from the pentagon, cnn's barbara starr. also with us dr. sanjay gupta. barbara, update us. where did the troops contract the virus in how farr has this reached? >> this is surprising news from the pentagon this morning. we're learning the actual rate of the zika cases among the military has nearly doubled in the last month. right now, 33 military members confirmed to have contracted zika at some point since the pentagon began tracking this earlier this year. so that's 33 members. but here's the interesting thing. a month ago at the end of june, it was 18 military members. it is now up to 33. so we do see evidence that this is still spreading, still being contracted by military members. we are told that all of them got it overseas, and of course this is one of the concerns because military personnel deploy regularly. they go to locations, countries outside of the united states, and it does appear at this point that when what the pentagon believes is they all got it overseas. and in addition there are six other people who have gotten the zika from military personnel in their famili

get more from barbara starr. >> reporter: this has been a report in the works for several months now. republican congressional investigators looking at the allegations that the u.s. central command, the part of the military that runs the war against isis, they may have cooked the books on intelligence. we have a look at the report. let me read you one finding from the report. it says and i quote, central command produced intelligence that was more optimistic than other parts of the intelligence community and typically more optimistic than actual events warranted. the military between 2014 and 2015 coming up with better intelligence than the rest of the intelligence community had. why did they do this? the report found that at central command, top military commanders were relying on the intelligence from the field than the intelligence from their analysts and that is skewing the picture. there are new commanders and new analysts and new leaders in the command. they say they are trying to make sure everything is in order now. this is not the last word. there is an inspector general

be activated. >> barbara starr was at the president's press conference moments ago and joins me now. that was a major statement from the president tonight. >> it was, indeed, erin. i asked him about his view right now about the threat to the homeland. one of the other things he said was, and i'm quoting, i think it's serious. so what is the president really talking about? what the president is being briefed on is that isis has been expanding far beyond iraq and syria in some 18 countries now. we have seen any number of attacks happening in europe, in bangladesh, very brutal attacks across many places in the middle east, as well and so the concern is as isis is able to stage these external attacks by maybe just inspiring a few people with a few weapons, they can cause such massive damage. the concern like the attack in istanbul's airport, could isis get to people here in the united states? people who do not have a current criminal record, people who may be able to buy weapons who may be part of some inspired attack, but he raises the possibility tonight that this could be a network s

. cnn's correspondent barbara starr has details. >> reporter: the first round of air strikes carried out at president obama's authorization in conjunction with the emerging libyan government. called the government of national accord. this government has been asking for u.s. help in striking isis in libya. they are looking for precision u.s. air strikes to push back isis fighters. one of the concerns is isis had been gaining strength in libya. these fighters had been moving against isis. now they want the extra fire power from the u.s. to push them out once and for all. the question right now is where are all the isis fighters. some certainly have been killed in the recent weeks and months of fighting, but there is a good deal of concern that some have fled, some disappeared into nearby towns and villages mixed in with civilian populations. isis in libya is always a big concern because isis operatives can fairly readily move across the mediterranean into southern europe or across north africa and carry out more attacks. the hope is that this extra u.s. fire power with more attacks in

always on the same page. here is cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr. >> as commander in chief i'm pretty tired of some folks trash talking america's military and troops. >> reporter: the military, an unlikely target in the 2016 political drama. >> our military is a disaster. >> reporter: and it's not just donald trump and president obama going after each other. the khans, parents of a muslim american soldier killed in iraq, were criticized by trump. this election cycle, there are boos and jeers from all sides. an air force mother booed at a mike pence rally. >> will there ever be a point in time when you're able to look at trump in the eye and tell him enough is enough? >> reporter: at the other end of the spectrum -- [ crowd chanting "no more war" ] -- bernie sanders' supporters jeered several speakers and chanted "no more war" at the democratic convention. >> we must not and we could not stand on the sidelines. >> reporter: recently retired members of the military themselves are weighing in during this political cycle. retired general john allen speaking on behalf of hillary cli

