good morning. early sunday, 5:00 a.m. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. this is a special edition of "new day" sunday. we'll have the latest on the michael brown shooting. >> you have a full plate today, victor. we're so glad you're there. also, we do want to begin this morning with news that isis has besieged another shiite town and cut them off from food and water. this has been for two months

now. there are fears that they will massacre thousands of people who live there. the u.n. says the situation there is simply, quote, unspeakable. nearly 3 dozen villages surrounding amerli in northern iraq are already in isis hands, remember. the 17,000 people who live there in that town are defending theirselves. they just have the help of the local police. the crisis is violence that's rippling across iraq. bombings, attacks in baghdad and in the country's north. dozen's have been killed. cnn's jomana karadsheh. jomana, so good to see you today. do we understand as we get reports that shia militias may help defend amerli? >> reporter: well, christi, after lots of calls here from the officials, they're calling for a moment to try to break the siege of amerli, we are hearing

from two of the countries major shia militias, that they have mobilized their troops. they have been allied here in fighting off isis in the last couple of months. they are on the move to break that siege. a real humanitarian disaster it seems on the inside. real dire conditions. we're hearing that during this siege over the past 73 days isis has cut off this town not allowing supplies of food and medicine to come in. they're really running low on food and medical supplies. they've also cut off water and electricity. there have been very few aid drops by the iraqi military that is really finding it difficult to get into the area because it is surrounded by isis and it's a strong hold around that area. so very difficult for them to reach it. and the u.n. warning that unless something is done, iraq's allies say this could mean a possible

massacre of the shia turkman living in there. >> is this about isis taking a territory or is there a strategic importance to it? >> reporter: there's no real strategic importance to it, christi. it's located in a province north of here. that's a predominantly sunni province. isis back in june when it moved into mosul and started moving more into the rest of the country south wards, they did take a lot of territory there in the salahadine province. towns around amerli had been taken. the inhabitants of amerli, this is shia territory. they have no tolerance. they do not consider them to be in this case real muslims, so as we have seen with the siege of sinjar and the yazidis, real

fear that isis will massacre these people because they do not consider them to be worth living really. >> oh, jamana karadsheh, we appreciate your insight on this. thank you for bringing us the latest. be safe there. the u.s. has ramped up airstrikes in parts of iraq. they're targeting isis militants. now the obama military is looking to send strikes into syria. according to the washington post the pentagon has been conducting daily surveillance flights along iraq's border with syria. we're being joined from manchester, england, and kings' college professor joining us. so glad to have you both here. first, i want to ask this question and pose it to both of you. we'll start with you, harris. if the u.s. does decide to carry out airstrikes in syria, will that be enough?

does it need boots on the ground to defeat sies sisis? >> i think it has to have boots on the ground, not u.s. boots. it has to be more military supplied to the peshmerga and i think we need a coalition. we need more of the region's neighbors, the arab communities. we need baghdad, turkey. once we have this push back of isis from the north and from the south, the only option they've got is to go back into syria and without assad tackling the problem of syria, i don't think this problem of isis is going to go away. >> peter, go ahead. >> i think that america needs to continue its airstrikes. the airstrikes have been proven very powerful over the past two weeks already. the kurds, for example, have

made great advances that they wouldn't have been able to make befo before. i don't think the american boots on the ground are a good idea because it would bring about this idea of america at war with islam. it would be a boon to isis. i think it's good that america provides military vices but the people that are doing the fighting on the ground are opposed to isis. iraqis, kurds. >> peter, let me ask you this. do you see any risks in arming the peshmerga or any of the factions there on the ground in iraq already? >> this is a complicated tradeoff. there are no good solutions. arming the kurds may be counter productive in the long term. in the short and medium term i think it's really a priority to defeat isis. i think isis really is a concert

that is spreading that needs to be halted and i think in the medium to long term also some of the other challenges need to be addressed. but, you know, this is really complicated. >> it is really complicated. haras, i wanted to ask you a little more about -- about syria and about if the u.s. goes in, are there allies? we know british prime minister david cameron canceled a vacation following the murder of james foley. are there allies? is there a coalition that you believe can be formed with the u.s. and european nations going after isis? >> i think there will be a coalition. i think that as peter rightly said, we have -- the airstrikes are helping to hold isis back and the peshmerga are winning some battles. i think there is a willingness and desire and understanding amongst the coalition within europe and the u.s. but, again,

