our senior international correspondent fred pleitgen is live in damascus syria, following developmentshere. fred, good morning to you. what more do we know about what's holding up that process? >> reporter: well, it's an extremely complicated process that's going on here. there's several things, on the one hand there's those security guarantees you've been talking about, of course not just from the civilian government but various factions as well. the u.n. wants to have some of these convoys rich fate from turkey because that's actually as close as they can get to aleppo to get the convoys in there. the syrian government said no convoy will enter the area without the express consent of the syrian government and the united nations, especially convoys originating from turkey. so you have a lot of bureaucratic hold jum on the one hand. and then you have a lot of security holdup on the other hand. the u.n. negotiating with various factions to make sure they guest past them and also from the syrian government to make sure they get a corridor that actually leads into aleppo. these holdups ca

fred pleitgen there in aleppo. o much. >>> and also new this morning, russian president vladimir putin weighing in on russia's role on the u.s. election. he says russia is, quote, closely monitoring what's happening. and he said there's a reason his country is being brought up in the 2016 race tells u.s. and state news, quote, i hope this is due to the growing influence and importance of russia, but i think it's mainly due to attempts of manipulation of public opinion inside the country. we see an attempt to re-create the image of the so-called evil empire and scare the townsfolk that way. he goes on to say a rather rude and counterproductive attempt which has nothing to do with the essence of the problem in the united states. evil empire or not, some say the cold war, it seems to be reheating. and now u.s. intelligence agencies are sending in reinforcements. here's cnn's jim sciutto. >> reporter: u.s. intelligence focused on vladimir putin and russia, viewed as increasingly assertive and ambitious in countering nat

certainly a lot more than has been achieved on the humanitarian side of things in a very long time. >> fred pleitgendamascus for us. we'll continue to check in with him for the very, very latest. fred, thank you very much. >>> coming up, the political story you haven't heard about the most spectacular public failure in american life. our own gloria borger gives a sneak peek at the cnn special report "almost president: the agony of defeat." and and more, when we come back. you wouldn't put up with part of a pizza. um. something wrong? so when it comes to pain relievers, why put up with just part of a day? you want the whole thing? yes, yes! live whole. not part. aleve. >>> less than 55 days away from the presidential election here in the united states and while everyone anticipates the winner, people often forget about the candidate who loses, a new cnn special report looks into what life is like for the loser when they leave the spotlight. here's a preview of john mccain talking about the downfalls of the election of 2008. >> do you know when you mess up? >> oh, yeah. >> like you get in the car and

fred pleitgen following developments live in damascus for us.very much. >>> it could be the bige cyber breach in tech history. yahoo! admits it was the target of massive hack and data from at least 500 million accounts was stolen, apparently in 2014. the advice is change your pass word. what makes this even more sinister is that yahoo! says a state-sponsor actor, quote, unquote, is behind the breach, meaning someone or some group acting on behalf of a government. the online search company says, and we quote for you, we are closely coordinating with law enforcement on this matter and working diligently to protect you. we spoke with an internet security analyst about the breach. >> necessary donthey don't knoww it happened or if they do know they're not disclosing it. what they're saying it is your user name and pass word and some security questions, which tells me that the basic security in the company wasn't just every room in the house is locked, it was only the front door is locked. so when some hacker comes in, they get access to multiple dat

fred pleitgen, cnn, aleppo. >> fred pleitgen reporting there for us.llion syrians have fled their country since that war began. many have now fled to egypt. our ian lee looks at how a group of refugee women are building a new life for themselves in cairo's little damascus. >> reporter: the secret to good syrian cuisine is care and variety. that according to lena kusa, a bit of a top chef. her family encouraged her to share her culinary prowess. her chance came unexpectedly. we left syria because our house was destroyed and there was no school for my children, says the mother of three. lena landed in a kitchen in cairo, along with six other syrian refugee women. their catering service is called olive oil in arabic. now wafting aromas of home fill this community center. tonight menu stuffed grape leave, and sambusak. the women don't always see eye to eye over recipes. but consistency is key. pomegranate is a crucial signature ingredient in syrian food. it gives it that perfect combination of sweet and sour. it also gives the food its darker color. the en

fred pleitgen is on the scene for us in aleppo, fred, be careful over there, we'll stay in close touch with you, thank you very, very much. >>> other news we're following, hillary clinton campaigning once again today, this, for the first time since doctors ordered her to rest and recover from pneumonia. where she is right now, her campaign's reaction to donald trump's economic promises he made today. hillary clinton's campaign press secretary standing by to join us. your insurance company won't replace the full value of your totaled new car. the guy says you picked the wrong insurance plan. no, i picked the wrong insurance company. with liberty mutual new car replacement™, you won't have to worry about replacing your car because you'll get the full value back including depreciation. and if you have more than one liberty mutual policy, you qualify for a multi-policy discount, saving you money on your car and home coverage. call for a free quote today. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. i'm hall of famer jerry west and my life is basketball. but that doesn't stop my afib

