For immigration legislation. It is an issue thats dividing communities. In jerusalem, clashes on the streets between palestinians and israeli forces. Cnn is on the front lines. In nags head, North Carolina, hurricane arthur moved on but flooding presents problems for residents. Well have a live report. Hi there, im Brianna Keilar, in today for wolf blitzer. This is the day that america celebrates its independence and its freedom. This july 4th takes on special means for some new u. S. Citizens. At the white house today, president obama hosted a naturalization ceremony for members of the military who are already serving their country. The president says the ceremony is a reminder that america is a nation of immigrants. The basic idea of welcoming immigrants to our shores is central to our way of life. It is in our dna. We believe our diversity, our differences, when joined together by a common set of ideals, makes us stronger. Makes us more creative. Makes us different. From all these different strands, we make something new here in america. And thats why, if we want to keep attracting the best and the brightest from beyond our shores, were going to have to fix our immigration system, which is broken. Athena jones joining us now from the white house. Give us some of the highlights here. Were talking about 25 new citizens sworn in here, just a couple of hours ago. At the beginning of his remarks, the president says this is one of his favorite things to do. 15 of those new citizens are active Duty Service Members from the army, the navy, the marines and the air force. There are also two veterans sworn in, a reservist and seven military spouses. They come from 15 countries and the president is, in his remarks, praised them for volunteering, for offering to serve in the u. S. Military, potentially sacrificing their lives, even though they werent yet citizens. He said the fact there are so many people who want to come to america and come and be citizens here should give americans hopes. You heard that message, he said we should be the u. S. Should be making it easier for the best and brightest to come to meramea and stay, not harder, and he said hes going to do everything he can to keep making our immigration smarter and more efficient, so those are some of the highlights. Its really, this is a very big week when it companies y c immigration reform. We know the whole concept of immigration reform, dead for this congress. President obama has made it clear this week hes going to go it alone. Did he talk about any of that in his remark, today . Not beyond saying that hes going to keep doing all that he can, what he was talking about there is those executive actions he announced on monday. Not the executive actions themselves but the fact hed asked his team to come up with a series recommendations of steps he can take using his executive power without the help of congress. Some of those things might be things like prioritizing who gets deported. Thats something the administration has already been doing, but perhaps they can make more moves in that area. He can also do things like dispatch more Border Patrol agents and other resources to the border. And we know in the new money hes asked for from congress, 2 billion, part of that will go to what theyre calling a sustained border search. So those are some of the kind of things he can do. One more interesting point of context, todays ceremony really he lights the power of executive action. It was an executive order signed by the president s predecessor, president george w. Bush, back in july of 2002, that really set the stage for an event like this. That executive order made it possible to expedite the naturalization of undocumented immigrants who have been serving honorably in the armed forces. An interesting bit of context as we look at this debate. Certainly is interesting, athena jones at the white house, thank you. Nowhere is the fight over illegal immigration more intense than in marietta, california. A small town thats really the epicenter of the national debate. Residents are prepared for another possible showdown today. More buses carrying undocumented immigrants are due to arrive in Southern California earlier this week, angry crowds forced three of those buses headed to marietta to turn around. National correspondent kyung lah is joining us live now from there. Kyung, whats being done to try to prevent a repeat of what we saw on tuesday . Well, what theyre trying to do is cordon off everyone, so theres entryway into the Border Patrol office here in marietta. Look right here. You can see these are protesters. These are both sides of the immigration debate. Pro migrant rights and antiimmigration. You can see theres a sizable police force trying to separate them from the press. And swing over this way, if you could. The reason why, if you look beyond the cameras, you can see the roadway is completely clear. The entry way into the office, the Border Patrol office, is clear, should the expected migrants today arrive. Attention, usa Border Patrol reporter a lone Internet Radio host and his side kick continue the protest. If theyre bringing this in reporter he and others promise theyll be out in force for an anticipated fourth of july arrival of more undocumented immigrants to this facility. A move dividing and polarizing this once quiet