i concur with peter. we musn't put our boots on the ground. we musn't get into per se the narrative. we must work with the army is syria. we're currently doing that. we also have al qaeda fighting in the syrian region as well and we have some muslim brotherhood fighting there as well. syria is a lot more complicated than iraq is and once we get into tackling the problem within syria, we may then have to start considering what do we do with assad. there are some people saying maybe we should be working with assad and of course this whole problem in syria started with the civil war. of course, we have other countries to consider also. russia and china have a huge interest in syria, so it gets a lot more complicated when we see isis where it wouldn't back towards syria. >> we appreciate the insight

from both of you and the time you've taken to be with us. haras and peter, thank you so much both. >> thank you, christi. >> sure. you know, as ferguson, missouri, is preparing to say good-bye to michael brown tomorrow, local law enforcement is under national jewett ascrut using tactics. president obama is getting involved now. what it could mean for police departments across the country. also, look at this dash cam video. a child with his arms raised in the air as police mistakenly pull over his mother at gun point. some are saying police went too far. he's 6 years old, by the way. this one, oh, let's hear it for the boys. little league champs are bringing home a little bit of history with their victory. ♪ chicago, chicago, the toddling town ♪ ♪ chicago, chicago

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welcome back. 12 minutes after the hour. after more than two weeks of violent protests, looting, and military-style policing in the streets of ferguson, missouri, the community here is now preparing to say good-bye to michael brown, the unarmed teen who was shot and killed by a police officer on august 9th. his funeral will be held tomorrow at the friendly temple missionary baptist church in st.

louis. thousands are expected to attend this closed casket service. many people from around the country are coming, we're told. among the attendees, three white house officials including one who attended high school with brown's mother. the reverend al sharpton will deliver the eulogy. as brown is about to be laid to rest, supporters of darren wilson, he's the officer who killed him, they're speaking out as well. they say they've received death threats over their support for wilson. >> our mission is to formally declare that we share the united belief that officer wilson's actions on august 9th were warranted and justified and he has our unwavering support. we believe that the evidence has and will continue to validate our position. at the end of the statement the media will inevitably ask for my name, others names, job titles. my name is darren wilson. we are darren wilson.

>> reporter: we also heard from people who were protesting earlier in the week in favor of michael brown that they also have said their names were michael brown as well. now on the ground in ferguson it was a relatively quiet night. there were some tense moments. at one point captain ron johnson who you see in the video ordered police to arrest a rowdy protestor fearing that person's behavior could stir up some chaos. that's captain johnson there. told us six people were arrested overnight. i was out with the protesters overnight. the narrative of the night essentially was the people who live here versus the people who have come in from around the country. we heard people say they were from chicago. that man who was arrested, he claimed he was from indiana. they're from all over the country, and people here, many of them, are just frustrated with what is happening to their community. guys, cue up the sound and i'll tell you when to play melissa miller. she's the young woman who we

came upon who we heard her screaming before we saw her. she's really passionate. we had to bleep out some of the language. do not be blinded or struck by the profanity. listen to the sentiment and get the compassion of what she's saying. >> i don't mind these people coming out here, okay? thank you for supporting us. you from a different state. thank you. don't bring the [ bleep ] and then leave [ bleep ] when it gets rowdy because i've got to live here. don't come to my state and [ bleep ] because i live through the [ bleep ]. look at the [ bleep ] boarded up everything. everything is boarded up. [ bleep ] did this. and they say it's for mike brown. [ bleep ] for mike brown because you want to be selfish, disgusting and nasty. thank you for [ bleep ] everything because now i ain't got no place to get my hair done or i can't get gas because it's gone. it ain't there. these people treat us like [

bleep ] but you know what, that ain't from us, it's from these people from different states that come out here. be peaceful if you going to come out here. come out here for the right reasons. >> you know, one other thing she said is that, you know, over the week we've seen children out there, babies there. she's pregnant she told us and she said that the tear gas and the smoke bombs that a lot of the parents have to spend time pouring milk into their baby's eyes for hours trying to wash out those toxins and those protesters come here from indiana, chicago, they don't bring their children here but they leave this because of the things that they are doing in their community to their children, the ferguson children. the streets of ferguson and across the country there's been a widespread criticism of local law enforcement because of the military-style tactics used against protesters and now the president is getting involved. i want to bring in alina muchado. she's here with me. they're ordering a review

