smerconish smerconish. see you next week. a fragile cease-fire in ukraine could fall apart before it even starts. it's expected to go into effect in just hours, but there is already shelling on the ground right now. >> u.s. helicopters deployed in the battle of isis near an air base in iraq housing u.s. troops and an iraqi leader op the ground is warning isis is gaining. we have all the new details. and a monster storm is about to hit all of you in the northeast, i'm sorry to say. it could impact more than 60 million of you this morning. the region is under a blizzard warning. we'll tell you exactly what to expect. want to wish you a good saturday happy valentine's day and thank you for starting with us. i'm christi paul. >> i'm martin savidge in for victor blackwell. it is 10:00 on the east coast, 7:00 on the west.

at this hour the clocking ticking toward the cease-fire deadline in ukraine. with under seven hours to go reuters is reporting seven servicemen have been killed and 23 wounded in the past 24 hours. and the sounds of shelling and gunfire can be heard in the eastern cities of mariopal and donestk. >> nick paton walsh is in live in donestk. you have a bit of a close call. you had to leave your post a while ago because shelling was getting too close to you. what are you hearing there now? >> the shelling has quieted in the area we were four or five shells that landed reasonably close, but emphasized frankly, how much of a horrific time so many civil jans have been having in donestk the past weeks or months. we see daily the damage done by shelling. we saw today ourselves what one local said was a rocket that landed near houses causing a huge amount of debris thrown in

the air, large rocks crashing through the bedroom of a 12-year-old girl in one house. this has wrecked civilian live for months here on both sides of the line i should add. those in the ukrainian government controlled areas are subject to separatists shelling ukrainian officials say, but we caught up yesterday with the mother of one family who put her children in the bath quickly having got the first running water for a week went to get them a towel, and then came back to discover her 2-year-old 7-year-old and 14-year-old had been killed by a shell in that bath. here's what she had to say. >> translator: 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.

>> now that underscores a lot of the hatred we've seen on this side of the lines and is out there too on the ukrainian controlled government areas. the real issue is does that make a long-term peace deal viable and so many of the separatist fighters we've spoken to think any guns will fall silent this midnight. we are hearing they will stop fighting at mitds night but in debaltseve it remains unclear. the spraiss have circled it and they think the ukrainian soldiers should give themselves up. there will be minute by minute choreography going on before the cease-fire goes in. russian state news agencies report about now petro poroshenko should be speaking to merkel and hollande and then will later in about two hours from now speak to barack obama. a lot still going on behind the scenes but a broad sense of so

many different things already out of sorts for an agreement that's barely 48 hours old. back to you. >> very good point. nick paton walsh, take care thanks so much. bring in former u.n. ambassador to nato curt volcker. first and foremost do you think the cease-fire will take hold and if it does how long do you think it can last? >> i think initially it will take hold. this was the plan. it was to start on sunday and we expected there would be a then rush by both sides to try to dwrab what they could up to the sunday deadline. there will be an immediate cease-fire as it starts on sunday. it probably in my view would last a week or two. i don't know that it's any more than that. i think both sides have an incentive to try to regroup, but at the same time i think the separatists have a very strong incentive to keep going. >> and what do you see as the future problems then? what's coming that you foresee will end this? >> this is the big problem with the cease-fire and everything we've seen to date. we are institutionalizing a

frozen conflict inside ukraine. a year ago this was peaceful territory as the woman whose children were killed just said a year ago there were no russian troops there, no fighting going on. russia instigated this by putting in special forces and intelligence first crimea and now eastern ukraine and we will have international monitors inside ukraine on a line of control that separates ukrainian territory. this is a recipe for future conflict. >> so explain that. what kind of leverage do you think or what problems could it cause and the benefit it gives russia by having the oversights? >> first off you're going to have russian troops and equipment inside ukraine enforcing that this territory is now broken away from the rest of ukraine. you're going to have a ukrainian government that feels this is ukrainian territory and they ought to be able to exercise sovereignty and you're going to have the armed groups these rebels, that russia has supported with a lot of weapons and a lot of intent to try to expand and solidify their

control with pieces of it territory. one area that's unresolved you mentioned the town of mare owe poll that's a critical city on the route between crimea and eastern ukraine to russia and in order to have a land route for reply of crimea russia wants that city under its control. >> and if the cease-fire and i hope it doesn't, but if it falls apart, are you in favor of then sending arms and greater arms to the ukrainian forces? >> i certainly am and i don't think we need to wait until the cease-fire collapses. ukraine is a sovereign country it has a right to defend itself its armed forces have been hit severely it needs training it needs equipment just in order to preserve security in the country. we should be on with that now and shouldn't kid ourselves about russia failing to supply and provide arms to the rebels that are there during the time of the cease-fire as they did with the one that took effect in september. >> and do you think that nato nation deployment should be placed in countries, in other

words beef up the presence of nato forces that are around russia? >> exactly. so one of the things that happened in ukraine is we did nothing as we saw these conflicts begin to emerge and then by the time it became an active conflict we felt that idea of putting in defensive equipment or supply arms would be es ka laer to. now is the time to actually help countries and help regions that are currently secure and safe and not under threat stabilize their own defenses and deter any feature aggression -- future aggression the ball tick states, ukraine, odessa where there's no fighting. >> all right. former nato ambassador u.s. nato ambassador thank you very much, kurt volcker. >> my pleasure. thank you. isis launching attacks where american troops are based. how the u.s. is responding this morning and the disturbing message from leaders on the ground. plus we are tracking another monster storm. ivan cabrera has more on that. >> absolutely.

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sheikh, name . an iraqi tribal leader warning of a massacre of forces backed by u.s. led air power cannot stand their ground against isis. suicide bombers attacked a base in western iraq that is home to hundreds of u.s. coalition and iraqi forces. that happened yesterday. they also seized control of most of the nearby city nine miles away. soldiers were able to push them back from the base but they took heavy casualties. let's bring in cnn's ja man na karachi in amman, jordan. tell us about the attack on the base in western iraq? >>. >> martin, about 24 hours, more than 24 hours after that attack

we're starting to piece together the details of this assault from what u.s. military officials are saying and what iraqi officials are telling us today. after isis militants seized complete control of the town of al baghdadi several miles away from al assad air base where as you mentioned iraqi and u.s. forces are stationed, a number of isis militants, 25 according to the u.s. military, carried out an attack on the outer security parameter of the al assad air base. iraqi officials are telling us eight of the attackers were wearing suicide vests and a tribal leader we spoke to today with fighters on the ground in that area says a number of those suicide bombers detonated their vests, killing at least 13 iraqi soldiers. now the rest of the attackers were killed. the attack was repelled with the help we're finding out of u.s. military air support in the form of apaches that were deployed to give them that air support that

was needed. now, according to u.s. officials, martin u.s. forces were not in direct danger during that attack. this is a large base. the size of a city. they were several miles away from the outer perimeter where the attack took place. it really underscores this attack and the events of the past couple days what is going on in anbar province that isis is still capable, still able to carry out deadly attacks and seize territory, despite the ongoing air strikes that we are seeing really highlighting the limitations of that air campaign martin. >> and there are some an you've mentioned them iraqi tribal leaders who believe it's possible there could be a massacre if isis fighters gheets a town under siege, is that right? >> what we do know from the tribal leader we spoke to a prominent leader of one of the main tribes that has been fighting isis one of the very few right now in anbar he says that isis has besieged a town that's about a few miles away

from al baghdadi and this has been going on for some time but he says yesterday, on friday u.s.-led coalition carried out air strikes around that town and we also saw iraqi forces breaking that siege and taking over certain positions in the town but he said surprisingly this morning, the iraqi forces withdrew from this town and it has been under renewed attack by isis militants who have surrounded it. he is warning unless something happens, unless help comes in that there could be a massacre as you mentioned. there is, of course, fear these towns that have stood up to isis that have been fighting back isis would face that retaliation by isis in the form of massacres as we are hearing from tribal leaders there, martin. >> thank you very much. meanwhile, a plot to carry out a devastating mass murder has been foiled. we just heard from canadian authorities. we're going to let you know what

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we might see historic numbers. mo'ne davis the star of last week's little league world series and last night shining bright on the basketball court, 13 years old, money in the celebrity game and left kevin hart reaching for air with the spin move. the trash talking star was speechless and that doesn't happen often but hart would have the last laugh as he was named the game's mvp for the fourth time. martin's super models, how about hooper models the first ever nba all-star all style competition. the ballers will be judged by an all-star package that includes kenny smith, kevin hart and charles barkley. let's hear what the hall of famer sir charl will be looking for. >> i've never -- most of these guys you see them they have to dress a certain way coming to the game. i don't know what they wear all the time. that's what i'm looking forward to. the way you dress shows your personality. >> players are going to show that personality in three categories board room attire a night out and game day chic. tonight on tnt at 6:30 eastern.

martin you're always styling and profiling, i like what you're rocking today. >> i can't imagine. no swimsuit competition. kachls. >> thanks. >> thanks for having me. >> thank you. as we mentioned earlier, iraqi tribal leaders warning of a massacre if iraqi forces backed by u.s.-led air power cannot stand their ground against isis today. iraqi soldiers were able to push them back from a base where u.s. marines are stationed right now. but they took heavy casualties with iraqi fighters. so joining me now, let's talk to lieutenant colonel rick francona. thank you for being with us. in yesterday's attack iraqi forces fought off isis with the backing of u.s. air power. if isis were to attack this base again, the base where at least we know 300 plus u.s. marines are stationed, does that change or modify the strategy for the

u.s. at all? >> yeah. i think it has to. and i think they will attack again. this is nothing new. we've been seeing this for several weeks now. they've been probing that base been clashes there before in which the americans were involved. they've got their eyes set on this. if you look at where the base sits halfway between baghdad and the syrian border, and it's on the -- it's off the euphrates river, al baghdadi is on the euphrates river, and it's an area they want to control. they want that whole valley. this air base sits in the middle of the area they want. they're going to attack it again. what does the united states do? do we double down and reinforce it? do we bring more people in? do we evacuate the base? evacuating the base is basically surrendering the base to isis. i don't think that's going to happen. i think we will see additional forces go in there, maybe not american but iraqi forces shia militias have been moved in there and they're effective

fighters. the base will probably not be overrun but there will be fighting up there. >> let's look at the map of al baghdadi baghdadi the city 90% under control of isis and just nine miles from this air base or this base we're talking about. do you think that coalition forces need to target al baghdadi they're nine miles away from sitting there and planning more attacks? >> right. well the city itself is not that strategically important but as you say it is close to the base. nine miles is -- that's pretty safe for the troops that are on the base. but there's nothing out there to really stop them from moving closer. what the biggest concern is they will get close enough to launch mortar and rocket fire direct fire into the area in which the american are. now that's a big base. it's probably, you know five miles by four miles. a huge facility. so it's not that they can just sit there and drop rockets

anywhere they want. and, of course they're not very accurate. while the americans are in danger they're not really at risk right now. but the situation could change. isis has shown themselves to be very capable and they will just relentlessly keep attacking that base and if they're willing to wear these suicide vests and breach the perimeter you have a bigger problem. right now i think they're able to hold. >> real quickly i wanted to get to this this tribal leaders pleading with coalition forces for more intervention including army tribes you know directly pressuring the iraqi government to give, you know them fire power, is that the answer? should the u.s. arm tribes? >> yeah. that's one answer. if you remember what happened back during in the surge in 2006/2007, we armed these tribes called the anbar awakening and the tribes stood up against what al qaeda in iraq then and hopefully will stand up against isis now, but they need the wherewithal to do that and

they don't have it. that's one tactic we could use because these guys could be effective against isis. this is where they live this is their area and they do not want to sur render it to isis. i think that's a very key asset we could be using and i think they're looking at that. >> all right. colonel rick francona always appreciate your insight, thank you, sir. >> sure. >> we are learning new details from police in canada where they say they have foiled a mass shooting plot in a halifax, nova scotia suburb. three were arrested while another killed himself when police surrounded his home. one was a 23-year-old woman from illinois. it's unclear what their motive was, but officials are not calling it terrorism. >> i wouldn't characterize it as a terrorist event. i would classify it as a group of individuals that had some beliefs and were willing to carry out violent acts against citizens. there's nothing in the investigation to classify it as a terrorist attack or terrorist

