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John. >> reporter: yeah, you're right, dee land in terms of those reinforcements, once they arrive they will basically start gearing up for street to street combat. at this point iraqi forces and those shooe a fighters have essentially surrounded tikrit's city center. iraqi commanders say that at this point they're preparing the next plan of attack to head in to the city center. as mentioned, those kraek forces are getting help from iranian backed shia fighters. okay. though, iran has been involved in the assisting the training and also the arming of those shia fighters and there is also repor...

Concerned about this and keeping close watch as they see with a unfolds over the next 72 hours if tikrit falls as these iraqi forces are promising. >> it would be a blood batting. >> thanks for joining us once, again. >> now we would like to have you weigh in with your thoughts about the growing concerns about isis and its expansion. what more could be done -- what more could when doing to guaranteefarn teeing that isis doesn't have easy access into the u.s. end ut @uma pemmaraju or @leland vittert or @anhqdc and we're definitely going to read some of your thoughts. >> the fighting in syria be...

Military loss here probably in the next 24 to 48 hours in tikrit, what you're eventually going to see is him flipping this to be a propaganda advantage to attract sunnis from all over the planet earth to join isis. what the end result of that is likely to be is the saudis, the jordanians, the egyptians, the emirates are probably going to end up putting ground forces into the fight in iraq in order to show that they can fight back against the per shans. the pors case outcome of this is -- and it's likely to happen right after the carry kerry and obama administration announced that they've done ...

The threat from cyclone pam isn't is over yet. we will have a live report. and the hunt continues at this hour for the suspects tied to this week's ambush of two ferguson police officers. we will talk to swrout spoken milwaukee sheriff david clark to says the impact goes far beyond that city and believes that war has been declared on america's finest. >> thanks for spending your saturday with us i'm leland vittert. here from washington. >> and i'm uma pemmaraju. isis continues to hold its ground in saddam hussein's hometown of tikrit some 20,000 iraqi troops and eye rare yan backed militia...

Water. the mereiraculous recovery and an update. overseas iraqi forces continue the battle against is us for control of tikrit but he need reinforcements to help make the final push into saddam's hometown. plus we'll talk live with scott taylor who tells us why he believes the obama white house is selling out america's national security. as we speak, several 2016 possible republican hopefuls are shaking hands having coffee, and kissing babies in new hampshire. among them, wisconsin governor scott walker and former florida governor jeb bush who are both in the granite state today and over...