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don t need fallujah and our ticket to fallujah so the two are so that was the explanation. no military reason to take fallujah in order to get to mosul. every city in iraq is going to get cleared. that s a we are here for. we are here to clear da ish, clara isil out of iraq so we are going to every city sooner or later. it s just a question of sequencing and that sequencing and then i said if i remember it having established that fallujah is not necessary for mosul, the sequencing then becomes political and of course all of this is part of politics. war is part of politics and an extension of its of course we understand this professional soldiers that political component and we understand there s going to be a political component and we understand that bigger the comp country is make decisions more pure military necessity. we understand that perfectly well. and of course given recent unrest in baghdad, given the rash of bombings in bag dad certainly that changes the ....
why it is not a normalcy? what aspect of it is not quite normal? ms. sullivan: i will invite jerry bell to answer your question. you are talking about a range of probabilities, and this is potentially reinforcing factors which make this year more uncertain than others. but, jerry, do want to answer that? seasonl: we have three classifications, near-normal refers to a range of activity defined by the overall season strength, as well as the numbers of hurricanes and tropical storms. we used near normal instead of oftentimesple think as the mathematical average, and we are not talking about the mathematical average here, we are talking about the middle third of the seasons with a certain level of activity. ms. sullivan: each one of the season designations is a range of prospects, not a distinct number. either the lower range, the near-normal range, or the higher range. there are uncertainties, like .ou said bell: yes. if somebody could address, talk more about the signal ....
i m antonio mora, here s more on what s ahead. venezuela s president, nicholas maduro lark out. protesters clashed with riot police once again. after two months of protests there s no sign that they will stop. good this is a knife fight. senate democrats investigating passive abuses by cia. the man who crafted the benghazi talking points insisted we did not some students are opting out. selgt for a status quo of mediocrity should not be the answer.about. fourth degree rape, he admitted he performed sex acts on his three-year-old daughter. my guess has a lot to do with this. we begin with breaking news from fort hood texas which spent much of wednesday in lock down after the second mass shooting in five years. four were killed, 14 wounded at the army base, home to the first cavalry division. nadal hasan killed 14 people in 2009. after wednesday s shooting president obama expressed his support for the bases soldiers and families. good obviously our ....
where we re watching the state of security at our airports today. but we want to begin in istanbul with nbc s matt bradley. break down the latest on the investigation and what we re learning about these three individuals and whatever cell they may have been a part of. thanks, peter. the nationalities of the suspects, as you just mentioned, russian, kyrgyz and uzbek, these ten to draw jihadis into the upper ranks of islamic state. they populate the upper ranks of that group in their self-declared caliphate. today s news hardens turkish officials resolve that this was a islamic state attack but it s worth mentioning we re going on 48 hours since the attack and we haven t had a claim of responsibility. now that s not unprecedented but it is unusual. normally slate would back up something like this with a claim of responsibility. these people just arrested both here in istanbul and southern turkey, it s not clear what they were arrested for, whether they were behind this ....