unlawfully convicted is a grave injustice. >> i knew we were right. >> i think it's a good system. france takes direct aim at isis launching its first air strikes in iraq. >> i got it wrong in the handling of the ray rice matter. and i'm sorry for that. >> under fire. the nfl commissioner apologizes and promises to do better to stop domestic violence and later, portrait of ordinary people around the world. one man's quest to tell the unique and compelling story of strangers. welcome to our viewers in the united states. and around the world, i'm natalie allen. our top story in the skies over

iraq. france's defense ministry released video of a fleet of jets attacking what officials say was an isis logistics warehouse. it was france's first air strike against isis in iraq. cnn's anna kcoren has more from erbil. >> reporter: president obama's global coalition is already taking action with the french launching their first air strike here in iraq. french president francois hollande announced an isis logistics warehouse in northeast iraq was hit and destroyed by one of its fighter jets. it follows his visit to iraq last week committing his country to air strikes and military assistance but only in iraq. for the past six weeks the united states has been the only nation launching air strikes which have made a big impact on the battlefield. providing that essential cover for kurdish and iraqi ground forces while taking out enemy

positions, military equipment and armored vehicles. u.s. central command says 176 air strikes have been launched so far. officials here hoping to see an intensification of that air campaign. well, meantime, there had been a series of deadly car bombings across iraq. the largest in kirkuk killing seven people injuring 20 in a commercial area. officials here in iraq fear there will be more suicide and car bombings. islamic extremists resorting to these deadly tactics as president obama's strategy to destroy isis kicks into gear. anna coren, cnn, erbil, kurdistan, iraq. >> at the united nations america's secretary of state called on the world to oppose what he called the evil of isis. john kerry told the security council that just about every country including iran has a role to play in battling the militant group and he said it's imperative to insure the world

confronts isis everywhere it exists. >> in the face of this sort of evil, we have only one option, to confront it with a holistic global campaign capable of destroying this terrorist threat. to confront it with a holistic global campaign that is committed and capable enough to ensure whether in iraq, syria or elsewhere isil cannot find safe haven. >> and the uk dozens of imams have asked them to release alan henning, the latest hostage they threatened to kill and karl penhaul on the aid worker who went to wore-torn syria for just one reason, to help people. >> always smile when you see what is needed get to where it goes. >> reporter: that was christmas

day last year, alan henning taking aid from britain to syria. he was the only non-muslim in the convoy. his fellow volunteers nicknamed him gadget. he was deeply admired. henning sacrificed christmas, weekends and family time to do his bit for syria. he was kidnapped by isis a day after that video was made. he's now under threat of imminent execution. as the clock ticks down, those who made the trip with him are making this plea via youtube to isis leaders. >> alan was moved by the suffering of the syrian people, in particular the children that he devoted all his free time and raising money and awareness. please do not take his life to pay for the crimes that the international governments have committed. alan ignored advice from the

british government and took the risk to travel to syria to help the people. >> reporter: on thursday more than 100 brif o00 british imams monoxided a statement. their message is part appeal, part condemnation of isis. >> the understanding fanatics are not acting as muslims but as the prime minister has said they're acting as monsters. they are perpetrating the worst crimes against humanity. this is not jihad. >> reporter: this man, one of the organizers of the appeal has a direct message to this man, the black cloud isis executioner known as jihadi john. also believed to be british. >> john, we as muslims are here to preserve life. we can't continue this barbaric action. turn back, face justice and repent.