because of the military response and equipment that we're seeing. tell us more about that. >> reporter: yeah, victor. the president ordered this review according to a senior administration official who tells cnn that the president wants these programs to be looked at. this federal program that allows local and state law enforcement agencies to purchase military equipment. now that move, as you mentioned, comes days after these violent confrontations between protesters and local police and during those confrontations police were seen using heavily armored vehicles, stun grenades, tear gas. all items that fuelled this criticism. take a look at what one expert told us he believes the issue is. >> training is the most important issue here. if there was better training, we wouldn't have seen what we saw on day one out at ferguson. you had local law enforcement responding to a riot with

semi-automatic and automatic weapons. it was wrong. it shouldn't have happened, but you cannot diminish the ability of local and state law enforcement to protect our cities in this day and age by taking the stuff away that really secures our country. >> reporter: and training is one aspect this review will take a look at. at this point, victor, we don't have an idea of how long this will take. >> all right. alina machado reporting for us in ferguson as well. christi, we'll talk more about the narrative that i saw overnight, the local people wishing that the people who came in out of town would come here for michael brown's cause and not to instigate, as captain ron johnson has said, that a lot of these people are inciting some of the violence we see. >> yeah. as we saw from the woman you talked to as well. thank you so much, victor. appreciate it as always.

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21 minutes past the hour right now, and ukraine is celebrating its independence day today. military parade rolled through

the capitol of kiev even as fighting continued in the east in territories held by pro russian rebels. trucks are back in russia we're told. moscow said the trucks crossed into eastern ukraine carrying aid. cnn's diana magnay is there. >> reporter: what russia called a humanitarian convoy, many others called a trojan horse. delivering its load. to the besieged town of luhansk without escorts and without ukraine's consent. then within 24 hours crossing back into russia with a controversial new cargo according to ukrainian authorities. >> translator: trucks that entered ukrainian territory under pretexts of being a humanitarian convoy are loaded by russians with equipment from the topaz plant which produces

the most modern items. >> reporter: cnn cannot verify the claim the factories are in rebel hands as is the border crossing, but since soviet times, russia's defense ministry has relied on ukrainian pieces. ties are severed at least officially by this war. in kiev angela merkel visited ukraine's president to talk peace and reconstruction. >> translator: we all remember the marshal plan for the post war europe. today i can say that it is the beginning of the merkel plan for the restoration of the infrastructure. >> reporter: it will take time and money. areas where aid is needed most are the hardest to reach. for the residents of sloviansk,

where there was constant shelling, where there was no water or electricity and little food behind them. those that supported the pro russian separatists seemed to have melted away. now the city is back in ukrainian hands. >> diana joins us now live from sloviansk. we know they're celebrating. we understand the rebels have some plans for today as well. what do you know? >> reporter: that's right. the leadership in the donetsk people's republic have said they will parade captured ukrainian weaponry, tanks, apcs on the streets of donetsk and also any ukrainian prisoners of war that they have captured. that hasn't happened yet, but that is what they have posted on social media in a rather grim recollection of the way that the germans were paraded by the

russians through the streets of moscow. it is the rebels' answer to the huge military parades going on in kiev where president poroshenko has been describing this as a battle for ukraine's independence. that parade though, too, has something controversial to it. people could be asking the question why is the government parading weapons that it is simultaneously using and causing civilian casualties in this part of the country. christi? >> diana, stay safe there. thank you so much. we appreciate it. meanwhile, anger is turning to sadness in the streets of ferguson because the community there of course preparing to say good-bye to teenager michael brown. we'll talk about how the city's getting ready for that thousands of people who are expected to attend tomorrow's funeral. and this volcano in iceland, it looks serene, doesn't be it?

