you focus on the southwest border and the campaign there. us about your thinking about defense and depth with partners, not just along the border but around the world, in the context of the summer crisis, obviously working with mexican partners, central american partners, has become key, obviously. then you look at the ebola crisis and dealing with the issue of the transportation channels and what our partners around the world are doing, particularly in west africa. how does the defense in depth of the homeland security enterprise fit into you -- your model and dealing with these issues. >> i spend a lot of time with my counterparts to the south and my counterparts to the north. i was in ottawa last week, meeting with minister steven blaney, my canadian counterpart, and other members of that cabinet. i've been to conferences with my european counterparts. i visited with my middle eastern counterparts, and we're building what i believe to be a better system of immigration -- of information sharing, of working together, common on border securi

in nine and a half months in office i have been to the southwest border seven times. ver the hot summer i observe the border patrol and its leadership taking on the unprecedented number of kids and families crossing the border into south texas. they did this in a calm and professional manner without complaints and worked overtime and took on duties far beyond the job description. i salute the border patrol chief fisher for making the border patrol's use of force policy public earlier this year and rewriting it to explicitly address the incidences of rockthrowing at the border represented by vehicles. i salute kerlikowske for making public the executor of her search form on the use of force by border patrol. i also salute the commissioner for implementing a unified formal review process that will more effectively respond to investigate review and resolve any use of the border patrol in a timely manner. this nations long investment, long-term investments in border security has produced significant positive results over the years. illegal migration into this country peake

you focus very much on the southwest border. alk to us about your thinking in defense in depth with partners, not just along the border but around the world. in the context of the summer crisis, obviously working with mexican partners, central american partners have become key obviously. then you look at the ebola crisis and dealing with the the transportation channels and what our partners around the world are doing, in particular with what is happening. and depthhe defense of the homeland security enterprise fit into your model and how you think about dealing with these issues? with mynd a lot of time counterparts to the south and my counterparts to the north. i was in ottawa last week meeting with mr. stephen laney, my canadian counterpart, and other members of the cabinet. to conferences with my european counterparts. i visited with my middle eastern counterparts. we are building what i believe to be a better system of immigration, of information together onworking border security issues, homeland security issues. given the c

to have no credible intelligence to suggest terrorist organizations are plotting to cross the southwest borderight? wrong. the congressman is not backing down standing by the story. we reached out to his office. they initially pointed us to a misspelled blog post which they says confirms the story. four isis terrorists arrested in texas. that was their first response to this to point to the conservative blog as their evidence. that left us with roughly a zillion and four questions, for example, homeland security says your claim is false. is your source in a position to know? when the congressman found out about the ten isis fighters on the border, did he tell the fbi about this? or anybody else? does the congressman know where these isis fighters are now being held? are they being interrogated? are you just going to talk about it on fox and that's it? we took those questions to the congressman's office. what we got back was a little amazing. they wanted to clarify when the congressman said ten isis fighters, we got this, "more accurate i think to refer to them as foreign nationals with i.s. as

national guardsmen in title 32 are providing security elsewhere along the southwest border. active duty title 10 military personnel under command and control are executing counternarcotics missions along our borders. the missouri national guard has been called out by the governor to restore order in ferguson, local missouri police are armed with surplus military equipment. and north com's army north is preparing for possible hurricanes. since our country's founding the role of the military within our own borders has been a matter of public safety. and a matter of significant public concern. the very brief amount of time i have i won't recount to you the content of federal aid but read alexander hamilton's work. it offers insight on the limited role of military on our society and enduring requirement in a constitutional democracy for the military to be subordinate to civilian authority. hamilton's thoughts in federalist 8 i think are particularly incite full and prescient in terms of the kinds of missions i described just a moment ago. so where do we find a balance between ess

