just be beginning. the fight against isis fought from the air. some military experts warn that american soldiers on the ground could be just a matter of time. first starting right now, israel and hamas both agree to stop shooting at each other for at least 72 hours. three days. it is a temporary peace deal brokered to allow negotiators from both sides to come to an agreement. it came two days after rocket fire from gaza and air strikes from israel again. >> i guess they got that house. >> that is martin savidge a short while ago in gaza city. watch. it's p to happen again. too, too close for comfort in gaza. thankfully martin and his reporting crew were not hurt but it certainly shows the danger

there, you can see the pictures again. the question now is will the latest cease-fire that just began this very moment hold even for 72 hours. the last time the two sides agreed to stop fighting, it certainly didn't last. and as of this weekend more than 1,900 people in gaza have reportedly been killed. u.n. believes a huge majority of them, perhaps some 75%, are civilians. and now to iraq with major developments there. two major air strikes demolished five isis targets, plus a dramatic rescue at mt. sinjar may signal some vulnerability for isis. 20 thousand desperate yezidis once trapped on that mountaintop are now safe. i want to show you some brand-new photos of some of those rescued men, women, and children. here they are exhausted clearly after today's long dangerous escape. kurdish forces overcame isis militants near the mountains' base.

they loaded 20,000 yezidis into trucks, hopefully to escape brutal attacks. they entered into an area near syria, then inside kurdish iraq's region. up to 30,000 yezidis, we should say, are still stranded. i want to go to anna coren in erbil, iraq. there's certainly backed up by these u.s. air strikes. do you believe from your perspective that the u.s. air strikes made the difference here? >> reporter: yeah. without a doubt, jim. if the u.s. weren't helping out with those air strikes, those kurdish forces wouldn't be able to go in and reclaim two of the

towns they did just 20 miles from here in erbil. not only is it boosting confidence and more rile, but they're now making some serious inroads. i spoke to the chief of staff, the kurdish president, and they said they need those air strikes to continue. they have the men on the ground. they have the will to take on those isis militants, but they need that support and that will come from more u.s. air strikes. i must add, though, we are hearing from our sources here that isis militants did claim one town nearby. so while those u.s. air strikes are certainly making an impact and hoping those regroup and push back to isis from certain areas, militants are also making gains as well. obviously, though, those air strikes with those fighter jets as well as the drone, they took out five targets over a period of five hours. so it is hoped by certainly

people here in erbil and all across kurdistan that those u.s. air strikes will continue today if not weeks. as we heard from president obama, he believes this might be sold for months. >> what is the mood in erbil. it was only a few days ago that u.s. officials were gravely concerned that erbil long thought to be really, really an oasis of safety and security in iraq was vulnerable, including the americans that are there. has that lifted some of the stress inside erbil, do people feel now that kurdish forces will hold? >> look. i mean the u.s. state department, they have moved u.s. personnel from the consulate in err beeshlg but as we know, that's pretty much protocol in a time like this. as far as the people go here in erbil, they feel that since the united states has gotten

involved, that the situation is definitely changing and that isis will not be able to attack erbil. obviously they're very much aware that the isis militants have changed their plan. initially, though, heading toward baghdad and in the last week or so, they decided to turn their attention toward kurdistan. speaking to the press secretary for the president today, he said the reason being is because kurdistan is rich, because it has oil, it has gas, and if the isis militants were to get their hands on those resources, then, you know, they would definitely be a force to be reckoned with. it was interesting. he described them as not just an army but a state. that is what the rebel -- i should say the kurdish forces are taking on. and they've also called not just for air strikes but also for weapons. they say that they need weapons because at the moment they're dealing with militants that are

much better resourced, obviously has the equipment, originally u.s. equipment that was given to iraqis seized by the isis militants. they're saying they need better weapons to fight i circumstance jim that it's cold comfort to imagine that kurdistan is the only safe place in northern iraq. some 40% of the country influenced by them. anna coren very close to it in erbil. thaerngs very much and please stay safe. on the run facing almost certain death. this is the reality for tens of thousands of iraqis who are being changed business these barbaric isis rebels. after an urgent call u.s. is taking forces out from the afrmt britain and france are offering to drop food and water but the u.n. is saying that's not enough. bill richardson, a u.s.