fred pleitgen, thank you. >>> a problem with british airways check-in system is causing big delays atports like san francisco and boston. there are also reports of problems in the bahamas and mexico. i. tich i.t. teams are working to fix the problem. it is not clear how many flights are effected. >>> the sun may be shining, but tropical storm warnings are in effect for the northeast. let's bring in meteorologist pedram javaheri for the latest. >> john and alison, the storm sat there for so many days and traveled 6,000 miles and put on the parking brakes. you see 175 miles displaced from the center of the storm. still seeing tropical-storm force winds across long island with winds up to 50 miles per hour. the storm will fall apart in the next 36 hours. still spinning showers this afternoon. mainly on the immediate coastline for long island and connecticut and massachusetts. that's where the tropical storm warnings remain in place for several million people. any threat is slowly diminishing. it will bring in scattered showers and high pressure wants to build and we get a southerly surge

fred pleitgen in damascus and syria for us. thank you very much, fred. you are watching "cnn newsroom." still a case of head versus heart. that's how some are describing monday night's presidential debate. we'll preview the big face-off between hillary clinton and donald trump. plus -- pippa middleton gets hacked and thousands of pictures stolen, including some of the royals. we've got the latest coming up. >>> the first high stakes u.s. presidential debate is just one day away. if you're counting, the campaigns for donald trump and hillary clinton want to make sure their candidate is ready, of course. the republican nominee has been taking out to respond to mark cuban. the shark tank star was going to score prime seats to watch it in person. he threatened to bring a guest of his own. the republican candidate said he'd bring jennifer flowers. he tweeted saturday, if doeb i mark cue an wants to sit in the front row, perhaps i'll put jennifer flowers alongside of him. former president bill clinton admitted to a sexual encounter with flowers. >>> sources te

i want to go to fred pleitgen in moscow. now we understand this meeting between the president of the united states and the president of russia has achieved very little. and the foreign ministers as well. so where does it go from here? what needs to happen to get these two nations on the same page when it comes to forging some sort of peace deal in syria? >> well, there's certain things that certainly need to happen. it's a wide away of issues that led to the talks at this point in time. a stalling, i wouldn't say failure all together. in the past couple of days, you have seen a situation where the u.s. seemed to be quite skeptical that a deal would be reached. you kept seeing the russians say they thought a deal was close and imminent. the russians announcing a deal had already been made but the u.s. saying it hadn't been made yet and there were still details that needed tock worked out. the other thing we've been seeing as well is a big shift on the battlefield in syria as well. the forces loyal to bashar al assad which is

our cnn international correspondent fred pleitgen are the latest. you just got out of syria.ohn, this shows how frustrated the u.s. is trying to negotiate the cease-fire agreement. there was an agreement in place to see humanitarian aid get into aleppo. that never happened. the cease-fire crumbled and they launched the massive offensive on eastern aleppo. it is not the amount of air strikes that increased, but munitions as well. bunker busting bombs. the russians are angry of the language of the state department. they say they consider this to be an ultimatum and they blame the u.s. for the cease-fire for falling apart. we just returned from syria a couple hours ago. the situation in eastern aleppo is dire. air strikes going on. a lot of people killed. u.n. says 50% of those killed or injured are children and still, of course, all those battles continuing to rage on. although there is a ground offensive in place and you have the air strikes, there is very little movement on the frontlines. very little territory gained or lost. many people getting killed. >> thank you, fred pl

and as fred pleitgen reports, mistrust is growing on both sides. >> reporter: in aleppo, this is whatease-fire looks like. government forces moving around armored personnel carriers in a contested district. oftentimes, this is what the cease-fire sounds like. [ gunfire ] syrian army personnel acknowledging they don't trust the truce. "we're sticking to the cease-fire," this pro-government fighter says, "but the other side is not. that's why i don't think the cease-fire will work." for their part, rebels accuse government forces of breaching the cease-fire. despite the transgressions, the u.n. says by and large the cessation of hostilities is working. many aleppo residents are still suffering from the clashes that took place before it went into effect. at the hospital, ahmed and his 7-year-old son mahmoud lie side by side, both wounded by rebel shelling that killed three of mahmoud's brothers. "when the bombshell fell, i went to the ground," the boy says, "and i was bleeding. i felt the shrapnel in my body." it happened last friday. the day the see was announced. crushing ahmed's faith

cnn's fred pleitgen is live in damascus this hour following the situation. fred, what is the sense on ground there now that this cease-fire has expired? there's so many people who are just hoping for peace. >> reporter: yeah, they certainly are, george. i would say that the cease-fire certainly was very fragile to begin with, and we saw those breaches increase over the past couple of days. i was in aleppo just yesterday and you could really feel how there was anup tick in violence there. you could see there were more artillery strikes, back and forth shooting going on and air strikes we heard, as well. never the leads, the people on the ground are hoping that by some miracleka, the cease-fire could hold. we were actually in one neighborhood where people were already beginning to pick up pieces. here's what we saw. driving through a battered city, the cease-fire is barely holding in aleppo. breaches becoming more frequent. still, the residents are cleaning up. even the youngest. ali is 12 years old. he and his siblings among the many displaced now finding shel

