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Booby trapping resulting explosions have brought that house down? that is what they are looking at. what caused all of of this to happen, but at the end of the day, 100 souls or more brought out of that wreckage, and these are men, women and children who are simply trying to survive. john? >> quickly, barbara, where do you think this investigation is going now? >> reporter: they are going to try to come to a definite conclusion about what happened and look for any so-called, as we know, lessons learned. is the there anything they could have done differently? is there anything they should do di...

Weeks. our reporter ryan browne joins us from washington. ryan, we were talking to ben wedeman an hour ago about the boots on the ground. tell us more about what the american role will be here. >> christine, good morning. as you said, an advisory role for u.s. troops in syria for some time now. advising america's local syrian and kurdish allies. this is a new contingent to provide artillery support. the local allies lack heavy weapons. they will give that support on the assault on raraqqah. isis has as many as 4,000 fighters still in raqqah and digging trenches and tunnels and booby trapping h...

Isis is under attack in its last major iraqi stronghold. the iraqi government says it has made progress in its offensive to retake person mosul. they release third down video showing air strikes on isis facilities. the targets included factories used for booby trapping vehicles. >> on day one of the offense i they killed 71 isis fighters. they destroyed weapons facilities and regained control of ten villages but they warned civilians could be caught in the cross fires in the months to come. the united nations says as many as 800,000 people still live in mosul. o

Fact, isis took over not long after that. >> symbolically, the victory would really be a huge shot in the arm. but at the same time, we're also hearing those reports that for military leaders on the ground there saying that isis is booby trapping many of the sites within the city that's slowing things down at the moment. >> i think i have to expect this from isis. i mean, they clearly will use human beings who are civilians in the area as sheelz, they will try and do everything they can to hang on. even though they're grossly outnumbered by iraqi security forces. these are not the iraqi shiite...

By large numbers of peshmerga. perhaps isis simply didn't have the numbers or didn't want the fight or preferred the booby trapping to do the fighting for them. and also the coalition in the skies who quite clearly thanked by mr. basiny for their support have changed the dynamic of this fight making it possible for sinjar now to be back in the hands of those who are not isis, the kurds and potentially soon the yazidi family whose once lived there and suffered terrible persecution. a swift victory. many are hoping it heralds future swift victories. >> amazing report from nick. also breaking thi...