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. we want to show you what's going on in coastal town in massachusetts here as they hope to avoid flooding flooding that happened weeks ago in the if first major blizzard. the residents of this town are among 60 million of you in the northeast in the path of the latest storm. all of this coming on the heels of multiple winter storms that keep piling up one after the other dumping several feet in the region. boston's been one of the hardest

hit cities. that's not going to change for this storm. they're not the only ones obviously, but they're going to get the brunt. we're going to get to the forecast in a minute but i want to take you to cnn correspondent ryan young in boston following the preparations and, you know, this is historic because there has never been as i understand it in boston history, two blizzards in one season and that's what they're looking at now for the first time yes? >> right. unbelievable. in fact you've dealt with snow before being in chicago but these people are dealing with the snow. if you look behind me look at the piles here. six feet of snow they've received so far. more than 70 inches now you're talking about another 10 to 12 inches. people are tired of shoveling. look around this is a business area a mall and they've shoveled all the snow out. they've been ready like a boxer fighting round after round but know another round could be coming and it's getting colder. you can feel the wind whipping through our faces. one school district decided to close just to make sure kids

were safe because on top of the school eight foot snow drift were on top of the school and they had to get the show off the building. we talked to the mayor yesterday, he talked about the importance of keeping kids safe. >> anything over 18 inches you should be moving. you shouldn't be moving with kids in the school. as i said before can i guarantee a roof is going to collapse? we weren't willing to take that risk. >> reporter: and that was the reason they wanted to make sure all the schools were closed as they removed the snow off the top of the roof. we watched them as they did the work. want to make sure the building survived. people are taking it in stride. it's valentine's day. and you can see the ice sculptures out here people coming out for the mall the restaurants plan to be packed. the hotel we're staying in says they will have everyone working tonight. the reason they want to make sure people have a place to come and eat and they're' ready for this, to fight against the storm even if it gets worse later. >> i have to say it welcome to new day, my friend. the floridian, his first assignment is in chicago and now

he's in boston. that is dedication. hang in there, ryan young. >> seen it dealing with the snow no doubt. >> i know. take good care. thank you, sir. >> thank you, ryan. of course as you've heard there is great concern especially since there is going to be more snow on the snow that is already there, high winds could cause power outage ss whiteout conditions are expected to make travel nearly impossible and dangerous windchills well below zero. tracking the latest is ivan cabrera. let's just talk this one sounds even more fierce that ones that have come before. >> yes. because of the two ingredients that you talked about in addition to what we've had. yes, we've had snow storms through the region, we've had feet of snow piling up here but this is going to come with wind with snow heavy at times, and it's also going to come with dangerous low windchills and that combination is going to make for quite a weekend here. look at this nothing going on yet but it's getting going here. see the benign looking snow

across the ohio valley. it's not until that storm system arrives in the mid-atlantic coast when we're going to get things going here. watch the clock saturday afternoon. we begin to see bands of snow moving in. but look here. that is when the storm cranks up saturday night heading into sunday that is when the storm is going to deepen. going to deepen so much that we're going to be talking about the equivalent of what would be a category 2 hurricane in the atlantic. we are still going to get hurricane-force winds, not cat 2, but nevertheless right along the cape cod area i think that's going to be the worst hit areas as far as the winds. on the northern facing coast the high tides sunday morning, that is going to coincide with very strong northerly winds and i must believe that is going to lead to coastal flooding. that is why we not only have blizzard warnings but coastal flood warnings. how much snowfall? anywhere from 10 to a foot of snowfall in boston. so where you saw ryan there in boston get ready for another foot. to the north and east harder hit

with 15 to 18 inches. this is the other part of the story, 40 to 50 mile an hour winds with windchills between 25 and 35 below zero. that is going to be dangerous stuff. you do not want to be out in this after tonight, hunker down and wherever you're going to spend the next couple days that is where you need to be. guys? >> good advice. ivan breer ra thank you very much. a 16-year-old boy shot four times by u.s. marshals and charged with assaulting an officer. what led up to that incident? that's not entirely clear. the mother of this young man has something she would like you to hear. i make a lot of purchases for my business. and i get a lot in return with ink plus from chase. like 60,000 bonus points when i spent $5,000 in the first 3 months after i opened my account. and i earn 5 times the rewards on internet, phone services and at office supply stores. with ink plus i can choose how to redeem my points. travel, gift cards even cash back. and my rewards points won't expire.

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. on friday a federal appeals court ruled that three u.s. deputies shot an unarmed black teenager won't be sued for excessive use of force. many years ago michael fenwick was suspected of driving a stolen vehicle in washington. police shot him four times. >> now there's a lot more to this story we're told. our nick valencia has been following the case. we need to point out this happened before other high-profile cases like michael brown and eric garner started making headlines. >> that's right. >> so did this surprise anybody based on what we know about this case? >> certainly surprised the attorney for the shooting victim. the story that we're about to show you is about justifiable use of force and that attorney for the shooting victim he says that u.s. marshal service were not entirely forthcoming about what happened that day back in 2007. in court testimony it was marshal's deputies involved in

the shooting and they stood by their actions. january 3rd 2007 16-year-old michael fenwick drives into a housing project in washington, d.c. to visit his girlfriend. unrelated to the teen off camera three u.s. marshals deputies stand by to enforce an eviction on the other side of the building. what happens next will leave an unarmed fenwick shot four times, and on trial for assaulting a police officer. and the three deputies in a courtroom to defend their actions. according to a 2007 use of force report by u.s. marshals deputies andrew puda month jeremy fisher and john mickell, quote, made an attempt to approach fenwick to make sure he was not intent on interfering with the eviction. the report written a day after the incident before video of the shooting emerged. it tells a different story of what the deputies testified to in court. during sworn testimony, deputy mickell told the judge he was the first to notice fenwick,

what drew my attention to the driver as he exited the vehicle he did not look of driving age. as seen in this video from the complex, fisher testifies after fenwick leaves the building pudamont tries to stall him so dispatch can run his plates. in testimony the deputies do admit they do not identify themselves as police officers. it isn't until the car door slams they yell police and shouting orders for him to stop. the testimony is a change in what's in the use of force report. the deputies verbally identified themselves as police. when fenwick initially pulls up it says the deputies run towards the car they say to stop fenwick from fleeing. fearing for their lives deputies pudamon and fisher testified they fired six shots between them hitting fenwick as he drives off toward them. resident and defense witness teresa young testifies she starts running when she hears shots fired. see her here running while the

car appears to be stopped and before the car drives forward. but at the end of the trial, the presiding juvenile court judge says while the video is somewhat helpful i find that quality of the video is somewhat grainy and added the testimony of the officers was, quote particularly credible and compelling. she found fenwick guilty of assaulting a police officer. cnn could not reach fenwick because he's in jail onnen an unrelated felony. sitting next to fenwick's mother says fenwick should have never been shot. >> this is a case of puree shall profiling because there was no reason to stop their -- michael within their jurisdiction. >> cnn contacted the u.s. marshal service but they would not comment on the case. freedom of information act requests by cnn for documents related to the shooting was also denied by the u.s. marshals. we attempted to reach out to the deputies involved in the shooting andrew was the only one to comment. when asked about the use of force report pudamont told cnn

he stands by his court testimony. >> i just feel honestly feel like my son deserved justice, you know because he has to suffer the rest of his life, you know for this tragic incident. >> fenwick's family said he suffered irreparable damage to his esophagus. ins december his attorney presented oral arguments for an appeal on the case. on friday the u.s. court of appeals for the district of columbia ruled the deputies violated no clearly established law and are, therefore entitled to qualified immunity. >> nick what took the court so long to make its decision? >> we should be clear, this has been wrapped up in legal proceedings for about eight years. the deputies were cleared not only by a juvenile court judge but a federal grand jury and then on friday cleared by this appellate court and the attorney for michael fenwick theory is he believes his client was racially profiled and the marshals this is his word they manufactured their testimony. though the law has found them

clear of any wrongdoing. >> thank you for bringing it to us. >> thanks martin. >> thank you. >> all right. now take a look at this fire. it's an islamic center in houston and officials say they found something suspicious. could this be a hate crime? that report ahead. >> also ahead, the highly anticipated movie "fifty shades of grey" already breaking records and creating controversies. the women's organization say say the movie goes too far. the conversation and debate next.

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psychotherapist. thank you so much for getting up early, i know robbie we appreciate it. >> happy valentine's day. nice to be here. >> you too. happy valentine's day. when you hear some of these arguments do critics have a point in any of it saying it perpetuates abuse or do you think look this is just a movie? what do you think? >> you know i really don't see this as abusive. we have two consenting adults who are agreeing to engage in this kind of sexual play and sexual enjoyment. really abuse is when someone is not acknowledging your wants or desires and not accepting what your limitations are and that's not what's happening here in this movie at all. in fact there's a contract as to what's agreed upon and what's not agreed upon and also when you look at this relationship it is love based and it's just two people engaging in say dough mass kichl who are consenting

adults what they want to do. >> there are elements, though some will say, where you see danger. it's a little stalkerish is it not? some of it some of it does have -- they have elements that do in real life lead to what could become abusive relationships? >> well you know, that could be said for any type of romantic fantasy when you play that out in reality. i mean this fantasy -- this is almost like a modern day cinderella where you a billionaire whose's remarkably successful but is impaired in many ways and because of his love for this woman and his respect for her, intelligence and her beauty is able to love in the right kind of way, even though he has this sexual per version of sorts. but in real life yes, if somebody is stalking you and puts you on a pedestal and engages in pseudo masscism

without your consent there is reason to be concerned. when looking at fantasy there's a difference between romantic fantasy and what's healthy in our real everyday lives. >> so walk us through that. what is healthy and what is not healthy? >> well what's healthy is if you are in a love-based relationship and you are a consenting adult, then your desires and wishes get acknowledged recognized and respected. somebody is valuing who you as a person and what happens in the bedroom is based on mutual agreement, two people wanting to experience love with each other, perhaps in a unique way. the appeal of "fifty shades of gray" it gave women a peek into pseudo masscism they would not have experienced otherwise. the other pieces women may have liked the idea of not having to think about anything these

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beyonce's killer dance routines become look almost as popular as her songs and her chief choreographer is pointing out future dance stars we want to watch. >> one is a dancer named little buck and he really got a unique style and he's brought it to the grammyss did that last week performing alongside madonna, he's today's "one to watch." >> on the roof of an abandon brewery little buck performance his urban ballet. undulating his body like a human wave machine scattering his steps with footwork his home city of memphis has already produced the rock and roll of elvis and blues of bb king. now given a street dance which little buck has transformed and taken around the world. >> if i was to describe it to you it's like michael jackson times ten. a lot of slides and glides toe spins. i think it's one of the greatest

dance styles of all times. ♪ >> i picked little buck as one of my ones to watch because he is a star. he is an innovateor. he is magical. his movement is so original. people have been waving and being fluid forever, you know, but he's made to be something else ♪ >> the first time i actually saw it in memphis when i was around like 12 years old in the skating rink in memphis when i walked in i saw this guy gliding across carpet like it was water, like nothing i have ever seen before. i hadn't seen michael move this way. that's what changed my whole world. it's a beautiful dance to me. that's what i really wanted people to see.