i'm wondering, where does an exit program fit in your program for the southwest border -- biometric exitgram? something that congressman debted but not yet funded. >> biometric entry and exit. is the gold standard. but it costs money. and so we're working toward a biometric exit system, but it costs movement it's the gold standard. there are several important agenda items that i'd like to see completed, but i have to rely on my partners in congress to do that. we need the right technology in place to do it efficiently, but biometric exit and entry is the gold standard. okay. yes, ma'am, right here. >> i'm julia edwards with reuters. you laid out numbers to show how families and unaccompanied children from central america -- the number are quibbling, what are -- quicking. why are we -- are dwindling. why are we are still building facilities? >> a lot of migration is seasonal, and so look at the pattern this past summer of adults, adults without children, it followed almost idly the migration patterns in prior yearsfé in terms of the numbers and the trends, and so a lot of the migration yo

national guardsmen in title 32 are providing security elsewhere along the southwest border. active duty title 10 military personnel under command and control are executing counternarcotics missions along our borders. the missouri national guard has been called out by the governor to restore order in ferguson, local missouri police are armed with surplus military equipment. and north com's army north is preparing for possible hurricanes. since our country's founding the role of the military within our own borders has been a matter of public safety. and a matter of significant public concern. the very brief amount of time i have i won't recount to you the content of federal aid but read alexander hamilton's work. it offers insight on the limited role of military on our society and enduring requirement in a constitutional democracy for the military to be subordinate to civilian authority. hamilton's thoughts in federalist 8 i think are particularly incite full and prescient in terms of the kinds of missions i described just a moment ago. so where do we find a balance between ess

national guardsmen in title 32 status are providing security elsewhere along the southwest border. active duty title 10 military personnel under northcom's command and control are executing counternarcotics missions along our borders. the missouri national guard has been called out by the governor to restore order in ferguson, local missouri police are armed with surplus military equipment. and northcom's army north is preparing for possible hurricanes. since our country's founding the role of the military within our own borders has been a matter of public safety. and a matter of significant public concern. in the very brief amount of time i have i won't recount to you the content of federalist aid but i encourage you to read alexander hamilton's federalist aid because it covers a really insightful perspective on the limited role of the military within our society. and the enduring requirement in a constitutional democracy for the military to be subordinate to civilian authority. hamilton's thoughts in federal and state are particularly inciteful and prescient in terms of the kinds

in some of the other, or some different data on border patrol enforcement efforts along the southwest border. so again, thank you, doris and mark, for inviting me. >> okay, thank you very much for that rebecca. i hope everybody had their coffee this morning because i know we are giving you a barrage of numbers. but we decided we would make this be a research panel because there really is a lot of information that is pertinent to an issue that is very important in the public policy discussion. we're going to continue on that, on that trajectory with marc although his work takes a slightly different angle of vision. so marc, let me turn the microphone over to you now. >> thanks, doris, and thanks also to mark and to randy capps as well for bringing me here today. i worked as an enforcement fellow at the american immigration council. we're a nonpartisan organization whose mission is to shape a more rational immigration policy. and as part of the work, i do work on deportation and detention. i'd like to do three things in my brief time. one is to emphasize the importance of this paper and mpi's

area that is where we have to direct our attention to reduce illegal immigration. 47% on the southwest border of the tucson border that is solely an acceptable we need to fix it when of the problems of the department of romance security and never has credible measurements. >>moderator: the same question so give us some specifics with measurable points. mcsally: as mr. barber said leading the effort to secure the border those ranchers that i talk to say he is feeling at the job you may have seen those commercials and they are tired and want something done. a border is not secure it is a safety issue in those ranchers are making their families safe so we needed different strategy border patrol is not at the border with the assets that we have to monitor and intercept with manpower at the border. we do not even know the denominator is to get an operational assessment we need to rely on the local border residents and the ranchers. >>moderator: stay on border security for a moment you both call for better border security from drug smuggling and violence issues but it doesn't seem to address cheap

in the poorest areas of the border and trust me there are a lot of poor communities along the southwest borderinto these are kids who are u.s. citizens. they can come and go across the border. a lot of them may not have have come in all records against the gate dropped out of school. they are all ready in the recruitment phase, they don't have many job opportunities because they don't have skills comes in here come these guys promising all this money and glamour but the bonus for these kids recruited in southern arizona and other is that they can come and go across the border because they are u.s. citizens. so it's not only happening there but then you've got this huge pool of potential recruits that are citizens living right here in the border communities. so whether they are joining the local gangs in la or houston or the cartel south of the border, it's a problem with poverty and lack of educational opportunities and it spans both countries. hispanic it's interesting with so much in the situation on both sides of the border and it brings to mind the play that gets overlooked because there i

