but this law maker is telling british media that their families who they have been if touch with trying to track them down in syria, he says they are convinced they are working for isis and they have been brain washed and cheated by the group. now, the law maker says that the family members are currently on the turkish side of the border. seven of them desperately trying to track down their children and convince them to come back home. back to you, mikaela. very concerning. thank you, now to the apparent threat of the group allegedly linked to isis calling for attacks on u.s. soil t. previous unknown group posted names, addresses, even pictures of some 100 service men and women as potential targets. they are in question. we have developments live from washington. good morning. reporter: mikaela, there is skepticism that this group is
social media. you heard over the weekend about the medical students going there but there is a new book coming out about isis. one of the you a tores talks act who they are, how they appeal to people and one of the things we re learning is they give all these rosie pictures of the perfect islamic state. it s awful t. line is once you get there, you don t leave, unfortunately, people are falling for it. hopefully, over time people will learn it s a bait and switch in a kind of extreme way. we certainly hope so. back here at home let s talk about what s going on in the senate this morning the bug will be brought to the floor. let me put up what which believe will be the budget resolution. it provides repeal and replacement of obamacare.
cnn analyst general mark hertling. yemen is not an old place. 1990 this place was formed 26 million people. important to the u.s. because of its location. it had been such an allie, president obama six months ago saying this place is a success, example in the war against terrorism. let s look at it first from a military standpoint general, what has happened there? the government has gone now it seems like it s a race to see who can make eight home base for terror first. chris, it s an easy thing to describe. houthi insurgency has overtaken the government which represented the trievenlt have you houthi s fighting not only the tribe but aid in the peninsula, a critically important terrorist group. add that that isis claims they re in the territory. so you literally have a cauldron of interjihadi fighting.
they actually went to syria to fight against isis and may have been brainwashed. live in baghdad, what do we know? reporter: chris, here s what we know from a turkish opposition member of parliament. he says a group of americans in excluding seven british nationals, one canadian and two sudanese. most are doctors from well off families that arrived in turkey coming in on the same flight from sudan and another one flying in from toronto. after that they crossed into syria, isis controlled territory there and working in hospitals in those areas. while we can t confirm their whereabouts at this point and we don t know what motivated them to travel to syria. accord according to a member of the
families he has been working with says he is convinced they are working for isis in these areas a and have been brainwashed and cheated by the terror groups. family members, mothers and fathers are on the turkish side of the border trying to track down their children and convince them to come home. thank you for that developing story we will follow. for context on all of this let s bring in cnn s international correspondent, christiane. good morning. good morning, alisyn. we know you just wrapped up an interview with the president of tunisia. what did you learn from him? that s right. tunisia was the success story last week and the attack on parliament and the museum was shocking. he told me it could have been even worse, that the terrorists were wearing suicide vests and because they were killed they weren t able to detonate those