CNN CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield November 1, 2015 20:24:00
Ground forces, u.s. forces will assist, but right now what's the current situation? >> yeah, well, it's hard to say. we don't really have any metrics to determine if it's been more effective. remember, these special forces troops are not in there yet. so it's been very difficult to, you know, make the air strikes more effective. right now the kurds are using what we call offset targeting. it's not that effective. once we get the americans in there, we can put american eyes on these targets. i think it will be more effective. >> colonel rick francona, thank you so much. straight ahead, a newl...