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Should be remembered. jake? >> jim accosta at the white house, thank you. we're also learning new information about how that u.s. raid in yemen went down aside from the death of chief petty officer ryan owens. 7 women and 6 children were among those killed in the raid. minor details, down to the illumination from the moon, those were carefully crafted during the previous administration. the new commander in chief made his first phone call to a grieving family on tuesday. the family of chief petty officer william ryan owens who was killed in yemen during a weekend raid targeting al-qaeda in the...

>> that should be more than 150 of them in france since friday. police confiscating weapons, bullet proof vests and even a rocket launcher. senior international correspondent fred pleitgen is live for news paris once again. fred? >> reporter: michael, certainly the investigation as it moved forward is more and more resleeling there was a complex web that appears to have been at work here, spanning of course various european countries at this point in time here in france. the authorities are looking for anybody who might have also been part of that plot. and of course we know from the french au...

>> there is no denying that this is a setback. but there's also no denying that the united states will help the iraqis take back ramadi. >> a stark change in the narrative of success the u.s. tried to build revealing a weekend raid that killed an isis in syria. a money man killed guarding a tr trove of vital documents. few isis experts have heard much about him. latest figures suggest that that assault caused 25,000 people to flee who are already trying to get into overcrowded baghdad. there are still some civilians trapped inside facing life under isis or execution if they're considered to ha...

Where we sustained setbacks. >> set backs. there are a fair number of people who might disagree with that. is this loss of ramadi a strategic loss. 70 miles from baghdad. extending isis' influence. and does it demonstrate that isis after all of this time can field a large offense force and the iraqis cannot fight back against it. >> as you know the u.s. formally released the real name of the isis commander killed in the weekend raid. how key was this terrorist? >> well look. they are saying again still, as they have since the weekend here in washington that this man was a top money man. he was...

Phones and other intelligence from that weekend raid deep in eastern syria. cnn has learned the target, a man called sayyaf by the u.s., had been under surveillance since march when delta force commandos flew in helicopters, they had fresh intelligence indicating he was there. the commandos quickly ran into a fire fight and hand to hand combat. they blew a hole in the side of the building to get inside. sayyaf was killed. his wife taken into custody and questioned. u.s. officials say he had critical intelligence on isis military plans and finances. one official saying, he could potentially hav...