ivan solace and his father are walking ivan's dog lola in lopez canyon, california, when the canine faces bottle thrown over the side of the hill. >> the dog went down there got stuck, wasn't able to come back up and ivan wanted to go and try to get him. >> but ivan's impulse to rescue his four-legged friend takes a frightening turn. >> the slope becomes too steep and ivan slides uncontrollably down the face of the cliff. he grabs onto a rock to stop his free-fall and gets close to his dog. news helicopters capture ivan's struggle. he can't climb back up or continue down. >> the cliff was approximately 200, 250-foot cliff side and he was approximately 75 to 100 feet down right in that area, in a steeper section of the cliff. >> los angeles firefighters oscar and robert are part of the team called in to help save ivan and his dog from a nearly 200-foot fall. helicopters make the first attempt. a rescuer is lowered down a safety line and tries to attach harnesses to both ivan and the dog. >> the reason why we decided or the department decided to go with the helicopter first, i guess that's

our senior international correspondent ivan watson has just returned, he's just there, in fact, ivan is joining us now from zako, that's near iraq's kurdish region. ivan, a kurdish official warning of po ten tial genocide. what have you learned? >> well, i'm standing on the tarmac of a helicopter landing pad, and we accompanied a helicopter from the iraqi air force and several peshmerga fighters on board on a dangerous chaotic and, dare i said, heroic mission, to deliver aid to some of those people, those acyazidi who have been trapped on mt. sinjar for the better part of a week and to evacuate some from that mountain. we took off from here on this aging helicopter that was loaded down with baby diapers, with condensed milk, with food and water and, in some cases, even boxes of shoes to give people. and as we flew over the plain in the direction of mt. sinjar and went over the isis positions, the two machine gunners on the side of the aircraft began opening fire on suspected targets below. they told me every time they fly in and out on these missions, they take fire from down below.

let's go back to the iraqi-syrian border and check back in with ivan watson.or our viewers just joining us, describe what our viewers are seeing, ivan. >> reporter: okay. over here is a bridge that crosses the river. that separates syria on the opposite bank over there from iraqi kurdistan here in northern iraq. and what's been happening for three days now, people here tell me, is a constant stream of humanity, of people, most of them coming on foot, but as you can see here a couple of vehicles loaded with civilians. these are iraqis who were so afraid of isis that their only way out to escape the isis onslaught was to run across the border into syria, and now they are coming from syria back into a safe part of iraqi kurdistan that's controlled by the kurds. according to the border guards who are working on the bridge there, they say the flow of humanity and i estimate we've probably seen thousands of people come in, most of them on foot within the last hour that we've been here, they tell me that that's a fraction of the number of people who crossed the previ

i want to go to ivan watson on the ground in northern iraq. ivan, tell us what the latest is and tell us about this mission that you went through, which was just incredible. >> reporter: well, jake, what we found is that the iraqi air force is flying helicopter flights daily to mount sinjar. this is in addition to the aid drops that the u.s. has done. and what we see is basically iraqi air force from peshmerga loading up kind of aging russian-made helicopters with everything from water and food to baby diapers and baby's milk and even shoes to give you a sense of what people need right now. then they make a dangerous trip from where i'm standing right here, a four to five-minute flight. on their flight over the isis front lines that is surrounded mount sinjar are machine gunners. they went to town. they were strafing the ground beneath us is, strafing targets. they say they are fired at every time they fly to and from mount sinjar though we didn't see evidence of that. they certainly burned through a lot of ammunition. when they get to the mou

i could see ivan in front of me helping people on.my job was to make sure i could record what was happening. >> they were frightened. they were horrified. and that was like a punch to the gut, because here you are trying to get people in, and trying to be happy for them. we're going to try to get you out of here. but they're terrified and they're weeping and they're screaming. then there was this beautiful little girl right in the middle of this who was just crying and crying and weeping and weeping. >> we've got little aziza here. she is not happy. she says her father got left behind. >> how do you comfort a child that has been through this ordeal? and there is a machine gun blasting away next to you. and god knows we could get hit by incoming fire. i don't know. >> i'm here to give people a voice. if i can't give them a voice, then who will? >> you empathize with them very much. what would i do if i were in their position? how would i continue on? and i think for ivan, i could see him looking at that going what if that was me. what

