♪ helicopters battle isis near an air base in iraq. where where u.s. troops and is the threat over this morning? the clock is ticking to a cease fire in ukraine and rebel troops. this morning it continue and resulting in more deaths. yes, i am so sorry so say. another monster storm is about to hit the midwest. 60 million of you impacted by this one. boston getting hit the hardest.

they're under a blizzard warning, but they're not the only ones. can you it again? happy valentines day. >> thank you. thank you. boston please be careful out there. first thing this morning. >> yeah, u.s. helicopters battling fighters in iraq. that's what we're talking about because the bombers attacked a military base and that base is housing hundreds of american troops. it's just nine miles from the iraq town. you see it here on the map. they grabbed control of the town on friday in an intense assault. 90 percent of it is under isis control. now, as the isis fighters battled inside suicide bombers wearing uniforms that they had stolen trying to rush the air

base. cnn's bill black is in iraq right now. what is the latest at the base? >> reporter: no further attacks. isis mill at that particular times dressed in iraq military uniform as many as ooetd of them were suicide bombers and they were dealt with with the assistance of the american attack helicopters. did not fire any rounds, but seemed to have played a surveillance role. in a nearby town the iraq and the efforts to retake the town have not made a lot of progress. they're still at the perimeter of the town. the center and the heart of the town and is vase majority of the land there, but the iraq security forces are still trying

to take it back. >> so how threatened are u.s. marines at this base? is there a gauge? >>. >> reporter: well, it got close to the base but not close to the u.s. personnel within. they are several miles away. it's sprawling and city like. so several miles away not involved or under any threat. this is a base that's been attacked before, although not seriously. nothing serious and nothing damaging. giving that they're expanding their control in the west of iraq, it controls a majority of it and has the foothold. they do expect the facility to come under attacks in the future. >> i know that you're in iraq and you and the crew take care there.

thank you. >> the air base is roughly the size of bolder, colorado. >> yeah, it has a team of 300 strong u.s. forces there training soldiers to take on isis. we want to go to jim shudo now that has more on that. jim? >> reporter: christy the isis attack on the back is serious enough that the u.s. dispatched a helicopter. the u.s. military personnel were never under danger and danger. the pentagon says that the threat to the coalition military personnel is ongoing. >> the war planes flying over the western iraq town. this after isis seized the the town and launched an attack on u.s. military personnel.

at 7:20 in the morning a small group of isis fighters dressed in stolen iraq military uniforms attacked the air base where more than 300 military personnel are training iraq forces. iraq troops fought back and killing eight suspected suicide bombers with help of american surveillance. >> did the attackers breach the base security? >> we're still looking at this. it's hard to say whether they breached the perimeter or not. they certainly got to the perimeter level at the very least. they were immediately engaged by the iraq security forces right away. >> u.s. forces stationed at the base were away from the assault and under no threat, but they were clearly closer to combat. >> isn't it clear to say that the military personnel are in combat if not in combat troops considering the threat that's

around them. >> there's no question that they're close to danger. there's no question about that. there's not going to be a return to combat mission on the ground. these individuals are not in a combat mission. now, as i said we have a right to defend themselves and if they feel under threat, they have the right and responsibility and obligation to shoot back. >> he told us that the u.s. has plans to evacuate the u.s. military personnel if necessary. isis is also on the offensive in the north. here the terror group paraded kurtish forces after capturing them in battle. >> they're now deployed in four places outside of baghdad. u.s. officials say of course they're not combat troops, but they're closer to combat and they are closer the danger. christy and martin.

>> all right jim, appreciate it so much. thank you. >> i am joined by peter and he is a professor of studies in king london and for the study of radicalization. >> good morning martin. >> i want to start off by showing you the map. i am wondering are you concerned that just nine miles now divides isis from the u.s. and iraq forces? >> well, of course. it kind of vindicates the argument for those that have been against putting american troops on the frontline. they have always been on the ground boots on the ground was never the question. the question has always been how close should they be to the frontline? now they're nine miles away from it. isis is aching for this and wants to kill american soldiers and be in a conflict directly

with american. it's the kind of confrontation that they want to have. they're seeking it out in this house. >> isis posted a owe showing parading fighters in cages. your reaction to that video? >> it's shocking tactics that they have used with the pilot in the past. i think what they're desperately doing to do is regain what they had last summer when they were capturing a lot of towns and having a lot of military victories. if you look at what is happening now you can see that the relatively small military victories that isis is making right now do not compare to what happened last summer. they're small victories, but yet they're still trying to regain the sense of momentum. they want to attract fighters

and keep the reputation of being an expanding fate. for that they need these. >> as far as the kurtish officials, what options do they have? >> it's optional. the curds are supported by the west and good guys in all of this. they're our favorite vit people, and they will get all of the help that they need and request from the americans and from the west. i am sad to say that these fighters and these who have now been caught been isis i see relatively little hope for them based on press. >> yeah, we know how the story goes. >> going back to the attack on the air base. it was that they were wearing iraq uniforms. does it suggest in any way inside help?

>> i don't think that it necessarily does. this is a tactic that we've seen practically everywhere and afghanistan for example. taliban were going into air bases and wearing afghan military uniforms. this the case of isis, it's even easier because isis has been able to capture a lot of military bases. they're running around with the iraq military uniforms even when they're not trying to disguise themselves, so in this that case they're using a lot of equipment that's fallen into they're hands, and i think that we will see more of that unfortunately. >> thank you peter for joining us. >> just how much of a threat is isis to the homeland. one u.s. senator says that we're facing a dangerous situation because there are people today in american that fight and trained isis in syria. we will have details on that in

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but with 11 hours to go sounds of gun fire can be heard in the eastern cities. cnn's senior international nick peyton walsh is live, and nick what are you seeing on ground now. >> reporter: we have been to two sites where the shells landed and one was a base used and was destroyed and nearby. what looked like what must have been a missile disrupted a huge amount of earth and leaving a crater. this is part of the issue here as we approach the cease fire. it's quiet clear and you can see pictures of it here that the convoys are moving in and silicifying gains and launching more intensive assault it says on the town. both sides want it and it's already theirs. the the underlining issue is that there's so much hatred

because of the casualties caused by shelling that it's going to be hard for the fighters to lay down the the arms and the same i can say for the ukraine side. the president saying that a resent attack to north of where i am standing where two civilians and a child was killed maybe a reason why the cease fire may not go ahead. we heard ourself here from speaking to a mother that lost all three of her children from a must have been stray shell that landed in the town quiet the level of loathing that people feel and confronted with such losses. this is what she had to say. >> what cease fire. i curse everyday those that killed my children and the country. people that want to live peacefully. we lived, grew up and took our

children to school. these are not people. >> reporter: now, those children will be buried or were buried today. a 2-year-old, 7-year-old and 14-year-old. one family destroyed by the shelling, and both sides appear equally guilty to a disregard for life at this point. it's that that we lane towards a cease fire. there are very few people here involved in the fighting that think that it's going to stick at all. >> okay. nick peyton walsh, thank you from eastern ukraine. >> let's bring in news general marks. general marks we just heard nick say that there's so much hatred on both sides that they do not think that a cease fire will work. has this gone beyond the leadership of russia or ukraine? >> well, it certainly has.

what has to take place in a situation like this is if there's a frame work in a cease fire it has to two down to the leadership ranks that are in place with the forces, and it has to be enforced from the very top all the way down. you can not sign a document and expect it to be followed. it has has been forced all the way down and there's so much hatred and there's so much uncertainty and also at that very pointed edge of engagement, so many things are wrong and we have clearly seen what that looks like. >> we know that some of the agreements most important province releasing all prisoners, do you see any of that moving forward, and what will it take to do so. >> yes, and it has. there needs to be a level of optimism that if they get together and leads to a frame work with some underpining

requirements, that it will take place. again there has to be a mechanism that these are in place and a time line with each so that you can have confidence building steps. start with one and get it accomplished and it allows you to move to the next level. careerly christy that's the only way that this is going to take place. it takes place at the very very low levels. >> okay. general marks, we appreciate your incite. he is going to stick around with us as well as we discuss isis here in a bit and get his perspective on that? a bit. still ahead it's a race against time and this as the preps wind down ahead of a another snowstorm. we will track the latest of the storm and the devastating affects. president obama speaking out of the three muslim students killed in north carolina this week. this family incisists that they were a victim of a hate crime.