southern arizona in the poorest areas of the border and there are a lot of poor communities on the southwest border and these are kids who are u.s. citizens, they can come and go across the border. some of them, a lot may not have criminal records yet but they dropped out of school, they are already in that pregame recruitment phase where they won't go anywhere, their grades are for, they don't have many job opportunities because they have no skills so here come these cartel guys and promising all this money and glamour but the added bonus for these kids that are recruited in southern arizona and other parts of the border is they can come and go across the border illegally because they are you as citizens so it is not only happening there but then you have a huge pool of potential recruits that are u.s. citizens living right here in our border communities so with theory they are joining local gangs in l.a. or houston or the cartel's south of the border, it is a problem with poverty, lack of educational opportunities that span those countries. >> it is interesting with so much detail you describe th

pure, it's in the brown or the white heroin, between 2008 and 2013, heroin seizures along the southwest border increased nearly four fold. from 559 kilograms, to 2196. the second key strategy in this fight is successful treatment, which often includes medication assisted therapies using drugs like methadone and i'm going to have trouble with this one, bupenorphine. thank you, sirs. unfortunately, in 2012, 2.5 million people in our country were addicted to these opiods, where only 351 ,000 received these methadons or these bupenorphine to treat their addictions, that means the rest aren't receiving treatment. finally the third strategy is to release overdose deaths, in 2010, the latest year for which data is available, the centers for disease control and prevention reported more than 19,500 unintentional opiod overdose deaths. there's steps that can be taken, there are drugs that immediately reverse these overdoses, and 18 states including california have taken actions to improve access to these drugs, i think we need to find a way to make these drugs more available to properly administer to in

as a part of that guestworker program to create a southwest border security commission because there is no one time that we have arrived made up of the bipartisan members of the house and the senate bill before you vote on the homeland security appropriations every year and make certain people from the border that here on the ground that we work with every day that are telling these stories and i think we can get to that point. >> what i said the other night is if we can get congress republicans and democrats to work together and start working with our friend and partner of the country of mexico by heart goes out to mexico and everything they've done. we've lost 40,000 people because of the drugs in northern mexico. so they've been fighting this war but we need to come together and start just like you said playing not maybe on the 20 the 50-yard line in guatemala and stop them from coming here. >> you mentioned that although legislation that was authored by the conservative house in the committee committee that got bipartisan support in the committee and the democrats support. what's

to help over 50,000 children who came to the southwest border of the united states would be contingent on repeal being the trafficking victims protection reauthorization act. protecting children who are trafficked, many of them as you know, coming from hon during remarks guatemala and el salavador. countries ravaged by violence, gangs, corruption, extreme poverty, virtual dominance of organizations like those that what would make us turn children away fleeing violence and in the same breath, ask people in the middle east to take over a million refugees in syria? it is as if we have historical amnesia. and emma lazarus never spoke to us, bring me your poor, your hungry, your huddled masses. yearning to be free. i submit to you that what we owe them is a stronger moral argument and a more vigorous defense of children everywhere. i submit to you that what we owe them is common sense and comprehensive immigration reform that does not divide families. we can not say we value families as faith voters and then deport parents to another part of the world. it is at best inconsistent and at wors

and this summer, when a wave of unaccompanied minors crossed part of our southwest border, my administrationtched compassion for kids with a firm message to families. today, fewer parents are sending their children on that perilous journey than they were at this time last year and we're working to give more kids the chance to apply for asylum in their home countries and avoid that journey all together. but while we worked to deal with an urgent humanitarian problem, while we actually did something about the problem, republicans exploited the situation for political gains. and in june, as all this was going on, speaker boehner told me he would continue to block a vote on immigration reform for at least the remainder of this year. now, don't boo. vote. [ applause ] i have said before that if congress failed to live up to its responsibilities to solve this problem, i would act to fix as much of our immigration system as i can on my own and i meant what i said. so this is not a question of if but when. because the moment i act, and it won't be taking place between the november elections and the