>> those who travel to syria with henning have steered clear of tough talk. adopting instead a softer voice. >> your prisoner alan henning traveled with us several times to syria on all occasions we brought him with us under our care and protection. >> there may be sharp differences in tone but all those now appealing to isis agree that cab by with the heart of gold cannot be left to die. >> no sacrifice we do is nothing compared to what they're going through every day. >> reporter: karl penhaul, cnn, london. >> what a nice man. so hope he can be spared. turkey's president says a covert rescue operation by turkish intelligence was responsible for freeing nearly 50 turkish captives, the group including a null of diplomats have been held since june. they were taken when militants

raided the consulate in mosul. kurdish fighters battling isis for control of a key town on the turkish border. isis has the town surrounded on three sides after overrunning 60 nearby villages in the past three days. thousands of kurds are fleeing across the border to safety in turkey without international intervention, look at that video right there. kurdish leaders warn of yet another humanitarian crisis. well, the u.s. secret service captured a man who jumped the white house fence and made it inside the building. a spokesman says the man was not armed. he was caught just after passing through the north portico doors. part of the white house was evacuated. president obama and his daughters had left the white house just four minutes earlier. health workers trying to educate west african communities about the dangers of ebola are fighting not just the disease but often hostility as well.

reports from guinea say eight members of an education team were killed near womey, located at the center of the outbreak. they were hiding avrilages pelted them with stones when they arrived two days ago. guinea is one of several west african countries desperately trying to stem the outbreak. france has just pledged to set up a military hospital in guinea. in neighboring sierra leone people jammed markets to stock up on supplies before a nationwide ebola lockdown got under way friday. the government has ordered everyone to stay in their homes for three days. officials hope it will help contain the outbreak. health workers will be going door to door educating people about the disease and looking for those infected. there may be hope down the road in the fight against ebola. scientists are fast tracking the search for a vaccine. we have the latest now.

>> reporter: the shores of west africa may feel a million miles from here but what's happening at the university of oxford's institute is a matter of life and death for desperate millions there. professor adrian hill and his team are at the front lines of the fight against ebola. joining them today is their first ever human volunteer. a perfectly healthy british woman willing to take a risk to make a difference. she's about to be inject the with a potential ebola vaccine. this trial is part of a series of safety tests of potential drugs being worked on together in the uk and the u.s. funded by the welcome trust. >> we need a vaccine because over 2,500 have died. the mortality rate is increasing. we don't know when this is going to end and at the moment we have no drugs and no vaccines to use. that's not the only challenge, as well as doing the trials the

vaccine has to be made in large amounts. we can only do a few trials at the moment. at the same time, 10,000 doses of this vaccine are being manufactured. >> reporter: the urgency is almost overwhelming. >> there have been over 40 outbreaks, mainly in central africa over the last 40 years. all of those died without vaccination, they were small outbreaks, the mortality was important but limited. everybody thought the same would happen with this outbreak even though it was in west africa. the difference was it happened in cities, probably higher densities of population and it has spread. >> reporter: it could be two to three months before any vaccine is ready to deploy and to complicate things even further many in the affected regions are already taking matters into their own hands. the world health organization says people are buying the blood of those lucky enough to survive

the virus on the black market for illicit transfusions. the antibodies found in the donor blood could help the recipient fight the virus but it's a huge risk and it's unproven. >> the main lesson that comes out of this huge outbreak to us is that there could have been a vaccine available if we as a global community had decided that we were going to make a vaccine for ebola and make it available in the affected regions. >> as millions in west africa fight to survive the deadly outbreak at least now there could be hope in their future. cnn, london. >> if you'd like to help make a difference in the global fight against ebola you can go to our website, cnn.com/impact. you'll find links to aid organizations working to save lives there. again, cnn.com/impact. coming up after a short break, new developments in the

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you know, thinking that he's so close to us in the woods, i can't looking out my back window and we're scared. >> like you don't know the real story or what's happening or what is in this guy's mind. it's sad for the families and just a shame all around. you know, for everybody. for his family, for officers' family so it's hard to know what to really think about it. >> police say frein is a survivalist with a strong knowledge of firearms. they're asking people in the area to stay inside their homes. the nfl commissioner roger goodell says he's sorry and he's offering a plan for trying to stop domestic violence in the organization. this after some high-profile incidents involving players and accusations that the league has been soft on the problem. here's cnn's miguel marquez. >> reporter: roger goodell finally breaks his silence trying to hit the reset button on domestic violence. over and again he blamed himself.