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going to deal with the latest winter blast. >> we will have the support and assistance from you crews across about eight different states in new england and the northeast they have signed up to spend time working on a 24/7 basis here in the common wealth to clear snow away and remove of snow and dispose of snow. >> the cnn's ivan only got a couple of hours sleep because he is working so hard to make sure that this thing is going to take care of everybody, and that everybody is going to be okay. it's nasty. it's wide spread. >> it's totally wide spread, and i am a terrible skier and i saw the mounts of snow, and it's too high. >> poor people. >> they're having to melt snow, and this is how bad it is. this is new. if you're waking up we're including the blizzard warning

to the tip of long island. winds 30 to 40 miles an hour and wind gusts at 65. yes as christy was mentioning we have never had two official blizzards since they have been keeping records back in the 1870s. this is a big deal. as for as the snow, this is just part of the story. if this was the only issue i think that we would be okay. it would be a nuisance and we would get four to six inches and just deal with it here. it's the way that the snow is coming down. it's going to be coming down with winds sustained between 30 and 40 and look at the wind gusts. in fact offshore and off boston harbor we actually have hurricane forced wind warnings. that just gives you an idea of what we're talking about here. boats have to be in. if they're out, you're going to be trouble in the next couple of hours. now, because the temperatures are so cold it's life threatening wind chills.

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. [ music playing ] as the deadline for the ukraine cease fire looms, the sounds of gun shire and shelling can be heard in the eastern cities. the president says that the cease fire is in big danger after fighting increased after the days of the peace plan agreed upon. >> that's just one of the big stories that we're following this morning. also watching what is in store for boston and the northeast. 60 million of you you could impacted by the monster storm. we know that boston could get hurricane force winds, and we will keep you posted. right now to a town that's the gateway it seems to iraq troops. >> it's in the hands of isis fighters and grabbed 90 percent

of it on friday. >> they attacked the air base that's just nine miles away. iraq forces were able to shove them back. >> isis is now posting this chilling video that's showing captured kurtish fighters in cages. senator james told cnn's wolf that isis is a threat. >> this is a group that you have seen very very successful in a really short period of time. they're moving as we saw today against a base that contains a u.s. forces. these people are very bold. they're preferred targets is the u.s. homeland. >> are there isis terrorists sleeper cells plots in the united states right now? >> as far as i am going to go with that is that there are people who have travelled to

syria fought with isis and returned to the the united states. i think that people can draw their on conclusions from and what that means in the home land. it's a dangerous sit weights. >> clearly the senator knows more but cannot say. joining me for more on the inside is general marks. major general, do you believe that they are people in the u.s. as we have just heard that were fought and trained by isis? >> absolutely. there's been a migration over to syria. there's a talent and has an appeal to a number of folks. training occurs over there and engagements and then a return to the united states to begin recruitment and then try to institute some type of attacks here in the homeland, so the short answer is absolutely. we have to assume that and then the department of homeland security really becomes a local

issue to determine what the key indicators are and the traits that would allow us to break it up. >> yeah, absolutely. the senator would not go as far as to call them sleeper cells, how would you call them. >> the term sleeper cells has a komd war to it and there was a deep burial in terms of total integration of the society and maintaining a total appearance of being apart of society which was a sleeper, and then upon command would then execute some tasks. these folks when they come back to the united states are trying to blend in as best as they can, but they're not sleeping. they're actively engaged and trying to further what the activities might be in moving folks back to the mideast and try to execute tasks and missions here, so nobody is

sleeping. >> so if they're here, how can they be stopped. >> well, it's clearly. in fact what it means is that most of the folks will reveal themselves through behaviobehav. most give up on line and will allow you to see and come away with enough indicators that would allow you to then move law enforcement in the right direction. so i think that's primarily what happened. the the really well trained ones can disappear for years and they're not sleeping and activity engaged and then execute the missions. >> andrew general spider marks, thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you, mark. >> as we mentioned the attack on the air base in iraq is troubling because it's nine miles from where isis fighters have taken control now in an intense assault in the city.

new days joey hurst is a former army specialists and i sat down with him yesterday to talk about the time at the base before launching here as a cnn producer. >> it's literally only a few miles away from the best is west of baghdad. i am not sure the exact mile ladies and gentleme, it's not that far away. when flying in a black hawk it took us an ahour to get from the base to the airport. >> knowing what you know about the security of the base, would you fear that isis would have -- it would be plausible for isis to break it? >> i think so. again, i don't know the weapons that the marines have there. if they were only there to help

train the iraq forces i am sure that they do not have the same amount of weapons that they have when we went over there when the war was beginning. it's going to be hard to defend that with marines. marines are tougher than anybody. it's going to be hard to seen. >> if reinforcements needed to be in, would it be easy to get it to the base? >> i think it would be. it depends on if the military has the air seniority because it was an abandoned base and run ways there. we use that as a helicopter landing pad for the medics and any other hol continuers missions that anybody went on all came from the base. so there's tons of room for that type of aircraft. if they have that there, then it definitely would help them in the fight.

i had a good friend of mine that was killed there on the base, and it's really disheartening and it was like what was the sacrifice for if everything that we did over there in 2003 is all going back to enemy hands again. >> yeah. this is a different threat than anything that you have fought. >> yeah, it's not the sadam forces that it is. isis is more brutal than any organization or army probably in history with their tactics and everything. just seeing how close that they're coming to that base, i mean it takes me back there. it's been over a decade since i have been there, yet i still know the places and can still picture my bunk and where my cot was set up and everything. >> you can see that he was so gracious to share the the pictures of the base with us. we did get a good sense of how expansive the base is and the

fact that there's nothing around it. that's one thing good about the base too is that you really cannot count on a surprise attack because with the watchtowers and the dessert around it, you would spot something. >> you would get a sense of isolation. >> thank you so much to joey not just for sharing that but for the service as well. coming up. 60 million people and you know who you are are in the path of the next winter storm. blizzards warning for the people of boston. this morning the crews are working hard to get the city ready for another foot of snow.

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all right. we are hearing a blizzard warning and i was reading not just in massachusetts and maine and new hampshire and michigan right now. look what they're dealing with in boston. this is the fourth major snowstorm that's getting ready to pounce on them as they're trying to dig themselves out and we mean that literally. six feet of snow there in the last week there. >> they were shoveling a roof.

following this record snow fall massachusetts governor addressed the hardships that the new storm could very well bring. >> there's no doubt that this storm will bring significant challenges for all of us. in part because it's on significance but because it comes on the heels of so many others. >> ryan young is in boston following the latest and good morning ryan. >> reporter: christy and martin the temperature is starting to drop here in boston. this area has been hit already with nearly six feet of snow, and they believe another foot could hit today. >> it's a race against mother nature and time. one blue tarp and heavy lifting. the men push, pull and hall mass tif amounts of snow from a high school. record snow fall has boston facing a serious challenge and causing one mayor to shut all of the area schools down. >> anything over 18 inches you

should not be moving with the kids in the school. i guarantee you that a school is going to collapse. we're not willing to take the risk. >> no one is will be take it and the size of trucks and more than 70 inches of the ground and forforecasters believe that it can drop until four to ten inches. now under way a record response after snow is we are erie. they're worried about the load from the punch of another heavy snow fall. >> you can see the snow banking up against it. i am a little more concerned about that. >> crewing looking to find any weak spots especially neighbors where more snow could mean disaster. >> we don't want to see mom and pop get out on the ladder and try to clear the ice themselves. we're being proactive in going after professional con tatracto. >> plenty of good people wanting

the winter wonder land to go to a halt. >> my wife and i have four children, and i can tell you ryan i am begging for them to go back to school last week. >> cabin fever is at the extreme here. >> that's why the operation is so important. they also believe that they could get hit with hurricane force winds. this will make for a rude valentines day. christy and martin. >> okay. thank you very much. we will be watching. now this question was the shooting of three muslim students a heat crime? relatives insist that it was. now president obama is weighing in. joey jackson joins us next.

