kind of a no-brainer. >> you think about the red tape to go through to try to correct the mistakes or people finding the paper work from the years ago. it is a lot of work. you did great work on this blake and melanie. nice job. >> thank you so much. >> thank you for bringing it to us. visit cnnmoney.com. that's it for me i'm randi kaye. wolf starts right now. hello, i'm wolf blitzer. 1:00 p.m. here in washington. 6:00 p.m. in london. 8:00 p.m. in jerusalem. 9:00 p.m. in mosul in iraq. wherever you're watching from around the world, thank you for joining us. breaking news. disappearance of three british teenager girls. it's believed they're running away from london to syria. our senior international correspondent nima barger is joining us live from london. what are officials saying? what's going on?

>> reporter: they have managed to connect between these three girls, wolf and another young girl who was almost apprehended back in december. she and a fend the plane they were on was stopped. it was taxiing on the runway. it was headed to istanbul. a girl returned to the family. the second disappeared and believed so have reached syria. she is friends with these three girls now being sought. the m.o. now is very easy to recognize authorities tell us. young girls were of a british muslim background. they get the flights to istanbul and from there the smuggling gangs that take them over the border are waiting. scotland yard tell us they have been talking a lot in the past of young men heading over into syria but the growing trend, wolf the sheer numbers of women and girls heading into syria, that's the new big concern. >> so if they get to istanbul say they fly to istanbul and then they're out there, can they be stopped really effectively? that border of turkey and syria is pretty porous right now.

can the young girls be stopped from actually getting into syria where they might connect with isis? >> reporter: the hope is that someone watching this will see their pictures and will get in touch with turkish authorities. bringsish police believe that the girls are still in turkey and this is a window of opportunity and it is closing very quickly because once they get into syria, we know that isis in the past have killed and have threatened violence to any of those who join them and try and get back. but in addition to that you have some pretty tough laws that the british prime minister's trying to push through. to punish those who go into syria and try to come back and the fear especially for girls of that age that's going to stop them trying to get home to the families and the message of british police have been trying to get out now, wolf is it's not too late. please please come home. >> i hope they do. all right, thanks very much nima eblagir in london.

now edward neuman from king's college in london a speaker in the final day of the white house summit and combatting extremism. you've done a lot of research in this area 15 16 17-year-old british muslim girl how do they get brainwashed to thinking if they leave their families leave their parents, they fly off to turkey try to cross the border into syria, what's motivating the young girls? >> it's a new phenomenon. we've never seen the numbers of females going to conflict zones ever before. if you asked me ten years ago, i would have struggled to identify any females parts of the jihadist movement. in these cases, really clearly seems to be a counter culture that excites them. they're excited about going against society and mainstream and probably seen pictures online and almost like a cliche and to some extent also very young girls cases a romantic

obsession with fighters who are rugged they see their pictures. they want to be part of that movement. that seems to be completely against everything that they've experienced back home. >> so they've been told if you go to syria, if you meet up with these isis terrorists you're going do get married. that's your husband if you will. that's what's motivating them? >> i think it is very clear to them that they cannot be single teenage girls in raqqa. as soon as they get over there, there will be a process whereby they get married and a lot of them are excited about the idea of getting married to a fighter. >> but somebody in london or elsewhere in britain has to be talking, they have to get money. where do they get money to fly to istanbul and contacts in istanbul. who will show them where the crossings and into syria might -- this seems like a sophisticated operation. >> it is. but it is also possible to just go over there. >> they need money to do.

>> we're monitoring the cases. we see, for example, people have arguments with the parents and really important because parents are the last people these people are in touch with and they have a lot of power here. we've seen for example, many cases that kids were lying to their parents. they said i need a new laptop. i need a new laptop for school. can you give me $500 and spent it on an airline ticket to turkey so there's a lot going on and i said at the white house to empower families. they're the last stop. 99% of them do not want their kids to go to syria. so they're best asset. >> i'm sure the parents are freaking out right now. i want to play a clip. this is what you said yesterday at president obama's summit on combatting extremism. i'll play the clip. >> one of our best assets are the fighters' families. 99% of the parents do not want their kids to go to syria. none of them want their kids to die. the internet if you think about it is probably the most powerful