? we acknowledged the mistake, my mistake, and we said we're going to do better going forward. >> reporter: accepting it after the elevator video came to light and made him realize his initial two-game suspension was insufficient. goodell again insisted what ray rice told him on june 16 was different from what he saw on that video. >> it was clear this was an act of domestic violence. but it was inconsistent with the way he described what happened. when we had that new information, we had the ability to say, we're going to interject and we're going to take additional action and that's what we did. >> reporter: but all the information the commissioner needed was on the initial police report readily available on day one. regardless of what was on that second videotape, on the initial summons, it clearly says that

mr. rice struck janay palmer with his hand rendering her unconscious. why wasn't it enough then to put this right? >> well, it was and we saw obviously the original video and it was clear that domestic violence violation had occurred. that was clear to us. and it was horrifying. >> reporter: moving forward the nfl, he says, will partner with domestic violence group, educate the entire organization from players to team presidents about domestic and sexual violence and rewrite the rules of conduct and punishment for the league. >> we need to change our policies and our procedures and we need to get some help in trying to identify how to do that. we have state laws that are different from state to state and even locally. we need to make sure that we have looked at when the nfl should be involved in the investigative process. >> reporter: despite it all the commissioner says he has never

considered resigning and has the confidence of the owners, advertisers and sponsors. >> why do you feel like you should be able to continue in this role? >> because i acknowledged my mistake august 28th. i said we didn't get this right. we're going to make changes. how do we do this better as the nfl and make sure that we keep everything on the table. >> espn meantime, is reporting ray rice's former team, the baltimore ravens were briefed by police on what happened inside that elevator just hours after t the incident. the team launched a private push for leniency for rice, they say. in just a moment it has been the subject of a lot of talk especially after that massive ipo. we take a look at how alibaba did on its first day of trading on wall street. the latest on fung-wong which battered parts of the

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alibaba, the new magic word on wall street. the chinese online retailer made its trading debut friday and it was the biggest ipo ever. when trading was over shares were up 38% to almost $94. at one point the stock traded close to $100 a share. the company started by a former english teacher is now worth more than facebook. that former teacher is jack mao now teaching silicon valley a thing or two. jim boulden looks at how it was built from the ground up. >> reporter: jack says he tested his vision for his internet site 15 years ago on the streets of san francisco. when he asked strangers if they knew the word alibaba.

he got the answer he wanted. alibaba, and open sesame, the ability to gain access to all kinds of treasure. today alibaba is ebay, paypal all in one. jack has not been under the radar. in 2005 he was named a young global year and business person of the year in 2007, with you of "time" magazine's influential people. he may only be 49 but has done a bill gates and retired as ceo of the company he helped found taking on the role of executive chairman. >> you know, the thing about jack mao and the thing about alibaba is they're not -- he's not particularly an inventor. what he's done is he's come in used existing technologies and beat some people at their own

game. so that's really what his genius is. >> reporter:s estimates of his wealth vary widely. one ranks mao as china's 29th richest man at $4 billion. "forbes" says number 6 at nearly $9 billion. bloomberg has him third in china at nearly $13 billion. no matter, his ranking could greatly change by the price of the shares and options over the long run. >> you have to work very hard. >> reporter: noted for his charitable endeavors. mao has already established a charitable trust fund worth an estimated 2% of his share options of alibaba which could fund the trust north of $3 billion. with the rest of the money he and alibaba raise from this ipo expansion of the company is certainly on the cards. jim boulden, cnn, london. well, people who weren't snapping up alibaba shares had something else to buy friday.