>> you can check out the full show at cnn.com/ones to watch by the way. >> and there is breaking news that's coming into cnn. there has been a shooting in denmark, copenhagen. danish media reporting a shooter or there is rather a shooting where three police officers were wounded during a panel discussion about freedom of speech. >> it's organized by the committee, a danish artist was attacked a few years ago, for drawing the pro fet mohammed. the french ambassador present at the event tweeted he is, quote, still alive in the room. so we're going to have more at the top of the hour. but that is breaking right now. >> and fire officials are saying an accelerant was used at a houston islamic center that went up in flames friday morning. the assistant eman said someone had driven by screaming mocking

chant. the council on islamic relations wants authorities to investigate as a possible hate crime. no one was hurt. >> pope francis appointed 20 new cardinals at the vatican today. during the ceremony the pope issued instructions telling cardinals to put their pride, jealousy and self-interest aside as they carry out their duties. many of the new cardinals are from lesser known dioceses. many were pastors who focused their ministries on the poor. >> and then former first lady barbara bush says she has changed her mind about her son, jeb bush running for president. speaking at a charity event last night jeb mentioned a couple years ago his mom insisted there had been enough bushes in the white house already. suddenly there was mom. appearing on the ballroom's video screen via skype and told the crowd, quote our problems are so big, that it doesn't matter what your last name is. >> a woman has a prerogative to change her mind but rarely on a

big screen in front of a whole crowd. >> moms get special. >> that's true. >> thank you for sharing your day with us. happy valentine's day to you. we want to get you to some of the breaking news now. >> that's right. there is much more still ahead. pass it now to our colleague, fredricka whitfield. >> thank you so much. good to see both of you. it is the 11:00 eastern hour. i'm fredricka whitfield. the news room starts right now. this breaking news we continue to follow that we'll get to in a moment happening in the newsroom isis forces making stunning advances in iraq seizing large chunks of territory. hundreds of u.s. troops are in harm's way. >> we know there were 20 to 25 mill tants that moved on the base as many as 8 were suicide bombers. >> plus fierce fighting continues in ukraine hours before a cease-fire is set to begin and another blizzard here we go again, a blizzard warning yet again in effect for parts of the northeast.

hurricane-force winds, dangerously cold temperatures and nowhere to put all of that snow. you're live in the "cnn newsroom." breaking news this hour we are hearing reports from danish media that there has been a shooting incident in copenhagen. three police officers were shot and wounded at a panel discussion about freedom of speech. that event was organized by the lars villics committee, a swedish artist attacked a few years ago after drawing the prophet mohammed. the french ambassador to denmark was at that event and he tweeted that he is still alive in the room. so as we get more information about all that's taking place in copenhagen we will bring it to you. jo let's talk about the measure of threat how to gauge it right now, based on this incident. bring in phil mud, cnn counterterrorism analyst and a former cia counter terrorism official and on the national

counterterrorism council. good to see you. you've been on the ground in iraq. we're going to talk about that situation in happening there. as it pertains to what we know of this denmark incident and this shooting three police officers shot and it also happens to target a location of the names namesake of someone who really rattled the islamic community for drawing the prophet mohammed based on the information we have so far, how do you try to come to terms with what has happened try to extrapolate what may have happened what may have precipitated it? >> boy, the hardest thing in this situation, fredricka, is to keep your cool. the problem you've got in this case is the initial information is going to be bad. at least half of it is going to be rumor and innuendo and take several hours to start sorting through the spaghetti to figure

out what's goog information and bad. there's an initial question you to focus on. there's been a tragedy in again mark. is there a further conspiracy like the kinds of conspiracy we saw in paris a few weeks ago that suggest that there's more threat out there. in other words, are there other individuals who were involved in a cell who might be looking at other targets. the first question is a tactical question securing that site but immediately you've got to go through several hours of looking at things like e-mail and telephone from the fellow who was the perpetrator to say was he in contact with other players? >> and it's difficult to know whether it was coincidence this event would be targeted or take place at a location of the namesake of someone who drew the prophet mohammed and angered a number of people worldwide or whether this event was targeted as a result of that. at what point do you believe some of those answers will rise to the top? >> i suspect some of those

answers will start to clarify pretty quickly because you're going to be looking at things like whether this individual was in contact with isis members if in fact, this was related to cartoons that depicted the prophet mohammed was there communication to people part of a broader network, maybe the same kind of network we saw in paris, was he in contact with other people who might have provided training or money, that kind of information should be fairly quick to develop over the next day or two. it won't come in in hour or two, but by monday we ought to have the beginnings of the picture. >> at the same time it's happening as we're speaking an just looking at the tweet from the french ambassador saying still alive in the room, says that people are still hunkered down in their safe places there in that building so there is still a possibility, wouldn't there be maybe in a matter of minutes if not hours, a lot more would be revealed about the

motivation who would be involved here whether people are being held against their will particularly as police or law enforcement authorities will be more willing to talk and reveal something as they may want the public's assistance wouldn't you think? >> that's true but let's get behind the scenes for a moment to understand how hard this is to figure out. if you look at sort of the arms of the octopus, in a conspiracy like this there's a number you've got to look at. the most significant coconspirators are there other people out there. then look at things like travel money, training facilitation that is somebody who is helping them get -- helping somebody like this get in touch with the terror organization if, in fact, this person was in touch with anybody. the problem in this case is proving the negative. it's not simply finding an e-mail on his account to suggest he was in contact with somebody. it was assuring a year ago, two years ago, that he wasn't doing it. proving the negative in all those areas. money, travel et cetera is difficult.

it's harder than you might think to come to a firm conclusion about what happened in a case like this. >> what do you know about danish police or law enforcement counterterrorism and again we don't know how this attack is being classified but what do you know about law enforcement authorities on the ground there in copenhagen? >> they're going to be pretty good at looking at knowns that is once you identify someone who came back from a situation of radicalization in a place like yemen or iraq or syria, when that person goes up on an intelligence radar, that kind of person gets a pretty high priority. the problem, and i've worked with all these european security services including the dane, the problem in these situations is twofold. the first problem is the number of people you have identified in the past few years, as a result of radicalization from the expanding isis fight that is too many people for any security service to handle. same kind of problem we saw in paris how do you prioritize 100

or 200 cases. in my world that is a volume problem. you can't get on top of. the other problem is how do you find people who aren't in contact with any kind of a network? so let's assume we have a series of lone wolf operations in europe. the definition of a lone wolf in a democratic society is someone who's using the same communication facilities you might be using looking at radicalized videos communicating with people on facebook. if somebody is not part of a network finding that kind of lone wolf in a democratic society is pretty much impossible. >> what do you know about denmark or at least that country and how open how willing that country has been for people who are transient or even for a law enforcement there to have sophisticated counterterrorism networks infrastructure in order to look for these networks that you speak of? >> like a lot of western europe denmark has been open to the influx of refugees from places

like the middle east and africa relatively small security service, again when you get to a security service that size think of where we were 20 years ago and the kinds of problems we faced. organized crime, maybe trafficking human trafficking, trafficking in persons, now we're dealing with relatively small security services in an age of information explosion. e-mail phone, facebook, travel that have to handle an influk of radicalized people that is like nothing what somebody like me witnessed at the cia or fbi. just the numbers alone here for a small security service make this a nike problem. you can handle ten people at a time 20 when you start getting into 100 plus people for security service that has to deal with technical monitoring things like e-mail and then physical monitoring, surveilling a potential terrorist, that kind of volume is not something a security service in western europe is designed to handle. >> okay. all right. when we get more information on what's happened happening in

denmark, a shooting taking place, three police officers shot while this freedom of speech forum was taking place there, we'll bring that. meantime let's talk about all that's taking place in iraq. and the real volatility that seems to be revealed there, particularly since we're now seeing that isis forces are making stunning advances in that country, seizing large chunks of territory and also a threatening the wherewithal troops there. we have at least 300 u.s. military personnel at an air base there. so talk to me about your concerns about what isis is doing. we understand that al baghdadi as of yesterday have taken complete control of al baghdadi and now there are threats to al anbar province and the al assad air base also coming under attack. what are your concerns this morning?

>> let's step away for a moment from what we're seeing tactically on the ground. i'm not concerned about what happens at that air base today or tomorrow. i suspect the iraqis with u.s. help will hold it. over the past six months or since the summer of last year when we saw the isis advances there are a couple things you have to focus on more broadly that we're seeing play out day to day, week to week and what we're seeing at that air base is a snapshot. number one, when you're dealing with religious based insurgencies, as with isis you've got to think about endurance and what we've learned since the summer of last year is the endurance to withstand the onslaught of an organization like isis is going to take years. the commitment of a religious based insurgency is more significant than the commitment of other insurgencies i witnessed, people who are focused on politics or economics as the basis for an insurgency. think 2025 2035. >> i hate to interrupt on that. when you talk in terms of years, and we're seeing this kind of

progress so to speak in a matter of days and weeks as, you know the world has been watching isis go from threats to, you know seizing more control in iraq to actually doing it and now we see it actually happening, particularly in al baghdadi taking control according to, you know sources that cnn is now confirming taking control of an entire city and threatening to take -- seize control of an entire province it's hard to believe that we're talking in terms of years now. it seems very short term like right around the corner? >> they're making short term progress but they made short-term progress in northern iraq and were turned back by the kurdish peshmerga the militia in the north and suffered setbacks through the fall. my point here is you've got to look not only at the progress of isis isis the element of surprise last summer, now they don't. the question is not just how isis advances towards the

capital of baghdad and they're pretty close, the question is whether the iraqi military has the backbone to fight them. if they do this campaign and that's where i go back to the point of how long this will take this campaign will take years because it's going to take a long time for an iraqi military with backbone to reverse the advances that we've seen thus far. you can defend territory if the iraqi military. the question is whether you can regain anbar province once you lost it. that is really tough. >> okay. phil mudd, thank you so much. we will talk more so don't go too far. appreciate it. still ahead, talk about blizzard warnings for parts of new england yet again. and coastal flooding and hurricane-force winds are also threatening. will ripley will be joining us. what will ripley in the snow? >> fred people here in massachusetts are wondering where they're going to put all the snow when you have drifts piled up this high and we have

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this is cnn breaking news. welcome back. the breaking news we continue to follow out of denmark. we're hearing reports from danish media there has been a shooting incident in copenhagen during a free speech forum. three police officers were shot and wounded at this panel discussion. and that event was organized by the lars vilks committee, vilks a swedish artist attacked a few years ago after drawing the prophet mohammed. the french ambassador to denmark was at the event and he tweeted that he is still alive ins the room. more information as we get it. all right. now to our other big story, right here in the usa, an icy

hurricane, that's what boston could feel like as blizzard conditions close in tonight. this in a city with snow already piled higher than car roofs in some places and also a big concern, hurricane-force winds, whiteout conditions and possible flooding from storm surge. millions are in the path of this latest winter blast. joining me right now, cnn's will ripley in cape ann, massachusetts. ryan young joining us from boston. all right. lots of snow on the ground in both places. ryan let's begin with you as we talk about this snow that continues to pile up already a nuisance and a danger but now what? >> good morning, fred. of course i'm 5'11", look over to the side here how high this is packed up on the side of the roads. we've seen this everywhere. sometimes the snow drifts more than 12 feet. look people are tired of this. because we're getting hit round after round with the snow and you know that comes with a lot of work. especially when it comes to yards. people have been doing a good job shoveling trying to get the

stuff out of the way. that's only half the problem. look out it toward the road here they've done a good job in downtown boston making sure the ways the roadways are clear. the issue here is dealing with the snow drifts and making sure people don't jump out and get in the way of cars. yesterday, it took us more than an hour and a half just to go four miles in this city because people were driving so slowly. they've also closed down school to deal with the weight of the snow on the roofs. in fact we talked to a mayor who says it's not only about closing down schools at this point, cabin fever is setting in. >> my wife and i have four children 11 9, 8, 6, i can tell you i'm begging for them to go back to school last week. cabin fever at the extreme here. >> so you can understand that from a parent's perspective. the tour busses are still running in the city right now. people are getting out. it's warmed up just a little bit. it's 3 degrees right now. it's not as cold as it was as we came out this morning toward.

the sun is out. they don't want to get hit with another round but it is coming. >> that's hilarious. the warmup of 3 degrees. oh, my gosh. folks there are very hearty. >> you feel it. you want it. yes, you know what people are talking about they're dealing with the snow and so far so good. it's only out here on the roadways where they get a little antsy about dealing with all the traffic they've had to dell with. you can see it looks good out here on the roads. >> looks pretty good. the car is swinging by there, navigating another one swinging by and navigating well there and getting that mail delivered as we say. thanks so much. will ripley check in with you. usually we see you in subtropical locations and here you are now wearing winter gear with snow piled up to your -- the top of your head there. >> yeah. we don't see this in tokyo, fred that's for sure. and it's really remarkable what people here in coastal massachusetts have been dealing with. road conditions as you see here are good.

