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It says on the troop website that tree theft, lack of staff and poor sales forced them to close. the holidays can bring out the worst in people. from a christmas tree thief stealing from the boy scouts to people taking decorations from someone's yard. december 2011, sweetwater, florida, two weeks before christmas. this home has the holiday spirit but these thieves don't. at first, this homeowner is amused when she checks her home surveillance system. >> translator: it was so funny that i didn't get angry. it's incredible how something like this could happen. >> omar sanchez finds it funny when...

Countries, we would not want an aumf that constrained our able to use appropriate force against isil in those locations if necessary. in our view, it would be a mistake to advertise to isil that there are safe havens for them outside of iraq or syria. >> democrats on the committee want a new uaumf to bar u.s. ground troops. >> i mentioned the secretary of defense in baghdad. what is his message for the baghdad leader. >> the iraqis greated hagel with a request for more air power and heavy weapons. hagel was noncommittal, we're told. this is his first trip to baghdad since the war with isis beg...

>> a busy day on the hill. mean while, after a world away, the outgoing pentagon chief made a rare viz constituent to that nation's capital. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has all of it tonight from the pentagon. >> the iraqi leaders greeted defense secretary chuck hagel with a request for more airpower and weapons. it is the first time any defense secretary has been to baghdad since the iraq war officially ended in december 2011. u.s. defense officials say that what iraq needs to fight isis is not more weapons, but competent military leaders. >> they have to leave, they are ...

Released? >> well, gretchen, right now secretary kerry has not addressed the intel reports. we know he did call senator feinstein on the eve and asked for her to delay the release. she did not do so. a great deal of frustration is what i'm hearing among those who i have spoken to at the pentagon. pentagon leaders are holding their breath feeling that they are on the frontlines and their personnel are at risk as a result of the reports released. defense secretary hagel ordered all u.s. military combantant commanders to face their forces on high alert across the middle east and elsewhere in the ...

>> reporter: under cover of darkness, three air force cargo jets, escorted by f-18s, dropped pallets like these, loaded with thousands of gallons of water and meals ready to eat. >> with the isis threat out there, our crews will be in some danger by doing these airdrops. >> reporter: those isis terrorists taking control of iraq have surface-to-air missiles and a slew of firepower. they're threatening to take control of the largest electric dam in the country and are closing in on erbil. the kurdish capital has key american outposts with hundreds of military consultants and a consulate. >> i've...