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Streets of a refugee camp just miles from president bashar al assad's palace in damascus. ateek atika shubert is "outfront." >> reporter: this video is proof, isis says that they are just miles from the presidential palace of bashar al assad. this is the closest isis has gotten to threatening the seat of assad's power by striking at one of the most vulnerable populations in damascus the palestinian refugee camp. now, reports from palestinian leaders that isis is staking its claim by beheading rival rebel commanders inside the camp. the u.n. is calling the situation, quote, beyond inhumane. >> ...

Now two men are dead. the party chairman still has a job, still has his job. catherine hanaway's governor campaign proceeds and no one knows what shoe is left to drop in this political story that is both unbelievable and unbelievably terrible in human terms. joining us is political reporter with kansas city star. nice to see you. thank you for joining us. >> great to be with you, rachel. >> is there anything more to add in terms of what we know about this investigation? do we know if the police are treating this as a related matter to tom schweich's suicide? >> they believe it may be related b...

Looked at it and almost certainly understood. a face to face briefing is no guarantee. that they would be any better equipped to do the flight. >> okay. let me ask you about this claim from one of actually the air france crash investigators who told nbc that this plane was likely horizontal when it crashed into the sea and its impact was probably quoting them, not very violent. what do you make of that theory? >> well that's not very violent from a crash investigative point of view. violent to them is impact where just small pieces of the aircraft left. not violent is when it would hit the wat...

Can't say anything's positive with regard to isis and i'm a pessimist, so this is hard for me. when you guys said good and bad stuff, i started listing all of the bad, all right? but definitely. we did have a good year, and we will talk about the good, but in talking about the bad we can't ignore -- and not in political terms, but in realistic and human terms, what we have seen not just internationally, but here at home which is a lot of unrest. we've seen beheadings by isis we've seen an illness out of control, ebola even doctors there to care for the ill that have been attacked and lost thei...

From the patron saint of animals. no? >> yes. that's very true. animals are an important part of our life and anything that we love and in some way loves us can certainly be a part of heaven. francis said all creatures created by god will share eternity. but exactly what that means, we tend to speak about heaven in a language from a human perspective using human terms, clouds, angels, harps. of course, none of that exists but we do believe and will be a conscious unification with those whom we have loved. animals are part of our love life, if we will, albeit in a different way. i guess what fr...