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. >>> another local news update the in a half hour or so. the "today" show returns in less than a minute. have a great morning. >>> 8:30 now on a thursday morning, the 2nd day of september, 2010. nice group of people joining us on the plaza this morning. on a day that's heating up. going to the mid 90s again today before cooling off over the weekend after that little thing called earl passes through. so we thank these people for stopping by. on the plaza, i'm matt lauer, ann curry is in for meredith. and natalie morales joins us, as well. we're going to talk in this half hour about a young lady with an unusual condition. >> imagine this, if you had a 14-year-old daughter and she could not eat for seven months straight. that actually happened. this young lady, and of course you can imagine what her parents went through. look at her now. we'll be talking to her about what she went through and how it affected her life. >> all right. >> okay. >> a reminder for you that on wednesday we brought our wedding couple here, melissa and jeremy, and then

. >> first, your local news and weather. during cold and flu season. that's why we started a mission for health. by going beyond clean surfaces to healthy surfaces. by making a healthy way to wash hands. and even by working with a pediatrician to develop lysol healthy habits initiatives in schools. when you use lysol, you're a part of something bigger. for healthy tips and more, visit lysol.com/missionforhealth. sweet n' sour filled twizzlers. the twist you can't resist. es tax on everything you buy? that's in andy harris' unfair tax plan. 23% sales tax. a 23% sales tax will cut my business in half. would be devastating. andy harris' 23% sales tax absolutely makes no sense. 23% sales tax would really make things unaffordable. that's too high for the average american out here. i don't know how we would manage it really. don't like that idea. we can't afford andy harris' idea. i'm frank kratovil and i approve this message. >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal 11 news today. >> good morning. i am tony pann. it will be another warm day with temperat

i'll have another local news update for you in half an hour. "today" show returns in less than a minute. have a good morning. >>> 8:00 now on a wednesday morning, the first day of september, 2010. let me say that again, september 1, and we have a nice crowd here on the plaza. 77 degrees, blue skies and we're hoping that lasts as long as possible before hurricane earl possibly makes his presence known here along the east coast. al is tracking that hurricane. he's down on the outer banks of north carolina. we're going to check with al in just a couple of minutes. >> on the first day of the month, we need to be told to have a lucky word to have a lucky month. we were told the say white rabbits. >> i'm matt lauer, this is anne curry, and coming up in this half hour is andre agassi, he has a flashy style, flashy hair, for a while a movie star wife and it seems now we know that there was also a lot of conflict in andre's life. he's back and he's going to talk about some of the revelations he made in his book and i think also some of the reaction that

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another local news update for you in about half an hour. "today" show returns in less than a minute. have a great morning. as governor, he cut waste got rid of the mansion and the limo budgets were balanced. $4 billion in tax cuts. world class schools and universities. clean energy promoted. 1.9 million new jobs created. california was working. i'm jerry brown. california needs major changes. we have to live within our means; we have to return power and decision making to the local level-closer to the people and no new taxes without voter approval. jerry brown the knowledge and know-how to get california working again. >>> we are back at 8:00 on a wednesday morning on the 8th day of september, 2010. starting to drizzle a little bit here in the northeast in new york city, but we still have nice people gathered on the plaza. we thank them for sticking around and something tells me the rain could get heavier before it ends. >> it's going to get windy here. >> thanks to the nice folks out on the plaza. i'm matt lauer with meredith i havary and

right after this local news. >> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. let's get an update on the weather or the john collins. >> lots and lots and lots of rain. we are getting moderate to heavy rain now. harford county, severe thunderstorm warning in effect until 9:30 because of this activity. switch to our other radar view. you will see all this moisture from the south. the tropical moisture reaches all the way down into the carolinas. a long, wet day today. this is what the forecast is all about. temperature's only warm a couple more degrees. more degrees. orined tabor's off tonight and my dad is the supervisor of a train station and my mom's a teacher. my dad's an auto technician. my mom's a receptionist. i'm not sure i would have been able to afford college without the tuition freeze. while tuition in other states is rising out of reach... governor o'malley made the tough choice to freeze tuition. he made my dream of going to college into a reality. i'm the first in my f

