the villages immediately around aleppo are now like this, lots of damage and empty. just one ghost town after another. there's now an abandoned zone radiating all over the city. >> reporter: a few rebels still remain. one commander says the town's residents fled after hundreds were killed in the last six weeks. >> everyone is gone. not a single person left. none. the only ones who stayed had no money to leave, and they were killed. we buried them, he says. the government seems to be creating a no man's land around aleppo, so rebels can't resupply the fighters inside. exactly what the unit we were with wanted to do today. but could not. they could only watch from a distance. a war zone surrounded by emptiness. richard engel, nbc news, northern syria. >>> in the milwaukee suburb of oak creek, there was a outpouring of support and unity today at a public memorial service for the victims of a shooting rampage in a sikh temple last weekend. thousands of people of all