officials say that an accelerate was used in a center that went up in flames on friday morning. they told the affiliate someone drove by screaming and mocking chants. they want to investigate it as a possible hate crime fortunately no one was hurt. the justice department is opening what is a parallel thing of the three muslim students of western north carolina this week. the suspect is in custody and he killed the students because of an ongoing parking dispute. the family is not buying this. they call it a hate crime. in a statement the president said that the fbi is taking steps to determine if federal

laws were violated. no one in the united states of america should be targeted because of who they are, what they look like. i want to bring in joey. joey, how is a hate crime defined and proven in this country? >> sure christy. well, first of all good morning to you. what happens is that remember that the federal government is doing the parallel investigation. what that means is that the state, of course, has charmged this person with murder for the three deaths he committed and caused. so the federal government is doing it's own investigation into a hate crime. what is that? when you take an action against someone because of their actual or perceived issue relating to national origin or relating to race or religion. in the act that you engaged in was the case of that, then it would constitute a hate crime.

then the next issue becomes how do we prove that you acted because of the perceived hate as a result of the religion or anything else? what i would say with that is like anything else you look at the mental state and intent. you can not into somebody's mind and as a result of that you exam the surrounding circumstances, and in looking at that and seeing that there and offense like murder and vandalism, it's that basis. what you act is that you look at the facts. there's a question as to whether or not there's a parking space dispute. how many people get [ gunshotin and certainly people lose their cool for reasons, so we can not jump to any conclusions. >> yeah, losing the cool is one thing but shooting execution still is another thing. >> yeah, they're going to analyze that and the other thing that they're going to look at is the facebook postings of this

person. apparently he had postings with hate of religion in general. that's not enough, so they will go further. was there any past history and if so, what was the nature of that past history. that's one of the postings that we're talking about and going on the facebook page and then what if any history was that with the neighbor. what did they talk about? did he say or suggest that he did not like the religion? >> yeah, joey i wanted to really quickly that we have the sound from the father to the victims, and he said that his daughter was [ gunshot ] execution style and she came to him before expressing fare and felt hate from the suspect. i think that could come into play here, yes? >> absolutely. you exam all of those circumstances and if they point to the unmistakable conclusion that the act was based upon the

hate, then of course it could be pursued as a hate crime, and as we're discussing this is as you would with any jury. you use the common sense and look at. we can not see his mind but look at everything that point toss the state of mind and does it point to hate? if so of course then he would be guilty of that offense. >> okay. thnk you so much for breaking it down for us. we will talk to joey next hour as well. >> my pleasure. next hour another iraq city falls to the isis fighters. can the united states do anything about it? plus this stranded in thick ice. details of a rescue 900 fisherman trapped off the coast of antarctica. it breaks you free from your toughest cold and flu symptoms. theraflu. serious power.

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getting home. there's a lot of news to talk to you about this morning. the next part of new day starts right now. ♪ u.s. choppers strike against isis has the mill at that particular times take control of an iraq town just ten minute drive from an air base where u.s. marines are stationed. the deadline to a cease fire between rebel fighters inches closer. the monster tomorrow about the blast the northeast again especially new england. more than 60 million people impacted this time and another system could bring snow and ice and freezing temperatures. they're forecasted far south as georgia. ♪ good morning everybody i am mart martin. >> we're talking of isis. >> yeah, the pentagon is acknowledging that there's no

question that the u.s. troops may not be in combat, but they're close to danger. >> they seized 90 percent of the town in western iraq in an all out assault. they killed 25 iraq police and sending suicide bombers to attack the al-as ad air base. iraq forces were able to shove the militants back, but we're learning that 13 iraq soldiers died there. >> elsewhere isis put on a brutal show of force and featuring captured kurtish in cages. >> lieutenant kernel in virginia and we want to start with phil black that's in northern iraq, and phil i know that new details that are coming in about the attack in western iraq? >> reporter: yeah christy. details on the price that was

paid and the forces on the -- the security forces resisted, but sent some 25 iraq police officers lost their lives there. so far the iraq security forces and their efforts to retake the town have not made a lot of process. they're at the outskirts and in the heart of the town and going on line with seizing the police station and freeing the prisoners near. at the nearby air base is where 13 iraq soldiers lost their life and repealing a force of somewhere between 20 and 25 militants dressed in the uniforms and eight suicide bombers among them. this they dealt with that and as we say so many lost their lives in response. so far no further attacks against that military facility. the concern going forward is that there could be. if they maintain, it will have the capacity to launch further

attacks against the air base, but the pent coming is key to insist and the point is made so is far that in the attack the personnel 300 or so military personnel were under no risk. they were seven miles away at another section of the military facility there. >> there are so many battles in iraq and i know that you're in the north. what can you tell us is happening there phil? >> well, it's a different situation here in iraq. here it's local kurtish fighters and have had a lot of success in stopping isis. isis has really lost to a degree to ability to go on in this part of the country. different in what we have been talking about in the west where isis maintains that offensive capability and on the front foot and the iraq army and the local tribes that have been trying to fight them have not been able to stop them successfully.

christy. >> okay. phil black you and the crew take care there. thank you. >> erin, as we reported 13 soldiers were killed when they attacked the air base. what are you hearing from officials? it sounds serious? >> well, john cur by explained on friday that although there are hundreds of americans that are on the base and explained that it's the size of bolder colorado, that the american forces were not in immediate danger. he also could not say for sure whether the security perimeter was breached, and all of this is racing new questions on whether u.s. forces will be subject to a combat role on this role intensifies. he claims the position in an interview with our jim yesterday. listen here. >> these troops are trainers and advisers. that's what they're doing.

they're training security personnel. they have a right to defend themselves. we have been honest and of course u.s. forces are in a cam bat role. we conducted more than 2,000 air strikes. that's combat. there's not going to be a return to a come watt mission on the ground. these are not in a combat mission. now, as i said they have the right to defend themselves and if they feel underthreat they have the right and responsibility to shoot back. >> let me point out to the viewers here that he said that the policy in place is that there will not be a return to a combat mission. there's a slight opening there because of course the policies can and do sometimes change. mary tin and christy. >> so can the events on the ground can change things. erin, thank you so much. >> lieutenant bob joining us now. i want to talk about something that phil black said. he said that the threat is still

very real because isis has control of this city some nine miles away, so at this point is it important for, you know, iraq forces and u.s. coalition forces to target that city? in other words, how are you in that isis is in control of a city that's so close to american troops. >> yeah, it appears that they have the initiative right now. keep in mind back in september of 2014 at a different facility not far from there a lot of fighters got in and killed a lot of iraq security forces, to there's a precedence here that we're concerned about. now, we have ground surveillance and obviously the base is well su cured. however, there are mortar and

rocket fire and my biggest fare is that one or two will get close to the trainers as kirby said. they would then blow themselves up and killing or wounding many of ours. this is something that we're concerned about and working to prevent. >> you know john kirby we just heard in there say that there's no question that they're close to danger. there's not a return to a combat mission on the ground. the vicks are not on a combat mission on the ground. you couple what is happening there with the u.s. helicopters gun ships. isn't there in some reguard a combat going on on the ground? >> of course there is. any time that you're in a combat area and there's indirect fire or a chance of insurg gents getting in then yes our marines and soldiers are aware that they're able to defend

themselves. the president asked for authority to use the military force and there's a caveat in there that under certain circumstances which of course general dempsey and the chairman made clear he wants to be able to send and assist iraq forces. that may involve for a period of time. the president put a parameter on that and you're not going to have extended ground. we will see in time, but it's a fluid situation and hard to predict. isis has the initiative and with the fog that's been around that area that allow the attack yesterday, it could return and things could go back quickly. >> all right. lieutenant bob so appreciate your incite. thank you, sir. >> thank you. in less than ten hours a cease fire will go into affect in ukraine, but you would not know it if you were there. not stop shelling and fighting is continuing in part of that