>> three, two, one. [ cheers and applause ] >> apple ceo tim cook opened the doors there of the company's store in palo alto, california, as buyers came in to get the new iphone 6 and iphone 6 plus. there were long lines in cities around the world as you can imagine in new york about 1,000 people waited overnight. apple said it sold 4 million on preorder in a single day last week. we'll have to wait and see if the total number of sales in the first weekend beats the record 9 million set one year ago. my goodness. all the commotion was too much for one of the first iphone 6 owners in australia. he couldn't hold in his excitement or hold on to his new phone. >> this is just a normal iphone 6. >> okay, all right. we're doing a reveal. his name is jack. >> oh.

well, despite the gaffe it turns out his new phone was not damaged. we're happy to say. get that cover for it. the sundance film festival got its start in utah, been to london once. now it's hong kong's turn. for the next two weeks people will be treated to eight award-winning independent films. >> we are truly honored to be here. i speak on behalf of myself, the sundance institute, the sundance film festival and of course our founder robert redford. a lot of people asked us for the last couple of months why hong kong and i just want to tell you why because we believe that american film is a great export. we believe that especially our independent films say much about who we are as people and we are happy that we are starting this dialogue of bringing the personal films, the other side

of the big blockbusters to this place. >> the hong kong festival will run through the 28th of this month. well, government officials in the philippines say seven people are dead from tropical storm fung-wong. this was the incredible scene as the storm lashed manila. it made landfall friday in the northern part of the country. more than 40,000 people have reportedly been evacuated from their homes across the country. many schools and government offices shut down as well. unbelievable pictures there just give us a snippet of what people are going through, meteorologist ivan cabrera can tell us more about it and when they're going to get some relief. >> yeah, with still rain there unfortunately. we were there when the pictures started coming in. we were talking about it for awhile and knew the rain would be significant and in the philippines here you run into trouble and the mudslide and landslide threat will still be

there. the storm is fort to luzon. manila has seen the worst of it. some of those pictures with the water. it'll take a while to recede. we'll still be dealing with a tropical storm. it won't become a typhoon. rainfall tallies. not done on the rain gauges, more additional rainfall just manila will see the break, 420 talking that's about 16 inches so 8 to 16 inches widespread rainfall. take a look at some additional scenes coming out of manila where the stock exchange was suspended. flights were canceled going in. no school, no government. things just to a standstill. you got to save your people. that's what they were doing yesterday out there with multiple water rescues, swift water rescues because the rivers and streams were overflowing their banks and just the roads became waterways and people were hanging on to in some cases just

to rope, just to get to higher ground and save their life and that is just devastating stuff for the philippines coming on the heels of the last storm. they had a day between storms to get ready for the next one and that's not enough and certainly not enough for the water to be able to recede. so there's the storm now. it's going to essentially get into china here. it's not going to have a chance to intensify as far as its wind but it is going to bring in heavy rainfall to our friends in taiwan and then eventually heading out into shanghai with 72-hour forecast so a big rainmaker at this point as it heads off to the north. not concerned about this turning into a typhoon. despite the fact it's over water so disorganized because the mountains up in the north did a number on it so additional rainfall, the heaviest of which will be across extreme northwestern part of luzon but look at manila, still another 25 millimeters or another inch of rainfall and be done with this storm finally here and then it

becomes a taiwan and china problem. there of after it's not going anywhere. it is typhoon season and it's about all we're working, medium range of models not looking at anything so for now after this storm it looks like we'll get a lull in the tropics in this part of the world. we'll check on the conditions in california with the big king fire now that has tripled in size since we last spoke. talk about that in a few minutes. >> thank you. just ahead here thwrongs of people running for their lives getting out of iraq and kurdish leaders borne of a new humanitarian crisis as isis advances. also ahead, separations in scotland, police break up violence as tensions flare following the vote on independence. t avoid it. resolv our new formula not only cleans and freshens but also softens your carpet so it's always inviting.

