regime of ash shar al assad. this area is the kurdish homeland, the place where the last five years kurds have been fighting side by side with american troops. their homeland is being divided, very little concern paid to their future. now hundreds of thousands of kurds are on the move, many of them living in desert areas. it s getting cold. u.n. aid agencies say 70,000 children have been displaced. right now people are watching sochi and they re watching another major division of the middle east under way. we should know when putin and erdogan come out, take to those podiums and announce that they either have extended the cease-fire or that the fighting will resume. either way they re going to come out and look like the new kingmakers in the middle east. we have that picture up. we ll continue to watch that in sochi. richard engel, thank you for that. let s bring in nbc news correspondent carol lee and
helping hard-to-adopt dogs find homes. well, it s that time of the primary season for democrats. according to the new york times, anxious members of the democratic establishment are asking, is there anybody else? jonathan martin writes, with doubts rising about former vice president biden s ability to finance a multi-state primary campaign, persistent questions about senator elizabeth warren s viability in the general election, democratic leaders are engaging in a familiar right, fretting about who is in the race and longing for a white knight to enter the contest. among the names bandied about, shar rod brown, michelle obama and even, yes, hillary clinton. joining me michael star hopkins who served on the presidential campaigns of barack obama and