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to get away from the camera. there was shelling near you? >>. >> reporter: well, we're standing in the hall way of the he tell. this building is safe and has not been hit. for the first time since i have been reporting here we heard blast that were very close to where we're standing. i think four of them by our account. unclear of what the target is. we just moved away from the windows where we were standing that are exposed. obviously for those that landed closer this is more terrifying and that's part of the issue here as we go to the cease fire about ten hours or so at first. that sort of sense of loathing from the civilians that are caught by the shelling here in donetsk. it's compounded by the violence and making the mill at that particular times that we have spoke to and that the cease fire

can stick. this is what one of them said to us yesterday. >> with these people they can not talk peace because they have killed too many civilians. >> reporter: obviously with a situation like this, the fear is that if it vile lites no one wants to stop when midnight comes around. we know that there's a fight happening for a harbor of the ukraine military holds at the moment. they have hundreds if not thousands of troops inside and they encircle it. the sense of heightened drama really is building as we go to midnight. we hear report from the russian immediated i can't suggesting that another convey maybe on route to the separatists held areas and bringing what they

call humanitarian aid and further supplies for the russian separatists here. we also have been seeing some satellite pictures posted by the u.s. ambassador and we can not verify ourself and it shows russian artillery or russian weaponry. on both sides it's rising here and there's a great fear that when midnight comes around it's going to bring silence over the guns here. back to you. >> well, we're glad that you and your crew are safe. do take care there. >> all right. let's bring in michael and he is the special monitor to ukraine. do you think that since we have heard the accessment from nick pay tan walsh that the cease fire is going to be honored by both sides. >> first of all, thanks for having us. what nick and frank have been

reporting from the field is consistent with what we have been seeing as well. quiet heavy violence and for the past 24 hours one of our two remaining drowns have been targeted and it was not damaged. so we're hopeful of course just a few hours ago our secretary general and chief monitor issued a joint statement and that they had a measure and that they're very hopeful and why because the bloodshed has been continuing for weeks and weeks and months for the outflow of people is continuing and putting on a burden of neighboring communities. we're hoping for the best and ready to continue our monitoring tomorrow in the days following. >> some of the agreements most important previsions like elections and releasing all prisoners, how are they going to take it forward? >> well, one of the key

provisions and going back to september was pull back on heavy weaponry. so the monitoring role is going to be to observe the process. i can tell you in the weeks to follow the agreement we did not see much fall back whatsoever. in fact, what we have been seeing now is an increase and more use of heavy weapons and the shelling into the dense populated neighborhoods. what one needs to monitor the heavy weaponry is an inventory of what exists on the ground and where it is. it's a complicated process and to enhance the ability is that we're increasing the number of monitors to 2050 in addition to using drowns we're exploring other possibilities like satellite to monitor what is going on on the ground. >> it appears that it was going to support to prevent ukraine leading to the west. now i was wondering if you think

that russia was trying to annex ukraine? >> well, i don't want to guess on it and what we can can you is that they were over the past few days and weeks were some signals if we can put it that way of expansion of the conflict zone and what happened was alarming a week ago. here you had a peaceful large city that has remained quiet for weeks and then all of a sudden on a quiet morning it would show up heavy dense lated. it's an area of concern because it's a place and so we're hopeful that midnight tonight guns will fall silent and that, you know, peace will prevail. again we will be there tomorrow in big numbers monitoring what is going on on the ground and

reporting on it. >> we hope with you. thank you very much. >> thank you. the father of two of the three muslim students gunned down at the university of north carolina believes that this was a hate crime, and the feds are stepping in now. >> why execution style. if you're angry with somebody and get engaged and your full of angry, you should not in the face and you run away. >> we will have more on that and the governor of massachusetts issuing warnings for residence. listen, it's not just massachusetts but 60 million people in the northeast bracing for a major snowstorm. we're taking you inside for the preparations coming up.

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job. he is involved in an ethic scandals on energy policy while getting paid by a group advocating on an issue. he claims that he did nothing wrong, and the resignation will take place on wednesday. apparently first former lady barbara bush is doing just that in jeb bush running for president. there was a charity event and jeb mentioned a couple of years ago that his mom insisted that there was enough bushes in the white house already. she appears and says that our problems are so big, it does not matter what your last name is. apparently saying jeb, go right ahe ahead. still ahead 16 million people. that's how many are expected to be impacted by another major snowstorm. we will take you to battered boston as crews work around the clock ahead of the next blizzard. plus, how the compelling

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in part because of it's own significance but it comes on the heels of so many others. we would urge everybody to please stay off the road during this storm through saturday night into sunday morning, and through sunday check on neighbors and elderly neighbors as well. shovel sidewalks and hydrants if you can. >> all right. so it's a race around the clock right now in boston and millions of other people are bracing for a storm. i saw blizzards warning in massachusetts but in maine and new hampshire and michigan. >> michigan. >> michigan. >> i am not surprised by michigan. we're in boston following all the storm preparations. ryan? >> kr >>. >> reporter: christy and martin this area is already hit with six feet of snow, and they

believe that another foot could hit today. it's a race against mother nature and time. the men here push, pull and hall massive amounts of snow from a top high school where eight foot drips are a mascot. it has boston facing a serious challenging and causing one mayor to shut the schools down. >> you should not be moving with kids in the school. as i said before are we guaranteed that a roof will not collapse? we're not going to take the risk. >> reporter: here in the city that face the snow drifrtds and the size of the trucks and more than 70 inches on the ground they believe that the next round could drop another ten to 14 inches. now under way a record response that left the storm we are erie and building inspectors are worried about the load from a punch of a heavy snow fall. >> you can see the snow banking up against it. i am concerned about that.

>> looking to find any weak spots especially in neighbors where more snow could mean disaster. >> we do not want to see mom and pop get out on the ladder and clear it themselves. we're having them go after professional contractors to remove the situation. >> dropping temperatures and plenty of good people wanting the winter wonder land here to grind to a halt. >> my wife and i have three children. i tell you ryan, i am begging for them to go back to school. cabin fever is in here. >> that's why moving the snow off the roofs here is so important. they believe that they could get hit with hurricane force winds, and this is going make for a rude valentine's day. >> poor guy. it sounds like he can not talk. yes, haven't we been there. it's so cold that you can not do

it. this is not about -- it's about the cold but not just about the snow. we have winds almost hurricane force in some places. >> no, this is shaping up to be a nasty one. this is a good time to bring in ivan and have him anticipate because it's going to be bad. >> yeah, my worry is because we have had six winter storms in boston and your snow fatigued. the reason that it's an important storm is because the way that it's going to come down here with hurricane force winds and the fact that we're going to be talking about wind chills anywhere from 20 to 30 below zero. that's going to make it a dang everious storm. coastal flooding at the time of high tides sunday morning is going to be an issue here. when you talk about 60 or 70 mile an hour it's going to be affected here. they extend all the way back to the. >> tim: of long island. look at millions of people

involved here in the blizzard warnings. that is tonight and torment. this is the kind of snow fall. the bulls eye will be down east maine, but the rest of us are talking four to six and ten inches in boston. this is the big deal and 40 to 50 to as much as 75 mile an hour wind and hurricane force warnings for the waters off massachusetts and that's a big deal. the wind shils are 25 to 35 below zero. saturday afternoon is getting cranking and then sunday is getting going. that's when the hurricane force winds are going to take affect. on the back side the winds are going to be howling as we go to sunday and monday with dangerously cold wind chills. >> my good ps. thank you ivan. inside the home of american

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as investigators reveal new details with the case. >> i was just down there covering the the trial and evan has been down there and he has the latest for us from texas. >> reporter: christy and martin the first few days of the american snipper trial has revealed new details of the day that they were murdered. these are details that we have not seen or heard until now. >> a few hours after chris and chad were shot and killed the hunt for the killer ended with a ten minute car chase that at times reached 100 miles an hour and at times frightening. a swarm of police officers swarmed on ralph and the former marine was in a deep psychosis. >> the time of this tragedy eddie was insane.