meteorologist ivan cabrera is at the cnn weather center. hi there, ivan. >> good to see you again. iselle. getting out of the way here. and then julio. we'll talk about that in a second. look at iselle. the last several images here on our infrared satellite has basically disappeared. that is because all the clouds are close wrer to the surface of the earth. and so temperaturewise they're not cold and we can't see them with the infrared. so we have this, the visible, which we can see. and there you see the circulation completely exposed. thunderstorm activity certainly not around the center here. so iselle is pretty much done at this point here. but it did drop significant rainfall. and that was always the worry here with iselle. as a result of the topography there in the big island with those very high peaks. 369 millimeters of rainfall, over a foot. take a look at what's happened here as far as the damage. flooding obviously and then the trees weakened by all that rain, and then you've got the tropical stormforce wind gusts that came along because this was indeed a tropical storm,

today, we have an ivan and his team found aziza again.n staying with her sisters, her cousin, her aunt. today, the smiles. there's guy reason for them. there's a good reason for them. they have had a phone call from her daddy. he's alive. as for the situation, the family says it is bad, but at least he is alive. we're so happy to be able to bring you at least that part of aziza's story. >>> new information about the missouri officer who shot and killed an 18-year-old unarmed teenager. we're going to share the details of what happened to the officer. injuries to the officer that might shed light on what led up to the shooting in the first place. that story next. in new york state, we're changing the way we do business, with startup ny. we've created tax free zones throughout the state. and startup ny companies will be investing hundreds of millions of dollars in jobs and infrastructure. thanks to startup ny, businesses can operate tax free for 10 years. no property tax. no business tax. and no sales tax. which means more growth for your bu

author of the new book bombs for peace nato is humanitarian war on yugoslavia in washington we have ivan eland he is a senior fellow and director of the independent institute. and in new haven we cross to peer perceval he is an associate professor at the university of warwick and president of the international society for first world war studies all right gentlemen cross talk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want i very much encourage it ivan eland if i go to you first recently wrote an article world war one rather than world war two is key for today's foreign policy why did you write it and what does it mean well i just said that we always go seem to hear politicians talk about the meaning one nine hundred thirty eight model where we must stamp out any aggression anywhere in the world or will snowball into a hitler like. you know threat to our security when actually we don't go back far enough and i think world war one the real problem was that the us made its first major mistake if we say that the spanish-american war was a minor mistake a major mistake was in world

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ivan, you have been there. how difficult from your experience would it be to rescue the 10,000 to 20,000 reported people who are there? >> reporter: well, there's nobody really organizing these desperate people on the ground. so that's why you saw scenes of people rushing helicopters when they would touch down briefly because there's not somebody lining up and saying, okay, you go first, you go second, you go third. it's first come, first serve. so that would be a primary, i think, objective is trying to organize these desperate people who would certainly have no ill will towards any possible american troops. they would just want to get out of there. the mountain itself is a protective feature. it's an unusual mountain rising up out of the plains. people have gone there because it's difficult for the isis militants, if they wanted to, to get up there. that would provide some protection to the u.s. troops, but you would have to do a lot of flights to get there. it would take helicopters and just yesterday an ira

thank you, ivan. >> thank you, ivan. >>> that wraps it up for our special coverage.arnett. >> before we go, we want to show you pope francis arriving and visiting with youth. he will be addressing them for their special youth day in just a short time. we'll bring you his comments. >> that's right. the second day of his five-day tour. following this and the world's other big stories on cnn. stay with us throughout the day. natalie and myself, we'll see you later. >>> breaking news overnight. violent marches replaced by peaceful protests as crowds turn anger into advocacy. the shooting of an unarmed teenager energizing communities. we are hours from knowing details about the officer who shot and killed michael brown. >>> a warning about the islamic militants terrorizing the country. the future? well, it ends. we are live in baghdad with the latest. >>> silence over gaza f