we've seen plows already out just kind of checking things out. the road conditions here expected to deteriorate. buts the big problem for a lot of people i mean you see the snow piled up fred. look at this backyard. you couldn't walk through there if you wanted to. it's going to be a long time before all of that melts. you go beyond and look at the rooftops there. we've seen a lot of snow covered roofs and with another, you know heavy, wet snow expected to come there could be the potential for some roof damage even roof collapse. people are worried about. another big concern out here fred the winds. along the coast are expected to pick up. this is going to be blizzard conditions. here they have managed to keep the power on in previous storms however, ifs the power goes out, a lot of people say it's going to be a very, very cold night. and while this is happening on a weekend, keep in mind it's happening on a holiday weekend and this is an area where there's a lot of bed and breakfasts especially along the massachusetts coast valentine's day, a lot of the hotels are booked and people are being told if they don't get out of here

today, they might have to ride this storm out tomorrow into monday if the lights stay on it could be a romantic cozy weekend, if the lights are out it could be cold quickly, fred. >> and then will cape ann, help me out with the geography there, a place we have to take a ferry to get there? how far outside of boston is it? >> normally only about an hour drive outside of boston. as ryan was mentioning it was slow traffic yesterday because of the volume of people that were heading here because again, this is a weekend where the places are booked up. getting out right now, not so bad. you see, traffic is moving along just fine. but it's going to be a few hours before things are expected to pick up here and travel conditions are expected to deteriorate very quickly, fred. >> oh, my gosh. very serious matter. will ripley thank you so much. ryan also joining us from boston. thanks to both of you gentleman. appreciate it. >> let's bring in ivan cabrera. this is becoming like a broken record you and me here. >> it is. last weekend the weekend before

that the weekend before that i've lost track. i know we started some time in january. >> it's been a lot. >> geography wise cape ann right here where will ripley was. that is ipswitch bay. cape cod here. as the winds out of the north that's an issue for you. blizzard warnings if effect and will continue to be in effect through tonight and tomorrow. track it saturday 11:00, nothing going on as you saw with our live shots. by the afternoon, we'll get this first band of snow beginning to move into new england, new york, as well. although again, for new york this is not going to be a storm but for you this is going to be new england, boston and points to the north. along the sourp coastline, of course of connecticut and rhode island they will be impacted. sunday when the storm gets going. you see the swirl here that is the low that's going to be intensifying deepening offshore and that's when we're going to involve very strong winds, the hurricane winds, and heading into sunday and by then the

storm will be done but the weather will not be done. the winds will still be howling. as far as the snowfall from 8 to 10 inches 15 to 18 inches couple feet possibly down east maine out towards ballharbor you will get hit well. i want to track this saturday evening, watch this watch what happens near sunday morning. you see this that would be the eye of the storm if you will. and by then look at nantucket getting into 70 mile an hour wind gusts close to hurricane force. i think we'll have some hurricane force wind gusts through the day on sunday. no question. then monday morning, still, 30 to 40 mile an hour winds. why is that important. because we are still at that time going to be talking about an arctic air mass. that will make it feel unbelievably cold. this is sunday morning, zero in boston minus 3 in new york. fast forward to monday morning. minus 21 as you step outside in boston. that's not just cold that is dangerous stuff. >> ridiculous. >> basically you are going to be inside i think for the next

couple days. even though the storm will be done by monday. >> that is frostbite weather. i mean that is like all extremities must be covered, period. >> indeed. >> i don't care how hearty you are. >> stay inside with your valentine. >> that's the best advice. appreciate that. >> when we come back we'll have more on the shooting taking place in denmark. three police officers injured. details next.

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all right. more on that breaking news. new information about the attack at copenhagen denmark. the attackers are on the loose. danish police say that these attackers that we're going to better describe fled the scene in a volkswagen polo. apparently someone or some people walked in to this location where there was a freedom forum and opened fire killing -- i'm sorry shooting and wounding three police officers. at this panel discussion on the freedom of speech panel. this event taking place and being organized by the lars vilks committee, vilks a swedish artist attacked a few years ago, after drawing the prophet mohammed and the french ambassador to denmark, who was at that event, also tweeted he is still alive and in the room.

so still unclear whether this is, indeed an active situation. we're trying to reach out to law enforcement there on the ground to get a better sense as to what is happening there, whether doors have been locked even though it is believed that the perpetrators have fled and are on the lookout but it's unclear whether people have been allowed to leave any locked up rooms or this building whether their stories are also being expressed now to law enforcement. phil mudd back with us now. phil we're learning additionally now is that these alleged gunmen and still unclear how many may have taken off in a vehicle. their whereabouts unknown. how will this investigation be unraveled? >> well you've given me one statistic, one fact i think is hugely significant and that is if it is true there is more than one gunman in my mind as a former professional in this

business that changes the game substantially. when you have only one individual we call a lone wolf the chance that person is emotionally unbalanced that the motivation is as much something that went wrong in that person's mind as it is some sort of political motivation like a cartoon of the prophet mohammed is pretty high when you start getting more than one coconspirator to my mind you get into a more organized conspiracy and likelihood that it's just related to emotional instability is lower. you have to look in this case as a second critical fact and there's a parallel i thoing paris. in my experience when somebody takes the step emotional step of murdering or attempting to murder somebody as we evidently saw in denmark, they've crossed over an edge. these guys if it is, in fact, men, i doubt will go down alive because they have already gone over to a place where they think that it's what they've done is right and they're prepared to conduct operations after this event. so i think there's a possibility

of more violence possibly between police and these guys and i think the chance of a conspiracy is much higher when there's not one individual involved. >> okay. it hasn't been specified to us how many but i think the notation certainly was, the say sailents -- assailants did take off in a vehicle so more than one. the terms of investigation, what's the concentrated effort right now with law enforcement to try to back track, try to look at a any kind of communication on-line, try to see if there were any flags raised that maybe were overlooked or, you know especially post-paris so much learned about how people were -- the wives or girlfriends were on cell phones planning? >> i think you have to look at two parallel investigations especially in the coming hours. this is sort of similar to what we witnessed in the boston case. the first piece of the investigation is obviously how

do you secure the city what warnings are you giving out to people? that's a law enforcement response. when you get into my business that is intelligence at the same time as that law enforcement response is under way, you've got a variety of intelligence services looking at categories of activity. once you have a name you're going to look at did thatter. 's name show up -- that person's name show up in travel to a place like turkey which is a springboard into syria, did that person have unusual transfers of money. what does that person sell and e-mail traffic tell you, facebook posting, does it tell you they're in communication with other people participants in a conspiracy or supporting a conspiracy. think of the tactical response at one level and then the long it will take weeks or months intelligence response at another level. >> and you know phil this is a difficult one because there's so much we don't know. we don't have information in terms of whether these alleged attackers walked in said something, looked for a police

officers in particular targeted them it's just unclear. we're looking at some new images coming from the scene but i don't know how much of a story it tells. as we look at these images we see the bullet ridden windows here we see investigators outside, we saw an image of someone being pulled out on a stretcher, unclear if that's one of the police officers but so much unknown here. how do you suppose, you know, investigators are trying to piece together this sequence of events whether it be involving a number of the attendants from the event, what else? >> you've got to look from the initial investigation at everything from looking at all the video in this sort of concentrated video world we live in in urban areas, of all the video before and after to find information that suggests what the vehicle was, whether there are more individuals with these people if there was more than one, that went into the facility. i tell you, one of the problems with an investigation like this that i witnessed, i remember being in europe at the time of

an attack in a western europe peen city about ten years ago, is from a an intelligence practitioner's perspective you have to be frustrated at the outset because you can't do anything. you might as well go out and have a cup of coffee in my world because you have to wait for facts to come in before you can start to build the intelligence investigation. confirm the name cell phone. sometimes from my intelligence world to start to kick in you have to sit there and sit on your hands for a couple hours because you didn't have enough information to go on. >> does denmark have any kind of recent history that shows its concerns about being targeted, you know and i know you use the term lone wolf but if we were talking about more than one alleged attacker does that constitute the same kind of potential definition or would that already be a type of network because it involved more than one? >> there's one thing we have to look to in terms of looking at

denmark and the rest of western europe regardless of whether this individual was a lone wolf if you're a danish security official in the wake of paris you have to be thinking about are individuals who aren't affiliated with any isis network going to see an emotional trigger in paris that leads to them to say i've never been to syria, never been to iraq but i, too, agree that these cartoons are unacceptable and i'm going to do something about it. so again, regardless of whether you saw evidence of activity in place like denmark you have to be on the alert because people in these situations get very emotional and that emotion leads to agitation and action. i suspect that there's going to be something that indicates this individual or individuals somehow watch paris and that helped to trigger the action today. >> all right. phil mudd thanks so much. always enjoy your expertise. thank you so much. we'll check back with you momentarily. coming up the cease-fire in ukraine. eastern ukraine. set to begin in less than six hours, but guess what?

the violence still hasn't stopped and now ukraine's president is threatening to impose marshall law if separatists don't put down their weapons.

welcome back to "cnn newsroom." ukrainian president poroshenko warns if separatist do not adhere to a planned cease-fire he will impose marshall law throughout the country. tonight's deadline at 5:00 p.m. eastern time midnight kiev time but in the run up to the cease-fire violence has not stopped. shelling could be heard in at least two cities including central donestk and today reuters is quoting a military spokesman as saying seven ukrainian service men have been killed in just the past 24 hours. cnn's nick paton walsh is in donestk in eastern ukraine.

what more are you hearing in regards to the shelling and whether this cease-fire will be honored? >> it looks increasingly precarious midnight will see an end to violence. we have heard from the separatists who claim they will stop firing at midnight but there's a big question mark about their intenses over the town called debaltseve, a key area much fighting is happening. strategic for both sides hundreds of thousands troops have encircled in there intense violence in and around it. the separatists consider it their territory already and though ukrainians should give themselves up. that's one key problem here. the separatist leader says he doesn't believe the minsk agreements mention debaltseve and it's an issue of some sort of not contention but mystery how that will play out, unlikely to go well. the shelling another issue we've heard shells land close to where we are in the city center but that is part of a number of

instances across this separatist stronghold which many will blame on the ukrainian military here. we saw a large what must have been a rocket earlier on. we are hearing from russian state media petro poroshenko ukrainian president will speak to both the french german and american leader barack obama tonight ahead of that cease-fire and also the russian foreign ministry very intensely involved in spinning this crisis. they have said they believe western leaders are reassessing or changing their opinion of the contents of the minsk agreement. a lot of people trying to cast blame for how badly this could go wrong and we haven't seen midnight yet. >> oh, gosh. all right. very precarious indeed. thanks so much nick paton walsh, appreciate it in eastern ukraine. let's now get back to one of our other top stories. isis making critical advances in iraq this time coming within just nine miles of hundreds of

u.s. troops stationed at an iraqi military base. cnn's erin mcpike is covering the latest and joining us from washington. 13 iraqi soldiers were killed when insurnlgts attacked near the air base. what are you hearing from pentagon officials? >> the pentagon's message in the wake of this attack has been to keep it in perspective. spokesman admiral john kirby spoke to cnn yesterday about it and hear him downplaying the concerns of imminent danger to american troops. listen here. >> we readily admit al anbar is a contested reason isil continues to pose a threat there, but this is a huge sprawling base roughly the size of boulder, colorado. not just a small outpost somewhere. there's many bases inside the big base. so very, very big area. and i would say that this incident not that we're not

taking it seriously, happened nowhere near where u.s. or coalition forces were operating. >> the pentagon is stressing that this attack is mostly another example of isis propaganda. simply knowing they'd make a big splash by hitting this huge protected base but kirby pointed out it was a suicide mission so isis wasn't going to gain substantial ground anywhere. at the same time we've been hearing for months the deep skepticism on capitol hill about iraqi security forces that they may be ill prepared or at least under prepared for this war but because they beat back isis in this case defense officials are casting this event almost as a success because it gives them a way to say that these iraqi security forces can defend their own territory. look that is a tricky assertion to be making just a couple of days after those iraqi forces couldn't stop isis from recapturing that nearby city of al baghdadi and, in fact american air power was a

significant factor in defeating the attack on the base. we're also now hearing from some military a analysts who warn of mission creep and the call for potential involvement of american ground troops is becoming louder even though the pentagon says for now the policy is no combat mission for american troops. look for lawmakers on capitol hill that want to step up american involvement in iraq and syria use this attack to make their case as debate heat up in congress over the authorization for the use of military force. >> all right. erin mcpike, thanks so much in washington. ignore signs of damage in your home. are you sure you're not ignoring them in your body? even if you're treating your crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis an occasional flare may be a sign of damaging inflammation. and if you ignore the signs, the more debilitating your symptoms could become. learn more about the role damaging inflammation may be playing in your symptoms with the expert advice tool at crohnsandcolitis.com.

