. >>> isis came to life in this desolate landscape, the windswept desert of southern iraq. an american prison. during the iraq war, the most dangerous jihadis were locked up here, up to 20,000 of the country's angriest men. some americans who worked at camp bucca called it simply camp hell. it wasn't just crowded, it was violent. in 2005, riots broke out. detainees went on a rampage, taking over whole sections of the prison camp. american forces massed outside the fences, firing into the crowd. at least four prisoners were killed. >> now, this is camp bucca. >> major general doug stone was brought in to fix camp bucca. even he was wary of the inmates. here he is giving cnn's nic robertson a tour in 2008. >> we have about 2,000 identified al qaeda in the facility. they're very hard to break. >> you have shields up here to protect us. everyone is crowded around looking at us now. >> this is not a place that you want to hang around. we don't want to stand here that much longer because they will now organize around us. >> there were beatings, unexplained prisoner deaths, and sev

. >>> isis came to life in this desolate landscape, the windswept desert of southern iraq. p bucca, an american prison. during the iraq war, the most dangerous jihadis were locked up here, up to 20,000 of the country's angriest men. some americans who worked at camp bucca called it simply camp hell. it wasn't just crowded, it was violent. in 2005, riots broke out. detainees went on a rampage, taking over whole sections of the prison camp. american forces massed outside the fences, firing into the crowd. at least four prisoners were killed. >> now, this is camp bucca. >> major general doug stone was brought in to fix camp bucca. even he was wary of the inmates. here he is giving cnn's nic robertson a tour in 2008. >> we have about 2,000 identified al qaeda in the facility. they're very hard to break. >> you have shields up here to protect us. everyone is crowded around looking at us now. >> this is not a place that you want to hang around. we don't want to stand here that much longer because they will now organize around us. >> there were beatings, unexplained prisoner deaths

direct at hampton.com >>> isis came to life in this desolate landscape, the windswept desert of southern iraqn prison. during the iraq war, the most dangerous jihadis were locked up here, up to 20,000 of the country's angriest men. some americans who worked at camp bucca called it simply camp hell. it wasn't just crowded, it was violent. in 2005, riots broke out. detainees went on a rampage, taking over whole sections of the prison camp. american forces massed outside the fences, firing into the crowd. at least four prisoners were killed. >> now, this is camp bucca. >> major general doug stone was brought in to fix camp bucca. even he was wary of the inmates. here he is giving cnn's nic robertson a tour in 2008. >> we have about 2,000 identified al qaeda in the facility. they're very hard to break. >> you have shields up here to protect us. everyone is crowded around looking at us now. >> this is not a place that you want to hang around. we don't want to stand here that much longer because they will now organize around us. >> there were beatings, unexplained prisoner deaths, and several dange

for example, we have chosen up to now not to be a part of southern iraq, even though we had done a lot to try to be prepared to participate. but we did not see economic returns. we haven't seen economic returns in russia just yet. but i don't necessarily regret those decisions. erik: john watson joined chevron 35 years ago, right out of business school. he started as a financial analyst and rose to become cfo and executive vice president of strategy before being named chairman and ceo in 2010. fadel: he is a very quick study. he is very intense. he is not an engineer by training, which is different. because everybody who runs exxon must be an engineer. so -- but having said that, he made good decisions. served him well, served his shareholders well. sometimes, it is luck. sometimes it is brains. but at the end of the day, it is the results that count. erik: next, chevron makes its biggest bet ever in australia. >> that is very big. erik: and overspends by the billions. fadel: we've got problems. erik: plus, why there's a future for big oil. john: we are going to need energy. erik: "ins

