the pentagon assessment is the will to fight, of a corrupt deposit. nouri al-maliki back in those days. now there has been a change to the government with haider al-abadi in charge. the pentagon's assessment was the will to fight was broken by a number of factors, including the idea that some sunni fighters feel they are not being adequately support the by the government in baghdad. i mentioned antitank a t4 weapons that could be used stopping the vehicle born truck bombs and vehicle bombs. there were none of those in ramadi. they are rushing some to iraq. that's the weapon that might have blunted the offensive. ut never know because of factors involved in the fall of ramadi. could have been a tipping point. the series of explosions demoralized and spooked some of the troops. might have started some of the despollution of what happened. >> they look at the factors. the troops in ramadi had been there for a while. they were suffering low moral, they did not have the leadership that they should have had. they are more hopeful that the troops going in in

the pentagon assessment is the will to fight, of a corrupt deposit. nouri al-maliki back in those days. now there has been a change to the government, with haider al-abadi in charge. the pentagon's assessment was the will to fight was broken by a number of factors, including the idea that some sunni fighters feel they are not being adequately support the by the government in baghdad. i mentioned antitank, a t4 weapons that could be used stopping the vehicle born truck bombs and vehicle bombs. there were none of those in ramadi. they are rushing some to iraq. that's the weapon that might have blunted the offensive. ut never know because of factors involved in the fall of ramadi. could have been a tipping point. the series of explosions demoralized and spooked some of the troops. might have started some of the despollution of what happened. >> they look at the factors. the troops in ramadi had been there for a while. they were suffering low moral, they did not have the leadership that they should have had. they are more hopeful that the troops going in,

so he left the pentagon, the pentagon there is portraits of all the former defense secretaries and the day came when there was a ceremony that would unveil the portrait, they didn't have a lot of good relationships. it will be 10:00 in the morning, pick up the flag and shares, in the outer office and marshall is fair and one of my colleagues said to him are you going to the weinberger ceremony, weinberger instead of his picture. and no matter what happened in terms of the ups and down this of the defense secretary's. one is is mentoring of people in the impact it has. so in 1957, looking for a topic to write about and marshall suggests a topic to her and ends up being pearl harbor which ends up winning all kinds of book awards and a medal of freedom from president bush in the 1990 and fundamentally, intelligence and early warning and circumstances under which we will be attacked. a few years later a book comes out called the essence of decision which fundamentally leads to rethinking about thinking rationally or other factors at work, and and the marshall was the guy who gave the insig

jamie mcintire is at the pentagon with the latest. >> coalition continues to pound i.s.i.l. targets from the air. this picture showing an i.s.i.l. position being destroyed in a ferocious fire ball. by the pentagon's own account destroyed more than 1700 buildings in a list of more than 6,000 targets hit since the air campaign began nine months ago. while the pentagon cannot confirm the wounding of abu bakar al baghdadi in mrch, or his lieutenant, it does claim to have killed many of its leaders something lloyd austin told congress has derate dedegraded i.s.i.l.'s power. not as important as the fighting of baiji. >> no doubt they will seek to exploit it as a propaganda victory. that's i.s.i.l.'s main objective to give the illusion of strength. they need to win in iraq because if you look around the rest of the country they currently do not have the momentum that they once had. >> pentagon sources say iraqis are essentially cornered, with i.s.i.l. fighters in control of more than 80% of the territory inside the perimeter fence. i.s.i.l. also controls the area outside the fence

it sent recriminations through the pentagon which sent advisers weapons and funds to beef up the u.s.-trained iraqi military. my next guest basically says don't worry so much. despite recent setbacks the iraqi military is perfectly capable of taking the fight to isil. eric guftason joins us now. good to see you. thank you for being with us. i've spoken to people involved in the training of these iraqi soldiers and say they're nowhere close to fighting it off on their own. many argue while it's not politically appetizing we need a good number of u.s. troops on the ground. what you say is different from what i hear from official sources. >> let me be really clear. the performance is disappointing. i mean we had this special forces of iraq withdraw fairly early in the fight. hoefr however, you have to put things in perspective. ramadi has been contested for nearly 17 months now. it's a city that has stained over 1200 casualties and with the recent fighting that was a multi multi-pronged and there's 30 major car bombs. there was also sleeper units that were activated inside the city. and