ambassador, he joins us now. very dangerous. first of the u.n., what is it asking its members here? is it just asking for humanitarian help or are they asking for more countries to push back against isis to offer military support like the u.s. is undertaking now? >> well, they're asking a lot. they're asking for medical supplies and hopefully a political solution if there is one involving the three regions of iraq, but what they would like to see obviously is that. obviously the air strikes from your report has worked at least temporarily to prevent a potential genocide, to arm the -- to find a way to help our friends the kurds, to push back

isis. but still isis is very powerful. they control eastern syria, they control a large part, as you said, 40% of the region. so this is going to be a long effort. but i think the u.n. can play several roles. special envoy, peacekeeping by the u.n. i wouldn't go to the security council because i don't think the russians would help us. they might beat out of spite over ukraine. but here's a role where the u.n. can get the permanent members, france, uk, possibly china, the united states in a coalition effort to contain isis and to help the kurds. >> but you've been in administrations before. clearly this is a president in president obama who was reluctant to go back into military action in iraq. he pulled the troops out. that was one of his goals. something he ran on. now you look at the effect air

strikes are having. you have the president saying months not weeks and clearly iraqi forces at this point not up to pushing isis back. is the u.s. -- in simple terms is the u.s. being drawn back to war in iraq? >> well, it's moving in that direction. but i think the president has been very clear and careful. it's for humanitarian reasons that we're engaged, to help the kurdish public, that we're using limited air strikes and training, that we don't have boots on the ground. but ee seeventually a decision going to have to be made. the kurds are going to want weapons. the decision is whether we do that. the kurds are our friends. they're a democracy, pro-west, they've been with us all along. but i think the big problem here, jim, is maliki.

is maliki going to be part of a solution that involves splitting up his government that does not include a broad coalition of kurds, suni, shia. is he going to have the political will to share power or to leave power and that's where i have my doubts. this is why i'd like to see a long-term solution. not just to contain isis, but a long-term solution to push maliki out. >> there are iraq watcher, former officials i've spoken to and even current lawmakers who say it's too late to be talking about political progress in iraq when you have an al qaeda -- in fact, worse than all kai da. worse than al qaeda group controlling a large piece of territory in the middle of the middle east without getting pushed back and threatening to send foreign fighters home to carry out attacks, that it's too late to talk about political process. that you need an army.

senator dianne feinstein said this. you need an army to fight an army. isn't it too late to talk politics? doesn't there need to be a coordinated effort to push back and gain from isis? >> well, there has to be a political solution and a military effort. i think those that say it's too late, we need boots on the ground, military solution, that's not going to work unless maliki shares power, and he's not willing to do that. isis right now controls 40% of the country. they're strong. they're weaponized. what we need to do is short term contain them. contain them in the short run until a political solution is achieved. otherwise, jim, we're going to have a situation where no matter how many weapons kbrout s you w much assistance is put in, unless there's a sharing of power in iraq and perhaps what

will spur things is this kurdish election if they have this constitutional election that allows them to become a separate entity, that's going to start a domino effect. and you're going to have a political solution that may be inevitable, and that's good. >> so political solution, military progress. both necessary here. thanks very much, ambassador richardson, we appreciate it as always having you on. just ahead, could the russians try to disguy a military operation in ukraine as a peace-keeping mission. u.s. is warning moscow, don't even think about it. in the meantime the investigation of malaysian flight 17 is caught right in the middle. take them on the way you always have. live healthy and take one a day men's 50+. a complete multivitamin with 7 antioxidants to support cell health. age? who cares.

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as the humanitarian crisis grows, secretary of state john kerry is sending a strong warning to his russian

counterpart lavrov. meanwhile in the heated donesque region of ukraine, the self-acclaimed leader of pro-russian forces there say they would consider a cease-fire to bring aid to civilians. they would, quote, fight to the death. joining me to discuss former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. and former new mexico governor bill richardson, great to have you back and steven cook, senior fellow from middle eastern studies at council of foreign relations. governor, if i could start with you, in a separate call, vice president biden echoing kerry's warnings. this essentially has been the warning. strong warnings over diplomatic channels plus a gradual ratcheting up of economic sanctions. do you think that's enough and do you think that policy is succeeding? >> well, there's a slight

glimmer of home ape and it's co from the military. i think the solution is the russians, the separatists is calling for a cease-fire. they're calling for a retreat. it's not pertinent. i think the objective has to be to keep any kind of peace keeping mission from coming in because the russians, what you don't want in a peace keeping mission is a bunch of troops that will later invade. so what i think is positive movement. you know, the ukrainians called his bluff. the russians at one point threatened action, they didn't do it. and now i think the effect -- in fact, very strong sanctions on putin particular lly by them ma have an effect. we may see a light at the end of the tunnel but you never know with putin. he might say i'm going in.