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i'm natalie allen. our top story, france has carried out its first air strikes against radical militants in iraq. the french defense ministry released these photos of a fleet of jets attacking what is said to be an isis logistics warehouse. french officials say there will be more strikes in the coming days. sierra leone is under a nationwide lockdown in an effort to stem the spread of ebola. people jammed markets thursday to make last-minute purchases. they've been ordered to stay in their homes for three days while volunteers go door to door to educate people on the virus. the u.s. secret service says a man who jumped the white house fence made it inside the building before being captured. a spokesman says the man was not armed. part of the white house was evacuated.

president obama was not inside at the time. he had just left. 60 villages in three days, kurdish leaders say that's all the time isis needed to lay siege to the north central kurdish region of syria and now there are warnings of another mounting humanitarian crisis. pentagon correspondent barbara starr brings us the story. >> reporter: in northern syria kurdish forces clash with isis fighters who have taken over some 60 villages in recent day as cording to a monitoring group. u.s. officials know the war against isis must be won on the ground but president obama insists it won't be with u.s. ground troops. >> it has to be the syrians fighting for their own country. that's the best way to do it. the most effective way to do it. the most sustainable way to do it. >> reporter: but is the u.s. running out of time before it even gets started? the pentagon estimates it will take up to five months to first

find 5,000 reliable syrian fighters to train and then -- >> there be probably a period of to 12 months of actual training and feeling so it's going to be a little while before you start to see opposition fighters returning to syria. >> reporter: so is it worth starting air strikes in syria now? >> there is a still a significant weakness and gap if you don't have ground forces that are ready, willing and able to conduct missions in conjunction with air power. >> reporter: in iraq, general lloyd austin, hid of central command, did ask to place a small number of troops on the ground to direct u.s. air strikes when the u.s. began helping local forces retake mosul dam last month. the white house said no. president obama was sticking to his pledge. >> the president has ruled out the option of deploying american boots on the ground in iraq and in syria in a combat role.

>> reporter: the pentagon insists commanders are not at odds with the president. even as the chairman of the joint chiefs holds open the option of requesting the u.s. military join iraqi troops as advisers on the front lines. >> there's complete alignment between the white house, the president and his military leadership here at the pentagon from secretary hagel right on down to all the planners that are putting together the options for the president to consider. >> reporter: but a former head of central command warns the u.s. may be telling isis too much about no u.s. ground troops. >> i don't think we should reassure then economy in advance that they'll never face them. >> reporter: on the ground in iraq already there are nearly some 1700 u.s. troops mainly acting as advisers. military officials say that number could still grow. barbara star. cnn, the pentagon. isis has just released a new 55-minute video. it is classic isis propaganda

meant to instill respect and fear. but this time a gunman is featured who sounds like he's from north america. here's cnn's brian todd to report. >> reporter: in a 55-minute film he appears only at the end but his voice resonates all the way to washington where a u.s. official tells cnn, the intelligence community is analyzing this video trying to determine this man's origin. >> we're here with the soldiers . they're digging their own graves. >> reporter: this masked isis militant gloats as he provides over the executions of syrians apparently captured from a military base near raqqah. >> they said we kept fighting them to turn our guns towards the muslims. they lie. we are the harshest wars to fight and the flames of war are only beginning intensify. >> reporter: he speaks perfect english. >> this is the end of every one

we get ahold of. >> reporter: he could be american or canadian. >> clearly isis had a calculated step to be able to put this guy on camera. why? because he seems american. the message is aimed at a western audience and his intent is to, a, project fear to the united states and, b, to instill and give this sense of projection of power. >> reporter: the entire video is pure isis propaganda stylishly edited battle scenes featuring their heavy armor getting blown apart but a crucial moment comes in the film's final minutes when the masked isis militant and his comrades ready their guns and appear to execute the syrians who dug their own graves. >> this isn't north america. it's quite extraordinary. the first time a north american isis fighter has committed a war crime on camera. >> a u.s. official says it's too early to tell where he's from. >> the fighting has just begun.

