nick paton walsh is here with us with more. was released by the kurd through their channel and we see pretty much -- events that official have been putting out although it's staggered and confused initially. first of all, we a long cue of prisoners emerging from what looks like a part of the building and hands raised and unclear what is going on. you can hear the intensity of fire. joshua wheeler was killed there and his body has been returned to the united states soil. kurdish it seems predominantly. you hear an american voice in there and then an isis flag on the wall there. you get a glimpse of how complex this operation was. they didn't know who they were going to find in those cells necessarily. they thought they would find kurdish people instead they found iraqi soldiers and prisoners and isis fighters who have been imprisoned because they thought they were spies. they have to go through one to make sure they are not armed and carrying explosive devices. above all the intensity there you hear there the gunfire master serg

our senior correspondent nick paton walsh joins us. tching the video of the event that resulted in the death of the first american service member in four years in iraq. really telling the story of the dangerous situation. >> reporter: it actually shows you what american forces have been doing in iraq. particularly what they are doing in the raid. it is rare to see american commandos. this is pretty clear when you see what is going on here that the american commandos are up front shooting at the enemy. the normal idea of the assist mission with the american special forces, they tend to hold back. they are giving advice and instructions from behind. clearly in this case, which led to the death of master sergeant josh wheeler, the 39-year-old from oklahoma. a veteran of 14 tours of afghanistan and iraq. the commander on the ground decided to get more into the fight. they may have been assisting on the ground, but it has opened a window of how much boots on the ground were in that case and perhaps before, but not publicly acknowledged in th

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>> nick paton walsh, thank you. you've spent a significant amount of time reporting from syria. "outfront" tonight, bob baer and dave sears. thanks very much to you. bob, why is the president doing this? >> it's an act of desperation. we've lost relevance in syria with iran and syria going in. the islamic state is not going away. the only people fighting them are the kurds and the president is worried about looking detached from the situation and he is in deed and i don't think it's getting any better. it's something of a hail mary pass but it's the best he's got. >> david, you've been on the ground. you've done these kinds of missions. is this combat? >> absolutely it's combat. anytime you're carrying a rifle, wearing body armor, it's combat. everyone on the ground is preparing for combat and it's going to happen. it's coming. >> dave, what do you say about this 50 -- so categorically, they are not going to put any troops in and now it's almost as if it's against their will. it's only 50. >> right. it's only 50. we have the best tactical capabilities in the world but it's not g

their sources, let's talk about these major developments with senior national international nick paton walsh. he's in southern turkey right now. also with us is senior military analyst, retired colonel rick francona who has a lot of experience in just this area. nick, you're in turkey. part of this announcement talks about deploying more a-10s and f-15s in turkey where u.s. operations have been working, have been flying out of for their operations in syria. what does this mean there? >> reporter: the a-10s are significant. their primary role is to target armor, that is tanks on the ground. that would provide, i imagine, the syrian and kurdish forces this small complement of special forces is supposed to be assisting pretty lethal fire pow power were they to be used against regime armor. isis have a lot of weaponry they have taken from the iraqi and syrian military as well. the f-15s adding to the complements of other coalition aircraft working out of turkey as well. that clearly shows the turkish are on board with this increase of american posturing, which would have to be the case, too. one

nick paton walsh joining me now from southern turkey. any indication as to when they are bracing for the arrival of these u.s. troops? >> a suggestion it could be within the next months, but obviously, for security reasons, i'm sure the pentagon are not going to telegraph or advertise quite when. what we think could be as little as two dozen as the special forces enter into syria. where do they go? i think it's likely it will be near the town of kobani, the fight for which, clearing isis from it, well publicized late last year. it's from there, directions near there, that many of the kurds and also the primary syrian arabs who the special forces are supposed to be assisting, a group called the syrian arab coalition, not very big or well known, they're directing their energies towards the isis capital called caliphate iraqa. that's their stronghold and has been hit by a lot of coalition air strikes. in the past, they've been trying to maneuver down towards it, but they simply don't have the military capability or the manpower to take on t

ni nick paton walsh reports. >> reporter: war planes have just struck and missed.k. this aid worker from the syrian civil defense unit runs inside the hospital. one of his colleagues dead, five injured. a dozen total dead. the syrian american medical association who run this hospital told cnn it was targeted by russian jets in a double tab. one strike and then another to catch the first responders. russia denies targeting civilians. in a first attack this local man says thank god there were no injuries. then the war plane turned around and that time all the people were gathered and shot two missiles again. not far west of aleppo, the same rescue group is an unexploded cluster bomb. russia denied thursday using those emissions but two have crashed through this roof into this home making the holes benoot this boy's feet. it came and hit for the first time, the war plane shot a misill this that had cluster bombs. none of us were injured but our neighbor was injured and two women were culled. ni nick paton walsh, turkey. >> that's it for me. i'll be back at 5:00 p.m. i