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to break federal law. let's bring in barbara starr. this is not just a hypothetical with just 88 days in the race, one has to wonder, are people at the pentagon considering a scenario in which they have to choose between obeying the law, and obeying an order from the commander in chief. >> it is something you do hear about. consider guantanamo bay. there has been a lot of talk about bringing them to the u.s. for trial. donald trump talking about sending american citizens to guantanamo bay for military trials. would the u.s. troops obey him? could he do that? >> donald trump has new thoughts on how, if elected, he might send citizens convicted of terrorism to the military prison at gaun tuantanamo bay. >> i don't like trying them in our regular court system. i would say they can be tried there, that would be fine. >> the law that created military admissions prevents them from being tried at guantanamo. >> he would have to work to establish different laws. that would be constitutionally suspect. why? under u.s. courts are fully open and available to provide the u.s. constitutional

losing, then maybe he can raise some questions. that doesn't seem to be the case at the moment. barbara starr. >> thank you, mr. president. on the question of isis expansion that you have been talking about, because you see them expanding around the world, because you see them trying to inspire attacks, what is your current level of concern about the homeland. you talked about the protection measures, but what is your assessment about the possibility of your own intelligence advisories suggesting it's possible, about the direct isis threat to americans, and if i may follow up, what is your assessment today as you stand here about whether donald trump can be trusted with america's nuclear weapons? >> on your second question, and i'll sort of address this to any additional trump questions, i would ask all of you to just make your own judgment. i have made this point already multiple times. just listen to what mr. trump has to say and make your own judgment with respect to how confident you feel about his ability to manage things like our nuclear triad. >> as i recall, i just answered a qu

journey after a detour that was almost a dead end. barbara jimenez was injured in a car crash in cuba. >> well, doctors did not expect this but barbara was determined to make it happen. >> my left side of my sc skull s fatfractured and i had a problem with this eye, where it was shut for months and then for a long time wide open. driver, everyone else in the vehicle was seriously injured. she also suffered a brain and yanurism, and other issues. with no insurance her family would not afford her tre treatmt or to get her back to the u.s. but the community steps up. one hp company flew her had home and another in cuba, and t orga organizatiot the university raised money to help. >> and now i look at it as a thing of the past. before it was hard and seemed like a present thing in my life but i'm graduating tomorrow, it's a part of my story that makes me barbara now, as opposed to the thing that is holding my back. after before possibly heading to law school but she can't forget the people who helped her in her had darkest moments and she wants to find a way to give back. >> a special day

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call this number now. ? jim: i'm one of them. fermin: yo tambien. barbara: i'm one of over 300,000 nevadans who rely on social security. fermin: social security helps us pay the bills. jim: and enjoy the retirement that we've earned. barbara: that's what makes joe heck so dangerous. fermin: his plan to privatize social security means billions in profits for wall street. barbara: risking retirement security on the stock market. fermin: what if it crashes again? jim: wall street has given joe heck over a half a million bucks. barbara: i wonder who he's working for. jim: because it's not us. >> jim: right now on "news 3 live at 3:30," donald trump at the center of several controversies just this week. how experts say he needs to get back on track on win the election. >> marie: health officials continue fighting the zika outbreak in florida. they're fumigating a neighborhood in miami. we'll tell you how pregnant women living and working in the area are coping with the threat. >>> in the good stuff da this four-year-old wants nothing more than to become a cop some day. but a serious dia

bombardment is a special concern to the pentagon. barbara, did your sources indicate how close this bombing raid ca raid came to u.s. positions? >> it was close enough that for the first time, special operations forceders had to get out of the way. >> this is set to show fighters in a running gun battle with syrian regime forces. syrian fighter jets also bombing the area and alarming the pentagon that ordered the hasty withdrawal of nearby forces. >> they may be u.s. intelligence folks on the ground. so this increases the possibility of direct conflict. >> the building smoldering from the air strikes. u.s. forces are training to fight isis. until now, the regime steered clear of where the americans operate. when the attack came, the u.s. military scrambled trying to contact the syrian aircraft and there was no answer. they warned they will take whatever action is necessary to defend u.s. forces. and sending more u.s. aircraft in the area to patrol the skies. there is now a real possibility of the u.s. and syria squaring off in the air. a senior use military official telling cnn if the syria

