they, you know, they re very outgoing. this young man was not. and i do think that, you know but the mother is very sweet. i don t know the father. reporter: and when you say he wasn t outgoing, was he withdrawn? i think he was very quiet, and he did not speak when he came in. reporter: now a town on edge as police continue their manhunt. and jason carroll joins us now from the search zone. did this guy have any run-ins with the law that had caused a grudge against law enforcement or something? do we know? well, he did. and in fact it was just about several years ago he was arrested for possession of stolen property. that happened in new york, in new york state. and investigators are theorizing that perhaps, anderson, just perhaps that may have been the beginning of him mistrusting law enforcement. so these are some of the things that they re piecing together as they put together their investigation. but make no mistake about this, the real focus of what is going on out here, out here in these dark woods behind me is to try to find this man before he hurts somebody else. let s hope they do. jason, thanks. digging deeper now in the story, it seem strange. if this guy is acting out of some kind of military simulation role as police believe he is, certainly it would make one think he would be looking to engage in combat or engage with officers searching for him. yeah, that would be the pocket, anderson, that this was just the beginning. he ambushed those two officers. and using the 308 sniper rifle that he used, the hunting rifle, he is able to kill police officers or anyone else from hundreds of yards away, firing a large supersonic bullet that the victim actually gets hit with the bullet before the sound even gets there. so he could have shot these two officers before they ever knew what hit them, killing one, wounding the other. so that s a very dangerous weapon. the ak-47 obviously, you know, if he is doing cold war reenactments, the kalishnakov weapon developed in the soviet union during the cold war was the weapon of choice by the soviet union. now world famous as the weapon of choice of terrorists everywhere. if that gun is either a semiautomatic, or maybe he converted it back to being a fully automatic weapon, that s dangerous. so we don t know how much ammunition, how many magazines he has, what capacity he has for a sustained gun battle. but just the fact that he can kill from a long way off makes him very, very dangerous. and the police, the state police in pennsylvania are speaking directly to this guy. during the press conference, they made it very clear they re coming for him, which sound like it could be exactly what he wants. it could be. it could be that he is lining this up to have the you know, the armageddon gun battle with law enforcement that he is looking for. and, you know, the fbi had a case in 2010 involving the hutaree militia who wanted to kill a police officer and ambush hundreds of officers when they attended the funeral parade. that s going to happen tomorrow. so maybe he ll come out of the woodwork shooting. we don t know. > in a case like this, and you a heavily wooded area, police have to search everywhere. and then do they have to maintain troopers in that area so that the person, the suspect doesn t potentially move back into an area they have already searched? right. they absolutely do. and the big concern here is that he would commit a home invasion to seek shelter and food and water. like chris dorner did. very much like dorner. and i thought of dorner immediately when they talked about finding his abandoned vehicle. because that s what dorner did. and the authorities during that case were speculating that dorner had fled, he could be a long off, he could be in mexico. and all that time he was within a few hundred yards of the original where he abandoned. he is dangerous and could be right under the nose right there in the woods in pennsylvania. we ll continue to follow it. tom fuentes, we appreciate you being on. just ahead tonight in 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medical malpractice attorney andrew smiley. it appears to be open. it appears that they are seeing patients. what are we to make of that? what i would make of it is that they re not too worried about medicare. they re on the upper east side, and they probably have a lot of private paying wealthy patients that don t want to deal with hospitals. reporter: the fact is new york licenses yorkville clinic, not the accreditation association. so far neither the clinic nor any doctors have been accused of wrongdoing. and susan candiotti joins us now. you have a statement just now from the clinic? we did. and it says that they continue to maintain all of its federal, state accreditation, and that they re fully authorized to take care of their patients, as that statement reads, and they ll continue to do so, that they re committed to adhering the standards of this accreditation agency. but we couldn t ask any more questions to try to clarify well, did something change between the time that you received these letters two weeks ago and now? 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good evening and it s great to have you with us here on a thursday night. we begin with that breaking news. a jet blue flight, forced to make an emergency landing. those emergency chutes deployed. but we also got a rare view inside the cabin late today. those images from on board. passengers families racing to put on their oxygen masks. children crying. smoke filling the cabin. all of the passengers thankfully back on solid ground now, but shaken. what happened? abc s david kerley with the videos taken by the passengers themselves inside that cabin. reporter: frightening moments. smoke in the cabin. watch as one passenger helps another put on an oxygen mask. a baby crying in the background. the jet blue a-320 in the air from long beach just a few minutes when smoke pours out of the right engine. but it s getting into the cabin, too. the engine blew, smoke started to come throughout the cockpit, through the plane and it was chaos. reporter: while this was going on in the cabin, the pilot quickly turned around and 13 minutes after takeoff jet blue 1416 is on the ground. 1416 will be evacuating. reporter: slides deploying and passengers started sliding out of the jet, with the pilots wondering if the engine was still a problem. jet blue 1416. smoke out of the right engine. jet blue 1416, it appears no smoke out of the right engine. reporter: jet blue says one passenger was transported to a hospital for observation. the only possible injury after these scary moments of breathing oxygen, waiting to get back on the ground. only thing i could really think about was my son. so, this is the best thing that i probably had, in my life to date, yeah. it s definitely it makes you think about life. reporter: a passenger tells us when they all got onto the runway, they looked back at the aircraft and applauded the landing and the pilot. you saw the emergency workers looking in the engine. so far tonight, no sign of fire. david? david kerley in washington. leading us off. david, thank you. we re going to turn now to the other breaking story at this hour, the urgent manhunt under way and this evening, the fbi now raising the stakes in what began in pennsylvania. they have now put this man on their ten most wanted list. the alleged gunman accused of ambushing state troopers, killing a young father. this evening, families are locking their doors. schools closed again today. abc s linsey davis now on the search going nationwide. reporter: around the country tonight, police on high alert, looking for 31-year-old eric frein, considered armed, dangerous and possibly delusional. we now have made the world where he can hide a very, very small place. reporter: police circulating these pictures of frein in a serbian military uniform. he once belonged to a military simulation group. according to the fbi, he claims to have fought with serbians in africa. police think frein may have believed he was going into battle last friday at the local police barracks. 10:50 p.m., corporal bryon dickson, walking to his car at the end of his shift. then shots, four in 90 seconds from a gunman hiding in the woods. dickson fatally shot. another officer seriously wounded. the killer vanishes. three days later, a man walking his dog stumbles upon frein s jeep, submerged in a pond. that s when school officials made this phone call to thousands of area parents. school will be closed today due to safety concerns. reporter: these halls would normally be filled with kids laughing and talking. instead, it s eerily quiet. this is the second day in a row that schools in this area have closed, impacting more than 12,000 students. we re worried about everyone s safety. everyone is on edge. reporter: today, thousands gathered to mourn corporal dickson. his young son, wearing his dad s trooper hat to the funeral. reporter: david, frein s car was found just two miles away from this elementary school. officials will soon decide if they re going to cancel school yet again. police believe the killer is still hiding out somewhere in this area. david? linsey davis tonight, thank you. now, to a major arrest this evening. a suspect now in custody, with those wildfires raging in the west. did he set them? did he send thousands of families fleeing? a monster wildfire in california exploding in size. families forced to leave almost everything behind. officials now declaring a state of emergency. and releasing this video tonight, time lapse showing that fire building strength. and you can see that smoke now visible 140 miles away. abc s clayton sandell with dramatic pictures tonight. the flames raging right behind him. oh, my gosh. reporter: tonight, this firestorm tearing through not only forest, but the lives of thousands fearing for their homes, appears to be a deliberate act. we have arrested a suspect. in custody is wayne allen huntsman. reporter: investigators allege huntsman ignited the rapidly growing nightmare known as the king fire. he s now facing a charge of felony arson. bail set at $10 million. those first flames saturday becoming a 111-square mile monster, burning an area the size of salt lake city. california s governor is now declaring a state of emergency here and further north in the town of weed, where another blaze left more than 150 homes in ashes. winds are supposed to increase this afternoon. reporter: chief steve keen and his team are here from southern california. part of a firefighting army over 4,000 strong. up against flames known to travel ten miles in just a few hours. have you ever seen a fire move this fast? me, no. i really haven t. i mean, i ve been fighting fire a long time and this kind of fire behavior is kind of unprecedented. reporter: that unprecedented behavior is why more than 2,800 people are evacuated tonight. we re here on the front lines now, david. and you can see these flames are chewing through a dry layer of pine needles and branches. and when the wind kicks up, it can make this fire unstoppable. but firefighters are hoping to get a break from the weather in the next couple of days. david? clayton, thank you. just an incredible scene behind you there tonight. and from those raging wildfires now, to the dangerous flooding. these images coming in tonight and just take a look. this is what drivers are up against in parts of arizona. the relentless rain, in fact, it is across much of the southwest as we head into the evening. in texas, cars crawling through the flood waters. what a scene for drivers there. and then this dramatic rescue in houston tonight. peeling back the roof of a car to save the family inside there. that rain, of course, remnants of that hurricane that smashed ashore in cabo and headed right into the u.s. while in cabo tonight, air lifts now under way. more than 8,000 people flown to safety so far. and that includes some american tourists who were still trapped in the damage in the aftermath of that hurricane. abc s senior meteorologist rob marciano joins me from arizona tonight. he s tracking where the rain is headed next. rob, what concerns you most? reporter: well, just how deep this moisture is. and the big shift that we ve seen off to the east. let s show you where it s coming from and where it s going to. it s all flowing around the big blue h in mexico. that s the steering mechanism, so, it is driving it across the southwest and all the way across texas. on top of the rainfall we ve seen today, the forecast for the rest of the week, another three or four inches or more, possible across the lone star state. new mexico, north texas, south texas tonight, flash flood watches posted, david. rob marciano with us again tonight. rob, thank you. the scandal widening this evening in the nfl. a major new headline. a fourth football star benched. arrested after allegations of domestic abuse. that s four players in two weeks sidelined now. and we ask about someone else. where is the nfl commissioner? it s been nine days without comment. abc s ryan smith now. did you physically assault her? reporter: arizona cardinals player jonathan dwyer, surrounded outside court. accused of headbutting his wife when she refused his sexual advances. allegedly breaking her nose, punching her, even throwing a shoe at their toddler. charges he denies. did you throw a shoe at the 18-month-old? i d never hurt my son. reporter: the cardinals moving quickly to bench dwyer. the fourth nfl player sidelined in just two weeks over accusations of domestic violence. if this bad scar on the nfl, as you want to say, right now, makes the rest of the world aware of what s going on, it s damn good. reporter: now, two-time super bowl champ eli manning, speaking out, saying football can do better. we can t accept that as players, can t accept that from our teammates and around the league, so, i think, obviously, the message is out there you can t mess with domestic violence and everybody should know that. the nfl can learn from this. reporter: and not a word today from nfl commissioner roger goodell. the nfl tells us that he is hard at work on domestic violence programs, david. all right, ryan smith tonight. thank you. we re going to turn now to dramatic new surveillance video emerging, after a beloved college student vanished. authorities just a authority authorities just a short time ago asking for volunteers to help in their search. and look at the tape. they are pouring through it. if you look closely, you can see a man there in white shorts. he appears to follow her. they have now talked to him, so, what is he saying tonight? abc s steve osunsami on the case. reporter: tonight, virginia police searching for this missing college student are scouring surveillance videos, looking for even a glimpse of hannah graham. here s one from 1:06 a.m., just 12 minutes before the 18-year-old disappeared friday. notice the guy in the white shorts. he moves into this corner. waits for her. and then follows. police say the 18-year-old clearly had too much to drink, but say the man in the video already reached out to them, saying he was trying to protect her. he says he saw her with another man who may have also been trying to help. that man, described as african-american, with a large build, a shaved head and a goatee, not seen on any surveillance tapes. i hope we re able to find hannah and bring her home safely. reporter: there are videos of her all over town. leaving her apartment for the night at 9:33. outside an irish pub at 12:46. she was last heard from around 1:20 a.m. when she texted friends that she was headed to another party but was lost at this intersection. her parents, fearing the worst, writing in a statement that hannah is beyond precious to us and we fear foul play. steve osunsami, abc news, atlanta. steve, thank you. late developments from washington now. the president speaking just a short time ago, thanking congress for approving and funding his plan to fight isis. training mod rat syrian rebels on the ground and it comes just as we learn of an intercepted phone call that might have stopped an isis terror attack. abc s chief investigative correspondent brian ross now. reporter: hundreds of australian police moved out today under the cover of darkness. at least 15 suspects arrested and more being urgently sought. in an isis plot that stunned this country. innocent civilians were to be chosen at random and then publicly beheaded on the streets of sydney. this is not just suspicion. this is intent. reporter: as in the u.s., australia has become increasingly alarmed about efforts to recruit its young citizens by jihadists. welcome to islam. reporter: in particular, after news reports that the man in the green shirt, a one-time sydney nightclub bouncer turned jihadist, has now become a senior isis leader in syria. officials fear he has the power to order attacks by australians who never even made it to syria. at the same time today, the isis propaganda machine surfaced another of its western hostages. british journalist john cantlie, forced to read a three-minute script as a kind of spokesman for the benefits of isis. you re thinking, he s only doing this because he s a prisoner. he s got a gun at his head and he s being forced to do this, right? well, it s true. i am a prisoner. reporter: this is the second time cantlie has been held hostage in syria. he was captured two years ago and then escaped only to be captured a second time, traveling with american journalist james foley, who was executed last month. david? all right, brian ross on the isis threat again tonight. brian, thank you. overseas now, and to scotland. decision day. that historic vote. the polls now closed. counting now under way, and the question is this the end of the uk as we know? is scotland declaring its independence? the queen in her castle in scotland tonight. abc s chief foreign correspondent terry moran in scotland, too. terry? reporter: good evening, david. the voting has now ended here. the counting has begun. all day long, millions of people across scotland cast their ballots and you got the unmistakable sense at these polling stations, they knew they held their destiny in their hands. the final polls say this result is too close to call. and they will count these ballots the old fashioned way. no electronic voting. no exit polling. paper ballots counted one by one and that means the final result won t be known until sometime tomorrow morning here. david? all right, we re waiting. terry, thank you. and there is still much more ahead on world news tonight this thursday. our team in the sky this evening, flying over america s highways. how fast are those truckers really going as they speed bill by you and your family? it is eye-opening, the speed. and you ll see it right here. and, a made in america victory tonight. we ve been to the mall of america, everywhere, tracking toys no longer made here. tonight, the iconic toy, can you guess what s behind those little guys there in that frame? it is coming home. and then the american welcome from reese witherspoon. let me explain something to you. in america, we have this thing called bosses. tonight, she s right here on her powerful new role. and the real-life story and children that inspired it. you know.. there s a more enjoyable way to get your fiber. try phillips fiber good gummies. they re delicious and an excellent source of fiber to help support regularity. mmmm. these are good! the tasty side of fiber. from phillips i have $40,ney do you have in your pocket right now? 