ivan, can you hear me? >> reporter: i hear you, brooke. >> wonderful. you and mark, your cameraman, inside of this helicopter here. i understand you all took isis fire as you were leaving and returning. tell me about this trip. >> reporter: it's pretty scary. and i think these iraqi air force crews and the peshmerga who go with them are heroes. they go in, guns blazing, flying across the isis front lines to get to this mountain where these stricken people are desperate. they are simply desperate. and they deliver -- i mean, they have to shoot machine guns to go deliver baby diapers and food and water. and babies' milk to the people trapped on this mountain, brooke. and then they take as many as they can get. it's chaotic. it's not organized. there is nobody who is in charge on the ground. and they bring these people back who just fall to pieces the moment they get into the helicopter. there wasn't a dry eye aboard that helicopter. and sadly, they had to shoot on the return trip, shooting down at isis front lines, which totally terrified little kids who

we will catch up with cnn's ivan watson, who is at the syrian/iraqi border. we'll also ride along on a daring helicopter rescue of more refugees under siege on iraq's mt. sinjar. and also ahead, a second night of violence in ferguson, missouri, where a policeman shot and killed an unarmed teenager. witness and police versions of the story, as different as night and day. so what was it that really happened? we'll hear from the friend who was with michael brown when he was shot and we'll find out more about this young man who was supposed to be heading off to college this week, before his life was cut short. >>> hello, everyone, i'm ashleigh banfield. it's tuesday, august 12th. welcome to "legal view." the plight of iraqi yazidis highlights the cruelty unleashed by isis or islamic state as they prefer to be called and of course the danger facing all who resist. just within the last hour, those dangers were horribly realized as an iraqi air force helicopter crashed on a desolate mountain while trying to bring food and water to desperate and terrified yazidi peop

i could see ivan in front of me helping people on.b was to make sure i could record what was happening. >> they were frightened. they were horrified. and that was like a punch to the gut, because here you are trying to get people in, and trying to be happy for them. we're going to try to get you out of here. but they're terrified and they're weeping and they're screaming. then there was this beautiful little girl right in the middle of this who was just crying and crying and weeping and weeping. >> we've got little aziza here. she's not happy. she says her father got left behind. >> how do you comfort a child that's been through this ordeal? and there's a machine gun blasting away next to you. and god knows we could get hit by incoming fire. i don't know. >> i'm here to give people a voice. if i can't give them a voice, then who will? >> you empathize with them very much. what would i do if i were in their position? how would i continue on? and i think for ivan, i could see him looking at that going, what if that was me? what if that

ivan watson is following the crisis. it's now spilled over into syria, where he saw this scene right here. >> reporter: the clinics here are providing medical care for people coming to these camps. they say some of the most common problems they're facing are the little kids who they say get dehydrated due to extreme heat and many of them have also gotten weak during the long journey through the desert to reach this safe haven. >> ivan's full report "inside syria" is coming up in about 30 minutes. up next, our special coverage continues. a tale of two convoys in ukraine. one supposedly bringing russian aid. the other allegedly bringing russian arms. >>> the pope has a tight schedule on his south korean tour. now he's off to visit a center for the disabled. we're following his every step, next. >>> welcome back. it is just after 10:00 a.m. in ukraine, and fighting between government forces and russian backed rebels is intensifying. the government is trying to reclaim the rebel strong holds of donetsk and lahansk. >> will r

ivan watson, cnn, erbil, iraqi kyrgyzstan. >> incredible images there. how did we get to this point in iraq and where do we go from here? there are definite opinions on that and he is a former senior adviser to several u.s. generals and ambassadors in iraq. he is joining us live from dubai. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> as we saw in ivan watson's report, it highlights how quickly isis has been able to advance through the country 'the fact that iraq seems to be falling apart. let's talk about the root causes of the crisis, who or what caused this mess? >> in short it was nuri al maliki's disastrous reign that contributed to the crisis. the problem is that through his policies of sectarianism and trying to cement his rule he disenfranchised and disillusions iraq's sunni arabs thereby -- in the wake of our invasion in iraq in 2003. so combined with the syrian civil war in and again side along with ail ma maliki's effort that is why iraq is falling apart. as part of a broader regional holy war. >> u.s. stood by his side for many ye