tool that ever existed for promoting ideas. good ideas, bad ideas. but right now, we basically handed over that powerful tool to the extremists. >> because i heard a lot of that, these extremists terrorists great on social media on the internet but we're not. we're not great at that? the united states of america, the moderate arab countries, not great at social media? what's going on here? >> this is the absurdity, the tool we have created edd edd the most powerful is handed over to the extremists and using it much more capably than we do and part of the summit was about is about discussing ways in which we can leverage community groups to get their ideas out there. how can they be better to engage and challenge violent extremeists online? a lot of talk is about taking content off the internet and be

part of the solution and there will always be content on the internet. it is unavoidable so we have to become better at engaging and challenging these views online. >> all right. peter, i know you're based in london right now but you're welcome to come here when you're in washington. thank you for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. now planlless of a major offensive to take a city back from isis. the most detailed information yet on the operation to push isis out of mosul. now expected to begin in either april or may. isis troops paraded through the streets of mosul after seizing control of the city last june. let's get some more on the plan to try to drive them out. pentagon correspondent barbara starr is standing by. walk us through what you have on the spring offensive. >> it is a potential spring offensive, wolf. the pentagon saying the plan now and they say it's an iraqi plan start offensive late april, early may and put it before the

heat of summer. it will put it before the holy month of ramadan. they think iraqi troops will be ready. the iraqi government the prime minister wants this operation to go forward. but it will depend on whether 20,000 to 25,000 iraqi forces really finally months later are trained and ready to try and take mosul back from isis. iraq's second largest city. it was a devastating blow last june when iraqi forces basically collapsed and abandoned the city to isis and isis troops rolling in. they have had that city under an iron grip ever since then. this is very key to iraq. re-establishing its control over its own country. but the big question wolf on the table as you know is what help will the u.s. have to give those iraqi troops going on? will there be a small number of u.s. specialists who can help

military personnel to help iraqi forces pick out those isis targets on the ground for air strikes or for ground attacks? will the iraqis need that u.s. help on the ground and if they do that is a recommendation that the military will have to make to president obama and president obama would have to approve a go-ahead for that. wolf? >> barbara starr at the pentagon thanks very much. up next digging deep sbeer this potential mosul offense. will the iraqi forces be up for the fight and why would the u.s. be revealing detailed battle plan to the world right now? also ahead, rudy giuliani doubling down on the controversial comments about president obama. now all eyes are on the 2016 republican presidential hopefuls to see how they respond to what the former new york city mayor had to say about the president of the united states.

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baer a cnn intelligence and security analyst, a former cia operative. ben, you're obviously very familiar with mosul. you have been there. i've been there. we're obviously talking about house to house, street to street urban warfare if the troops actually launch this offensive. >> reporter: indeed wolf that is inevitable. a city of 2 million people as you said and many of the inhabitants not necessarily going to be welcoming to iraqi forces or the kurd. in fact today up on the front lines speaking with kurdish fighters and commanders and said in addition to the substantial military capabilities of isis isis has a habit of in villages towns and cities just sowing hundreds and thousands of ieds and booby traps when they pull back and even if the initial push into mosul doesn't meet

resistance from fighters there's a huge danger of things like ieds. so it's going to be a real challenge and certainly what we're hearing on the front lines at least is a lot of skepticism about this proposed timetable. april or may for some sort of offensive to retake this major iraqi city. >> that's when the weather is better over there. colonel, you're familiar with the area, as well. the plan as detailed by a military official to reporters at the pentagon yesterday called for 20,000 25,000 30,000 iraq troops regular iraqi soldiers if you will going in there. some kurdish fighters. backed to a certain degree by u.s. troops. but as you know as and all of us know the iraqi troops abandoned their positions last june when isis came in. they left behind all that u.s. armor, the tanks, the weapons, the ammunition. all that stuff. here's the question. can you really rely on these

iraqi army troops this time to get the job done? >> wolf we have to. it's their country. it's their city. we have to. now, what did they not have last time is air power. that's what we bring in. air power, isr in the intelligence that these iraqi soldiers did not have. and that gains a lot of confidence for ground soldier to have these combat enablers on the ground. we have to because at the end of the day this is not our fight. we are an enabling force for the next piece. >> bob, there's criticism of the military for releasing this detailed information and telling isis get ready. the iraqis are coming in. the iraqi army's coming in in march or april or may or whenever they go in there. is that giving them advance notice to prepare, they can get their ieds, they can get booby traps, all of their stuff ready? >> well wolf i think they're