at guantanamo bay. cnn's pentagon correspondent barbara starr has been working the story for us. barbara, to be clear, all these actions that he's proposing they would be against the law. >> they currently are very much against the law, jim. there's been talk in the past about bringing guantanamo detain es to the u.s. for trial. as you say, just one problem. it's not legal. donald trump has new thoughts on how, if elected, he might send u.s. citizens accused of terrorism to the military prison at guantanamo bay. >> would you try to get the military commissions and the trial court there to try u.s. citizens? >> they want to try them in our regular court systems and i don't like that at all. i don't like that at all. i would say they could be tried there. that would be fine. >> a law that created military commissions specifically exempts u.s. citizens from being tried at gitmo military experts say. >> mr. trump would have to work with congress to establish different laws. >> would that work? >> that would be constitutionally suspect. why? why would it be suspect? it's because curr

. military equipment after an attack in afghanistan. >> let's get to barbara starr at the pentagon. what are you learning? >> reporter: this has been a tale floating around for a few days. now some facts are emerging about a photograph we want to show you. this is a photograph isis' news agency put out over the weekend of u.s. military gear it claims to have captured in afghanistan during a fight with coalition fighters. what you see there, you see a mortar launcher, an american flag. you see american ammunition, what appears to be american-made military gear, including a military i.d. of a u.s. soldier. now we know more about how isis got all of this. it was july 25th in eastern afghanistan. u.s. troops had been battling isis in a place called nan ga har province. here is what happened. the u.s. gathered a number of troops in what they call a casualty collection point. it was a point where they were gathering up u.s. wounded, getting ready to evacuate them out when that collection point for the wounded american troops came under enemy fire. the u.s. military openly saying it was a

stage, the one and only barbara streisand kicks office her new tour. >>> health officials in the miami area are investigating a new case of the zika virus, that brings the total number of infebted victims to 15, this has mosquito control efforts move from the ground to the air. >> reporter: good afternoon, officials here in florida are confirming they are investigating a new case that is actually located outside of that so-called zika zone, but for now officials believe that active transmission is taking place within that zone. heavy rain and gusty winds delayed plans for aerial sprays this morning. but attacking zika on the grown still in full force. the number of inspectors going door-to-door now tripled. 15 people have contracted zika from infected mosquitos in florida so far. >> this is a tough mosquito to control. >> this is most frightening for pregnant women, so critics in the hot zone not taking chances. >> regardless, she is going downstairs -- >> gabrielle is 8 months pregnant and is prepared to do whatever it takes to stay zika free. >> i'm going to stay home and have

one of them. fermin: yo tambien. barbara: i'm one of over 300,000 nevadans who rely on social security. fermin: social security helps us pay the bills. jim: and enjoy the retirement that we've earned. barbara: that's what makes joe heck so dangerous. fermin: his plan to privatize social security means billions in profits for wall street. fermin: what if it crashes again? jim: wall street has given joe heck over a half a million bucks. barbara: i wonder who he's working for. jim: because it's not us. afscme people is responsible >>> big news in the fight against the zika virus. the centers for disease control now giving an additional $16 million to health departments in 40 states to help them monitor and respond to >> not a lot of money to go around because congress left without passing more funding. adam tusk has more on how transportation companies are dealing with the disease. >> new zika threats in the u.s. bringing on new concerns after more than a dozen mosquito cases now confirmed in miami. >> i had one. take that toll on travel. the cdc is taking people to stay away fro