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our senior international correspondent fred pleitgen is live in damascus, syria, with the story. do we know about the holdup here? >> reporter: well, it's a long and very difficult process that's going on, george. on the one hand, you have the administrative holdup. for instance, the syrian government said it's not going to let any aid convoice reach the besieged areas unless they have the expressed consent of the syrian government and the united nations. that goes especially for convoys originating from turkey. and that's actually the place where the u.n. wants to make its first aid deliversies to aleppo. convoyed packed with food and medical supplies. there's those administrative holdups. and also the security holdups where the united nation has to speak with various rebel groups. and then, of course, that have to breach that besieged ring in aleppo to actually get to those areas in the eastern part of the city that are surrounded by the syrian army and its affiliated forces. so there's a lot of negotiations still taking place. it's unclear when the convoys are able to move. but

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let's go to fred pleitgen there live in moscow. fred, what do you know of this possible agreement?reported where you are? >> well, russian media says they believe an agreement is possible within the next couple days but it does seem as though the american side is more skeptical. we have to keep in mind, brooke, the negotiations about a possible cease-fire in syria have been ongoing for weeks and they were supposed to take place, the actual cease-fire was supposed to happen during the g20 summit and it didn't because there were still trust issues between the u.s. and russia that the president was talking about. the main issues that the two sides still have the russians are saying look we want the u.s. and russia to bomb islamist and rebel groups together where as the u.s. says what russia is doing is bombing groups jetted and backed by the u.s. and the big issue the u.s. has is they say the russians are causing too many civilian casualties for the u.s. to work together withings are and too coordinate their actions in russia. so that's not something that has gone away. it appears as

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cooperation fighting in syria. >> fred pleitgen. thank you.reat work in syria. >>> at least 500 additional u.s. troops going to iraq in the coming days. a deal brokered by president obama and iraq. cnn's barbara starr with the latest. >> reporter: john and christine. as expected, president obama approved sending additional 615 u.s. troops to northern iraq to help the iraqi forces there get ready for the fight to retake mosul. iraq's second largest city and its main claim to having a caliphate in iraq. the u.s. troops will be helping on a range of topics. they will work as military advisers to the iraqis as well. being out in the field with them, but not at the frontlines. the fight for mosul may go on for some time. the u.s. assistance with being in the field and with air support and intelligence really is considered vital. if the iraqis along with help from kurdish forces can get mosul back and push isis out once and for all, that will be a military victory against isis. but nobody is betting at this point it will be the end of the so-called

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i was in touch with fred pleitgen, our correspondent in aleppo. he said overnight he heard a lot of explosions. the fighting still seems to be going on despite the rhetorical support from both the united states and russia. according to the ceasefire agreement that was worked out, what was supposed to happen is that once the fighting stopped, humanitarian aid was to go into parts of aleppo. if they worked well, the united states and russia were to set up a joint implementation center which is intended to coordinate air strikes by the russians and u.s. led coalitions against isis and al qaeda in syria. this is all up in the area at the moment and that is not for lack of a desperately needed on the ground. but if the united states and russians cannot agree on this ceasefire, then it doesn't look too good as far as the future goes, natalie? >> thanks so much, ben wedeman live for us in istanbul, turkey. >>> witnesses from the explosion in new york tell cnn what they saw and what they heard. we'll return to our breaking news story from new york, next.

pleitgen. he's in the syrian capital of damascus. fredund there, what the situation is. >> reporter: what an awful situation, victor. it's the tragic images we're seeing over the past three days as the offensive has been going on. the syrian government said it is conducting a widespread offensive in the eastern district of aleppo held by the opposition. they say that offensive encompasses both air power as well as ground forces. we know there are russian jets and syrian jets absolutely pounding that area. 200 airstrikes have taken place in the last couple of days. they don't even have an exact death toll because most of the time it's too dangerous for most people to go out and count. the other thing that's going on is they're having real trouble reaching these people buried under the rubble. at night they don't have any electricity to see anything. they don't have the manpower because so many people have been wounded. speaking to people here on the ground it is very difficult for them to see whether or not the international community is g