already ready. we have been talking about the mosul offensive for a couple of weeks now, putting a date to it before the summer heat is -- won't come as a surprise to them. but i'd feel a lot better if there were american forces on the ground you know something like delta force to back these guys up. because, wolf, it is not just the islamic state and the recruits of europe and central asia and the rest of it. you also have former saddam officers have not come over to baghdad at all and defending the city and they are trained and they're capable. you have a lot of tribes as well. sunni an i rab tribe rab tribes and the outcome of this offensive on mosul, it's going to be a tough fight. >> house to mouse, street to street fighting and a lot of casualties all around. ben, here's what intrigues me. you're there. you know this area well. the iraqi army not necessarily

all that good and they were a total failure last year. the kurdish fighters courageous brave, but fighting with old equipment. artillery pieces going back to world war ii as we documented here on cnn. you know the strongest military might be those pro-iranian iraqi shiite militias. tens of thousands of them. they don't want isis either in iraq. they want to take over. they're backed by iran as i said. would they be part of this potential offensive to retake mosul, these shiite militias? >> reporter: well i don't think the pentagon is actually mentioning them as potential participants but what we saw in baghdad going to the front lines, the defensive belt around the city was that the closer you got to the front lines, the less of the iraqi army you saw and the more of these popular mobilization units and arabic -- they were the ones who were

clearly doing the heavy lifting. and certainly they've relieved a lot of pressure on the iraqi army but if it's the iraqi army and not these militias that are going in they're going to be really put to the test. and of course the other problem is that this is an area mosul is a city with sunni arabs, withchristians and not necessarily eagerness to see thousands of potentially radical shia that you would have in these population mobilization units and highly problematic to send them in but, yes, they're more motivated and some respects they're better armed and trained than the iraqi army itself and if you look at the range of military units in iraq the shia militias the army the army is the weakest link in this chain. >> most disappointing link

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former new york city mayor rudy giuliani is doubling down on comments that president obama does not love america. at a private dinner event for scott walker in new york politico is reporting that giuliani had these words to say. i do not believe and i know this is a horrible thing to say, but i do not believe that the president loves america. he doesn't love you. and he doesn't love me. he wasn't brought up the way you were brought up and i was brought up through love of this country. in a follow-up interview today with "the new york times" he dismissed the criticism he is getting saying it had nothing to do with race. he said the comments were meant to describe the world view that it shaped the president's jup upbringing. from the interview some people thought it was racist. i thought that was a joke. a white mother and grandfather and white schools and most of this he learned from white

people. this isn't racism. this is socialism or possibly anti-colonialism. and about an hour ago, president obama seemed to weigh in on the comments at a speech delivered before the democratic national committee here in washington. >> it's not about the back and forth of politics. it's about doing things that make people's lives better. it's about doing things that make us confident that america will continue on this upward trajectory that began so many years ago. it's about making this nation we love more perfect. we are democrats. >> all right. you heard him say this nation we love. let's bring in chief political analyst gloria borger with us right now. a lot of us are surprised. giuliani's an intelligent guy. why is he doing this right now? >> i have no idea. >> why is he saying that the president of the united states

does not love america? >> i have no idea. first of all, private fund-raiser. remind you of mitt romney. private fund-raiser. 47% remark. >> yep. >> when you don't think anybody's listening. >> hundreds of people in that rom. >> right. first rule of hole, stop digging. comments to "the new york times" made it worse and i think this is the last thing republicans want to be talking about, wolf. >> because he's putting these other republican presidential candidates in a rather awkward position. they have to now either defend him or say he's wrong. >> you know you've got republican presidential candidates out there, potential candidates, jeb bush talking about poverty. governor john kasich. >> of ohio. >> talking of pulling people out of poverty. you have a party that wants to appeal to a broader demographic. they want to change the republican party's perception of only appealing to the wealthy 1%. and when you say something like this which is just a whack at the president, it doesn't help

