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In lafayette, louisiana, tonight, for us. hey, rob. >> reporter: good afternoon, david. can cue and the yucatan taking a little bit of a hit out of delta, at least for now. 500 miles away from louisiana. plenty of gulf water to strengthen and that's what we think is going to happen. watches are up. we expect delta to get back to 2 or 3 status and grow in size by friday morning, making landfall is friday afternoon. something around the louisiana coastline. all hazards in play, including storm surge. we could see over a foot of rain. but the full fury of its winds could hit here in lafayette or ...

Going to need to do to recover. that's just one story this morning. we'll also go live to baghdad. we have anderson cooper there so let's get right to everything right now. >> keep moving fast. >> i got it. >> the rare double tornado, just part of the destructive force in northeast nebraska. >> whole blocks of houses are destroyed. >> they are merging. they are going to merge! >> as the fighting rages on in iraq -- >> mass massacres, you have to stop that. >> we cannot allowed the world's worst terrorist group to get a base of support in a failed nation. >> dempsey! >> the fifth fastest goal i...

To consider his options. for now hundreds of american troops are heading to baghdad to help protect american interests with more personnel and resources awaiting orders on sta standby, still with the promise from president obama no combat troops will be put on the ground. anderson cooper is live on the ground in baghdad with much more. anderson, nic robertson earlier was talking about how isis continues to gain ground. they are kind of isolating and consolidating their forces. what are you hearing that they are doing on the ground? what's the very latest? >> reporter: without a doubt, a city w...

Former military attache in syria. let's deal with what's in play right now. the most important thing, rick, to give some sense of is the movement of the violence right now. what are we seeing? >> well, it's rolling towards baghdad. if you look at the map and you see the cities that have fallen to isis already, they come down the two major attack axes to baghdad. it's moving like a snowball and as they go they gain strength. we thought as they went closer they would string themselves out and would become a target. the local militias have joined with them, the sunnis who feel oppressed under the...

People that everyone wants to hear from when issues like this arise. i want to clarify a couple of points with you. do you think at this point what you have seen, what you have heard, that u.s. air strikes are necessary? >> i do think you have to have a coordinated effort to slow down the momentum and turn the momentum of what is an al qaeda army on the rise and on the move. and so you have two places they operate, both syria and in -- eastern syria and western iraq, and they are holding ground. they are gaining weapons. they are amassing cache. all of that is very, very dangerous so i do beli...