were all freaking out. >> at the pentagon, a plane or a helicopters that crashed, and the pentagon is being evacuated. >> ted was also a friend of mine and his wife died in the plane that hit the pentagon. and she called him before they hit the pentagon on her cell phone and he to tell her that two buildings had been hit in new york. and they said goodbye to each other. she knew they were going down. >> the boston airport, like airports now across the entire country, is closed. >> all air traffic in the united states has come to a halt. >> and then we heard there was another plane maybe going toward the capitol, and another plane wanting to go to the white house. people were running out of the white house, people were running out of the capitol. >> there has just been a huge explosion. we can see a billowing smoke rising and i can't -- i'll tell you that i can't see that second tower. but there was a cascade of sparks and fire and now it looks almost like a mushroom cloud explosion. >> and then what happened to me and what happened to every person on the planet earth who had action to

jamie mcintire is at the pentagon with more on what's behind the decision. jamie. >> antonio, the pentagon says the increase of what it calls its force protection level from alpha, the lowest to bravo the second lowest comes on the orders of the four star admiral in charge of the u.s. home command, whose job it is to protect the u.s. from foreign threats. his concerns, no time for complacency and all areas are on their a game. in garland texas and the cartoon event there was no specific identifiable threat rather than an increase in social media and internet based discussions that has resulted in what he termed a generally heightened threat environment. the military's force protection level now moves from alpha to bravo with the threat going from increased general to more predictable. the next level charlie is one is likely and delta means an attack is imminent or has occurred. dire warnings about how social media has increased the likelihood of radical attacks. >> you might go your whole life without meeting somebody owho shared your views today it takes yo

andrew krepinevich and barry watts talk about their book at the pentagon's office and the pentagon's think tank from 1973 to 2015. the co-authors are former members of marshall's staff. this event was held at the nixon presidential library and museum in yorba linda california. [applause] >> tonight's discussion is that andrew marshall who served from nixon to obama. he retired january at the ripe age of 93 years old. for his pioneering work called the hidden hand before and -- behind american foreign policy. his two former aides, let me back up for a second. what is significant is nixon tapped marshall to evaluate our military capabilities against that of our adversaries at the time namely the soviet union to the concept is called net assessment. his former aides andrew krepinevich and sub diver here to discuss the achievements of their mentor tonight and sign copies of their biography about him called "the lost warrior" andrew marshall and shaping of modern defense strategy. mr. krepinevich's it is the author of several books on military history and strategy including the very influ

the pentagon in essence controlled that spectrum. with the pentagon, it could always say it is for security reasons we cannot share. we developed a relationship with the pentagon. they understood where we are coming from. we understood where they were coming from. the process took about six months or so. it is critical we all work together. it was very helpful to start off with the pentagon. we could share spectrum. the broadcasters were helpful with that. they got into it and really helped us work with the pentagon. no one really controls it. that is the nature of internet and everything else we do. that is a part of it that a lot of people have difficulty with. if you saw the net neutrality base, that was unbelievable in the sense that people understand that the internet should be free. there shouldn't be people who get faster access or not. when that occurred, that whole energy that happened with that when chairman wheeler with the overturning of the internet order, when he hinted that there might be privatization -- prioritizatio

in washington, there is a large fire at the pentagon. the pentagon has been evacuated. and there's -- you can see perhaps the second tower, the front tower, the top portion of which is collapsing. >> good lord. there are no words. >> it was so eerie to stand on the rooftop where we were broadcasting from. you can see how tough it is for anybody to sort out the anybody to sort out the magnitude of what this city and what washington endured today. >> when the wind shifted, you could smell the jet fuel, you could smell metal burning. >> it's 1:00, 2:00 in the morning. it was late and i was tired. and i was crying. and i was thinking about -- my daughter was in middle school, and i thought, god, her world is going to be totally different. it's going to be totally different. >> 9/11 forever altered the soul of our nation. we could never again take for granted our sense of security. and life has never been the same since then. >>> the winds have really picked up here. >> i had a satellite truck with me. i had a crew with me. and we were kind of on own own. as you can see it,

cost levels at the pentagon proposed. a base closure round, changes to the tri-care system. i am curious clearly congress has the power of the purse, but how do you reconcile rejecting some of those long-term cost-saving initiatives and giving what essentially the pentagon believes is a bill that it can afford with the current austere spending environment? rep. thornberry: currently congress makes different judgment calls than the administration in power on various weapon systems, needs to charge the military, other issues. that is our job under the constitution. sometimes congress probably makes the wrong call. if you look back over history, there is a pretty good track record of having made the right call. as a matter of fact, one of the first speeches i gave after becoming chairman was harkening back to one of my predecessors, chairman vincent who insisted on putting down some big coal ships ships in the 1930's that ended up being the aircraft carriers that won the battle of midway. whether they are aircraft carriers o