them. it takes them off their message. and their message is we want to be a broader tent more inclusive and, you know stop with this garbage. >> you interviewed governor kasich of ohio. a lot of us think he's a potential vice presidential running mate. i want to play a clip of what he said to you and isis and the struggle to defeat the terror group. >> some point in dealing with isis you mark my words, whether john kasich you hear from him again, some point it will require boots on the ground from the world to be able to deal with this problem. and i would rather deal with it sooner than ratelater but you have to have a battle plan. you have to figure out what you're going to do but i would never suggest that we should engage in nation building or trying to convert all these people to our way of life. we need stability and to stop this. >> so when he says boots on the ground u.s. boots on the ground? iraqi boots? arab boots? >> he is talking about american

boots on the ground in addition to as part of a broader international coalition of the willing. right? and that would include middle eastern nations. it would include european nations and not saying go it alone but he is saying that even though the american people might be war wary i asked him about that he said look. you have to lead. you can't just stick your finger in the air. sometimes america has to lead and so you know what he's saying is you can't rule it out for political reasons. you have to acknowledge to the american people that in the end if you want to defeat isis it might require a coalition to do it and america should be part of that coalition. >> a smart guy, very popular in ohio. got himself re-elected. >> 64% of the vote. 26% of minorities. >> here's what worries democrats. jeb bush popular in florida. john kasich popular in ohio. if the republicans and the elect

electal college, hillary clinton assuming she's a nominee has trouble. >> here's another statistic, wolf. no republican has ever won the presidency without winning ohio. >> yep. all right. >> important. >> so maybe it will be bush-kasich. who knows? >> kasich says he's not interested but who knows? >> probably interested of being a vice president shl running mate. to see gloria's full interview watch "state of the union" this sunday 9:00 a.m. eastern. kasich among gloria's guests. for years, a strained relationship. some thought it was just a clash of personalities. but our next guest says one issue has put the u.s. president and the israeli prime minister past the tipping point. david inspector generalgnacius is standing by.

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welcome back to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington. in less than two weeks, a lot of eyes will be on the joint meeting of the united states congress. you'll be able to see it live here on cnn on march 3rd when prime minister netanyahu scheduled to make a controversial address about iran and the nuclear program. let's bring in david ignacius. you're just back from israel.

how tense right now is this relationship between the prime minister of israel netanyahu and the president of the united states? >> wolf i can't remember there ever being such open disagreements, the tension is high enough that u.s. officials say that they are not briefing the israelis full detail of the negotiations sessions of iran which they had been doing consistently until early february. the reason they felt to change is they felt netanyahu's office leaking details that he was receiving about those negotiations and using them to undermine in their view u.s. efforts to reach a settlement. so there's a sharp disagreement. it's going to come to a head next month with the speech and we'll all be watching. >> i know you met a lot of israeli officials when you were there including the minister of intelligence. you write about that in your new column. when's the israeli argument?

why are they saying what they're saying and doing what they're doing? >> i did interview the minister of intelligence has been intimately involved in the discussions of iran strategy and what he told me was that although this obama-netanyahu dispute is often seen as a personality clash, that it really has been building for more than two years and is about the fundamentals of what israel thinks matters in terms of dealing with the iranian nuclear threat. briefly he said that netanyahu has always felt it was a mistake to let any enrichment of uranium and after the agreement in november 2013 allowed that he initially thought it would be a small, symbolic level of enrichment several hundred centercent er centrifuges and it was thous and

the israeli press that the united states has offered iran at least 6,500 centrifuges under this agreement as part of an overall package deal. the administration has its own arguments, but that was the core of what he told me. this is too many centrifuges, putting iran too close to breakout capability. accepts iran's status as a tloesh hold nuclear state. in their view closer than a year from breakout time to making a bomb and puts israel at too much risk. >> the u.s.-israeli relationship is critically important, obviously, to israel. this is a big issue in the israeli elections right now. scheduled for two weeks after this march 3rd speech on march 17th. how's it playing over there in israel? >> there are a lot of israelis who worry that netanyahu has in effect played politics in

america by arranging this special invitation from gop house speaker john boehner. he has sided with the republicans in this very polarized divided washington and that's not traditional israeli policy. they have counted on bipartisan support of democrats and republicans alike. from administration to administration. and netanyahu's been severely criticized during the election campaign in israel for changing that. the labour party kond date blasted him. the running mate has blasted him. i heard those attacks while i was there. i think it's fair to say that israelis in general are worried that netanyahu may have put at risk the relationship with the united states at least while obama is president. >> yeah. all right. i recommend your columns. go to "the washington post"washingtonpost.com.