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the judge presiding over the murder trial of former nfl star hernandez is allowing jurors to see a key piece of evidence. that video was taken the day after 0 don'todon lloyd was shot and killed. here's susan candiotti. >> reporter: the night odo lloyd's riddled body is found in dirt piles police quickly find clues. >> inside that wallet we locate

ad massachusetts drivers license which we were able to i.d. the young man who was laying on the ground as a mr. odon lloyd from boston massachusetts. >> and keys to a car rented by former patriot tight end aaron hernandez. about four hours later, it leads investigators straight to the star football player's home about 10:00 that same night. this video from his own security cameras shows two investigators trying to find him. >> what is trooper sherman doing? >> knocking on the door. >> what are you doing? >> ringing the doorbell. >> lights are on but no answer. in court, jurors watch investigators on video using flash lights looking around-the-house. at one point one cop uses his hands to boost his partner high enough to peek inside hernandez's garage window looking for the rental car. the defense demands to know why hernandez should have to answer

his door at that hour. >> do you know any requirement why a citizen has to answer his door at 10:30 at night. >> no he does not have to. >> finally hernandez comes outside telling him he was watching them on his security system. police asked him about odon lloyd and a rental car. >> he informed up his boy o. has it. he was up his way yesterday. >> reporter: police testify hernandez gets aggravated. >> he became agitated and upat the time. >> reporter: he goes the police station voluntarily but is not arrested until nine days later. police show new crime scene photos. two bullets with fibers. a .22 caliber pistol just outside of the crime scene. it's not the murder weapon still missing. on cross-examination the defense repeatedly attacks investigators, accusing them of sloppy work in measuring the

crime scene. >> when you wrote five to ten feet in your report that was not accurate is that what you're telling us today? >> it was an proximatation. >> would you agree with me that was a mistake? >> it was an proximatation. >> reporter: susan candiotti, massachusetts. this breaking news we continue to falling overseas in denmark where there was a freedom of speech forum taking place and a shooting. now police are looking for the alleged attackers that opened fire and shot and injured three police officers at this freedom of speech forum. it was the namesake of a swedish artist who had drawings artist

satirical drawings of the prophet mohamed and there was great outcry. unclear whether this was incident, this shooting is at all related to that artist. but it did take place at this freedom of speech forum taking place. now joined on the phone by dennis mayhoff brink a satire researcher and was at the freedom of speech discussions when this attack happened. so dennis i understand that you heard loud and clear a number of shots fired? >> yes. that's right. about 3:30 we heard a number of shots, i'm not sure how many 30 shots from next door and we also heard a person yelling something, i think it was in an arabic language and everybody,

of course panicked in the room and tried to run to the door or hide behind the door or tables or chairs stuff like that. i was on my out myself. then we heard a number of shots from the street as well and then that's when we run out and we were just hiding as good as we could and hoping for the best. >> so dennis you were the first person we've had a chance to talk with. you are paintsing a picture for us. you heard the shots coming from inside. you say you were in a room you know next door where you heard these some 30 shots. was anything yelled out as far as you could remember or recall before you heard the 30 shots? was there any anxiety, any worries or concerns about anything prior to those shots being fired? >> no no. there was nothing before the shot.

it was quiet and peaceful debate. french ambassador had just said a few words about the "charlie hebdo" incident and, yeah it was just a meeting about the conditions of freedom of speech today and the limits on art and self-censorship. i think there were 35 people there. it was very peaceful until we heard the shots like out of nowhere. >> and this building this forum was taking place in can you describe it for us? is it a very small intimate seating. we're looking at video but all we can see is the entrance and there are other buildings nearby. its hard to tell whether this was a large building conference center, small intimate space. can you describe it for us? >> yes.

it was a small intimate space. it's a small theater, actually in copenhagen where it took place. i don't know maybe could fit 80 people in the room or something like that. and we were i think 30 or 35. and, yes, so it was small really. >> and the police officers as far as you can tell you said you heard the shots that were in the room near where you were but the police officers were they shot in the interior of the building? were they outside on patrol? can you tell? >> well when we arrived at the building there was a police check similar to what you experience in an airport. there were two officers in uniforms and there were other people who looked like they were from the intelligence of course not in uniforms.

and so there were police there around the building and after about, when we panicked inside the room we were just lying around hiding behind tables and chairs and hoping for the best then suddenly the door opens and two persons come running into the room with their guns and it turns out people panicked immediately but it turns out they are from the intelligence and they tell us to calm down and they don't seem to be in control of the situation themselves. one of them is shot in the leg and is bleeding and they are trying -- it seems they are trying to secure the other doors so that nobody gets in from anywhere else. >> and are you calling us now from that same building? are you at a new location? >> no. i'm now in the police station, close by. we're going to be interrogated

all of us. yeah. to tell what we've seen. >> for how long would you say you were kept at that building where this current was taking place shortly after the shooting. i'm trying to understand how long the search for people looking for people who were hiding behind the tables and chairs as you put it how they maybe tried to sanitize the area you know to see if there were any more alleged gunmen. >> well we were inside the building i think until half an hour ago or something. we were only evacuated with buses from the building about a half an hour ago. but it was relatively quiet after i'll say 20 minutes or something because i think after 10 or 15 minutes, i can't say for certain, but about 10 or 15 minutes after the shots we heard the sirens from the police cars and we knew that there were lots of police and ambulances around

the place and we started feeling more safe at that point and after an hour or so we actually continued our little conference but then about half an hour or so we were told we would be evacuated to the police station where we are now. >> dennis prior to the conference getting under way, had you thought about security or your safety particularly the subject matter and you say the french ambassador was there to talk specifically about the "charlie hebdo" incident in paris where many were killed at that office. how concerned were you about your safety in attending this forum? >> i actually wasn't really concerned. there has been several similar arrangements which i have pictures of and there was nothing provocative about this meeting. it was a dialogue and a debate

about what was going on. but in denmark, if a person somehow made a cartoon or made a cartoon of mohamed or something similar, any time they participate in some public arrangement there's always a security issue and i knew there would be there, of course but i actually had not expected anything like this. >> you're talking about the committee which sponsored this free speech event, the namesake was the swedish artist who is known for depicting the prophet mohamed and certainly upsetting a lot of people twin muslim community. you're talking about while the committee has arranged a number of things usually there was some layer of security or those kinds of precautions usually taken when they are involved in projects like this. >> yes.

that's right. >> okay. and so now what? now what are your concerns? what -- how do you process what just took place? you were in this building for this forum, talking about free speech and you would hear 30 shots fired, three police officers would be injured there in copenhagen. you know denmark. how do you process what just took place. how does this impact your livelihood as a satire researcher your concerns about going about your business and protecting this freedom of speech that incorporates satirical information portrayals. >> it worries me a lot, i must say. it's so new right now that i hardly have the time to reflect about it or process it really. but when you're lying on a floor

and you hear shots and people yelling in a foreign language and you really fear for your life then it's really serious. and then of course you are scared about it. and, of course it makes me think about what i'm working with whether it's satire research and that it can be very dangerous. but i hope that the danish intelligence and law enforcement will keep us safe because that's the only way forward, i believe. i don't think it's very healthy for any democracy actually if we stop doing what we always have been doing. the thing is with this forum and also with my own research of course this is not in any way something that has an aim to provoke anybody.

this is simply research and research should to be done and dialogue should be possible, i believe. so but, of course it gives me second thoughts and i'll be more cautious in the future. >> and so dennis you are danish? >> yes, i am. >> okay. so how much -- has there been dialogue among danes about your security your thoughts about whether, you know your country too is a very porous european nation and do you have worries about people who may be operating with networks or perhaps they are working as you know with their own agendas as lone wolves and plotting or threatening terror in your nation? how much of a concern has that been for you and for fellow

danes? >> well, there's not been a lot of concern for me and for good reason i'm not the first one anybody wants to shoot, i think. of course there's been a lot of concern, particularly concern the drawers and those who participated in the famous or infamous cartoons from 2005 in the newspaper which started this whole cartoon crisis and so this is a very debated topic and has been for years in denmark and has always been federal attempts to attack the newspaper and also some of the cartoonists. so it's not unusual phenomenon at all. it's an ongoing debate in denmark. >> okay. den miss mayhoff brink, thank you so much. stick around if you can on the

line because i want to bring in a couple of people in on our conversation. if you are just joining us. i want to bring you up to date what we're talking about and why. we're talking about a shooting taking place in copenhagen denmark where suspects involved in the shooting incident there are now on there's. law enforcement are looking for them. they were believed these alleged attackers to have fled in a volkswagen-like vehicle after leaving this building. you're looking at the video this shot up window very small building as i heard from my guest there, dennis who said it once was a theater. today it became a place of a freedom of press, freedom of expression forum that was organized by a committee and the namesake larsvilk who denighted the prophet of mohamed and got heat for doing such.

it was larsvilk committee that sponsored this free speech event. dennis said he heard 30 gun shots fired, three police officers were shot and injured. the french ambassador to denmark was also there at the event. and ended up tweeting that he survived the attack. and you heard from dennis there who also said that the french ambassador had just started talking about the "charlie hebdo" attack in paris. and talking about the security that needed to be imposed on the freedom of speech. so now we're going to be noind by nic robertson, senior international correspondent joining us live from london. nic, dennis remains on the phone with us. perhaps you heard some of his story, talking about being in this setting, somewhere between 30 and 80 people in a small intimate freedom of speech discussion and then he heard 30

gun shots fired and people started hunkering down hiding behind their chairs the desks and then dome find out three police officers were shot. what are your sources telling you about all that took place there in denmark? >> reporter: well certainly this sort of target where you have a lot of people in one small space like this is very very hard to -- very hard to control the security as compared to somewhere where you just have a few people. so anyone like lars who has a track record of threats against them particularly specifically on the issue of drawing pictures of the prophet mohamed in this type of environment is going to be exposed. there are other cartoonists in denmark that have been a targeted by these groups in the past. we don't know exactly who has done the targeting this time. we know where threats have come from in the past. they have targeted other cartoonists before those cartoonists have increased their

security. at least one of them i'm aware of. i also talked just a few minutes ago with someone else a dane. he has sort of come to public attention because he was a jihadist turned spy after he says for the cia. now he's also been named and as a target by isis and i talked to him about this latest situation. of course he's concerned, particularly following the "charlie hebdo" attack as well. clearly there is the narrative continues to exist within these radical elements who continue to want to target anyone who at any time has been associated withdrawing the prophet mohamed. this continues. this is the lead. behind that you have the very fact that denmark per capita is a country that sends, doesn't

send but young jihadists to go off from there to join syria and iraq and other countries per capita higher than any other country in europe. >> really? >> reporter: it's been a concern and is a concern for the danish authorities. the danish authorities have their own specific way of tackling this. this is an open arms policy unlike countries like britain who says if you come back we'll arrest you or take away your passports. removing your citizenship. what the danish have been doing is bringing them back and bringing them back into talk therapy sessions to re-integrate them and deradicalize them. some of the people i talked to in the counter radicalization circles believe this is something you have to be very cautious about as we saw with the two "charlie hebdo" gunmen.