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our meteorologist ivan cabrera says this tropical depression could get worse and become a hurricane. think? >> in the next few days i think it has a pretty good chance of becoming a hurricane. in fact, some of the models really blowing this upturning it into a cat 4 east of the united states. we'll get to that in a second. it's a tropical depression but it's causing floods. flash flood warnings remain in effect with this training moisture. the flows will be settling over the next few days across puerto rico. you can expect additional rainfall as we continue with this depression lurking just to your north. now it is impacting with the bahamas well. latest advisory, we're just a few hours away from the national weather advisory. 55 kph. that's one reason the computer model forecasts are having trouble. we like a well defined center of circulation and we get better forecasts in the future. we'll get here. there's the low. there are tropical storm warnings from the bahamas. turks and caicos out of that. they're still looking at some squally weather. there it is. there's the track. eventu

it was really my affection for ivan. but my take away was that it's just become as has my profession an absurd amount of money being paid to people who are talented but so outsized to ability with actors and athletes, that it distorts the very excitement of what creativity should be. what a creative football player should be or a creative artist should be. >> did you enjoy playing mr. molina? >> yes i did. i did very much. and also i enjoyed kevin because, you know, he's very easy and very smooth. especially in sports films, about which he is really remarkably smart. >> yeah. so i was just thinking, walking into the studio, that if this movie has a big opening, then it is possible that in just a few days from now you will be in three movies in the top ten at the same time. you are in noah. >> i'm in -- well in i'm noah as an 80 foot monster. >> but you are in there. >> my voice is. >> so you are in noah. that muppet project is out now. >> and the priest. >> from months tore priemonster priest. you do it all. noah, the mu

ivan watson, cnn, in kurdish-controlled syria. >> very difficult to watch that.arlier this week, we got another dramatic first hand look at the intensity of the refugee situation on iraq's mount sinjar. ivan, again, tells us how a helicopter ride to report on a story turned into a life-saving mission. >> reporter: some woman gave me this baby with this incredible red hair. and i wanted to -- i wanted to carry the baby was so tiny, i wanted to carry the baby to the back of the helicopter, when the mother was incredible. she -- i don't know how she vaulted in the helicopter, but then she snatched the baby out of my hands before i could take the child to safety, which just shows you how incredible these maternal instincts are. >> yeah. that helicopter was just dropping aid, the next thing you know, they get so low and slow down, people just started piling in. witnessed the desperation of people trapped on that mountain and watched as that aid drop with emotional iraqis swarming the helicopter. that comes up in the report "flight from terror." for viewers in the unit

ivan is at a refugee camp. tell us what it's like on the ground. >> reporter: carol, i'm actually in a church, st. joseph's church. it's packed with refugees, iraqi christians. amid this discussion, let's just show you what's at stake right now. this is a 40-day-old jeshua. he is one of an estimated 100,000 iraqi christians displaced people, refugees, with his mother itlas, and 2-year-old sister here. they have fled their home in the last 48 hours, and have spent their second night in this church. this is just one family. we're going to try to spin around and show you a little bit of the scene here. there are hundreds of people who have been sleeping in the pews of this church, carol. this is of course a highly symbolic scene. we are in a place of worship. in this part of iraqi kurdistan i have been in a youth center full of thousands of iraqi christians. in the yard of this church, there are more thousands of iraqi christians. everybody tells the same story, that the kurdish peshmerga militia withdrew from the