it worked far less well in southern iraq, and you touch on a very important point.the reason it worked well in the north and not in the south iscome in the northcom in the kurdish region, russia in the north, in the kurdish region, u.n. forces on the ground. the kurdish peshmerga. i made several visits to northern iraq in 2002, and saw it firsthand. they controlled the ground. we controlled the air and kept the iraqis out. the southern shia didn't have that advantage. so saddam is a good wind about his killing seven iraqis by other means rather than using his helicopters. used ground elements. and that's important because if you are looking at no-fly zones in than six there's going to have to be a ground component. that should not be us. again, u.s. boots on the ground, or every islamic state recruiters ultimate wet dream. we just, we cannot do that. and the south maybe the jordanians could. in the north it gets really complicated because of the turkish kurdish tensions. but for no-fly zones to succeed, kurdish experience in the '90s bears that out. there's got to b

it worked far less well in southern iraq, and you touch on a very important point.he reason it worked well in the north and not in the south is in the north and a quarter kurdish region --, you had kurdish forcs on the ground. the peshmerga. i made several visits to northern iraq in 2001-2002, and saw it first hand. they controlled the ground. we controlled the air. and that kept the iraqis out. the southern shia didn't have that advantage. so, saddam basically went about his killing of southern iraqis by other means rather than using his helicopters, he used ground elements. and that is important because if you're looking at no-fly zones in syria, there's going to have to be a ground component. that should not be us. again, we're -- u.s. boots on the ground are every islamic state recruiter's ultimate wet dream. we just cannot do that. in the south, maybe the jordanians could. in the north, it gets really complicated because of the turkish-kurdish tensions. there has to be control of the ground as well as control of the air. otherwise you're going to see what you s

most of that will be over parts of kuwait, over southern iraq and into iran. it will be turning wintery over the mountains. in system will sink southwards and as it does so, it will bring heavy rain. during the day on christmas day that's when we're going to stew a fair amount of rain here in doha. here i think most of the rain will be fairly spotty at first but then later on during the day is when we're going to see the rain turn heavy. a maximum temperature during the day then on friday of 22 degrees here in doha. there will be a lot of cloud around, some dries el and a few-- drizzle and out break of rain. it's during the evening and over night that we will see the heaviest of rain. that could cause problems here >>> thanks. the united nations has recognised cape town as one of ten cities worldwide leading the fight against climate change. the city is carrying out several projects to cut emissions and has focused efforts on helping the poor. our correspondent reports. >> reporter: high winds and heavy clouds over table mountain for residents on the outskirts

we know the iranian mafia have taken over large chunks near southern iraq. so if you're going to have a responsible iraqi government, to really make good on the promise that was begun in 2003, they're going to have to clean out a lot of corruption and fight off the iranian influence. that said even though the iraqis and the iranians share a version of shi'a islam, there's also a lot of entity between them. a lot of family members were lost world war i style combat, and it's very bitterly remembered. also a lot of the iraqis spend time on the ground there. so i think there's an opportunity to turn this situation around. but that would require leadership from president obama, and so far we haven't seen that. david: richard, steven, thank you both no for coming in. appreciate it. liz: well, it's a bird, it's a plane, is it a comet, or is it a ufo? it's none of the above. we've got the surprising details of what exactly lit up the sky over parts of the united states last night. we also have rare temperatures heating up the northeast this christmas. where else in

we have seen that in the kurdish region, we are seeing that in central and southern iraq and other areas where the security forces have taken some areas. they've killed i.s.i.l. fighters and they've pushed them back. i.s.i.l. fighters are using suicide bombers and suicide bombing cars. these are armored cars that have explosives packed in them and speak specifically target convoys or reinforcements arriving at the front line. it is going to be difficult for the forces because they have a large presence to sustain these areas. they say they are confident and they will take the city of ramadi in a few days >>> thank you for that. staying in iraq, 36 men are standing trial in connection with one of the worst atrocities allegedly committed by i.s.i.l. fighters. while human rights groups accuse the iraqi government of cutting corners, the families of those killed are demanding justice. imran khan has the story. >> reporter: i.s.i.l. fighters are said to have killed 1500ise ail eaus in the camp. this man was killed. for his family the upcoming trial isn't enough to heal the pain. >> translatio

