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Challenging part of this operation for government forces will be to minimize civilian casualties. there are as many as 650 to 800,000 civilians living in the western part of the city and isis has never hesitated to use civilians as human shields. the humanitarian situation in the west is dire. food, medicine, fuel and drinking water, safe drinking water are in seriously short supply and humanitarian groups expect hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee the city as the fighting intensifies. ben wedeman, cnn, istanbul. >> up next ahead of tonight's nba all-star game a former all-star grant hi...

Talent at this and, you know, ramp it up a notch and i think that's what we're seeing. >> i want to go visit sweden. i heard it's a great place. not as dangerous as some have suggested. maybe summer trip is in store. >> delicious meat balls. >> thank you all so much. great to see you. coming up next, hey the nba all-star game tips off tonight hours from now in new orleans. i got a chance to pay a visit to the big easy just a couple of days ago and sat down with former all-star great, grant hill. talking about everything from the game to even politics. my conversation with the basketball lege...

Inside stuff, kristen ludlow and grant hill. we talked about the all-star excitement to their thoughts about players taking a stand on cultural and political issues. >> so what do you look forward in an all-star weekend? >> oh, man. >> a lot. >> there is a lot to look forward to in an all-star weekend. the game itself. we've got the rookies going at it. we've got the three-point contest, the dunk contest. i mean, there's a lot to look forward to zblmt it's. >> it's a lot of fun tch. it's great to see players do their stuff but we're also seeing on display many of the players who are finding it...

♪ >> bill: are really destroyed, the trump press conference. joining us for midtown manhattan, john roberts is covering the president-elect. i want the inside stuff, roberts. first off, they cnn reporter, jim acosta, got shot down by the president-elect, was he angry? >> shot down, not just once but a number of times, as he continued to try to press trump into at least giving him the opportunity to ask a question. it had become clear to me, bill, about an hour and a half before this press conferences that cnn was going to get iced out. eight suggested that there were a lot of people in the f...

>> bill: continuing with our first story, the trump press conference. joining us for midtown manhattan, john roberts is covering the president-elect. i want the inside stuff, roberts. first off, the cnn reporter, jim acosta, got shot down by the president-elect. was acosta angry? >> shot down not just once but a number of times as he continued to try to press trump into at least giving him the opportunity to ask a question. it had become clear to me, bill, about an hour and a half before this press conference, that cnn was going to get iced out. aides suggested that there were a lot of people ...