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Terms of the isis militants who may still be lingering there? >> well, its going to be quite a challenge, christi, because mosul is a see that under normal circumstances had a population of about 2 million. now its somewhere between 700,000 and 1 million. but it is a large city. its iraqs second largest. and its one in which isis has, we understand from sources inside the city, prepared some significant defenses. yesterday we learned that isis had released many of the prisoners in its jails. peo...

Resistance hiding in the town and if this is a complete victory for peshmerga in sinjar. i likely heard one blast behind me there. they have taken the town very quickly. it is symbolic. it reverses the retaliation on the yizidi population. you can never take back the scars, but you could give them back their town. it is also strategic. we know the town runs on a main highway between raqqah and syria and mosul in iraq. it is now in peshmerga hands. peshmerga is digging trenches and layering it wi...

Issue? >> well, we spent a morning in the biggest syrian refugee camp. 80,000 people, more than half of those are children. a handful of them are in school. but most of them arent because theyre out on the streets working for pennies in order to help feed their families. the girls that are there often are sold into marriage by the time theyre 12 or 13 in order to make a little bit of money for their family and other kids we saw were digging trenches where feces and sewage run through the middle ...

Anywhere, which is in jordan. chris murphy of connecticut joins us now. senator, thanks very much for being with us. can you tell me about what you saw on your trip abroad and how it affected how you feel on this issue? >> well, we spent a morning in the biggest syrian refugee camp. 80,000 people, more than half of those are children. a handful of them are in school. but most of them arent because theyre out on the streets working for pennies in order to help feed their families. the girls that ...

Him as house majority leader. well ask the party chairman how it all shakes out. happy fathers day to all of you dads with control of the remote this morning as we look ahead on "sunday morning futures." hi, everybody, the militant group that seized much of northern iraq now drawing closer to baghdad. security forces in the capital city are digging trenches around its perimeter in an attempt to disrupt any further advances. meanwhile, the white house is still weighing its options for how to re...

The ones manning a checkpoint right now. some of them have military experience, but essentially, theyve been working civilian jobs, and they say the army, the ukrainian army is not tough enough to stand alone, we must also do our bit to help them. and so, theyve set up these kind of barricades at a roadside che checkpoi checkpoint. they say if russians were to roll on, they would set this stuff on fire to set up a smoke screen, if russian troops come down what is a major highway towards kiev. th...

Right now. our carl penhall is on the border there. tell us what you are seeing here. >> reporter: we are seeing on the ukrainian side a build up of the ukrainian military. we are looking at them digging in with personnel carriers and we saw some t-80 tanks digging in and protecting bridges and the line of advance we think the russians would take if they rolla cross the border. more importantly, the civilian population is beginning to organize. they say they cant trust the united states or weste...

Are. they know that force across that side of the border is so big and so fast, it could be here with zero warning, carol. >> i cant imagine the courage in the face of russian military might, digging trenches and setting tires on fire. it is astounding. karl penhaul, reporting live. thank you so much for joining me today. im carol costello. "at this hour" with berman and michaela after a break. geico motorcycle. see how much you could save.

Through. if i can, ill show you a little bit of the defenses they have made. car tires here, theyve been putting up barricades here. they say if the russian troops come across, theyll set light to that. theyll set up physical smoke screens in case the russian tanks come through here. a little bit back here, htheyv been digging trenches here. theyve been doing here as well. of course, what these civilian self-defense forces say is this is maybe a gesture in vein. they realize that the russian arm...

That said, the tanks that we saw positioned alongside bridges and the troops there said they had orders to either defend that bridge or to blow it if russian tanks do advance, jim? >> its a sobering thought. a war in the middle of europe, essentially. european leaders have said we stand with the ukrainian people, we support them. are those promises -- are ukraines beginning to lose and taking over crimea? >> in this corner of northeastern ukraine, the population very much disbelieves any promise...