No more about their conditions right now. Mt. Ontake erupted midday local time saturday. Rescuers are continuing to search for the missing who may be buried beneath the heavy ash. At the base of mt. Ontake, we have more. Officials say more than 30 people have suffered heart attacks. The assumption they havent survived. Reporter when you say that someone has cardiac arrested, essentially it means theyre found with no pulse and theyre not breathing. These are people who were told were very close to the summit when this eruption happened just before noon yesterday. Rescuers were able to get up and took two different routes to get to this area. Even though there are small continuous eruptions happening right now and see the smoke plume continuing to rise, im looking at a lot of smoke from that general area so pulling them out and what theyre saying they found them essentially not breathing, no pulse in a state of cardiac arrest which means their hearts have stopped however theyre not saying theyre fatalitfatalities, only doctor can make this assessment bringing them down one by one. An ambulance came by with sirens blaring taking them to medical facilities where theyre being checked out but the official word as of now, more than 30 people missing, more than 30 people found near the summit of the mountain in a state of cardiac arrest. You put the pieces together and its certainly grim news for the growing number of families gathering here desperate for word about their loved ones. Will, there were hundreds of people on this mountain at the time of the eruption. Why was it so busy . This is the peak of the autumn viewing season and the weather is spectacular. So, of course, the time of day, as well, just before lunchtime. This would be whenmany of the hikers who took the trek up to the top would be arriving at the summit to see the leaves turning. To take photos and have a picnic lunch. This is the second highest volcano in japan but hasnt been a major eruption here in 35 years. There was a smaller one less than ten years ago but didnt amount to much. But to have this happen and have such a large eruption happen with a number of climbers on the mountain at that moment, thats why, thats why this is one of the serious eruptions japan has seen in a long time as we learn more and hear about all the people who were caught in the middle of it. Do we have details on the people who have been hurt and what injuries they may have sustained . The numbers have been changing throughout the day. What we can say roughly is that there are reports of two dozen or so injury, a little more than that ranging from mild to serious. But, again, the new number just out, these 30 possibly more people found in the state of cardiac arrest, that is the worst possible news for the people whose family members, they havent heard from them yet. These are the people who we believe were closest to the actual epicenter of this event still a dangerous spot right now with the small eruptions and even theres a warning now for seismologists that we could see another large eruption within the next six days or so so that only adds to the danger for rescuers going up there to find these people to look for them and adds to the sense of urgency to get everybody off the mountain safely and get everybody down. There was a report earlier because there was so much ash in the air they couldnt use helicopters, they had to ground the helicopters, whats the latest now . Right now i have seen at various points of the afternoon when we arrived three helicopters in the air. Right now i see one but you can tell that these aircraft are having to stay pretty far away from this large smoke plume which continues to rise because there is so much ash. Some air rescues have been possible. The people who cant walk have been able to be airlifted and taken down, however, okay, im not sure if you can see me now, john. We are trying to establish a live picture here. Weve got you, will. They can see us, okay. So now i see three choppers are in the air so the other two have just now returned so we believe that they are able are able to do these air rescues in a limited fashion in the past two hour. As we look over your shoulder, is that the smoke we can actually see from the volcano . Yeah, in fact, let me just ill step out of the way and im going to show you so that you can actually see what im looking at in front of here. That is the smoke plume. Can you see the sun shining. The sun is setting here and you get a sense, if we have a way of zooming in, if you could zoom in so we can show people what theyre looking at, if we could get close enough youll see the smoke rising up pretty quickly. And thats whats so remarkable to me is that this seismic activity is continuing. Its been continuing ever since this larger eruption happened yesterday, it continued overnight. Thats why air travel in this area is disrupted, planes are being told to avoid this area. If theres another large eruption, the last one in 79 dumped so much ash on literally an area that stretched for kilometers around this mountain. Were seeing that on a smaller scale right now. But you can see for yourself that this is still a very active volcano, which is why theyve just raised the alert level from 1 to 3 warning people to stay away from all the active volcanoes in this country right now. There are more than 100 active volcanoes in japan. That makes up almost 10 of the active volcanoes in the world just in this one country but even for a place that is used to eruptions, this one will go down in the history books as we learn more details sadly about the people up on the mountain when it happened this will go down as one of the worst in recent memory. As we look at the live images from wills position and we can look at the smoke which continues to rise, what we also saw from wills live shot there, people actually still Wearing Masks on their face as a precaution because theres ash which can cause burns if it