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yes. reporter: in 2012 alone, there were over 300,000 large truck crashes in the u.s., with over 4,000 fatalities. the industry points out truckers are usually not at fault in those accidents, but police do warn of a particular danger tired truckers. we got a bit of a problem, dude. reporter: just listen what happened to this trucker on a frigid february night. i m starting to fall asleep going down the road here. then here s the deal. get some coffee and let s we don t have a choice on this. reporter: yep, that dispatcher is ordering a trucker who says he s too tired to drive to get back on the road. you wonder where your paycheck went this week? you know, it came down to where it went tonight. are we clear on that? reporter: the company refuses to talk to us, but we got a very clear response from the head of the trucking lobby. well, the driver was obviously doing the right thing and the dispatcher was obviously doing the wrong thing. there s just too much at stake. reporter: he later quit. his record and his conscience intact. matt gutman, abc news, miami. matt will have much more on 20/20 tomorrow night. and still ahead tonight here. the school bus crash. look at this. and we re now hearing from the driver about the split-second choice she had to make. this is harrowing. and a made in america victory. it will make your kids smile tonight. what s coming back to america? 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is nbc nightly news with brian williams. good evening. they have been publicly identified as the enemy behind our enemies for years in the middle east where iran has been supplying and fortifying and financing the weapons and the fighters that go up against u.s. forces. but these days iran and the u.s. may find themselves in agreement over a rare area of mutual interest, this fight against isis. you are about to hear the president of iran condemn isis while still criticizing the u.s. in a moment, the debate going on here over engaging isis. but first, nbc s ann curry traveled to tehran to speak with president rowhani exclusively. she starts us off from there tonight. ann, good evening. reporter: that s right, brian. good evening. iran s president rowhani condemned isis to saying to execute persons against islam, against all religions, even against humanity. translator: they want to kill humanity. and from the viewpoint of the islamic tenets and culture, killing innocent people equals the killing of the whole humanity. and therefore the killing and beheading of innocent people in fact is a matter of shame for them. and it s a matter of concern and sorrow for all the human and all the mankind. reporter: as harsh as president rowhani was on isis, he was absolutely withering on president obama s strategy to fight it. translator: how come they are doing only air strikes? are americans afraid of giving casualties on the ground in iraq? are they afraid of, of their, you know, soldiers being killed in the fight they claim is against terrorism? if they want to use plane and if they want to use unmanned plane so nobody is injured from the americans, is it really possible to fight terrorism without any hardship? without any sacrifice? reporter: president rowhani told us iran won t have anything to do with the coalition against isis. and he called it ridiculous. rowhani also says iran will do whatever is necessary to keep terrorists from occupying baghdad or iraqi religious sites. he called that a red line and added taking a shot at president obama, when we say red line, we mean red line. brian. ann curry in tehran tonight following her exclusive interview. ann, thanks. now to the other part of this, in the meantime in congress, first the house, then the senate, the debate over arming syrian rebels to fight isis. but there are lingering questions about whether the president and military leaders are on the same page about the potential for american ground forces. our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell is in our washington newsroom. andrea, let s start with the reaction today to ann s interview. reporter: well, tonight administration officials tell me they don t want to get into a tit for tat with rowhani. they re not going to respond to ann s interview with the president of iran. the administration did try to get iran to join the fight against isis. and it was turned down flat. so even as the administration today did try to speak with one voice against combat troops in iraq. at central command today president obama tried to end the war with his own generals over how to fight isis. a day after the chairman of the joint chiefs opened the door to using combat troops in iraq. it may include the use of u.s. military ground forces. reporter: the president slammed it shut. as your commander in chief, i will not commit you and the rest of our armed forces to fighting another ground war in iraq. reporter: john kerry hounded by antiwar protesters in congress today echoed the president. the u.s. troops that have been deployed to iraq do not and will not have a combat mission. reporter: but officials tell nbc news general lloyd austin recommended inserting u.s. special forces into iraq before launching air strikes against isis. but the white house turned him down. as u.s. fighter jets and spy planes return from striking isis targets in iraq, the isis propaganda machine with a video clip of president obama and the white house made to look like a movie trailer for coming attractions. a terror war against america. the amendment is adopted. reporter: late today the house quickly passed a bill to train and equip syrian rebels in saudi arabia. but at least some senators pointing to past failures in iraq say it won t work. why do we think that training the rebels will turn out any differently? in west virginia we understand the definition of insanity. reporter: and kerry got flak from some for the u.s. even talking with iran about cooperating against isis. to me iran is a regional instigator. it s a patron of the murderous assad regime. it s a sponsor sectarian divisions inside iraq. reporter: and complicating any alliance between the united states and iran is iran s support for syria s president assad who is of course also at war with isis. but despite all of this, tonight iran and the united states top negotiators sitting down in new york city picking up those nuclear talks trying to come up with an agreement and break the stalemate. stay tuned. all right. andrea mitchell in our d.c. newsroom tonight. andrea, thanks. tonight, in this country we are following a growing manhunt for a cop killer, a sniper being described as a survivalist. meaning he could be anywhere. now hundreds of law enforcement are out trying to find him. we get our report tonight from nbc s stephanie gosk in blooming grove, northeast pennsylvania. reporter: armed, dangerous and on the loose. alleged cop killer eric frein continues to allude search teams in the thick woods in the pocono mountains in the pennsylvania area. today 15 schools were closed, nearly 13,000 students stayed home. officials concerned for their safety while waiting for buses. state police with this warning to the gunman. eric, we are coming for you. reporter: investigators believe frein has launched his own personal battle against law enforcement. beginning last friday when he shot two troopers just outside the front door of their barracks during a shift change killing corporal bryon dickson, and a husband and father of two. and injuring trooper alex douglass who survived after emergency surgery. monday a man tipped police off to frein s car two miles away. inside camouflage face paint, military gear and two rifle shell casings matching those found at the crime scene. searching this state forest is risky. according to the affidavit, a frein was a member of his high school rifle team and his father, a retired army major, says he personally taught his son how to shoot and in his words he doesn t miss. part of the challenge of course is that many believe if you shoot a cop, if you shoot a trooper, you will literally shoot anybody. you don t know like what he s capable of, like if he plans on, you know, attacking the public for a public stunt or just the police officers. i guess you don t really know what to expect and that s scary. reporter: frein lived with his parents. nbc news spoke with his sister. he did something messed up, but he s still a human and he has feelings, she said. it s not our family s fault. tonight, until the gunman is caught everyone worries who he may target next. this is the barracks where those two troopers were caught. it s now kind of a staging area for the local, state and federal authorities that are running this search. not far from here they re holding a public viewing for corporal dickson. and you can imagine the security there tonight, brian, is very, very tight. stephanie gosk on this urgent and sad situation in northeast p.a. tonight. stephanie, thanks. tonight, the american southwest and what we call the desert southwest is bracing for as much as six month s worth of rain to fall in a matter of days. the remnants of what was hurricane odile now moving into the u.s. flash flood watches across at least five states. our team is there throughout the night. we ll have the very latest tomorrow morning on today. and in california there are now at least 13 separate major fires burning under what s being called unprecedented fire conditions, record heat, extreme drought. that makes for a tough slog for over 6,000 first-rate firefighters on the front lines. nbc s miguel almaguer has our report tonight from the town of weed, california. reporter: a massive wildfire burning outside sacramento is the most dangerous blaze in the country with fuel in its path and wind to its back, it s bigger than manhattan and threatening more than 2,000 homes. at least a dozen blazes are burning in california. 6,500 men and women are working the lines, grueling around-the-clock work. the state s top fire chief and director of emergency services showed us the burn zone. they ve lost 90,000 acres this season. we ve been very aggressive all summer with fighting fire, but of course the fires that escape that initial attack they re burning at explosive rates. reporter: in the town of weed, 150 structures went up in minutes including fire chief s darren quiggly. right here s the living room right here. that s our dining room. reporter: this is where he raised his four children while ordering resources to protect his neighbors, he lost his own home. it s a strong community. we got strong friends. we ve all been reaching out to each other. we all took the same losses. reporter: despite so much loss, there have been small victories. in smoldering debris firefighters find a kitten who survived the firestorm. kind of a happy ending to a sad day. we were glad to find it. reporter: a reason to smile, a reason to push on. in windy and dangerous conditions this is what firefighters are battling for. while many homes have been lost, literally right across the street block after block has been saved. sometimes the fire fight goes house-to-house, and sometimes just a few feet and a plain load of pink fire retardant like that on the homes behind me can make all the difference. brian. miguel almaguer, that surreal scene in northern california tonight. miguel, thanks. there are more developments tonight in this unfolding scandal inside the nfl. late word from arizona police say cardinals running back jonathan dwyer, formerly of the steelers, has been arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault, another serious incident for the league to deal with. meantime two other teams with players in trouble with the law made very public reversals today trying desperately to contain this damage while the nfl s customers continue to voice their anger. a report on all of it tonight from nbc s peter alexander. late today police marched him past camera shortly after his arrest for allegedly assaulting his 18-month-old child and the child s mother in july. dwyer denies the allegations. less than 36 hours after the minnesota vikings announce think star adrian peterson would play on sunday, another reversal. we made a mistake. and we needed to get this right. reporter: overnight the vikings ordered peterson to stay away from all team activities until the felony charge that he used a stick to discipline his 4-year-old son is resolved. peterson who will get nearly $700,000 a week to stay home tweeted a religious message that read in part, the pressure may be tough but you will make it through. today, nike suspended its sponsorship of the star. then late this afternoon the carolina panthers announced pro-bowler greg hardy, the only player under scrutiny actually convicted in a domestic violence case, is taking a voluntary leave with pay, $772,000 a week. hardy is appealing his conviction. the nfl players union is calling for an arbitrator in its appeal of ray rice s indefinite suspension. nfl commissioner roger goodell, who hasn t made a public appearance in a week, will be called as a witness. what we really need to see is for the commissioner to come out and stand up to the press and stand up to these inquiries and stand up to the public, which is outraged at the decisions he s been making. reporter: as rookies rice, peterson and hardy participated in the nfl s mandatory training program that included actors role play domestic violence situations. we have a saying in the nfl, it says don t be that guy. reporter: zachary developed the program. they know how hurtful it is and how it can end a career. and we don t want that to happen. but unfortunately we can t be everywhere. reporter: on sunday sportscaster hannah storm spoke emotionally. questions from her own daughter that remain unanswered. mom, why did he do that? why isn t he in jail? reporter: and after the nfl hired four women to manage the league s policy on domestic abuse, the black women s round table said it s unacceptable that none are women of color. they cited the disproportionate impact of domestic violence on african-american women and the fact that two-thirds of nfl players, brian, are black. peter alexander remains on this story for us tonight. peter, thanks. and we re back with more on this wednesday night from new york after this. this debate over the mess in the nfl is going on across this country wherever people gather. that includes social media. on twitter it goes by the hash tag, whyistayed where women talk about why they had difficulty leaving an abusive relationship. the stats are one in four women will experience domestic violence in their lifetime. one in four. today, a member of our own nbc family shared a painful story of her own. and meredith vieira s powerful words are being credited for the inspiration and the attention they bring. we get the story from our national correspondent kate snow. it s very, very complicated issue, so i wanted to explain to you why i stayed. i was in an abusive relationship many, many years ago as a young woman reporter: it wasn t an easy story to tell. i loved this guy. it started out with we would have a fight and he d sort of grab my arm. and, you know, i didn t think a lot about it. and then it turned into pushing me against the wall. and then it went beyond that to actually taking his hand and grabbing my face and saying i could ruin your career if i wanted to and no one would want you. reporter: meredith vieira says she struggled to share intimate personal details. then there was the night we shared an apartment. and he threw me into a shower naked in scalding water, and then he threw me outside into the hallway. and i hid in a stairwell. i think there are a lot of myths out there that domestic violence only happens to people who have low self-esteem, which is absolutely bunk. and the fact she s got this phenomenal life now, great relationship and a phenomenal career, i think gives survivors hope that you can get past this. reporter: the last time domestic violence had such a spotlight was the o.j. simpson case. picked her up, threw her against the wall. reporter: ann, who works with survivors in chicago, hopes this moment is even bigger. i hope it s more than a moment, honestly. i think that the availability of social media and hashtags and facebook is helping to reach people who might not otherwise be reached. by all means, tell somebody what s going on. let somebody know. reporter: it s not so easy to just get away, vieira said today, but her words may inspire others to do just that. kate snow, nbc news, new york. and we re back with more from new york after this. in scotland the vote begins in just hours. the people of scotland will decide whether or not to break away from the united kingdom. this will have a huge impact on everything from banking to energy to the military. and the voting age starts at 16. with the polls close, british politicians have resorted to begging the scots not to split. nbc s kelly cobiella is in edinburgh for us tonight. kelly, good evening. reporter: good evening, brian. the outcome is no clearer than the weather and frankly neither are the polls. the final polls out tonight showing no edge for either side, a statistical tie. politicians were out making those final pleas. some of them very emotional. even offering up a deal for more autonomy. but people here are still very divided. and they re still changing their minds as well. one voter told us she was a yes and now she s a no. kelly cobiella will be checking back with you tomorrow night on the results. thanks. and now to a movement afoot in the health business to let americans know there are tiny plastic beads in some makes of