Out of Town Pool Report #7 — POTUS meets with families

White House shares that POTUS is meeting with the family members of those killed in Syria attack. The meeting is taking place before the solemn ceremony

The dignified transfer will be for the fallen service members Sgt William Howard and Sgt Edgar Torres Tovar of the Iowa National Guard and Ayad Mansoor Sakat, a U.S. Civilian from Michigan who worked as an interpreter

The bodies arrived in a C-17.

Sgt Howard is from Marshalltown Iowa and Sgt Torres is from Des Moines.

The use of cell phones, including for text and email is prohibited during the solemn event.

I’ll file update right before event begins and after it ends.

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Jeff Mordock

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