is inhaled and respiratory problems as well and those ropes, those lines are part of the rope way running up part of the side of the mountain which was so popular, it was an easily walkable mountain and thats why so many people in fact, i think we can see a helicopter just in the distance which is part of the rescue efforts. And that massive plume of smoke about 200 kilometers west of tokyo. The volcanic ash dangerous for your lungs, wheezing, coughing, sore throat. And the air Traffic Control and flights are another big issue. Yep. Lets get more on the volcanic eruption, meteorologist derek van dam is standing by for us. Here at the International Weather center. Derek, it could be a problem for air traffic. Absolutely. On some of those live shots you can see how far away the helicopters are performing the rescues away from that ash plume and theres a very specific reason for that, as well. Lets first talk about the proximity between mountain ontake and tokyo, its roughly 200 kilometers just to the east and keep in mind tokyo has two Major International airports and, of course, tokyos norita, and flights have already been diverted because of the ash plume. This is the reason why its such a problem for aviation industry. Think of ash cloud as tiny fragmented pieces of microscopic glass and rock from the volcanic eruption and if that gets into the Combustion Engine of the jetliner to actually melts it and creates almost a molten glass which eventually cools and solidifies on these turbines, the props here. Now, this is significant because as it does that, it also starts to avert the airflow and eventually causes the engine to seethe. This is what it looks like. A webcam. You saw the live shots a moment ago as well and see the sun is setting behind mt. Ontake and there is still concerns of that smoke plume. This is whats taken place of the eruption ruffle 24 hours ago, a pyroclastic flow, this is significant, some of the visuals coming out. A time lapse of the pyroclastic flow and this is formed from the explosive volcanic eruption that took place. Its a very fastmoving cloud of hot gas, rock fragment, ash, moves upward of 100 Kilometers Per Hour and extremely hot and dangerous and they had observed around 40 to 50 centimeters of ash around a 40kilometer radius of mt. Ontake. Thank you. We want to say thanks to will ripley along with his photojournalist for bringing us those live images. Okay, now to our other main story. Near syrias border with turkey now theyre get ago decisional help from the skies above. A cnn crew was there saturday and shot this video of the fighting. Isis militants swept through dozens of villages near the border town of kobani. Kurdish forces are pushing isis back thanks to air strikes. The u. S. Military has released new video showing an f15 bombing at an isis compound near ckobani. They are believed to be the first near the border with turkey. In iraq, Coalition Warplanes also destroyed isis vehicles and a fighting position near the Northern City of irbil, saudi arabia, jordy enand the uae took part. Only hours after it was approved, Royal Air Force fighter jets flew in. They gathered indell jens, did not carry out any attacks against isis militants. To london for more and karl penhaul is at number 10 downing street. No other strikes by the british but were told theyve gathered invaluable intelligence. What was that intelligence that was so invaluable . Reporter well, so far, john, the minister of defense hasnt given us any clear details of what that intelligence may have been, in fact, military chiefs here in britain are saying they will not give a running commentary on those aerial operations over iraq, but certainly if you look at what those planes actually did beyond flying overhead they didnt fire a single shot even though they were armed with missiles and laserguided bombs and that the ministry of defense said it was because they couldnt find any worthwhile targets hitting. Now, yes, it is true that Britains Parliament authorized britains planes to take air strikes against isis positions inside of iraq on friday, but nevertheless, british warplanes have been carrying out reconnaissance and surveillance flights over iraq for at least the last two weeks so the fact that the first they put in the air in an aggressive posture theyre unable to find targets points to one of the difficulties Going Forward that neither britains warplanes nor any of the other Coalition Warplanes are going to be able to strike decisive blows unless they can gather enough intelligence. Iraq or syria, up until now the targets that have been hit have been the obvious things and militarily and not too significant. That according to military analysts weve spoken to so far, john. Could britains contribution expand to including tomahawk missiles fired from submarines in the gulf . Reporter well, after the parliamentary vote on friday, we have understood so far that britains contribution will be relatively limited. That to around six fighter jets putting that in perspective thats roughly the same number as jordan, belgium and holland that have contributed and one less than denmark have contributed and seen those reports suggesting britain is looking to buy 20 tomahawk missiles from the United States. Those tomahawk missiles are usually fired from the sea, either from ships or from submarines, but, again, putting that in perspective this possible order of 20 tomahawk missiles on the first night of air strikes the United States said it fired 47 tomahawk missiles into syria and so the 20 that britain is now looking to buy wouldnt necessarily last for long although 1. 5 million apiece the bill would soon ratchet up. Especially for a military force which has undergone stiff budget cuts. Karl penhaul, thank you. 1. 