what do they say about the attack on benghazi? the pentagon admits u.s. air strikes accidentally killed children instead of members of isil. ♪ >>> this is -- al jazeera america. the senate is down to the wire deciding what to do with the patriot act. it is a controversial act, and expires ten days from now while the senate is on recess. the senate is in session today debating on whether this law should remain. harry reid spoke about it a sport time ago. >> we have a piece of legislation where there are bipartisan efforts made and it worked. they passed this bill. and we should do the same before we leave here. >> as libby casey reports many are questioning whether the law should remain in effect. >> reporter: lawmakers and americans are still grappling with how far the government should go. >> i think the deintat whether the act has made america safer at the almost trillion dollars it has cost to implement it. >> reporter: he argues it has not made the country safer and the cost goes beyond money to civil liberties. >> when it was put together and rushe

in washington, there is a large fire at the pentagon. the pentagon has been evacuated. and there's -- you can see perhaps the second tower, the front tower, the top portion of which is collapsing. >> good lord. there are no words. >> it was so eerie to stand on the rooftop from where we were broadcasting from. >> you can see how tough it is for anybody to sort out the magnitude of what the city and what washington endured today. >> when the wind shifted, you could smell the jet fuel, you could smell metal burning. >> it's 1:00, 2:00 in the morning. it was late and i was tired. and i was crying. and i was thinking about -- my daughter was sort of in middle school, and i thought, god, her world is going to be totally different. it is going to be totally different. >> 9/11 forever altered the soul of our nation. we could never again take for granted our sense of security. and life has never been the same since then. >>> the winds have really picked up here. >> i had a satellite truck with me. i had a crew with me. and we were kind of on own own. you can see it, it's coming

welclcome to the progrm. both of yospent t time in the pentagon. anandrew, you were aop official. lk us throughhat the house and senate proposals are and how they are goioing to affect the current system that is changing as we speak. guest: it is changing. a lot of the effort has been to bring in aries parts of the system that support -- various parts of the system that support the systems getting them around a common plan that is well thought through. the two bills work toward a similar end. they are about trying to drive more responsiveness in the system. the house bill is morof an incremental approach designed to empower the program manag who is the person in the government responsible for the success of the program.m. under the packard commission approach adopted years ago. the senate approach is more disruptive to the current system. on the one hand, it t is focused onon trying to achieve responsiveness. on the other hand, it completely changethe authority flow of commanfor acquisition. that is a huge change. vago: steve? steve: i would agree with the general charactezation o

it sent recriminations through the pentagon which sent advisers, weapons and funds to beef up the u.s.-trained iraqi military. my next guest basically says don't worry so much. despite recent setbacks, the iraqi military is perfectly capable of taking the fight to isil. eric guftason joins us now. good to see you. thank you for being with us. i've spoken to people involved in the training of these iraqi soldiers and say they're nowhere close to fighting it off on their own. many argue while it's not politically appetizing, we need a good number of u.s. troops on the ground. what you say is different from what i hear from official sources. >> let me be really clear. the performance is disappointing. i mean, we had this special forces of iraq withdraw fairly early in the fight. hoefr however, you have to put things in perspective. ramadi has been contested for nearly 17 months now. it's a city that has stained over 1200 casualties, and with the recent fighting, that was a multi multi-pronged and there's 30 major car bombs. there was also sleeper units that were activated inside the city

the pentagon says it's training anti-i.s.i.l. forces the reality means the u.s. could provide support and air strikes to soldiers fighting government troops. >> their mission is to fight i.s.i.l. so that is a combat we expect them to get involved in and expect to support them in that record. if they are contested by regime forces we would have a responsibility to help them. >> reporter: bashar al-assad is not technically the target. the pentagon says the syrian president looks desperate as his forces are moving momentum. >> i do believe the situation is trending less favourably and i would look to negotiate if i was him. in the past weeks the syrian government had a string of lawsuits. though bashar al-assad has acknowledged the battlefield setbacks speaking to supporters at a school in damascus, he insisted the ups and downs were normal and the war was not lost. >> reporter: the penalty gone -- pentagon says it has an obligation, it has int decided how to go. no shoulder fired. anti-aircraft missiles will be provided. they will