dunks. >> they are safe for animals, for humans and for the little frogs. >> reporter: barbara riley and vince have responded to dozens of calls. >> anything that you can do preventative before the storm helps us for after the storm. >> reporter: she has worked for code enforcement for and says typically they are busy after severe weather. not this time. 43 cases of nontravel related zika in florida, including news that a tampa firefighter is one of the patients. barbara says people don't want to take chances so they are out in full force today, not only responding to calls but treating area hot spots. >> we're anticipating a lot of rain. this will be flooded. flyers warning about the dangers of zika. the mayor also stressed the importance of taking proactive steps. >> if you have fountains, if you have planters, if you have pots, if you have tires in your backyard, please make sure that you emy the water out of those. >> reporter: now, the mayor spent about $2,000 for this last batch of these dunks. and he says that he is prepared to buy as many as he needs to. 2,000 fo price to pay

just as i have done my entire life. the former first lady barbara bush expressing her dismay with trump in february. >> he has said terrible things about women. terrible things about military. i don't understand why people are for him for that reason. >> reporter: hillary clinton's campaign now seizing on those defections, citing nearly 50 endorsements from former cabinet secretaries, current and forming members of congress and business leaders. people like hewlett-packard meg whitman and chris shays. and former connecticut congressman chris shays. >> she's going to make government work again which is something i think some republicans don't want. >> reporter: all while trump's primary opponents gave vague hints about how they will or won't cast their ballots. >> vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom. to be faithful to the constitution. >> i wish that i could be fully enthusiastic. i can't be. >> reporter: leaving open the chance even more republicans will opt not to vote for their own nominee come election day. jessica snider, cnn, new yor

that we've earned. barbara: that's what makes joe heck so dangerous. fermin: his plan to privatize social security means billions in profits for wall street. barbara: risking retirement security on the stock market. fermin: what if it crashes again? jim: wall street has given joe heck over a half a million bucks. barbara: i wonder who he's working for. jim: because it's not us. afscme people is responsible low pressure that helped bring in our monsoon flow is continuing its track this means rain chances will fall fast as we move into the afternoon and should be completely out by this best chances for rain will be this morning from 5am to 11am; ranging between 25% and 30%. by noon, rain chances drop to a range between 15% and 20% and hold there unt by 5pm, rain chances drop to 10% or less and then we begin a dry trend. high temperatures today will range between 97 and 102 sunshine! winds look to pick up to a 10 to 20 mph wind mainly out of the south/southwest with gusts ranging between 25 and 35 mph. as winds come in, so do the warmer temperatures. by wednesday, sunshine is still of

in the area. let's get to barbara starr right now. she's got the breaking details. >> good morning to both of you. the pentagon announcing a short time ago that both manned and unmanned drone aircraft condu conducted a series of air strikes in libya against isis targets. this happened in a place called sert. this is where the emerging libyan government has been trying to fight isis. there may be upwards of 5,000 operatives in libya. they've been trying to fight them. these air strikes now will help this very fledgling emerging government in libya be able to push isis out and take hold. why is this so significant of course. because these isis operatives, this has been a training area for them to stage attacks across the border in other places. libya of course just south of italy, a short sail if you will, across the mediterranean into europe. a lot of concern that isis operatives in libya can move around and begin to conduct attacks in other places. the pentagon signaling this will be the first of many attacks. other additional air strikes to support the new government in libya. ver

. both nominees will soon start receiving intelligence briefings. barbara starr joins us with details. so these intelligence briefings, do we know when the candidates will be getting them? >> reporter: the intelligence community is prepared to begin the briefings at any time, make the offer to both the presidential and vice presidential candidates and set up a location, secure location where they can meet with them and offer these briefings. these have been going on for years every election cycle but this year, like everything else, a lot of drama involved. the republicans don't think hillary clinton should get a briefing. the democrats don't think donald trump should get a briefing. but the intelligence community indeed is making an offer to all four candidates to give them an intelligence briefing about threats, challenges that the u.s. is facing around the world. >> the contents of the briefing are classified. are they like the president's daily brief? do we have a general sense of what's included in them? >> reporter: they do not go that far, is every indication we are getting. th

