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Ramadi used to house 1 million people. that would itself be an urban sprawl. >> a humanitarian crisis where the people of ramadi left with nowhere to go. nick thank you. the white house is making a big push for congress to take action on the patriot act. the law expires at midnight on sunday. if nothing is done russian roulette is being played with the security. we get more from michelle kosinski. >> reporter: the white house is making the big push urging the senate to act which it failed to do over the weekend to keep these parts of the patriot act up and running, including a reformed versi...

Be on board, but they long had issues of weapons to join the fight. we have seen the name of the operation answering the call of hussein. that is to answer the call of iraq but it is still called the shi'a militia doing the fighting. that gave a sense of branding that was far away from the iraqi feeling many in washington would have liked to have seen at the beginning of the fight. we will see a shi'a army at the end of the day. a shi'a militia to kick out isis, a sunni group. that issue for the last decade flaring up in the key fight for ramadi. >> thank you, nick. the irs believes a cyber ...

Iraqi suffering setbacks in the quest to take back ramadi. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. it is thursday may 28th. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. happening now, authorities in texas ordering voluntary evacuations along two rivers. they are worried the predicted heavy rain will come today and cause more flash flooding. this as crews push ahead for clean up after major flooding this week. more than a foot of rain pushed rivers over their banks in hays county and elsewhere in texas. the search for bodies is still underway with at least 21 people known dead in te...

Correspondent nick paton walsh has the latest from baghdad. >> reporter: at this stage, they are working out the rhetoric of 48 hours ago, the launched operation to liberate anbar is translating to the ground. mixed reaction to the forces. 30 iraqis lost their lives to a number of car bombs near fallujah near anbar, but close to baghdad where i'm standing, it is one of two centers that isis controls. iraqi security forces got to the outskirts of ramadi near anbar university. they are saying they are forming a semi circle around the south. all complex operations ahead. we saw ourselves near the...

Ramadi. it is around those two key population centers that the shi'a fighting groups are maneuvering at this stage. also the iraqi security forces claiming yesterday they got to the outskirts of ramadi. not something the u.s. can verify. they say that iraq security forces are near the university of anbar which is southwest of that main population center. it is an extraordinarily mixed picture and slow going. we have seen how sand storms have slowed down. yesterday, to the north of the anbar province by the oil refinery to see how iraqi special forces are facing off with isis. one group describ...