On an old problem facing the western United States. Welcome back to our viewers around the u. S. And around the world. Im natalie allen. The u. S. Has launched new attacks in iraq. U. S. Defense Officials Say the dam is the second largest in iraq has been under threat from the islamist militants. The u. S. Defense secretary chuck hagel said the strikes u. S. Technology battling isis and not the escalation of u. S. Involvement. I think the dam is a critically important facility for iraq. It is, i think, the secretary largest hydrology dam in iraq. Its consistent with what the president has said were the glooinsz for any military action there to protect. And Critical Infrastructure in iraq. Both of those fit clearly into the purpose of the strikes as well as the request of the iraqi government. Pent gop Officials Say they have conducted at least 133 airstrikes in recent weeks against isis in iraq. Cnns jamana joins us live from baghdad. What more can you tell us about the significance of these airstrikes . Reporter well, natalie, if we look at whats been happening since the u. S. Air strikes have been happening since the 8th. Most of the airstrikes have been concentrated in the northern part of iraq. This is the first time that we know of that u. S. Air strikes have hit western iraq in the key an bar province. Anbar is the suny hartland. It borders syria. Back in january this is the first time we saw isis make those great advances. It was the takeover of fallujah and the key city of hadifa. The key city not far from the Syrian Border where isis has been in control in those parts. The dam itself has not been under the control of isis. It has been under the control of the iraqi sources and the sunni tribes in the region. We know over the past several weeks there have been attempts to try and take over the dam by isis militants. We have seen them do that in their advances whether its in mosul where they took over the key mosul dam or where they took over the fallujah dam. Iraqi Security Forces and tribes in the area have maintained control of the dam and it is a very significant dam. The second largest in iraq and it will be dangerous when we see such key infrastructure fall into the hands of isis. Jamana, youve also been following one of the worst atrocities that weve heard about involving isis, the killing of Iraqi Military recruits back in june. They estimate 770 deaths so far, confirmed killed, and that number could be much higher. Have you heard anything new about this case . Reporter natalie, those figures are from human rights watch. Here they say that this is only the tip of the iceberg, that a much larger number is out there, that they cannot reach, they cannot really estimate. They do not know how many are missing, how many have been captured and how many are killed of these recruits in the northern city. It has been the suffering of those families of the recruits that has been the most heartbreaking. 5yearold and 2yearold share what they have left of their photograph. A photograph. Too painful for their grandmother to watch. The children are too young to understand. Their father is one of the men in this video. What looked like an endless line of military cadets captured by isis in june as the group swept through the city of tikrit. It shared photos of cold blooded mass murders. A hamas family dont know his fate. I dont want anything in life except for one thing, bru me my son, his mother tells us. In an emotional scene that has come to depict the suffering of so many military families at a recent meeting with senior military leaders, they tell us, we brought you to power, bring back our sons, dead or alive. She removes her head scarf, a symbol for honor, and throws it at officials to shame them into finding her boy. She also is among this group of families who stormed Parliament Last week demanding answers. They forced lawmakers to sem mon defense. Families say as isis advanced in tikrit, they received orders to move out of their base with no weapons or security. They ended up in the hands of sunni extremists. The military denies issuing any orders and says they deserted. They hold onto the hope that some recruits may still be captive. Officials say that the answers like most of the bodies in mass graves lie in tikrit a city isis rules and they cannot reach. They want an International Investigation by the united nations. Her son and many others joined the army because it was the only job they could find. The anguish is visible in his fathers face. She shows me the last time she saw her son alive, in the video clip of the captured recruits. This one, this one, she says, he looks at the camera. Its a message for us to tell us im here. His family is overwhelmed by grief. They dont know whether to mourn or to wait. Reporter this is one out of 1700 stories not anymore. Poignantly sad, tragic story. Its so terribly sad to see. They can see their son there and not know what happened. Thank you, jaman ha for us there in baghdad. A fragile ceasefire has been rattled by shelling in two separate fronts. Shelling hit a pet troll station outside the city of mariopol. Shelling and explosions can be heard near the airport. Its not clear at this point whos responsible. Its blaming the other for violating the truth. The area had seen sporadic fighting between Government Forces and russian backed rebels before the ceasefire went into effect on friday. Reza sayah is following developments from the ukrainian capital. He joins us live from kiev, a disappointment from 24 hours ago. Yeah, natalie. Obviously when you have a cease fair, you want peace. You want calm. But at least in some areas of the conflict zone unfortunately that hasnt been the case. Weve had firings. Weve had shelgs. Its unclear whos been doing the firings. It raises a lot of questions about the durability of this ceasefire. Lets take you through the past 12 hours. Around 10 30 last night in the critical port city of mariopol, there was shelling and firing that destroyed a