our world lead, u.s. air strikes pounding isis targets in coastal city of sert, libya. barbara, what can you tell us about the strikes and targets? libya? >> yeah. back in the business of striking libya here at the pentagon, jake, at the authorization of president obama and in conjunction with his emerging new libyan government. u.s. warplanes struck a number of isis targets along the coast near sert. they struck a tank and some vehiclees. sounds small to start with. but what is really going on here is the u.s. is trying to back up this fragile libyan government in its efforts to push isis out. isis has been on the rise in libya. they've killed a number of isis fighters. but there's a good deal of concern that many fighters for isis have simply disappeared into the desert, gone into hiding, drifted into other towns and villages, living among civilians all it fight another day. so look for the u.s. to keep up this new effort, new round of air strikes in libya, to try and help this government push isis out once and forall. jake? >> all right. barbara starr live at the pentagon for us.

correspondent barbara starr. what are you learning about this, barbara? >> good evening, briana. it is a russian show of force that washington is not happy about. russia says its long-range bombers like these carried out air strikes against isis after taking off for the first time from a base in northwest iran. russian aircraft according to the u.s. struck in aleppo and idlib and da irezor. moscow insisted it is going after isis. the u.s. disagrees. >> we have not struck targets in aleppo in a very long time. we have not struck targets in a very long time if at all and we don't see concentrations of icis in those areas. >> secretary of state john kerry called his russian counterpart with concern. >> publicly, russia wants the u.s. to join operations especially near aleppo where tens of thousands of civilians are trapped. the russian defense minister says moscow is in very active negotiations with the u.s. >> that's his messaging on what he wants to happen to gain an upper hand as russia does in these negotiations. >> reporter: the u.s. is continuing to pursue an agreement, but the u.s. m

: meagan wilkes said the pain is almost unbearable. two months ago, her mother, brother -- barbara mulholland, passed away. now her ashes are gone. her ashes taken in a burglary sunday afternoon. >> please bring it back. i don't care about anything. i just want my mom back. >> reporter: the break-in was stopping by for a visit. he found doors wide open. household items stolen, along with jewelry. but it's the urn the family is desperate to get back. >> she passed away two months ago. we feel like they lost her all over again. it's the same emotion. >> reporter: and a quick check of the website shows at least nine burglaries in the area in the past four weeks. now the family is not only retur the ashes. >> they can leave the ashes somewhere. i don't care if it's in a vacant lot and call channel 3 and say we just left the ashes at wherever and we'll go and pick them up. >> it's about this big, this big. it's a dark, wooden box that you can't open. you have to unscrew it frhe bottom. >> reporter: barbara mulholland worked for city bank for 30 years and gave tirelessly to charities, in

years now. let's get more from our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. this is just something that is so moving and so disturbing at the same time, barbara. >> good evening, brianna. the images are very disturbing. one tiny face in the middle of a civil war. 5-year-old omran daqneesh carried out of the rubble in aleppo, syria, sitting in shock, alone in the ambulance, no shoes, not even crying, wiping away the blood. the syrian activist who recorded the images says it took nearly an hour to pull him out. >> translator: omran's whole face was blood and his family was under the rubble and there was no one to help him, but the rescue workers. the image going viral capturing the horror of aleppo and the humanitarian disaster that is syria. evoking another image, that of 2-year-old drowned on a turkish beach. the impossible choice facing millions trapped in the middle of syria, stay and try to survive or escape. either way, risking death. the u.n. special envoy demanding russia and the u.s. try to stop the carnage and get humanitarian aid into aleppo. >> i again, insist on behalf of the

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isis militants, but the u.s. is disputing that. cnn's barbara starr live at the pentagon with more on this. good morning, barbara. >> good morning, carol. the u.s. believes the russians are continuing to largely strike syrian sive vilcivilians with t bombing campaign. maybe there's some isis out there, but that's not the way the u.s. sees the majority of what the russians are up to. the russians now, as you say, landing their bomber aircraft inside iran in northwest iran at a military base there, loading up there on the ground with weapons, bombs and missiles and taking off for those targets inside syria. the russians are looking in the view of the u.s. to solidify their position in syria while they're still trying to convince the u.s. to sign a joint air agreement, if you will. the russians want the u.s. to sign up to some kind of -- what they view as joint cooperation agreement for future air missions. the u.s. very reluctant to do that because the u.s. priority in terms of the russians is to get them to stop bombing the civilians. what you're really talking about here is no surpris

