you cannot quit, i'm you. >> brett mcgurk was supposed to leave and the president said, mcgurk, who io not know. >> he is the leader of the anti-isis coalition. he has been knitting together the more than 70 countries that was united with the united states to fight isis. so, he is a president ial envoy. while the president may not actually know who he is, he claims, that underscores that perhaps the president was not involved in the details. if it's not someone that he knew and didn't care about. well, he seemed to care enough to tweet that it didn't matter to him. which only drew more attention to the story that this diplomat, who was hired by the bush administration, i should point out, was resigning in principal because of his syria policy. the second high level u.s. official to do so in the past week. >> all right, margaret, thank you. >> overseas a desperate search for survivors is under way in indonesia. a ever a massive sue gnocchi th -- after a massive tsunami killed 200 people, and 800 injured and dozens missing. the waves struck two of the more populated islands. we have the

but that, at last, may be changing, says brett mcgurk, the president's special envoy on iraq and syria. >> i think there's an emerging international consensus, and i include the russians on that, that without a very serious political transition, this conflict is going to continue to grind on and that's in nobody's interest. >> reporter: consensus on shutting assad out of syria's political future would be a breakthrough and give fresh energy to the peace talks currently under way in geneva. while on the battlefield, where an international coalition has joined forces against isis, there's already been steady progress. a new report shows that over the past 15 months, isis has lost more than a fifth of the territory it controlled in iraq and syria. and, says mcgurk, strains are showing in other ways, too. >> so now, cutting salaries for their fighters by almost half. when they store money in mosul, for example, we find out where that is, and we target those sites. >> reporter: bomb the money. >> they can't pay their fighters. they can't communicate with their fighters. they can't move arou

now president biden's senior middle east advisor brett mcgurk will be traveling to the region to focus on efforts to release them. they came in their thousands chanting "now, now." israelis demanding the immediate release of the nearly 240 loved ones abducted by hamas on october 7th. a reminder, when it comes to pain, there are no winners. after more than five weeks of war. in gaza city, fierce street to street battles around several hospitals, including the largest, al shifa, now a front line. hollow-eyed doctors and nurses work in torchlight in a health system that is on its knees. no medicine, no beds. this little boy struggling to breathe. treated on the floor where he lay. our colleague, cbs producer marwan al ghoul, in gaza spoke to a doctor inside al shifa hospital. >> who told me the smell of death is everywhere in the hospitals. they don't know where to bury those brothers. the administrations of the hospital attempted to dig mass graves. >> reporter: the doctors here pledge to save lives but fear nobody will make it out alive. already at least three babies relying on incubato

colonel selo also told us that he met with brett mcgurk, president obama's special envoy to the anti-isis coalition when he visited syria in january. the colonel said his group asked for anti-tank missiles and machine guns, but so far, scott, he says they've received only promises. >> now, correspondent elizabeth palmer and her team are in aleppo, a cultural and industrial center of more than two million people still partly in the hands of rebel forces. we spoke with liz a short time ago. >> reporter: as we rolled along, scott, we could see the villages that isis has just been pushed out of, deserted and very heavily damaged. we stopped in the outskirts as we came in and went into a poor neighborhood right on the front lines. they are living in ruined buildings, in shocking condition running water. we then carried on a little bit to the jewel of aleppo, what used to be the largest covered market in the middle east. it was a unesco world heritage site, and i'm sorry to have to tell you that it is in ruins. it's heartbreaking, buildings that existed for more than 1,000 years have finally be

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posts announced 50 senior level obama aides will stay on board and include, adam szubin and brett mcgurker of the strategy to defeat isis, implementation of the iran nuclear deal and sanctions against russia. incoming white house press secretary, sean spicer. >> there are limitations to what some of the individuals can do in terms of enacting the agenda, but in terms of being ready to go and being able to respond to an incident, we are ready to go at 12:01 tomorrow. >> upwards of 1 million will attend the inauguration, parade and events that follow. that number includes perhaps a quarter million demonstrators, some supporting but most protesting the new president. keeping everyone safe is a job of nearly 30,000 security personnel. jeff pegues reports. >> reporter: the secret service has ga has gamed out numerous scenarios to protect the new president. from an active shooter to an assassin using a weaponized drone. director joseph clancy. >> there is so much concern about a lone wolf type terrorist attack. are you concerned about that? >> we are concerned about every possibility out there