director of intelligence said that a significant number of iraqis had already come across the southwest border. if president obama does what he has promised to do and take to legalizetion some illegal aliens in the united states -- >> are you referring to undocumented people in the united states? >> should this legislation include iraqis as well? >> we have many borders. we have the canadian border, the southern border, people coming by land and sea, and we certainly have to protect the american people. that is our first responsibility -- to protect and defend. i do not take it has anything to do with what the president is going to do next on immigration. i think it has to do with what we are doing for our national security. thank you all very much -- yes, ma'am, ok. >> can i just ask a political question since we are getting so close to the election? republicans are using a strategy they have used before, which is featuring you and a lot of ads in competitive races, trying to link multiple members to you. i'm just wondering what you think of this. >> they have no ideas. they have nothing to o

as a part of that modernize prem create a southwest border security commission because there is no one time we have arrived element made up a bipartisan members of the house and senate. they are appointed, and to make them report to congress and the president before you guys vote on how much securities appropriations every year make certain that choice's people on the border that we work with every day are telling the stories of men that i think we can get to the part where we need to be. >> and what i said the other night was that if we can get congress with republicans and democrats to work together and we can start working with our friend, our partner, the country of mexico. we can solve this. my heart goes out to mexico and everything that they have done. 40,000 people have been killed because of the narco trafficking and the drugs in northern mexico. so they have been fighting this war, but we need to come together and start, just like you said, playing maybe not on the top but extra stop them from coming here. >> you mentioned h.r. 1417, and that was legislation that was authored

meanwhile there had been a lot going on in immigration focused on child migrants and issues at the southwest border and issues of people fleeing violence in central america and joining family members in the united states. the president had lost a pretty big appropriations effort with the congress by that time and so the announcement then was made in september that the end of summer would be postponed until the end of the year. well, of course, we're now in that period between almost an election and nearly the end of the year with a lot of speculation and continued discussion about the withers, the whethers, wuthers, whether an executive action. so that's what we're going to be talking about in this panel, the ins and outs of that, substantive as well as political. the format will be questions. i'm going to put questions to -- opening questions to each of our panelists and ask each of them to make some opening remarks and then hopefully that will put enough issues on the table for us to begin to do some cross talk among us as well as any follow-ups that occur and then during the final section of the

pure, it's in the brown or the white heroin, between 2008 and 2013, heroin seizures along the southwest border increased nearly four fold. from 559 kilograms, to 2196. the second key strategy in this fight is successful treatment, which often includes medication assisted therapies using drugs like methadone and i'm going to have trouble with this one, bupenorphine. thank you, sirs. unfortunately, in 2012, 2.5 million people in our country were addicted to these opiods, where only 351 ,000 received these methadons or these bupenorphine to treat their addictions, that means the rest aren't receiving treatment. finally the third strategy is to release overdose deaths, in 2010, the latest year for which data is available, the centers for disease control and prevention reported more than 19,500 unintentional opiod overdose deaths. there's steps that can be taken, there are drugs that immediately reverse these overdoses, and 18 states including california have taken actions to improve access to these drugs, i think we need to find a way to make these drugs more available to properly administer to in

leave this technology over here and i thought, you know, what about redeploying that to the southwest borderent of homeland security security coordination where we can get some progress done there. >> it does make sense. we've already bought the stuff, we might as well put it to use, right? >> correct. >> also i understand later today you're going to be involved in a hearing on ebola and if there is one state in the union particularly interested in ebola, it is texas where mr. duncan was until he passed away a couple of days ago. tell us a little bit about the concerns of texans regarding ebola. >> i think it's a national concern. certainly my state, having had the first fatality due to ebola in the united states, it is of grave concern. you talk a lot about isis, this is an enemy and a threat that you can't see. it's very insidious. when you're infected, it's a very nasty virus. so what we're going to talk about today is we're going to have the top federal officials from cdc and homeland security talking about what are they doing to stop this virus from getting into the country? we already