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this morning, bottom of the hour right now. i'm kristie paul. i want to get you the latest on ferguson and the isis threat. we'll get to those in a moment. we have other stories making headlines that we thought you'd want to know about. first off, rain, tropical storm winds battering puerto rico. look at the latest pictures here. up to 6 inches of rain fell on the islands causing minor flooding. there were landslides. it's expected to gain strength as it moves north and the national weather service believes it will develop into a hurricane by tuesday. number two, a police chief was shot and killed during a traffic stop in texas. michael pimentel pulled over a car in elmendor in san antonio. there was a struggle and he was shot several times and he died at the hospital. deputies arrested joshua manuel lopez. he'll be charged with capital murder of a police officer.

thousands ramllied in new york for eric garner. demonstrators marched from where he died to the staten island d.a.'s office. the officer seen on video choking garner has been put on modified assignment. police are reviewing training procedures now. number four, iceland has closed air space near the barta bonga volcano because an eruption is imminent. if this does happen, scientists say it will most likely stay underground. it's located on a routine bound area for flights. it can reduce the visibility but it can damage jet engines. number five, jackie robinson would be proud. an all african-american little league team from the south side of chicago aptly named jackie robinson west is the new u.s. champ of the little league world

series. boys that were largely considered the yunds dogs here beat las vegas last night with a double play that sealed their 7-5 win as they will now advance to play south korea for the world series title. best of luck to them. there have been two weeks of protests and sometimes violent protests, looting, shooting and military style response from police here in ferguson, but now the community is preparing to say good-bye to michael brown. he's the unarmed team who was shot and killed by a police officer august 9th. his funeral will be held tomorrow at the friendly temple missionary church in st. louis. thousands are expected to attend the service from the local community and from across the country, including three white house officials including one who attended high school with brown's mother. the reverend al sharpton will deliver the eulogy. as brown is being laid to rest,

supporters of darren wilson who is the officer who killed him are becoming more vocal. they say they've received death threats over their support for wilson. now the protests were tense but nonviolent overnight. six people were arrested here in ferguson. let's talk about the investigation into brown's death now and the man who's overseeing the presentation of evidence to a grand jury. st. louis prosecutor bob mccullough. there are lots of people who are saying he should recuse himself, step away or step down. cnn's jean cassar is taking a look at what he brings to this process. >> every witness who has anything at all to say will be presented to the grand jury. >> reporter: this is the man,. he will be responsible if there is a prosecution. >> i can't guarantee, nobody can, any particular outcome on

the investigation. we don't know where the investigation is going to end up. >> some in the community want him out because they feel he will be biased. >> bob mcculloch, if you are listening, voluntarily recuse yourself. the people and the african-american community, they do not have the confidence that you will be fair and impartial. >> reporter: the outcry caused by mcculloch's deep ties to the police in the community. his own father was murdered while on duty in 1964 by a blackman. missouri state senator is calling for a special prosecutor to replace mcculloch. she spelled out her concerns in a letter to him. if you should decide to not indict this police officer, the rioting we witnessed this past week will seem like a picnic compared to the havoc that will likely occur.

protesters at his office demanded he recrews himself and an online petition calling for his removal from the investigation has garnered tens of thousands of signatures. mcculloch has been the chief prosecutor for st. louis county for years dealing with thousands of prosecutions. he prosecuted axle rose of gunsnroses fame when rioting broke out. the case ended with a plea deal. mcculloch is no stranger to controversy. in 2000 a grand jury did not return an indictment against two police officers for shooting two black suspects in a drug rate who were armed coming at them. mcculloch made this controversial statement. >> i thought they were bums then. i think they're bums now. >> reporter: his office made this statement to cnn.

the people have faith in mr. mcculloch and he will continue to do his duties. the st. louis district attorney's office tell me they want to continue to present grand jury testimony on wednesday. one question is whether darren wilson will take the stand before the grand jury. a right he has before law. >> jean, thank you very much. we saw more of those, bob mcculloch, step down, recuse yourself. we heard the statement released from his office. he will not be stepping down. the grand jury process has already begun. >> thank you, victor, so much. here's a question for you, a lot of people are asking this morning, did police in texas go too far when they pulled over a law abiding mother and her four small children at gun point? that is a 6-year-old with his hands in the air, very confused, not knowing what's going on.

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good morning to you. 30 minutes past the hour. whatever you're doing, do me a favor here and take a look at this video because a lot of people are really angry about it. here we go. this is a 6-year-old boy. see there? this is him stepping out of his mother's car, hands up. what you don't see are the cops pointing a gun at him and you also don't see his mother, who's in handcuffs, and in tears watching the four children in her car, two of her own, two of her god children treated, she says, like dangerous suspects of the the cops pulled kamitra barber over at gun point because they were on the lookout for a beige or tan toyota. here's the thing. she was in abu burgundy nissan. david shekter breaks it down. >> let me see your hands. >> reporter: 24 is the moment that shook kamitra barber's