Bedroom Community in Southern California. After this, a blockade by protesters, forcing three buses of 140 undocumented migrants from central america, many of them women and children, to leave. Use the word illegal alien reporter then a heated town hall, pitting resident against resident along cultural lines. Mur yet that is this weeks ground zero. I dont think were prior pa prepared for this. Reporter whats driving these two sides . He runs a Political Company and never took a stand before, has gone from the bus protest to verbal sparring at the town hall and promises to keep the heat on. These people are so excited to be here and they look out the windows going, whats happening . Reporter you were blocking their way in . Not because of them, because of standing firm, letting the officials know, this is not the right way to handle this. Latinos are the ones who defend your country reporter on the other side, this resident, better known for his partying mexican music, has suddenly become for the migrant rights side, a new hero. After this protester spitness face and others slung visual and verbal slurs at him. [ bleep ] you [ bleep ] it was completely uncalleded for. Were here in a protest. In a protest, we act like adults. Were not here to fight. Reporter mirroring the national fight. Both sides digging in and refusing to back down on this independence day. Youre looking live now at this crowd. Its about 100 people. Its been fairly peaceful. Only one person has been detained. Doing the sides evoking what this country was built on. What the fourth of july means. It is a nation of immigrants that america rests its ideals on. The others saying this is also a country of laws. Brianna. Big debate going on and youre right in the middle of it, kyung lah, thank you. Still to come, hurricane arthur clears out of North Carolina and heads back out to sea as a weaker storm. Well take you to outer banks for the latest there. Up next, clashes break out in jerusalem and one of our own was caught in a cross fire. Well take you there live. She keeps you on your toes. You wouldnt have it any other way. 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Our ben wedeman was on the street during these clashes. He was injured. If you can first tell us how he is doing and what the scene looks like and what it has looked like in the last couple of hours. Sure. The the good news is ben is doing fine. Hes gone to the doctor. Theyve checked him out. He seems all right. But basically what happened is he was caught between Israeli Police and those Palestinian Youth that were throwing stones. Israeli police have been using these sort of its a kind of crowd control measure. Its sort of sponge and rubber covered bullet. And basically what happens is they fired it. It appeared to ricochet off something and bounced off his forehead, bleeding quite a bit. Fortunately, there were medics very close by. As you can imagine, hurt quite a bit and very scary experience. Those clashes are still ongoing. Ben is not the only one injured. At least 50 other people were injured in the ongoing clashes today. Many of them, again, getting those kinds of rubber and pluftic bullets hitting them. And the clashes havent stopped. Theyre continuing into the evening. Weve seen this over the last couple of days, this pattern where clashes are happening in this one neighborhood. And then overnight, often spread out into a few other areas of jerusalem as well. So this is a very tense city, on edge. We have not seen this kind of violence for many years. And atika, we mentioned that today was the funeral for that Palestinian Teen. Tell us about what that was like and how many people attended. Well, hundreds of people attended. It really has become a focal point of the anger, frustration and of course for the family, the overwhelming grief of what they feel has been a very unjust system. And particularly, the fact that this 16yearold teenager, mohammad abu khedair, appeared to have been abducted right before morning prayers and an hour later his body was found burned and beaten. So badly burned his family had to come and give dna to identify him. As you can imagine this has become the focal point of the anger of the community there, and their feeling is, there is no question, they see this as a revenge attack for those three israeli teenagers that were killed. And this is of course the worst case scenario. And police say they are investigating. But even though they have cctv video of the attack that clearly shows them being forced into the car, still no leads, still no suspects that have been announced, brianna. That must be so frustrating, i would imagine, to his family and friends and people in that ghunt. One of the things i found fascinating is listening to some of the parents of the victims, both the Palestinian Teen and the israeli teen. You teens, i should say. You actually spoke to the uncle of one of the israeli teenagers. What did he tell you . Yes, i spoke to eshi frankel, the unk offal naftali frankel, one of the israeli teenagers abducted and murdered. And he had a message saying there should be no revenge attacks taken. His voice has been one of calm and appealing for peace. Take a listen. We call and urge everyone to continue to show this restraint. Any action should be carried out by our government, by the legal system. And we call