national intelligence -- said that quote a significant number of iraqis had already come across the southwest border of the united states. if president obama does what -- take executive action to legalize illegal aliens to the united states the are you referring to undocumented people for in the united states? okay. undocumented people, okay. >> what should this legislation include iraqis as we'll? >> we have many borders. we have the canadian border, the southern border. we have people coming by land and sea. we certainly have to protect the american people. that's a first responsibly to protect and defend but i do think it has anything to do with what the president is going to do next on immigration. i think it has to do with what we are doing for our national security. thank you all very much. yes, ma'am. >> can i stake in a political question? republicans are using a strategy figures before and house races which is featuring new and a lot of competitive races turn to link all members of -- [inaudible] >> president obama. [inaudible] what's your question? >> on this one in which you think of this

teresa has a job working at border patrol in the southwest and if she doesn't have a credit in order, it's hard to have a job like that because you can be blackmailed or there is a liability. so she's thinking i'm going to lose my job. i'm going to pay them off. so she agrees to peace $2,700 off. she feels good about it but she's getting on top of it when she is expecting to get some sort of receipt for which he paid, there is nothing. when she checks the credit reporting agency there is no record of her pain. she assumed she was paying people. why would you assume otherwise when they had all of the information that she's paying people that stole her dad and these are some of the people that erin and brandon realized they are paying the wrong guy so you're absolutely right. each one of the names on the package are real people and the mistakes couldn't be hired for what this means their to their lives. >> host: it seems there are such few rules were ability for the regulators to cover all these different points that you talk about on the individuals moving back and forth. and people li

meanwhile theresa has a job working a border patrol in southwest and if she doesn't have her credit in order it's hard to have a job like that because you can be blackmailed or there's liability. what am i going to do? i'm going to pay these guys off so she agrees to pay $2700 off. she feels good about it that she's getting on top of it that when she makes the last payment and she's given -- expecting to get some sort of receiver where she pay there's nothing in when she checks the credit agency reporting there's no record of her credit. she would assume they had all the information that she paid people that stole her debt. these are some of the people that aaron and brandon realized they are paying the wrong guy. you're absolutely right, each one of these names on these packages that were stolen or real people and the states can be much higher. >> host: it seems there are so few rules or abilities for regulators to cover all of these individuals with that moving back and forth when it does. people like theresa don't know what's going on. they are just afraid they are paying because of

. >>> breaking this morning, isis , on the border between city of syria and turkey. they now control the southwest corner of that city and kurdish fighters are trying to push them back. this comes after turkey voted to authorize military action against the terror group in both iraq and syria. australia is also announcing it will launch strikes against isis, but only in iraq. our phil black is in the turkey border with the latest. good morning, phil. >> what we've been seeing here in the east of kobani is a lot of shells falling over the city. particularly this eastern and southeastern site. and then as you mentioned a short time ago, this news from kurdish fighters still in the city, that isis has advanced into the southwestern corner and now control that part of the city. they, those kurdish fighters say they are responding to that. trying to put fighters into position. they've been predicting this for the last 24 hours, that isis would reach the city and enter it. the kurdish fighters say they've been placing fighters in sniper positions to try and resist that entrance into the city. what we've

border. the group has opened a new front in the southwest of the town. although the u.s. and allies have launched airstrikes on isil positions they have not stopped the group's advances. stevie decker with thstephanie decker on the edge of the coup. >> reporter: they said that this perhaps a new front, they also told us that they managed to push isil back on the eastern side of the town. this is a position that they've held to the south. they will put in perspective the nature of guerrilla warfare no no major gains made. another interesting development we spoke to ypg fighter who came out of the town yesterday. he told us that he's injured. he remained positive, and once he made a recovery that he would be heading back. he said that isil is able to use it's heavy machinery like tanks, and they seem to be sending younger men as reinforcements without much experience, so he remains upbeat about th pushing back isil. but reality there has not been much help, and that's leaving people on this side of the border feeling helpless, that they have not been able to help push isil