>> you know, steven cook, when i speak with u.s. intelligence officials they express that very concern, that they see an increase in the capability of the russian forces along the ukraine onborder and they say the fact is we won't know he's going in until he goes in. do you see this as a serious concern that russia will use this pretext of a humanitarian crisis by ukraine as a an excuse to send more forces across the border? >> of course as an observer you have to recognize this is the kind of thing the russians have done in the pachlt they have called out and said we're protecting the russia minority in crimea and rushed in there as well. of course, it's something to be concerned about. >> ambassador -- and i want to call you ambassador and governor because you've been both. but ambassador richardson, when you look at this situation there -- i keep reminding our viewers -- this is in europe. you know, this is not some distant land. yes, it's a former soviet republic, but ukraine is in

europe. how much of a change is this and a fundamental change in the relationship between the u.s. and the west and russia. are we -- and people have asked this question before. are we going back to cold war hostility here? >> well, yeah. the relationship with russia and the united states, it's not good. it's not good in syria, in iran, on arms control. now ukraine, economic sanctions. i wouldn't call it a cold war. i would call it a significant increase in tensions among two super powers with u.s. being the super power. i think what it sis not just u.s. and russia but europe and russia and europe, i believe, is key here because if there's any leverage on russia, economic, commercial, natural, gas, and by the way, the russians have reverse leverage, thing you ee

seeing a significant increase in tensions, economic, political and military sphere between russia and europe which is equally important. the practical effect, jim, russia, i think, right now, may have reached the potential end game in that they've had some successes. putin's at 90%, the next crimec. but is the international cost going to be too high and it possibly is? i think this is showing in putin's recent actions or nonactions in ukraine. >> and some retaliatory economic sanctions as well on the west. ambassador richardson, thanks you very much for staying. steven cook, please stay with me. we're going to bring you back after this break. is the dream of a democratic iraq dead and has the hope of an arab spring collapsed into a bitter arab winter? we'll look at wait means for people across the troubled region.

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you remember tahrir square demanding change. tunis tunisia, libya, syria, change was in the air. today has the dream of arab spring collapsed. probably drawing some of the instability we're seeing today. joining me once again is steven cook. he's on the council of foreign relations. steven, i was admittedly one of the people caught up in that euphoria. i was in tahrir square when mubarak fell. you remember when the arab protester was named time person of the year. there was grit grate excitement then. when we look now some three or more than three years later, is it safe to say that dream was unrealist unrealistic? >> in ways that is a fair assessment. that does seem like a very long

time ago that you're in tahrir square. across the region there had been obvious problems in making that transition from those exhilarating moments of bringing dictators down to one of jen wiggs transitions to a democratic political system. in egypt, for example, revolutionaries had to contend with the institutions of the old order and the forces of the old order, counterrevolutionary groups who were determined to undermine it. and to this point it seems they have been successful. in libya after gadhafi fell, there was really nothing left. there was no political system. there was no governmental system. and the country has reverted to a kind of tribal differences. leb ya was actually three different countries really long before it game it. even then there are economic

challenges, there is a political agreement at the moment but who knows whether that is a lasting one. and, of course, you have the terrible situation in iraq, but i think people had given up on iraq being a democratic country well before u.s. forces withdrew from iraq in 2011, even before the bush administration left office. they had significantly ratcheted back their expectations. that it could defend its own borders and what we've seen over the last so many months before they overtook mosul, the iraqis are manifestly unable to defend their own borders. >> let me ask you this. these are things that happen on the ground. it's impossible for folks from the outside to determine the results in these places. that said, the u.s., the west have tremendous influence there. was there something -- was there a mistake in the way washington,