partly it makes it harder for the pentagon to mr. clinton for the future. -- to plan for the future. the rest of the story is there's a broader debate that's bigger than defense about fiscal responsibilities, about whether you can save money through the mandatory spending or entitlement programs or two-thirds of the federal budget is about what needs to happen to the other domestic programs and so that's where the differences are going to have to be ironed out. i still have hope that there are can be an agreement. even if you take the enyou tilet titlement -- entitlement reforms president obama proposed in the past and apply some of those savings to defense and nondefense digscregsarry programs, i think you can get a huge number of people on both sides of the aisle to support that. question is, does the president want to do that or does he want to play chicken and hope he can get more spending on his domestic programs? i think it will be interesting, i have to say, if we send the president a defense bill at exactly the level he asked

i went to the pentagon became the pentagon correspondent. that was may 8 wth, 1990 and august 1 wst 1990 saddam hussein invaded kuwait and all all of the sudden cnn came of age. >> is there any story that has really stuck with you? >> all of them have really been powerful. but obviously 9/11. you know when we saw has was going on. and i remember vividly that morning, i saw on television what was going on, i got in my car immediately started driving downtown to get to the bureau. and people were driving away from washington. they were trying to get at as the plane landed at the pentagon. it was hard getting there. when i heard about the pentagon i had been the pentagon correspondent. i knew exactly where the plane landed. i knew what was going on. i knew this was an act of terror and i said to myself, this is going the change all of us forever. >> nothing was the same. thank you so much mr. wolf blitzer whose show starts in eight minutes. make sure to tune in tonight for our special report "breaking news 35 years of cnn." >>> was blues legend

. >>> the pentagon now admitted that a u.s.-lead air strike in syria most likely killed two children. the military for the last two months has denied that any civilians were killed in either iraq or syria as part of the campaign against isil. kimberly halkett has more from washington. >> reporter: this is the fist time we have the pentagon acknowledging civilian deaths. you are right, this is the result of a four-month investigation. the pentagon saying the civilian death of children likely occurred on november 5th and 6th. this was apparently an effort to target an al-qaeda cell. but the numbers do contrast some very respected numbers get from the syrian observatory for human rights they report 2500 people killed since the start of this complain. 131 of those civilians. now, the pentagon saying they are still looking into two other reports of civilian casualties. two deaths in iraq as well as one in syria. there's a lot of visiting of strategy in recent days. the president, of course defending the strategy acknowledging this i

the pentagon raised the threat level at military bases. jamie mcintyre is live for us at the pentagon. is the pentagon responding to a specific threat here? >> well no in raising the threat level from alpha, which is the lowest level to bah woe, which is a higher level of threat the pentagon says it is not reacting to any specific or identifiable threat. technically this order came from the commander in colorado who is responsible for protecting the home homeland, he looked around and sees what is going on in social media and decided it wasn't acceptable for military bases to be at the lowest level. here is what he said, quote: and that's the point they are stressing here. no specific threat. no specific group, but just an increased amount of the kinds of things they can't keep track of on the internet. social media, people talking to each other, the rise of extremism in some places. they felt like this was a prudent step to take. >> so interesting, particularly in the context of texas and what texas -- that event was all about. so what th

it has called the pentagon excess property program. since it's inception in 1997 it has put more than $4.3 billion of equipment on the streets of american cities just in the last year alone half a billion dollars worth of military equipment. so the president followed the recommendations of that task force that he put in place after ferguson, and banned some items and restricted some. here is just a smattering of the things that the president proposed banning today: now some of the restricted equipment that the president put forward today: and it does again, follow that task force mrengd mrengd -- recommendation which was released today. but the one thing the white house does want to give law enforcement, body cameras. they aloe -- allocated $75 million. now they want congress to give more for that purpose of body cameras. >> the announcement came as the president visited can -- cam -- camdan new jersey. why? >> it has been known as one of the nation's poorest and most violent and crime-ridden communities. about three years ago they dec

the pentagon said that despite the mistake the public was never in danger but it also confirmed that four workers in maryland and 22 at the base in south korea are being treated for possible exposure. the pentagon says the live samples have been destroyed and that investigators are visiting every lab that received anthrax samples originating from dougway. meanwhile the cdc investigators in utah are trying to figure out what went wrong. it is worth noting while these type of anthrax samples are routinely sent via commercial carriers, the pentagon points to a more likely culprit in this case less stringent protocol. >>> well weighing in on an international dispute, the defense secretary urges china to stop building islands in the south china sea. >>> plus another day, another candidate, a former new york governor joins the republican field trying to become the next president of the united states. ♪ ♪ >>> isil says it has killed 110 iraqi soldiers and shia militia fighters in the past 24 hours. the group says at least 70 were killed in ann going fighting and also targeted soldiers i

