bartella's main church was desecrated and everything. what can we do? >> reporter: father john salvaged a few books and left again. vowing to return. isis wanted to extinguish christian life in iraq. it gave people like father john a choice, convert or die. but many christians managed to escape, waiting for the day when they could return to their homes. now, it seems, their prayers are being answered. lester? >> richard >>> still ahead, growing outrage. why the government is ordering thousands of veterans to repay war time bonuses from a decade ago plus interest. >>> also the new alert from doctors. >>> back now with a story sparking outrage from coast to coast. it began in 2006 when the california national guard offered soldiers bonuses to the wars in iraq and afghanistan. now ten years later, the military says thousands of the soldiers didn't actually qualify, and it wants that money back. nbc's anne thompson has details. >> reporter: former army intelligence analyst, susan haley, veteran of afghanistan is furious. >> they betrayed me. i gave them my

as soon as the iraqi forces reached his hometown of bartella, and his wife were determined to see what was left of their homes. >> this is two years and three months. >> reporter: father john and his wife thanked the iraqi troops. but isis left its mark. bartella's main church was desecrated and much of the town stands in ruins. >> they will do everything. what can we do? >> reporter: father john salvaged a few books and left again. vowing to return. life in iraq. it gave people like father john a choice, convert or die. but many christians managed to escape, waiting for the day when they could return to their homes. now, it seems, their prayers are being answered. lester? >> richard echkel inside iraq tonight. >>> still ahead, growing outrage. why the government is ordering thousands of veterans to repay war time bonuses from a decade ago plus interest. >>> also the new alert from doctors. what they say parents is want another dog. she said it's too much work. lulu's hair just floats. uhh help me! (doorbell) mom, check this out. wow. swiffer sweeper, and dusters. this is what i'm talk

tonight, iraqi forces have taken bartella, putting them within striking distance of mosul. lester? >> richard engel in iraq tonight, thank you. >>> in arizona, this evening, police have released 911 calls connected to an unsolved serial killing spree that is still baffling investigators. after at least nine separate shootings, seven people, have been killed in the phoenix area. there have been thousands of new leads, but no arrests. we get the latest from nbc's miguel almaguer. >> phoenix 911, where is your emergency? >> um, he's shot on the floor. yes, it's my brother. he's been shot. >> reporter: the heart breaking call for help from one family targeted by arizona's serial killer. >> they pulled up in front of our house, i guess, and they i'm inside with my kids. i have two babies. >> reporter: after seven people were killed, including a 12-year-old girl, phoenix police now releasing chilling 911 calls, hoping to generate new leads in a case gone cold. nancy pena, who lost her brother horatio, can't bear to listen to the calls. >> these families are having to rehear it, relive it

bartella's main church was desecrated and much of the town stands in ruins. >> they will do everything. bad thing. what can we do? >> reporter: father john salvaged a few books and left again. vowing to return. isis wanted to extinguish christian life in iraq. it gave people like but many christians managed to escape, waiting for the day when they could return to their homes. now, it seems, their prayers are being answered. lester? >> richard engel inside iraq tonight. >>> still ahead, growing outrage. why the government is ordering thousands of veterans to repay war time bonuses from a decade ago plus interest. >>> also the new alert docrs. what they say parents should be doing to protect babies from suddenly infant death syndrome. this is lulu, our ne. she said it's too much work. lulu's hair just floats. uhh help me! (doorbell) mom, check this out. wow. swiffer sweeper, and dusters. this is what i'm talking about. look at that. sticks to this better than it sticks to lulu. that's your hair lulu! mom, can we have another dog? (laughing) trap and lock up to 4x more dirt, dust and hair

near bartella, we met major jamal namiq ali, a kurdish officer with 50 mort nars his pickup truck. he said isis left them behind when its fighters ran away in a hurry. what else did they leave behind "they took their guns with us" he told us, but they lefd canned food and generators. some may be fleeing but others are fighting to the death. isis propaganda galorifies those who martyr themselves for the so-called islamic state. iraq's prime minister said this week that the offensive is moving faster than expected, but on the front lines, it looks like a long and dangerous slog towards mosul. in the words of a senior u.s. official we spoke to today, the battle to retake mosul could be a multimonth endeavor. reena. >> ninan: holly williams, thank you. a megamergers was announced today. at&t is buying time warner for more than $80 billion. time warner includes hbo, cnn, and warner brothers movie studio. the deal has yet to be approved by federal regulators. well, coming up next, we'll look at a growing type of relationship abuse among teens. >> ninan: one in three teens report experien