>> kyle and little field drove him to the country side gun rang they snuck a text message that said this dude is straight up nuts, and kyles wife said that the last time that she spoke he sounded irritated like something was going on but he could not speak freely. a short while later child and little field would be dead and he used two different guns to kill them. the mental health trouble cannot excuse the murders. >> mental illness does not take away the ability to know right from wrong. >> before the car chase plirs spent 30 minutes trying to get ralph out of the truck and a body camera captured the moments. the conversation was bazaar and saying satan is walk on the earth with us. is it voodoo that's upon us. the troubled former marine was convinced that they were out to hurt him. >> not only was he suffering

from severe mental and not only did he not know the conduct was wrong, he thought he had to take their lives because he was in danger. >> prosecutors produced photos and it shows ammunition that kyle brought to the range. >> each of the victims had a fully loaded handgun when the bodies were discovered. the suggestion that they happened so fast that they had no time to react. >> ralph had a history of abusing recreational drugs and alcohol. they showed a series of photos of drugs that ralph had inside the house like glass pipes for meth and several more stashed away in a tin can.

which reminded us of a story that a friend of ralph told you us. ralph use to do odd jobs for tim. >> he still carried a lot of the things that he did in the military. when he showed up to mow my lawn, he was in full camo and the full works. >> eddie spents time in court and taking and listening to the testimony that could spend him to prison for life. >> after ralph killed kyle and little field he drove to a taco bell to buy a burrito before driving to his sister's house and traded his soul for a pick up truck. now, more details will continue as the testimony continues in the american snipper trial into next week. christy and martin? >> ed, thanks so much. i have to say that being in the courtroom is a fascinating case. it can be difficult for the

jury. there's more that we will have on the american sniper trial and the break down on the insanity defense and tell you how often this strategy works.

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a text message that chris kyle sent to his friend chad little field that also police and body video cam. let's bring in hln legal analyst joey jackson. the texts and videos may recollecting odd and unusual comments taking soul, do you think this points to insanity? >> it could. of course the defense will amp up everything that happens to insanity including the past medical history. that's ralph and including him going in and out of mental institutions to get that treatment, so in addition to that you have a text message from who? the actual person who was killed, kyle. he is going on with little field and saying that this guy is nuts and watch my back. little field saying and there's

indication and not that there experts but something is amiss. then you look and take it further and then when someone is running from the police it's a conscience of guilt. you know what you're doing is wrong. in this case they will say that he was under paranoia and saying that he is going insane and souls looking to get him. it plays in the defense strategy to say that they did not know right from wrong. >> danny, i want to go to something that you wrote and you said "sanity is raised in less than one percent of felony cases, and it's only successful in a fraction of those. "i am wondering have the defense raised the odds in the defense? >> well, there's a lot of evidence that people observed the defendant to be acting bazaarly. the evidence going to come as to whether or not the defendant

knew right from wrong. in texas under the text that's narrows to other states we can substitute the word wrong for illegal. did this defendant know that society deemed the conduct to be illegal? i receipt tif of what he thought about the morality of the actions, so that's a jury determinati determination. it's not a medical one and the texas courts have said that. it's a moral determination as well as a medical determination, because if it was not we would decide legal insanity in the hospital and not the courtroom. in the courtroom the jury as a layperson has to >> that could be extremely difficult. >> martin, just a brief add to that. remember when they are making it, that is that jury, it's by a preponderance of the evidence. the defense merely has to show is it more likely than not that

my client was insane? if they do that they got a shot at prevailing. >> that was a point brought up by the defense in the opening statements. they said look, it's preponderance of the evidence here. it's going to be difficult because that jury there is not only very close to the story because of who is involved, but the community in which it took place. thank you both. >> thank you. have a great day. >> thanks, gentlemen. well, isis bombers attack an iraqi air base where there are hundreds of u.s. and coalition forces. u.s. warplanes taking to the air to help ward them off. is isis standing critical ground? also this run away school bus, and there's video, look at this thing barreling down a highway. there are students in there. wa went wrong and how police were able to stop it. ...with the power of three medicines to take on your worst pain and fever,

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this police dash cam shows what happened after the bus driver had a medical emergency. the bus weaved in and out of lanes. there was a deputy who noticed the driving and was able to stop the bus by deflating the tires. no students were hurt. the driver rushed to the hospital, now in good condition. >> fire officials say accelerant was used at a houston islam center that went up in flames yesterday. the assistant imam tells our affiliate someone had driven by screaming mocking chants. the council wants authorities to investigate as a possible hate crime. the cause of that fire is under investigation. the good news is nobody was hurt. >> the u.s. coast guard is in the middle of a dramatic rescue mission to save 27 fishermen off the antarctica coast.

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we're learning more about this morning. we have learned that they killed at least 25 iraqi police officers. we have all of those new details. >> plus, this monster storm that we're watching about to hit the northeast could impact more than 60 million of you. the region is under a blizzard warning. we'll let you know what we learned. >> that clock is ticking down in ukraine to a cease-fire, hopefully between ukraine and rebel troops. shelling continues resulting in even more deaths. >> hope you're having a good morning so far. we're grateful for your company. i'm christi paul. >> i'm martin savidge in for victor blackwell. happy valentine's day. first this morning, let's start with isis. gaining critical ground in iraq right in their path is a massive air base the size of boulder, colorado, where there are hundreds of iraqi and coalition forces. >> isis fighters seized most of the town of al baghdadi in western iraq in an all-out assault yesterday.

we're learning this morning at least 25 iraqi police were killed there. and they also, isis, sent suicide bombers to attack the al assad air base nine miles from the city. >> iraqi forces were able to shove the militants back but we're now learning that 13 iraqi soldiers died in that attack. elsewhere isis put on a very brutal show of force parading captured peshmerga fighters in cages. >> it's chilling video. iraqi tribal leader says cities and towns in western iraq's anbar province could collapse to isis in hours if iraqi forces do not stand their ground. >> he is pleading for more u.s. intervention including ground troops. phil? >> reporter: we're getting a greater sense of the cost, the casualties upon iraqi services in this isis assault both on the town of al baghdadi and the nearby air base of al assad.

