they are mounting another fierce offensive to try to seize that location that's right along the turki turkish-syrian border. welcome to america's news headquarters. >> those air strikes are in support of kurdish forces who are said to be holding their ground as the fighting ramps up. in fact, greg palkot is near the border with more. greg? >> reporter: the last 24 hours in the syrian border town of kobani has seen the biggest clash in a week between isis terrorists and kurdish mill sharks and one of the bigger waves of u.s. bombing runs of the entire campaign. just in the last 24 hours or so, i am told isis brought in reinforcements, and they tried to take the offensive again against the kurdish militia, attacking at three different fronts and pounding the kurds with mortars sending in three car bombs across the battle lines. the kurdish offenders say they told the battle lines in ct, that town remain unchanged, and we're told one hospital in isis-held syria received 70 bodies of terrorists in the last day or so. centcom confirms lit today they have been on the offensive as well, hitt

.- aid for international development, that stuff gets sent in convoys that leave turky and drive to syria it is, there was a article in the daily beast that said the aid convoys are getting through because either the turkish transport companies hauling the aid or the aid agencies are paying isis emirs to let the convoys go through. and we are funding, it is a another source of the funding for isis to get the stuff through, and if we don't pay them and get the stuff through, then the people suffering are going to suffer and they will blame the united states which is total poppycock. isis controls the area and everybody knows it. >> does that give a rise to getting boots and intelligence on the ground and direct these things and whose boots are on the ground. we have concerns about the iraqi army and whether they are up to the task. >> the iraqi is not up to the task. they are gangs and militias. there is leadership that is decimated. syria is even worse. you can't protect those kinds of convoys by saying we are going to lay in thousands of american troops to escort the convoys, that was di

emanating from territories where isil operates has been sold to kurds in iraq and then resold into turkie, and in a furtherration of the assad regime's deprave, the syrian government has made an arrangement to purchase oil from isil. >> in september the u.s. dressry department announced sanctions against 11 individuals and one knopp government charity for helping provide weapons, fighters and money to isis. >> the military is in on this attack on the finances as well. right? >> that's right in addition to the treasury sanks, david cohen said they're seeing some signs the u.s. military's airstrikes against isis-held oil refineries in syria, strikes look this one on september 24th in eastern syria, they are making a difference. at the time the pentagon said that they were leaving the refineries in tact so they would be workable in the future. the strikes were designed to push isis away from the facilities, but with no allied ground forces on the ground, working with the u.s. coalition, it is easy for isis to return and take control of these refineries that are bringing in a million dollars

they are mounting another fierce offensive to try to seize that location that's right along the turkish-syrian border. welcome to america's news headquarters. >> those air strikes are in support of kurdish forces who are said to be holding their ground as the fighting ramps up. in fact, greg palkot is near the border with more. greg? >> reporter: the last 24 hours in the syrian border town of

for more on the isis advance and what it means, let's bring in cnn's arwa damon on the turki turkish/syrian border. hello, arwa. >> hi, carol. that first flag you mentioned there on a building, we saw that earlier in the day, some of the residents here that have been watching isis' advance on kobani saying they believe it was hoisted in the morning. the second flag on the hilltop put up, at least as far as we are aware, just a short time ago. this is a town that had been under siege for two weeks now as isis began inching closer. now entrenching itself in the southeastern part of the city. just to give you an idea of how desperate the situation is, yesterday one of the top female commanders of the kurdish fighting force, the female unit carried out a suicide mission against an isis position, inflicting casualties, though numbers at this stage are unclear. the kudish fighting force inside the ypg has for weeks now ever since the u.s.-led air strikes began been begging for more additional assistance, for something to be done to stop the isis advance this city is strategic for isis in th