only choose nicorette. >>> they plan to hit isis strongholds there. barbara starr joins us with more on this. >> i think you're making the key point right there. this will be a series of air strikes that the u.s. is engaging in this libya in conjunction and cooperation with the new emerging government there. that's the real change here. there is the beginning of a fledging libyan government on the ground. they asked for help. the u.s. responding, going in and now will hit a number of isis targets. already tank vehicles, some other targets hit. this is along libya's northern coastline near a city called sert. the has been trying to push isis out. u.s. fire power called in. isis has been pretty strong in libya. they've been growing. and the big concern is, of course frr course, from that northern coastline they can move into southern europe, across northern afri africa, plan and stage more attacks. there is a sense that fighters in libya have already disappeared, mixing in with the population. it may be a very tall order to push isis out of libya. but with fire power this new government h

there is i full-on mutety n mutiny, no one can stop. >> barbara starr this week at the press conference asked the president how he feels about donald trump potentially being in charge of it. >> what is your assessment today as you stand here about whether donald trump can be trusted with america's nuclear weapons. >> just listen to what mr. trump has to say and make your own judgment with respect to how confident you feel about his ability to manage things like our nuclear triad. >> all right, ron brownstein is with me, cnn political analyst, and also senior editor at the "atlantic" a fascinating article this week. let's just put this in context for people. when have we ever seen a sitting u.s. president so openly oppose a candidate in that way? >> i don't think we have. i mean, i think this is a extension of kind of the ways in which this is a unique election. the closest thing i can remember is in 1988, ronald reagan at one point made a seeming joke that was a reference to the rumor that michael dukakis was under going treatment for depression. he said i won't pick on an in

guantanamo bay. what all of these things have in common is that they're illegal under u.s. law. barbara starr digs deeper. >> fred, there's always been a lot of talk about bringing guantanamo detainee to the united states for trial. now donald trump is talking about the possibility of sending american citizens charged with terrorism to guantanamo bay for trial. is it legal? can he really do it? donald trump has new thoughts on how, if elected, he might send u.s. citizens accused of terrorism to the military prison at guantanamo bay. >> would you try to get the military commissions, the trial court there to try u.s. citizens? >> well i know that they want to try them in our regular court systems and i don't like that at all. i don't like that at all. i would say that could be tried there. that could be fine. >> the law that created military commissions specifically exempts u.s. citizens from being tried at gitmo, military experts say rkts so mr. trump would have to work with congress to establish different laws. >> would that work? >> that would be constitutionally suspect. why would it

barbara jimenez was seriously injured in cuba if you remember this story. she was leaving the airport and a sem i truck crashed into a taxicab. barbara, her boyfriend, two family members were all inside. the impact killed the cabd cabdriver. everyone else was seriously injured. barbara was in a coma for two weeks. she had no insurance. family couldn't afford medical flight back here to the states, community stepped up to cover her flight and medical exp expenses. >> this was a miracle. just the fact that this many people from different sectors got so involved and you know to help me. like i said it was so crazy and so surreal that this many people helped me. >> walter: tomorrow barbara becomes a usf grad and will take a year off before possibly heading to law school. she said she wants to find a way to give back to the tampa community, paying forward all that love and support along with barbara, nearly 3,000 other usf students will graduate today that includes a 19-year-old with a bachelor's in management and a 69-year-old receiving a bachelor's in psychology. the ceremonies at the us

buildings are destroyed near los angeles. as the fire lines down to mac others are growing barbara and kern counties. >>> sarasota police need your help tracking down some crooks that sold $600 worth of security cameras, you can see these guys walking around surf and sand and one of them sits right in front of the camera at some point and eventually turns it off. if you recognize the do or you can call the sarasota police department. >>> the final report says the two-year-old death of lane graves was an unpreventable accident. they say the gator acted in a predatory manner and the boy did nothing to provoke the alerted staff to the alligators about 45 minutes prior to the attack and was on his weight down to one families when he heard a woman scream. >>> you have to see the story to believe it. a woman narrowly escaped disaster when a long handled shovel came flying through the air on the suncoast parkway and wedged in the front row of her car. a few inches higher and the shovel likely would've come crashihr the dangerous debris crashed into her car more than one week ago and she still