belief that bad things do not happen with good people. her car loaded up with small children. her hands above her head, then shackled in cuffs. moments later her 6-year-old son ryan comes out, too, with his hands in the air. >> makes me angry all over again. >> reporter: how did this happen? well, it started with this 911 call, and a very clear description of a vehicle speeding down the highway. the driver possibly waiving a gun out the window. >> it's going to be a beige or tan colored toyota occupied by four black males. >> i drive a nissan maxima that is burgundy red. >> reporter: no match. but after the suspect car sped far down the road, the 911 caller was now far back and thought the suspect was exiting the highway. that's the very exit where police spotted kamitra barber's call. >> the complainant that called in said that vehicle took that

exit. >> yes, sir. what is wrong? my kids. >> all right. >> they're 6 and 8 and 10 -- 9. what are you doing? now what are you doing? what is going on? oh, my god. you're going to terrify my children. >> we got a complaint of a vehicle matching your description and your license plate pointing a gun out the window. >> reporter: in less than a minute the officers knew they had the wrong car. you can hear them de-escalate. >> do they look young to you? >> they do to me. >> gun down. gun down. >> come on back here, son. come on back here. you're all right. >> reporter: within moments the officers are trying to calm the children's nerves. >> i'm scared. >> it's okay. >> no, no one's going to jail. >> hey, stop crying. stop crying. >> i'm scared. >> it's okay. everything's fine now. >> reporter: were they treated

properly? was this a proper stop that they needed to be subjected to that kind of -- >> for the nature of a call that a weapon was involved, yes. >> barber understands they were making decisions that night, nonetheless, she is deeply troubled. i need you to make sure that you have all the facts because you can't just say, okay, i'm sorry, and then i'm over it. i can't. every time i listen to or hear or think about it, it -- it -- it bothers you. it's not -- you know, i can't just say, okay, i'm fine. it's okay. it's not a big deal. it is. >> reporter: especially when you're 6 years old. >> that is some video. okay. well, want to invite you to tune in to cnn tonight because john walsh is back in his new series "the hunt." and this week he's hoping you can help him find a religious leader suspected of taking

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so good to have you with us. you know, investigators in the u.k. working scrambling to identify the islamic militants seen on video beheading james foley. they do have some clues to go on here. take a look. the terrorists skin and eyes are visible. he appears to be left-handed and his height and weight are discern anybody, but the biggest clue could be his distinct english accent. experts now agree the man is most likely from southern england or london. our senior correspondent nick peyton walsh is life there.

do we know the status of the investigation right now? >> reporter: well, it's extraordinarily complex. they're investigating a murder, one that may including the r relatives of james foley want to see an end to. we know steven sotlof is being held by the same man, another american journalist or the same group carrying out james foley's execution. there are others. it's complicated for authorities what they choose to do in the information they recover, but as british media are speculating, they're coming much closer to potentially working that out. the key thing, of course, the voice. they've been tracking 500 plus british militants going to syria. only some have been coming back. they've been going through what they know about their online activities, matching that with the voice of the man in the video. you mentioned eyes. well, british biometric passports often have biometric data in them as well. that could potentially be

assisting them in working out who this individual is. a lot of potential includes the clues there. if you work out what he is, what do you do with this information? do you approach his family? does that harm anyone else still in captivity. a very complicated investigation. whatever results they get, the big issue is where does that go from there. >> that was going to be my next question there. nick peyton walsh, we appreciate it so much. that was an apartment building in gaza city being hit during an israeli airstrike. 17 people were injured. the israeli military said the building was used as a hamas command and control center. in the meantime, we know at least five rockets were fired from syria into the golan heights today. cnn's carl penhall is live frommer lisa lum.

carl, good to see you. do we have any idea who's firing these rockets yet? >> reporter: so far the israeli military hasn't blamed any group for firing what were five katusha rockets that landed inside the golan heights before dawn this morning and be so far as well there has been no targeting of any objectives inside of syria by the israeli military, either. they haven't responded to the strikes. now we have, however, talked to some civilian come talks in the golan heights area and they suggest that these rockets may have fallen into the golan heights by accident, that perhaps they were fired during a battle between syrian government troops and syrian rebels down in that southwest corner of syria. so certainly no suggestion that a second front is opening up in the gaza conflict although just before his weekly cabinet meeting israeli prime minister

benjamin netanyahu did say that israel would not tolerate anybody firing from any country or from any front on to israeli targets. so warning that this has to stop, his patience is finite for this kind of attack but certainly no response from the israeli military so far, christi. >> karl, since that is an unstable area right now, is there any fear that isis could infiltrate it? >> reporter: there is no documented presence of isis in that area. if they were to try to get to and breach the golan heights region, they would have a huge fight on their hands. they would have to fight opposing syrian rebel factions, syrian rebel troops and come through linesmaned by united nations piece keepers on the demarcation line between syria and the golan heights and they would have to fight with the israeli troops. all indications isis has its