[indiscernible] the arabs will not give southern iraq to iran. [indiscernible] where all the whale goes to the iranians. over time, it becomes a working country where everybody get something, sort of like here. >> sorry to interrupt. we could talk about this all day. warming, al senator graham: i believe it is real. treating the greenhouse gas is a substantial contribution. carbon would be good over time. moved towards a lower carbon economy without destroying the economy. >> perfect. senator graham: i need every vote i can get. >> i wanted to thank you, senator. i am from new hampshire. it is -- refreshing to see candidates one-on-one. thank you. i wish more people could get to see what this level. senator graham: we will try. comment, and take a question? donald trump off policy proposal to ban muslim traveling to the united states is counterproductive, undercuts the theeffort, it is literally worst possible idea and american political leader could come up with. it makes it impossible for us with this kind of position to put together the region

ended in southern iraq you touched on an important point. but in the north in the kurdish region and you have forces on the ground. i made several visits to northern iraq in 2002 and saw it firsthand they controlled the ground and we controlled the air to keep the iraqis out. the southern shia did not have that if he did so saddam hussein killed the southern iraqis by other means rather than and helicopters. but that is important. if you look at the no-fly zone in an syria there has to be a ground component. and with u.s. boots of the ground with every islamic state and they cannot do that. in the south bbb jordanians could predicates complicated. and four no-fly zones to succeed there has to be controlled otherwise i was there and 2003 the occupancy of which were not all placed there is a subsequent decade that got a lot of people killed and one thing i would not do is do not send 101st airborne in the islamic state. into precipitate it certainly did but i have argued for some time. not the withdrawal of military that made that crucial dash

even after paris and even after we've been taking out isis positions and all throughout syria and southern iraq and yet they are still affected. maybe because of all of that. >> yeah. well, al-qaeda did this. we've been experiencing this for quite a while. but isis has a tremendous facility on the social media on the internet with twitter. neil: what do they do? >> put out very sophisticated videos that almost always include some element of the world trade center attack. they want to show those buildings burning. but they're very well done and the basic message is your religion is under attack. you have an obligation to defend it. now, the additional messages from isis. neil: who are they targeting. >> young men for the most part. young muslim men that they initially want to come to the middle east for the -- but now the message is do what you can where you are. neil: last time we were chatting about do what you can where you are now, we're told that a number of the isis recruits went to paris -- at least one through southern greece, maybe as many as three as part of this refugee wave, they did

these are a lot of shia shareholders from southern iraq placed in northern iraq with some military leadershipally corrupt, just put in there for political patronage. in the first shot 40,000 men and all of their equipment ran and it was captured by isis. now what we see is the nucleus of a combat force that has real inspirational leaders, guys who they want to follow in to combat and people who are really willing to fight isis. >> let's just understand what ma ra ramadi, where strategically it is so significant, very close to baghdad. sits between baghdad and mosul really. why is it so strategically significant? >> if you look at it just to the west of isis -- besides the fact that it cuts off the euphrates river from north to south, if tu go to the west it has all the highways to lead to the jordanian border which is a significant line of communication and a significant line of logistics. that line -- town goes up into syria through the desert to allow isis to bring in weapons to places they ordinarily couldn't. then the border leading right into syria. this is a major highway between raqqa,

government responsible for this and has responded by firing artillery rounds into southern lebanon. >> move to go iraq, kurdish peshmerga forces say they have killed more than 100 isil fighters, faced weeks of intention attacks as isil looks to protect their stronghold in northern iraq. visiting the front line and a warning some viewers may find images in his report from erbil distu disturbing. >> these kurdish soldiers have repulsed an isil attack. thet a dead suicide bomber. most are foreigners and take drugs from the peshmerga positions. later, they drag a body on a military vehicle, this, the fighters say is the future of daesh that they call isil. this one goals. this is our land. we will defeat isil. these are some of the most intense attacks faced by the peshmerga in recent months. isil fighters have six front lines. they have been able to defend their positions. the trenches come prepared with ladders to storm them these were left behind by the isil fighters who launched multiple attacks on the 60 kilometer front line. sold say they have killed more than 100 an officer told me the number of su

