but then we went to meet with some yazidis, yazidi refugees, and the experience with the yazidi refugeesust accented the day and made it so much more powerful. i'm gonna let abbas talk about what happened with the yazidis. >> yeah, i mean, we met with them at the hotel, and there were about three or four of them that came and shared personal stories. one was when the yazidi refugees, which yazidis -- which i didn't know -- they're not muslims or they're not christians. they're a religion of their own. and they were isolated in the mountains, and the isis folks did not provide them with access to food or water for more than a week. and that by itself was very disturbing, trying to just isolate people and, you know, leave them by themselves. but the worst one was when they were talking about how the isis people were forcing women with infants to take their kids, to kill their kids, and force them to actually eat their own kids. it was just -- it is something that is embedded here that will never go away. i mean, that kind of stuff, you know. it was very disturbing. >> how do you even proce

what makes this place so welcoming and attractive to yazidi refugees?people love lincoln for the same reason we all love lincoln. it's low unemployment, very welcoming and a great place to raise a family and they really have found shared values here. >> reporter: most yazidis in lincoln will never go back home because of the unrest that persists in northern iraq. isis has been weakened, but internal strife within the region still makes things unsafe for yazidis. so they're establishing the traditions of their homeland here, including building a cemetery on the outskirts of town. yazidis raised the money to buy 20 acres of land. >> everybody is coming together on this project and they are donating their money and time to come together on this project. >> reporter: is this the one of the clearest signs that nebraska and lincoln are home for yazidis now? >> it is, yeah. we have yazidis from texas, from california, from other parts of the country moving here. >> reporter: back at hasan khalil's barber shop, he sometimes can't believe he's in nebraska, thous

. ♪ >> some of the thousands of members of iraq's yazidi minority fleeing the advance and the brutality. >> over 5,000 men, women and children were taken. >> yazidis are haunted by what happened to them. >> the islamic state's use of captured women as sex slaves. in fact, has even issued official guidance on the practice. women can be bought, sold, traded as gifts. >> the fighter laughs and says, "it costs more for a girl with blue eyes." ♪ (saed): (interviewer): (wind howling) (sighs) (birds chirping) ♪ ♪ ♪ (children playing) (cooing) (door creaking) ♪ (nazifa): (lateef): (crying) (crying) (weeping) ♪ (lateef): (girl): ♪ ♪ (speaking foreign language) (laughter) >> in summer, there a lot of people, but now it's the weather is a bit cold, and that's why there is not much things, but i come like three to four times a. (song playing on radio) (afghan song playing) >> yeah, this is afghan song. (song continues playing) (laughing) (whooping) (song continues playing) (sadiq): (man): (laughter) >> i had a good life in afghanistan, but when i was targeted by taliban, i had to flee, otherwise i

the question was always who are the yazidi where are they from are they really person. that's been my father began with the activism that i continue. that's a big one. if father was a floor time your mother was illiterate you have ten siblings today you are a political scientist and journalist you write books thanks to whom. and so forth and. for thank you many people as is always the case when people have a half way success in life. thanks to the majority of society to the solidarity around me growing up with my teachers neighbors. but my mother couldn't read or write wanted and we had to find other ways but my parents instilled a spirit of doing the best with the chances we had even if we didn't have any i mean my mum. always said we have to put two hundred percent of it. was the company and i've taken the time. to have this with your father. when you are with your father who was in the social democrat party took you to the lower saxony parliament. to be boring for another four year old not for you. long well it is because even pregnant it's hard this thing for miss p

because as yazidi refugees these two have been granted asylum in germany but for the past two years their parents and siblings have been stuck in a holding camp for migrants increase when the view of the. germany told them they could come join us here but then a few months ago we were told they could not go the official said you have no documents that prove your brother is related to your parents paid for the papers to compromise then they said they needed to test michael's d.n.a. and they'll finally they've said that ok your parents can come. but the brothers hopes of a reunion have been dashed twice before and their situation is not unique since twenty sixteen germany has put a temporary hold on reuniting the families of people who are not classed as refugees the bavarian christian social union and go to medical system party in the southern state says while genuine refugees should be allowed in those with subsidiary protection and his claims for asylum are rejected should not we object to the roped off so called subsidiary. except that if you choose to bring their family to terminate be

yazidi men were killed and women and children were kidnapped. the women later sold as sex slaves.ho is still missing and beaten before he was handed over to the american woman named sam. her husband a north african man was killed by an air strike, he said. as the u.s. coalition pummeled raqqah. ayham fled isis territory with the american family, he told us, before becoming separated. and now he misses them. >> where do you want to go? >> american family. >> you want to be with them? >> yeah. >> reporter: it's an extraordinary story. but the woman he knew as sam remains a mystery. we can't confirm that she's a u.s. citizen and how she ended up in isis territory or where the family is now. gayle? >> lot of questions there. thank you very much, holly williams, reporting from northern iraq. >>> 2017 was a record-breaking year for natural disasters like hurricanes. ahead, tony dokoupil shows us how researchers are preparing for the next disaster. >> this cannon can fire a two-by-four through a plywood covered window. coming up on "cbs this morning," we take you inside a lab designed to

because as yazidi refugees these two have been granted asylum in germany but for the past two years their parents and siblings have been stuck in a holding camp for migrants increase. in nashville view of marco germany told them they could come join us here but then a few months ago we were told they could not cook the official said you have no documents that prove your brother is related to your parents i paid for the papers to compromise then they said they needed to test michael's d.n.a. and they'll finally they've said that ok your parents can come. but the brothers' hopes of a reunion have been dashed twice before and their situation is not unique since twenty sixteen germany has put a temporary hold on reuniting the families of people who are not classed as refugees the bavarian christian social union and go to medical system party in the southern state says while genuine refugees should be allowed in those with subsidiary protection and these claims for asylum are rejected should not we are objecting to the right of so-called subsidiary. accept that if you choose to bring their fam

we've been helping many of these christians and the yazidis that have fled from isis. many many of these were women that were sex slaves for isis fighters, we've been able to help them. and the frez prez in his first year has put isis on the run. christians are now, we're helping christians to go back to their villages, others on the nineva plain. we're there to help them. i appreciate the president's decisive action that he took in syria and in iraq, that has put isis back on their heels. and then we look at the economy. my goodness, 8,000 points in the dow, 31%? this has not been done since fdr. whether you're a republican or democrat, a christian or an athiest, you're benefitting from his policies. we have a business man who is a president, not a politician, but a businessman. we should all be grateful that he's brought his knowledge to washington and he's helping to turn this economy around. >> reverend, you just told me that this country has a sin problem. and i know you've no doubt heard that the president is accused of having his lawyer pay $130,000 to a former

spectrum of syrian life to come here and talk it out so they were asking alawite say we're asking yazidi as they were osc sunnis and shias they are asking baath this opposition parties and kurds and when it comes down to it a lot of different groups have decided to come here but there are as you said before notable exceptions the syrian negotiating committee has decided to stay away because it thinks that this is a sideshow and distracting from the process in geneva and there are also groups who decided to pull out fairly late on because of attacks that are ongoing in libya and the kurds as well the main body of this sort of separatist regions in northeastern syria they decided to stay away and also were not welcome ankara decided that they did not want to talk to kurdish groups here so the problem is that this has a slight imbalance here and there are important parts of the syrian diaspora the syrian negotiations the syrian syrian opposition who have decided to stay away from this and that means that there is a likelihood that this will tend towards a moscow and damascus perspective on