the main offensive was from the east and to the town of bartella, from the city. we climbed into one of the iraqi special forces old american humvees. it's battle-worn, shot up, and the driver said damaged by an isis suicide bomber today. then it was on foot. quickly, because rounds whizzed by. this predominantly christian village and one of isis's main defensive positions leading towards mosul, and they're fighting bombs. but iraqi troops are advancing faster than u.s. commanders anticipated. we'll be in mosul in two days, a soldier boasted. but isis has had two years to prepare for this fight. the soldiers showed us a tunnel they had just found. this was an isis escape route. also seems to be like one of their positions. isis fighters lived here, safe from u.s. warplanes. just based on the number of mattresses we've seen, this could 50 people, more if they packed them in. the tunnel extended for about a half a mile. at the far end, we came up into what appeared to have been an isis headquarters. food still in the kitchen area. half-made bombs too. and chemicals

which was seized by isis when bartella was a christian town and we visited it just weeks before it was captured by isis and spoke to the christian militia men who were trying to defend it. it is or was an ancient christian community because the residents all fled their homes. but when we were there, we saw them worshipping in a language spoken by jesus. isis released a propaganda video yesterday claiming mosul. this morning, they put out more video showing the extremists fighting off this offensive. but isis also released images of another barbaric execution of a man that they claim was a spy, most of that video is simply too disturbing for us to show you. and as we know, that kind of brutality is also part of normal life under isis and its williams, outside bartella, just east of mosul. >>> holly, thank you so much. this angry demonstration we have seen outside the american embassy in the philippines turned bloody when a police van slammed into protesters. dramatic video shows the van driven wildly throughout the crowd. a thousand anti-american protesters threw red paint to the presid

in the deserted town of bartella... ten miles from mosul... isis tried to hold them off with at least eight suicide car bombs.. the iraqi military fired back with a helicopter gunship. iraq's prime minister said this chance for a few showers. iraq's elite special forces are slowly re-taking christian towns and villages that were seized by isis two years ago.. isis two years ago.. in the deserted town of bartella... ten miles from mosul... isis tried to hold them off with at least eight suicide back with a helicopter gunship. iraq's prime minister said this week that the offensive is moving faster than expected. but a senior us official says the battle to retake mosul could still go on for months... months... migrants and refugees fight with police in france... as tensions escalate ahead of the closing of a refugee camp next week... french police using tear gas to deal with people who were throwing rocks at them. french authorities are preparing to relocate 64- hundred people from the refugee camp... to reception centers across t across the cou

another nearby christian town, bartella has been retaken. we were there two years ago, just before isis seized the town. meeting the local men who were trying to protect it. and visiting the church, where we found them praying in the language spoken by jesus. this its the same church today. charred and desecrated. in hamdaniya, christian militiamen have come back to help secure their town. one of them is this man who told us he kissed the ground when we return the night before. and vowed to rebuild. thank god we're back, he told us. even if i die here now, it doesn't matter. holly williams, cbs news, hamdaniya, near mosul. today a small plane en route a surveillance mission over the mediterranean crashed on takeoff in malta. it burst into flames. there it is right there in the center of the screen. five people on board were killed. they were french defense workers. headed back to libya to track human and drug smuggling. no word on what caused the crash. safety of airliners has come into question, after a number of phones and other devices wi

bartella is just north of mosul--the second largest city in the country. u-s defense secretary ash carter met with iraq's prime minister and commanders in baghdad today to discuss the tactics. "i'm encouraged by what i see. so far it is proceeding according to our plan. we've got tough fighting ahead and uh the us will continue to started the major offensive to take back mosul last week. isis has ruled the city for two years. with election day a little more than two weeks away, hillary clinton is trying to expand her lead. donald trump promises victory. he drew attention women accusing him of improper advances. abc's elizabeth hur reports. it was hillary clinton with tim kaine .... and donald trump with mike pence ... barnstorming battleground states. nats up trump in va beach: "you have 17 days, that's all." with time running out to overtake hillary clinton in the polls, donald trump unveiled his "first 100 days" agenda. sot trump in gettysburg: "cancel every unconstitutio memorandum, and order issued by president obama. and he pushed back hard against se

iraqi troops took back the town of bartella just yesterday. bartella is just north of mosul--the second largest city inh started the major offensive to take back mosul last week. the islamic state took control of that city two years ago. at&t is buying time warner, owner of the warner bros. movie studio as well as hbo and cnn. it offered to buy the company for 85-point-4 billion dollars. the merger combines a telecom giant that owns a leading cellphone business, directv and of the world's most popular entertainment. this would make time warner the center of the two largest media-company acquisitions on record. for the first time in more than 70 years, the chicago cubs have the chance to play baseball in november. they punched their ticket into the world series for the first time since 1945. pitch, hit, "out.... out" the cubs have won the pennant" wrigley last night to win the pennant. fans were a little depressed after being down in the series 2 games to 1 early last week. but the cubs rallied to win three straight to win the national league c