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i'm wolf blitzer, and we have barbara starr standing by, and nick walton -- nick paton walsh is on the ground there in syria, and also, clarissa ward, our foreign affairs correspondent. and barbara, what are you hearing? >> well w u.s. troops will be at pass risk, but using the words that the white house needs to use, it is not a combat mission. so what are the special operation forces going to do? they are going to go into the syria, and right into the heartland of where isis fights, and try to help the kurdish militant militants who are going after them with mission planning, and how how to get to south for the front lines. charisa has seen it, troops are short of ammunition, and supplies, and the united states wants to help them there, and this is keen thing, when you have special operations on the ground, they are also intelligence gatherers, and talking to the fighters, and learn learning the lay of the land, and learning where isis is, and they will be able to help overhead fighter jets, and two fa-16s and two more fighter jets to readily take out isis. another key issue is that

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and nick paton walsh is on the ground tonight in istanbul. nick, you've spent a lot of time in afghanistan. the situation there deteriorating. i guess the question for you is, will more american troops really prevent terror attacks on america? >> reporter: very hard to tell. when al qaeda launched 9/11, it was from an afghanistan run by the taliban, which has collapsed really as a functional society, enabling them to have a place there now. but the taliban, yes, they're resurgent. there's a fair bit of al qaeda. in fact, u.s. special forces work with the afghan counterparts against a 20-square-mile training camp. and we know isis has a substantial presence in the east. the fact this this force level will sustain at about 10,000 means there will be the counter-terror power there, the air strikes, that kind of ability to go after those extremists inside of afghanistan, but it's not the whole package. it doesn't stop the country from being a failed state. doesn't stop the taliban from perhaps providing other encla enclaves, and doesn't take away

senior cnn international correspondent nick paton walsh is live for us along the syrian border in southernually happened, apparently. >> reporter: well, you can't really underestimate the security risk that bashar al assad must have been. he probably flew out with russian assistance to get him out of moscow. vladimir putin stamped his mark on the battlefield with jets frankly many saying hitting civilian targets as well as mod ral rebels only limited times isis as well. stamping his mark yes statement to washington i can get the syrian leader out of this country towards me, he's confident enough to leave. but it also is part of what i think seems to be an increasingly choreographed set of moves. we have this onslaught towards aleppo, 50,000 people on the move and southern countryside as we reported yesterday now video which we've received from the front line in fact some of the moderate syrian groups which have in fact been equipped with the antitank missiles often some suggest applies by the united states and its allies them sending us footage of the remarkable scenes on the front line tr

nick paton walsh shows us how it unfolded second by second before the prison was destroyed. >> reporter: very secretive world you're about to get. a rare look into it. the u.s. special forces working with the kurdish special forces. no one knew what it meant they were involved in the fighting. in this video it's clear they're up front. you're now inside the jailbreak that revealed america's changed role in iraq. they say they're rescuing kurds from this isis jail, but look who staggers out, terrified iraqis. even their eyes lit up by fear caught on the helmet camera. it's edited, but u.s. officials tell cnn, it's genuine. more cells opened, it seems and the iraqi soldier and civilian hostages keep coming. [ gunfire ] >> an office, an isis flag. more cells. and perhaps a target through the light of the door. then a quick closeup likely of an american commander. don't be afraid, he cries as they search the prisoners. remember, they were expecting kurds. perhaps these men are isis, have guns or bombs. it's the americans who seem in charge here. the captors relief palpable. u.s. officials s

. >> let's head to the region to southern turkey and nick paton walsh.ions on the ground. will the rebel groups be able to fight effectively against isis? >> the key question is, who exactly are they going to be training advising? advising and assisting. the ypg, the kurdish group who have been fighting in kobani, we've seen that on our screens recently and along the border of turkey, where i'm standing here, further west toward isis-held areas, they can't work exclus e exclusively with them. that will leave a bad taste in the mouth of many syrians because there are many fears amongst the syrians in the north of that country when the kurds, the ypg, they tend to hold on for themselves. a long-term strategy of just using ypg, you could run into problems down the line. from barbara's reporting be, it sounds like the syrian arab coalition, which are small, aloof, and small group in the east of the country where the kurds are, and also to the west of isis-held areas as well, in fact, directly south from where i'm standing, that's probably where they're going