david, thanks for joining us. >> thanks. great to be with you. >> we'll have live coverage of the israeli prime minister netanyahu's address before the united states congress on march 3rd assuming it takes place and he doesn't cancel that address. we'll see what happens. still some time for the israelis to make decisions. up next one year after the revolution the protest that brought down a government and sparked a civil war. we're going live to ukraine's embattled east.

today ukraine marks a somber anniversary. it remembers the start of the revolution that toppled the country's pro-russian president, a year ago that the anti-government protests began in the capital kiev. dozens were killed in the demonstrations. today, effects are especially being felt in eastern ukraine

where the fighting did not end despice a cease-fire agreement. our senior international correspondent nick peyton wag sh is joining us. one year after the protests began, nick the landscape seems to be different in the east but what are you seeing right now on the ground as far as this so-called cease-fire is concerned? >> reporter: the violence continuing. we have heard explosions behind us here in donetsk. less intense than yesterday but ongoing and remembering what it was like a year ago to stand in central kiev and see people being shot around us brought into the hotel we were staying, that itself seemed like an extraordinary peek in an otherwise peaceful country. i covered a similar protest in the same square that was peaceful and brought about a change of government people felt then that something extraordinary was happening to ukraine. but nobody then believed we could now be in a stage where i'm standing here in one of the key cities in the east and this

is racked by intense sheling and shelling yesterday separatists say killed a woman on the outskirts. the key city everybody was arguing about in this cease-fire negotiations is now clearly in separatists hands. we saw that ourselves yesterday and we saw the devastation there. the question is when does the violence stop? we are technically still in what both the presidents of ukraine, russia and france and germany call a truce. but the violence has not stopped. it's had a lull here certainly but raised around the area. do we now see the separatists have the borders of of what they thought was going to be the state to get in m insk or continually going to be ambitious for more territory? i think that unfortunately that's the more likely situation. many emboldened, confident, very well equipped and eyeing the rest of the region. a large territory and may be heading in the weeks ahead. very troubling. >> ukrainian officials say at

least 20 russian tanks, bus loads of troops crossed the border to join the fight. what are you hearing? >> reporter: well you know when you look at the separatists forces it is clear they're not just minors out of work and got a vast amount of weaponry of somewhere on the street. there's a lot of organization. there's clearly a state backing them. that can be of no doubt at all. you see the russian flag many places. too often symbolic but it's often too obviously in your face to know there's not an extreme russian support for the movement here but the question is exactly what point does the russian military come in and assist more overtly here or declare the presence properly? there's no air power used in the war yet since the cease-fire collapsed in september. that's clear. that's for moscow to do all it's going off the books and what happens to mariopole. it's a key town. if there are build-up of armor

around it or troops there could be a very bloody battle ahead of us here and, of course if it does fall to separatists, that's a very big if because it's a huge town, then that potentially opens up a land corridor by crimea. that is an extraordinary development for europe's borders here. seeing them redrawn very quickly here in ways we haven't since the 1940s. wolf? >> all right. nick paton walsh, a gloomy assessment assessment. a quick break. much more news right after this. no matter who you are, if you have type 2 diabetes, you know it can be a struggle to keep your a1c down. so imagine ... what if there was a new class of medicine that works differently to lower blood sugar?

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all right. this just coming in to cnn. u.s. justice department will

seek when's described as an emergency stay in that texas immigration ruling the ruling that put immigration programs under the president's executive order on hold. thanks to a texas federal judge. the white house now says it's taking the action to allow eligible undocuments immigrants in the united states to start applying for benefits that was put on hold following the texas judge's decision. the white house previously had already announced the government would appeal that ruling by the federal judge in texas but they're asking for a stay so that they can go ahead and stake action on the president's executive orders. we'll see how it plays out legally in the courts. also the white house just reacting in more detailed terms to former new york city mayor giuliani's controversial comments alleging that the president of the united states does not love america. here's the white house press secretary josh earnest. >> more generally, i can tell you that it's sad to see when