ivan cabrera with more on that. >> it's supermoon part 2. together to appreciate them. we're having three supermoons. three in a row. one last month. one today. and then another one heading into september if you missed the one today. the moon going around the earth as it usually does. when it gets into the perigee. those two things have to come together. it has to be at its closest path and at a full moon. the fact it's happened three months in a row is very rare. it want happen again for another 20 years. will you be able to see round two? depends on where you are across the globe here. poor conditions once again in atlanta at cnn. looking poor into canada. good in the western u.s. europe looking good. and most of africa in pretty decent shape as far as the viewing. some of the pictures from the last event were pretty nice. o ouru reporters were out there. we'll have lots of shots coming up for you. perseid meter shower. it happens every year july into august. but because of the supermoon and how bright it's going to be, that's going to hin

ivan, see you in a bit. >>> we want to go to some breaking news we're following in ferguson, missouri looking at live pictures here. you know, many civil rights leaders, people who have been on this case have been hoping for calm trying to calm the situation. it is a very volatile atmosphere right now. a lot of people are angry about this case here in the united states and an unarmed african-american teen shot by a ferguson police officer. we are now a week into it. you're looking at these live pictures of people gathered in ferguson and again we understand that police are there on the scene. we have reporters on the ground that are gathering information. we will continue to monitor this situation in ferguson. >> george, you've seen some tweets that people are trying to protect -- >> right. >> -- places from looting so locals trying to keep the calm there as this was another heated day in ferguson as this story unfolds and we'll continue to bring you any developments as we get them. we'll be right back. edit card where the reward was that new car smell and the freedom of the open road

ivan, how do you feel?an, it feels terrible that not everybody could get on these aircraft. and just, you know, day-to-day covering this situation, people out here who just make you want to break down and cry and wave your hands up in the air with helplessness because there's so much suffering going on. and you just -- you just really, really feel powerless, brian. >> ivan watson and mark phillips, thank you, both, for joining me. >> thank you. >> thank you, brian. >>> let me close with the words of al tompkins. who wrote exactly what i feel about ivan and alyssa ruben. he wrote this, the photo journalists, the translators, the fixers who make their reporting possible. you be a sound sleeper, or... a mouth breather? well, put on a breathe right strip and instantly open your nose up to 38% more than allergy medicines alone. so you can breathe and sleep. shut your mouth and sleep right. breathe right. that's why i always choose the fastest intern.r slow. the fastest printer. the fastest lunch. turkey club. th

ivan, i saw the footage of you today. it stopped me in my tracks. i watched the entire thing for almost an hour, just sat on the edge of the bed. take us through what you saw up on that mountain today. >> well, it is the first time that i have gotten a chance to see the trapped yazidis that the world is talking about. and it is in fact a mountain, maybe three, two, three miles long that rises up off of the plains here of northern iraq. and as you approach it, you kind of get closer and you start to realize that there are people hiding under the trees there. looking for shade. or clustered around these ruins of a couple of buildings. at one point in the mountain. and once they see the helicopters, which is how we traveled in on an iraqi air force helicopters, everybody started running towards it. waving their hands towards the helicopter. now, this flight we were on, was dropping supplies for these people. and the supplies range from just bottles of water and bags of food, to babies diapers. and condensed milk and even shoes. shoes that just kind of

ivan is standing by. i'm going to play as we await the president of the united states a little bit of what you saw. watch this. >> go, go, go. no, no. shears the president of the united states. let's listen in >> for the past few days, american forces have successfully conducted targeted air strikes to prevent terrorist forces from advancing on the city of erbil and to protect american civilians there. kurdish forces on the ground continue to defend their city and we've stepped up military advice and assistance to iraqi and kurdish forces as they wage the fight against isil. at the same time, we've continued our daily humanitarian efforts to provide life-saving assistance to the men, women and children stranded on mount sinjar. and deployed a usaid disaster assistance response team to help. some have begun to escape their perch on the mountain and we're working with international partners to develop options to bring them to safety. i want to thank in particular the united kingdom, france and other countri