key parts of the city are clearly back under the iraq government's control. the southern part of ramadi continues to be complicated. one disconcerting bit of news is some of the fighters are fading into the woodwork and population, which means down the road we may see this kind of insurgent tactics isis was involved with before it controlled this city and territory. it's a significant move. it's a very important morale booster and there are problems. this city will be taken back by iraq and they'll be able to focus their attention on other challenges like fallujah and mosul. >> there's been talk about this new audio message from al baghdadi. i'm sure the contents are not a coincidence. >> intelligence analysts are saying the tape was probably made a couple of weeks ago so it preceded what was happening. while he said the caliphate is still strong, he intimated that the appearances, the overt and external parts of the caliphate are going to look under pressure and there would be troubled times. and people shouldn't lose doubt. it was a sign, if you will, the pressure on is

iraq controlled by isis. >>> tonight a major wildfire in southern california is 70% contained. it destroyed more than 1,200 acres this weekend in ventura here's maria villarreal. >> reporter: this is the nightmare southern california residents fear most after four years of drought conditions. a wall of flames overtaking a major highway within inches of homes and evacuees like jane johnson, caught in the middle. >> go, go go! >> reporter: it's been more than 40 years since the coastal community of solimar beach last burned. as flames exploded this family had minutes to evacuate. >> we're probably going to head to santa barbara. i'm 29 years old. i don't think there's ever been a fire here. >> reporter: once residents escaped crews attacked the fire head on. this video from the ventura county fire department shows a bulldozer scraping brush near the flames. santa monica deputy fire chief tom clemo -- >> despite the challenges of high winds, steep terrain, significant brush, we were able to bring a stop to all forward progress of the fire and did not lose any structures. >> report

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and that problem lies in syria, it lies in iraq and unfortunately in southern california, six days agothose people felt it also. we can not lose sight of that bigger picture. that. andrea: that is point, harris, some are saying that donald trump just handed hillary clinton and president obama a distraction from an ish that the president appears to be unwilling to tackle. harris: well, it is a vacuum people are talking about it. if aristotle talked about it not just nature abhores it, apparently politics abhores a vacuum. you see donald trump stepping up into the whole that has been created. looks like we have no strategy. now we have strategy. we're not so sure what happens in the gap. can we survive it and defeat these guys. bill describe ad whole lot of horror and death happening until we do. house republicans gather with the new house speaker. they're talking about a whole stuff today. he wants to quote, normally i do not comment on presidential race, this time i make an exception. the people deserve to know we're taking decisive action. he means after what just happened what he cal

iraq. >>> on the fence about a fence. some parents in southern new castle county raised money to build a fence at the popular odessa memorial park. it would keep their kids, some with special needs, from running on to the busy road next to the park. parents were very upset when they saw remarks from town leaders in a local newspaper suggesting parents should wait until an accessible can-do park is built a few miles away. some of these parents reached out to nbc 10. >> just seemed like why don't you wait for your own park, you know, this one isn't for your type of kid. that was kind of the part that hit home to me. >> we reached out to the mayor of odessa and a town council member. both say their comments were taken out of context and they were simply raising potential questions that they'd asked about any public project. >>> the holidays almost here and tonight nbc 10 is proud to be part of the tree lighting at the blue cross riverrink. we are thrilled to be the official sponsors. nbc 10's lauren mayk is joining us live from the rink down at penn

look what we did in iraq after the first gulf war. operation southern watt to protect the shia.there's no reason why we can't protect the thousands and thousands of refugees that need to be protected on a daily basis from the barrel bombing and the depp pra daigss of president al assad. >> what did you make, tom, of the exchange between marco rubio, ted cruz over surveillance, wiretapping eavesdropping if you will on conversations. rand paul was very much involved obviously as well. where do you come down on this? >> i come down on the met at that date da issue rand paul doesn't know what he's talking about. marco rubio seems to be much more reasonable. it's not eavesdropping or listening to conversations. it's not looking at the content of e-mails an texts. it's merely warehousing the phone bills from all the phone companies in the united states and creating a one-stop shopping for the government to issue a subpoena to nsa and say, tell us on this number all the other numbers, give us the bills, all the other numbers that that phone called or received calls from or text message