from the first local station with news and high definition, this is 9news now. there is breaking now tonight. u street closed down after somebody started shooting right after a funeral this afternoon. we've been on this story for you since this afternoon. my colleague is live on the scene right now. >> in about two hours they are hoping to have the corridor open again, but right now it's still closed. if not for this police tape you'd be able to walk down the road. if you've done so, walk down the street, you would have done so at your own pearl. it was just afternoon at the height of the lunch hour when all hell seemed to break loose. racing cars, shots fired, crashes, people ducking for cover. >> saw a bunch of people running down the street. from there, i went outside to see what was going on, then i saw a car flipped over and somebody's feet was sticking out of the car. >> police say the incident began after a funeral was letting out. hundreds of young people gathered for the funeral of ashley mccray. funeral is over, everybody is coming outside, then what h

news teams to report he faces up to a year in prison for desertion if convicted. it was holmes. today it is for the first day of the trial in the court martial of staff sergeant people. in years charged with one specification of violation of article eighty five of uniform code of military justice you see m.j. desertion. i will introduce mr ramsey clark as you all know by now as a former attorney general united states in the sixty seven of the johnson ministrations you just have to go be leading the defense on the issue of whether the international law defenses that we want to offer should be admitted in this case is that this is a or the most important issues in this case. i'll come down to the station. no. because it should such great importance. to our country tend to peace. in iraq you have soldiers accused of violating international law. the geneva convention. and for that matter domestic law for which you can brutalized people under any circumstances under a new law. here you have a soldier. who served in iraq. you describe leader. his squad was cleared in. t

thank you for watch >>> from the first local station with news in high definition, this is 9news now. >> good everyoning, tonight in your only local news at 7:00, household hazards, a family must bury their infant son after he is strangled to death in the drapes. dead woman walking. the only female on death row in virginia hoping for mercy from the governor before she is to be put to death in a week and speaking out, the hostages from the discovery standoff give the chilling details. >>> i'm andrea. >> he asked me, do you have kids? yes, sir, i have two. what's so good about your filthy children? i looked him in the eye and i said, they are very kind, sir. i look back at him and it's jim face first on the floor. christopher was trying to get my attention. i looked over and he had his arms folded and putting three fingers under his arms and he mouthed the word run. he shook h

that's coming up on your only local news at 7:00. >> couric: we end tonight with a surprising postscript to history. mark strassmann tells us a photographer who documented the civil rights movement and won the trust of its leaders was also apparently spying on them for the f.b.i. >> reporter: in the 18960s fight for civil rights, images like these helped doctor martin luther king win his movement. powerful images, poignant images and others intimate. all the work of the lateernette withers, considered the original civil rights photographer. >> well, he was a... one of the best photographers that you want to know. and loved the movement. >> reporter: or did he? the memphis "commercial appeal" unearthed secret f.b.i. files. withers was also a paid snitch, selling information and photographs to the feds. one entry "dr. king checked into the lorraine motel prior to going to a strategy meeting." it was april 3, 1968, the day before king was murdered. the files refer to withers as "m.e. 33r." the "r" stood for "racial informant. >> it's an act of betrayal to even let the f.b.i. think that they

just click on local news. perhaps you are handing out the lunch money for school. here's a story that will affect what your kids eat at school. >> money may run out for the federal school lunch program 3 tracie potts is in washington with more on the story. >> what washington says -- congress wants to increase this by about 5 cents per meal. fairfax county loses 77 cents on every meal. >> we are already getting fruits and vegetables, whole grains. we are walking the walk picket this new bill would require the government to limit jump food -- to eliminate junk food. >> we're trying to ask the congress to find the will to help small children. >> it is not enough to stick an apple on a trade. you need to give them a few different choices. >> the controversy is how this program is being paid for, by cutting future food stamp benefits. >> we have people depending on food stamps. >> those cuts will not happen for three years. hungry kids need help the school lunch today. tracie potts, wbal-tv 11 news. >> the house could vote on this today. more than 100 democrats and uni