southwest. it is an on going campaign, isil also very key in targeting the border.round 50-meter as way friday you. >> whoever wins this fight will be hugely significant, also the ypg who will keep the town, avenue being besieged for a long time, give them some legitimacy in the sense of their fight. they do complain they haven't received any help from anyone else, that's the anger of the curds that say turkey isn't allowed anyone in, any curds in to help boost the fighters this is also a request from the u.n., but at the moment, the situation on the ground hasn't changed when it comes to the inside of the town, but the fighters telling us that they are positive for now they are managing to push isil back. the military leader evers from the more than 20 countries that are part of the led coalition, are going to be talking about in washington quite shortly, now, this is the first time such a meeting is takes place since the coalition was formed last month. let's go life now to andrews air force base, and patty, as all of these military chiefs assemble there, just out

isil remains in the east, in the south, and also an assault from the southwest, isil very determined to try and take back one of the borderssings. hasn't done that yet, but as they say it is hugely symbolic and that is something we need to look into, if they fall to isil, all the curds we have spoken to say there could be a major upriding here. >> the situation, in turkey and indeed in syria as well as the situation in iraq all going to be on the table for this meeting of the top military. the correspondent so an awful lot that they have to talk about. >> officials tell al jazeera that basically they are not going to ask any specific countries for any specific actions. 90% of the strikes and outside critics are starting to question whether that strategy worked. they continue to march across iraq, the administration is facing questions can it work. the top u.s. general just admitted that military helicopters had to been called in to stop isil from taking the baghdad airport. sure, and had they overrun the iraqi unit, it was a straight shot to the airport. is helping slowing down the advance. it's buying us time, so we can

southwest. that vital area they are fighting over is very much in the central of the city across the border from border crossing between kobani and turkey, according to a kurdish fighter, if isis is able to take over that border crossing, kobani would effectively fall. the kurds do not have resupply routes to bring in fighters or weapons. isis has the terrain around kobani with which it moves with a certain level of impunity. kobani is critical at this stage. if isis takes over, it will have a direct logistical resupply route. there is the humanitarian cost. a lot of syrians we have been talking to say it is great that this coalition is getting involved right now, but we have been asking for support for years now and the regime. assad continues to relentlessly hammer the populations. people want the coalition to do more. it seems as if that is going to take some time. christine. >> arwa damon, thank you so much on the syria/turkey border. >>> oscar pistorius locloser to learning his fate for killing his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. emotional testimony as steenkamp's cousin took the stand. cnn's d

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border. isil remains definant and has just changed its tactics and positions. so they moved their attacks from the southwestlaunching a new offensive from the east of kobani, on wednesday carrying out a suicide tack by a truck bomb in the industrial zone against a militia target. protesters in turkey are blaming the turkish government for not helping inside kobani. they want more weapons allowed across the border. let's talk to bernard smith who is close to k-- kobani. give us your best estimate of the position right now, and give us an idea of how we really find out what is going on, when we can't go in ourselves. >> well, first of all, we find out what is going on from people that we are able to speak to on the ground, our production team here is able to call kurdish activists in kobani, to speak to fighters. so that is how we get a reasonably good idea, we believe, of what is going on on the ground. and the information that we're getting today from the fighters is that at least six u.s. air strikes have made a difference to them. it has helped them push isil forces back towards the boundaries of the town

border once again. that will allow the shift -- winds to shift out of the southwest. a one day cold shot and temperatures modify. al up to, breezy, 6 degrees, jersey shore, morning showers, breezy, mild high of 73. philadelphia, highs around 72 which is close to average. showers this morning, otherwise clouds giving way to some sun, winds picking up out west at 15 to 20 miles per hour. mainly clear and chilly overnight tonight, 38 degrees for the western suburbs, 45 for center city. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, stays chilly tomorrow, high of 60 degrees, 72, sun and clouds monday, increasing clouds tuesday high of 75. you can see how much warmer the rest of the week is here, maybe a shower early wednesday, 75. friday, sun and clouds, 76 degrees, one and done that's it for the cold. >> i'm happy with that. >> reporter: i know you are. >> i know you're ready for it. >> reporter: it's a little a too cold out west for my liking. but another couple weeks, yeah. >> november i can deal with itle. >> two biologist professors from tennessee are living under wat

