we're covering these latest developments with barbara starr at the pentagon, joe johns at the white house. barbara, let's start with you. what details are you hearing from your sources. >> good morning, john and kate. multiple u.s. officials are now telling cnn that the white house is expected to make this announcement shortly. what by all accounts the president has decided is a small group of u.s. special operations forces, the most elite, the most highly trained will go into northern syria. this is an area controlled by the kurds, up near the turkish border. they are going to go there to support both kurds and the syrian arab fighters. there are thousands up there from all of these groups fighting isis. but they lack ammunition, equipment, logistics, the real ability to begin to execute a campaign, if you will, to push isis out and push isis further south. so what are the u.s. special operation forces going to do? they are going to help with that kind of planning and