>> reporter: how will they find clues? >> it's going to be voice analysis, they're going to be looking at any particular accents they may have. anything that could tip off law enforcement where they can then pull the thread even further in terms of state and local, to meet with some of the communities. >> reporter: did isis slip up and expose this man by having him say and do too much on camera? analyst frank hasaluffa says probably not. if he gets captured or killed they have plenty more westerners in their ranks. brian todd, cnn, washington. red cross and ukrainian customs officials have refused to inspect the latest russian aid convoy to cross into eastern ukraine. russian media say this third batch of humanitarian supplies crossed the border earl yi saturday. on thursday, ukrainian president petro poroshenko went before a joint session of the u.s. congress asking for more support for his country's military.

kiev has been battling pro-russian rebels in eastern ukraine since spring. still ahead here, a united kingdom but to what extent? lawmakers consider britain's future after scottish voters reject independence. and confessions in a shocking case from bali. new developments in the so-called suitcase murder story.

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kingdom are considering how scotland should be governed after voters there rejected independence. british prime minister david cameron says there's now an opportunity to change the uk for the better. scottish first minister alex salmon resigned his post following the no voight. here's nic robertson in scotland. >> reporter: after weeks of uncertainty, a resounding result. >> the majority of votes cast yesterday by the people of scotland in response to the referendum question, should scotland be an independent country were in favor of no. >> reporter: relief at 10 downing street. >> the people of scotland have spoken and it is a clear result. >> reporter: and a pledge to deliver on promises made during the hectic last days of campaigning. >> the three pro union parties have made commitments on further powers for the scottish

parliament. we will ensure that those commitments are honored in full. >> reporter: almost 85% of the electorate voted. the largest turnout ever in scotland. >> all: scotland, scotland. >> reporter: in glass go's the country's largest city where expectations of a yes vote were high they bucked the national trend voting yes. but it wasn't enough. >> i'm upset. >> reporter: why? >> because i voted and in all honesty i thought it was sort of a long shot for us to get yes but i really wanted us to. >> reporter: the party here is over. the questions in the yes campaign, what went wrong with the bigger question for scotland, what's next? first, the cleanup and not just the streets, the man who led the call for independence quitting as leader at the nationalist party and of scotland's

parliament. >> i will stand down as first minister to allow the new leader to be elected by joint parliamentary forces. >> reporter: an opinion on that divided. >> i would think it's probably the right thing to do. he's tried. he's lost. >> reporte . >> i think he's definitely been an influence. >> reporter: his legacy, the referendum reaching far beyond scotland's borders. constitutional change across the whole of the still united kingdom. nic robertson, cnn, glasgow, scotland. but emotions are still running high. tensions flared friday night in glasgow, that was where the majority of voters opted to split from the uk. pro-independence supporters

clashed with referendum opponents. no reports of any serious injuries. while scotland voted no on independence there has been one bick yes there. the royal and and sant chub of st. andrews has voted to allow women to join. 85% of the club's members voted to make the change. women are already allowed to play on the legendary course on the east coast of scotland and now after 260 years of men only, women can become members. well, the vote in scotland appears to have energized a similar separatist movement in spain. the region of catalonia has made a move towards holding its own referendum. isa soares reports for us from barcelona. >> reporter: hours after the scots voted after independence, a defining catalan government approved a new resolution allowing referendums to take place this their region and now outside parliament, a loud

reminder to politicians of the chants of the movement. people singing the catalonia nchn a anthem yelling we will vote. they're hoping a referendum will be called on november 9th. earlier he sent this message to madrid. >> if in madrid they think that only using the legal frameworks they can stop the political will of the majority of the catalan people, they are wrong. it's a big mistake. >> reporter: but he faces an uphill battle because the spanish government in madrid opposes any move towards independence saying it is unconstitutional and is expected to block it. still, many catalan politicians here seem unfazed. >> maybe next week we have two