the pentagon says it's looking into why the late notification. the anthrax was in south korea for over a year. no one knowing it was live. it all began last year on march 18th, 2014 at dugway proving grounds, an army base in utah. a load of anthrax irradiated. the intent, to kill the live agent before shipment. over the next year the material was divided into a number of lots and it was shipped 22 times until last friday when a maryland lab discovered it had live anthrax. >> now look it's really important to draw distinctions. in 25078 2001 loose agent in envelopes very much designed to harm people. this time the material was shipped in secure containers. the pentagon says. it should have been more secure because it was live agent, it was dead agent but still it was shipped in what the pentagon believes was a secure fashion. nobody is sick but the bottom line is all of this under investigation, because the pentagon cannot be sure at this point exactly what it is dealing with. jake? >> barbara starr at the bening thank you so much. no relief in si

jamie mcintire reports from the pentagon on how this happened. >> the pentagon says it is cooperating in an investigation by the centers for disease control and prevention into how the u.s. military mistakenly shipped life anthrax spors spores to a laboratory on monday. it reported last week that some of its samples were live. that sparked a recall of similar shipments to laboratories in a total of nine states and a u.s. military base in korea. besides maryland the states are texas, wisconsin delaware, new jersey tennessee, new york, california and virginia. a pentagon spokesperson says all the samples are retrieved and are inspected to see if any also contained live active spores. the cdc says there's no threat to the public and no suspected or confirmed case of anthrax infection. the shipment is a serious breach of protocol for handling deadly anthrax spores and the agency is investigating along with state and federal agencies. >> jamie mcintire in the pentagon. >>> authorities are asking residents to evacuate, after days of heavy rain and flooding that took lives in texas and oklah

but the state department and the pentagon saying the u.s. will be sending additional weapons. and president obama saying there is a need to rump up support as well as equipment, but still acknowledging that this has been a major tactical setback. >>> coalition air strikes have not just targeted isil fighters and military equipment, they have also taken aim at isil finances. patricia sabga joining us now. how effective has these strikes been against damaging their finances? >> reporter: coalition air strikes, damaging isil oil facilities, depressed oil prices, the one-two punch that has brought the armed group's biggest money spinner to its knees. >> last summer it was making a reported 1 to $3 billion a day. and now reportedly they make 1 to 2 million a week. >> reporter: extoerding taxes, protection money, and check point tolls is the group's steadiest source of income. and when it's territory expands as it did with we recent capture of ramadi. so does the pool of people isil can shake down. >> when it controls territory, it is able to find

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the pentagon says that despite the mistake, the public was never in danger but it also confirmed that four workers in maryland and 22 at the base in south korea are being treated for possible exposure. the live samples have been destroyed the pentagon says and investigators are visiting every lab that received samples. meanwhile, the cdc investigators are trying to figure out what went wrong. it is worth noting while these type of anthrax samples are routinely sent the pentagon points to a more likely culprit in this case less stringent protocols. >> john henry smith thank you. >>> the secret service is ramping up security around the white house. they are measuring the fence to add sharp points on top designed to stop people from climbing over it. officials say they are also working on other security solutions. >>> republican george pa tackky announced his bid for president this morning in a youtube video. >> they take from the people and gave it to themselves. it is time to standing up and take back this government. >> reporter: he became a national figure after the september 11th at

and 22 of the base are being treated for possible exposure, the pentagon says the live samples have been destroyed. and that investigators are visiting every lab that received anthrax samples originated from dug wow pap meanwhile the c.d.c. are trying to figure out what went wrong. >> it is worth noting that while these type of anthrax samples are routinely sent via commercial carriers the pentagon points to a more likely cull britt in this case, less stringent protocols due to the fact that the personnel that sent them believed those samples to be inactive. back to you. >> weighing in on an international dispute the defense secretary urges china to stop building islands in the south china sea plus another day another candidate, a former new york governor joins the feed, trying to become the next president of the united states. >> and group says at least 70 of them. on going fighting isil also targets. to fight isil in the province, but many iraqis say their government has ignored them as enron can reports they are demanding the operation, be sunni led not a responsibility of shia m

