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A christian community right outside mosul, which has been you shou under siege for many, many months, was abandoned after isis took over. more than 60,000 people fled as the militants vandalized and looted and burned their homes. >> one of the town's biggest churches actually became a place for target practice. and the rest of the area is a ghost town. >> reporter: a small flock has returned for mass in the charred ruins of the church of mary the immaculate near mosul. isis set fire to the church and used its courtyard as a firing range.

>> reporter: the archbishop struggled to represent residents through the trauma but worries the specter of isis still hovers nearby. >> translator: we expected everything in kara koch, theft, damage and destruction, he tells me but arson for us is a message, a threatening message that the idea of isis is still here in the region, and that's what we fear. today, this once prosperous christian community is a ghost town of empty streets, blown out buildings, gutted shops. everywhere reminders of isis' hatred for everything kara cush stood for. workers haverectomied a large cross at one of the mai...

Syria is complicit with isis questioning, the civilian casualties the u.s. coalition russia claims is responsible for on the ground, and as i say, given the heated environment right now with all of those investigations going on, on capitol hill and the realization from both the kremlin and the white house that any kind of normalization of relations is way in the offing if it's even going to happen in this administration. you can certainly see the tension between moscow and washington and in these dueling statements back and forth. it's been going on for at least the last 48 hours. >> absolutel...

Mainly about terror and about the massacre in san bernardino this week. i asked chris frates what we know the president might say. >> president obama will make a rare address tomorrow night at 8:00 about what the government is doing to keep americans safe. the oval office address will also touch on the investigation into the isis-inspired attacks in california that killed 14 people earlier this week. the white house said obama will address "the broader threat of terrorism, including the nature of the threat, how it has evolved, and how we will defeat it. he will reiterate his firm conviction t...

Important. death cult versus life cult. >> he said what do they want to do, groups like isis and the taliban? they want to come in and ban music, ban dancing. they don't like girls. he looks up and he laughs and said what else is there? to him, really this idea of what we celebrate in the west what the french call the joy of life, the joy of living. to him it was the opposite of everything isis stood for. >> i was in paris for 10 days in the wake of the attack. and you saw that defiance among the french people, not staying home, coming out to the republic e. that was their way of countering th...