abdullah kurdy, father and husband, the lone survivor, still in shock today. "everything is gone." the family, syrian kurds from near kobani. the town was nearly levelled in a battle with isis this year. so they fled to turkey, paying smugglers their more than $5,000 to help them cross to a greek island in a 15-foot rubber boat. they came to this beach. abc was there this week when another refugee group waded through the surf piling into the flimsy dinghy, children lifted in, heading into the waves by flashlight. today abdullah kurdy remembered how he desperately held one boy in each arm when the boat went over, keeping their heads above water. but they tired. so did his wife. and he lost them all. at the morgue today, identifying the bodies, he says -- "my kids were the most beautiful children in the world." >> i can't even imagine any father or any mother, their kids to die in their arms. >> reporter: abdullah's sister teema had been waiting by the phone in vancouver, canada. she tried to bring the family there earlier this year. >> it's a wakeup call. my proceed said to me, it's

their father, abdullah kurdi, survived. he spoke at a morgue today after identifying the bodies. "everything is gone," he says. they are syrian kurds from near kobane. like so many desperate refugees, they fled to terky and arranged for a boat. this is the central staging area, people wait here for a phone call from their smuggler, they get in a taxi and they go to the beach. the kurdi family came to this beach. abc was there this week when another refugee group waded through the surf, piling into the flimsy dinghy, children lifted in heading into the waves by flashlight. today, in tears, abdullah kurdi remembered how he desperately held one small son in each arm when their boat went over, keeping their heads above water. but they tired, so did his wife, and he lost them all. "my kids were the most beautiful children in the world," he says. for families who actually get to europe, this awaits -- chaos in hungary, that budapest train station, thousands of refugees fighting to board, hoping to get to germany. but the train stops at a hungarian village an hour later. police will tak

abdullah kurdi will crofg back into syria tomorrow to bury his wife and two young sons. and, scott, a friend of the family told us they paid around $4,000 to be smuggled to europe but then did not have enough money to buy lifejackets. >> pelley: holly williams, thanks. today, south carolina prosecutors said they will ask for the death penalty against dylann roof. he is charged with murdering nine people who had welcomed him into their bible study at a historic black church in charleston. relatives of the victims said they forgave him, but the prosecutor says forgiveness does not eliminate the consequences. today, donald trump promised not to make a third-party run for the white house if he loses the republican nomination. support for trump is up. in the latest poll he's at 30%, up four points since august. ben carson is next at 18. that's a 13-point improvement. jeb bush has fallen out of double digit, tied with ted cruz. julianna goldman now on the man who has become the life of the party. >> i have signed the pledge. >> reporter: from the marble lobby of the building t

his broken father, abdullah kurdi, mourning the loss of his entire family. >> translator: is there someonehose children are not valuable to them? the children enrapture you. they wake you up in the morning, daddy, i want to play in the water. is there anything better than this? everything is gone. >> reporter: the family had been trying to reach greece by boat when it capsized. kurdi tried desperately to save his wife and two sons but was unsuccessful. the heartbreaking picture of aylan's lifeless little body washed up on a turkish beach was shared millions of times on social media. seen around the world. the image becoming a symbol of a humanitarian crisis. bigger than any in europe since world war ii. prompting some world leaders to open up their borders to more refugees and rethink how best to help thousands of people fleeing from war. according to turkish media, four syrian nationals have been arrested in connection with kurdi's family's death and nine others whose bodies also washed ashore. that is little consolation for the devastated father who now vows to stay in kobani with his fa

at the funeral today, abdullah kurdi said this was his family's fourth attempt to cross the mediterraneano europe. he also said he prayed to god to give him strength. anthony? >> holly williams near the border of turkey and syria, thank you. you cannot help but be affected by those pictures. >> it's pricked the conscience of european leaders and others. if this doesn't underscore that something needs to be done, i don't know what would. >> you think about the farth who left to give them a better life. if you have a little boy, you know those clothes, shoes, t-shirt. it's just tough to see him laying there. >>> better news for another syrian family. video shows their emotional reunion on a greek island. the father cries as he hugs and kisses his children. they got separated in the darkness during their desperate journey to europe. a boat carrying dozens of migrants brought them back together. >> we need to see something like that today. >>> the u.s. open tennis tournament saw some off the court drama in the stands. a small black drone hovered over one of the matches before crashing into em

ended in his funeral, the 2-year-old buried alongside his brother and mother, his broken father, abdullah kurdiis entire family. >> translator: ask there someone whose children are not valuable to them? the children enrapture you, wake you up at morning, daddy, i want to play in the water. is there anything in the world better than this? everything is gone. >> reporter: the family had been trying to reach greece by boat when it capsized. kurdi tried desperately to save his wife and two sons but was unsuccessful. the heartbreaking picture of aylan's lifeless little body washed up on a turkish beach was shared millions of times on social media. seen around the world. the image becoming a symbolof a humanitarian crisis. bigger than any in europe since world war ii. prompts some world leaders to open up their borders to more refugees and rethink how best to help thousands of people fleeing from war. according to turkish media, four syrian nationals have been arrested in connection with kurdi's family's deaths and nine others whose bodies also washed ashore. that is little consolation for the devas