in iraqi, three airstrikes southwest of muss ill dam and three air strikes were carried out southeast of saluza. we have our reporters in iraq and on the syria/turkey border as well covering this story from all angles. in a moment, there is bernard smith who will update us from the turkish border town of erfa. but first, charles strafford joining us from erbil to tell us whether this is a significant escalation of the u.s. air strikes in iraq in particular targeting isil and if so, why. it's not really an escalation. what it does show, though, is the importance of protecting this dam, mosul dam there, taken by pesh perfect forces in mid august. these airstrikes are an indication that the centcom as confirmed, an indication of how far important retaining control of is that dam is. we have spoken to a peshmerga commandser. he said there was fighting around a town called elkindi, a former iraqi military base. a lot of rockets that is in control by isil. a lot of action in that area as well. those streaks on a day as well when the town of zuma fell back into the hands of peshmerga forces. they retook control of that town. all in and around mosul. it's signifi

borders. isis entered kobani early this morning. that means isis now controls the southwest the city. all of this just happening hours after turkey and australia pledged to support coalition forces. yesterday, turkey's parliament o.k.ed the use of force in iraq and syria and in the meantime, australian officials have given the go-ahead for air strikes and the use of australian special forces on the ground in iraq. let's get the latest from cnn's phil block who joins us live from the turkish syrian border. what's the situation there, phil? >> carol, we've been seeing isis hitting kobani very hard with the artillery today, the hardest bombardment we've seen so far. up at the top of the hill overlooking kobani you can still see a structure there burning as a direct result of the bombardment we've seen here unleashed upon the city. particularly on the east side, the southeastern side where we are standing. what we're hearing to the southwest of the city is perhaps more concerning. that's where fighters are have told us that isis fighters have entered the city and now control par

southwest of the mosul dram, two isil vehicles and two buildings and three airstrikes were carried out southeast of soluja. bernard smith has more from orfa on the border>> all that separates turk frey syria here is just a little bit of barbed wire and most of it pushed down. just on the other side of that, syrian kurds. if they wanted to, they would be allowed to cross but they don't want to leave behind their cattle or their vehicles. and they are not allowed to bring those over. so most of them have elected to stay there. they have been there now for weeks on end. really, since isil started to encircle and push on kobane. in the distance over there is kobane. this entrance to the area is one of two that could potentially be used by the iraqi peshmerga when and if they come to kobane. you can see how close we are. just hearing the gunfire and the artillery in the distance. the other border crossing right in the center of kobane is where isil forces have been shelling with mortars because they want to stop. they want to take control of that border crossing to present the passing of the peshmerga so they can control access to kobane there. this is why

southwest. the critical location where a lot of the fighting has been centered, also where the air strikes centered is at the border crossing at turkey and kobani. the air strikes have managed to halt isis advance for the time being and prevent the takeover of the border crossing. still, the kurdish fighters continue to say they need weapons resupply. they need the weapons required to defeat isis and the tanks, the heavy armor isis has at its disposal. we continue to hear fighter jets overhead. the kurds say they won't be able to hold out against isis indefinitely. they have no resupply routes. they are able to smuggle across items over the border. they are not able to bring additional fighters or weapons into kobani. isis has entire swaths of open terrain through which to bring about resupply. over the last few days, there is an increase in air strikes, but a significant increase in isis sending in weapons resupply and additional fighters to this frontline. christine. >> arwa damon on the frontline for us near the syria/turkey border. thank you. >>> news overnight from hong kong. the chief executive opening the do

border. fighters on the ground tell cnn isis entered kobani earlier this morning. this means isis now controls the southwestr of the city, all of this happening just hours after turkey and australia pledged to support coalition forces. yesterday turkey's parliament okayed the use of force in iraq and syria. in the meantime australian officials have given the go ahead for air strikes in the use of special forces in iraq. so let's get the latest from cnn's phil black, he joins us live from the turkish syrian border and joined by cnn military analyst lieutenant colonel rick francona. welcome to both of you. phil, i want to start with you. tell us what it's like on the ground. >> reporter: carol, what we're seeing today i think is the most intense shelling of kobani seen to this date yet. earlier today the shells were really falling, the artillery really pounding, the eastern and southeastern corner of the city which you can see behind me. short time after that we started to hear small arms fire in the distance and reports from syrian, i should say kurdish fighters still in the city that isis had actually enter