toothpaste. they do not biodegrade, they never quite seem to leave the environment. they were discovered by dentists and dental hygienists who spotted them embedded in patients gums. they are found in a lot of products including crest prohealth and 3d white. proctor & gamble says they are safe and approved by the fda but they are voluntarily removing these microbeads from most of their products in six months time. the beads often slip through water filtration systems. they ve been found in oceans, rivers, streams and in fish. we ll take another break here. when we come back, the phone frenzy about to hit. a wildfire spirals out of control near highway 50 threatening homes and forcing evacuations. we have a crew on the fire line. leading the nation, the uc systems plan to combat sexual assault, next. finally here tonight, the reviews are now coming in. and while we ve all heard the hype over the new iphones, we now get to see the actual product and hear how it works. the lines will be predictably long, but is it worth the wait and all the attention? we get our report tonight from nbc s jenna wolfe. reporter: with the highly hyped much-anticipated release of the iphone 6 and 6-plus, we had to ask. i want the iphone. i absolutely do not need the iphone. reporter: you want it? i want it. reporter: it appears plenty of people want it. in the first day of preorders apple set a new record 4 million phones sold in 24 hours. if you don t get it the first, you ll be waiting ten to 12 weeks. reporter: this is apple s eighth installment of the iphone, eight generations of facelifts. both got a bigger screen. that big screen mocked online. and by apple s main competitor. now it s not being dismissed by competitors, it s being imitated. reporter: how smart is the iphone 6? smart. i mean, there s a reason this thing s called smartphone. reporter: take this expert graciously lent us the iphone 6-plus this afternoon and it didn t take long for me to make some very close friends. you want me to take your picture with the iphone. this is a first for me. but luxury has a price. when you factor in how much you re using this device any given time in a day, it s worth it. reporter: a brand new iphone 6 the most basic version without a contract will run you about $650. yes, it s expensive. but think about this, on average we check our phones 150 times a day. so at $650, you re looking at $4 every time you check your phone the first day. after a month that number drops to 14 cents. after six months it s just two cents to look at your phone. and that s not that bad. but do we really need it? as apple s ceo tim cook said. our whole role in life is to give you something you didn t know you wanted. reporter: whether you want it or not, if it s as slippery as some claim, you ll want a new carrying case so you don t need a new iphone 6 right away. jenna wolfe, nbc news, new york. that is our broadcast on a wednesday night. thank you for being here with us. i m brian williams. we of course hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. announcer: nbc bay area news starts now. right now at 6:00, a you? black eye for the national football league. tonight a call for change from the nation s capitol. good evening everyone. i m jessica aguirre. i m raj mathai. there s no end in sight. another player arrested for domestic violence while two teams benched their star player. greg hardy was benched. he was convicted in the summer. jonathan dwyer was arrested today for domestic violence. he s being investigated for aggravated assault of his wife. sponsors are concerned and so is washington, d.c. congresswoman nancy pelosi and jackie spear are blasting the 49ers. they feel the niners should deactivate ray mcdonald during his domestic violence case. are the niners changing their stance? marianne favro is at team headquarte headquarters. a somewhat tense news conference today. reporter: that s right. jim harbaugh is sticking with his position of due process and allowing ray macdonald to play. in the meantime, today, congresswoman spear is sending a letter to the nfl commissioner asking for immediate changes so players accused of domestic violence will head to the bench instead of the playing field. after watching 49ers defensive end ray mcdonald play again last sunday following
party, didn t vote with him. they refused to back the bill and the obvious rationale is they don t trust treat syrian army. they don t think it is an army and they don t believe you can trust the rebels and that means the plan won t work. san grant is going to start off our coverage from australia. because we want to figure out what happened with this terror plot that was thwarted. what we ve seen here is being described as the biggest anti-terror raid ever in australian history around 800 police involved in new south wales, australia s biggest city, sydney and brisbane, in queensland, we ve been told by police that 15 people have been detained, some of those resisting arrest. one man has been charged and will appear in court. the allegation here that these people were planning a terrorist attack. being described as a random attack against a member of the public, to be carried out on the streets of sydney. now all of this comes as the terror warning in australia has been increased from medium, which would have been a possible attack, to high, which is a likely attack. now, new counterterrorism laws have been announced as well and there s been increased funding to try to deal with the threat of terrorism here in australia. prime minister tony abbott is particularly concerned with the number of australians, the scores of australians, who have gone to iraq and syria, to join the fight with islamic state. our thanks to stan grant. you have to remember the key phrase there is isis sympathizers. the concern obviously social media and recruiting spreading a message of hate that s being picked up around the world. let s keep our focus on isis and head back to d.c. and the house vote on the fight against isis. erin mcpike has more on this from washington, what have we learned this morning? the president met with 20 high-level members of his national security team yesterday afternoon as they refined the strategy to deal with the threat of foreign terrorists. now that house vote yesterday was a small, but symbolic victory for the white house. but questions are piling up on bod sides of the aisle. showing growing doubt that the national security strategy can be effective. president obama commending members of congress. the amendment is adopted. for approving one piece of his strategy in the war against isis. i want to start off by saying thank you to house members, republican and democrat, who came together today to pass an important component on our strategy for dealing with the terrible terrorist organization known as isil. a rare show of bipartisan support in the house. though 71 democrats broke ranks with the president. what in the world are we doing? instead of rushing into yet another war, flooding the region with more weapons and intervening further in a civil war, congress should be pressing the pause button. joining 85 republicans in rejecting the measure. i will not vote for something that i know will not work. arming islamists to fight other islamists is not a winning strategy. the president urging the senate to follow the house s lead. no more war. on the other side of the capitol, secretary of state john kerry facing a grilling, insisting the syrian rebels require american support in lieu of actual troops. senator mccain knows it, he s been screaming about it for some time. we ve all been screaming about it and have done nothing or not much to talk about. any mission against isis is achievable without a dedicated ground presence as the president promises. it seems to me the administration has placed many, many, caveats on what we will not do. and our military leaders have urged you to put special forces on the ground, but no, we re not going to do that. so this doesn t even seem serious. just one day after joint chiefs chairman, general martin dempsey opened the door to a possible ground presence, president obama coming face to face with troops on macdill air force base doubled down on this promise to them in the fight against isis. the american forces that have been deployed to iraq do not and will not have a combat mission. they will support iraqi forces on the ground. as they fight for their own country against these terrorists. now, white house press secretary, josh earnest also clarified dempsey s remarks even further yesterday in a briefing on air force one saying he meant officials in advisory roles might need to embed with iraqis in combat, but they wouldn t be personally engaging the enemy in combat. erin pike from washington. i want to continue this with robin wright, a middle east analyst from the woodrow wilson international institute for scholars. let s start with erin left off, that the white house seems to continue to want to clarify that they believe there s no distinction, no difference, no daylight between what the president has said, very often, no combat troops on the ground and what general dempsey was saying. we heard from secretary kerry yesterday, right in line with the president. they seem to be trying to draw a bright line between a combat mission and being in combat. is that a difference, is that a distinction without a difference? is that a difference without a distinction? i think the whole operation is still evolving and they re operation building a lot of options for the most. they don t want to put in combat troops, but they want to put in advisers, maybe the advisers have to move out of baghdad, closer to the front lines. it looks a little blurry at the moment it may take some time to figure out what role the advisers play on the ground. the idea i think is not to put enormous numbers of ground troops on the front lines again. is it a problem for the white house, the administration, not domestically, even though it is important, but also when the world is watching, that the message seems to be muddled? where are we going and are we all on the same page? i think it s a problem not just in the united states, but around the world as they look at the role of the united states and the broader coalition, who is going to contribute? what roles are they going to play? it s all very vague, i call it a house of cards coalition, you have a very kind of wood frame without the support beams, the furnishings, the floor plan much less the financing. and i think the united states as americans look at another third war in 25 years in iraq, there s a little bit of confusion about not only what are we exactly going to do on the ground for how long in iraq. but then there s phase two, the big question, the much more murky question is what happens when we try to beat the islamic state out of syria. which is a whole different operation. let s talk about that. the house voted on bipartisan basis, yesterday, to approve arming and training the rebels. that means there was bipartisan opposition to the vote as well. the senate is expected to pass it. has the president, has secretary kerry, has the administration made a convincing enough argument that arming the rebels will work? i don t think so. i think there s, there is the dilemma they face. if you re going to take on isis, if you cross the threshold of getting involved, can you stop at iraq? and the danger is no, if you really believe you need to degrade and destroy it, you have to move beyond the frontier and move it back toe its origins. otherwise you re just containing it. if they can withdraw to syria, still be a threat, no the just to iraq, but to everybody else in the region. they can still attract more foreign fighters, they can be a very destabilizing force, long-term in the region. so the challenge is, what do you do? and if we re not going to put ground troops, then you support rebels. the problem is the rebels have not yet proven they can do very much of anything. at least the ones we re prepared to support. we heard that a lot in the senate hearing yesterday, i heard that over and over again from senator bob corker. who he says i have been a supporter of arming the rebels for a very long time. but at this point what is the free syrian army? does it exist? is this group that the president says is a group of farmers and doctors that are just coming together, it was a fantasy they were going to make a difference can we trust them? can we trust that they ll be able to hold onto the equipment that we, the iraqi army, which has been trained by the united states, wasn t able to hold on to the sophisticated equipment. what are the prospects of these, farmers and pharmacists are going to be able to hold on to the equipment? if it s going to take three years to retrain the iraqi army which we ve already retrained, how long will it take to train the syrian rebel force? how much time realistically do you think they have to train the rebels? what do you think is the timeline that they can realistically be working with? i doubt they have a timeline, i suspect they re talking about an initial round of training to get people on the ground, to be more dynamic, to take on whether it s isis or the syrian government. i think this is a long-term operation, this is a war that could last as long as the one we ve already fought in iraq and potentially for longer. far beyond the three years that have been forecast in recent weeks. i want to get your take, the new prime minister to iraq has been commended by the administration as bringing together a more inclusive government in iraq. the good first step of bringing about the political reconciliation that they ve been looking for. but in an interview with the associated press, he made very clear that he does not want foreign fighters on the ground in iraq. saying very simply, and we ll put up part of the interview with the associated press, not only is it not necessarily, we don t want them, we won t allow them. full stop. he s talking about united states forces, u.s. ground forces or others. well particularly after the u.s. intervention the last time around and the way we left iraq, frankly. that to be legitimate the government knows it needs to be the one to be seen to run the operation, to coordinate what happens and to be the one whose forces are fighting. the problem in iraq is, because the iraqi army, half of the iraqi army isn t effective enough to fight. we heard that from general dempsey. exactly and the other half needs to be retrained. in the meantime, there s three shiite militias that are loyal to iran, the peshmerga, the kurds in the north, will be fighting. the danger down the road you may find you have the emergence of war lordism is the united states going to work directly with the shia militias? well whether the advisers work with them remember, we re getting into the murky territory. the irony is the united states and iran are now the two most dynamic players when it comes to advising and aiding the iraqis to retake their own territory. a complex situation to say the very least, robin wright, great to see you, robin. coming up later, we re going to be talking to a key member of the free syrian army, the rebel group that robin and i were just talking about. the rebel group that the united states may soon be arming and training. you ll want to hear that interview, it will be the first perspective on what s going on with the free syrian army. we want to tell you this morning about the nfl. the hits keep coming for the league. breaking overnight, another star running back, this time arizona s jonathan dwyer, deactivated after his arrest on domestic violence charges. police pulling him off the team s practice field. this, after the minnesota vikings bans star running back adrian peterson until his child abuse case is resolved. and the carolina panthers banned star lineman greg hardy. he had been playing. his situation now is going to be frozen until his appeal from a domestic violence conviction is figured out by the system. nischelle turner is here with the latest. at least with the newest case, the league took action immediately that just, isolates the player until the truth is figured out by the system. indeed and that is a good point. we could look at that as progress. but chris, with everything going on and the spotlight squarely on player conduct and domestic violence in the nfl, seemingly the last thing people expected was to wake up news to yet of another player arrested for domestic violence against a woman. it s dwyer, he s in. this morning, jonathan dwyer, a running back for the arizona cardinals, now in custody. the football star is the sixth nfl player making headlines for alleged abuse in the past few days. dwyer arrested at the cardinals training facility. stemming from a slew of alleged abuse beginning in late july, including one count of aggravated assault against a 27-year-old female, causing a fracture. and another involving his 18-month-old child. he has been interviewed by our detectives. he has admitted involvement in the incidents. however, has denied allegations of physical assault. police say during one incident, he threw a shoe at the 18-month-old. then tossed a cell phone of the female victim out a window, preventing her from calling police. the cardinals say they have taken the immediate step to deactivate jonathan from all team activities. jonathan dwyer, who had the touchdown half a dozen nfl players across the country are now facing domestic violence charges. there s no rule book for this, guys. wednesday, carolina panthers defensive end greg hardy took a voluntary paid leave of absence after being convicted for domestic violence. in may, authorities say hardy choked his then-girlfriend, dragged her by her hair into a tub and threatened to kill her. the panthers star has asked for a new trial. we played a mistake. and we needed to get this right. the minnesota vikings deactivating running back adrian peterson, facing a child abuse charge. retracting from an earlier decision to keep him in the game after sponsors voiced their outrage. many of peterson s teammates say he should stay on the field. growing up, that was nothing, man, my mom, she always whipped me up or and things like that, man. just you know, in my culture, that s how i was raised, that s how my mom, she raised her kids, like i said, man, look at me now, i m in the nfl. this is the argument we ve heard continuously from a number of players about the adrian peterson case, we heard from some of his teammates yesterday, who were either hesitant to talk or they backed adrian fully. everyone seemed very uncomfortable. as some former and current players why it was so hard for people to take a stand, nfl players to take a stand. they said it s a hard thing to talk about and no one wants to look like they re turning on their teammate. chris? it is a difficult situation, that s why you need leadership and it has to come from the league. later we ll speak exclusively with adrian peterson s close friend and former coach. mick? a look at your headlines. mounting concerns about the suspected pennsylvania cop killer, who is still on the run. police are concerned that eric matthew frein may target more officers. frein was active in a military simulation unit, the reenacted cold war era european conflicts, corporal byron dickson was killed in friday s ambush. he was laid to rest yesterday. in missouri where ferguson police officer darren wilson has appeared before a grand jury. wilson testified for close to four hours wednesday about the fatal shooting of unarmed teenager michael brown last month. officer wilson was not required to appear, but reports from the hearing say he was cooperative. brown s death, as you know, sparked weeks of sometimes violent protests and calls for wilson to be indicted. toronto mayor rob ford set to undergo aggressive chemotherapy after he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. doctors say a tumor in ford s abdomen turned out to be a malignant lipo sarcoma. the treatment is aimed at shrinking the tumor. doctors say they re optimistic. earlier this week ford said he was dropping his re-election bid. a sad twist in a sad, sad story. thanks, michaela. it s judgment day as the scots go to the polls to vote on independence. both sides mounting a last-minute push for votes. christian amanpour will be joining us live from edinburgh. we spoke to a former commander of the free syrian army. you re going do want to hear what he has to say about whether or not they need america to beat back isis. what s wrong with trying new things? 