iraq controlled by isis. >>> tonight a major wildfire in southern california is 70% contained. it destroyed more than 1,200 acres this weekend in ventura county north of los angeles. here's maria villarreal. >> reporter: this is the nightmare southern california residents fear most after four years of drought conditions. a wall of flames overtaking a major highway within inches of homes and evacuees like jane johnson, caught in the middle. >> go, go go! we've got to get out of here! >> reporter: it's been more than 40 years since the coastal community of solimar beach last burned. as flames exploded this family had minutes to evacuate. >> we're probably going to head to santa barbara. i'm 29 years old. i don't think there's ever been a fire here. >> reporter: once residents head on. this video from the ventura county fire department shows a bulldozer scraping brush near the flames. santa monica deputy fire chief tom clemo -- >> despite the challenges of high winds, steep terrain, significant brush, we were able to bring a stop to all forward progress of the fire and did not los

syria, we aref taking advantage of opportunities to open the southern front against isil. in northern iraq, units have cuttingtown of sinjar, the main line of communication between that area and most old. i sold must now rely on back roads where we locate and destroy them. iraq, we have about 3500 troops at six locations in .raq we are appeared to do more to resolve the political divisions. the progress in the sunni , as the of iraq campaign to recapture ramadi slow. has been much to our frustration. sectarian politics and iranian influence has made building a multi-sectarian iraqi security force difficult. they must enroll and pay sunni arab fighters. to hold territory recaptured for my soul. have shrunkforts the isil controlled territory significantly. we now have the chance to divide icicles presence in iraq from that in syria. while both countries are played has different political pathologies that provide the opportunities for extremism to exist. they need different kinds of political progress to ensure lasting victory. we are deploying a specialized expeditionary targeting force. to

iraq controlled by i.s.i.s. debora patta, cbs news, london. >> glor: tonight, a major wildfire in southern california is 70% contained. it destroyed more than 1,200 acres this weekend in ventura county, north of los angeles. here is mireya villarreal. >> reporter: this is the nightmare southern california residents feared most after four years of drought conditions. a wall of flames overtaking a major highway, within inches of homes and evacuees like jayne johnson caught in the middle. >> go go go! >> we got to get out of here! >> reporter: it's been more than 40 years since the coastal community of solimar beach last burned. as flames exploded this family had minutes to evacuate. >> we are probably going to head to santa barbara. i'm 29 years old. i don't think there's ever been a fire at this hillside here. >> reporter: this video from the ventura county fire department shows a bulldozer scraping brush near the flames. santa monica deputy fire chief tom clemo. >> despite the challenges of high winds, steep terrain, significant brush, we were able to bring a stop to all forward progress of the fire and did not lose

to go against the central syrian government and instead they saw the open field in southern syria, central syria and iraqguilt or innocence the government. and i think turkey has continued to support isis behind the scenes. stuart: so you've got some sympathy from president obama who says look at this mess. nobody knows who is on whose side. >> right. stuart: you've got some sympathy from president obama i guess. >> i do have sympathy. expect that for the most part he has picked the other side to align with. we have to remember here one of the things they were doing behind the scenes, that is to say the obama administration and lieutenant mike flynn, they were helping feed weapons from libya to the turkish and the turkish were then giving these to the front and the precursor elements of isis for destabilizing the assad government. they got out of control so i'm only sympathetic to the president that he has to deal with chaos and now it's hard to start through that. and clearly we don't know who is on whose side at this point in time. stuart: i'm almost lost, but i do know it's a total mess, and i think y

