Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190303:09:01:00
I'm george howell. the "cnn newsroom" starts right now. 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast and a developing story, we are following out of syria after intense fighting u.s. backed forces could be close to seizing all of the last isis territory there in an enclave we're following. live to our senior international correspondent ben wedeman on the front line, he's been covering the story for weeks. ben, what more can you tell us there? >> reporter: what we can tell you is we're about 500 meters from that encampment, that last bit of land, about a square, half square mile still occupied by isis an...