choice, to be -- to be loyal to the political programs, the agenda we have voted for and we as members of parliament, we have to follow what people has elected us to do. >> reporter: call force a referendum on independence from spain have increased in recent weeks. with hundreds of thousands taking to the streets asking simply for the opportunity to cast their votes. a message i heard time and time again in the streets of barcelona. >> translator: i think it's democratic to express your vote. a no win, the same as a yes win. >> reporter: it seems the prime minister is not moving. in the same breath he congr congratulated scots he told the catalans we're more stable together. issa flores, cnn, barcelona. an american couple confess

killing killing a woman outside bali. a 21-year-old man admitted to killing his girlfriend's mother last month. police say the woman's 19-year-old daughter also confessed to being involved and try took get rid of her mother's body. authorities say the young man was angry the mother didn't approve of him. what a shame. still to come on cnn from new york to iraq, how a popular photo blog that captures everyday lives of just everyday people is expanding around the world. also ahead, chinese president xi jinping and it's the number 11, think about it, that is overshadowing his trip. hey, raz. we can save big with priceline express deals. hey you know what man, these guys aint no dragons. they're cool. these deals are legit. yeah, we're cool. she's cool. we're cool.

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stanton captured incredible portraits of ordinary people to help expand his project, the united nations sent brandon on a world tour and spoke about it with kristie lu stout. >> we sat down and tossed away ideas and one we had is that i could go around the world and do humans of new york like work which is just approaching strangers on the streets, finding out their stories so we're not trying to show anything specific about any specific country, whether that's their problems or their poverty or anything like that but we're trying to go to a variety of different places and listen to people around the world and hear their stories as they tell them. >> you're first up on this u.n. sponsored journey was iraq and your photo of this little girl, we see her dressed in white has nearly 830,000 likes on facebook. tell us who is she and what makes her so compeling. >> that was the very first post i posted from the entire trip

so, you know, it's a special one it was in iraq and so it's this little girl and she was so shy, she was running and hiding and at the last moment her parents finally convinced them that the big guy with the camera wasn't a threat and she kind of sat down and she smiled and let me take her photo and then what her parents said about her they said she's the smartest one in the family because she can speak more languages than anyone else and the reason that is is because she plays with all the children on the street. and so that is the photo that i kind of kicked off the tour with and it obviously resonated with a lot of people because it got up almost a million likes. >> you've met many survivors of war on this journey and one of your most heartbreaking photos is one taken in jordan at the refugee camp. >> you know, one of the most powerful things for me when i've gone to these refugee camps and found out the stories of the people in these camps. because when i'm in new york, my interview process kind of aims to not be political. you know, it follows a path of questions such as what was your

happiest moment? what was your saddest moment and what i'm always aiming to do, tide out a very personal story about the person. but while i was in these refugee camps when i started to ask these questions i realized these problem's circumstances were so oppressive, the lack of security, the lack of shelter was so oppressive that they were unable to think in terms of normal life. they were unage to answer happiest moment or saddest moment. any kind of question outside the context of their present circumstances, so i realized these people had no future and they had no past in their mind. when i asked what her greatest hope was and she couldn't even answer that, the only thing she could say and this was the mother of the children talking we left our hopes back in syria. >> the next photo we'll talk about underscores the point you just made. it's a photo from uganda. we see a man staring down the camera and shares with you this incredible story of selflessness and love. how he's supporting an aids

orphan and his siblings. how did you come across him. >> one of my most powerful experiences of the trip. i was getting a meal and strike up a conversation with the hotel bartender and tells me this unbelievable story about how when he was 9 years old rebels in northern uganda had come through his house and killed his father in front of him and so he was an orphan and as an orphan there was nothing more that he wanted to do is go to school. now that he works in the hotel industry he has met some boys from his village that want to go to school as badly as he does and started an organization in his village that made bricks out of clay to scrape together a tiny amount of money to send these skkids to school. he's telling me this amazing story of bravery and courage and self-sacrifice, another wealthy man comes up beside me and says