out very clearly to anyone, refrain from revenge. This is not the spirit of our sons. This is not our spirit. Our spirit is that of kindness, of togetherness, and, you know, the small people would called for revenge, this is very different and diametrically opposed to what we believe in and what we call for. Unfortunately, that call for reconciliation, for no acts of revenge, appears to have been shouted down by violence, br brianna. Also striking as well, the father of the Palestinian Teen, would was buried today, is also calling for no blood shed. Were hearing that from both sides. Its surprising and fascinating and so much strength from those family members. Want to go to iraq now. Iraqi forces celebrating a victory in the city where aded m hussein was born. South of tikrit. Officials say isis fighters fled the city. Before it was isis gaining support from the citizens who were unhappy with their iraqi government. Cnns Nick Patton Walsh is live. Since isis declared a new Islamic State in syria and iraq, weve learned about isis leadership. What can you tell us . Many say isis lack that kind of socalled figurehead like osama bin laden. But they do have a leader, abu baka al baldadi. His address what he refers to as his caliphate, no video as well. But that doesnt mean there arent figures emerging within that sort of strange collection, often international, of jihadis that make up isis. One of them, in particular, appeared in many videos in syria but now in iraq, a man known as omar the chechen. Isis has endless publicity videos but its leaders prefer to hide. Spokesman Abu Mohammad Al anai here reveal their plans but not his face. To the left is a different story, omar the chechen. Distinctive, speaking russian, the closest thing isis has to a public leader. Has long ascent among global jihadis echoing the complexion patchwork of brutality behind the groups rise. A former soldier in the georgian army, he was briefly jailed on firearms offenses in 2010. Jail, he reportedly said, turned him to jihad and he arrived in syria two years later, where he was quoted in an extremist newspaper expressing his shock at how liberal rebels allowed people smoking, shaving, instead of letting beards grow. They listened to songs, he said. I wondered where had i landed. It all seemed discouraging. Soon his military experience earned respect. Shown here in a regime base they helped overrun. He has lots of experience in his past as a former soldier. All of these things combined likely with the sort of ego on his behalf have sort of meant that he has turned into this quite sub stab chul figure within the group. Reporter a movement that is death in battle, he grew as a figure through surviving. Other fighters bickered yet he led this group to join isis, reportedly attracted to their plans for a caliphate. There have been many people who adopted the puritan values of groups like al qaeda and isis. And theyre quite happy to accept that rather superficial simple message. Which isis has. As long as theyre given an opportunity to fight beyond the battlefield. Reporter here, mourning the death of their militant leader. His mother is said to have limited roots, which even so helped his rise to isis field commander, perhaps too in iraq. Isis have spread fast. Thursday, activists saying they controlled an area of northeastern syria, five times the size of lebanon. [ speaking Foreign Language ] a rise as jarring as how a former georgian soldier became the only public face of this earthquake of religious extremism the world is struggling to respond to. The chechen and others give you an idea of where many of the fighters behind isis come from. Some with criminal backgrounds. Some purely there to pursue what they see as religious motivation. It also gives you a bit of an idea as to where this movement may go. Theyve risen through iraq and syria through military prowess, often leading syria rebels in the early days, and now storming across many towns in iraq too. But that military prowess doesnt translate into the ability to hold on to territory or to win over the population, to provide them services, utilities, the things that people need perhaps in the sunni part of iraq to remain desirous of having isis around them. Thats of course something omar the chechen has no experience of. Hes a lifetime fighter it seems in many ways. Thats of course where many analysts say isis can fall down. Can they introduce service, daily life, for the people who they purport to try to represent and govern in some areas. Were watching them struggle to do that. Nick patton walsh, appreciate the report. Now, first hobby lobby, now wheaton college. Well tell you about a new Supreme Court ruling on obamacare and the mandate. Just ahead, we have the latest on hurricane arthurs glancing blow along the hurricane coast. A cat 2. This thing packed a punch. We will tell you where its headed next. Defiance is in our bones. Defiance never grows old. Citracal maximum. Calcium citrate plus d. Highly soluble, easily absorbed. The last four hours have seen. One child fail to get to the air sickness bag in time. Another left his shoes on the plane. His shoes and a third simply doesnt want to be here. Until now. Until right booking now. Planet earths number one accomodation site booking. Com booking. 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