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what do you want to say to the folks back in chicago? >> we made it. we can play baseball for chicago. >> oh, they can and they did. did you watch it? these are your newly crowned little league champions, people. last night they advanced to the world series. what a talented team of all african-american boys from the south side of chicago aptly named jackie robinson west. this team has reminded fans that it wasn't just big leagues who fought for civil rights between the bases. here's cnn jim sciutto. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: there's just something about baseball this time of year, the crack of the bats, the playful laughter, and those smells anyone who loves the game knows, the freshly cut grass, the dirt flying up in the air, the warm sun drenching the field. this is little league baseball at its finest.

but in the summer of 1955, the cannon ymca team, the only african-american little league team out of charleston, south carolina, found themselves center stage in the national little league tournament in williamsport, pennsylvania. advancing to the big game after all 60 white teams boycotted the local and state tournaments. >> we went on and checked into our dormitory, which was at like cummings college where all of the players stayed from around the country, and we had fun that night, of course. that night was like away from home for the first time. >> reporter: but on game day they were denied the right to play. only practice. little league baseball telling the cannon all stars they were ineligible because they advanced only after the other teams had forfeited. and as the team left the field,

the channels let them play came over the crowd. the group of boys sat in their seats and watched their dream fade right in front of their eyes. >> the fans just went into a big chant, roar, and we all now say that it's haunting. you know, we remember that to today, the chant of let them play. it stays with you even now. >> reporter: john rivers, one of the original players, says the decision was littered with bigotry and prejudice. >> it's bigger than baseball. it's bigger than us. it's really the beginning of the civil rights movement. of course, we were the kids, but the adults were using this opportunity to move the racial agenda forward. >> it's important to understand that this is happening at the time of brown versus board of education, that the entire south is crumbling and in absolute

panic over this. and the day that the cannon street all stars got back from charleston, they went up to williamsport and got to watch the world series. the day they got back was the day that emmitt till was murdered in mississippi, and a couple months later was when rosa parks refused to give up her seat to a white man montgomery, alabama. >> chicago wins the united states championship! >> reporter: nearly 60 years later the world is getting to see an achievement in stark contrast to the events of 1955. the jackie robinson west team, an all african-american club made it to the little league world series in 1983. now 31 years later they're doing it again. going for the championship. >> we hear so much about the negativity that goes on. it's just refreshing to be out here to support something this great. >> it's been hard though.

>> reporter: you've been asked for autographs? >> yes. yes. >> reporter: kind of odd though, isn't it? pretty cool though? >> yes. >> the message is let the kids play. you know, we've done -- let's not take away their dreams. let's allow them -- you know, let -- you know, let kids live their dreams and see what happens. and amazing things happen to the kids and to all of us when we're all given, you know, an equal opportunity. >> reporter: jim sciutto, cnn, washington. >> i love that. let them go for their dreams and amazing things happen. isn't that the truth? thank you so much for starting your morning with us. our next hour of "ne "new day sunday" starts right now. as we're just on the cusp of the 6:00 hour here in the east we're so grateful for your company as always. i'm christi paul. lonely here in the studio. >> i'm victor blackwell in

ferguson, missouri. coming up on 5:00 a.m. here in ferguson. this is "new day sunday." we have the latest on the michael brown shooting coming up and there is a lot to talk about. >> you were there and you saw a lot of it so it will be interesting. the news that isis has besieged another shiite town. they cut them off we're told from food and water for two months. this is more than 17,000 people who live in the northern iraqi town of amerli. the u.n. fears they are going to be slaughtered. nearly three dozen villages around amerli are under isis control. you see on the map the swath of territory isis seized. the crisis in amerli mirrors violence across the country. there are bombings and attacks in baghdad and in the north that you know killed dozens. cnn's jomana karadsheh joins us now from the