gas station and injured several people. Remember, this is the city where on the eastern outskirts for the past week theres been a tense standoff. Around one side you have pro russian rebels stalking the city. You have Ukrainian Forces and militias protecteding the city. This is where the shelling happened. Its not clear who did the firing. Then over the past hour our cnn crew was at this very same location when they observed more incoming mortar fire. They fled the area. Troops and other buy standers fled the area as well. Again, its unclear who did the firing. During the overnight hours some ominous tweets and messages. One tweet coming from the donetsk people. We are taking the city of mariopol. Obviously that hasnt helped yet. When you see ominous sweets, then you have pro russian rebels who are accusing them of firing and shelling in parts of donetsk. So a lot of troubling developments, natalie, but theres also been some positive developments so far. Neither side has declared that the ceasefire has fallen apart. You also have ukrainian officials who are saying that a Prisoner Exchange thats scheduled to take place at some point is going to happen soon, although its not clear when. So all sorts of indications that this cease fire is in jeopardy, but neither side at this point has declared it to be over. Thats some positive news, natalie. Yes, especially the news about the Prisoner Exchange. We hope that thats happened. Reza sayah live for us in kiev. Still ahead, is there a connection. A journalist held hostage in syria says one of his captors was a man accused of a shooting in brussels. Well also into that. Also disappointment in washington as president obama makes an announcement on immigration reform. He may not yet be one of the tennis worlds most famous names, but thats not stopping kei nishikouri. The surprise at the u. S. Open. Like cheerios can help lower cholesterol. Thank you oh, he fakes a handoff quaand hes making a run. For mattress discounters fall kickoff sale right now, save up to 300 on Sealy Posturepedic and serta mattress sets. Even get 24 months interestfree financing on every tempurpedic. Youre going to love their football fieldsize selection. This calls for a little touchdown dance. Dont miss the fall kickoff sale at mattress discounters. Mattress discounters. Severe flood waters are flowing through indian administered cashmere. This is flooding. Its not a dam or anything. At least 97 people have died across 2,000 villages that have seen flooding. Dozens of bridges and roads as you just saw have been completely washed away. Some 5,000 people have been rescued, but residents are complaining of poor government response. In the hardest hit area. Ivan cabrera, our meteorologist is there. Its an incredible amount of water. You squeeze out essentially three times your Monthly Average and you dump it in just a few days and thats exactly what youre going to get. For anyone, the rescue is not going to come soon enough. We have at this point thousands and thousands of people needing to get to higher ground. Its just not possible when youre just dealing with helicopters. Roads and bridges are washed away. What has precipitated this. 13 inches of rainfall will do this. At 379. Just a couple of inches, two to four inches. That is all falling very heavily. Take a look at more images coming out of this region. Storms are particular to blow up. Again, as weve been talking about, some of the choppers tried to get people out of here grounded as well as a result of all the heavy rain. Elderly people moving out. Incredible scenes are coming out of pakistan and india. 40 years ago we had death tolls into the thousands. We hope we just stop raining and get these people out of there. Theyre getting pulled out in stretches. The thunderstorms really just appear out of nowhere. Clear skies for the overnight. Through the afternoon we just blow up. There in the him himalayas squeezing out more rain and it has to come down. Gravity takes hold. Some of the villages get into a heap of trouble. Showers and storms continue. That is going to be the pattern unfortunately for india and pakistan. Hinan in china, its running out of time to form. The rain has arrived. Towards china. This system has just been upgraded to a Tropical Storm from the joint typhoon warnings. It was a tropical depression when i saw you at the last hour. Its bringing all sorts of moisture to japan. It will parallel the coast bringing rain which theyve had too much last few weeks but the strong winds will stay off shore. Ivan, thanks. Well see you later. Any u. S. Government action on immigration will have to wait until after novembers congressional election. Thats the word from the white house. Stakeholders are critical of the president s decision. Political pundants took to the air waives following obamas announcement. Ive been working for immigration for many, many years, i am disappointsed. President obama has been considering moves to allow undocumented workers to remain in the country as well as expanding into a deferred Deportation Program of children of immigrants. The Administration Says it wants to take it out of the political arena. It means delays for the president and other democrats would come from the mid term elections. If he wanted to have a longterm solution he would have passed at the beginning of his administration. For the president its an apparent about face. Earlier he spoke of acting quickly. If congress will not do their job, at least we can do ours. Expect the recommendations before the end of the summer. I intend to adopt those recommendations without further delay. House Speaker John Boehner took the opportunity to blast obama for considering executive action. He issued a statement saying in part, theres never a right time for the president to declare amnesty. The decision smacks of raw politics. Im mary maloney reporting. Ahead here, a Funeral Service for joan rivers will begin in just a few hours, and as friends and family prepare to