Diaz just spoke to josh earnest. Why telegraph the attack . You have to talk to the department of defense what the specific strategy is but we have over the last several months had American Military personnel in iraq working with Iraqi Security forces to train them and to equip them and ultimately make sure its Iraqi Security forces who are on the Ground Fighting for their country. Jim, youve seen a lot of rollouts of these kind of operations, is it to the white houses advantage that they publicize these plans in advance . Heres the sense i get from military officials when i ask that very question. There appears to be an effort here to set isis back on its heels slightly. The hope is actually that they would pour more of their forces from outlying areas into that area to give to give the iraqi forces and Kurdish Forces sort of a centralized target. But keep them in a defensive crouch as opposed to launching offensive operations and at the same time you get a sense that the u. S. Military certainly feels somewhat besieged over all of the negative reporting coming out of iraq that theres has not been enough advancement by american air strikes and the like that they would at least like to prover up the possibility of a big one. Well look more closely at the fight against isis including an interesting take about the humanitarian devastation in this region on the ground. Thanks, jim. Always a pleasure to get your take. A disturbing story from london. Scotland yard is asking for the worlds help to find three missing school girls. The teenagers traveled from england to turkey earlier this week. Authorities believe they are on their way to syria. Investigators are saying the priority is to get the girls home to their families safely. Following this in london alexander smith. What do we know about the plans and where they were headed . Well these three girls were all friends from east london age 15 to 16. They were last seen at their homes early tuesday by their families. Officials say they gave plausible excuses for what they were doing that day and met and flew to istanbul on a Turkish Airlines plane. They believe this is why the trail runs cold. They think they are headed to syria and while they stopped short of mentioning the Extremist Group isis in the same briefing Londons Metropolitan Police did say that they are increasingly worried about young girls from britain traveling to the Islamic State in syria. This kind of home grown extremism and recruitment of young people more and more a feature of this clash. Alex smith, thanks so much. In geneva a friend round of talks between the u. S. And iran are kicking off over Irans Nuclear program. They are trying to strike a deal to perfect vent iran from developing a nuclear bomb in exchange for sanctions. Despite political opposition from hard liners in the u. S. And iran, those talks are kicking off as we said and should be under way for the next two days. Secretary of state john kerry is scheduled to join them on sunday. Conflicting reports this hour about a potential settlement to avoid bankruptcy in greece. Greece has until midnight tonight, you may recall to come up with the solution to this in the 11th hour there have been talks of extending greeces bailout but that hasnt been confirmed. Fears over the outcome of these talks actually scared the u. S. Stock market as well just after the opening bell. It jumped to reports of a possible settlement. Well keep you updated on how the markets adjust and what goes down in greece. Back to washington, where president obama is asking 800,000 people to wait to file tax returns. Those 800,000 were all healthcare. Gov customers and sent incorrect tax information. Following this at the white house, kristen welker. Whats the administration saying about how this happened . Well ronan, officials here are still investigating trying to determine how this glitch could have happened. Heres what we know so far. We know that this has to do with a tax form that helps users calculate what type of tax break they might be entitled to. We know those tax forms had a piece of erroneous information on it. Those erroneous tax forms went out to 800,000 people as you say. An official here estimates of those 800,000 people about 95 have not yet filed their taxes. So the message here from the white house, hold off on filing your taxes. They say notifications have gone out. They are also going to follow up with emails as well as phone calls and they hope to have the corrected tax forms sent out in early march. Again, they are asking people to hold off on filing their taxes. As for people who have already filed their taxes, they say they are still working through how to help those people. This is really an unforced error in what has otherwise been a pretty smooth season in terms of signing people up for the president S Health Care law. The white house saying that more than 11 Million People have signed up this year so far. They say that that was close to the target that they were hoping for. One more announcement that i will tell you about related to this, the white house also saying that they are delaying the deadline for millions of people to sign up who might have to pay tax penalties, democrats, pressuring the white house to do that. A lot of people are confused