. >> ivan, we have to take a commercial break.e'll have more firm prosperity capital's ivan after the break. keep it right here on "countdown ." ♪ >> we are back with ivan, the fanaging director o prosperity capital management. your best casey area was no invasion, um no massive unwind scenariour best case is no invasion, no massive unwinding. what percentage liquidation have you seen in the past three months? give us a sense of whether it is escalating week by week. >> i have not seen any escalation in clients retreating from the market. i think there have been several bouts of fears, but the market actuallyation will over dramatize the actual movement of the underlying funds . i think people who have invested have made it with very long-term calculations in mind. popularas not been very for a very long time already. if you have that much of a trough, it would be very volatile and it would come and go as the change in sentiment. i think we have a stable base. >> ivan, the worst performing emerging market economy is the russian ru

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ivan watson, cnn irbil in kurdistan. >>> loud explosions rocking gaza this morning. israel resuming air strikes after claiming hamas and the three-day cease-fire. they remain in what they call defensive positions surrounding the region. let's go to john vause. the latest at the moment? are the air strikes continuing right now? >> reporter: yeah, they seem to be, poppy. it took almost three hours before the response began. in the last few moments, we have seen two air strikes in the area of gaza city. at least two people have been hurt. in one of those strikes, also there seems to be two rounds of artillery, five into gaza, in the northern part of the strip, not far from the crossing into israel. rocket fire coming out of gaza almost immediately after the cease-fire expired. what is interesting is hamas is not claiming responsibility for any of the rocket fire, at least not yet. another militant group, islamic jihad is saying at least eight of the rockets fired over the last couple hours are theirs. they say it is because israel violated the cease-fire by refusing to

let's go to ivan to see what is expected next. >> a terrifying scene there.hey are not used to that weather. there was some showers and thunder, maybe you go inside but you do not expect a twister on istanbul. so it was a terrible day. that came with flash flooding, as well. we had upwards of 80 millimeters of rainfall. we have a tornado off the sea here and three inches of rainfall. incredible downpours. that will continue. i don't think we will get additional twisters today and conditions thereafter will improve. it's been wet, a wet time across the northwestern part of europe. u.k. seeing rain. no severe weather but drips throughout the weekend here. nothing you like. the upper low here. the nasty weather through arizona. that's still going on there. look at the moisture getting pushed in to california. they need it desperately, as you know with the significant drought there. that's about it. after this, we shut it down. remember we're not in wet season here in california. that is later in the fall and winter here. any monsoonal moisture is welcome when yo

ivan watson was on that chopper with her. he and we did not forget her. tonight her story has a new chapter and ivan has the details. >> reporter: several faces stood out. a 16 month old baby and two very frightened sisters. two days after their airborne escape, we found their older brother who was also on the helicopter. he led us to the place where they found refuge. can we see? after fleeing isis, this is how thousands of iraqis are living. >> we don't have food. we don't have drink. we don't have sleep. it's no good. >> reporter: up on the third floor of this building, we find our friends from the helicopter. hi, guys. [speaking foreign language]. >> look at you. i remember you. hi. it turns out this 16 month old is a cousin of the teenage sisters. hi. it's good to see you. she says she had mixed feelings when she escaped aboard the chopper. >> translator: i was happy we survived but was sad and worried about my father. >> reporter: the ordeal began when everyone in the city of sinjar fled upon hearing news that isis militants were fast approaching. a

our meteorologist ivan cabrera is following that for us.van. >> yeah, the rain situation has been incredible in china. in fact in japan as well and korea. we've been talking about the extension of the rainy season. it's just continued. and the rainfall has been prolific. take a look at some of the thunderstorms in the afternoon. you get clear sky in the morning and then just downpours here south of chongqing is where i'm going to take you to weixo province. unfortunately there again you see the green and then the red there depicting the earth just giving away. what you don't see of course are some of the homes that have been just buried there. upwards of -- we understand at this point six people unfortunately lost their lives. we've had these occurrences just it seems weekly now. but there it is. with the heavy equipment in there trying to get things back to normal. it's going to be a while. and it is going to be raining on them as that happens. area of low pressure as well down to the south also bringing torrential rainfall. and if you app