they lay low for years pretending appeared on the service not to be radical yet they were. that's a concern about all these radicals who are coming back to denmark right now. >> that's the most alarming thing i heard. that's very enlightening. repeat that again for me. you're talking about the largest number per capita from denmark of those who either somehow get sucked in or being radicalized, explain that one more time. >> reporter: let's take the total population in denmark. per capita more young men going to join isis in syria, iraq other countries, other radical groups than there are leaving any other european country per capita. let's remember denmark is a small country. but we're talking about numbers of hundreds here. denmark has had a very positive

like so many of the scandinavian countries, open to allowing integration of refugees in to their communities. >> wow. >> reporter: what we're seeing is these numbers going back. >> okay. hold on nic, i want to bring in philip mudd as well into this conversation. phil earlier we were talking about this. and we're actually trying to explore the notion of how vulnerable has denmark become in recent years and what is the track record of that and i think that explanation from nic in large part perhaps really pinpoints that part of the discussion which is if so many young men or people in general have been leaving denmark and becoming radicalized to join isis to join al qaeda then this is a very significant problem for denmark and you talked about perhaps the counterterrorism efforts in denmark may not be you know, up to snuff compared

to some other european nations or even compared to the u.s. why would that be given these kind of numbers? >> i'm not suggesting that the danish security service isn't up to snuff. what i'm saying is over the course of time especially in this age, this century of terror the numbers of people you have to follow as a security service is unprecedented. denmark has had a history of violence. these cartoons were first published ten years ago in 2005. there was an attack on the danish embassy in 2008. so the danish security service has experience with this but as someone who served as both the cia and fbi doesn't matter how much experience you have in these situation, when you're dealing with the kinds of numbers that nic was talking about, that is hundreds of people you can't mount enough security to follow that many individual targets simultaneously. you just can't. >> okay. i wonder is dennis mayhoff brink still with us?

are you still with us dennis? >> yes, i am. >> you were there in attendance to infreedom of speech forum. hearing from my colleagues now also helping to paint a better picture for all of us to understand what denmark has been up against. given the fact that nic robertson reporting that large numbers of young danes have left to join groups such as isis or even al qaeda, to be radicalized and that the danish government has tried to reintegrate them into society, can you kind of express or explain what you have witnessed in denmark as it pertains to that if that has bean frustration or if that's something that citizens have been very proud of their country to try to reintegrate, but sometimes it may not always be successful? what more can you share to that? >> well it's new to me that denmark should be the country

with the highest number. actually i thought it was belgium. it may be denmark. i'm not certain about that. of course this has been a topic in denmark, what we do with these people. there has been some discussions about taking them to court for, i don't know the expression treason towards the country, at least the direct translation from danish. but the problem is that it's very difficult to prove that these people have participated in combats against danish soldiers because that's the point that you can prove that they have done that it's treason against the danish state and you can put them in jail for that of course. so it is -- it's not something that you invite them to a dialogue meeting, there's also you also face a court case but

the problem is that it's very difficult to find proof of that because the actions are taking place in a military zone and it's difficult to find the proof against them for that. everybody is concerned about the number of people that go from denmark to participate in these fights. as far as i know most of them are still there. so it's not that we have experienced that many coming back yet. >> all right. very fascinating. dennis mayhoff brink. thanks very much. nic robertson, denmark police again are not calling this a terror attack. but i think you and phil are also helping to under score that either it is a coincidence, or you know there are some real common denominators as

investigators try to look at what happened here and how it went about and, again, the alleged attackers are still on the loose. >> reporter: and there was the attack that was attempted against one danish cartoonist back in 2010. on that occasion the swedish and danish authorities worked together there tracking i believe, it was four gunmen coming from sweden driving to denmark and arresting them shortly before they reached their target. but they had a car that had a large number of automatic weapons and what we're hearing about this attack a lot of rounds fired, a lot of bullets fired in this particular attack. although the police aren't talking about it in terms of terrorism, whoever had that weapon and went in there appears to have been intent on an act of terror. we don't know the specific roots

yet, but has to be perhaps for the authorities in denmark, the first avenue for them -- for them to explore right now because this is clearly at the moment it appears the most likely rational at the moment from what we have now. >> as we were talking, nic, denmark police confirming one person now is dead from that attack taking place earlier in copenhagen. all right. thank you so much torch. we'll continue our conversation as we get more information. thank you, nic, phil and of course our guest dennis mayhoff brink. straight ahead, senator bob casey will be joining me to talk about the threat from isis particularly the activity taking place in iraq. local service again. you can easily buy and schedule services from top-rated providers. conveniently stay up to date on progress. and effortlessly turn your photos into finished projects with our angie's list app. visit angieslist.com today.

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attendance. in the midst of it a shooting takes place. and three police officers are shot and wounded and now copenhagen police are saying one person died in the attack at that freedom of speech panel. when we get more information on it we'll bring to it you. we're also watching a developing story out of iraq. isis fighters have come within nine miles now of u.s. troops that are stationed. seizing most of the town of al baghdadi. separately a key sunni tribal leader is raising the alarm. he says if iraqi troops pull out of anbar province that province would quote fall within hours.

democratic senator bob casey of pennsylvania sits on the foreign relations committee and joining us now. senator, lots of moving developments there in terms of isis perhaps gaining ground that's one way of putting it there in iraq. what are your earns? >> repeated failure of the iraqi troops to take the fight on their own. there's some improvement. but it goes to show the challenge we have on taking on the isis. the most successful fight towers date in this effort have been the kurdish forces. but we have to continue to push the iraqi forces to do thing fighting and to do it effectively with our support, air support and other ways. >> that's the big question then. to what extent does the u.s. support, because hasn't it been many years now, you know, up to today where so many so many analysts so many from the white

house to capitol hill say the iraqis are not able to stand on their own to fight the fight from text their country, to really go up against isis. if that's the case and everyone is in agreement of that then what? i mean to what extent will the u.s. have to invest more to help support so that more cities are not taken control by isis? >> well i think we have to invest more in terms of training and helping. but i don't think there's any question in the long run the iraqi forces and other forces in the region have to do the ground combat. it's their neighborhood. if we continue to be willing as some want to do in washington be willing to put ground troops on the ground we'll thereabout for a decade or more like we were in iraq the last time. so it's very important that we insist that this coalition do

the fighting. they have to do the fighting. >> but, you know you say it's their neighborhood but isn't it still in the u.s.'s best interest and the interest of the coalition forces to make sure that iraq is able to stand on its own two feet if it can't do so right now, if it's already exhibiting 13 iraqi soldiers were killed just within the past 24 hours by isis if they can't do it on their own meaning iraqi forces even if kurdish troops are doing better than the iraqy i soldiers are doing, it's not too early to talk about another strategy? >> i've always believed this is a multiyear strategy meaning

we've been at this six months now. there's a fair degree of success with regard to the air campaign and other efforts. but in the long run, the iraqis have to take on this fight and i should say the real foundation of that is a functioning iraqi government a government national unity. whether you're sunni or shi'ite or other wise you feel a nationalistic commitment to protect your country. a lot has its roots in government failures as well as military failures. it will be a long battle. but if we keep inserting ourselves and say we'll do the fighting to use an old expression while other people are holding our coats and letting us do the fighting we can't do that. we can't sustain it. that's why this debate on authorization for military force is so important. >> these suicide bombers were

right outside the al asad air base. 300 military are there. what are your concerns how to protect them and how those military personnel should either be further engaged as attacks, you know are taking place right outside -- right outside the, you know the installation? >> well obviously when isis fighters get that close it's of great concern. but, again, i think it goes back to the coordination between and among not just american forces on the ground and the iraqis but the coalition more broadly. fortunately in this latest engagement even though there's some territory gained it looks like in al baghdadi the-- the

iraqis were able to push them back. as this goes day-by-day week by week we'll have these close encounters and we need a lot of coordination and a lot of determined efforts by both iraqi and coalition forces. >> are you ever concerned there would be -- would it ever be entertained that air base would be evacuated? >> i don't know for sure. that would have to be a judgment made on the ground by our military intelligence folks. but this is going to be a long battle but that doesn't mean every time there's a crisis or a potential, you know people gain by isis that we're going to be sending in combat troops. i think we've shown when we keep volunteering to do that and

actually do it these other forces sit back and say well the americans will do the fighting. we can't do that again. >> real quickly before i let you go. if i can have you leave iraq and now denmark and now the french foreign minister is calling it an act of terror of what took place there in copenhagen at a freedom of speech forum, we understand now one confirmed death according to denmark police but still unclear whether didn'tish police are calling it an act of terror. the french foreign minister is calling it an act of terror. what's your initial gut reaction of what took place. >> i know as much as you do and what's been reported so i have no insight beyond what's been reported. when you have an event which is billed as a free speech event and a gunman comes in and starts shooting and then leaves i don't think there's any question that i would suspect it's an act of terror. and it's another reminder that one of the things that the terrorists try to do is not just to intimidate folks but to

intimidate free expression intimidate the free expression that we sometimes take for granted. so this is just another example of how we have to be prepared for these kinds of incidents. we may have to be prepared for them here at home which is why homeland security is so important here. >> senator bob casey, thanks so much for joining us. and we'll be right back after this. it's happening. today, more and more people with type 2 diabetes are learning about long-acting levemir® an injectable insulin that can give you blood sugar control for up to 24 hours. and levemir® helps lower your a1c. levemir® comes in flextouch® the only prefilled insulin pen with no push-button extension. levemir® lasts 42 days without refrigeration. that's 50% longer than lantus® which lasts 28 days. today i'm asking about levemir® flextouch®. levemir® is a long-acting insulin

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more now on this breaking story we're following out of copenhagen denmark. a massive manhunt is now under way as police search for what's believed to be two men who carried out an attack at a freedom of speech forum. they opened gunfire according to eyewitnesss in the end one person now, a denmark police are confirming was killed and three police officers wounded. investigators say that police officers lives do not appear to be in danger at this junk tur. french foreign minister is calling this shooting a terror attack. an act of terror. and leapt me explain a little bit more on the sponsoring body of that freedom of speech forum. it was the lars vilks committee which sponsored it. lars vilks happens to be the

swedish cartoonist who also has a bit of history with depicting the prophet mohamed in a satire cartoon and upsetting a number of people in the muslim community many years ago. back in 2007 lars vilks published that cartoon depicting the prophet mohamed with the body of a dog which is even more insulting because conservative muslims view dogs to be unclean. and lars vilks then received death threats from around the world and is even on an al qaeda hit list. but he admitted the cartoon was meant to elicit a reaction and it did. in 2007 he told cnn quote it should be possible to insult all religions in a democratic way. if you insult one religion then you should insult the other ones. end quote. that from lars vilks. all right now to another big story that we're covering for

you. a massive winter storm in the u.s. closing in on the northeast in particular. a blizzard warning taking effect tonight from long island to maine. and millions of people are in the path of this wicked weather once again, the region is bracing for hurricane force winds, white out conditions and possible flooding from storm surge. boston, a city with snow already piled higher than car roofs in some places is about to get hit with even more. joining me right now cnn ryan young in boston. and will relationshiply in lyriply in cape ann, massachusetts. ryan you first. let's talk about the danger with the snow that piles up on the roof tops. >> reporter: that is a big concern here along with that wind because power hasn't been knocked out just yet. with that heavy wind power could be affected in this area. look at all the snow we're talking about. you can see it's been piled up.

more than six feet high. some of this has been set upping on roofs. as we look across the street several roofs we can see that have snow on them. that's what officials are worried about. they want to make sure it gets knocked off. in some places they had snow eight feet high on top of schools. in fact we talked to a mayor who said he had to shut the schools down in this area because he wanted to make sure all the kids on the inside were safe. >> as i said before can i guarantee a roof will clasp? -- collapse? we can't take that risk. >> they are calling people to make sure the snow is knocked off. when you see a slant like that they are not worried about that. but they are worried about awnings and car ports. 10 to 12 more inches coming you have to think about the roadways. so far the roadways have been okay. when you think about safety especially when people cross the

street how do you see me if the snow drift is taller than i am. that's some of the things they are worried about with kids and also cabin fever sitting in and something that the mayor talked to us about everybody want to get the kids back to school. >> kids want to be out there and they want to play in the snow but even these kind of conditions there's so much snow it too like you described is dangerous because not they have a lot of areas of flat snow in which to play in and drivers can't see folks and it is potentially dangerous. >> reporter: it's happening over and over again. that's the thing they are worried about. not the first one, the second one the fourth one that's coming. >> thanks so much. let's check in with will riply in cape ann, massachusetts. what are they expecting. they are most concerned about the storm surge? >> reporter: they are. in fact we're standing on the beach. there's a lot of concern. doesn't look like the beach right now. big pile of snow. a lot of concern about beach

erosion as a result of all of the driving winds that are expected. another big problem that they are dealing with as i try to climb down this pile is where are they going put this snow. if we hand over here i'll show you what they are doing here. this is the beach parking lot. we've seen a steady stream of trucks like this. the back of that truck was piled high with snow a few minutes ago. these trucks keep coming in. they dump these huge piles and then drive out and go around town and collect more snow. but the problem is a park about a mile down that way is already filled up full up higher than this. this is the beach parking lot. it's almost full. they are wondering where they will put it. the epa have given towns permission to dump some of this snow toings. the problem is a lot of it is dirty. it's contaminated. there's salt and chemical sos they can't dump this snow. they have to dump virgin snow which they will get plenty of in the coming hours. >> that's quite the under take.