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[ laughs ] [ dance music playing ] so visit progressive.com today. i call this one the robox. welcome back to new day, happening right now in scotland, millions of voters are deciding whether to remain a part of the united kingdom. ould overturn vote on hundreds of years of history. america s chief ally could be torn into two pieces. even the union jack, the flag is in danger. despite last-minute push from both sides, the contest remains far too close to call. so let s bring in christiane amanpour, cnn s chief international correspondent, monitoring the situation. we hear that turnout could be very, very high. but you tell us, christiane, how does it feel on the ground? from all reports, it is pretty brisk here. and of course they do expect a turnout of some 80%. the kind of turnout that would make people envious, politicians in the united states envious. there is a 97% voter registration that s happened here. it is really extraordinary, it gives you a sense of just how critical this is. just how engaged everyone is. and as you say of course, it is on a knife edge. now the obviously the nationalists, scottish national party, the pro independents, people say this is our moment, this is our destiny. this is our chance to be independent and run our own affairs. the no campaign, the unionists, those who want to stay part of great britain, are saying look, it is much better, it is much stronger together. be prepared for at least a decade of economic uncertainty and economic hardship as the very painful transition goes through. but no matter what happens, even if it s a no vote, even if it s to keep the united kingdom together, there will be a lot of change. former prime minister gordon brown spelled it out. he told me it s inevitably going to be much less central control. britain can no longer think of itself as a centralized state, a unitary state of undiluted westminster sovereignty, that s changed and in some sense we re moving closing towards the american model of government and models of government that we see whether it s very considerable decentralization. canada, australia, germany. very big decentralization in these countries, i think that s the model we ll see in the future. now, that is quite dramatic, the first time we ve heard them say that great britain, the united kingdom, could end up looking like america in terms of its politics. very, very interesting. one thing to note, it s been very bitter. even nasty in some cases over the last several days between the two camps. most famous brit, who is a scot, is andy murray, probably in terms of sports. andy murray who said today on a tweet that the negative campaign by the no is swaying him and he s used the independents language of, let s do this. he s been swayed. on the other hand there s a campaign of intimidation that we hear by the independence people. we ve seen a major british political reporter booed out of a rally. we saw a major british party leader run out of a campaign appearance here this week. it is, it is quite nasty as the campaigning ended and now the voting has begun. chris? christiane help us out here. people will recognize that scots are known for fighting spirit. the last time most in the u.s. thought about scots and independence, they were watching the movie braveheart and it was mel gibson running around. why is this happening, especially now? well look, i think that this was an inevitable process after devolution. in 1997, then-labor prime minister tony blair started this process, scotland got its first independent parliament. scotland right now is able to run its own health service and that is one of the key platforms in this campaign. we want to protect our own health service. it s jealously guarded over here. they do run it. they have budgetary control and policy control. and this is the dream of the first minister, the nationalist leader, alex salmon. but on the other hand, there is a lot to be said for keeping the union together. because on every level, it will weaken the component parts of the united kingdom. economically, certainly, economists have said that about scotland. but as regards the united states, its ally, great britain, will be different. will be perhaps weakened. what will happen to britain s nuclear deterrent, that keeps it in nato? all of these are massive, massive questions that the critics of the nationalist independence campaign say have not been properly answered. not to mention, they don t have an answer to currency right now. reading into it, it seems that there s some fundamental economic concerns on the part of the scots, they feel they re giving more than they get. to turn it to selfish aims and means here, why should the u.s. care what happens over there? the united states cares because a, there are a lot of americans of scottish descent, that s one personal care. but obviously the united states cares because great britain has been the u.s. main ally, trusting, trustworthy, strong ally for decades and decades, there is something called that special relationship, it s not an accident. it s not a romantic term of art. it is because on every issue, the united states stands shoulder to shoulder with great britain. and great britain for the u.s. leads overseas and gathers, helps gather coalitions and all sorts of other historic bonds that tie the two together. christiane amanpour, thank you so much, please keep us apprised of the progress on this vote. we ll be watching. always great to have you on new day. now to her point, one of the places that the u.s. and britain are really tied to the hip is on isis. right now congress is about to approve the president s plan to arm and train the free syrian army. they re going to be the boots on the ground. now, is that going to work? is it a good idea? you re going to get a unique perspective from the free syrian army itself. you re going to get to hear what one of their former commanders have to say about the state of the army, what they can do, and whether or not they need or even want american help. taking a look at your headlines at 31 minutes past the hour. the house approving president obama s request to train and arm moderate syrian rebels in the fight against ice isis. some republicans criticized the strategy for not going far enough, insisting that combat troops will be needed to defeat the terror organization. the senate is expected to pass the measure today. a senior veterans administration official admitted wednesday that delays in health care led to deaths of patients at the va medical center in phoenix. this admission came after harsh questioning in a hearing before the house veterans affairs committee. this testimony is a reversal from an agency report released in august that said it found no link between patient deaths and delays in medical service. cnn first reported that, dozens of veterans had died while waiting for appointments at that va medical center. florida state quarterback jameis winston has been suspended for the first half of saturday s game against clemson. it comes after he was caught repeatedly shouting an obscene sexual phrase on campus this week. just the latest off-the-field trouble for the heisman winner who is accused of sexual assault and theft in the last year. winston has now apologized for the latest incident. police releasing new surveillance video that they say shows university of virginia student hanna graham on the night she disappeared. i want you to take a look at this can you see her off in the distance. a man is following her in a separate video released, police say you can see the same man following her. graham texted a friend she was lost after she left an off-campus party alone early saturday morning. she has not been heard from since. vice president joe biden proving to be an equal opportunity offender in iowa. presumably exploring a run for president, during a 24-hour span, the vice president offended jews by using the word shylock. and his use of the word orient to describe asia offended many asian-americans and others. the vice president left the door open to u.s. combat troops in iraq. a contradiction to the president s position. oh, joe. in biden-land, we call that the trifecta. just to give him a benefit of the doubt. are we sure it was a shakespeare reference? in all seriousness, it was not a shakespeare reference, but the anti-defamation league came out to say he is a strong supporter of t supporter. his candor works for him more than against. he says how he feels, that s unusual for politicians. very rare to see that, a teachable moment. i have them what, about every 17 seconds? 16.5. not giving him the benefit of the doubt, michaela. there can be more flooding we re going to be looking at coming from the remnants, not just the hurricane, the recommend nanlts of what was hurricane odile. meteorologist indra petersons is taking a look at that. odile making its way up through lubbock, texas. this is the southwest, it s dry. only one inch of rain is all it took to see this flooding. the concern is still high today. easy to see there s plenty more moisture still fueling the area. we re talking about anywhere of up to five to seven inches of rain. especially out towards houston. looking at the flooding concern and threat pushing farther east. if you re down to the southeast conditions are improving for you today as the stationary front made its way offshore. we may be looking at a few showers around miami. temperatures where they should be. you re loving this in the southeast. drying out for about a day or so. into the northeast there s a cold front as well. this one is pretty dry. when you re barely talking about a few spotty showers that are going to be out there, you ll notice a little dip in the temperatures, you re going to see your highs, new york city going from 76 to 65, boston down to the 50s and if you re high upstate, keep in mind we re talking about frost advisories by tomorrow morning. the temperatures in the 20s. that comes a place called canada. i m going to send you back, michaela, if that keeps happening. did you say 20s? upstate new york. good thing we re not going to connecticut any time soon. the upper peninsula of michigan is when we start looking up there. we can stay up there for a while. you said you were going to canneta, you meant turks and caicos. mick is from canada, that s why it s funny. she s going to go home and see her family. the house of representatives making news, why? green-lighting help for rebels battling isis in syria. they re really battling the assad regime. the question is are these rebels ready to take on anyone let alone an isis that seems to be growing stronger by the moment. we re going to speak with a former general from the free syrian army. you decide for yourself. another nfl player arrested for domestic violence. how can the cycle be brought to an end? and what did he do this time? what does this mean for the league and how is the league responding? a lot of questions, coming up. what s your favorite kind of cheerios? honey nut. but. chocolate is my other favorite. oh yeah, and frosted! what s your most favorite of all? 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so use that as your starting point. here s what he had to say about the state of the fsa and whether or not it is ready to beat back isis. as we speak, general, we re getting reports in that isis has taken control of over a dozen new villages in eastern syria. isn t this a sign that right now isis is just too powerful for the fsa? it is true that isis is controlling now the eastern region, which is the a large part of the suburbs and this is very dangerous. we think it is very important for us as fsa to get rid of isis, because they are working in cooperation with the regime. do you think if the fsa is the main army to call it an army, going against isis, do you think isis can be beaten, if it s just the fsa that s fighting against it on the ground? the fsa only, if it becomes t enough support, they can get rid of isis in syria i know it is very difficult, because isis is very well armed and they have many, many resources, financial resources. and weapons and they have a large number of fighters. but our experience with isis, told us that we can beat isis if we have sufficient military support. i don t understand where your confidence comes from, that the fsa wants to take on this fight, wants to go against isis, when they voted you out for pushing this new mission. right? when you said you wanted to work with the u.s. and wanted to fight with the u.s. not just assad, they wanted to vote you out. why are you confident that the fsa will go against isis? i can t say for syrian revolution, it is very important and the main goal is to collapse the regime. but as we begun as syrians to fight against the regime, we came to the conclusion that we have to fight against other extremist groups like isis. and isis is trying to control the areas which we liberate so we can t continue fighting only against the regime. it is very important to fight against the regime and against isis. it is very dangerous and very difficult. at the same time to fight against the syrian regime and isis. but we have, we don t have other choice. we have to clean the country from isis. we have to keep them out, to get rid of them. and then we can continue fighting. that does not mean we have to stop fighting against the regime now. general, last question. in the united states right now, there s a great debate about whether or not u.s. fighters must be on the ground to beat isis. do you believe the united states needs to have its own fighters fighting in syria and iraq in order to beat isis? no, no, it is not important. we are, it is, it is very clear for us that our friends in the united states don t have to send or to send their fighters to fight on the ground. we just need the support. and if we can train them so quickly and join them to other well-trained and well-armed fighters on the ground, and if we succeed to organize all of those, to work as regular army. because our experience in the last three years, shows that it is meaningless to continue fighting as different groups. it is very important now to work according to central plan. under a central command. and if we don t succeed to build this army, i think we can do some good efforts. but it will be not so very useful. it is safe to say that the general s confidence is high. but the competence of the fsa is low. well it seems a little bit confusing. he says in the interview that right now they re not an army. that he was voted out because he wanted to go about the strategy of taking on isis. when you look at the uneven nature of the numbers game that they re playing, what did he say, 4,000 that they have, maybe? and multiples of that that we know that isis has in the country. that seems completely out of whack. and they re getting whupped right now in their fight against assad. he also says it would take them two months to train up an extra 5,000, basically a doubling in the size of the army. what s the bottom line? is this the best force to fight against isis? clearly not. where is this coalition? where are the better fighters? and what s the alternative is also the big question. as you said, they don t want any foreign fighters in there. we know what the alternative is, it s the u.s. and that s why the debate. you heard it from a former commander of the fsa himself. you ll get to judge for yourself what s going on. we re going to be talking more about the nfl, because there s another player in trouble with the law. with three big stars already off the field, there s now a fourth. arrested on domestic violence charges. this time, though, immediate action by the league deactivating the player by his team. the question is, can the league recover from this crisis? good to have you back on new day. the nfl, another black eye to deal with this morning. arizona cardinals running back jonathan dwyer has been arrested on domestic violence charges, he s been deactivated by his team. his alleged victim, a 27-year-old woman and an 18-month-old child. he joins three other big stars banned from the field for off-the-field violence. here to discuss the widening crisis in the nfl and what can be done, keith reed, the former senior editor for espn magazine and george martin, former defensive end with the new york giants and former president of the nfl players association. and i love seeing you guys, but gosh you re here regularly. and houston, we have a problem, we have another story we re dealing with. is the nfl waking up in a panic this morning? they ve been waking up in a panic for about