for "cbs this morning," holly williams outside bartella, just east of mosul. so much. >>> and now this angry demonstration we've seen outside the american embassy in the philippines. it turned bloody when a police van slammed into protesters, dramatic video shows the van driving wildly back and forth in the crowd at least three student activists were taken to the hospital. about 1,000 anti-american protesters threw red paint at officers and a u.s. government s.e.a.l. margaret that's all what president duringty? >> yes, as a u.s. military ally that you have anti-american sentiment. >> particularly about how he's expressed feelings about the press. >> and anti-colonial sentiment getting closer to china. >> it may be october but record breaking heat will make much of the country feel summer. unseasonably high temperatures forecast from the southern plains to the northeast. nashville and boston will see highs more than 20 degrees above normal. philadelphia could break a record with a high of 84. the heat wave is expected to last until late this week. obama adminis

holly williams takes us inside the village of bartella. >> this is the new front line with isis. and just beyond the berm here, these kurdish fighters are building positions. beyond that is no man's land, and then isis. they have recaptured around 20 villages here from the "star trek"ist ov-- extremists over t last two days. this is the main road into mosul and about three miles in that direction in isis territory system is the town of bartella which was seized by isis when the group went across northern iraq two years ago. bartella was a christian town and we visited it just weeks and spoke to the christian militia men who were trying to defend it. it is or was an ancient christian community because the residents all fled their homes. but when we were there, we saw them worshipping in a language spoken by jesus. isis released a propaganda video yesterday claiming that it showed life going as normal in mosul. this morning, they put out more fighting off this offensive. but isis also released images of another barbaric execution of a man that they claim was a spy, most of that vid

another nearby christian town, bartella has been retaken. we were there two years ago, just before isis seized the town. meeting the local men who were trying to protect it. and visiting the church, where we found them praying in the language spoken by jesus. this its the same church today. charred and desecrated. in hamdaniya, christian militiamen have come back to help secure their town. one of them is this man who told thank god we're back, he told us. even if i die here now, it doesn't matter. holly williams, cbs news, hamdaniya, near mosul. >>> california national guard is at the center of a scandal involving bogus reenlistment bonuses. at the height of the war in iraq and afghanistan. a guard manager handed out $15 million in bonuses to soldiers who weren't eligible. now the pentagon wants that money back. jan crawford reports. >> i don't want to pay back something that i earned. >> robert d'andrea retired after 22 years in the california national guard when he got a letter saying he need to repay this $20,000 reenlistment bonus. >> th

air strikes helping to take back a christian town called bartella.e that isis had been dismissed from the town was misplaced. it's these vehicle suicide trucks which are the most deadly weapon isis has. and the troops here, iraqi kurd, are only able to defeat and stop those thanks to the milan anlty tank missiles. so again, a prime example of how the u.s. is having a crucial role in this battle. >> it a frightening video. some of the refugees talked to you about what's going on inside the city? >> that's right. we were in a refugee camp today. just like the story we heard from you earlier, one after the other these people have felt the brunt, the rath of isis in that city. only a handful of the million or so who are in there, they told us some horrific stories, how isis, for example, had forced some of them to watch men being locked up in cages, then drowned alive, decapitations and amputations every day. others said they were dug in and waiting for the offensive to come. we heard from some refugees who said some isis fighters had been hidden among t

today iraqi forces raised their christian town of bartella, which is near mosul. they retook the town from the islamic state yesterday. militants had sprayed graffiti on the walls of the church, and dirt and garbage covered the floors. this assault is part of a wide-scale offensive to retake mosul. iraq's second largest city fell to isis in 2014. back in the u-s, cyber attacks have targeted parts of the midwest as well as areas on the east someone attacked several websites by flooding them with so much traffic, they couldn't work properly. some of the cites getting the attacks included twitter, netflix, etsy, and air b-n-b. the first attack happened this morning. the second was around midday. it's unclear who was behind them. the delaware county sheriff's office is looking for two men who robbed a bank with a gun and a knife. the sheriff's office say the men displayed the weapons street in hopkinton around 8:45 this morning. they got away with an unknown amount of money. no one was hurt. as a precaution, the maquoketa valley school district went on lock down for a

confirm those details meanwhile iraq's elite special forces have captured the christian town of bartella, which is about 10 miles east of mosul there was intense fighting there yesterday and iraqi military told us that isis used at least 8 suciide car bombs. thoes are cars and trucks laden with explosives and driven at high speed towards iraqi forces. here in northern iraq isis may be losing on the battlefield but that doesn't mean the terror attacks will stop, in fact it may motivate isis to carry out more. holly williams, cbs news, on the kirkuk-mosul road. ((christianne klein)) >>> back here in the states... an 11th death in the u-s is now being blamed on a faulty takata year old woman was killed in a car crash last month in california... she was driving a 2001 honda civic... the air bags can inflate with too much force... sending shrapnel into the vehicle. the problem is behind the biggest auto recall in u-s history. honda says that multiple recall notices were sent to the owner, but its records indicate the car was never repaired./// ((christianne klein)) >>> a scary situation in at