our senior international correspondent ivan watson joins me now from irbil the capital of the kurdish region where thousands of iraqis are on the run from isis. ivan, it's amazing when i was in irbil, it was the crown jewel of iraq where they were saying they would have new business and entrepreneurs and face of the new iraq. now you're in the snaefrt humanitarian crisis and people fleeing. what your seeing there? >> reporter: you're right. and erin, as you would have seen notorious construction boom here, this region enjoying an immense period of stability and prosperity. now some of these unfinished office buildings and hotels and apartment blocks that have been going up are providing temporary shelter for some of the close to 200,000 iraqis who have fled this latest isis offensive within the last 36, 48 hours. tens of thousands of them coming here to irbil, they are quite literally, i saw them laying down on blankets, on bare concrete, being distribute ad little bit of water, some cookie, some yogurt, very ad hoc, and just the beginning of a new humanitarian crisis that this place

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thank you very much ivan. >>> now are you watching cnn. coming up, the russian convoy ha crossed into ukraine is still provoking international outcry. we'll see what this means for the country marked with conflict. 9m >>> welcome back to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm isa soares and these are the headlines. >>> first, the video you're about to see is disturbing. it was taken at a mass killing in a mosque. 70 worshippers were fatally shot and 17 others were wounded. shiite militias are blamed. >>> and this out of a town near kirkuk, residents are besieged at the moment. they have been -- let me go back there. there's real concern for their safety. this is just coming into cnn. a special representative says the situation for the people is desperate, and he is demanding immediate action to prevent the possible massacre of citizens there. we are told that in addition to immediate danger, residents have already been cut off from food and water supply by isis for nearly two months. >>> turning to ferguson, missouri, e

you are seeing the pictures right now of ivan watson's trip to bring the aid there. the people in such bad need. >> if you want to see the desperation on the mountain top, there's ten minutes of video on cnn.com, ivan watson's trip. it shows you what we are talking about on the humanitarian side. i encourage you to take ten minutes to watch it. >> 11 minutes after the hour. breaking news overnight. an angry crowd filling the streets of a quiet missouri town, furious over the police shooting of a black teenager. new words from the teen's mother. >>> plus, severe storms flooding parts of the country. there's more expected today. indra petersons is going to tell you what you need to know, next. let me get this straight... [ female voice ] yes? lactaid® is 100% real milk? right. real milk. but it won't cause me discomfort. exactly, because it's milk without the lactose. and it tastes? it's real milk! come on, would i lie about this? [ female announcer ] lactaid. 100% real milk. no discomfort. >>> sh minutes past the hour. reaction to robin williams pouring in this mornin

ivan, why don't we start with you.an tell us about the situation where you are on the ground right now. >> reporter: michaela i'm at the iraqi kurdish border with syria. there's a river in between and a bridge. we've seen throughout the past couple of hours that we've been here, a constant stream, now somewhat dwindled to a trickle, but it ebbs and flows of iraqis fleeing the isis offensive and they have taken this long journey to get here. they flee across the border to a kurdish controlled part. you can see these people stumbling up the banks of the river. they flow to syria where they are transported to this bridge and brought back into iraqi kurdistan. these people have fled their homes, quite literally in a matter of minutes. they are carrying little more than the clothes on their backs. we see -- have seen elderly coming, we've seen women leading their children, people look exhausted as they make this jurn in and they have nothing because as you go up the banks of the river from here, there are makeshift camps cr