says the pentagon is confident in its strategy for fighting the islamic state. really? well this comes after the wall street journal reported the white house is rethinking its game plan after isis took over the key city of ramadi. the white house has not asked them to consider any changes. what in the world is going on? j.d. gordon joins us now, former defense department spokesperson and retired nafl commander. >> good to see you, thanks for being with us. so the journal reports they're rethinking the strategy the white house says no no we're good with it. is this a good strategy should they be good with it or do they need to rethink it and change it? >> greg good to see you, i think the white house has to rethink the strategy because it's not working right now. this limited air campaign a couple raids in syria and cracking down on finances it's just chipping away at them. it's not enough to get the job done. for every day the islamic state exists we are at risk for mass casualty attacks from home grown terrorists that they're recruiting on the internet also pos

the pentagon saying that live anthrax spores were sent to at least 18 labs across the u.s. via fed-ex possibly along side everyday packages delivered to your home. we have the latest on the potentially deadly mistake. good morning, kristin. >> this is no longer a u.s. problem. this is a global problem. a senior defense official says 22 people may have been exposed at a u.s. air force base in south korea. they are being treated as are four others in the united states. the pentagon says the treatment is a precautionary measure and there are no suspected cases of anthrax infection. the question everyone wants answered is still how in the world does the defense department inadvertently shift live anthrax samples via fed-ex to as many as nine states and an air pace in south korea. >> this is not a situation where somebody is sending a threat in the mail and having somebody unknown answer it or something. this is a routine occurrence between laboratories or between facilities in terms of the shipment and transfer of organisms. >> the cdc is investigating but it is still in the sp

seize control of the key iraqi city of from saudi -- ramadi and the the pentagon is contradicting themselves to save to read too much into this is a mistake. but the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff martin dempsey calls the victory a serious setback for iraqi forces. interestingly last month general dempsey downplayed the significance in the. >> the city itself is not symbolic in any way nor has it been declared that is central but it isn't brick and mortar but defending isil. when the campaign will not fall otherwise. lou: and what should be the embarrassing contradiction of the obama machine. our chief of staff four-star general our fox news military analyst, a general good to have you with us. what do we make of this divide? what are we to make of this administration and? >> ramadi it is symbolic than strategic. without largest province this is where they live. we cannot defeat isis without the sunii tribunal we just told them is the iraqi security forces cannot protect them. that is a huge failure to overcome a. >> but to be disbanded to melt away and to be al lasting persistent pro

. >> the pentagon on alert. the united states military reports it's raising its security because of threats. this is a case at military bases across america. ahead, look inside condition bravo. >>> after freddie gray's death in baltimore the justice department agrees to investigate the city's spire police -- entire police force. >> the department of yates is opening an investigation of the batmer police force. >> ahead how this is going town fold. and reassuring news about our economy. the unemployment rate falling to a level we haven't seen in seven years. of course, the news about paychecks isn't quite as good. let's get to it. >> we begin today with a fox urgent. a live look in baltimore where the family -- the attorney for the family of freddie gray is about to react to the news the department of justice will do a top to bottom review of the baltimore police department. we'll monitor what he has to say. >>> first today the military bases of the united states are on nationwide alert. an air force concert has

and the centers for disease control is on the ground in utah, working to find out how and why the pentagon shipped commercially live anthrax spores from a facility in utah to labs in nine states and another in south korea. so far, health officials say the risk for exposure to the deadly biological agent is low, but health and research officials have fanned out to all those labs to see how the material was handled and if personnel were exposed. the defense department normally ships live anthrax at high levels of bio-security. but in this case, they were shipped at a lower level, because the spores were thought to be dead. anthrax is considered a potential biological weapon, as the nation saw in a nightmare that unfolded soon after the 9/11 attacks, when five people were killed and 17 were infected. >> and pierre thomas with us live now from washington. pierre, no signs of any illness from this tonight? >> reporter: david, no signs of illness at the labs in those nine states. but the scientists who work with the anthrax are being offered antibiotics as a precaution. >> abc's pierre thomas le

barbara starr is at the pentagon and has more for us. good morning. >> right now the pentagon says there are no signs anybody is ill but they are moving to take the actions you just described. what we do know is the military contracted with fedex sometime ago to undertake these shipments, but that may be about all we know. this morning the pentagon really scrambling to come up with a set of facts about what happened here. this morning fear up to 22 personnel may have been exposed to anthrax in an air base in south korea, and an investigation underway after an army lab in utah shipped live an anthrax samples to them and nine states over the last few days. 22 people being monitored in south korea join four workers in the u.s. who received preventive post exposure treatment, and a lab in maryland was the first to report receiving the live bacteria after handling the samples, and the question now is how could this have happened? >> that's a great question. that's why we brought in the center for disease control and their investigators. >> th

for joining us. >> "the real story" with gretchen starts now. >>> the pentagon raising the threat level at all military basis across the united states. fox news broke this story this morning. u.s. northern command now requiring heightened security checks and other procedures as they try to stay one step ahead of isis and any home grown terrorists. saying it's going to hold random drills and exercises to keep people on their toe. it is not due to a specific or credible threat. live at the pentagon we have this breaking story. how big a deal is this?