somebody who's attained a certain level of public stature and even admiration tarnishes that legacy so thoroughly. and the truth is i don't take any joy or indication or satisfaction from that? i think really the only thing that i feel is i feel sorry for him. >> strong words coming from the white house press secretary. we were talking about this earlier. rudy giuliani he is not backing down at all. he is doubling down tripling interview after interview. he's declined an interview -- he's standing by controversial comments that the president the does not love america. >> i think he responded with the right towne in sorrow more than anger. he paid homage to rudy

giuliani's important role post nevin and said that it was -- 9/11 and said that it was sad. you see a republican party that's help rushed to criticize giuliani which in and of itself is an interesting fact given the fact they were trying to broaden the tent. the wisconsin governor didn't say anything. the candidate who said giuliani should not have said that is marco rubio of florida. if they don't want to get into food fights or who loves america, who doesn't love america, be everybody could agree that anybody who runs for president or who is president probably loves america. and that that is not a

conversation they want to be having within their own party or the american public. i think rudy giuliani has done his party a disservice. >> as i said yesterday, what irritated a lot of people is when he said, rudy giuliani, that the president the president was not brought up to love america america. he was raised a lot of his childhood by his grandparents. they clearly love america. they're patriotic, they were patriotic loving people. to say that he was raised not loving america is outrageous. >> whatever you think of the president's politics and obviously rudy giuliani disagrees with him, barack obama is an american success story. he's a success story that people can point to and say look be at the this man's background. lock be at the where he came from look at how he was raised. and he became president of the united states. if he can become president the president, maybe you can, too.

i think there are a lot of republican presidential candidates going out of their way, wolf to not sound negative like this. to not criticize obama personally but take on his politics. and i don't think this does one ounce the good for the republican party or scott walker. i tried to get kasich to react because i interviewed him before jowl alien -- before giuliani, and he declined. >> thank you very much. still ahead, a very different story. record cold temperatures in the united states. they transform a famous landmark. there it is niagara falls frozen. we're going there live. fibrillation an irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. that puts jim at a greater risk of stroke. for years, jim's medicine tied him to a monthly trip to the clinic to get his blood tested. but now, with once-a-day xarelto®, jim's on the move.

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degrees, negative 17 what's going on? >> the windchill is so much better than it was this morning at around 5:30. it's warped up because the subpoena's coming out. that's the american side. you -- the sun's come out. that's the american side. you see the structures of ice. this can get to ten stories high in certain places this time of year. to look this direction at the falls, that is the most beautiful part that everyone's flocked they're look at. we've been watching this all day as people come from all around to say they're looking at the this because it's a tourist attraction, like a winter wonderland. more than 20 million gallons flowing over the edge. sunrise more than 40 people standing here taking pictures along with us because they wanted to see this. we have so many fans of cnn, folks have been coming out here to check the site. you see them lined up, taking pictures, selfies. kissing around here. it's been a fantastic sight

during the winter. even as colda as it is people are enjoying themselves. >> i grew up in buffalo, the falls were only a half from my house. i used to go in the winter to see the sights. this isn't unusual for those of us who grew up in western new york but it's an amazing sight. ryan you're from florida, miami. you don't necessarily appreciate how beautiful niagara falls is right now. people from all over the world are coming to see what's going on right? >> reporter: i have to be honest, this has been a beautiful sight for all of us especially when it was lit up last night with the colors. all of have us been taking pictures. the pictures have been going viral across the country because people want to see this. if you're going to spend winter someplace, man, this is absolutely beautiful to see. wolf of course this is your hometown. this is wonderful. >> all right. we love niagara falls. we love the whole area. if you haven't been there, i recommend it. it's one of the great, great wonders of the world. ryan welcome to cnn. you've only been there a month.

but we're happy you're part of our team. ryan young, joining us from beautiful niagara falls. that's it for me. i'll be back at 5:00 p.m. in the "situation room. " for viewers in north america, "the newsroom" the with brooke baldwin starts right now. here we go on this friday afternoon. thank you very much for being with me. i'm brooke baldwin. we're following this developing story that may demonstrate the power, the reach of the isis recruiting machine. now we've learned about three british girls who are missing. and scotland yard fears they may be making their way to syria. look at the faces of three young women, the u.k. is frantically trying to find trying to hunt down. one of them 16 years of age. the other two 15. bags packed. th