meantime, abdullah, kurdi, father of this young boy plus his other son, his wife, their bodies to istanbultake their bodies on to southeast turkey today where he will try to cross into kabani in syria where the family is from and where he says he wants it bury his family. george? >> returning back to kabani. becky anderson giving us the take on turkey. again, her exclusive interview, you can find more of that on cnn.com. thank you. >> sure hope that father has a lot of support when he gets back. he needs it. >>> well we've been talking about the docking about to take place between the iss and soyuz and they have made a contact. we've been seeing some pictures of the soyuz approaching the international space station and the graphics and such. but let's go back to mike wall, with space.com. he is talking us through this. and what are you seeing there when we see close-ups there on the international space station. how close are they, mike? >> like extremely close and now just waiting to formalize everything and put the hooks on so that they really grapple together and really lock on. once tha

aylan kurdi and his brother and mother, and only his father abdullah survived. their flimsy bt couldn't make it and like thousands of others they died trying. >> this has been a complete failure of canadian policy. i hope the government changes their tactic and if this event doesn't get them to change their mind, my god, i don't know what does. >> desperately trying to leave war and destitution there are tens of thousands each week trying to make this perilous journey, families, mothers, babies suffocate in box trucks or collapse after days of walking. >> day walking, children, cold. >> but europe is struggling to cope, to provide food, water, shelter. authorities say they're overwhelmed and in hungary, thousands of refugees are stranded in train stations. >> police stop them from leaving sending them to camps instead and putting up razor wire fences and many others holding on to the tops of trucks or hopping trains all for the chance of a better life in europe. >> his father abdullah released a statement saying what happened on the boat. the captain panicked le

kurdi's father returned to syria with their coffins. mark: laid to rest in the town they fled. never did abdullah think he would return to kobani to bury his wife and young sons. their death has shaken the world and at home, the tragedy is almost too much to bear. i have no future anymore, he says. my future is gone. i was trying to go to europe to give my family a future. on the beach where the body of his son washed up, there is little vestige of the horror. some came to pay their respects. almost 2 million syrians are in turkey. the sheer numbers means it is easy for turks to become desensitized to their fates. what happens here? the image of aylan kurdi's body washing up has profoundly shocked this country and highlighted once again the refugee tragedy. four men have been charged with the attempted smuggling, but the mother of one said her son was not a criminal and he had tried to leave and encouraged >> is that enough to help them? has the world done anything to help them? >> i'm sorry, no. they are popular now. now the whole world heard them and i wish they did when they were alive. jane:

tiny body shrouded in white, aylan kurdi was laid to rest today with his brother and his mother in kobane, the war-ravaged town they fled. the boy's father, abdullah, was the only member of the family to survive. he dreamed of a better life for his sons, but instead, he returned to syria to bury them. "there are no words to describe this," he said. "may god give me strength." the image of aylan kurdi lying lifeless on the beach provoked horror and then outrage. at the funeral this mourner railed at countries in the west that have accepted so few refugees. "what do you have to say now?" she asked. "what does your conscience tell you now?" it's a tragedy unfolding daily as hundreds of thousands of people gamble with their lives to flee war and poverty. aylan's parents paid a human smuggler around $4,000 for a crossing in a rubber dinghy that quickly overturned in rough seas. the family had lived through four years of civil war in syria and wanted to escape violence and fear. but now their hopes, like their country, have been shattered. four suspected human smugglers have now reportedly been detained in relation to aylan kurdi's death. but, scott, th

abdullah: just, i want to sit next to my children, to see my children. reporter: he tried applying for asylum in canada where his sister lives, but canada refused. kurdi felt he had no other option but to take to the season the hope of finding refuge in greece. the man's son, a boy and a red t-shirt, did not survive the journey. he drowned at the age of three. brent: we want to pull in our ethics and religion correspondent to the table this evening. everything about this story is disturbing. also disturbing that it took a photo to get the world's attention, it seems. we've been reporting about this humanitarian crisis now for a while. what do you think it says about our society that a photo on social media can get so much attention? martin: i think it is both tragic, perhaps, but also very promising. in a sense, i think the problem we have is that we need to put a face on a name. in the new cycle, we have become used to this business becoming a matter of abstraction. we hear about numbers, we hear about this to -- we hear about distant lands, and we have a hard time empathizing. we have no idea what a million people means. try to think of what hundred

tima kurdi, in tears at a presses conference in british columbia. of the family, only her brother, abdullahvived their small boat sinking. >> his wife told me a week ago, i am so scared of the water. i don't know how to swim. if something happened, how would i let abdullah go? i don't want to go. and i said to her, i cannot push you to go. if you feel like you don't want to go, don't go. >> at least eight others also drowned trying to row from turkey to a nearby greek island. pictures of the recovery of the three-year-old dead on a turkish beach have been published in papers, spread by social media around the world. spot lighting the biggest movement of refugees on the european continent since world war ii. as hundreds of thousands of displaced syrians and others flee war and persecution. these pictures putting a young face on a growing human catastrophe. >> is there anyone for whom this child is not precious? my children were wonderful. they would wake me up in the morning saying, daddy, let us play. everything is gone now. >> salahe who left rather than 21 years ago as a political refugee