border. this is the cold shot diving south and east over the next couple of days. cold front off to the west, winds out of the southwest at 15 to 25 miles per hour. we get into sunday, winds are still 15 to 25 miles per hour this time they are out of the north northwest not the southwest. that's a much cooler breeze, temperatures will struggle to get into the low to mid 50s. another area of low pressure pulls in from the great lake states that will combine with developing low 0 are off -- offe carolinas. that will bring a miserable pattern into our neck of the woods over next week. the pattern goes like this. chilly, monday, tuesday, wednesday. the lehigh valley, combination of sun and clouds, north of allentown, especially in the poconos, there could be a shower late, breezy, 65 degrees, the forecasted high for will also -- atlantic city and most of the shore points, temperatures in the 70s. winds and passing clouds. philadelphia, 67 degrees, probably reaching that at 3:00 p.m. sun and clouds, breezy, winds out of the of the west. for the outlying suburbs, 43 degrees, 47 for center city. today, 56 degrees, winds and c

border. it will a trailing cold front into the area in the afternoon and evening. temperatures in the upper 60s and low 70s, winds out of the southwest. once we get into tomorrow, the winds shift off the northwest. this is pacific air not arctic air. it will be cooler, but not cold. with the wind howling it will feel cooler than the actual temperature. you factor in 30 to 35 miles per hour gust it will feel like the 50s. monday 65 degrees, we lose the breeze as the high settles in. lots of sunshine, monday is a nice looking day. beautiful in the lehigh valley we're getting toward peak the fall foliage, 689 degrees, pleasant afternoon. atlantic city, sea isle, avalon, cape may looks beautiful. mostly sunny, we'll call it pleasant. 67 degrees, philadelphia, 70 right on the dot, mostly sunny skies, comfortable, winds out of the west at 5 to 15 miles per hour. the norm at is 63. we'll reach that market -- we'll reach the mark of 70 degrees this afternoon. overnight tonight temperatures drop back down into the 40s, 45 in quakertown and allentown and reading. 53 in center city partly cloudy, seasonable numbers, winds out of the west at 5 t

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southwest of kobane. launching a new offensive from the east of the town. also using a truck bomb for a suicide mission against the syrian target. blaminthey want turkey to let weapons through the border, even allow fighters to come in from turkey to syria, and to return the other way. well, john kerry said a short while ago about creating that kind of buffer zone between the two countries. >> the buffer zone is an idea that has been out there. it's worth examining. it's worth looking at very, very closely. there are million-plus refugees across the border, and another 180,000 driven out in the last several days from kobane. this should not be a problem that is thrust on to turkey, lebanon, jordan, where they bear an incredible burden with respect to their societies. and if syrian citizens can return to syria and be protected in an area across the border, there is a lot that would commend that. but at the same time you have to guarantee safety, guarantee that it wouldn't be attacks by the government. at other times things would have to happen. it needs a thorough examination. we're all in favor of looking at this very closely. >> mr. kerry also expects decisions soon about what role t

of areas that border howard and prince george's county, that route 1, 95, 295 corridor there coming in from laurel and savage and odenton right now. this is all moving toward the southwestat's not the usual direction for us but that's what's happening. this is the last hour of motion here. boom, here it is in college park now headed toward d.c. prince george's county mainly north of route 50 seeing the heavier showers from laurel back toward odenton and bwi. some showers into montgomery county. we'll take you to the south though. we've been tracking this area for a while. now down to the south, down 95. so woodbridge light showers but you get to stafford headed toward fredricksburg, heavier rains there. light to moderate showers much of charles county. warrenton, the showers still light to moderate but they were a lot heavier coming out of fauquier county about an hour ago. and off to the northwest, i just want to get back into montgomery county from rockville north to germantown, out into eastern loudoun and northwestern fairfax coming out of howard. so there's a lot of rain out there this morning. and we'll be in andout of the showers for much of the day. so temperatu

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