news needs to focus on the quality of life of the local communities that they cover. you're absolutely right, if you cover the gestalt of the human condition in a community, you will deal with diversity and all of these issues. i am not talking about the public sector alone, that is an absurd dichotomy. if you start writing about the quality of life in a community, maybe people will start to see themselves change the pattern of how they read and interpret. >> you had said there was not a piece of content in this discussion, what about preventing a citizen from becoming a silo? >> i think there are a couple of things that the community should demand of all of us in the industry. transparency. what we stand for and who we are. we should be very transparent about whether we are reporters, journalists, constitutionalists. what i said earlier, what is really important, we can try to bridge these communities, even if we cannot cover them all individually. why are we not try to cover the different pieces together? we will be starting in the late spring to cover content, and

they had an ad that ran from august 11, and local news publications like megawatt daily. we got several stories related to the -- two different stories related to the rfp. we held our pre-bidders conference as an opportunity for the project manager. there may be questions they have after having reviewed the rfp. i will take it as a time to encourage the folks in the room and the folks on the phone, it is an opportunity for them to have a certain set of skills that are the full range of services that we are seeking. they're described in rfp, noted the list of participants and contact information with each other as they see appropriate. a quick note in terms of the folks that were in attendance of the conference. we had morgan stanley commodities, ecosys, and those with the main players that were there. earlier this week was the final day for potential bidders to submit questions. we're looking at responses to that. we have seen it fit to amend it in a couple of notable ways. the first is that yesterday, it reduced the minimum credit requirement. it requires the lowest dodg

another local news update in about a half hour. the show returns in less than a minute. >>> 7:30 now on a monday morning, it's the 27th day of december, 2010. you're looking at a live shot of the white house in washington, d.c. on what is a rainy morning here in washington. just a reminder, in just 30 minutes, we'll have our exclusive live half-hour-long interview with the president on the state of education in this country. i'm matt lauer at the white house, leaving the blue room here at the white house. making my way into the green room. a little different than the green room we have in studio 1a, ann, but a nice place to start the morning. good morning. >> good morning once again, it looks terrific. lucky you, i hope you're not having to keep your voice down so you don't wake up the family. >> no i think everybody's up and getting ready for school. coming up, we'll continue our look at the state of education in our country. many feel it's in a crisis mode right now. if you really want to know what's happening in schools, you've

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just click on local news. this man was reportedly ordered to volunteer at an animal shelter after being charged with animal abuse. he is accused of beating a dog with a pipe. the dog was severely injured and eventually euthanized. prosecutors said he needed to perform 50 hours of community service. the spca is upset and admits there were never consulted about the recommendation. >> maryland requires students to learn about the environment. this move could go as far as requiring students to pass the course to graduate. the state board of education feels these lessons are needed in schools throughout maryland. the state board has decided to hold off on forcing students to pass the course in order to graduate. that brings us to our water cooler question of the day. what do you think of a plan to make environmental education a required part of the school curriculum? you can e-mail your response to watercooler@wbaltv.com. the landmark health care reform law hits the six month mark. >> polls show the public remains

just look under the news tab on our home page and click on local news. >>> good afternoon. fall begins tonight at 11:09. doesn't feel like it. it's summer-like out there. upper 80s by 3:00, mid-80s at 6:00. thunderstorms in a few spots later this afternoon. by 9:00 holding onto 80. the muggies are back. in fact right now 81 with the air quality code yellow 88 to 93 in the metro. maybe 95 places like winchester. partly cloudy. an early shower. where it rains have a threat of patchy fog overnight. lows in the 60s to low 70s with light wind. 7:05 on sunset. tomorrow another unseasonably hot and humid day with a few storms in the afternoon. and like today going 88 to 93. satellite and radar a few clouds up here with showers and storms. still plenty of sunshine and temperatures have really skyrocketed especially in the valley. 91 in west virginia. near the bay southerly winds, only 81 in easton. 85 at the naval air station. and washington d.c. we've got 81. cull pepper by the way was already 88. mostly sunny out there. the dew point of 67. we have a heat index of 83. i thought w

they complain -- especially when it comes to local news -- a tremendous amount of crime coverage, in addition to coverage that is more commercially-driven. today, i picked up my iphone, click on the ktuv moblile app ad the top story was that some way now sells breakfast. [laughter] -- subway now sells breakfast. i always have to identify mind of being a critic of the media while at the same time trying to inspire people to go into the field. i think quality journalism is still out there. public broadcasting is really phenomenal. young people do not know what that is. they did not know who jim lehrer was. the quality is being buried under a lot of fluff. >> we covered newspapers and broadcast journalism. lisa frazier, you are testing a new model, the bay citizen, formally known as the bay area news project. you are a nonprofit startup. what is your annual budget, is it enough to provide coverage, comparable to the chronicle? >> i think the challenge we all have is that this is a difficult problem. no one organization can go forward on their own. it is irrelevant when our budget is --

