captioning funded by cbs . it's friday, november 13th, 2015. this is the "cbs morning news." the united states goes after one of the most on recognizable figures within isis. the executioner known as jihadi john is targeted in a u.s. air strike. donald trump unloads in a profanity laced speech in iowa, the presidential contender has his sharpest words yet with ben carson, comparing his opponent to a child molester.

a child custody case in utah. a judge takes a stand against a lesbian couple carrying for a girl. rex ryan gets revenge on a team who fired him. he beats the new york jets but one is angered over both teams' choices of uniforms. good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good on to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. morning the pentagon is trying to determine if a u.s. air strike killed the infamous executioner known as jihadi john. a vehicle was targeted in the syrian city of rock ka, an islamic state stronghold. johnathan vigliotti is in london with the details on this this morning. >> reporter: jihadi john was the international symbol of the brutality that is isis. he first appeared on an islamic

state video last year wearing a mask dressed in black and holding a large knife. he spoke with a british accent. before executing american journalist james foley. the beheading video provoked outrage. it was the first of several brutal skugs. jihadi john was identified as a british citizen, mohammed emwazi last february. a former hostage described him as a psychopath. he was born in kuwait and moved to england as a boy and believed he left syria in 2013. they believe he helped in the executions of these journalists and a number other western hostages. the u.s. launched air strikes year. a number of senior isis members have been killed but if jihadi's john's death is confirmed, he would be the best known. london, thank you.

kurdish forces entered the isis isis-held town of sin shortstop jar. it began yesterday supported by u.s. air strikes. charlie d'agata is with the kurdish troops and joins us on the phone from sinjar. charlie, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. i'm actually standing inside sinjar city. it happened a couple of hours ago. people on foot and kurdish forces started sneaking down the mountainside into the city itself and dozens more followed, followed by hundreds after that. there is sporadic gunfire that rang out in the city. we are to the north. as i speak, now they are walking through the streets. hundreds of them are celebrating a victory. they say sinjar is now cleared. we heard gunfire earlier but it may be celebratory gunfire.

pinpointed by the u.s. air strikes to the north specifically where whole neighborhoods have just been leveled. the same situation off to the east where isis is looking for suspected to be holding out. now, it is still tense, because there's so much destruction, so much sgri in the roads and in the streets, the concern now is that there may be trip wires and there may be pressure plates and there may be ieds. the job now will be to clear out the city of these homemade bombs and boobytraps inside the buildings for the residents to be able to return. >> charlie, can you remind us about why this city is so strategically significant? >> reporter: yes. for two reasons. it's a strategic significance to the city because it sits sengs essentially sits on a direct line of two strongholds in iraq

and mosul in iraq. it straddles. now the kurdish forces have essentially cut off the crucial supply lines between those two cities and driven a wedge. symbolically, it's important because this is the city where a group was driven out and their horrible stories about massacres and rapes going on inside the city. many people fled to a mountain where with we were and this is where the u.s. military, 14 months ago, decided enough is enough and started their air campaign because of what happened here in sinjar. >> charlie d'agata in sinjar, iraq, thank you very much. today is a national day of mourning in lebanon. islamic militants say they are responsible for a bomb that killed 4e people yesterday and 200 wounded. beirut.

trump reluctantly divulged his plan for taking care of isis. they took away. some in syria, some in iraq. i would bomb the -- from them. >> trump said he had to reveal his strategy because people didn't believe he had a plan to take on isis. trump also ramped up his tacks against rival ben carson and the three democratic candidates are getting ready for tomorrow's debate. don champion is in new york with more on that. >> reporter: for more than 90 minutes, trump railed against his rivals in the race yesterday. his harshest criticism was for fellow front-runner ben carson. trump basically e indicated carson's childhood temper to the illness of a child molester. >> reporter: if you're a child molester, there is no cure. >> reporter: donald trump pulled

no punches on the campaign trail on thursday as he continued to pick apart ben carson's personal story. >> he went after his mother with a hammer! he hits a friend of his in the face with a padlock. he took a knife and he went after a friend and he lunged! iowa? how stupid are the people of the country to believe this crap? >> reporter: carson has called the questions over his past, quote, ridiculous. late thursday, carly fiorina came to the neurosurgeon's defense saying anyone can turn a multimillion dollar inheritance into money but all of the money will make is as smart as ben carson. trump's comments come as republican candidates continue to spar over immigration. marco rubio has called for a sensible approach. >> i don't think it's reasonable to say you're going to round up

and deport 11 million people. >> reporter: hoping to counter rube's rise, ted cruz seized on the issue. >> i'm the only candidate standing on that debate stage who has never supported amnesty and, in fact, who led the fight to defeat amnesty in congress. >> reporter: on the democratic side, the stakes are hide for bernie sanders and martin o'malley as they good into saturday's debate in iowa. polls show hillary clinton far ahead of both contenders in the race. most democratic voters believe trump would be the hardest to beat come november. now, sanders did pick up a key endorsement thursday. he secured the support of the 200,000 member american postal workers union. it is the largest labor union to back him. a big boost he needs going into tomorrow night's debate. >> don champion in new york, thank you. "face the nation" john dickerson will moderate the democratic debate and we will talk to him coming up on "cbs this morning." you can watch the debate on cbs

