BANFIELD: Welcome back. We're following some breaking news in Iraq. Just a few moments ago, CNN confirmed that the Pentagon is considering making emergency air drops of food and water in northern Iraq. It's all because there's a group of people there, one of the oldest religions, in fact, in the world, a group that's been forced from their homes when that radical Islamist group of fighters formerly known as ISIS raided their town and sent them fleeing into the mountains. There have dozens and dozen of children dying, women being sold into slavery. Reports from one of the local m.p.s saying 500 men have been slaughtered. Elise Labott now joins me with more details. The Pentagon getting involved, what more do you know about this? Why now, after so much damage has been wrought just since the weekend?</s>ELISE LABOTT, CNN GLOBAL AFFAIR CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Ashleigh. The president has been meeting with his national security team this morning, and this is what -- officials are saying is that this is right now a humanitarian problem, but they're really concerned that this could grow even further and they'll have a real catastrophe on their hands.
Pentagon Considers Humanitarian Aid in Northern Iraq