the last week and a half. to have these kinds of allegations come out, not only just about first of all, let s express concern for the child and for the woman, who are alleged to have been abused in this incident. when you go further and look at what happened yesterday, this just capped off a terrible day, you saw sponsors come out. we were here a couple of days ago talking about how difficult it would be for roger goodell and for the nfl to come back from this, if sponsors started to be vocal. that happened yesterday. they re being vocal, they re not pulling out. they re being vocal. which seems a precursor to potentially making some decisions about their bottom line. they re sending messages to the team. anheuser busch, their sponsorship is worth more than a billion dollars, that s a very difficult relationship to unravel. when you re paying that much money, you re going to come out and make it clear, we need to see some changes. that s an overarching thing we have to consider. we re talking big business here, keep that in mind. here s what i want to ask you, george is this one of those situations of when it rains, it pours? or is is it that people are feeling more emboldened to come forward? because we know that this case dates back a few months, the woman came forward now. maybe emboldened because finally the nfl big wigs are taking this seriously? i think it s more the former than the latter. think when you look at it, this is the nfl s version of the ebola virus, it seems to be spreading. so far there s no cure in sight. and i think there s a big concern. and like you just mentioned, now that the sponsors are standing up in arms and beginning to voice their displeasure, think that not only is roger goodell in a panic, i think there are 32 owners sitting on the sidelines saying what are we going to do about this. when you use the word panic, then you re making fear-based decisions. if you look at how the handling of all of this is going, not clear-cut, not consistent. it s a really muddy response. well i think for first of all, i would use a little bit different analogy than the ebola virus. think this is more akin to the church sexual abuse scandal, you saw some years ago. it started out very small, had you some allegations. the more and more, it was a deluge. all of a sudden they were everywhere and we found out how big this was. the catholic church did not handle it very well in the very beginning. it took a long time. and what you see scandals like these in large entrenched organizations that are very powerful. often it s the hubris that makes it hard for them to deal with the scandal. we saw yesterday, one of the vikings owners speaking out and say look we made a mistake by reinstating peterson. a lot of people uncomfortable with that word, mistake. it s being thrown around a lot. the fact is there s a lot of mistakes happening here. you heard roger goodell come out and say i made a mistake. the theme now is we ve got it right. it seems they ve going to have a misstep initially and now they go back and backtrack and try to correct the wrongs they made. here s the question you re dealing with the symptoms, but not dealing with the illness as a whole. if we re going 0 go back to the ebola comparison. we re putting some band-aids on some situations. and you saw very pointedly that sheriff went in and took him off the practice squad yesterday. we re talking about dwyer. very public you know, thing happening. but there s a greater issue about that we re looking at here. what i worry about is the nfl has now become a proxy for abuse, child abuse, for domestic violence this is a societal problem. i m not saying it shouldn t be dealt with in the nfl. it should be dealt with in the nfl. it we have to have a bigger, broader, more honest conversation about domestic violence, where it happens, not just in nfl teams or professional sports, but everywhere. i don t think this will dissipate. the larger issue is what are we going to do on a proactive basis, an opposed to reactive. because reactive is not getting it done. i love seeing you guys, but every time you re here we re talking about this and we re talking about another case. ke keith george, thank you. and we should mention next hour we re going to speak exclusively with adrian peterson s close friend, former coach, want to know what he knows of this young man that s in the midst of this scandal that s brewing right now. we re certainly following a whole lot of news this morning. let s get to it. the amendment is adopted. the president urging the senate to follow the house s lead. i m asking. do it. this doesn t even seem serious. i will not commit you to fighting another ground war in iraq. the biggest anti-terror raid ever in australian history. those that think they may be operating in dark corners, we will hunt you down. nypd stepped up security wednesday on mass transit. isis will prioritize launching attacks against the united states. potential for them to come back and try to commit terrorist acts here are very real. scotland voting on independence. there shall be a team scotland to take this nation forward. good morning, welcome to new day, we begin with breaking news, a shocking terror plot in australia stopped just in the nick of time. the question is something similar in the works here in the u.s.? isis sympathizers in australia are accused of planning what they call a demonstration killing, sicko terminology for finding a random person in public and beheading them. this comes as president obama is trying to convince congress his plan to take on isis is the right way to go. the president s plan to arm and train rebels in syria got a green light from the house of representatives yesterday. take a look at this 71 democrats from his own party turning against him. refusing to back the measure. some saying they don t trust the rebels and don t think the plan will work. we re following the terror threat and the terror fight around the world. we re going to begin with senior international correspondent ivan watson. he has the latest on the terror raid in australia. ivan, what do we know? good morning, chris. that s right. the australians calling this the biggest counterterrorism operation of their country s history. predawn raids, dozens of arrest warrants, more than 800 police officers and going after what they describe as a homegrown terrorist plot to carry out what the prime minister described as demonstration killings. now the australian media has filled in some of the disturbing details of this alleged plot. saying that there were plans to actually capture some innocent civilians and behead that person on camera, in public. and then drape the corpse, the body with the black flag of the isis militant group. now the australian police say they foiled this plot. that they detained at least 15 people. one man has been formally charged with terrorist-related offense. no plea given by that suspect at this point. but basically, this is coming at a time where australia has been very quick to join president obama s international coalition to combat the isis militant group. australia has sent war planes, combat support planes, even advisers, military advisers to iraq to assist in this operation in iraq. and now the australian government warning that there could be dozens of australian citizens fighting alongside isis and other militant groups. and that they ve intercepted communications from isis members to sympathizers back in australia, to basically carry out these attacks. so the australians say they have ratcheted up the threat level to high. that is also another first in australian history. chris? all right. ivan, thank you very much. at least they were able to thwart it. the question is what happens going forward. now what s going forward in the u.s. is today the senate is expected to follow the house s lead and approve the president s plan to arm and train moderate syrian rebels. i say that slowly. it is a term that is confusing many people here as we get to cnn s erin mcpike down in d.c. moderate syrian rebels. do they exist? are they talking about the free syrian army? we don t know at this point, do we, erin? well chris, that s right. and to that end, the president met with 20 high-level members of his national security team yesterday and they refined the strategy to deal with the threat of foreign terrorists. and everything that goes with it as you mentioned. the house vote yesterday was a small, but symbolic victory for the white house. and the same outcome is expected later today in the senate. but still questions are piling up on both sides of the aisle showing growing doubt that this national security strategy can even be effective. president obama commending members of congress. the amendment is adopted. for approving one piece of his strategy in the war against isis. i want to start off by saying thank you. to house members. republican and democrat, who came together today to pass an important component on our strategy for dealing with this terrible terrorist organization known as isle. a rare show of bipartisan support in the house. though 71 democrats broke ranks with the president. what in the world are we doing? instead of rushing into yet another war, flooding the region with more weapons and intervening further in a civil war, congress should be pressing the pause button. joining 85 republicans in rejecting the measure. i will not vote for something that i know will not work. arming islamists to fight other islamists is not a winning strategy. the president urging the senate to follow the house s lead. no more war! on the other site of the capitol, secretary of state john kerry facing a grilling, insisting the syrian rebels require american support in lieu of actual troops. senator mccain knows that he s been screaming about it for some time. we ve all been screaming about it. well that s we ve all done nothing, or at least not much to talk about. with mounting doubt, that any mission against isis is even achievable without a dedicated ground presence, as the president promises. it seems to me the administration has placed many, many caveats on what we will not do. and our military leaders have urged you to put special forces on the ground. but no, we re not going to do that. so this doesn t even seem serious. just one day after joint chiefs chairman, general martin dempsey opened the door to a possible ground presence, president obama coming face to face with troops at macdill air force base, doubled down on this promise to them in the fight against isis. the american forces that have been deployed to iraq do not and will not have a combat mission. they will support iraqi forces on the ground. as they fight for their own country against these terrorists. now white house press secretary josh earnest clarified dempsey s remarks even further yesterday on air force one. saying he meant officials in advisory roles might need to embed with rebels. but would not be personally or directly engaging the enemy. each issue that gets raised is showing cracks in the team and bringing a barrage of additional questions that the administration is struggling to answer. right, it s also making it very clear, erin, that the congress is doing a lot of complaining and questioning. but not fulfilling their role of actually debating this issue and having a vote on the plan. this was just a little piece that they voted on. the question is why aren t they doing more if they re so concerned. erin mcpike. thank you. senator susan collins, republican from maine. sits on the intelligence committee. thank you for coming in. where are you on the syria vote that should be coming before the senate this afternoon? well, first of all, i share the view that isis poses a tremendous threat. not only to iraq and the region, but to western targets such as australia as we ve seen this morning. and to americans both abroad and at home. but i have a number of concerns about the president s strategy. i don t know how we re going to effectively vet the so-called moderate syrian opposition. we spend billions of dollars and a decade training the iraqi security forces. and look what happened when they were confronted with the isis threat? they basically cut and run with the exception of the kurdish forces in the north. so we need to make sure, especially since the experts tell us, that these forces are heavily infiltrated, that the training, equipping and arming does not end up in the hands of isis fighters. have you gotten an answer yet, senator? i know you expressed these concerns to secretary kerry in a letter. have you gotten any answers that would allay your concerns, put your concerns aside so you could vote? and how, will you vote, you haven t yet said. well let me say that the administration has reached out to me. the president called me, samantha power called me to discuss my concerns. and the answer i get is that the military has gotten better at doing the vetting. but one has only to look at the attacks, the insider attacks in afghanistan to continue to have a lot of concerns. it s very difficult, because as was said earlier, i think we should not be rushing to consideration of this issue. we should be staying in session and having a full debate, explore alternatives, make sure that the safeguards are there. rather than having one series of votes today where we in the senate may not even have a separate vote on the syrian issue. i m also very concerned that we not aim our air strikes at the syrian regime and we keep our focus on isis. have you gotten a clear answer on how the administration says in training and arming, the syrian rebels, how they will be able to then make sure that one, the weapons don t end up pointing back at the united states. and two, that the syrian rebels will change their focus to isis, rather than on the syrian regime. have you gotten an answer to that? i have not gotten a satisfactory answer to either of those questions. and look, the moderate syrian opposition is much more likely to be focused against the assad regime than it is against the fight against isis. is there an alternative in taking you said at the top you know and agree that isis needs to be eradicated, they re such a huge threat is there an alternative you see to how to take on isis in syria? let me make clear that i do support the air strikes in syria. and i do think we need boots on the ground. but not american boots on the ground. i think we should rely on the arab nations in the region to provide the ground troops. as well as the peshmerga from the kurdish part of iraq. and also once again try to rebuild the iraqi security forces. look, i m willing to give the president a certain amount of time to put his strategy into effect and then evaluate it. but this really is not the way we should be operating. this is a very serious conflict issue. and it deserves a debate on a new authorization for the use of military force. because when we re talking about going after targets in syria, particularly targets that affect the syrian regime, that s an act of war. we should not be rushing through such an important decision. well in that issue came up very squarely in the hearing with secretary kerry yesterday. the secretary saying clearly with respect to asking congress, i am, do it. he said very clearly. and senator corker came back to say what you re asking doesn t even seem serious. do you think that, that you ve received any serious request from the administration to offer another authorization, a further authorization for use of military force? do you think congress will actually in any reality, take it up? what i m looking for is for both the president and the u.n. representative to submit to us, is specifically language for the authorization for the use of military force that we could debate and then vote on. it sure doesn t seem like you re going to get it. no, and we should. we should do it before we go home. why can t congress, why do you think congress should not be acting to offer an authorization for use of military force without that request? well, generally it s the administration, since the president s commander-in-chief, that comes to congress with this request. but there are members of the senate, such as senator tim kaine, who have drafted their own authorization. we really should see what the administration wants very specifically, and there s no reason for us to adjourn tonight. we could stay in session, and have a full debate on this really important issue. i think that may happen in the lame duck session. after the election, but really, it should be happening right now. i know that a lot can happen in the hours before a vote. but real quick are you yes or no on the syria vote at this moment? i m going to vote for the continuing resolution, because i don t want government to shut down right now the senate isn t even scheduled to have a separate vote on the syrian resolution. and that s just plain wrong. senator, great to have you, thank you so much. thank you. a lot to debate on that issue, as you see from the senator s concerns. at least she s asking for a debate. most of them, including corker is saying, voicing concerns, they don t want to meet and debate, we know why, they re afraid of the political fallout no time it play politics, the senator is the one making the right case. they need to talk to their leaders, michaela? another big decision needing to be made today in scotland. voters there heading to the polls today to answer yes or no to the referendum question should scotland be an independent nation? an incredible turnout is expected. our christiane amanpour told us earlier. 80% is expected. we should know the results by friday morning. back at home, officials in pennsylvania are concerned a suspected cop killer may try to strike again. eric matthew frein remains on the run. we also have learned that he was active in a military simulation unit, that reenacted cold war era european conflicts. corporal brian dickson, killed in friday s ambush will be laid to rest today. 