within al baghdadi some 25 iraqi police officers were killed trying to repel the isis assault on the town. they were ultimately unsuccessful. at the air base, some 13 iraqi soldiers were killed by the a attack that took place there. we no, there were 20 to 25 militants, as many as eight were suicide bombers. they killed most of the suicide bombers, but clearly, there was great cost involved. at al baghdadi, the security forces efforts to retake the town from isis have not made much progress. they have moved into the perimeter but isis very much controls the heart of the town. it has boasted online taking over the local police station, freeing all of the prisoners there. it now looks to have something of a foothold which is a concern because it is from there that it could launch further attacks against that nearby air base. the pentagon expects they will do so but has been keen to make

the point that so far u.s. military personnel on the base have been under no direct threat, that there were some miles away from where this attack took place at one of the perimeters of the base. it's a large sprawling base that explains how the personnel could be such a great distance but within the same facility. the concern going forward, though, there will be further attacks. christi, martin, back to you. >> thank you. cnn's erin mcpike is covering from washington. you wonder what does this mean for the u.s.? erin, good morning. wondering what you're hearing from pentagon officials this morning. >> pentagon spokesman john kirby said the americans located at the base were not in immediate danger even though he couldn't say for sure whether the security perimeter was breached but just the proximity to the attack is raising new questions whether u.s. forces will ultimately get dragged into a combat role as this war on isis

intensifies, he insisted still not the intent in an interview yesterday listen here. >> these u.s. troops that are at anbar are trainers, advisers, that's what they are doing, training hundreds of iraqi security force personnel. they have the right to defend themselves. and so and we've been honest that of course u.s. forces are in a combat role. we conducted more than 2,000 air strikes. that's combat. there's not going to be a return to a combat mission on the ground and these individuals are not in a combat mission on the ground. again, as i said, they have the right to defend themselves and should they feel under threat they certainly have the right and the responsibility, the obligation, to shoot back. >> but let me point out to our viewers he said the policy in place is that there will not be a return to a combat mission. there is a slight opening there because of course policies can change as conditions do. but what was also striking yesterday is how even as isis is

taking control of al baghdadi the city, kirby was pressing the point that look, iraqi forces can handle this war because they beat back isis on the nearby base. that's not likely going to satisfy the hawks in congress who are going to look at this in the weeks to come as they debate what this authorization for the use of force will really look like, christi and martin. >> erin mcpike, thank you. >> joining me from washington is cnn security analyst peter bergen. although the attack on this base failed, we're learning more about certainly the heavy casualties it appears that the iraqis suffered. i think i know the answer but i'm going to ask will isis try to strike again? >> of course they will. they have a natural advantage in anbar province about a third of the land mass of iraq. this is an area that al qaeda in iraq, the parent organization controlleded in 2006. it's a rather small population though it's a large chunk of iraq but it's almost entirely

sunni. and they pledge advantages. the big question i think is you know, does this set them up for some kind of ability to strike into baghdad in some serious way. i think that is -- i'm pretty skeptical there. baghdad is a big city with the iraqi army and the shia militias will defend baghdad quite well. the fact they are doing well in anbar province isn't necessarily a threat to iraq. we've seen this movie before, as they took over anbar province in 2006 and began failing because of their own internal problems, basically the population was not happy by being ruled in a sort of taliban rule and rose up with help with the u.s. military. could some version of that happen in the next year or so, maybe. >> right, we've seen this before. anbar province was i believe one of the deadliest for u.s. forces in the war when they were there. a tribal leader is now telling cnn the situation in parts of anbar, around the base, that

they are on the verge of collapsing as he warns of a possible massacre in a town two miles away from the isis-controlled area of al baghdadi. what can you do to stop something like that? >> well, i don't know but i think a big issue here is what happens with the authorization for the use of military force which president obama put to congress on wednesday. there's going to be obviously a big debate in congress about what exactly that authorization looks like. but already in that authorization there is i think quite a lot of wiggle room for more u.s. engagement. it doesn't -- it says martin, that it doesn't allow for enduring ground operations. how long is enduring, is that a week, a month, a year? that's really something that's going to be i think going to have to be debated in some detail. the point is i think that authorization allows more wiggle room than we've seen hitherto for a larger american role.

>> what do you think the strategy of isis is at the moment? is it to sort of begin reaching out to baghdad or do you think it's to try to carry out some sort of horrific attack in which americans could be killed as well? >> i don't think it's either or. i think their capacity to do an tack on the united states is low. we've seen very, very small numbers of americans join isis, number of them have been killed because they have no idea what they are doing. it's a dangerous play to go fight in syria or iraq. i'm not going to so much concerned about that. yes, in the end they would love to take baghdad. that is not easy. one approach is sort of to take all of the cities around it and basically create a belt through which you basically start strangling baghdad. they tried that in 2006, 2007, my guess is that would be what they would want to do now. that's the approach they would want to take. >> actually talking about the americans a it that base which

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look at the mounds of snow. more on the way. crews are racing to get ready for another blizzard. this is historic because this will be the second blizzard of the season in boston has never seen that before. >> and of course it's not just boston. the storm's expected to affect that city as well as 60 million people in all in the northeast. ivan cabrera is in the weather center tracking the latest for us. >> yes. another storm. this is going to be just the kind of winter here we're setting up to be probably we could reach the top of worse snow season in boston. in fact, i was there for '95, '96. that was terrible but it was spread out. it's so bad this year because we had a record low season starting in boston and ramped it up. we're 79.5 with this next system we'll likely go to top three and with more storms ahead likely the top two, perhaps top one. why so many storms? well, the jet stream. that's the storm track.

it has been stuck in the same place here. it has allowed for the lows to deepen off the coast and move in as nor'easters with plenty of moisture. we have very warm atlantic waters above average, actually, that has helped fuel these storms over the last several weeks. there is february 2, groundhog day storm. and even the clippers that moved through that usually don't produce that much snow, because of the orientation of the jet stream these also have been blowing out there, february 10, and current storm, i know you don't want to see this. this is potential for next week. that's the pattern. that storm could impact the southern u.s. i think we may have snow in atlanta. here is the storm that impacting the northeast. heavy snowfall, 8 to 12 inches coming down with hurricane force winds along the coast, so that is the danger here. we could have power outages and coastal flooding. the high tides along the massachusetts coast are occurring sunday morning so that's when i think the potential for splash over.

how much snow? there we have it as far as boston looking at 8 to 10 inches, of additional snowfall. 15 to 18 up across down east maine and that is going to continue over the next couple days. saturday night tonight and then sunday, that is the peak of the storm with these winds that are going to be 50 to 75 miles per hour. been talking to my friends in boston, the snow blowers aren't working because you are trying to blow the snow and it is essentially hitting the piles and coming back down. it's rendering the snow blowers useless. people are hands up in the air and giving up. >> feel for those people. ivan, thank you so much. >> that's one of the reasons as ivan mentioned, that you now have got front-end loaders or high lifters some call them lining the streets as they try to move several feet of the old snow ahead of the new snow. >> after all of this, month of record snowfall, massachusetts governor spoke late last night to talk about how they are going

to deal with this latest blast. >> we will have the support and assistance from crews across about eight different states throughout new england and the northeast, that involve basically signed up to spend time working literally on a 24/7 bases here in the commonwealth to clear snow, remove snow and dispose of snow. >> ryan young is following the latest from boston. how is it? >> reporter: christi and martin, the temperature started to drop in boston and look, this area has been hit already with nearly six feet of snow. and they believe another foot could hit today. it's a race against mother nature and time. one blue tarp and heavy lifting, the men here push, pull and haul massive amounts of snow from the top of this high school where eight-foot snow drifts become mascots. record snowfall has boston facing a serious challenge

causing a mayor to shut his schools down. >> anything over 18 inches you shouldn't move with kids in the school. >> reporter: a risk no one is willing to take especially with the youngest. but here in the city that's faced snow drifts the size of trucks and more than 70 inches on the ground, forecasters believe the next round could drop another 10 to 14 inches. now under way a record response after three major storms left the area snow weary, building inspectors worry about the load from the punch of another heavy snowfall. >> you can see the snow banking up against it. i'm a little more concerned. >> reporter: crews looking to find any weak spots, especially in neighborhoods where more snow could mean disaster. >> we don't want to see mom and pop get on the ladder and try to clear the ice. we're being pro active in having to go after professional contractors to help remove the situation. >> dropping temperatures, rock

frozen neighborhoods and plenty of good people wanting the winter wonderland to grind to a warmer halt. >> my wife and i have four children and i can tell you, ryan, i'm begging for them to go back to school last week. i mean, cabin fever is at the extreme. >> reporter: that's why the operation to move so much snow auch of the roofs here is so important. they also believe they could get hit with hurricane force winds, this will make for a rude valentine's day. christi and martin. >> ryan, thank you. still ahead, jeb bush getting a big endorsement in a potential white house run. someone in the past who said uh-uh, don't do it. >> a grandfather from yand visiting his son in alabama is left partly partialized after a takedown by police. it's on tape. we'll talk to the man's family. [container door opening] ♪