the u.s. responded to the arab spring that contributed to what we're seeing today? >> well, it is easy to look in hind sight and say that the administration should have done one thing or the other. and think we need to recognize the fact that political stakes in these countries are so high that these uprisings created such expectations among people in these countries that when they're fighting for what they believe to be the heart and soul of these countries, it's hard for skpeshl powers to have decisive lesh raj on the political direction of these countries. if you can criticize the administration for anybody, it might be, for example, assuming or in their public statements assuming that what we're seeing were democratic transitions or any number of political outcomes that could have happened, and we're seeing those different outcomes in the region now. that would have been a more realistic assessment in the heady days of 2011 when these

bloody uprisings kicked off. but for a number of political reasons they fell it necessary to discuss the egyptian democratic transition or libya transition, as funny as those things sound now. >> it's incredible how a vastly different how some of the country's experiences are. tunisia has something of a government, this three-year-lock war in syria and syria and iraq in war with isis. thank you very much. always graeat to have your expertise on the air. >> thanks, jim. we want to show you two cities in relative quiet, thankfully, for now. it is right after midnight in gaza city and jerusalem. another cease-fire is now in effect 30 minutes in. u.n. officials got in between and investigate them to agree. this is by no means the first cease-fire. but despite other failures negotiators expect to be at the peace table in cairo tomorrow to

discuss a more enduring agreement. for now in iraq, the u.s. is fighting isis just from the sky, but is it only a matter of time before american soldiers are back on the ground in iraq? ahead, our guest says it's not a question of if but when the u.s. sends more americans again into battle in iraq. i make a lot of purchases for my business. and i get a lot in return with ink plus from chase. like 50,000 bonus points when i spent $5,000 in the first 3 months after i opened my account. and i earn 5 times the rewards on internet, phone services and at office supply stores. with ink plus i can choose how to redeem my points. travel, gift cards, even cash back. and my rewards points won't expire. so you can make owning a business even more rewarding. ink from chase. so you can.

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welcome back. i'm jim sciutto in washington. for the third day the united states military is engaged in combat in iraq, all of it from the air, of course, against armored vehicles in fighting positions taken by fire loyal to the islamist group isis near the northern city of erbil. a short while ago i had a conversation.

i began by asking colonel mansour a very direct simple question. is the u.s. at war again in iraq. >> it certainly is combat action and by any definition of the term, it is war. the objectives are very limited to protect the kurdish enclave and to conduct humanitarian work on the people trapped on the sinjar mountain. i don't think it's going to stop. they have to destroy this state who is a threat to the world. >> do you think the administration is misleading when it says its objectives are simply about a humanitarian mission and personnel? >> no, e don't think it's misleading. what they're waiting for is the creation of an iraqi government that has greater legitimacy and

one which all iraqis can sign up to support. that is the precondition for greater involvement. and absent that, i think our objectives will remain very limited. but look. sooner or later we have to deal with the islamic state. they're cutthroats, ruthless murderers, they are the face of evil today. they will not stop until they've taken. they'll distablize the middle east and come after us. >> you do not believe that the iraqi military can stand up to them on their own. >> no. it's been proven that they cannot. part of that is because nuri al maliki has replaced the competent leaders with political hacks and partly because their training and so forth has degraded since the u.s. withdrawal at the end of 2011. this is going to take not weeks, not months but potentially years

to completely eradicate the islamic state. they're very competent fighters. they're now very well arm and financed and it's going to take a training mission and equipme g mission and robust power and robust assets as well. >> it sounds like the u.s. is going back to war in iraq and it's not going to be for months as the president said but possibly years to fight the threat from isis. >> i don't think we have a choice. do we really want the creation of an islamic state with the vowed intention of turning the middle east into an islamist caliphate and injecting terrorism into the rest of the world? it's unacceptable and we're going to have to deal with it at some point it's an incredible turn of convenience just a couple of years after the president withdrew american forces from there. i want to ask you this question.

did the u.s. underestimate the threat of isis because of the fact it is not new, it was borne out of iraq and you dealt with it and general petraeus did. do you believe that the intelligence in the u.s. and administration underestimated the threat? >> the administration did underestimated the threat as did the iraqi government. they thought they were a marginal group involved in the syrian war and really underestimated the fact that it's now under the aluns with the former bathiathist arm unde z saddam hussein.

this administration was surprised by the depth and speed of the islamic state advance across northern and western iraq. >> the u.s. hurdling toward war. cnn also former aid to general david petraeus in iraq. it is possible we've never seen an enemy quite as brutal and ruthless as isis. and that reputation is helping them win battles before the fight even starts. we'll explain right after this.