11 wildfires continue to burn across california. governor jerry brown has declared a state of emergency in siskiyou and el dorado counties, the counties hardest hit. the fires have destroyed 150 buildings and are threatening 2,000 homes east of sacramento. firefighters are struggling to regain control of the king fire, which has burned more than 40 square miles and is still growing. major privacy policy change for apple. the company announced wednesday that it will no longer unlock most iphones and ipads for law enforcement. even with presented with a search warrant. apple s new ios 8 operating system has been designed to encrypt data, so not even apple can access it. previous operating systems allowed apple to collect data from phones when police requested that information. very interesting. isn t that interesting? very interesting development in that new operating system. i feel there will be maybe some pressure on the part of law enforcement to say wait, wait, hold on. you buy that it could be possible that they can t access their own information? because of how it s encrypted? no. i think somebody can always get access to it. hackers have proven that. true. we have new details on the breaking news coming out of australia this morning, isis sympathizers allegedly planning to kidnap and behead a random member of the public. what does that mean? what is going on there? and of course that always begs the question could that happen here? and news on the nfl situation, the child abuse charges against vikings star adrian peterson. are they in his character? and are people in his inner circle surprised? hearing a lot about what he did. but what about who he is? we have an interview exclusively with peterson s childhood coach and close friend. 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a fundamental part of what s motivating this plan to fight isis. let s get some perspective. cnn national security analyst and former bush homeland security and counterterrorism adviser fran townsend. the concern is obvious, if they can do it in australia, can they do it here in new york city? is that what we re seeing with the guy upstate in new york who they re trying and the stuff online and the threats, how real? i think there are two different kinds of threats, that there s real concern about. one is the isis foreign fighters, those guys who are overseas, may try to get into the united states to try to launch an attack and then there s the home-grown jihadists. it seems, we believe, what australia is dealing with easier to detect that when it s a group that comes together because they have to meet, they have to plan, they have to coordinate. all of those represent opportunities for law enforcement to discover them and disrupt the attack. which is what the australians did. the hardest piece is the individual. now we ve seen arrests in denver and the one you mentioned, where individuals who are sort of vulnerable to the isis propaganda machine, a very sophisticated, very capable machine, putting out videos, not only of the beheadings, but sort of inspirational videos, trying to inspire people already inside the united states, who are vulnerable. to join their cause. we saw a woman in denver who was going to leave to go marry an isis member. so the desire for news urgency aside, nothing new in terms of the threat in the u.s. isis is just more of the same, not something unique, fair? i think that s fair, commissioner bratton was responding to a website by a group of isis sympathizers threatening an attack on new york. not surprising, not really new. you don t know how real it is, but it s understandable that the commissioner in the nypd would react to it. i interviewed bratton not long ago and he said look, this is part of the job here in new york city and that s one of the reasons he s back, inspiring confidence and we ll see what happens going forward. now the overall problem just bottom-line me here, the house just voted, let s arm this free syrian army. do you believe that calling the free syrian army an army is accurate? well, it s not clear that it is accurate. because what you don t, to the extent you use the word army and you re thinking are they united. brigades and platoons, under a single command and control element. there is a leadership between the free syrian army, there is a leadership structure. you want to be sure that the united states and our allies are working now to confirm there is a unified military structure that can take instructions, be trained, act as a cohesive unit against the isis enemy. do you have confidence that this is the best force you would want to put against isis? well, you don t get to pick the best force you re going to put against. you get to pick from the team that s available on the field. but if you decide to fight, then you better be making the decision can you win, otherwise why are you fighting. that s right, that means you have to properly resource, train and equip the forces, right? part of the debate yesterday in congress and i think it s a righteous question to ask if you re going to support these free syrian army, the iraqi army, the peshmerga, kurdish forces, you have to put sufficient u.s. military expertise on the ground to work with them. the to gather the intelligence, do the targeting and advise them on the execution against those targets. if you re not willing to do that, you re either in or you re not in. this is not a time for half-measures and putting people s lives at risk. not only our own, but those of our allies. you think you can train up 5,000 farmers in two months to take on ice snis? that s what the former general is saying, we need two months, we ll be good to go. a doubling in size of the free syrian army. a good deal of training has been going on. it s been sort of covert, handled in places like jordan. so we re not, we should be clear, we re not starting from a dead stop. the number is not now zero, right? what you re talking about is building on what is right now a quite modest force to your point. and you want to add on to that with really comprehensive training. but you also, you can train as many as you want. unless you ve got the intelligence to tell them, what where the targets are and how to execute it. it s no good. you need, you really need, it s not just a matter of training as tough a task as that is. it s also a matter of having the necessary intelligence to then actually deploy them against final thing yes/no me on this. from what you understand of the situation and what this will require, is this a situation that requires full debate of the congress that they should stay in session and vote on this as a declaration of war and get on the same page right away with all the different components? as opposed to just one step at a time? well, the yes/no part they need sufficient information to be able to vote. whether or not that requires staying in, i mean i think you heard susan collins this morning say she needs more time. i really think it s up to the senate to speak up and say we either have sufficient information take that vote. in which case they should do it. if they don t have sufficient information to be able to have that vote, they ought to stay in and debate it. fran townsend thank you very much for helping us understand a decidedly complex situation. another complex situation, although it s pretty obvious to some, vikings superstar adrian peterson has always been considered one of the good guys in the nfl. now thrown into doubt for an obvious reason his child abuse arrest and indictment. was this behavior totally out of character? we re going to ask peterson s close frebt and former childhood coach. you can decide for yourself. the senate race in kentucky, man, is it getting ugly. wait until you see the ads, a new low? we say that all the time this one may be deservedly show. jon king will take it on when we go inside politics. close. lose-good d help keep teeth clean and breath fresh with beneful healthy smile snacks. with soft meaty centers and teeth cleaning texture,it s dental that tastes so good. beneful healthy smile food and snacks. eenie. meenie. miney. go. more adventures await in the seven-passenger lexus gx. see your lexus dealer. let s get to inside politics on new day with jon king. jon? good morning to you, a busy time here in washington. it s an election year, the president trying to get authorization from the congress to arm the syrian rebels. with me to share insight, margaret tell of bloomberg news and cnn s peter hanby. the senate will take up the plap, not a full war authorization. the president just needs the authority to arm the syrian rebels, the moderate opposition and to get the money. has the defense department, look at the house vote. we expect the president to win, 85 democrats and 71 republicans voted no. is this a reflection of broad doubts about the president s plan or safe politics? it s a mix. when you look at the block of democratic opposition. so many of these are of the anti-war democrats who either oppose the iraq war to begin with or would have opposed the iraq war if they would have been there or just that s the bloc. jonathan wiseman has an interesting point in his piece today in the new york times, which is so many democrats and republicans in congress weren t there there s been so much turnover since the iraq war. but those people, those democrats who were there, and voted for the iraq war are sort of once bitten, twice shy about the authorizations. and yes it s narrow in scope. but i think their take is that look what the bush administration did what the authorization for military force in 2002, was to use it over and over again 0 justify military force. i think they re a little bit wary that sort of a narrow vote can still be expanded into a bigger war. the president had the congressional picnic, he thanked the house for the voe. he said it was a rare moment when washington was coming together. maybe they should do it more often. have people get together and have a conversation. it s nice the president had the event. one of the reason some of the democrats were nervous is because of the controversy stirred up this week by general dempsey. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. in my view he was being honest. he was asked questions about what if you need a plan b or plan c. meaning if the free syrian army isn t up to the fight. if the iraqi army isn t up to the fight and your goal is to destroy isis will american troops eventually perhaps have to be used? general dempsey said if it came to that, he would make that recommendation to the president. and the white house scrambled. the white house in tampa florida yesterday said no i will not commit you to a ground war in iraq and secretary kerry back before his old friends in congress. the president will not put american ground troops in iraq and the president made it clear again food in in a state he made at centcom, that america can make a decisive i m quoting the president, we can make a decisive difference, but i want to be clear, the troops deployed to iraq do not and will not have a combat mission. they re arguing with themselves, except they shouldn t be. is there anything wrong with what general dempsey said? he said if the president s goal is to destroy isis and if the first plan doesn t work, then what? militarily, there is nothing at all wrong with what general dempsey said. but politically, it s a bomb to drop right before the elections. because it s true. i don t think president obama wants to send combat troops back to iraq or anywhere near syria. but like what if he has to? it undercuts the original premise of obama s candidacy, which was to bring the troops home. he s so against anything that even has a whiff of that. but he sent already like 1,000 advisers to iraq. that s where the rub is the advisers are not on a combat mission until they are. the rub also is what s the message to isis. if you re convinced the u.s. will never send ground troops, all you have to do is deal with the free syrian army. that s why the republicans don t want to say they want troops on the ground. but like marco rubio, like we just saw are not ruling it out. strategically, they see it s boneheaded. listen to what obama said, he is saying i will not commit the people i m sending right now to combat. he s trying to draw the line, he could be leaving it for the next president. i will note that joe biden in iowa, the vice president echoing general dempsey. he said it was a big if. he said if he concluded it was needed, he would request it from the president. we ll determine it based on how the effort goes. the vice president often accused of being on message. i think again he s telling the truth. i think and not running for president right now. may not be the best political thing to say, but they re telling the truth. let s get to one of the best races in kentucky. in kentucky, you have mitch mcconnell, the republican leader, he wants to be the majority leader if republicans have a good year, he s in a close race with allison grimes. mitch mcconnell wants you to think i m barack obama. i m not barack obama. i disagree with him on guns, coal and the epa. allison grimes thinks shooting a gun will convince you she s not like barack obama. i m not barack obama. but grimes twice supported obama s platform for obama care. now, if that wasn t fun enough, and this race is good, they re having a good time fighting it out on television, grimes just this morning airing a new ad, remember, senior citizens, the most reliable voters in a mid-term election year. hitting republican leader, mitch mcconnell with the help of her grandmother. the last ten years, he couldn t speak or work. and they could barely afford the medicines. our life became something else. no more vacations. no retirement. just existing. this is why we have to strengthen medicare. senator mcconnell has voted over and over again to raise seniors medicare costs. i ll never do that. so the obvious is that she s trying to get the elderly voters, which are the most reliable by playing medicare. she was on this issue earlier in the campaign. my question is, did they switch so fast because they re at a point they were tracking every night in the campaign. you try a new ad, put $200,000 behind it. if you pull it back so quick or change the mix so quick, you re doing it based on what you see in the polling. there s a limited amount of time, they don t think she can get him. at the course they ve been going. but also i think she s trying to get back on the offensive instead of the defensive. when you re doing ads saying i m not barack obama, you re being defined by barack obama. when you re going after mcconnell and trying to depress his elderly base or increase your own, iyou re trying to increase your game. medicare has come up increasingly and mcconnell has hit grimes on supporting obama care and using that sort of republican line that that cuts from medicare, which is probably misleading. but it s a mid-term election. and to your point, they need to get older voters, especially in place like kentucky. the the one seat where democrats think they can pick off a republican. they ve got a couple other targets. but it s the most fun. we often say that peter hanby has the best job at cnn. he comes in every now and then to talk to me in the mornings, otherwise he s out there getting to see america. we ll give awe little tease before we go of what we call the hanby-cast. listen. 200 reporters crammed up to a fence to get a shot of hillary and bill grilling steaks. go to cnn politics, on our interweb as we say, you see the candidate there and you can see more of the hamby cast, peter s weekly take on things out there in the country. and i think he s a bit skeptical about the media in this one. you can get your judgment of what peter thinks about us. maybe. a little skeptical of how hillary clinton is going to deal with that media. she s going to face media packs that big wherever she goes. and there s all these calls for her to be authentic and get outside the bubble and that s the challenge for her. go to cnnpolitics.com. and margaret, are you working on the margaret-cast? i m working on it. hamby is like a double agent. a little bit of having the cake, eating it, too. he s got his own theme music, i don t know how i feel about it, jk. wherever hamby goes, there s food. but he s not eating it, he s all ripped up. something is going on there with that hamby. i ll have 0 to start watching the podcasts. adrian peterson is on the vikings exempt list, that means he s banned from the minnesota viking team activities. now nike has become the latest sponsor to walk away from the football star. so who is he? is he really just these charges against him right now? we have an exclusive interview with adrian peterson s former cope and close friend. decide for yourself. righabreva can heal itcold sore, in as few as two and a half days when used at the first sign. without it, the virus spreads from cell to cell. abreva penetrates deep, and starts to work immediately to block the virus and protect healthy cells. you could heal your cold sore fast, as fast as two and a half days when used at the first sign. learn more at abreva.com mara: don t tough it out, knock it out fast. with abreva. could mean less waiting for things like security backups and file downloads you d take that test, right? what are you waiting for? you could literally be done with the test by now. now you could have done it twice. this is awkward. go to comcastbusiness.com/ checkyourspeed. if we can t offer faster speeds or save you money we ll give you $150. comcast business built for business. good morning once again to you, welcome back to new day. adrian peterson, the star running back of the minnesota vike sgs in the middle of a firestorm right now, accused of abusing two of his children. he s been banned from all team activities and he s been placed on an exempt list. it comes as nike joins peterson s other sponsors in walking away, if only temporarily, from the football star. while the investigation continues. steve oody, adrian peterson s former coach and a close friend of peterson joins us exclusively this morning from baton rouge, louisiana. good morning, mr. oody. good morning, michaela, how are you doing in. i m doing very well and i m appreciative of you giving us a chance to understand the man that you ve known. you ve known him an awfully long time. i understand you first met him when he was seven years old, is that true? yes, ma am. tell me a little bit about the man you know. he came okay. i met him when he was seven years old. he came out to the athletic complex in palestine, texas where i was a coach and a board member of the anderson county football league and we ve been good friends ever since. what s your reaction to the suspension of this young man you know? well, i m not very happy, michaela, to be honest with you. i think he s getting a little injustice here. well not trying to overshadow the injuries to the child or the seriousness of child abuse, i m just here to tell american public, adrian peterson is not a child abuser. he s very kind, he has a history of being kind and gentle to children. being friendly towards everybody. always very respectful, was