. >>> i'll have another local news update in about half an hour. "today" returns in less than a minute. have a great morning. >>> 7:30 now on this wednesday morning, september 15, 2010. you're looking at new york city on a gorgeous morning. and we are happy these folks decided to start their day with us. i'm meredith viera along with matt lauer. >> sara shourd has spoken out for the first time and reuniteded with her mother on tuesday. and also we'll talk to the mothers of shourd's fiance and friend who are still being held in iran and could stand trial on spy related charges. >>> and following the harassment of a female sports reporter by members of the new york jets why. are the clothes she's wearing getting as much as tension as her taunts. >>> are you better off renting? what you need to know before diving into today's rocky real estate market. >>> dr. ian pettitte who lost his wife and daughters faced one of his accused attackers in court. >> reporter: good morning to you, what makes this crime so shocking, even just where it happened, the bea

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. >>> local news tonight. a very rare sighting a mountain lion roaming the street in the heart of berkeley. it happened this morning. simon perez says the incident has left neighbors on edge. simon. >> i was awake at 2:00 a.m. and i just got chills knowing about it. >> reporter: nancy feinberg lives in the berkeley neighborhood where the mountain lion took a stroll before dawn. >> we had absolutely no idea it was a mountain lion. we did not come to the front door. our landlord lives on the bottom floor so we figured if there was anything pertaining to them they would answer the door. we did see officers with flashlights in our backyards. >> reporter: those officers finally tracked the feline down on walnut street and had a tough decision to make. >> it was jumping into community members' backyards. it was dashing up the street. it was going into the playground of a church. there are lots of employees that work overnight in businesses there, restaurants, cleaning and the like. we also considered the homeless th

. >>> chris will be in this chair in 30 minutes, another local news update for you. the "today" show returns in just about a minute. >>> we're back with more of ""today"" on this 7th day of september 2010, most people are heading back to work and school. we have some people here playing hooky apparently. but we're happy they're here enjoying a beautiful day in new york. i'm matt lauer along with natalee morales and al roker out on the plaza this morning. did you have a nice weekend? >> yeah, i worked up here yesterday. >> you were here yesterday, that's right. we appreciate that. you were off enjoying yourself, you have been traveling like crazy. >> yeah, home for a little bit. >> good for you. >>> okay coming up in this half hour, a fascinating jailhouse interview with joran van der sloot. he is in a peruvian jail on charges of murdering a young woman down there, but of course he's also the guy who's under suspicion in the disappearance of natalee holloway five years ago in aruba. wait until you hear what he has to say about her disappearance and charges that he tri

brent is coming back with more local news. hereat.round. our state has a huge deficit. meg whitman's plan will make it billions worse by eliminating the capital gains tax for wealthy investors, including herself. economists say her plan will "rip a hole in the budget" and is "deeply flawed". analysts for the l.a. times say whitman's plan is a "pure handout" to the rich creating a "huge risk" to schools and public safety. jerry brown's against this unfair giveaway because it will take billions from our children when we can least afford it. get california working again-for all of us. >>> in a few hours a federal judge in san jose will decide whether all executions in california can resume. if the judge rules in favor of the death peoplety convicted murderer albert green brown will be convicted of murder and rape of a girl in 1980. executions have been halted since 2006 because an inmate planned that the process was cruel. that procedure has been since updated. >>> court proceedings could come to a stop for the convicted rapist accused of kidnapping jaycee due guard. he'll

