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Out because it is rubble. barely a building not half destroyed or severely damaged by the airstrikes, the suicide bombing, the car bombs, and the fight with the coalition. little really to live in left there. a lot to rebuild or perhaps you start from scratch. but the fundamental point of all of this is that it appears if the peshmerga get their numbers together, the coalition will back them up with consistent airstrikes and willing to work with each other. the question we don't have the answer to is did isis give up or simply unable to fill enough forces to hold on to that town. that's what e...

Attacking trump. >> defending carson's character. not on the point of china. but trump yesterday even for trump this was off the tracks. this was something different in the last 24 hours. the way he's going after ben carson is quite honestly beneath even the donald. >> buck sexton, great to e see you. thank you so much. still ahead, donald trump, rails on anything and everything from ben carson suggesting voters in iowa and around the country are stupid for believing what is in the doctor's book, for supporting him. we have more on that. ams more on the breaking news, the u.s. confident ji...

This subjecting many thousands to lives of slavery. the kurds have moved in so bolstered by coalition-led air power. it's been declared a success. so to our pentagon we go to barbara starr. how will we know definitely whether or not they got him? >> it could take awhile. and technically they may never actually know. here's where it stands right now. british and u.s. intelligence services are scouring everything they have look iing for social media accounts, intercepted communications, any indication from the isis organization, sometimes when these leaders are killed they post funeral mess e me...

They have had a number of successful strikes and this one very high profile. >> a big one clearly, the intel was there. jim sciutto, thank you. nick, let me bring you in. kurds say they have taken sinjar. what does that mean as far as isis? is everyone pushed out, many killed, what? >> reporter: they say they have taken it and that is definitely the case. but they don't have complete freedom of movement. we were on the ground. so still a threat there. they actually say that isis is using a network of tunnels they have brought under to try to evade and escape.

It is a startling victory in terms of the speed. isis may have had little choice or chosen to give up sinjar. there were a number of dead, we're told, in that attack, at least over 100 on the side of isis. but the peshmerga moved in very quickly in just over 24 hours between the first moves and the push on down from the north into the city center itself. that was done by peshmerga and overwhelming in their number, thousands, frankly. it releases the question, what next? one of the key objectives being taking that town. thaf the strategic is taking the main highway that runs through sinjar. it ...