. barbara starr reports on this. >> this video is said to show kurdish fighters in a running gun battle with syrian regime forces in the northern syrian city of hasaka. syrian fighter jets also bombing the area, alarming the pentagon which secretly then ordered the hasty withdrawal of nearby american special operations forces. >> we've got aircraft flying in those areas. we've got forces on the ground including u.s. special operations forces and certainly may well be u.s. intelligence folks on the ground. so this increases the possibility of direct conflict. >> the building smoldering from the air strikes. hasaka is normally relatively calm and largely under kurdish control. u.s. forces are training kurds and arabs to fight isis. until now the syrian regime had steered clear of where the americans operate. the pentagon is furious with damascus and moscow. when the syrian attack came, the u.s. military scrambled, trying to contact the syrian aircraft, was there no answer. warning the russians and the syrians, the u.s. will take whatever action is necessary to defend u.s. forces, a

. >> our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr has this. these were highly classified missions. >> wolf, the battle against isis has largely been waged in secret by u.s. special operations forces. the battles far from the public view, but now tonight here "in the situation room," we have new details. >> navy s.e.a.l.s in a fire fight against 100 isis operatives in iraq. this cell phone video captures a rare glimpse into the deadly world of special operation the public is never meant to see. navy s.e.a.l. charles keating was killed here. across the isis battlefield u.s. special operations are engaged in missions so perilous it's become a secret dossier of courage in the fight to kill isis. cnn has learned there are four silver stars, the third highest award for valor for combat against isis that are so classified no details are available. none. but clues on other battles are emerging from documents obtained by cnn detailing the combat awards for missions never fully described in public. one filed details exclusive new information on a july 2014 raid that so far has only been briefly ackn

and then ended with her father. >>> barbara's mother passed away this week after a battle with cancer. barbara's mother lived in fayetteville and unable to attend the pageant in june because of her illness. she posted this video on instagram saying my best friend earned her wings to heaven. mom thank you very much showing me what strength, courage and bravery looked like. miss usa grew up in fayetteville and is a member of the military. >>> the florida zika outbreak is spreading across the state. they announced 5 new nontravel- related cases. one of them is here near tampa. a good distance from the center of the outbreaks in the miami area. officials are working with that patient to determine where the virus was contracted. meantime, crews are spraying to door to educate parents. >>> authorities are telling people to stay out of the river. canal has flow into the river are lime grown with a blanket of algae so thick you can barely see the water underneath. the bluegreen algae can be toxic to young children and pets. the division of habitual health says people should avoid swimming in

isis from key strongholds in that country and barbara starr is live in washington with more for us. barbara, what's the latest? >> good morning allieson. the first strikes in libya in support of the emerging government there and its fight against isis. the strikes against a tank and isis vehicles were done with the authorization of president obama specifically to support the government that's trying to take hold there. this all happened in a place on libya's northern coast, isis stronghold. they've been trying to push isis out. why is this so important? why is the u.s. even involved here? just look at the geography. this northern coast where isis has taken hold just south of europe. there's concern about isis using this as a pathway to move into europe, to move into other areas of north africa, to plan and stage additional attacks. the pentagon very clear there will be more air strikes to support the government there and try once and for all to push isis out. john? >> all right, barbara starr on important developments there. we'll keep our eye on them. thanks so much. >> it may be