>> i will do that. >> your local news and weather. >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal 11 news today. >> good morning. i am mindy basara, and let's get a final check on the traffic. >> still some problems s though russia is not quite over yet, 222 is shutdown at 275 the next an accident is clear and at alameda and cold spring. at beaver road, the routes are closed due to a crash. blue mountain also has a problem. there is a downed tree here. 20 minutes on both your west and east sides on the beltway. once get onto the jfx, it is filling up quickly down into the city. here is a live with you. here's what it looks like at old court. -- this is a live view. we will switch over to the live view with some delays on the inner loop towards a by-95. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> good morning. we're picking up some sprinkles on hd in doppler, nothing of any consequence. later in the afternoon, once again to the heat of the day, there could be a few thunderstorms, 30% of the chance. the bigger story is the heat, highs in the upper 80s to near 90. the average height is 76. to

. >> more local news in a half hour. the "today" show returns in less than a minute. >>> 7:30 now on a friday morning, the 3rd of september, 2010. hurricane earl is lashing the outer banks of north carolina right now. even though the eye of that storm remains well offshore, al roker is down there and we'll check in with him in just a couple of minutes. and further north in ocean city, maryland, you see the winds and waves are starting to intensify there as well this morning. earl is moving up the coast and could put a damper on labor day vacation plans for a lot of people. it's set to hit new england with hurricane force or tropical storm force winds a little later today. we'll keep an eye on it. >> so far, it's staying offshore. >> good news, he's not here in new york right now. we've got a nice crowd of people out on the plaza, getting ready to kick off the labor day weekend. we'll get outside and say hi to them. >>> inside studio 1a, i'm matt lauer, alongside ann curry while meredith is taking some time off. she'll be

the local news channels cover it all wall to wall. but when president obama gives his speech from the oval office -- >> i am announcing that the american combat mission in iraq has ended. >> reporter: it's in the middle of the night here, and not many people in this anxious nation are awake to hear it. for "nightline," this is dan harris in baghdad. >> and that's the reality in iraq. thanks to dan harris for that strong report. >>> when we come back, we'll take a look at the changing face of professional poker, and the new crop of teenagers who are winning and losing thousands. hi, may i help you? yes, i hear progressive has lots of discounts on car insurance. can i get in on that? are you a safe driver? yes. discount! do you own a home? yes. discount! are you going to buy online? yes! discount! isn't getting discounts great? yes! there's no discount for agreeing with me. yeah, i got carried away. happens to me all the time. helping you save money -- now, that's progressive. call or click today. i couldn't sleep right. next day it too

tonight in your only local news at 7:00, fallen hero, a local man among the dead after this week's chopper crash in afghanistan. >>> dna defense, lawyers plan out the defense of a murder of a state trooper. >>> and first firefighters said they did everything they could but in the end there was no way to save the life of a mother and her two children. >> reporter: i'm peggy fox in lorton, where fire takes the life of a mother and two of her children. but the mother is being called a hero tonight for saving two of her kids. >> there was just red, black smoke. you couldn't see anything in the house. >> reporter: huge flames and thick smoke poured from their neighbor's home. a home with five small children, including a 2-month- old baby. neighbors say the mother sacrificed herself by saving three of her children, dropping her infant out a two-story window into waiting arms and telling her 6 and 8 years old to jump. >> she turned back to get the other two kids but it was too late. >> reporter: a medic raced the baby for a flight to the burn center. >> i knew the kids were still in there. >> i a

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>> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today in hd. >> good morning, everybody. welcome back. i am stan stovall. >> and i'm mindy basara. thank you for joining us this morning. let's get a check on whether and tougher. the ravens beat the jets last night. >> -- etch a sketch account weather and traffic. >> we're killing time until keith mills gets out here. >> killing time until sports. let's put the current conditions. temperatures are a little on the cool side. 58 at the airport. it will be mild this afternoon. upper 70's and low 80's. we do have some rain in the forecast for later this week. >> it is one of those mornings where it pays to be out early. a downed pole has now been cleared. that is good news. everything else is open along route 94. major -- of the the rest of the major roadways are looking good. equally smooth. harbor tunnel checking out fine. 63 of the north side of route harford. 55 at the northwest corner. five minutes on 95 south to the fort mchenry. 11 minutes on the inner loop north east side. outer loop west side, 11 minutes. not a whole l