taught to be respectful. and i just never seen him where he was angry or violent or anything like that off of the field. we re glad to get your perspective. but you can see how it doesn t align with what he stands accused. and the pictures that we ve seen of the injuries to that child. as you mention. the injuries show that the skin was broken, there were raised welts. i understand that he says and in fact i want to read you a statement that adrian said, he said, i have to live with the fact that when i discipline my son the way i was disciplined as a child, i caused an injury that i never intended or thought would happen. he says he was raised this way. is this how you know he was raised? michaela, he was raised in a very strict environment. very loving, caring environment. but one where you were taught right from wrong and adrian knows right from wrong. and i believe in his statement, that s ha he s saying, he understands the injuries to the child was not his intent. and that was wrong. and he has apologized for that. do you think it got away from him in that moment? help us understand that. michaela, i ve talked to i don t know, 50-plus people, fathers in the last week and they all agree that occasionally, discipline gets away from you and you don t, you don t mean, your intention is not harm or abuse. you are disciplining your child the way that you know how. and you re disciplining that child out of love. but sometimes stuff like that occurs. i ve spoken with both of my sons in the last week. and they both reminded me of times that maybe i went a little overboard. so maybe therein lies the problem about using physical, you know, that s what people that are against corporal punishment will say. therein lies the problem of using physical smack, a spanking, a whupping, a switch, as a form of discipline, right? okay. michaela. i agree 100% with you, and i believe in adrian s statement. he has said he has since gone to counseling and be shown alternate alternatives. but my question is, is this a question about corporal punishment and how to discipline a child? and that s why we re suspended from the nfl? i mean, surely you can understand there s a little bit of difference in punishment to a child, or discipline to a child, and beating somebody up or shooting somebody at a nightclub. or those sort of things. so i just don t, my personal opinion and what i m having a hard time getting my head around is i just don t understand how all this is put together. and i don t understand how adrian s track record of kindness to people in general, i ve never known the kid to be in a fight. so to all of a sudden have him put together with some people that have done some other stuff, i just don t understand it, to be honest with you. and you re talking about the fact that he has he has been sort of grouped in with these other troubled nfl players who are stand accused of domestic violence. you really take umbrage with that. you don t like the fact, you see that his case is a different case than ray rice and hardy and these other players that are accused of domestic violence. michaela, i don t know ray, i don t know greg. and i m sure their cases are need to be looked at on an individual basis, also. what i m saying is adrian was disciplining his child, in my opinion, that s a difference than physically whipping a woman or a child or a man or elderly person. going overboard on discipline is not the same thing as hitting somebody with your fist and knocking them down. tell me more about. i m a simple american, but that s pretty plain. i want you to go back to the young man you know, to the player you knew as a child, you knew him as a young man, you knew his father very well. how is he dealing with all of this now? i know you haven t had a chance to speak with him. you spoke to his manager last night. do we know how he s doing? adrian, adrian s going to be fine. adrian is struggling with this. the worst thing that you could do to adrian is take away his ability to play. adrian loves to play. i can sit here and tell stories, until noon, of him playing, sneaking onto the field where there was little league, high school. people having to hide his helmet. adrian loves to play. he s a big kid at heart. and so to take that away from him, is is tragic. it s it s going to be tough. but he, adrian will be okay. and you do recognize that they, you know, they have to investigate, they have to let the investigation run its course. and then we will see what happens. there is still, we don t know what this will all, what will all end up here. i want to say thank you, steve, for giving us insight into the man you know. for defending your friend and for talking to us here on new day. okay, thank you very much. you take care. we know today is an historic day in the united kingdom, voting is taking place now. the polls are open. the question is, will scotland leave britain and form its own country? what would the end result look like? we ll be watching. 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ugly. look at this. if we learned one thing from braveheart it s that they may take our lives, but they ll never take our freedom! reporter: because if they do take it, mel gibson might have added, we will probably vote to get it back in 307 years or so. this may be a classic relationship struggle over who wears the kilt in this family, but if there is a breakup, it could be the messiest divorce ever. what do you do with the flag? the blue part of the union jack is st. andrew s cross, that s scotland. what do you do with the pound snt uk says they keep that. the oil well that s in scotland so you know who wants that. the bombs? they seemed important in the queen. you can bet the uk wants the arsenal that resides in scotland and what do you do with wales? that stays in the uk but maybe scotland can visit wednesday nights and every other weekend. as confusing as the arguments over this stuff might be, the logic behind the arguments might be even more so. both sides of this argument have valid points, the highland tradition and those who enjoy cruel worms beneath british boots. reporter: those freedom loving heirs of the highland tradition says while they absolutely positively want their independence, they absolutely positively want to keep the queen. because nothing, i mean nothing says freedom like a monarchy. and nothing says independence like the united states of america, which is why hillary clinton told the bbc i would hate to have you lose scotland. reporter: because what does the united states really know about splitting from the uk? that never works. in closing, no matter what happens to the flag, the bound, the nukes or the oil, no matter what happens in the actual vote, scotland will always be part of great britain. it will never be part of england, the irish part of neither. nosh island will still be part of the united kingdom which no longer may not be as united but elizabeth will be queen of all of it, so keep calm and carry on. she does not know what she s the monarch of anymore. i feel bad for wales because i still don t know what that is. at least you know how to spell it. i do, too. kids as young as 16 can vote in this referendum. what 1-year-old do you know would say hey do you want to be independent? what 16 years old says no? 90% voter rental straggistra. 80% turnout. they may lose the head off the elf riding the pig. is that it? i never understood, he s trying to make some kind of reference, none of it makes sense. i like a nice kilt joke. thank you very much. there we go. not complete until we make john berman blush. at his own jokes which is a beautiful thing. something else that almost you have to laugh at it is what s going on with the plan for isis, the house approves the president s plan to go after isis by arming syrian rebels. which ones? 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in washington the house approves president obama s plan to arm and train moderate rebels to fight isis in syria. take a look at the vote. 85 democrats, obviously the president s own party turned and voted no, more than the republicans, who voted no, so why? they say they don t trust the rebels. we don t know who the moderates are and therefore this plan may not work. we re going to talk live to a key member of the president s national security team in just a moment. stick with us for that, but first let s get to our senior international correspondent ivan watson is what s going on in australia. reporter: raids by australian police in the biggest city in australia, sydney, before dawn and they ve been destroyed by the australian police as the biggest counter-terror operation in australian history. there were dozens of arrest warrants, more than 800 police officers involved and rounded up 18 suspects they say were plotting to basically attack some innocent civilian, australian media have gone one step further that the plot was to cut the head off to behead the victim, film the act and then drape the body with that black flag of the isis militant group. now, of the people who were detained, one has been charged with already with terrorism charges, and he s been denied bail. nine of the other suspects have been released thus far, two of these 15 suspects, chris, were women, and we ll probably learn more about this alleged plot in the days ahead. the australian prime minister has warned that he thinks there are about 60 australian nationals who are fighting alongside isis and other militant groups in the middle east. the australians are worried that these australian jay hadis could come back home and commit acts of terrorism. they ve intercepted communications from a senior australian national in isis to supporters back in australia, urging them to carry out what he described as demonstration killings. the australians have been quick to join president obama s campaign against isis. they say they ll send war planes, fighter jets and advisers to iraq as well. chris? they, too, are yielding on the issue of boots on the ground for now. ivan, thank you very much for laying out the evolving nature of the threat. question again is, what will you do about it? today the senate is expected to follow the house s lead and approve training and weapons for syrian rebels to use obviously in the fight against isis but some aren t convinced that arming rebels is a good idea. let s understand why it should be a good idea from one of the people putting together the plan for the white house, mr. tony blinkin, deputy national security adviser for the obama administration. tony their for taking the opportunity. thanks, chris. so make the case. why is arming the free syrian army to the extent it is an army the best way to fight isis? chris, you need some force on the ground to be able to take t the territory that xwets freed up through the use of air power over time. we can put air power with the coalition and set isil back. in order to take some of the ground that s been liberated you need a force on the ground, it has to be the syrians feiging for their own country. that s the best way to do t the most effective way to do it, the most sustainable way to do it. is it true that this particular group that s being called an army really isn t, it s somewhat in a shambles, getting beaten up by assad, doesn t really want to fight against isis and it basically means you re starting at ground zero training up a force? chris, we ve been working with many of the opposition groups for the last two and a half years. we have much better knowledge of who they are, what they re willing to do. these are people who want to fight. they want to fight for their families. they want to fight for their communities. they want to fight for their towns but they need help. they need to be trained, they need to be equipped and they need support from us and other countries. if they have that, we believe that they will fight. we have a problem with defining the they, right, tony? senator collins and a lot of other politicians and you guys are discussing it in house, who are the moderates? how do you arm the right people? how do you wind up not having weapons you give them in the training turned and used against you? these are critical questions. one of the things we ve done over the last two and a half years is go up the knowledge base, build up the relationships. with the saudis and other countries in the region coming in, joining in the training, they, too, have tremendous knowledge, they know who these people are, they can help identify them, they can help vet them. we can make sure the right people are getting the training and the right people are getting the weapons. susan collins doesn t pick up the same confidence you re showing now in the administration s ability to vet the moderates and make sure you re giving it to the right people. is that a communication gap or does she have it wrong? look, it s very understandable that people are skeptical about this. the president was reticent initially some years ago when it was proposed that we get in whole hog and do this. we wanted to make sure that we built up an understanding of who we were dealing with. now, two and a half years later we have a much greater understanding, but we ve also been very clear with congress, this is not a silver bullet. it s an essential part of what needs to happen but it s not a magic solution. it s going to take time. it s going to take effort, but we believe that with the right support, these are motivated people who want to fight for their towns, they want to fight for their families. how do we avoid, how does the u.s. avoid getting sucked into fighting this fight when the rest of the region doesn t step up, because right now you re not seeing the big players with the big armies stepping up. chris, a couple of things. first, we have more than 40 countries who said they want to be part of this coalition. across all, effort in the air, working to support to train and equip, dealing with the financing, dealing with the flow of foreign fighters et cetera. it s a process. countries say they re signing up and then we develop the requirements for what the campaign needs to look like and over time we match these countries to different requirements and different tasks. if you look at the first gulf war that s exactly what happened when the first president bush and his administration did a great job building a coalition but it took weeks and in some cases months move countries from joining the coalition to actually taking specific responsibilities. tony, it also took a really sizeable u.s. force to go in there and clean house in the first gulf war. yes. that was the stying factor, you had the best fighting men and women in the world wearing u.s. uniforms on the ground doing what needed to be done. now you know the polls show that people don t want that, you guys are playing to the polls, so everybody down there in d.c., so how do you avoid the situation as happened in the past? chris, we re not playing the polls. we re playing to the experience of the last decade. we found it was not the most effective way to go to send in hundreds of thousands of american ground troops get them bogged down in a decade and try to deal with the problem that way. what is more effective making sure local people are fighting for their own countries. if they take the responsibility to do that, to help them, to support them, to give them the training, to give them the equipment, to give them the air power, to give them the advisers, that s what we can do, that s how we can be most effective. you ll get a big amen on that from the american people but the problem is it s not happening. the saudis have a big fighting force, they should be worried about isis. they re saying we ll help train but not going to fight. the turks have a lot of people taken hostage by isis. they are in direct line of threat. what is going on here? why aren t they fighting their own fight? chris, let s take this one step at a time. first look what happened in iraq. using air power in coordination with iraqi forces and the kudish peshmerga forces we ve turned back isil in a number of places and it changed the dynamic on the grouped. that s proven to be effective. we have a lot of work to do to rebuild up the iraqi security forces to get them coordinated. we have a new government and partner in place to do that. in syria it s tougher an longer and takes time to build the opposition but we believe it can be done. these countries you ll see the secretary of state is going to be hosting a big meeting of the coalition partners over the coming weeks you see not only the countries signing on but taking on specific responsibilities including using their air power. the idea of how this will happen going forward, it s going to take a long time. it s pretty arguable that congress should get involved and be giving an approval of power. that frustrates things because of the dynamic in d.c. but it seems to fit squarely in their responsibility especially because, tony, and here s the question, right now one of the big criticisms you didn t leave a force in eyeing rah, you didn t leave a force in afghanistan the way you needed to. are you rethinking that now as policy? will you keep advisers on the ground in these hot areas for the foreseeable future? chris, first if it you go back and look at what happened in iraq, the bush administration signed an agreement to get our forces out in 2012 at the very beginning of 2012 than hafs the deal with the iraqis. we said we d like to leave some folks behind to help you on counterterrorism. they would not stand up in their parliament and say we want the americans to stay. it was all about the politics. at that point after ten years they didn t want americans. as soon as our forces came out in early 2012 we began to try and work with the iraqis to build back up their counterterrorism capability. we offered them advisers, we offered them military assistance. at first they didn t want it. 2013, isil rears its head, all of a sudden they want it. for the last year or more we ve been working to rebuild that iraqi capacity. unfortunately, the isil problem outran what we were able to do. now the new iraqi government, remodeling the army with a partner there and with our commitment we believe we can get ahead of this, so the answer is not to repeat the last decade. it is not to send 150,000 american troops. it is not to spend trillions of dollars. it is to empower local forces to fight for their own countries. we believe that we ll have partners to do. that he that s the key, we h see the partners step up. tony thanks for taking on the questions and appreciate the