our senior international correspondent nick paton walsh is near the syrian border. nick, you got some exclusive video of possible russian air strikes on aleppo's southern side, what are you finding out? >> if that begins it will be shocking. already reduced to rubble. but it's south of that city in the countryside where people are being impacted. what seems to be russian air strikes here we obtained this foota footage. it shows the impacts and shows how the people of that town having nowhere else to flee have simply run into the fields around it setting up tents around their vehicles. one family sleeping under mattresses perhaps thinking that will make them safer somehow. almost like their bedroom has been picked up and dumped in a farm field. these are the least lucky ones here, wolf. these are people who were unable to flee to turkey or europe, stuck in these areas now enduring relentless bombardment around them as potentially say activists tens of thousands are displaced by this onslaught by the regime and allies to them heading towards what was once the largest c

barbara starr at the pentagon and nick paton walsh in istanbul. >>> and as it is come politing a number, and here with us, the retired lieutenant colonel rick francona who served many years in syrias an intelligence officer, and you know this better than anybody, and explain to us how complicated an dangerous the skies are over syria right now with all of the countries operating there. >> yes, i think that nick had the right word this mixed up cocc co -- cocktail of all of the aircraft, and american aircraft, and syria aircraft, and gulf and arab a aircraft working in the area, and you have two sides, command and control entities, and right now they are not cooperatinging or coordinating with each other, and any time you have that much high performance aircraft in a confined area, you are going to have problems. now this drone thing today, not surprising that we haven't seen this before. but if you look at the drones, and where it went, this one particular drone where it went down north of aleppo inside of t turkey, it fits what the russians are doing. they are fighting in an area calle

nick paton walsh has more. >> reporter: it is rare but remarkably up-front footage about the secretive world of u.s. special forces. this mission, very close to isis, when american forces are not really supposed to be in combat on the ground, revealing quite how close the front line they got. you are now inside the jail break that revealed america's changed role in iraq. they think they're rescuing kurds from this isis jail. look who staggers out. terrified iraqis. even their eyes lit up by fear caught on the kurdish soldier's helmet camera. it's edited, but u.s. officials tell cnn it's genuine. more cells opened, it seems. and the iraqi soldier and civilian hostages keep coming. an office, an isis flag. more cells. and perhaps a target through the light at the door. then a quick close-up, likely of an american commando. don't be afraid, he cries as they search the prisoners. remember, they were expecting kurds. perhaps these men are isis, have guns or bombs. it's the americans who seem in charge here. the captors' relief palpable. u.s. officials saying they faced imminent execution. i

. >> i am going to the throw another wrench in there, and this is to nick paton walsh as you noticed, barbara, is standing rite on the verge of where this is to happen. nick, we have heard from the kurdish forces and others that they don't want american boots on the ground, but they want the money, and they want the goods and the help, but not the guys. is that now shifting that strategy or at least on the ground, are they addressing that right now that this move has been made public by the white house? >> well, i think the they the notion really has been that they don't want to see the 82nd airborne to show nup thousands strong to fight for them, and they want to fight for the land themselves, and they know it is their land, but what they need is weapons, and you can't have that unless you have u.s. personnel on the ground, and certa certainly, they want air support. you will get much more if they know that the american special forces have chosen a target to fire at. and a small contingent is going to be welcome with open arms, but it is who is doing the welcoming that is so keen her

nick paton walsh filed this report late thursday. >> reporter: two key elements about barack obama'sevel of troops in afghanistan, 9,800 will be sustained pretty much until he leaves power. they'll probably be reduced half by number. but at the end of the day, that decision will probably fall in the lap of his successor. the troops that remain there will be in kandahar, jalalabad, spread around the country. they're aim supporting forces and the counter terror mission. but it was remarkable to hear barack obama. security forces were ready for him to stand in front of america and say actually they weren't. but that had long been the contention since 2011 when he first announced that the tide of war is receding, and began the drawdown of the surge that afghanistan troops and police would take up the gap left by departing american soldiers. barack obama here, perhaps wanting his legacy initially to be taking america way from its two long unpopular wars in iraq and afghanistan. now finding that iraq, plagued by isis and massive collapse frankly as a country, afghanistan risking that too.