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all right. we're following a developing story out of iraq isis fighter have come within nine miles of u.s. troops stationed at a major iraqi base. a key sunni tribal leader is raising the alarm of isis advances. he says if iraqi troops pull out anbar province will fall within hours. joining me right now christopher hill former u.s. ambassador to iraq joining us from denver today and in washington, d.c. cnn global affairs analyst and

"daily beast" contributor. good to see both of you. so kim, you first. what are these war powers going to do any differently than what the president or what the department of defense has allowed u.s. military to engaging already with syria and iraq? >> well right now the u.s. is operating under two of what's called an authorization of use of military force. they are laws that allow the u.s. one was passed after the attacks of 9/11 that allows u.s. forces to go after al qaeda. and then the other one was passed in 2002 to allow u.s. force to go after enemy forces inside iraq. the problem with using the aumf from 9/11 is that if you try to use it against isis isis or the so-called islamic state group and al qaeda are at odds. they are at war with each other. so pentagon lawyers have been scratching their heads trying to

figure out, okay how legally can we send special operations forces in to attack them. that's why every single time there's a major operation like a hostage rescue the president has to sign off. this new aumf would make that basically unnecessary and it would take the gloves off and allow special operations forces to do these tar get raids or do targeted intelligence missions inside syria and at this point there are basically relying on proxies like the kurds and talking to them through cell phones to coordinate some of these missions. this would expand their powers but the obama administration wants to put a three year limit interest so that this can't be used by the next administration without going back to congress to extend it. >> so ambassador hill how do you see this use of these expanded powers? necessary and vital? >> well i don't see them asness

or vital. obviously we've been carrying on all kinds of operations in the last year. but i think it is necessary to update authorities that were created back in 2002 in very different circumstances. it's also important to get congress's the current congress thoughts on this current war. the president will not be pushed along to have u.s. combat formations on the ground and i think that specifically in there to be ruled out. so i think it's an effort really to try to get the u.s. and to get the administration and the congress together on this but obviously he's going to have a tough fight in washington meanwhile there's obviously a tough fight on the ground specifically in anbar today. >> ambassador chris hill and kimberly dozier thank you so much. we'll be right back with so much more news.

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as we understand the shooting and the wounding of three police officers there in copenhagen during this shooting taking place. a manhunt is under way for the two suspects who police say are on the loose but we understand from danish authorities that the getaway car we were told earlier they got away in a volkswagen vehicle we understand according to police right now that vehicle has been found abandoned, so the search continues for at least two alleged gunmen. you're looking at images shot earlier that presumably one of the police officers who was shot and wounded because we were told that the police officers did not suffer life threatening wound but confirmation that one person was killed. this attack taking place, the shooting rather taking place in copenhagen during an event organized by the lars vilks committee. and vilks was at that event.

vilks is a swedish artist who was physically attacked himself a few years ago after drawing the prophet mohamed. today's discussion in denmark was titled art blasphemy and freedom of expression. the french ambassador to denmark was also at that event and he had tweeted earlier that he was alive and still in the room. of course we know about an hour and a half ago that entire building was an old theater where this forum was taking place, has been evacuated and many of those attendees continue to be at the police department for continued questioning. and now the french foreign minister is calling this an act of terror. what took place in copenhagen today. it happened just a month or so a little more than a month after the massacre at the paris offices of the satirical offices of "charlie hebdo" after coming

under fire of publishing cartoons of the prophet mohamed. joining us with more is nic robertson and on the phone with us is peter bergen who also knows lars vilks. so peter i'll get to you in a moment, but nic if i can go to you first. the alleged getaway vehicle was found abandoned. the search continues for at least two gunmen. what more can you tell us about the expected law enforcement, you know resources to try to get to the bottom of this crime? >> reporter: yeah. i've talked to a security contact in copenhagen and he tells me right now there are a large number of police out on the streets. this is being treated as a very serious incident. 30 rounds were fired from an automatic weapon outside the theater through the windows into that crowded room about 50 people inside the room. the people in the room had to go

through screening, security screening to get into the room. but the location was quite a remote location. the theater by a car park by the national stadium close to a residential area. but fairly isolated location. there was a concern that finding the vehicle may be difficult because the police didn't feel they had a good make on the license plate. but i'm also told the police as the vehicle made its getaway the police came out and were shooting after that vehicle. so this was -- the gunmen were trying get away while the police although three were injured they were putting up resistance and trying to if you will capture these men before they could get away. at the moment the information that we have is that these men are still on the loose. there are a lot of police out looking for them. of course it's an absolute high priority to danish authorities to get ahold of them because they don't know how many weapons they have or what else they are

planning to do. >> clearly there was already a security concern because as you under score and we talked to one of the attendees earlier who said yes everyone was searched before going into the theater to be a part of this forum, so there was a concern about security and i wonder if that's in large part because of the sponsor of the event and that lars vilks who was the swedish cartoonist who had his own death threats in the past and perhaps ongoing was actually there in attendance? >> reporter: well i've talked to one source who has some knowledge of this. he wasn't there. but he would have a working knowledge or at least some working knowledge at this stage. he said that it did appear to be appear to be a plan to take lars vilks to a safe location in that building he was taken to the basement to a safe area in that basement as a result of the shooting. so there was a plan. but he's been the target of

attacks before. his house has been fire bombed. you're looking at pictures before he gets into his car in the morning he checks underneath his vehicle. he knows there are threats -- there are threats against him. there's $100,000 bounty put on his head by the former head of isis before the current head of isis took over with a $50,000 bonus on top of that quote if he was killed like a lamb and there have been threats from swedish jihadists in africa threatening to do just that. so he's fully aware. but there did seem to be a plan to get him to a more secure place inside the building as this attack was happening. >> peter bergen let me bring you into the equation. you know lars vilks' story and his experience very well. so knowing that he continued to have this kind of fatah on him, these death threats that's ongoing is it not surprising that an open forum kind of

freedom of expression seminar would take place and he would actually be there in attendance and i would imagine that all of the attendees would have to feel like they got to worry about their own lives too knowing there continues to be this fatah on lars vilks? >> i think that's a fair point, but obviously denmark, this issue is very much an issue where danes feel very strongly that they are entitled to say and draw what they want and also defend those who draw and say what they want. but, lars vilks has been the subject, an american sids here jihad jane a woman from pennsylvania plotted to kill her with a number of other -- plotd to kill him with a number of others. she's now serving a lengthy sentence in a u.s. jail and there's a consolation of cartoonists in copenhagen who

have been the subject of very serious threats. a danish cartoonist was attacked in his house by a somalia man wielding an axe. he had a safe room into which he retreated. and the most important newspaper in denmark is right there in copenhagen it's basically a fortress right now because this is a newspaper that has printed cartoons of the prophet mohamed, it's cultural editor and foreign editor who i know pretty well is you know, constantly being threatened and all of these people have been identified by al qaeda and the arabian peninsula on multiple occasions as key people that should be attacked. so it's not just lar lars who has this problem in denmark, it's others as well. >> peter, i thought what was remarkable to hear from our nic robertson reporting earlier that denmark has a big problem.

and that it has a very large number disproportionately larger number than its european neighbors, number of young men who leave denmark who are either recruited or take part in radical groups extremist groups like isis or like al qaeda find their way back into the country and that denmark makes a concerted effort as a government to try to re-integrate some of these people if not to kind of rehabilitate according to one of our guests who is a danish citizen, that was his word earlier and that it is really a significant problem. danish authorities are not willing to say this was an act of terror french foreign minister is calling this an act of terror. but do you think that this is purely a coincidence, this kind of targeted event or do you think that it might be related to this problem that nic was under scoring denmark has?

>> well i mean i don't believe in this kind of coincidence. it's a terrorist attack. it was an event that was supposed to honor lars vilks. i think we can make a common sense deduction that this was an act of terrorism directed at the committee that's trying to sort of give him a platform and denmark does have just as every other scandinavia country does by the way, scores of danes that have gone to syria to get training. they do have this rehabilitation program which is quite interesting, really the first country to do this to bring people back into the mainstream after they've gone syria and get them to re-integrate into society. but i think the jury is out if that's working or not and obviously there's some risk because, you know, no program has 100% success. but, you know we also don't

know for a fact that these assaulters are danish. they could be from other countries. obviously the eu you can travel from nearby countries. we don't know. they could be danish but also could not be danish. we do know they targeted this event, and essentially when you draw these kind of cartoons you kind of have a life sentence where it's like can serks it's in remission, it may suddenly come up again. another example of this is norris an american cartoonist who has been in hiding now for the last 4 1/2 years who similarly has drawn cartoons. so this is not simply something that happens in europe this is something we've also seen in the united states. you may recall that the creators of south park were threatened very seriously because they had a cartoon of the prophet mohamed on the show. one of the issues that will continue. we'll don't hear of these kind of plots and these kind of

attacks going forward. >> peter bergen thank you so much for your expertise and nic robertson also joining us from london earlier. we're also watching a developing story out of iraq. isis fighters have come within nine miles now of u.s. troops stationed there. seizing most of the town al baghdadi just outside of this massive iraqi air base. american helicopters even being used to support iraqi troops as they battle isis insurgents. a key sunni tribal leader is raising the alarm over isis advances. he says that if iraqi troops pull out anbar province would quote fall within hours. so is this a new threat level from isis? gaining ground so to speak. we're covering the latest from washington. erin as we reported 13 iraqi soldiers were killed when insurgents attacked the air

base. what are you hearing from pentagon officials about the next step? >> well fred the pentagon's big message in the wake of this attack is to keep it in perspective. john kirby spoke to cnn yesterday about it and you'll hear him trying to down play concerns about the immediate and imminent danger to american troops. >> we readily admit that anbar is a contested region. isil wants to pose a threat there. again this is a huge sprawling base roughly the size of boulder, colorado. i mean it's not just a small out post somewhere. in fact there's many bases inside the big base. so very very big area. and i would say that this incident though not that we're not taking it seriously happened nowhere near where u.s. or coalition forces were operating. >> the pentagon is stressing that this attack is mostly another example of isis propaganda simply knowing they would make a big flash by

hitting this huge protected base. but kirby pointed out it was a suicide mission so isis wasn't going gain substantial ground anyway. at the same time we've been hearing for months this deep skepticism on capitol hill about iraqi security forces that they may be ill prepared or at least under prepared for this war. because they beat back isis in this case defense officials are casting this event almost as a success. it gives them a way to say iraqi security forces can defend their own territory but look that is a very tricky assertion to be making just a couple of days after iraqi forces could not stop isis from capturing that nearby city of al baghdadi and in fact as you mentioned at the top, fred american air power was a significant factor in defeating the attack on the base. now we're hearing from some military analysts who are warning of mission creep and you're also hearing this call for potential involvement of american ground troops. that's becoming louder even

though the pentagon says that for now the policy is still no combat mission for american ground troops. but of course look for lawmakers on capitol hill who want to step up american involvement in iraq and syria. you hear them use this attack to make their case as the debate heats up in congress over the authorization for use of military force in the next few weeks. >> thanks so much. we'll be right back. my tempur-pedic made me fall in love