iraq. it only a milestone. ♪ >>> u.s. and afghan security forces have conducted air strikes in the district of the southern province of helmanhelmas been the scene of intense fighting in the last week. the taliban say they have captured the center of the district on two separate occasions, but afghan authorities deny this. british soldiers have also been spent back to the area to advise, a year after they withdrew from the region. our correspondent has been speaking to security officials and sent this update. >> translator: they are telling us that afghan special forces have been deployed to the district, and they are fighting there. and afghan security official claims they have control of the district headquarters. the police headquarters is about 2,000 square meters, that's where fighting is still going on. afghan officials also claim that taliban have big casualty last night, and the fighting is still going on, and they have sent some reinforcement by road, but we believe these reinforcements haven't reaches the area. because there are lots of areas in control of taliban on the way. but in this province, helmand, the very str

southern california and paris. the measure would bar people who have visited syria, iraq and iran within the past five years from a program that allows visa-free entry to the u.s. using passports from france, spain, and the uk. the head of the house homeland security committee said he's been told isis is trying to infiltrate the refugee program. >> i can reveal today that the united states government has information to indicate that individuals tied to terrorist groups in syria have already attempted to gain access to our country through the u.s. refugee program. >> the white house has said refugees from syria undergo rigorous screening that can take two years. republicans in congress are trying to block anymore refugees from entering the u.s. >>> a u.s. citizen facing terror charges has surrendered to authorities in somalia. muhammad abdullah hasan left minnesota in 2008 to join the islamic militant group al-shabab. he told the voice of america he left al-shabab because it was unjustly killing people. he faces terrorist charges. >>> now to the east bay city of newark where investigators are investigating a suspic

iraq. it is only a milestone. ♪ >>> u.s. and afghan security forces have conducted air strikes in a district of the southern province of helmandment troops and taliban fighters battle for control. the taliban say they have captured the center of the district on two separate occasions, but afghan authorities deny this. british soldiers have also been sent back to the area to advise a year thaf withdrew from the region. our correspondent is in the afghan city, speaking to security officials there and sent this update. >> reporter: they are telling us that afghan special forces have been deployed to the area, and they are fighting in the area, and afghan security officials claim that they have control of the district headquarters. we are talking about a very small area, and police headquarter is about 3,000 square meters, that's where fighting is still going on. afghan officials also claim that taliban have big casualties last night, and the fighting is still going on, and they have sent some reinforcement by road, but we believe these reinforcements haven't reached the area, because on the road to the area, there are lots of are

southern turkish city of dearbakur. predominantly kurdish city. the kurdistan workers party or pkk in morning iraq, ankara has imposed curfews in many areas of the city. a u.s. soldier has been ordered to force a military court. sergeant bowe bergdahl, held captive by the taliban for five years before being released last year in exchange for five taliban leaders. al jazeera's rosiland jordan is live with more from washington, d.c. roz tell us more about this case. >> well, the charge that you mentioned endangering his fellow troops is the lesser of the two charges that sergeant bowe bergdahl will be tried on, as he goes through a courts-martial. he's also knowledge charged with desertion. this is not what was recommended after his preliminary hearing earlier this year. the recommendation was not that he go before the courts-martial but before a special courts-martial where the most significant punishment he so have faced was one year in detention. bergdahl is 29 years old, a serious situation for him. it is being thought in some quarters that perhaps the commanding generalize of army forces comman

iraq's government says its soldiers are advancing on the city center. [ gunfire ] >>> afghan government forces continue to fight the taliban in the country's southernrovince, the army is advancing on the district which hell to the taliban on month. >>> and the u.n. security council is hearing more details about the humanitarian impact of the war in yemen. >>> inside yemen, forces loyal to the government have fought their way into the province surrounding the capitol. on monday u.n.-sponsored peace talks ended without agree, but will resume next month. >> reporter: they have taken over the mountains close to sana'a. houthi rebels took control 15 months ago. pro-government forces are fighting to allow the national recognized president to return to the capitol. >> translator: fighting is now ongoing in that direction, on the right of the injunction. >> reporter: there are pro-government gains too further north. there has been heavy fighting 50 kilometers from the saudi border. the houthis are on the retreat there leaving weapons and other equipment as they go. pro-government fighters have taken control of a houthi training camp. both sides want to con

