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We'll be remembering all this and talking abt more this morning because guess who's here? oh yeah bill gert godfried is here and we'll talk about letterman's legacy and appearing on the show himself a few times. dave is big news. there's no question about it. but there's a lot of news this morning. let's get right to it. isis militants capturing a strategically important city. >> the ancient city of palmyra. >> it is at the mercy of isis. >> new developments in the quadruple murder mystery. >> authorities are looking for a 34-year-old man with a long record. >> dna left on pizza inside the h...

In other words, you acknowledge that you have to give up some territory. you prefer not to, but you have to give it up. in return you achieve some time which hopefully the united states can build the iraqi forces up so they can get back into the fight and get this thing going again. that's clearly the strategy right now. and i would tell you within the national security council the discussions are we're okay with what we see now but here are the trigger lines visa vi baghdad and those are not gauchenegotiable. >> there's news crossing the reuters wire but this comes from syrian monitors on the...

Welcome back to your "new day." we do have breaking news overnight for you. isis terrorists gaining new strategic ground in syria taking full control of the historic desert town of palmyra. >> perspective here matters. first it was, well it's just one city ramadi this isn't a reflection of the strategy. now it's two big wins in one week in two different countries. so isis is now in a position to murder large numbers of innocence and destroy irreplaceable parts of the history it so hates. we have complete coverage starting with cnn international correspondent nick paton walsh live in beirut. ni...

Big headline this morning, isis taking over the ancient city of palmyra. and syria putting more priceless artifacts and a lot of human life at risk. back in iraq the terror group is continuing its push toward baghdad, firming up its grip on ramadi. the u.s. is responding by rushing 1,000 anti-tank rockets to iraq security forces. this according to the "new york times." kentucky senator rand paul with a 10 and a half hour plea to his colleagues not to extend the nsa's bulk data collection program would require an extension the key provision of the patriot act which paul calls unpatriotic. rem...

Militants capturing a strategically important city. this target is palmyra. the added concern human but historical. the fear isis will destroy artifacts as it has in the past. >> this as the debate here at home intensifies about the u.s. strategy to fight isis. and some gop presidential hopefuls say it's time to send ground troops. we have this story covered the only way cnn can. let's begin with nick paton walsh just back from syria. he joins us live from beirut. tell us what you saw, nick. >> reporter: alisyn quite devastating potentially the impact on the world's history if isis do what the...