why in the world should the pentagon be any different? taxpayers deserve better than black box budgeting and two decades of, we'll get on with this rhetoric. they keep postponing and saying, we'll get to it later. that's unacceptable when it comes to ending waste, fraud and abuse. i remember several years ago there were reports from "the new york times" and subsequently these reports were substantiated that taxpayer dollars cash, money, in suitcases, being passed out in afghanistan. what in the world are we doing? i mean we have no clue where that money went, how much it was, it was cash money. we need to take this action, and i thank mr. burgess and ms. schakowsky for this. if you ask me, i think we need to take bolder actions to address the pentagon's failure to achieve audit-ready status, excuse me, and somehow at some point penalize them if they don't do that. because we all would be penalized if in fact our books were not in order. so this amendment i just have to say is a major step in the right direction. the american people deserv

the pentagon first learned of the mistake when a lab in maryland informed them it had received a live sample last week. the cdc has started to confiscate the samples for testing. now, this is the second time in a year that live anthrax was accidentally sent out. last june 80 people were potentially exposed when the cdc sent out live spores by accident but no one was hurt. anne-marie? >> susan mcginnis in washington. thank you, susan. >>> soccer's international gorging body says tomorrow's vote for the new president will go ahead as planned despite the indictment of more than a dozen high-ranking members. seven were arrested in a hotel in switzerland yesterday morning. in all 14 were indicted by u.s. prosecutor and charged with taking $150 million in bribes. the indictment alleges a pattern of fraud bribery, and kickbacks as the executives decideward key events would be held. >> they were expected to uphold the rules that keek soccer honest and protect tin ted grit of the game. instead they corrupted the business of worldwide soccer to enrich themselves. >> the bribes were made through

the pentagon the air force, air national guard, vermont senators and the mayor turned us down. as for greco, she is left fighting a military she served proudly for 30 years, afraid their expensive new weapon may spell disaster for her town. >> "america tonight"s sheila macvicar is with us. it seems clear from the community's stand point that the location makes burlington an unsuitable place for the aircraft. why would it be the choice the first flays that the national guard -- place that the national guard. >> to be clear, not the entire community is complaining. some think it's a good idea. there has been some lobbying going on and a lot of people are looking to vermont, powerful senators, senator patrick lay hi as someone who is lobbying hard and for his home national guard. >> what is it clear what the deaners would be from the air -- dangers would be from the coding on the aircraft. does it come up if there's a crash? >> we know from one person who worked on developing the f1-17 a. that they were required to wear full body containment suits when they were working, when the

from fairfax to the pentagon. andrea mccarren were embedded for that ride. >> reporter: fired up from across virginia and compelled to be here. >> honor, duty. >> patriotism. there's a whole lot of people that gave a lot. >> reporter: bikers like don withrow who did two combat tours in vietnam. >> since then this country has come and rallied around their veterans, oh, big time, yeah, and i'm proud to be a part of that. >> reporter: the ride of the patriots began in fairfax 17 years ago and today it is 4,000 bikes strong. to give you some perspective on the magnitude of this ride, the lead bikes will actually reach the pentagon before the final riders even leave fairfax. >> it's important to us because we really like to honor all the veterans in the past and present wars. >> reporter: the ride is embraced by the fairfax community. residents line overpasses and the streets to show their support for this and the larger ride known as thunder. >> my generation was the vietnam generation. a lot of buddies that i had tha

late word coming in the pentagon accidentally sent live anthrax. the urgent testing now in nine states from new york to california from texas to wisconsin. a major investigation right now. the new storms hitting tonight. a tornado slamming into a shopping center. the system from texas to maine. >>> the major scare in the air. both engines failing. passenger plane then dropping 13,000 feet. >>> the fbi moving in after the u.s. lost the bid for the world cup. authorities say, now we know why. suit cases stuffed with cash? >>> and the major headline involving women and their health. the fbi investigating a key piece of hospital equipment. can it spread cancer? authorities asking who knew what and when? >>> and, the hunt for your made in america inventions. and the $100,000 surprise. >>> good evening. and we begin with that developing story tonight, the pentagon acknowledging a major mistake. sending live anthrax from a facility in utah. they sent samples to nine states one even sent overseas to south korea. they thought that the samples, the spores we