about not only the deadline but tax penalties they might be facing. A few more weeks to sign up for those folks. Its a good thing for the white house that unforced errors associated with obama care have never been exploited by anyone. President obama will have a live town hall next wednesday. You can submit your questions to him using obamatownhall. The white house had little to say publicly about one political spat former mayor Rudy Giuliani doubling down on comments about the president. Hes not backing down. He was starting an event for scott walker and the former mayor said i do not believe and i know this is take horrible thing to say, but i do not believe the president loves america. Then here he was last night on fox. Mr. Mayor, do you want to afollow guys for your comment . Not at all, i want to repeat it. The reality is from all i can see of this president and all ive heard of him, he apologizes for america and criticizes america and he talks about the crusades and how the christians are bar bar yans and leaves out the second part of the sentence muslims were barbaryans also and he sees christians slaughtered and doesnt hold a press Conference Although he holds a press conference for the situation in ferguson. Joining me from washington, mark murray good to see you. First read which you contribute to, said of giuliani officially entered donald trump territory. Why keep this going from his perspective . The donald trump territory, that is somebody whos off on the political sidelines and is very well known but saying tons of controversial things. When you Cover American politics, people say controversial things all the time. But what was really striking in this story, really how the potential 2016 republican candidates reacted to it. So we ended up seeing scott walker who was in attendance at that event where Rudy Giuliani first had remarks and later asked about it and said i have no comment at all and shrugged his shoulders and ended up seeing bobby jindal who might run for the presidency in 2016. He embraced what Rudy Giuliani what Rudy Giuliani had to say and it was a striking contrast to what we saw in 2008 when a republican president ial kond candidate mccain, i think president obama is an arab or cant trust him. He said disagree on the issues but wont go into personal attacks. Based on that response does Rudy Giuliani have future prospects as a legitimate voice . Are people still listening to him . I dont think so. Hes been out of office as new york mayor for more than a decade now. Hes certainly not running for the presidency in 2016. I think its more interesting to focus on the potential 2016 candidates like scott walker and bobby jindal how they are reacting more than what Rudy Giuliani ended up saying. Always a pleasure, mark. Thank you. Remember we were complaining about the cold a few weeks ago. Doesnt that seem practically tropical . That siberian express, we cant believe they are calling it that broke more than 50 records overnight. Look at those images there. It is so cold in western new york that this fountain grew into a 50foot tower of ice. Thats an actual thing that happened there. Freezing his fingers off in covington following the siberian expression kerry sanders. Reporter ronan, it is cold here. I think the best way to see the cold is through a demonstration. Ive got boiling water here right off the camp stove. Were going to pour it in the cup here and now here you go. There you go. Instantly vaporizes and we see the steam. Noup as you look behind me can see the ohio river, we watched the ice grow across the river here. One of the concerns of course is that the ice could prevent the barge traffic, which is sort of an important thoroughfare here for a lot of commerce here and on the allegheny. The u. S. Coast guard is doing patrols to make sure the ice isnt getting so thick it prevents that traffic to continue coming through here. Meantime, its an old expression when you hear somebody say its so cold you could bang a nail with a banana that you leave outside. Were going to give it a test here. I did a little starter hole here and now we got our banana. Sure enough i think ronan, it is that cold. Back to you. Thanks, kerrie. 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Com xfinityhome. Right now isis is advancing on the people of iraq and syria but so is another invisible force, hunger. In syria winter is setting in and the humanitarian crisis there is deepening every single day. Violence cut off access to aid groups and left infrastructure shattered and Life Sustaining services gone. One of the few still in the fray, the United NationsWorld Food Program struggle to sustain 4 Million People inside syria and 2 million refugees in neighboring countries. Struggling to save them but as we speak running out of money, putting those millions of lives on the line. Executive director of the World Food Program is leading that desperate effort. How jeopardized are your operations . We see World Leaders talking about joining in the fight and protecting people but they are putting their money where their mouths are. The challenge is its not enough. So were now weve been forced to cut rations by 30 . Were giving 70 of a ration during the worst time of the year inside syria. And can you just convey