detour that was almost a dead end. one year ago, barbara jiminez ws injured in cuba. >> i spent months where my eye was completely shut and then months where it was very wide open. >> last august barbara was visiting family in cuba. she barely left t a semi truck crashed into the taxi cab she was in. among the injuries you just head barbara mention she also sufferd a brain aneurysm and was in a coma for two weeks. with no insurance, her family couldn't afford treatments or a flight back to the u.s. the community rallied around her to get her medical expenses covered and get her back to the united states. >> this is definitely coming toa better place, and now i look at it as a thing in the past. before it was very hard, it seemed like a present part of my life. i'm graduating tomorrow, so it's part of my story that makes my barbara now versus the thing that's holding me back. >> what a story here. today she officially becomes a usf graduate as well, so congratulations. she plans to take a year off before possibly heading to law school, but she says she can't forget all the people who re

or a laura bush or a barbara bush or a michelle obama, melania is not the person. these photos have been described as racy. some people might describe them as soft porn. you asked how did they get them? it wouldn't surprise me, although i don't have knowledge of it, if donald trump, himself, gave these photos. he's proud of his wife. >> yeah, i don't -- >> he's using them to market his campaign. >> listen, i think it's -- listen -- she can use her body the way she wants. most people have nothing against nudity, but, again, i think your question is, how do you assess this with other first ladies in the country? she's going to be the first lady. i don't think anyone wants to shame her. she was the successful model. there are nude photographs out there. but, again, to what you said about the timing, do you think the photographs, gloria, are going to distract from the trump campaign or khan family controversy? >> if they are going to distract, is that exactly what donald trump would like? because he's on the losing end of the khan controversy with the gold-star parents. but in addition,

. some of them may be upgraded. wolf? >> good reporting, barbara. thank you. that's it for me. thanks for watching. erin burnett "out front" starts right now. >>> "out front" next, the breaking news, donald trump accused of making a death threat over hillary clinton. did he? new polls show hillary clinton leading in battleground states and double digits in pennsylvania. can trump close the gap? trump says he loves mormon, but the feeling doesn't seem to be mutual. could it cost him the election? let's go "out front." ♪ ♪ >>> and good evening. i'm erin burnett. "out front" tonight, the breaking news. donald trump speaking to supp t supporters in north carolina making a comment that sounded like a threat to hillary clinton. >> hillary wants to essentially abolish the second amendment. by the way, and if she gets to pick -- if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. although the second amendment people, maybe there is, i don't know. >> now, let me play a crucial moment here. we've highlighted a man behind donald trump, watch his face after trump says these words. >> altho

than reality actually on the ground. to the pentagon we go for this, to barbara starr. more realistic than reality. what's actually does that mean? >> reporter: well, this has been a controversy brewing in the pentagon for some months now. we are talking about actually a particular time frame, mid 2014 to mid 2015. whistle blowers inside the u.s. central command had been complaining for several months that the intelligence reports they were working on were altered by senior commanders. so the progress against isis by the u.s. military would look more optimistic than it really was. now, already there is a full-blown pentagon investigation. we haven't seen the results of that. but today we are getting a peek, if you will, into a congressional review in to all of this by republicans on capitol hill. what they have concluded is, yes, indeed some of the intelligence reports were altered, that senior commanders felt they had to rely more on what they were getting from the field, from the front lines in iraq and syria, than what they were getting from their own intelligence analyst

making her son sick. barbara gareau, mom12:03he's been sick since the day after he got back in school.but the ceo of superior schools--the company that runs the charter-- says there is no mold.steven christopoulos, superior schools ceo26:17we firmly believe that there is no mold there because we don't see any evidence of that.steven christopoulos says the pictures were likely taken over the summer.the parents dispute that--saying people inside the school tell them they took the pictures in the last few weeks.documents christopoulos gave fox 13 appear to back him up--that the mold is no more.in reports--from pinellas county increased humidity--but don't make reference to any visible mold in visits this week.but those parents--still worry any mold may just be hidden. christopoulus says he's doing all he can to reassure parents--adding dehumidifiers and replacing broken air conditioning units.30:33we are taking every preventative measure possible as fast as we the pinellas county school district says charter schools are individually managed--even though the school district does pr