but the white house and the pentagon will only allow the reporting of the one step forward and so we don't recognize that we are losing this war. and that we refuse to recalibrate our strategy in order to win. >> okay. but they don't acknowledge that they are not going to acknowledge that if i had the president on or even the joint chiefs of staff they wouldn't acknowledge that last night there was a meeting in the white house. a late night meeting okay? to come up with some kind of strategy. but i'm saying to myself, you know, this is going on three years now that this threat has been in play. and there is still no strategy. and you are are seeing ramadi 70 miles away from baghdad fall? and all the blood and treasure that the yats spent in iraq is going down the drain before our eyes and you still don't have any counter to it? is that just incompetence, mr. reuben? >> it is, bill, that's just the tip of the iceberg. because, when the obama administration looks at what's going on with the islamic state in iraq, they want to look at this through the lenz of grievance. they want to say

forces, it's titime for the pentagon to draw on innovation. among the most important missions of world d war ii was jimmy doolittle's 1942 raid on japan. some four months after pearl haor, the legendary aviator led 16 bombers to attack japanese cities. the raid was d dreamed up by a submariner and executed perfectly in total secrecycy. it used available resources and audacity. evenfter spotting the america carrier task force, japanese leaders did't respond because they concluded u.s. naval aircraft did not have the range to reach japan. theyidn't consider that thehe carrier was c carrying long-range army bombers. the raid lififted america's spirits and stunts japanese leaders, who expanded their security zone to defeat further attacks. americicset up a trap that sank four japanese carriers. that put japann a path to defeat. on this memorial day, salute all who innovated for theirountry. let's learn from their sacrifices. if you have any comments about this showr suggestns for future coverage, please e-mail me. as you enjoy this memorial day we

jet from a growing force of the critics, charging the pentagon most expensive weapons, at best a little more than a boon dog the and at worse a dangerous aircraft of the "america tonight" report concerns for pilot safety and mike viqueira follows up with forwards on the ground in community hosting the joint strike fighter. >> never before has the air force put a brand new fighter bomber at a commercial airport. usually they go to air force bases in remote area, and do it purposely because new aircraft crash more. >> the plane she is talking about is the f-35 fighter. from the stealthy design to the millions of lines of computer code inside acting as an artificial intelligence, it's hailed as the future of combat aviation. many residents of this town see it as a very real danger. . >> the burlington airport is not suitable for the f-5, it's a commercial airport, not a military base, the people were here first. >> rowan is a leader of a group fighting to keep the f-35 out of her local airport in vermont. national guard. and is scheduled to receive 18 f-35s by the year 2020. it will be the

she's at the pentagon. barbara, the pentagon's line the past two days is this is just a setback. is anyone at the pentagon conceding that the fall of ramadi is more serious than that? >> you know, jake at this point, the washington the pentagon talking point setback is really holding firm. i think the issue is the military reality on the ground may be very different. tens of thousands of iraqis on the run, fleeing ramadi from isis's brutal takeover. now many sick and stranded in the desert. hundreds may have already been killed. >> one of the most horrific aspects of this is as the isis fighters went through the town they massacred children wives of the townspeople. >> less than 70 miles from baghdad, ramadi extends isis's influence. >> to lose this city to isis the new incarnation of al qaeda and iraq is a huge blow and it's one that we should not sugar coat and say it doesn't matter because it does matter and it matters a great deal. >> some iraqi troops had on the air lifted out of the city. >> police are abandoned positions one area of the other. >> in the end, there was no h

pentagon sources say they outnumbered the isil attackers 10 to 1. there were 7,000 iraqi security forces in ramadi plus another 3,000 police and special operations troops and they got in their vehicles and drove off as the 1,000 isil fighters were advancing. the pentagon says none of those fighters who were in ramadi though were trained and were part of the forces recently trained by the u.s. it was something that the white house was quick to point out. >> we would expect that forces that are augmented by u.s. and coalition trained troops forces that are augmented by local fighters from local sunni tribes, and from the population mobilization force, will be able to improve the performance of the iraqis on the battlefield against isil. >> reporter: so what happened in ramadi? pentagon sources say they believe essentially the iraqi troops there psyched themselves out by a series of events including a surprise ambush on a patrol. these big truck bombs that were set off until the city and then the sandstorms that they falsely would prevent the u.s. from