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welcome back. many people in the u.s. are anxiously watching as iraq crumbles under isis. they are concerned about loved ones there, and in an ominous sign the state department announced it is relocating some of its staff from the u.s. consulate general in erbil. this comes after travel warning saying, quote, the ability of the embassy to respond to situations in which the u.s. face difficulties including arrest is extremely limited. one atlanta woman who did not want to share her identity tells cnn she fears for family members who are stuck in the sinjar mountain area. >> when they were calling over here, they were crying and they were saying, please, just help, we're dying from thirst. just bring water there. they've been there and the kids, they couldn't walk and they couldn't make it all the way to the mountain. they don't know where are they.

>> remember, they have a lot of family there. this is not a far away story. brian, you've been looking at isis for days and weeks as the threat has grown. why is isis potentially more dangerous than other groups the u.s. has gone up against even, for instance, say, al qaeda in afghanistan? >> well, jim, a top u.s. intelligence official tells us isis is stronger than ever. it comes from better training, tactics, and psychological warfare than other militant groups have had in the past. we have to warn you some viewers might find some of these images disturbing. they're ferocious capturing large areas at a time. they're unlike any other battlefield. the old military tactics, hit-and-runs, ambushes, roadside bombs. when others went to battle against well trained armies,

they were often wiped out. it's said isis is much more disciplined than militant forces of the past with good unit commanders, better tactics. >> but for the black flags this could be a platoon of american army soldiers or marine circa 2004 or 2005. again, moving in formation, soldiers throughout the column. we can see the crude serve weapons, the machine guns in the vehicles they can use for a base of fire. >> training is a big difference with isis, analysts say. they're getting help with that from outside. >> they also now have been bolstered by a significant number of chechen fighters who have joined their ranks, also foreign fighters from across the arab world, some with significant experience in the urban warfare. >> what also makes isis dangerous on the battlefield, the way they get the most from their arsenal. >> some of it is more primitive like this tank, but preversely

the more primitive, the more likely they're able to use it and maintain it. simpler is better in their case. mobile artillery, other pieces of captured armored vehicles, we see several of them here. >> a warning, you're about to see some disturbing video. isis units often win before they get to the battlefield because of this. horrific propaganda video shows isis militants killing them, shooting them, displaying heads on poles in the middle of city circles. >> when it comes to isis, it's not about what they're capable of but what they feel they're capable of which gives them this advantage. they've had a very deliberate strategy of terrorizing the iraqi military. >> experts say iraqi soldiers who see these videos often quit and run before the battle starts. now, these videos are much more gruesome and disturning than we're showing but isis still

uses them successfully and a weapon and we feel it's appropriate to show you how better this group operates. jim? >> no question about it. it is frightening and seven a target, whether civilian or soldier and the threat appears to be getting worse. brian todd in washington. so dwlou defeat a force that is so broot tall, terrifying and determined to conquer iraq and syria and how long could it take? is it week, months, years? is the u.s. about to get dragged back into a bloody ground war in iraq? we'll try to answer those questions after this. this is kathleen. setting up the perfect wedding day begins with arthritis pain and two pills. afternoon arrives and feeling good, but her knee pain returns... that's two more pills. the evening's event brings laughter, joy, and more pain... when jamie says... what's that like six pills today? yeah... i can take 2 aleve for all day relief. really, and... and that's it. this is kathleen... for my arthritis pain, i now choose aleve.

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comcast business. built for business. just hours ago in iraq, the state department relocated some of its staff from the u.s. consulate in irbil, northern iraq, citing the growing threat from the terrorist group, isis. the rebels, teeming with weapons, cash and ruthless fighters, are posing a much different threat to iraq and the region than ever seen before. does this mean the u.s. is in for a long battle there, possibly war? we want to ask two people with great experience on this, cnn military analyst and lieutenant colonel rick francona and retired major general james williams. colonel, if i could start with you, the president is saying months, not weeks, in terms of