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ivan cabrera has been watching it all. ivan. >> yes. i feel bad for the local men and women out there in california telling people not to go out there because, you know, no one listening. >> that's why you're in california, right, for the beach and the waves. >> there's the beach, biggest waves in a while. of course, in fact we had just hoards of people lining the beaches watching the surfers doing their thing. nobody hurt out there. that's good. this is what caused it. hurricane marie is a fizzling tropical storm but it was a potent monster. thank goodness it stayed over open water. it was a category 5 but it did bring in big swells to california. let's show you moving pictures, shall we? there they are. that's what everybody was looking at. what's that? yeah, sure. having a good time there with the surfing. no surfing dogs. i always enjoy watching those but i guess the waves were too big for errol pumping along out there. not going to happen today. let's check in on more photos from california. there's some still shots there. what is

ivan watson, jim sciutto on the possibility of mission creep and jim acosta. we begin with barbara starr, what have you learned? >> good evening anderson. three strikes, one against an isis artillery position followed by another strike by a drone and a third round of strikes by a number of f-18s off the carrier in the persian gulf. they are striking at convoys, artillery, mortar positions. this is aimed at stopping the isis advance on irbil. they are going after mobile targets of isis and trying to push them back from the outer perimeter around irbil. very precise targeting by the united states, they are using precision weapons, 500-pound precision-guided bombs. they are being as precise as they can. isis fights like an army. an army with heavy weapons, heavier weapons than they've had and taking ground and oholding ground. nobody is talking about defeating but simply pushing them back a bit, if they can. this is an army, this is a group that is fighting something that al qaeda only could have as

what's it like where you are, ivan?> we moved across the street from the church, wolf and now we're in an unfinished building, basically a construction site where some of the displaced iraqi christians have taken shelter. we have seen scenes like this in other parts of irbil as well. all of the people we talk to, they basically fled their towns and villages after the kurdish militia pulled out wednesday night and triggered a mass panic and sent just a wave of humanity, annex odd us of people fleeing toward irbil and other kurdish city which have basically safe havens, but not that save. irbil is only 30 miles from the front lines where isis is operating. it is quite close. kurdish leaders say they are grateful that the u.s. has brought air power to protect them. as one kurdish told me, the mosu lixt dam is a strategic location that was captured by the isis military the other day. he told me they used tanks, which were weapons in the iraqi army arsenal captured by isis. i met a young man, this is a 22 rled, you fled your

>> what, ivan, did people tell you, tell the soldiers on board this helicopter after it landed? >> reporter: you know, brooke, there was this 15-year-old girl wearing purple clothes. she was beautiful. and she was inconsolable. as the other people got on board the helicopter, and eventually their shock gave way to relief and they started smiling and hugging each other and they were clearly relieved that their ordeal on the mountain was over. this girl just kept crying and crying and crying. 15-year-old aziza. and she was saying "where's my father, where's my father?" and her father had gotten

say it ain't so, ivan cabrera, joining us now in the weather center t. is for some of us. are you telling me captain packard is in atlanta and i didn't know about this? >> right around the corner. get to that in a minute. >> i can't wait to hear about it. first, yes, a little labor day weekend weather here and if you're watching from the south central u.s., specifically louisiana and texas, flash flooding unfortunately. not just a few showers that will make you go inside for a bit. no. this is going to be heavy rain unfortunately here. severe storms to the north. watch for that, and this will actually push further to the east. the most severe weather threat migrates and increases further east. we'll watch that throughout the weekend here. there's your beach forecast. pick one, and what's the closest one to us, natalie? down towards the -- >> that's -- panama city, or daytona. >> oh, low 90s though. golly. jump in the water. if you're doing this kind of work, well, then sorbet is what's on tap for today, because it is hot out there. firefighters doing their work out there i

here is ivan watson.van in. >> reporter: look at these people trying to escape isis militants on this bridge which leads from a kurdish-controlled part of syria here into iraqi kurdistan. we've been watching a stream of desperate families carrying little more than the clothes on their backs, walking. some of these people have been on the move for days. some of them have been camping and now they are arriving here in iraqi, kurdistan, after fleeing their homes. in many cases, in just a matter of minutes. this stream of people, thousands every hour, has been continuing, i'm told, for days across this bridge. and it's a part of a much larger wave of desperate people all across the north of iraq who are fleeing isis militants, which appears to be carrying out a campaign of ethnic and sectarian cleansing because many of these people -- i mean, just look at the faces. look at the children here and what they are able to bring with them after they've been made instantly homeless. and these people, and we've seen