to that man, get my a coffee and hurry up. that's all he said eni was just -- i just remember being amazed by the senselessness and the uncaring nature of this wealthy man and this man who has the spirit of three of these men just being talked to like he was nobody. >> i think that's the power of your images and your captions, as well, how you're able to take someone seemingly anonymous that somebody would pass by and ignore and dive into their story. do you find it diffusing just caption as lone to adequately convey what they're going through? >> well, you know, there's any challenge and i always say i love biographies. i'm a huge fan of biographies and biographies are a thousand pages and even in those thousand pages it is very difficult to convey the entire spirit of a person. so obviously in these random

interactions that i get on the street, you know, i am only going to be able to get a very small glimpse into the lives of the persons i'm talking to. so i don't pretend to be portraying anything he. i don't pretend to be showing the whole person but what i want to do is give people a just small window into the lives of these people that they might pass by every single day and not even think twice about. >> brandon stanton, something about his images and his words really amazing so you can check it out online. well, the king fire in california has nearly tripled in size in the past 24 hours. our meteorologist ivan cabrera has more and my sister lives near that fire. >> terrible stuff. the fire is now bigger than the entire city of atlanta as far as how many acres have burned so that just kind of tells you what's been going on fooling since the beginning. the fact it was set intentionally just really gets

under your skin when you talk about how many people's lives have been impacted here. east of sacramento is where we're taking you here. natalie, there is the fire now talking about over 76,000 acres that have burned, nearly 31,000 he t hectares. look at the scenes today. the problem, the gusty winds that developed through the afternoon and the rain hire -- steep terrain. only 10% contained if you want to look at the bright side, that's double what they had, but that is still very low and it is going to be a slow process. that's why conditions won't be healthy here. we do have an upper level disturbance that will spawn a few thunderstorms and look at that here but as far as the forecast goes, that rain chance is not good because that would come in the form of lightning with thunderstorms so that's the way it's going to go with temperatures into the upper 70s to low 80s and lows into the 6

os, catch a bit of a break with the humidity going up at night but then it drops significantly through the afternoon and then we get those winds as we get the atmosphere mixing up. tropical storm polo fall ago part. excellent news from mexico going the right way, the other way, right now wins at 95 kilometers per however and talking about the storm, some of the northern part of the moisture here may get involved with cabo which doesn't need it but looks -- this may be optimistic. may not have a storm if it tips to fizzle in 48 hours. that would be fine for the folks in mexico and me, as well. some good things here, always talk about the depressing weather but had some pictures from the iss and get interesting pictures from nasa. if you look what we're looking at is the scorpius constellation or are we? what is that?

is that grumpy cat, natalie allen? apparently we are seeing grumpy cat in the stars -- >> see, look to the right of the solar panel. see the eye. grum grumpy. >> i had to brush up on -- >> grumpy cat. >> i don't watch new of the youtube. >> you need to because grumpy cat is quite world famous. >> is that the grumpy cat or any cat that's upset. >> it's grumpy cat. >> all right. >> i don't know. >> there it is, scorpius upset as well. >> thank you, nasa. >> we're seeing cats in the stars. leave you with that. >> all right, ivan, see you later. okay, now this is not grumpy cat but adorable new babies from the san diego zoo in california. ah, take a look. two female cheat ka cubs were born three weeks ago and have been hand raised by zoo staff. so cute. the mother had been unable to

raise other litters on her own so get this, each cub will be paired with a dog when it's older. canine companions are known to help relax cheetahs that were not raised by their mother. what can dogs not do. all right, finally this hour, this one from the anyone can make a mistake department even news anchors. can you believe that? a presenter for india's national television channel was reporting on the visit by this man, chinese president xi jinping but confused his name with roman numerals and called him 11 sh. it could happen to anyone. that's it for our special coverage this hour. i'm natalie allen. we'll have much more for you in the next hour so stay with us. i might make a horrible mistake or something interesting like that.

france launches its plan against isi. parts of the philippines are inundated after a tropical storm makes land fall. plus, after meeting with president obama, ukraine's president sits down with our wolf blitzer. that interview, straight ahead. hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm natalie allen. france military jets have