assembly, and change the focus back on images like this, and it is taken by senior cnn correspondent fred pleitgenion there. these hauntingly images come out of syria everyday. these photographs were taken in the last few weeks alone. and sometimes we need images like these to remember what the caulk of the u.n. is really all about. the correct answer to the "gps" crisis is this, despite the hub is located in geneva, swi switzerland, switzerland did not become a member until 2002 following a referendum in the country. china was the first nation to sign the u.n. charter as it was the first victim of aggression by an axis power, and became a u.n. member in october of 1945. thank you to all of you for being a part of my program this week, and i will see you next week, and i will see you next week. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> good morning. i'm brian selter and we are in hemstead, new york, and inside of the arena has been transformed into a presidential debate stage. this is where hillary clinton and donald trump will face-off for the first time, and actually behind my shoulder, you migh

senior correspondent frederik pleitgen is following the latest from moscow. fredit still hinges on a lot of differences the two sides have over exactly how that deal is supposed to look. we have to keep in mind this is more than a cease-fire agreement with russia and u.s. it would lead to cooperation on the battle field as well and coordinating the air campaigns. that is where the u.s. has the major issue. they still say the russian air strikes in syria are producing way too many civilian casualties. they want the russians to curb that quickly. the two sides have issues is which groups do you strike and which do you not? they are working together with al qaeda and some working with isis. some are vetted by the u.s. and are only opposed to bashar al assad and those should be left alone. there are a lot of technical details as both sides say. they seem to be quite major technical details that are in the way. you also have the issue of humanitarian access especially in aleppo, which john, is under siege again by bashar al assad forces. how do you get goods in there t

. >>> fred pleitgen joins us from damascus with more.fresh blitz on aleppo with pretty much bombs raining down. astonishing ferocity, i should say. paint for us what you've seen in the last 24 hours, what it's been like on the battlefield and how that's impacted people on the ground. >> reporter: well, i mean, it's obviously an awful situation for the people in knows eastern districts of aleppo. we've been getting updates over the past couple of minutes about the situation today. it seemed as though in the early morning hours of sunday that there was actually a lull in the air operations going on over the eastern district of aleppo. however, in the past couple of minutes, we've gotten reports that apparently there was a helicopter strike on a district in the eastern part of aleppo. it does appear as though that air campaign is still going on. also, one of the things that the syrian military has said, they've called this a comprehensive operation. it involves both ground forces as well as air forces. one of the things they've been trying

we just saw them in fred pleitgen piece. donald trump comes out and says that putin the a stronger leader in his regime than president obama is in his government. i should note, trump said i don't like the russian system of governments. but still, putin is stronger than the president is here. what do you think those two things mean on the global stage right now? how important are they? >> i think what trump is trying to do is echo some of what he has heard in republican circles, complaints that the boom administration withdraws forces while the putin administration sends them in to battle to protect russian interests at various points on the globe. so i can understand why he is trying to echo republican voters who have said, we look weak. putin looks strong. unfortunately for for him, i think it's from inexperience, when you send a message like this while putin is doing something that is actively defiant, actively undermining nato efforts, u.s. efforts to help countries in that area stand up to putin, well, he sounds like he

cnn's frederik pleitgen reports the only way the aid can get to the towns that need it is by navigating an area called death road. that is where fredicks up the story. >> reporter: george and christine, it was a quiet night in aleppo. we heard airplanes circling and occasional artillery shells firing and what appeared to us as mortars fired as well. the big question on this friday is aid finally going to reach the besieged eastern parts of the city. it is something the united nations has been working on, but at this point in time, trucks are stuck on the border between turkey and syria. we are hearing here on the ground is there is a chance it could happen today, but there are administrative hurdles. permissions from the syrian government and on the other hand, safety guarantees by rebel organizations to actually make it to that area so the u.n. says it is doing its best. the route that aid is going to take is called the castello road. i was able to go there yesterday and it seems as though there are preparations under way there to try to allow that aid to get through. again, very difficult and this very complex battle field to put

frederik pleitgen is one of the few western journalists in syria right now. and he joins me live from allepo. fredian government purposely refusing to allow the aid to get in? >> reporter: well, that could potentially be one of reasons why it's not getting in, but there also seem to be obstructions really coming from all sides of the equation. the u.n. says right now trucks at any point are ready to go, but they're still stuck in customs at the border between syria and turkey and a wagts the permission from the syrian government to be able to move. but there is also a lot more to it. they also have to get security pe missions also from the many rebel factions that hold a lot of the territory leading up to allepo and so far the u.n. says it hasn't gotten the adequate security guarantees around al s guarantees of safe passage. and then of course you need negotiations that basically involve both the regime and as well as rebel forces to make sure that they can make the transition from rebel held territory to the government held part of allepo and ba ththen ba to the rebel held areas. so it's a compli