opportunity. look forward to seeing you again. another big story we re wtching, if you thought it could not get worse for the nfl, unfortunately it seems it has, another star player, arrested on domestic violence charges. police showing up, you see there, at an arizona cardinals practice escorting running back jonathan dwyer off the field. all of this happening just after the minnesota vikings banned adrian peterson from all team activities until his child abuse case is decided. also banned the carolina panthers star lineman greg hardy who is appealing a domestic violence conviction for his part. nischelle turner is here with all of the very latest. it s like you have to take a breath after saying all of that. there was a lot of them. it s a laundry list. greg hardy said he was going to take this time to focus on his family. adrian peterson essentially saying the same thing. both men say they are eager to get back on the field apparently, so is ray rice, hence his appeal, but now another player arrested for domestic violence and this time taken off the field immediately. it s dwyer, he s in. reporter: this morning, jonathan dwyer, a running back for the arizona cardinals, now in custody. reporter: are you sorry this happened? reporter: the football star is the sixth envelope nfl player making headlines for alleged abuse in the past now few days. dwyer arrested at the cardinals training facility yesterday and making his first court appearance overnight. this all stemming from a slew of alleged abuse beginning in late july, including one count of aggravated assault against a 27-year-old female, causing a fracture, and another involving his 18-month-old child. he has been interviewed by our detectives. he has admitted involvement in the incidents. however, has denied allegations of physical assault. reporter: police say during one incident, he threw a shoe at the 18-month-old, then tossed the cell phone of the female victim out a window, preventing her from calling police. the cardinals say they have taken the immediate step to deactivate jonathan from all team activities. jonathan dwyer who had the touchdown. reporter: half a dozen nfl players across the country are now facing domestic violence charges. there s no rule book for this guys. reporter: wednesday carolina panthers defensive end greg hardy took a voluntary paid leave of absence after being convicted for domestic violence. in may, authorities say hardy choked his then girlfriend, dragged her by her hair into a tub and threatened to kill her. the panthers star has asked for a new trial. we made a mistake, and we needed to get this right. reporter: the minnesota vikings deactivating running back adrian peterson facing a child abuse charge, retracting from an earlier decision to keep him in the game after sponsors voiced their outrange. many of peterson s teammates say he should stay on the field. growing up, that was nothing, man. my mom, she always whipped me up or and things like that, man. it s just, you know, in my culture that s how i was raised and that s how my mom she raised her kids. like i said, look at me now. i m in the nfl. this seems to be the argument we have continuously heard from a number of players about the adrian peterson case. we did hear from some of his teammates yesterday who either were hesitant to talk or did back adrian fully. i asked some former and current players, why it was so hard for people to take a stand, people in the nfl. they said it s a hard thing to talk about and no one wants to look like they re turning on their teammate. it does put them maybe in an uncomfortable position. yes. this is an uncomfortable issue. every press conference, every interview about this that we ve seen and done has just been awkward, no one wants to tackle this subject although it s a subject that needs to be tackled. the nfl needs to get it right how they re handling all of this. right and the one fair defense of the nfl is it s a little odd to be starting to look at this situation as like the flashpoint of domestic violence and the flashpoint of how our culture of how we raise kids. you know, the nfl is not the focus of the problem. this is society. we haven t talked a bit about the season on the field. they hate this. nothing. is this the place to fight the fight is the nfl? 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right now unless we know specifically who they are and in fact, have intelligence with people on the ground who are with them, working with them and feeding back into our intelligence apparatus, i would be very apprehensive, because we need to look at the second and third order impacts of arming them. when we arm the syrian rebels even if they are moderates if if we believe the weapons would only be used against isis and not the assad government i think we re deluding ourselves. hillary, what then? well, i agree, in fact, it s the so-called moderate syrian oppositionists who reportedly kidnapped steve sotloff and sold him to isis to be beheaded. they have entered into a non-aggression pact with isis to fight against the assad government. we ve gone down this disastrous road before when we ve armed, trained and funded sunni militants in afghanistan, in libya, in iraq itself, 80,000 there. we know how this story ends. every single time those american weapons, those trained soldiers, trained by the united states come back to attack us. we know how this ends. we really need to now get out of the way. we need to recast our policy in the middle east, and take a step back. we put 125,000 troops into iraq, eight years of time. but hillary if you don t take on isis in syria, why even take on isis at all in iraq? we shouldn t. this is a scorpion. we either need to get out of the way for this scorpion or we step on it to our peril as we re hearing about today in australia, a purported plot by isis sympathizers. there are americans who are in ice ice, lots of europeans and there are thousands of saudis and other arabs and muslims in is isis. this is a problem in the middle east particularly in the sunni muslim world and right now their target is mecca and medina to take over the sunni muslim world and establish a caliphate there. if we bomb them and continue to bomb them, their target will be here as was al qaeda, their target will be new york, but right now it s not. we can prevent another 9/11, if we had a better policy but instead of stepping back and admitting the problems in our own previous policies, we re doubling down on those very same problems, and creating conditions for yet another 9/11. i need to step in. go ahead i want to get your response. i think at this point a policy of disengagement with the belief that if we do not get involved over there is somehow going to preserve american lives because they won t attack us is not based on any degree of fact. they already kidnapped americans. that means they re already harming americans. the fact that they stepped it up for strategic purposes to behead them, to recruit clearly indicates that there will be no end to this. we need to do exactly what she said, and that is step on the scorpion. if we re going to get engaged, we need to be able to use every instrument of national power at the president s disposal. when the president says i am not going to commit ground troops, if, in fact, isis is an existential threat to the united states, if in fact we believe that we are at war with them, then the president must be willing to commit and that means ground troops, if necessary. otherwise, our allies in the region are already hesitating, because they know we are not full in. if it s a threat to americans, it s a threat to americans hold on hillary, go ahead. if it s a threat to americans we have to assess that threat, determine if that threat is going to come here even before the beheading of the two journalists happened, then we need to go after them. go ahead hillary. to not do that is trouble. the facts are from president obama saying that isis was the jv team of terrorism to our own cia to our own center for counterterrorism, the facts are right now isis does not have the united states as a target. what we re doing, though, puts us in their target range. we could get out of their way or we can make ourselves a target. we put hundreds of thousands of troops into the middle east, $1 trillion and eight years of neverending war. president owe pa ma had a chance to recalibrate, to restore our relationship with the muslim world. that s what he came in, when he said he was elected. right now but instead of restoring our relations with the muslim world he doubled down on the policies of the prior administration, continued having large troop presence there, and antagonizing the muslim world. libya, the disaster in libya was wholly created and opened another battlefield for these islamist militants. let s talk about where we are right now. let s talk about where we are right now. there s no indication that the white house is going to be pulling back further from the strategy that the president laid out in his address to the nation. there s no indication he s committed to the strategy either. there s a tremendous amount of let me actually i want you to get in on that hillary but i want to direct that question to you as well commander. it sounds you have very little confidence in the rebels in syria in the moderate opposition but then what is the alternative, because as you said, you need to go into syria if you re at all going to tackle and defeat isis. i think one specific area we have not addressed and we have to look at is what are the funding sources for isis. how are they getting the money? are they getting it through the sale of elicit oil going throughout the region? we need to look at what is funding them, how are they being funded, what are the financial backing. if we can get to the sources, that requires a robust intelligence response, you cut them off financially, you go to the governments where we have traced it back to, providing support or turning a blind eye to their people supporting, saudi arabia, for example, then we put the squeeze on them. if it s a threat to the region, those other countries should recognize that threat and do what is necessary. that s one aspect that hasn t even been addressed yet. but by the same token i still believe every instrument of national power needs to be addressed. i think the american people at this point are realizing that we have a somewhat disjointed response to this threat that is coming to the united states. and it seems and if we don t begin to address it we are going to be in trouble because they will come here. you have kidnapped americans and to somehow believe that just because we have people over there they re harming americans already. it seems hillary the disjointed response you may agree on but for very different reasons. go ahead. the point about the financing, that s something that we ve heard about every one of these aspects in the so-called war on terror. the real problem that we ignore to our peril is what is happening among sunni and muslim populations who are becoming even more alienated and even more resentful to the united states as the cia has put out, they have now dramatically revised their estimates of the number of warriors fighting for isis, not because they re being paid. that s because they believe in it, they want to join this fight. we ve gone from an estimate of 5,000 fighters to now over 30,000 fighters, that surge in recruitment is because they see it now as a u.s. war against islam, because the united states has increased this bombing and has put, has declared itself to recommit to a never-ending war against islam. that is surging recruitment, so instead of now having a couple hundred people that they could tap into to get a suicide bomber to get on the next plane to new york, they now have about 50,000. that s a serious threat. that s a threat to the united states. that is a scary thought. that is one point though, that the president s deputy national security adviser was definitely trying to hammer home in his interview with chris earlier, there are more than 40 countries that want to take part in this coalition and they re going to be rolling out i think that s where a big question has been. they re going to be rolling out what their roles are, what they re going to be doing, what they feel comfortable contributing, that s the part where i think there s a lot of question, what their buy-in actually is. commander kirk lipold, hillary mann lippert, thank you very much. another nfl star player arrested for domestic violence. we ll talk with former vikings great about the nfl s troubles and if he thinks the league is doing enough to address it. all right here we go with the five things you need to know for your new day. at number one new york police commissioner bill brattin says the city has entered a new era of terror threats. the expanded potential for attacks in the new york can be seen in the arrest of a rochester man charged with supporting isis. police raids in australia foiling what authorities say was a pending terror attack. reports say someone could have been beheaded in public. seven people are now in custody, two of them charged, one with terror and conspiracy counts. ferguson police officer darren wilson appeared before a grand jury investigating the michael brown shooting. officer wilson was said to be cooperative as he recounted the shooting last month. a senior va official admits delays in health care led to deaths of patients at the va system in phoenix, this is a reversal from an earlier report that found no link between deaths and delays in medical care there. at number five, it is decision day in scotland, voters now answering yes or no to the referendum question, should scotland be an independent nation? 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i think they re doing very well. when you ve got leaders in the wilf brothers that own the vikings, they re great citizens, doing a great job with our team and when this happened with adrian peterson they got it right the first time and didn t let him play last week, then they went back and said well we re going to let him play this week and let the legal system play its way out. the response for that was pretty horrific. i responded and said i was embarrassed that they made this decision. this is really tough stuff, important stuff. if we cannot protect our children and protect our women, what kind of a country are we? and the nfl is the face right now of america. it s out there, we re watching nfl football thursday night, saturday friday, sunday nights, monday nights, and it s, everybody wants to watch professional football by the tens of millions, and this is a platform for the wils and the other owners and a platform for roger goodell to get this right and make sure we show the women of america and the children that we have their back and i think what s been done by the wilfs is really good. they went back and forth, right? that wasn t the best kind of leadership. do you think the team and of course the league, the league really is about the owners, do you think the owners of the vikings should come out and say here is our policy. if you get jammed up or arrested for hurting anyone, let alone a woman, a domestic violence situation, including kids, you are off the team. we ll pay you, but you re off the team until the situation resolves. should they just come out and say it? i think they will. i this i that you will find roger goodell come out with some tough, tough words and penalties to handle this type of behavior. it s unacceptable. it should be zero tolerance, and i think that s understood now by the owners and understood by the league. we need roger goodell and his leadership to come out and be very strong on that. this jonathan dwyer thing that just came up that he s now been accused of this kind of abusing women, domestic violence, and immediately the arizona team have suspended him. that s exactly what they should do, and because if you take these people off the field and in some cases take their paycheck away, you ll get their attention, but we re going to get the attention from the rest of the country because this is a very visible organization, the nfl. why hasn t the league come out and said here s the policy. forget about six games. until it s resolved, if you get arrested for this type of crime, you re out until then. the players union will push back and they ll say hold on, you can t take away their money, what if it s resolved in their favor? you just keep paying them. money is not a problem for the league. not a problem at all, and you ve got a good point there, and i think that you will see i very much expect something to come out of roger goodell s office on this type of punishment. it came out the first time, the two-game suspension and he said i was wrong. isn t it nice that we hear a leader say i was wrong and he came back and he increased it, and to six games and the second time that this happens it s permanent dismissal. i think he ll come back with very, very strong actions against this type of behavior, and other types of negative behavior that could go on with nfl players. fran it s good to hear a leader admit when they re wrong and it s better for them to get it right. your connection to the team is still strong. adrian peterson, many are just getting introduced to him if they re not a fan of the nfl and even if they are they re getting introduced to him as a person. what do you know about him as a person? everything i hear is great. he s probably the greatest r running back we ve seen since jimmy brown. people like him and respect him and i think it s hard on minnesotans, hard on the football team. this needs to be looked at. he s been charged with abuse of a 4-year-old child of his. i think he had an issue with another young child of his a year before that we never heard about, and i think it s got to be vetted out, and i think they re doing the right thing, they re paying adrian peterson, they re taking him away from the team so he can deal with his own legal problems and let s see where it goes. fran tarkenton, it was amazing watching you play, you re a legend in this sport and it s important to have your voice on this. thank you for being on new day. thank you very much. we ll have more on that chilling terror threat and raid in australia. plotting to kidnap and behead a member of the public. how real was the threat and how did they stop it, ahead. t breathe through your nose. suddenly you re a mouth breather. a mouth breather! how do you sleep like that? 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