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Least, when will they know the concern has passed? >> reporter: well we are waiting for more updates. we have not heard anymore from the department of defense here. today, we hope to hear another update. what we heard is that the people so far have not shown symptoms. the bigger question will be what went wrong here. the anthrax left a lab in utah and went to nine states and south korea. all of the labs will have to check inventory to find out what is going on here john. >> kathy novak, thank you. to the middle east now and the battle for ramadi. the iraqis insisting they have launched a maj...

Regular iraqi troops being sent to ramadi to help with these irregular militias but secretary carter suggested iraqi troops are in no shape to launch a major counterattack against isis inside ramadi we're hearing of isis' withdrew brooubrutality. killing really everyone they link to the pro iraqi government. now, tens of thousands of civilians are fleeing ramadi right now. but they're stuck between isis fighters inside ramadi and pro government forces that are not allowing many civilians outside of al anbar province to the situation really growing fairly desperate in and around ramadi. >> desp...

Far greater ability to destroy the isis forces. if we're going to sit back and have shiite militias do the fighting then it's not going to go very well for a while. secretary kerry will be right, of course, over time if the entire shiite military force is brought to bear on ramadi they will win. but what we don't want to see is a situation where the iraq government is reliant solely on shiite militias meaning so reliant op iran. >> yeah. and because you know, jane the iraqi sunnis and they feel oppressed by the majority of shiites in iraq let's not talk about the kurds for the time being, but ...

See the same movie over again and have it come out differently. that's not going to work. >> very quickly, jamie, do you agree the war in iraq was a mistake? >> well clearly the devastating consequences of the war in iraq far outweigh the advantage which is the end of saddam hussein but the great irony, wolf at the time dick cheney was promoting the war he argued there was terrorists in iraq iraq was supporting terrorist organizations and that's why we should go into iraq. the great tragic irony a decade later after billions if not trillions of dollars and thousands of americans, there really ...