southern turkey. they're taking part in the air campaign against isis target iraq and syria. >> we really are looking for the rest of the world to step up. america is stepping up, we need our allies and partners around the world to step up and do more, and that's true in europe, it's true in the gulf, it's true-- by europe, i mean all of nato, including turkey. >> ifill: carter also called for turkey to seal off the rest of its border against isis smuggling. and, turkey today joined a new, 34-nation "islamic military alliance" battling terrorism. it's led by saudi arabia, but does not include iran, iraq or syria. in yemen, a week-long cease-fire took effect today between shi-ite rebels and government forces backed by the saudis and other arab states. even so, security officials said shelling and ground clashes continued in places. the truce was timed to coincide with u.n.-brokered peace talks in geneva. a special u.n. envoy urged both sides to end the war. >> ( translated ): today, you are the decision makers and before you lies a historic responsibility. are you going to abandon yemen and its people

iraq. they have increased worries to export terror from its base of operations in the coastal city of sirte, just a few hundred miles from the southern of europe. for the very latest, let's bring in ian lee. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, christine, this report is very disturbing. we are learning that isis is focusing on libya to expand its territories outside of iraq and syria. the head of isis, abu bakir al baghdadi sending 800 fighttories libya to serve as a backbone to keep a stow on them the expertise in fighting gorilla warfare as well as explosives. they have been able carve out about 100 miles along the central coast of libya around the city of sirte. and this has served as a beacon for fighters in affect. people going there to join locals as well. reports of tunisians, egyptian and fighters from other countries and they have been able to carry out attacks in those neighboring countries as well. as you do see migrants going into libya into the european union. there is concern the fighters could be hiding among them as well as libya from the crete in southern greece is less than 200 miles. there are some challenges f

southern california, mcdonald's employees will bring your food right to your table. more on that coming up in today's america's the u-s military announced it's intensifying efforts to fight the islamic state in iraq and syria. that may mean more operations forces on the ground. abc's megan hughes has the details. the us is stepping the fight against the islamic state. defense secretary ash carter-laying out the plan to congress. "we're defending the homeland, we're working to defeat isil at its core in syria and iraq." carter announced the us is establishing a special ops "targeting force." it will be based in iraq--and conduct raids, gather intelligence, free hostages--and aim to capture isis leaders. even before the attacks on paris, carter had planned for a broader role for us special ops forces after a raid in iraq in late october. us forces helped free 70 isis hostages and one american was killed-master sgt. joshua wheeler. at a discussion at the harvard kennedy center, carter disputed republican calls for boots on the ground. "a lot of people don't think that there are boots on the ground or that we're putting boots on the ground and we're doing a lot from the air and with nearly 200 countr

iraq controlled by i.s.i.s. >> tonight a major wildlife is 70% contained. in venturara county north of los here is here's mireya villarreal. 2> this is the nightmare southern california residents feared most after four years of drought conditions. a a ll of flames overtaking a major highway, within inches off homes and evacueue like jane johnson cait in the middle. >> go go go! >> we got to get out of here! >> it's been more than 40 years since the coastal community of solimar beach last burned. as flames exploded this f fily had minutes to evacuate. >> i'm 29 yeerls. i don't think there's been a fire are here. >> once thing firefighters attacks head on. shows a bulldozer scraping brush near the flames. santa monica deputy fire chief tom clemo. >> despite the challenges of high winds, steep significant brush, we were able to bring a stop to all forward progress of the fire and did not lose any structures. >>reporter: it may be another day or two before the fire is spots, calmer winds and relief that a major disaster was avoided. mireya villarreal, cbs news los angeles. >> tensions remain high in chicago, after two people were killed this weekend one appare