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night jeb mentioned that yeah, a couple years ago his mom insisted there had been enough bushes in the white house already. then suddenly she appears on the ballroom video screen via skype telling the crowd, quote, our problems are so big that it doesn't matter what your last name is. giving him the go ahead. >> there you go. mom says it best. ukraine's president says that the cease-fire there is in big danger and the fighting is increased as the clock ticks down to the deadline and the violence. when presidential hopefuls head overseas they have to avoid what pundits call the london curse. wisconsin governor scott walker suffered a bout of it in london. what he said and didn't say that is raising eyebrow, that's ahead. >> let's talk about a topic that gets everyone's attention. food. and in this week's cnn money, a restaurant getting for bringing guests in the dining room to serve food and talk to

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at this hour ukrainian soldiers and pro-russian separatists are supposed to be gearing up for a cease-fire in

eastern ukraine. with just under nine hours to go, sounds of shelling and gun fire can be heard in the eastern cities of mariupol and donetsk. >> nick, we saw you were hearing shelling very near you. what's the situation now? >> reporter: that shelling has stopped. we hear it elsewhere in the town. that was the close it's come to here, our hotel where there are a number of key separatists administrations buildings around us. we do expect it to continue, though, for the rest of the day until we head out toward this cease-fire at midnight. we're learning apparently the ukrainian president will talk to the french and german leaders, and then to barack obama about four or three hours from now. but all eyes on whether the

fighting can slow down. and of course, how people react to that. the civilian toll being so extraordinary on both sides of the lines. we saw the tragic losses of one family on thursday ourselves. >> it was here thursday night when the family got their first running water for a week and quickly made the kids bath. mother explains. then the first shell hit. direct here on the bath itself. all three were killed. but their parents were both in the front bedroom. windows didn't even shatter. this civilian area is still being shelled here 34 hours before a cease-fire. the family is now a shell, numb,

in mourning. the tiny coffins ready for tomorrow. >> i went to get them a towel in the other room. the lights went out, everything flew into the house. what cease-fire? i curse every day those who killed my children and all those of the country. people who want to live peacefully, we lived, grew up, took our children to school. these are not people. >> the father dennis is alone, talking to himself. peeling vegetables for the wake. >> my innocent grand children were killed, innocent. mr. poroshenko, your cease-fire i welcome. any quiet the cease-fire may bring will bring hollow, numb and mere hours too late here.

>> reporter: here the fear is of course that the guns will not fall silent in about nine hours from now. and we are also seeing it seems intense fire fighting to the northeast. the ukrainians have thousands of troops inside. the separatists say they encircled it and therefore it's their territory. even the kremlin is technically separatist territory in their vision. we have to see if the guns silence at midnight and how long it lasts. >> a powerful piece. thank you. >> let's bring in nicolas burns, the school professor. thanks for being with us. the two sides did not stick to the peace plan. what are your thoughts? >> i think it's hard to believe it's going to hold. you see that the russian military has been violating at least the spirit of the cease-fire over the last 48

hours. you just showed footage of continued shelling. the u.s. government said this morning on twitter that it believes that russian military systems are across the border, aiding and abetting those military systems. the pro russia rebel forces. if there was going to be i think from the kremlin and from the russian rebels a true indication of what they intend to do is try and gain more territory in the last 48 hours of this time before the cease-fire at midnight tonight. >> some of the reason for the skepticism is the feeling that provisions, some of the provisions in this cease-fire, are rather broad or ill-defined. >> i think it's interesting that it was the russians according to president por 0 shefrno who pushed for this period of time before the cease-fire. i think now all true transparent in what they are trying to do, make up more territory gain a significant advantage and i think what is apparent here is that president putin's tactics for the last several months have

been to create a frozen conflict in eastern ukraine, meaning he wants russian rebels to control the territory, he wants to divide ukraine, he wants to weaken the ukrainian government. all to show that russia will have, in effect, territorial control of the eastern part of ukraine as well as crimea. i think the strategy is clear here which leads me to believe that russia will not honor, i fear, the terms of this cease-fire the way russia did not honor the agreement of last autumn. >> i mean i hope you're wrong for the sake of all of the civilians caught up. let's say the cease-fire does not hold, there's going to be a lot of pressure especially in the united states with some way of arming, perhaps heavily arming, ukrainian troops. a good idea? >> i think it's necessary. if the cease-fire does not hold and if -- everyone hopes it does hold for the sake of the civilians as you say. if it doesn't, then i think

you'ring whoing at much stronger economic sanctions from the european union and the united states, long overdo, and you're probably looking at the united states perhaps canada, and other countries on a multi nationnati coalition providing much superior military technology, defensive weaponry to the ukrainians to level the playing field so that the ukrainian government can defend the territory that the united nations says is ukrainian territory. and that will up the ante for president putin, increase the cost to him for what he's done here in this outright aggression against ukraine. >> it has been suggested that president putin is also trying to put a wedge between the united states and europe. i'm wondering is he succeeding? >> i don't think so. i think you saw that president obama and secretary kerry were strong supporters of this cease-fire agreement, president obama withheld of course the decision to transfer arms to

ukraine because chancellor merkel and president hollande were involved in talks. i think there is unity. i think it's fair to say that the united states and canada have been more aggressive, wanting a tougher reaction against russia, the europeans have held that back. but if the cease-fire doesn't hold, this is brokered by the europeans then i think all bets are off and the europeans will join in tougher economic sanctions and the u.s. give serious consideration to military assistance to ukraine. >> let's hope it holds. nicolas burns, thank you. as the conflict worsens in ukraine civilians fall victim to the crossfire. for ways you can help support victims of the crisis in ukraine go to cnn.com/impact. let's talk presidential hopefuls because they are jockeying for the 2016 race really right now. and they have to prove themselves both domestically and internationally. wisconsin governor scott walker is in london, he seems to be

suffering from what some pundits call the london curse. >> plus, a man who doesn't speak english is partly paralyzed after an encounter with alabama police. will the officers be charged? we'll have the details.

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39 minutes past the hour. wisconsin governor scott walker is in london this week, the gop presidential hopeful there to get international seasoning some say. and similar to other presidential hopefuls he seemed to get sucked in by what's known as the london curse. walker was criticized by the british media for punting on a question about evolution. >> that's a question a politician shouldn'ting involved in one way or the other. i'm going to leave that -- >> any british politician right or left wing would say -- >> to me it's one of those i'm here to talk about trade, not pontificate. i love the evolution of trade in wisconsin. it's going well. i'd like to see a bigger evolution as well. >> thank you. >> seemed to recover there but

you heard the chuckles. let's bring in chris moody, the senior correspondent at cnn, politics.com. so, i mean chris, this is not the first instance of this so called london curse. hence its name. let's listen to chris christie talking about the measles vaccine and bobby jindal on no go zone. >> all i can say we vaccinate ours, so you know, that's the best expression i give you my opinion. it's much more important as a parent than what you think as a public official. >> there are people here that say there are neighborhoods where the women don't feel safe walking through without veils. there are neighborhoods where the police are less likely to go. >> so chris, are these really gaffes or as i was reading in one article yesterday, even a londoner said yeah, you know, we like to judge, i guess, the republicans that come over and open their mouths. >> for a lot of these presidential hopefuls going to

london or going abroad can be a little bit like walking through a mine field. consider the context here. they are away from their element, their mind is not focused on the day-to-day schedules and a lot of staff is back home. they don't know a lot of the reporters. i'm not making excuses for these guys but in the case of scott walker he really refused to answer almost -- well, lots of questions. he wouldn't talk about foreign policy and then of course with evolution he wouldn't talk about that. i think the british thought they were kind of tossing up a softball and he refused to swing at it. we saw with bobby jindal he criticized the country without really having details to back it up. then with chris christie with the vaccine comment, i think he was making an off-hand comment and didn't realize it would blow up back home. but these guys have to be cognizant of the fact we live in a 24 hour news cycle. news doesn't stay on that side of the pond. >> how do they recover? do they recover from this?