nick paton walsh is live along the border. what can you tell us about what we are seeing?porter: what it must be like to be a moderate syrian rebel on the front lines here. this from a group in fact that potentially been given weapons by u.s. and the allies, as well. we see them in these pictures firing at a drone in the skies over them, intense gunfire and how air strikes are slamming into the town near them. at one point fighters getting cover on the ground. intense bombardment, syrian state tv talking about and showing how their armor is rolling towards that key population city of allepo. hundreds of thousands of people perhaps hiding. we could be talking about an unprecedented humanitarian crisis if they do reach that city. >> and you have reported in syria, you are in touch with rebel leaders there, rebel fighters. what are they saying about how it is on the front line? we're hearing dozen respect triple that of russian bomb as day. what does that mean on the ground? >> reporter: they are never seen anything like that. we've heard that they need assistance now, they n

let's get some analysis on what's going upon joining us, our senior international correspondent nick paton walsh. joining us from istanbul turkey. and our analyst paul bergen. you've been there recently. you're encouraged, i take it, by what you've heard from the president? >> yes, it is a slight grasp of reality. the timetable has really been down to obama's own electoral cycle. he saw it was a war in trouble. put the surge in place. that was tailored off to get him really able to keep the idea that afghanistan was winding down, to get himself into a second term. and the second term was about pulling most of the rest of the troops out. clearly that isn't going to happen here. it is a reflection of the reality. it goes against the narrative us as reporters in kabul were forced to swallow on a daily basis, that the afghan security forces are ready, violence is on the decrease, the taliban were losing out to consistent night raids against them. it clearly didn't have the long-term effect. it's obvious, really, the afghan national security forces weren't able to continue the job. it's now admitted

senior international correspondent nick paton walsh is across the border from syria in turk pip one victim of this attacks yepped it was happening the people there are being exterminated. >> reporter: you can understand why they would feel that, in duma, a kargt of an attack killing over 100 a month ago. today 7:30 in the morning, in a market on a friday, missiles slammed in. 55 dead at least, 200 injuries, massively complicated, the injuries. the last 24 hours missiles landed near the hospital that services that particular area closing it. meaning everyone has to basically fend for themselves and these gruesome injuries you're seeing without proper medical care. some video shows how a shell landed near an ambulance trying to collect people from that very area. absolute carnage there. contrast aring, frankly, with the scenes and five-star viennese hotel. no opposition, or regime, people invited to that meeting to talk peace. if they were, the exile is distant from those bombed there. they showed progress, but so far away from the day lily life in syria, jim? >> you're aware, heard it, too,

nick paton walsh, cnn. >> we keep our focus on the family unit here.reunited tuesday after being separated by war. >> about 100 elderly south koreans have made the trip to the north to see their relatives. for many, though, it could be the last time they see each other. and cnn's kathy novak lives us live from seoul south korea on more on these family reunions. how closely are these reunions monitored and how much are they cover yo graphed. >> very closely and very tightly cover owe graphed. they've been separated since the korean war in the 1950s. many have been applying since this program started in the 1980s and there are about 60,000 people on the waiting list. and this time around only about 100 families from the south korean side and 100 families from the north korean side will get this opportunity. the last time this happened was almost two years ago, and this is only the 20th time this is taking place. these people are genuinely excited and genuinely emotional to see these long-lost relatives. but what they will be able to say will be very limi

. >> want to go to nick paton wal walsh.the sixth obama speech you have heard on afghanistan. tell me how this morning's was different. >> i think it finally had a significant number, but this one where you had that lengthy justification of the challenges they vanquished and the progress they have made but an admission that afghan security forces aren't good enough. they aren't where they need to be. such a contrast from what we heard from 2011 since barack obama first said the surge was drawing down. and the pentagon and white house countrily said security forces are ready and can take over. when we leave. they had so many challenges. president obama tried to get america out of two wars that were unpopular, but at the same time, after iraq fell into the hands of isis couldn't let the same thing happen with afghanistan. he's done a little here. it doesn't massively change matters on the ground. it's nothing like the troops they had there at one point, but it certainly alarms critics who says they are leaving afghanistan to e

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let's get to our senior international correspondent nick paton walsh, live in istanbul with the breakingails. nick, what do you know? >> reporter: minimal information so far from the turkish military. they said an aircraft was shot down in turkish air space after it didn't respond to three requests. russian surveillance craft, prevalent in that area. a russian official here in turkey just yesterday trying to be sure that similar things don't happen along the turkish border where russian jets are flying after an incident ten days ago. this, though, will massively escalate this situation. it may have been an unmanned aircraft. that will certainly take away the possibility that lives could be lost. syria, such a mess for four years. now we are talking about nato and russian aircraft potentially vying or even conflicting in that troubled air space. very dangerous indeed. chris? >> nick, thank you for the context and the facts. you're asking the right questions. let us know what you find out. we'll come back to you. appreciate it. nick paton walsh. >>> joe biden is said to be near to a decisi