>> the next five best places to retire. >> but first, your local news and weather. >> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am stan stovall. a white supremacist will appear before a judge later this morning for sentencing. he pleaded guilty to armed carjacking, assault, and i hate crime. back in august 2009, prosecutors said he and two other suspects attacked james privott while he was fishing because he was african-american. he is expected to receive a sentence of 31 yeaold gibbs can. today these factories are full of dot com businesses. and now my job is helping maryland create new economy jobs. training new math and science teachers investing in our institutions of excellence pioneering new cyber security jobs and giving an old gm plant a jump start building electric motors. i'm barbara mikulski. i approve this message so you'll know i'm fighting for you. >> let's take a look at the forecast with tony pann. >> looks like the rate will be with us off and on throughout the day today. there will be breaks here and there, but it should be with

click on our website wjz.com and click on local news. >>> a judge's ruling against a columbia teachers's aide sets a precedent. she is accuse -l of sexually abusing a third grader, but there's no evidence he ever actually touched her. it's the first sex crime conviction of its kind. walker could face up to 18 years many in prison. >>> a terrifying bus ride to school for a group of students. it was involved in an accident with two other vehicles. nine people were injured, one is at shock trauma tonight. gigi barnett reports from the scene. >> reporter: six students never made it to class this morning now police are trying to figure out what caused a car to crash into the school bus. sky high chopper 13 captured the damage from above. on the ground hartford county sheriffs office trying to make sense of the mess. >> right now deputies are reconstructing the scene of the accident. too early in the investigation. >> reporter: the driver of the grey car lost control of the vehicle. crossed over the double line and hit the school bus. it was carrying six students to middleville elementary. but

wbaltv.com, just click on local news. coming up, a look al local a exterminators are trying to get rid of the stink bug. >> police in seattle, washington say four people are dead and at least one is in critical condition after a shooting there. officers arrived and still could see people coming from the house. when officers went inside, they found four people dead, including the woman they believe was the shooter. they believe all of the victims are related. the woman that ran out of the house is said to have had non- life threatening injuries. fire officials in san diego's a woman was getting into her car when it exploded. she was taken to a burn center. that is under investigation. a one-acre fire in denver is about 90% contained. no word on what sparked the flames. no more avandia on the shelves. find out why in this medical alert. >> we are still hot and humid. the forecast going into the weekend is just ahead. the fog has broken now and the sunshine is out. 87 at the [ male announcer ] are you watching cable? here's

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you can go to our website, wbaltv.com, and click on local news. >> a ravens assistant coach is facing dwi charges. the assistant defensive line coach was pulled over for speeding and the beltway saturday morning and is charged with seven motor vehicle violations including driving under the influence. he was also charged with a dui in may of this year. >> now your 11 insta-weather + forecast with tom tasselmyer. >> hard to be a day like today. great conditions. the humidity, bright sunny skies, right around the normal high of 77 degrees. we hit 78 degrees. record highs in the 90's. at bwi marshall, we have not seen before the's since june 11th. in might happen tomorrow morning. we could see temperatures in most areas dropping below the 50 degree mark. it was not only in the the 40's but it was in the 30's across the northern great lakes almost close to freezing. there was a chilly temperature reading this morning. 64 degrees for the los a far today at bwi marshall. we could hit below that. temperatures will fall quickly throughout the early evening with clear skies as indicated on the

. >> we'll see you back here immediately after his address for more local news. >>> we're still waiting for the president to step to the podium to make his speech about the war in iraq and the combat ending and a few words about the economy. >> that's right. he's taking the occasion to talk not only about the end of the combat operations but the economy been first and foremost on everybody's mind. he'll make the point that the economy, the most important thing that they have to get working on. primari primarily, get people back to work. >> and they're also working on ending the combat, as you said, the war in iraq began seven years ago and tonight or rather today, he makes the announcement that combat forces will come to an end in that country. they'll dwindle down in terms of numbers and they'll still help the security forces in iraq with their security. >> one point that the president is expected to make is while the combat mission is technically over the job is not done. there are many thousands of troops, american troops still in iraq who will help the security forces. if the iraqi