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more information now on that shooting in copenhagen denmark earlier today during a freedom of speech forum. now we understand from copenhagen police that they are indeed considering this a terror act, that they are investigating. and, again, they say two men in dark clothing drove up to this location where this forum was taking place, opened fire. but there was return fire that came from the personal body guards of lars vilks.

lars vilks is the swedish cartoonist who had already depicted the prophet mohamed many years ago and offended many muslims and there had been several attempts on his life taken in recent years and so he would travel with body guards. it was lars vilks who was actually sponsoring this freedom forum at this location in copenhagen. so again, the body guards of lars vilks actually returned fire and those two alleged gunmen then plead. we do understand from danish authorities that the vehicle that they allegedly got away in has been found abandoned but, again, the manhunt continues for those at least two alleged gunmen there in copenhagen. more information as we get it. also more information now on the one person killed. we understand it to be a 40-year-old man but the identity has not been released and three others who were shot and injured

they were police officers. all right. now, let's return to other news that we're following. here we go again, in the united states another big snowstorm on the way. this time millions of people in the path. blizzard warnings taking effect tonight from long island to maine. and that means more snow for cities like boston. already dealing with truck size piles of snow in some places. aivanka cabrera here we go inside. >> the chairs will be used to reserve parking spaces that people have to dig out as they do in boston and digging out potentially another foot of snowfall. it will come with significant wind here. that's why we have the blizzard warnings extending from long island up to new england. we're talking about significant snow that will be coming down and i'll tell you what. as far as the snowfall tallies,

we could be looking anywhere from eight to as much as 12 inches of snowfall across this region. this is a big deal for boston. once it goes offshore winds will get going. the timeline will be tonight and heading in through the day tomorrow significant accumulations but also the winds gusting to as much as hurricane force 75 miles per hour right along cape cod here as we talk about sunday and into monday we'll continue with wind and because of the arctic air mass in place wind chills we'll be seeing 25 to 35 degrees below. that's how it will feel outside and that's not where you want to be trust me in the next couple of days if you're in new england and in the next few hours we're tracking a new winter storm. we may have to be dealing with some winter storm in atlanta as well. >> wow. okay. thanks so much. we'll all brace up and town the east coast. thank you so much. we'll have much more in the newsroom right after this.

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i understand. >> more now on the breaking news on this attack taking place at a freedom of speech panel in denmark. police are now investigating it as a terror attack. we have learned that the victim who was killed, a 40-year-old man, but he's not been identified.

three police officers were also wounded in the shooting. a manhunt is under way for two suspects who police say are on there's and opened fire outside of the building where that forum was taking place. the alleged suspects fled the scene in a volkswagen which has been found abandoned, according to police. police say they were dressed, the alleged gunmen were dressed in dark clothing when they opened fire from outside the building. the attack taking place in copenhagen during this event. organized by the lars vilks committee. and vilks who you know as a swedish satirist cartoonist was at the event. police say they believe that this is an isolated incident. joining us right now on the phone is a reporter for t v2 in copenhagen. so you were just at the police briefing. what was said? >> it was quite a brief

briefing. the police are very busy. they called in every officer available in copenhagen. they consider this as a terrorist attack and because it seems that it has been thought about beforehand. >> what do you mean by that? police say that they believe this was a planned attack is that what you mean? >> what we know is that two men came and they had machine guns orma shin pistols and started shooting from outside into the building where this meeting was taking place, and because of the police there they started to fire back and those men who came they were dressed in black clothes, they ran away from the police and they stole a car, they actually grabbed a man out of the car and drove away and the police are now looking for the men. they had no idea this attack

would thereabout. the police tells us that this swedish person has been in denmark a lot and there was no signs that this would happen today. >> but lars vilks, he's the swedish man, lars vilks was there with his own personal body guards and you just under scored and mentioned police mentioning that his body guards returned fire. so perhaps they helped from keeping this shooting, to you know to have even worse results, right? because the alleged gunmen fled after being fired upon by these body guards right? >> we don't know that much yet. but, yes, from what the police tells us that's what happened. unfortunately, a man, a 40-year-old or about 40-year-old man was dressed in short sleeves, he wasn't wearing a jacket. he might have been at the event or he might have been at a bar

close by we don't know that. we don't know who he is. but he got caught in the "crossfire," probably from the two attackers. >> and then did police say anything about what eyewitnesses have been telling them because earlier i spoke with one man who was attending this freedom of speech forum and he says that he was at the police department where he was going to be questioned and others were going to be questioned. did police at that briefing say anything about what the eyewitnesss or attendants have said? >> they didn't tell us than they are talking to witnesses. but i'm now out at the scene where it happened and earlier today i saw a bus coming here. so they have taken a lot of the witnesses into a bus and taken them to the police headquarters where they are talking to them. and the police tells us that they are, of course talking to the guy who had the car that the two men got away in so they do

have some kind of what they are looking for, but they tell us only until now two men dressed in black and we think that they spoke danish. >> okay. now just so i understand because you had mentioned that they took a man out of his car and then they fled with that volkswagen that car where they later abandoned it. are police saying that these alleged gunmen walked up with these machine guns and with these, with this weaponry and opened fire or did they drive another vehicle and ditched that car and got into essentially car jack another vehicle? >> it's not quite clear. i also asked the police if we know that they still carrying the weapons and they haven't found any weapons yet so they presume that these two men who left the car, by the way, somewhere between two train stations in central cope they suppose these guys are armed and

are somewhere in copenhagen. >> what about, you know, people in the area or was this an area where other shops or you know, restaurants orca if hes were open or is this an area where only that theater where this where this forum was taking place was the only thing open? looks like we lost her. there you are. sorry, go ahead. >> it's close to the national football stadium and a big park. so it's actually quite a secure area even though it's in the middle of copenhagen so it's mostly like people running around here football players having an evening training who is around here. so that means that there were witnesses who saw the car riding away but not like a lot of people on the street. >> can you talk to me about the

fear or the expectation that something like this would ever happen? have people been talking there in denmark about their concerns about this kind of violence coming their way? >> i think that all country and everybody in europe after the attacks in paris have been considering will this happen can it happen to us and because denmark has been doing what we are doing internationally i think -- people are not surprised that it can happen in denmark. we have had a few things there was a bomber who kind of -- he misfired and blew the bomb up at the wrong place and some people trying to attack but they were caught. it may be the first actual attack but i don't think people are that surprised. >> all right.

thank you so much. very valuable information. we appreciate your reporting. and we'll have much more from the newsroom right after this.

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dispute. cnn jason carroll examined the social media accounts of suspect craig hicks. what he found appears to show a distaste for religion in general. >> reporter: hicks facebook page did not appear to show him targeting muslims. this were anti-religion posts. there was this quote. people say nothing can solve the middle east problem. not immediateiation, not arms not financial aid. i say there is something, atheism. yes that's one pound for my loaded .38 resolver. >> that was jason carroll reporting. so just because the community wants a hate crime investigation does that mean that the killings were a hate crime? the fbi defines a hate crime this way. quote, as a traditional offense like murder arson or vandalism with an added element of bias. let's bring in our legal guides.

a civil rights right attorney in cleveland and richard herman a new york criminal defense attorney from las vegas. avery. you first. does this case fit the criteria for a hate crime? >> well you know, the statute doesn't require someone looking out to hurt someone until someone based on a religion but rather religion. here we have some evidence of motive that relates to his anti-religious stance. yes, there were people that were not muslims with whom he got into disagreements over parking. but he didn't kill them. so the reality is there may very well be a hate crime claim. the u.s. attorney the fbi are looking at it a. let's see what happens. >> richard, because there's a track record that he may have had this sentiment doesn't it also have to be used that sentiment is what motivated this crime and that would help defiant as a hate crime or not?

>> that's the key. you can analyze this key emotionally and do an emotional analysis or a legal analysis. we see him being charged with three koumpbts first degree murder. that's life without parole. if he gets convicted which he most likely will on all three of those for the execution type killing those will run consecutive. so that's three life terms without parole. that will be his sentence. the clamoring for the hate crime it may be coming from an emotional response that he must have hated them that's why he killed them. bring a hate crime prosecution. but a legal analysis of the federal law requires fred as you said that there be an ultimate bias and that the killing was motivated by that bias and that's why he did it. they're bias would be religion. he didn't like their religion so he killed them because they were muslim. they are looking for an investigation. they are seeing if they can uncover anything looking at his social media accounts and everything else. so far it's basically coming out

pretty much from his wife who are getting divorced he basically hated everyone and he no motivation or bias against muslims per se. >> i don't know how you can conclude that. >> that's the case. they won't bring this prosecution to the federal statute. >> why would it be important for there to be a distinction avery, we're talk about as richard just said we're already talking about a potential sentence which is very severe. he'll never see the light of day if convicted just as a crime period. but then you put on top of it a hate crime, why would that be significant or important to establish? >> i think it would be a principled thing that the united states will not tolerate any kind of discrimination or harassment or intimidation or in this case death based on not a religion but religion. that's what the statute says. so i think it's premature to make a judgment and there was some reference to clamoring. no let's get an investigation. let's find out what's going on.

if religion factored into it there should be an additional count that's all. >> okay. because richard, apparently craig hicks facebook page doesn't appear to show him targeting muslims but already as stated he had an anti-religion sentiment, promoting atheism. >> fred they have to prove that that was the motivation for this killing because of their religion. it's really a long shot fred. i'll tell you something else, the president of the united states stepped out and made a statement about condemning this kind of killing and he's right to do that. but then to take it further and say people should not be targeted i think that was wrong. the investigation is in place. let's let the investigation unfold. and if it's there they will bring this federal hate crime prosecution. if not, they are going to walk away from it because they can't prove it. >> avery, why do you disagree >> the president was right. he said we can't tolerate it. there is to be a competent investigation. he was angry at other people who

weren't muslim he didn't kill them. what's the differentiation? it may be motive. let's see what the investigation shows. >> avery, richard always good to see you. thanks so much. >> you should be in that presidential challenge. you would get my vote. >> and the red dress says it all, happy valentine's day. >> happy valentine's day. that's right. i appreciate it. happy valentine's day. good to see you. we'll be right back.

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>> cupid for a few years. >> i think the bar right now is littered full of people online dates. the modern dating game a click or tap away from love or something like it. apps that let you swipe through your options. people are pixels where the formula for love is coded into your smart phone filtered by location age, gender what are you into what's your religion true love may not change but the way we find it has evolved, and here's the thing about love now. mobile has changed everything. >> no. >> no. >> no. >> remember when you used to ask a friend to set you up? hinge is an app that browses your facebook friends and comes up with a match. it connects with people you crossed paths with, and tinder, linking up nearby people if interested. swipe right if interested, left if not.

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this is cnn breaking news. hello, again, everyone welcome to the news room. following breaking news on the attack on a freedom of speech panel in denmark, police are investigating it as a terror act, and the prime minister called it a terror act as well. a massive man hunt is underway after police say the suspect's volkswagen was found abandoned between two subway stops. the suspects are believed to be heavily arm carrying machine guns and pistols and wearing dark clothing. denmark is not known for a

country to have a lot of guns, and we also now know the victim who was killed was a 40-year-old man, but he's not been identified. three police officers were wounded in the shooting. the attack took place in cope haguen in an event organized by the vilkes committee, and he was at the event. the funmen tried to shoot their way into the building and police say they believe it's an isolated attack. he was a swedish artist attacked years ago after drawing the prophet mohammed with threats made on his life. today's discussion at this freedom of speech forum was titled art, blasphemy, and freedom of expression. nick robertson is joining me and we understand that he had his own