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Around them and do as little harm as they possibly can. we're hearing stories from people in the city about the atrocities being committed, dozens of people said to have been executed in the last week or so, accused of being spies for the iraqi operation to retake the city and condemned for being spies simply because they owned cellphones. some of their bodies have been strung up on electrical poles across the town with words like "traitor" across them. it is a brutal, bloody warning to the people who are still in that city as the war rages around them, poppy. >> phil, i wonder what the respon...

Others who we spoke to said they had actually managed to get ahold of their relatives inside mosul who tried to flee the city but they say isis stopped them by shooting at them and forcing them back into their homes. and the real outpour of civilians has not even yet begun. the battle for the city itself, still very much in its initial stages with eight organizations warning of a humanitarian tsunami. carol? >> arwa damon reporting live near mosul, iraq. with five days to go until election day, we want to focus on the issues. this morning we will focus on the fight against isis. mosul is par...

Guest. joining us is the former dean of the army war college, retired colonel, jeffrey mccauseland. good to see you, sir. thank you for being with us. i was watching your face when we were going through the competing points from these two candidates about what to do and the summation of donald trump, that what's going on in mosul is a total disaster. you winced. why? >> well, first of all, because i watched arwa damon, that sand storm, and having sat through sand storms in iraq, it is just virtually impossible to do anything. but back to the point of the matter, about mosul, so far, at least, ...

News this morning that iraqi forces have just gotten into what you could consider to be the outer limits of mosul itself, mosul being iraq's second-largest city that's been occupied by isis the past two years. this is a symbolic but still-important move. they've managed to kind of permeate just the outer defenses of that city. but what we have to look forward to, what the iraqi security forces are going to be seeing now in the next couple of weeks, is street by street fighting. very, very difficult. coming up against all the tricks in isis' arsenal. suicide bombings, defensive tunnel works, bo...

Minister in another country or with the president or prime minister of another country and you say, we really want you to move more authoritatively towards democracy, they look at you. they're polite but you can see the question in their head and in their eyes and in their expression. it's hard. pope francis is wrapping his trip up to sweden where he marked the 500th anniversary of the protestant reformation. francis and leaders of the luth rap church presided over a prayer service in the cathedral commemorating the anniversary of martin luther's revolt. pope francis encouraged catholics and...