5 million apiece, incredible. More on the battle against isis after the break. Were going to be going live to iraq. Also ahead the latest on the search for a suspect after a Police Officer is shot in the tense u. S. City of ferguson, missouri. Welcome back. Well get to the top stories but talk about the war against isis. Joining me now from irbil is cnns Senior International correspondent ben wedeman. So, ben, were just talking to karl penhaul about the air strikes joining us from london and know there were air strikes around irbil southwest of irbil. How are the Kurdish Peshmerga forces taking advantage . Well, they are taking advantage by trying to regain ground that was lost earlier in august. To isis and to a certain extent theyve been successful. Theyve taken a variety of villages on the road to mosul which is just about an hours drive to the west of here but getting back to what karl was talking about with the british jets flying over iraq, but not finding targets, it seems to agree with what were hearing and what were seeing hearing from kobani in Northern Syria where isis seems to be changing its tactics before the air strikes intensified, they would drive around in columns of armored vehicles, pickup trucks and whatnot which in theory would have been easy targets but now according to kurdish commanders, they are driving around in individual vehicles which makes them a much harder target for Coalition Aircraft because when they see one vehicle with no apparent weapons on it, they dont know whether they are civilians or fighters. So that really underscores the difficulty of those airplanes as they fly around the vast expanses of iraq when they see a lone car they dont know what it is and whether its a worthwhile target so isis is changing its tactics as these air strikes intensify making the job of the coalition ever more difficult. Zain. Ben, you were talking about the air strikes but the isis problem cant just be solved militarily. You have to have the Regional Government in kurdistan and the federal government in baghdad Work Together. Theyve obviously had tense relations in the past. How are they trying to Work Together to combat isis . Well, the relations at the moment between the kurdish Regional Government and baghdad arent particularly brilliant. Theres a long history of mistrust between the two, baghdad, for instance, insists that any weapons bound for the kurdish Regional Government must pass through the capital, be inspected by customs and then approved for shipment to the north. Those that particular bottleneck seems to have eased somewhat but the political tensions are there. They remain, they have differences over, for instance, the sale by the kurdish Regional Government of oil from kurdistan independent from the government in baghdad. Those difficulties are there. Then theres the political dimension within, for instance, the area controlled by baghdad. There are, of course, disaffected sunni tribes which have had a very unhappy relationship with the shia dominated government in baghdad. The feeling is, for instance, that some of these shia miscch little that militias trying to take control, some were involved in horrendous atrocities in sunni arabs in Anbar Province and elsewhere, so until somehow or other the rift between these sunni tribes and the government in baghdad are repaired, its going to be rough going for the iraqi army as it tries to push isis out of the areas it currently trees. Zain . Yeah, the political problem and the tensions certainly complicate it, certainly difficult. Ben wedeman, thanks so much. We appreciate it. Time for another short break. When we come back a city on edge, ferguson, missouri, still divided over the shooting death of Michael Brown as news breaks of two Police Involved in shootings overnight. Back in a moment. People are using lysol in hundreds of ways. Whats jennifers story . I have two kids and my home is my childrens playground. My goto product is lysol disinfectant spray. I really use it in every room, on every surface and it allows me to get to all the hardtoreach areas. All of the different nooks and crannies and places that little hands like to go. It makes me feel comfortable and confident that my home is fresh, its protected, and that ive killed the germs and bacteria. One lysol, hundreds of uses. Start healthing. And welcome back. Police in the st. Louis, missouri, area are looking for two suspects in two separate incidents in which officers were shot at. The most recent happened as a gunman opened fire on an offduty officer driving on the interstate highway not far from the airport. That officer suffered only minor injuries. Earlier a ferguson, missouri officer was shot in the arm during an apparentburg. Burglary. He was riding by, encountered two male individuals that ran from him. The officer exited his car. He ran to the west chasing those two individuals and as he came into close proximity with them one of the individuals turned with a firearm. The officer was able to block it with his arm and then was shot in the arm by one of the suspects. The officer said that he was able to get a couple shots off. I dont know what that means beyond a couple shots. We have no indication right now that either suspect was shot. Now, ferguson has been on edge since an unarmed africanamerican teen was shot and killed by a Police Officer two months ago. And the citys police chief apologized last week for the death of Michael Brown but as Stephanie Elam reports, things have not gone smoothly since. What do you want what you mean i want you to its a serious question. Take a step and talk to me. Reporter it was supposed to be the Ferguson Police chiefs apology tour. A time to say sorry for the community how his department handled the shooting death of mike brown by officer darren willing in august. But instead chief Thomas Jackson was outside Police Headquarters defending himself against calls for his resignation. All i got to say is this is a [ bleep ] tragedy. We all know that and im sorry and i said it from my heart. You dont have to accept that. You dont have to accept that. That came from my heart. I had to get that off my chest