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an electronic dance music cruise. the coast guard sent a qatar and c-130. utah officials are challenging a judge's decision to remove a baby from a lesbian foster family. april hoagland and beckie pierce have five days to hang on to baby they in your neuroed urtured for months. they want to adopt the child but the judge ordered them to give up the baby. they say johansson wants the children raised by heterosexual parents. >> this is about sexual orientation and not about the child. >> he has no other grounds but that. >> utah's child welfare agency says it will appeal the judge if the judge doesn't rescind his decision. another black eye for the secret service this morning. one of its uniformed officers faces charges after allegedly sexting someone he thought was a teenager. lee robert moore was caught in a sting operation. he is accused of sending obscene

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the recordings have emerged that a right wing christian speaker saying the frozen song "let it go" is furthering american's rebellion against god. though, after hearing it for the millionth time, i'm not sure there is a god. >> i know how you feel. i have a little one at home and she sings it all the time. on the cbs "moneywatch," taylor swift beats a hater in court and chinese made cars. jill wagner is at the new york stock exchange with that and more. good morning, jill. >> reporter: general motors reportedly become the first american automaker to import vehicles to the u.s. from china. gm will start selling the buick envision next year according to the "wall street journal." this comes as gm is waiting to hear if the uaw ratifies a new four opinion year deal. the union has come out strongly to import cars from china.

the federal reserve will raise interest rates, stocks on wall street were sharply lower. the dow lost 254 points yesterday, the s&p finished 29 points lower, and the nasdaq fell 61 poise. points. facebook is testing a minutes. disappears in an hour. you can turn the feature on or off, depending on whom you're messaging. seen as a challenge to messaging app snapchat. walmart is doing away with what has been a staple of its black friday shopping. doorbusters. they will be available all at once, first online, then in stores. this will give online customers an early jump on sales. and a copyright lawsuit against pop star taylor swift has been dismissed.

>> another musician jesse graham said swift stole most of the words from her hit from one of his songs. a district court judge in california ruled there is not enough evidence to support the allegations. he supported another swift song, we are never ever getting back together in her dismissal and that is true. >> maybe the judge was a swifty? who knew? undercover swifties everywhere. >> you know what? a little humor in court never hurt anybody, right? >> yeah, exactly. jill wagner at the new york stock exchange, thanks a lot, jill. on "thursday night football," it was rex ryan's return to metlife stadium. ryan was fired by the new york jets after last season. well, now he is coaching their division rivals the buffalo bills and in his return, ryan exacts revenge. buffalo bills 19-point lead.

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police in san jose, california, want your help in catching these two burglary suspects. they were seen on home security video raiding the refrigerator during a break-in in august. a third man was arrested shortly after the burglary. but the trail has gone cold for the other two suspects. hungry work. here is another look at this morning's top stories. a u.s. air strike in syria targeted terrorist jihadi john who participate in the isis video showing the execution of u.s. citizens and others. republican presidential

odd at rival ben carson. carson self-described his pathological temper when he was young to a child that can't be cured. a stark result of climate change. a glacier in greenland is melting and warm temperatures are known for shing rinking the glacier known as zachariae isstrom. there is no estimate on how long that will take, though. a former army captain who tackled a suicide bomber in afghanistan was awarded the nation's highest military honor. president obama presented the highest honor to captain groberg. he is known as flow, known as the man walking backward with a bomb strapped to his chest. >> no did anything extraordinary. he grabbed the bomber by his vest and kept pushing him away.

>> the bomb killed four americans but groberg's actions saved many others. coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," the lawsuit by a popular burger chain in-n-out against a start-up delivery company. we will get details. plus shark tagging. we will take you to the gulf of mexico where ground breaking shark tagging is being done. and gayle talks with soul singer judith hill. ahead of cbs's coverage of the democratic debate tomorrow, stephen colbert got a preview on "the late show." for more on what we can expect from john dickerson, please welcome live via satellite from iowa, the late show john dickerson expert, john dickerson. john, your co-host is twitter. what does that mean two the debate on saturday night? >> we will ask people to questions and send them in and maybe we will ask those questions to the candidates and we will watch what people are saying while the actual debate is going on. >> how many of the millions of

twitter questions will you be able to use during the two-hour debate? >> it depends. if they are really good, we will use them and if they are not so good, we will use them afterwards. >> as kindling? >> yeah, to sharper our debate on the post-debate analysis. >> you can see john face the candidates tomorrow night at 9:00/8:00 central on cbs. that is the "cbs morning news" for this friday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green.

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