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Was way too long. >> o.j. simpson will be released october 1st, says he plans to live in florida and spent time with his children. the one thing he must not do is get in anymore trouble. a >> chris: claudia cowan reporting from carson city, nevada, . president trump spent part of the day getting an update on u.s. efforts to defeat isis as well as other american military operations. national security correspondent jennifer griffin reports from the pentagon. >> six months into his presidency, donald trump made a second trip to the pentagon to receive an update from his national security team on ...

Inauguration, he ordered a copper has a plan to defeat isis in 30 days. that deadline passed five months ago. since then, u.s. forces helped iraqi troops take back mosul, their second-largest city, from which isis proclaimed their caliphate three years ago. isis still controls two major cities in iraq. and parts of western and/or province along the border with syria. millions of iraqis remain internally displaced. >> if a family can't feed their children, they will turn to any available resource they can and that usually is extremism. >> the fight to retake raqqa in syria continues. many of th...

He joins us from erbil, iraq. what's it like? >> reporter: pam, it's remarkable how kurdish fighters, with u.s. assistance, have gotten to raqqah. we just heard from french defense officials the first two strikes from the charles de gaulle have hit isis targets inside iraq, but most of the strikes we've seen in the past appear to have been focused toward raqqah, which isis's capital self-declared caliphate. the kurdish fighters staggeringly near. after paris, the sinai in the crosshairs is here, raqqah. lost in the haze, yet they can hear it. loud thuds, heaviest at desk. three days ago, says ...

Group that has been making huge ground gains in iraq, controlling large parts of the north and western part of the country. arwa damon is in baghdad tonight. arwa? >> reporter: erin, the iraqi government has issued an urgent appeal to the united nations for assistance after isis fighters managed to get their hands on 40 kilograms. that's about 80 plus pounds of uranium from the mosul university campus. now the iaea and the united states are saying this is not enriched uranium, it's not weapons grade. they don't assess it as being something that would pose a current or immediate threat, but the...

City like baghdad. >> so how difficult would it be to use those materials, and you're mentioning also perhaps some unreported things like cesium that may also have been seized, how could they be used to manufacture weapons of mass destruction? >> you simply take explosives and you fill a car with it or a truck and you wrap the material around it, the uranium, the uranium compound, and it will send it over a wide area, blocks and blocks. i think again it's going to be the psychological effect. the question is would isis do this? we simply don't understand the movement well enough to know that, ...