and ben wedeman there inside of syria, and be care canful. let's talk more about the emerging strategist with former required terrorism analyst general mark hertling and paul cruickshank. so general hertling, the bases could join some u.s. special operation forces, and is it going to be making a difference? >> yes, i won't put a number on it, but it is the plan as we have said from the beginning a year ago as the rebel and the iraqi forces stood up, we would continue to contribute more and more to their capability. that is what is happening right now. when you have task organizing which the army does, and the military does it really well, and the special operations at the next high level than the rest of the military. you are putting a group on the ground with task-oriented to accomplish specific tasks tha. that is what is occurring right now, a group of individuals to act very, very quickly, and contribute to the fight on the ground, and help the indigenous forces that they might not have had before. >> and it sounds like they have had boots

ben wedeman, cnn, kobani, syria. >>> fighting isis isn't just about dropping bombs.out blocking cash. cnn money senior reporter explains the u.s. treasury is taking steps to cut off isis money. >> reporter: isis by far is the wealthiest terrorist organization on the planet. we're talking billions of dollars here. to have a shot at stopping it, you have to go after its money. the u.s. treasury department outlined thursday that it's working with the coalition of more than 30 partners to block isis from amassing more money and spending it. isis made up to $1 billion in 2014 by stealing from local bank whether it took -- when it took control of new territory. ransacked the money, and that helped it become more powerful. the u.s. has worked with the iraq government to shut down 90 banks in about the region. this cuts off isis from the international financial network, making it harder to move money. iraq has also tried to stop paying salaries to civil servants that live in isis-controlled regions. they know that isis often takes a chunk of this money and calls it a tax. in

ben wedeman meat met a female unit. >> reporter: she's part of an all female kurdish unit on the front lines on the war on isis here in north eastern syria. we met her and her comrades at a forward position. when i asked her if isis ever gets near their position, she responds with a laugh. if they do, she says, we won't leave one of them alive. at the hands of what in the past was called the gentler sex, isis may have met its match. they think they're fighting in the same of islam says a 21-year-old, and they believe if someone from daesh is killed by a girl, a kurdish girl, they won't go to heaven, so they're afraid of girls. she uses the word girl, but these are tough women. her name, by the way, means revenge. at the moment, this position on the front line is quiet, but the commanders say it's just a matter of weeks before they intend to push forward against isis. a few years ago, this man traded in construction material and now he leads the so-called syrian democratic forces, a coalition of kurdish, syrian, fighters. the u.s. defense department announced it's deploying additional f

ashesit will rise again.ben wedeman, cnn, kobani, ben wedeman, cnn, kobani, syria. 3 3 after the break on siouxland news at sunrise...the secretary of homeland security announced he is making changes to the nation's terror alert system.we'll show you what's going in to the first changes since 9-11. 3 here's a look at your "feels like" temperatures across the area. your extended forecast 3 first alert weather, with meteorologist t cat taylor 3 our string of great weather will continue through most of this week. we are expecting very mild weather to continue through at least friday. clouds and lows to bottom out at around 30. for tomorrow we are going to see partly cloudy skies and highs will reach the mid 50s. for thursday, the weather looks pretty much the same with highs reaching the mid 50s once again and breezy winds. friday cools off a little bit before our next weather system pulls through over the weekend. 3 the secretary of homeland security announced monday that changes will be made to the of a potential terror threat. jeff pegues reports on what these changes mean. 3 10:28:13

ben wedeman joins us with what we have learned and if so if he is a french citizen, traveled to syria. this is the biggist nightmare of french officials. >> slewly, christine, all three were, effect pa, french citizens and the latest identification proves yet again what the french authorities have been dreting, french young people have been radicalized going off to syria. what we know about the 23-year-olds presented be i this morning. he went off with a group of eight others from the strasburg area. his older brother kareem, was among them the group got to syria, two of the group were killed in the fighting there. then some of them came back, they were held under protective custody, including the brother. the youngest, 23-year-old, was, in fact, not spotted by police when he came back. he didn't come back. he planned his attack if france. he said he wanted to attack the people in france and came in and committed along with two other terrorists the attack on the bataclan theater. so, in fact, authorities were always worried about this scenario, the idea french young people would pass

ben wedeman, kobani, syria. >> still to come here on cnn news room, we'll take you live to rome. show you live pictures right now as the pope gets ready to open the church's holy door and kick off a jubilee here. >> that and volunteers bringing a touch of wap warmth to refugees arriving in europe. >>> welcome back to our viewers here in the states and those of you tuned in from all around the world. it's your last half hour with us. this is "cnn newsroom." >> let's check the headlines for you. donald trump is taking his controversial positions on muslims in the u.s. a step further with a call for a total ban on all muslims entering the country. most republican and democratic presidential rivals quickly condemned it. >> the fbi says the husband and wife who carried out the san bernardino attack were both radicalized and had been for some time. investigators say the pair prak the tised shooting at a gun range shortly before the massacre. >> oscar pistorius is in a south african court for a bail hearing. this follows the upgraded murder conviction handed down by the supreme court of