this fight continues, wolf. >> and what about now? what's the latest? what are you hearing from all of your sources? >> reporter: well, at this stage, this is always the beginning of the operation. the peshmerga moving down a key highway on the east of mosul city, securing about five or six kilometers of it. that has been patchy in success today. a lot of ground taken, but as you saw there, it's not entirely secure and safe. we saw one village, they held back quite some time. keel keep that fight up a while. the iraqi army is supposed to pile up down the road and move on to the next village. the idea is to keep the pressure up, but this is just the plains outside of mosul. the flat expanse of deserts and villages, which many perhaps hoped isis might give up with less of a hope saving gun powder as it were for the sprol of 1.2 people thought to be potentially trapped and brace themselves for