pay their tributes, well find out what advice she had for our own richard quest. Jo Funeral Services will be held in new york sunday for joan rivers. Fans have been leaving cards and flowers on her star. Theyve completed their autopsy but said more studies are needed to determine what exactly caused her death. Rivers family says the performer died peacefully in a New York Hospital thursday. Even before her death, as you can imagine, joan rivers had her funeral all planned out because she wanted to be quite a show. In 2012 she wrote she wanted it to be a real showbiz affair. I want paparazzi and i want publicists making a scene. I want meryl streep crying in five different accents. She said i want a wind machine so even in the casket my hair is blowing just like beyonces. Joan rivers had some advice from our own richard quest. The two sat down in 2005 for a conversation about beauty. Here it is. Do you accept that it is just skin deep . Oh, yes. Oh, no. I dont want to hear its inner beauty. Spit on inner beauty. You get all the inner beauty you want. No, it is surface and shallow. Thats very harsh. But its true. I mean, who would a man rather dance with, claudia shiver or margaret thatcher. What about inner beauty . What about it . It makes a person a beautiful person. Yeah, yeah, wake me up when its over. Its nonsense. Theres a book that says beautiful women get more, earn more, have more success. Its power. Its not fair. Its not fair but it is, and i think the thing that really isnt fair is that we are bringing our children up saying this is not so. It is so and deal with it and look good. I have to say if i may be honest, i am on very uncomfortable ground here because im asking a lady of a certain age about what she might have had done. Well, i came out and talked about it because so many of our actresses would sit there and say, ive done nothing, and that is a lie. Theyre talking about the parpts of their hair pulled so far up. So i came out and said do what you want to do to feel better about yourself. Ive had two face lifts in my life and im thrilled i had the money to have them done. Theyve worked very well. You cant see. I did nip tuck which is a Television Show about Plastic Surgery, and my part was to go to the plastic surgeons and say put me back the way i would have been without my face lift and they did it on the computer and it was wonderful to see what i would have looked like without it. You must see examples there of women of a certain age who have gone too far. You want to say, my deear, what were you thinking . Its not about you looking at a woman saying she went too far, its about a woman walking into a room and thats truly what Plastic Surgery is about, making you have confidence that you look better. Ive had friends who have had nose jobs that i can tell you when theyre going to sneeze four hours before it happens their nostrils are so up and big, but if they think theyre better looking, theyre walking differently. I always say to a woman, get your face done. A new face coming out of an old car than an old face coming out of a new car. Put your money where it counts in our society. So you didnt have any qualms about going under the knife . No. You would do it again . I will do it again when the time is right. Botox, thank god, every third woman now has botox. Youve had it . Of course ive had botox. Everybody just about has had botox in the group that i run in. Just a few lines here maybe . A little up here on the forehead will not kill you. Right. And a little here is not going to hurt you at zblaul what else should i have done . Turn side wise. Your chin line is wonderful. Take off your glasses. Youve got another four years and you have to get that done. Why . Youre going to have terrible bags in about four years. Right now youre still fine but definitely four years. Joan rivers, just too much. Again, her funeral begins in a few hours. Stay with us. Be right back. Trouble makers. Dreamer of dreamers. We are the yao chinese singing oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh, he fakes a handoff quaand hes making a run. For mattress discounters fall kickoff sale right now, save up to 300 on Sealy Posturepedic and serta mattress sets. Even get 24 months interestfree financing on every tempurpedic. Youre going to love their football fieldsize selection. This calls for a little touchdown dance. Dont miss the fall kickoff sale at mattress discounters. Mattress discounters and well come back to cnn. Im natalie allen. The top stories this hour. The ceasefire between ukraine and russianbacked rebels may be falling apart. There are new reports of shelling near the airport in donetsk and shelling and machine gunfire in the city of mariopol. Each side accuses the other of violating the truce. Al shabaab is being accused of an ambush. They attacked an aid convoy attacked by ethiopian peacekeeper. They were planning attacks in retaliation for the killing of this man, its leader, in a u. S. Air strike. North koreas state News Agency Says american Matthew Miller will be judged in court september 14th. Miller has been held since april. North korea says he claims he tore up his tourist visa and asked for asylum when he entered the country. Could the fight against isis create some unlikely allies . Western media reporting that irans Supreme Leader has ordered his military commanders to cooperate with the u. S. To battle isis, but both washington and Iran News Agency say thats not true. Cnns Michael Holmes takes a closer look. Isis is an existential threat in many ways to many people. Iran, of course, is a shia nation. Isis is a militant sunni organization. Youve got shia iran standing there watching shiias being beheaded, in some cases crucified. Iran does not want to see that happen and the u. S. Obviously doesnt want to see it happen either. Iran has had a very big roll in iraqi politics pretty much since the fall of Saddam Hussein. A lot of the Major Political parties, the political players have all got iranian