this battle. i wonder when you start to imagine that the iraqi military is not able to push back isis, do you think the u.s. is going to get dragged in for longer than the president is describing now? >> i certainly hope not but that's certainly a possibility. i think what the president is trying to do is, first of all, to protect our people. second, help in the humanitarian effort, but then he needs to blunt isis, he needs to slow these people down, stop them giving the iraqi army time to get its act together, regroup and then go up there and push them back. the status quo is not going to work. we cannot let isis take this territory and hold it. they are creating a state, they are creating a country and if they are successful there, they will then come for us it is imperative we get them out of there. how do we do it? from the air to help the iraqis or if need be, in the end, we may see american troop there is again. >> general williams, if i could ask you, we spoke a short time

ago to general pat tray yas' former aide, david mansour, talk the last time about the forebearer of the islamic state in iraq and syria before. he was saying, listen, when you look at the capability, rather the lack of capabilities of the iraqi military, the u.s. is gonna have to be more involved going forward. do you think that is a reasonable assessment? >> oh, absolutely. you know, one of the challenges for the iraqi army as you already know, they have runaway from their posts, so, this shows a lack of discipline. so with the lack of discipline, you need an organization, whether the united states or coalition forces to come in and provide them with professional military advice. otherwise, isis will just continue to expand their control of the territory and eventually,

if u.s. forces are not on the ground, i don't see how we are gonna keep isis at bay. we can certainly hit them with all the air power in the world. but the question becomes, tend of the day will they use civilians as shields? that create a lot of complication for us as a military force. >> colonel, this is the third or fourth, losing count now, general who today told me the u.s. is going to be involved for the long haul here and that may very well involve ground troops. do you think that the obama administration is either misleading when it talks about a limited mission or is, for lack of a better term, behind the facts on the ground that a longer term mission is going to be necessary? >> i think they are hoping against hope. i think they are hoping that time and space will allow the iraqis to stand up. i just don't see it. i don't think they have the capability and the time we can

buy for them. i'm gonna have to side with the jeeps here. i think that eventually, you are going to see a ground force in there and i cannot imagine it is not going to involve americans, to some extent. >> this is really just incredible. our viewers, as i imagine, might have trouble digesting that but just three days after the president ordered military action from the air, a sense from a number of a few people that this is going to lead to ground forces. i wonder if i could ask you, general williams, based on your experience, hearing the beginning of reports out of iraq that the current prime minister, maliki, is refusing to step down. the administration placed a lot of faith in a new, more inclusive government in iraq. they say there is not a military solution, you need an inclusive government there. this is just breaking news. i wonder how ominous the sign you think this is that maliki might refuse to step down. >> i think this create quite a bit of confusion. i mean, ultimately, in the last eight years, prime minister

maliki has shown his hand. he is not an inclusive prime minister as far as bringing the sunnis in. you know, all the challenges the sunnis have had over the last two years specifically. you know, the politicians have been criminalized. essentially, people were not getting food, not a lot of oil revenue sharing going on there's some real challenges there and i think can't be an inclusive prime minister, i don't see how iraq stays iraq as we know it today. i think you end up with the three different divisions within the country. >> cole nell francona, if i could ask you, before we go. if in a somewhat limited engagement, say we have troops, not talking about 150,000 american forces on the ground again, certainly as was before, but in some sort of limited military operation, can the u.s. defeat isis? >> well, of course we can. it's just are we willing to commit the resources required? and i don't know what that number of resources is. it depends on how the situation

develops. but i think we can pretty much write off the iraqi army if maliki's not willing to step down. >> well, you heard it here. a number of folks with direct experience in the marines, air force, the army and iraq saying it looks like the u.s. headed, at a minimum, for more military involvement in iraq, the possibility even of ground forces. that's answer is he is.we will be watching. colonel rick francona, thanks very much, general james williams, thanks as well. i'm jim sciutto. for our international viewers, returning to the scheduling program. for the rest of, a fast forward look at the week ahead. that's going to start right after this break. we're helping protect his. [ female announcer ] everyone has a moment when tomorrow becomes real. transamerica. transform tomorrow.

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yazidiyazidi. you are in the cnn newsroom. i'm jim sciutto in washington. this hour, we are fast forwarding to the week ahead. we will be focusing on several big stories developing here at home and overseas, including the latest cease-fire between israel and hamas, hopefully the last before the two sides can broker a permanent peace deal a live picture of jerusalem just one hour into that latest cease-fire. also following developments on the latest air strikes by the u.s. in iraq. a deadly crash involving a nascar star, and the growing ebola outbreak in