how important is it to do so? >> i think these are really blips on the radar. they are small data points and what will be a year and a half possibly, you know, presidential campaign if they stay on for the long haul. there's another added element to this is that anything they say is not just reported back here in the united states, but reporters like us will report on the way the british press is reporting on it. because they have a different style. so all of this gets compounded and then when you look at how mitt romney handled london, christie, walker, you know how in journalism three or four becomes a trend. that's what we're seeing. so we're kind of looking to see for any gaffe or see what happens with this so called london curse. >> but dems aren't off the hook. in 2009 michelle obama hugged queen elizabeth. that sent the british media into a 'tissy. in '09 hillary clinton insulted democracy telling the parliament the american democracy was older

than european versions. go back to 2011, routers reported president obama and the former french president were caught talking, let's say unfavorably perhaps about israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. why do our politicians seem to, dare i say, step in it so much overseas? >> there's a lot more pitfalls there. i would recommend maybe staying in iowa, new hampshire, south carolina. a little safer in those places just as far as you know, there's different rules over there. you have to be aware of a lot of things. a lot of these so called candidates or possible candidates are aware of them and trying to be polite, trying to do the right thing. but it certainly isn't easy especially when the spotlight is on you. look, scott walker, he's governor of wisconsin with no presidential ambitions, no one pays attention to him. but he's not that anymore. he is is riding high on polls of

perspective candidates, you go abroad with that behind you the stakes are much higher. and i would imagine so is the pressure. >> before i let you go we have to ask you about first lady barbara bush who said in the past, she does not want another bush in the white house. referring of course to her son jeb. now, she seems to be changing her mind a little bit. what do you make of that? >> the first rule of political reporting, and i mean horse race reporting, when someone or even their mother says they are not going to run for president they still might run for president. look, i'm not surprised at all. i would imagine they had family discussions, mrs. bush speaks her mind. she has been known to do that for a very long time. but you know, her son was showing real interest in running for president. and i can't imagine she would continue to say he should not publicly once he is stepping his toe into that water. >> she's a strong woman and a mother and those things go hand in hand. thank you so much, chris. we appreciate it.

>> thank you. then there's this. cnn is debuting a new quiz show hosted by anderson cooper that will put our anchors to the test on presidential facts and trivia, competing for a chance to help charities. we sort of put together a look at the show. that's set to air monday night. >> i think the team that gets the most right will win. >> jake tapper, he asks me the most obscure random questions. >> cuomo was trying to physically intimidate me. >> a base threat don. >> i'm a good guesser. >> they have a combination of smarts and strategy. >> i've been doing this every day a thousand times a day. >> he asks me which president had 15 children. i said i don't know. >> i want tapper to go down. >> i'm in the middle of my show and he is sending stupid questions about presidents. >> we unlike the other guys we really like each other. >> you can catch the whole show

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so, we don't get to see the personalities of supreme court justices very often but oh, what a rare moment you're getting here. >> why don't you call us the odd couple. >> justices scalia and ginsburg.

>> you know, what's not to like. except her views of the law of course. >> sharing a laugh about ginsburg's sleeping habits. at the state of the union. >> the audience for the most part is awake because they are bobbing up and down all the time. and we sit there stone-faced, sober judges. at least i wasn't 100% sober because before we went to the state of the union we had -- we had dinner together. and justice kennedy brought in -- >> that's the first intelligent thing you've done. >> so i got a call when i came home from one of my granddaughters. she says you were sleeping a it the state of the union. >> the sharp as a tack 81-year-old admitted she's had occasional help staying awake from now retired justice david

souter. >> he had an acute sense of when i was about -- so he would give me a pinch. >> ginsburg nicknamed that torious rbg, have long vacationed together with families. scalia admiring her taste for adventure. >> and ruth honest to goodness went up behind a motor boat in a -- >> parasail. >> yeah. i mean, she's so light you would think she would never come down. >> their political differences an elephant in the room they aren't afraid to confront or ride as they didin india. >> it was a rather bumpy ride. >> some of her feminist friends gave me a hard time or her a

hard time because she rode behind me on the elephant. big deal. i'm not kidding. >> it was the driver explained it was a matter of distribution of weight. >> pamela brown, cnn, washington. >> a little bit of levity that you so rarely see. >> delightfully human especially when this court has to deal with difficult issues to see the human nature there. reassuring actually. >> very good point. >> still to come, did argentina's president try to cover up an iranian link to a deadly bombing. there is a prosecutor in the country asking a federal judge to investigate after another prosecutor was found dead under mysterious circumstances.

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here's a look at some of the other stories. argentina's president may face an investigation whether she tried to cover up iran's involved in a bombing. a prosecutor says there is enough evidence to continue the probe. it was put on hold when another prosecutor in the case was found dead last month. 85 people were killed when a bomb exploded in a jewish center in buenos aires. >> in canada police foiled a plot by two people planning to go to a public area to kill as many people as they could and then kill themselves authorities say. the 19-year-old male suspect shot himself to death after police surrounded his home. the 23-year-old woman was arrested at the airport and confessed to the plot.

there was evidence two other males were also involved and we've learned they have been arrested but the plot had no connection to islamic terrorism. >> the u.s. coast guard in the middle of a rescue mission to save 27 fishermen 900 miles off antarctica. subzero conditions, snowstorms and the extremely thick ice make the situation difficult but they are making headway. the fishermen became stranded earlier this week when they hit thick ice and that damaged the ship's propellers. >> a new winter storm is expected not only to affect boston but some 60 million people in the northeast. >> how do you deal with that? ivan tracking the latest for us. where is it now? when do you expect this thing to really take off? >> so i think you have about six hours if you are watching from the northeast, across portions of long island heading up into boston and portland. about 6 to 8 hours to get hunkered down and prepare for a significant impact storm. hurricane force winds, heavy

snow fall and the wind chills are unlike any other storm. this is going to be the coldest storm so far. and that wind chills are going to be 20 to 30 below. you don't want to be out in that. that's not just uncomfortable. that is dangerous. here are the snow totals. boston 10 to 12 inches. the further up the coast you go, closer to the storm on the back side of it here especially through the day sunday when the heftier snowfall totals are going to be. all of us are going to see white-out conditions where you have blizzard warnings. look at the winds. 50 to 60 miles an hour, 65 to 75. remember, hurricane force winds at 74. we're likely going to see that along the cape and outer islands. and then yes, the wind chills, 25 to 35. that will continue, i think by the time we get in through sunday. even monday. not only are we going to have blizzard conditions as the storm is getting going tonight and into tomorrow, but i think what we call ground blizzard conditions in that once the snow falls it's going to be fluffy, the winds are strong enough

monday so more blinding snow. >> feel for those people. thank you so much. >> that's it for us. we'll see you here at 10:00. >> here is "smerconish." welcome to the program. i'm michael smerconish. isis forces making stunning advances in iraq seizing large chunks of territory now hundreds of u.s. marines in harm's way, just a few miles from the town of al baghdadi which is now held by isis. the propaganda machine continues, the terror group releasing a chilling new video purportedly showing them parading captured kurdish peshmerga fighters through the streets of iraq in cages. our own reporter phil black was in isis territory the most dangerous place in the world for a reporter, he is on the move now and filed this dispatch moments ago from dohuk. >> the concern now is that if isis mnt