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nick paton walsh is live in turkey with more for you. nick. >> carol, a very rare and close up window you're seeing now into the world of u.s. special forces. extraordinarily uncommon to see this, and it gives a sight of what people thought and were told was an advise and assist mission. the truths might be a little away from the front line. in reality, as you'll see in this report, they're right at the tip of the sphere. >> reporter: inside the jailbreak that revealed america's role in iraq, they think they're rescuing kurds from the jail, but look who staggers out, terrified iraqis. even their eyes lit up by fear, caught on the kurdish soldiers helmet camera. it's edited, but u.s. officials tell cnn it's genuine. more cells opened, it seems, and the iraqi soldier and citizen hostages keep coming. an office, an isis flag. more cells. perhaps a target through the light of the door. then a quick close-up, likely of an american commando. don't be afraid, he cries, as they search the prisoners. remember, they were expecting kurds, perhaps th

nick paton walsh reporting. >> breaking news, joe biden's long-awaited decision.house but vowing he will not stay silent, either. what role will he play in the presidential campaign? hi i'm heather cox on location with the famous, big idaho potato truck. our truck? it's touring across america telling people about idaho potatoes. farmer: let's go boy. again this year the big idaho potato truck is traveling the country spreading the word about heart healthy idaho potatoes and making donations to local charities. excuse me miss, have you seen our truck? you just missed it. ahhh! aw man are you kiddin' me? >>> breaking news, biden is out. >> i believe we're out of time, time necessary to mount a winning campaign for the nomination. >> after weeks of speculation, the vice president takes a pass on running for president obama's job. hillary clinton's camp breathing a sigh of relief but biden sounds determined to hold clinton's feet to the fire. >> e-mails exposed, wikileaks goes personal. we're dickigging on this danger security breach. syria sneaks off to moscow to mee

ni nick paton walsh, turkey. >> that's it for me. i'll be back at 5:00 p.m. in the situation room. the news continues next on cnn. >>> here we go. top of the hour. i'm brooke baldwin. breaking news as we come to you live here. hurricane barrelling toward mexico and this hurricane is not just big, this is record breaking. this is the strongest storm ever measured. let me repeat the strongest storm ever measured. this is bringing 200 miles an hour sustained winds. just for perspective that's an f-5 tornado, the most deadly there is. except this it hurricane will turn and move. slowly, span some 60 mile. s and bring with it a huge wall of water a potentially catastrophic 20 inches of rain along the west coast there it. a tourist hub before pushing inland. officials are saying get out. jennifer gray is standing by in the weather channel. have you ever seen anything like this? >> no, never. this is stronger than katrina, stronger than andrew. it's stronger than any storm the national weather center has ever had to deal with. one of the reasons for that is the warm temperatures in an el

joining me now is global affairs analyst kim dozer and also our senior international correspondent nick paton walsh. you have been on the ground in the region and iraq and syria. what's your assessment of the situation right now? and with this news, how much would the landscape really change? >> reporter: months of clambering r for the obama administration to do more against isil, despite the white house not wanting to commit troops. they feel they need to up the ante slightly more. we don't know what the words from ash carter mean. direct action, this could mean more special forces missions like the one that happened last week in assisting kurdish special forces. this was an edadvise and assist mission that ended atd the front end of combat. we don't know if that's been happening before. or we could see a larger intervention by special forces like we saw in afghanistan potentially where they used every night to go. after middle and top ranking taliban insurgent commanders dus rupting the enemy. that may happen here. highly unlikely we'll see american soldiers, but there's a feeling not getting int

nick paton walsh joins us from the turkey.aid worker and a doctor who came to tears live on air describing what he's seeing in aleppo. the average resident, it must be unbearable for them. >> reporter: we're not talking about an onslaught against the city. there's been a stalemate and violence for years but we're talking about substantial moves by regime forces. out of lebanon and regime forces moving toward the southern aleppo country side. that has, according to the u.n., 50,000 people displaced. they have no idea where they're going to go. they can't go north, can't go west, east, or south where there's fighting or isis. yesterday we got footage from the front line, some about what it's like for them facing this regime onslaught with russian air power. this is what it's like on the receiving end of the russian backed offensive south of aleppo. the moderate rebel fighter now laying flat, sent us pictures saying it was the worst assault he'd ever seen aided by drones that they also target. >> translator: the russian strikes s