this, as the bloody fight for control of kobani along the turki turkish/syrian border in syria continues. u.s. centcom released video showing an air strike. as kurdish forces have held off a month-long offensive by isis, with the help of the u.s.-led coalition air strikes. by the way, there have also been more than a dozen other air strikes by coalition forces not only in syria but iraq as well over the past 24 hours and that number has likely grown. we're waiting for more details on that. back ton the fight over kobani. while the air strikes have helped kurdish forces, really, the question remains how much longer will they be able to hold off isis militants if relief in terms of heavy artillery and more fighters doesn't come any time soon. leeland. >> we know a lot of the kurds are saying it is now a desperate situation that has gotten worse there in kobani. john huddy, live in jerusalem. >>> we are now two months into u.s. air strikes against isis and president obama's promise to, quote, degrade and ultimately destroy the terror group. but they are still a powerful force on the battlef

here making halloween decoration was their new friends hopefully they will make those paper call for turkies, by then. >> i hope so. >> a lot of people on twitter it wasn't so much they didn't want kids from school is that they weren't told, parents weren't told. i wonder where the nurse got idea that she needed to do this. >> reporter: mike, the nurse doesn't know everything about ebola anyway because 13 percent of people with ebola show no temperatures. that doesn't prove anything. so parents that saw that on the news watching all this blanket wall to wall coverage say taking the temperatures doesn't mean these kids don't have a sickness anyhow there was concern and everybody ride just don't not tell us well, certainly this is relating to this story. >> ebola is having an affect on the travel industry. fears are growing after a nurse infect with the deadly virus flew on the plane a day before being diagnosed. few airlines have stopped flying as a result. >> a lot of people here didn't want to sees them flights stopped and president obama is calling for american to use caution, he is than t

in other countries, in turkey, and elsewhere, and we're very much engaged mitchell deputy was in turkie a couple of weeks ago. general allen was there last week. we're continuing very close communication with the turks on these issues. and it will require an enhanced understanding of the funding networks that we're combating. whether it's the oil network, other smuggling networks, external donation network. i should note that we're very proud of the treasury department that we have an in-house intelligence agency. we are the only finance ministry in the world that has our own intelligence agency. what these folks do is help us understand the financial network. they develop financial intelligence. it's enormously important to the efforts that the intelligence community help us understand these networks. so, to answer your question, how will we judge our success? we'll see over time that we are degrading each of these lines of financing for isil. as i said, isil has a fair amount of money today. what is critically important is we do everything we can to prevent it from being recuring reve

turki turkish tanks have been standing by. >>> two patients are fighting if ebola virus on american soilng treated with an experimental drug after taking a turn for the worse at a dallas hospital. it's still unclear if american journalist ashoka mukpo will get experimental drugs as well. he believes he got the infection from cleaning ining a car in l. >>> and a nurse is the first to get it outside of africa. and president obama saying they will boost airport screenings for ebola. no word what they will entail. >>> a new study shows pot can damage your mental health and increases your risk of mental loss. >>> man in the passenger seat was tasered in this video. he allegedly refused to get out of the car because he said he didn't have i.d. >>> now to a pop star entering politics. former "american idol" runner up clay aiken took the stage for his first debate. reena ninan shows us what happened. >> reporter: clay aiken is no stranger to competition. overnight, the 49-year-old taking to a different stage. the crooner turned hopeful congressman going head to head in a feisty first debate with

. >> creamy white sauce vegetable one and i'm doing a pasta, turki and red sauce. >> where do we startass baking dish so you can see the layers. make them the day before. put a little sauce on the bottom. >> you start with flour and butter. add milk. i added a bunch of cheese and you thicken it together. take all your veggies -- i like to layer the vegetables. zucchini down first. spread them out. it doesn't matter. once it's all baked it doesn't matter. >> we're going to take a couple of short cuts but you'll get the idea. >> you can grill your veggies indoor or outdoor or you can roast them in the oven or take leftover vegetables. sometimes i do this with squash, lots of different vegetables i have leftover. i'm making mine with pasta. penne and tossing it in store-bought pesto. you can take any sauce you want. >> i was going to put another layer of sauce on that. >> you didn't put all the zucchini down. you only went halfway. >> how long has it been since you've been here? i haven't been yelled at this way in at least a month. >> you want to do your own, now you get to do your own.