to the audience what does that ration look like thats not a lavish meal . We provide a monthly box to a family and theres rice and beans and bull gur wheat and salt and sugar. Those are the staples and thats what we give them pasta when we can and thats what we had to cut. At one point we were giving canned meat and we had to cut that. Its a very basic meal as much nutrition as we can but its limited. If the wfp has to cut off operations because of lack of funding, how many lives are at stake . Thats 4 Million People inside syria that depend upon food from the wfp that have no other access to food but what they receive from us. If we cant get it there, they go hungry. So in addition to the bullets killing people the hunger killing people theres the cold setting in. How is that affecting your ability to operate . Its a challenge when you try to get into areas that are already under siege and now the roads are more dangerous for us to drive and it makes it more difficult. But we get there. We do. Do you think in the conversation politically about standing up against isis and protecting civilians in this part of the world theres enough foik us on these humanitarian circumstances surrounding the situation . We were looking at pictures of the devastation. It seems like people are talking about the military and for getting these equally important killers . The challenge when we talk about scaling up the escalation advances against isis we forget there are people in the communities living there with their children. And they are the victims of the escalation of the violence which because we cant get food to them, we cant get in there when the fighting starts. Thats when we stop. Thats the only time we try to get in as much as we can when we know they are coming and then soons theres a break in fighting we get back in again. But its a challenge when your mother and youre expecting food and it doesnt show and the bullets are flying and you dont know when were going to come. And in an odd sense, wfp is one of those rare cases where the work is humanitarian but youre on the front lines of a mill tarrized conflict. I understand isis weve seen reports, havent confirmed this at nbc, has been actually labeling the wfp Food Assistance to try to their own advantage . There was a very small amount that was stolen from a warehouse that was under the control of one of our partners the syrian red crescent. And what they did was exploit that very small amount of food they were able to steal from us. And put it out on social media as though they were really distributing food to large numbers of people. They are not. We work to protect our food to ensure that doesnt reach the hands of those who should not have access to the food. And the challenge is ensuring that Everybody Knows this is humanitarian assistance. It should not be plitoliticizedpoliticized. When the media says isis is getting to the food we cant get the job done. How culpable is isis for the devastation on ground and humanitarian situation being as bad as it is . There are areas in syria where we cant get into those areas on a regular basis. Working with ngos, wfp is able to use the cross borders to get into the areas on a periodic basis, were not there regular enough. And what that does is put people in a situation where they are vulnerable. Whenever they are vulnerable. If youre a mother you dont care whos giving you food. Does that vulnerability that people are experiencing play into the hands of isis . Unfortunately it can and our responsibility is to ensure that we are there, we are visible and that people recognize the world has not forgotten them. Because thats when youre vulnerable, when you think nobody cares and think the world is not has left you on your own and the only ones there are isis. Its important to have the resources so those who are on the ground otherwise trapped know that the world still cares. And of course even for those who dont care about those individuals struggling to survive in this particular part of the w0r8d, its spilling over into the broader region . It can spill over into the broader region and can spill over outside the borders. Weaver seen a tacks by Extremist Groups across europe and challenge is that whenever people feel as if the world is not supporting the activities that they believe in then they are vulnerable. And so we need to make sure that we continue to carry a banner that says that they are not alone and that theres an opportunity to do Something Different than listen to isis. What you are doing is at the heart of winning the fight against these kinds of terrorists and heart of protecting people. I hope the cry is heard. Thank you very much. Stay with us. Up ahead, something a little lighter if you can imagine such a thing. Clowns, would you be afraid if you saw this clown . Pretty much anywhere. Its terrifying. Our special freaky friday daily spike after this. [alarms blaring] ohhhhh. Whoa whoa whoa whos responsible for this . . If something goes wrong, you find a scapegoat. Rick. Its what you do. Ahhhhhhhh whatd you say . Uhoh kelly if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. Rick. Dont walk away from me. Ahhhhhhhh know your Financial Plan wont keep you up at night. 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