mcsally and i was involved in the war in iraq from the beginning, operation enduring freedom, that was, of course, in afghanistan then southern watch, iraqi freedom, shock and awe, all those things. i'd like to follow up on this question about the drivers of these trucks and the leaflets that were dropped. i presumed the leaflets told them how to surrender, is that correct? . those were the leaflets that we dropped in iraq the first time around. >> the leaflets -- first of all, we did a couple things. we dropped ordnance in the front of a column and the back and then dropped leaflets that said if you don't get away from your vehicle you're going to be bombed so that was the message that was sent. >> so there was no effort to capture the truck drivers or get any kind of intelligence from their operations? >> we don't have any forces on the ground that could capture those truck drivers. >> is that a problem? >> well, if you want to capture -- congressman, i'm not trying to be flip but if you want to capture them you would have to have someone on the ground to capture them and we don't. >> is it a problem we don't have somebody

i am optimist when it comes to iraq, but i am pes misstisimistt the attacks, because they have good intelligence there in the southern regions of damascus, and they took out a moderate leader who went out to talk to the syrian regime, and now the syrian regime is taken out, and now they have hardened opinions on both sides. syria is still a problem, and whereas in iraq, you have defined actors on each side. in syria, we still don't know who all of the players are, and we can't sit down with the russians the other super power to talk about how we will approach a terrorist organization, and so syria is a real problem, and the solution is not on the horizon as it is in iraq. >> a so even though they have lost places in libya and other places, they have liberated ramadi. thank you so much, rick and mark. >> and now sh, so many people a affected by the storms. we will have more about the severe weather in the south straight ahead. >>> as many as 100 million americans are are facing a triple threat of violent and rough weather. and now, headed east, it could be high winds and rain an record snowfall. 43 people have lost th

southern europe. u.s. special operations and conventional forces could also operate for more remote locations in irbil, iraq syria and in northern and western africa. it's already happening, special operations forces just finished scouting locations in northern syria. they can use to help anti-isis fighters. many say it's a growing trend to use small, lethal special operations teams to attack isis on the ground in the very places where it's located. >> you begin to breathe and live that environment, you get more familiar with it, intelligence flows, you're now more capable -- >> reporter: in another potential sign special operations are going to get more emphasis, several sources tell cnn that currently the head of special operations command is the leading contender to be nominated by president obama possibly to take over heading all u.s. military operations in the middle east, jake. >> barbara starr at the pentagon. thanks so much. that's it for "the lead." i'm jake tapper turning you over to wolf blitzer in "the situation room." thanks for watching. >>> happening now, breaking news. under water search, fb

iraq's defense minister ordered an investigation, but the incident will put more tense partnership and could help the enemy. today isis released a deaths in its propaganda war. >>> there's high southern california natural gas storage facility has thousands of residents worried about their health. it all started two months ago. we get more now. >> reporter: moving day for the katz family. >> something i never thought would happen. >> it's bittersweet. >> reporter: bittersweet because for the past eight weeks a gas leak has been making them sick. >> sore throat, upset stomach, headaches, my >> reporter: their daughter has been to the hospital multiple times since the leak began. they released this time lapsed infrared video of a cloud of methane a week and a two schools are also moving their students. >> my throat is always irritated. >> i coughed out of control. >> you can see my eyes watering. >> reporter: despite these complaints, socal says the natural gas isn't toxic. they're not so sure. they've hired an attorney. >> what we're trying to do here is to get the gas company to close this canyon down. there's about 90 wells that are up here in this community, and this is just one wel

southern turkey. >>> we bring in george ofay, a lecturer at the university of cambridge. let's talk about syria first and then iraq. and we're seeing what seems to be more and more deals. little deals prap. perhaps in many ways but deals involving the syrian government and the united states and other parties. do you see a shift here? >> i don't see a shift, i see an accelerating tendency. the united nations has been trying for a very long time to negotiate local deals of this kind and the assad regime has been prepared to entertain them because it strengthens the cohesion ofists defensive linese regimes. the assad regime is no longer often the back foot as it appeared to be a few months ago. this is better evident than ever before. negotiateever since july, there have been other examples too, the yarmouk camp south of damascus is another good example that didn't quite work out but maze during the future. >> the civilians trapped getting out of there but what is the plus for the assad regime of the aseascend annes. andcy.ancy. >> in the case of zabadani it is sealed off from the rebel factions against it. >> which