christine. if you look at what has been going in tikrit over the past month, we saw iraqi forces making advances around that city. these forces are predominately made up of shi a militias. these are backed by 20,000 forces and 4,000 iraqi security forces. what happened is they did make great advances and got to the outskirts of tikrit. they could not push forward. officials here as described the situation around tikrit that battle for the city over the past couple weeks as a tactical pause. they say they have not been able to advance because of the heavy resistance they have been met with by isis whether snipers or improvised explosive devices or booby traps that stopped them from pushing forward. the iraqi government the united states and coalition cannot carry out air strikes without the permission of the iraqi government. the government tells us they requested assistance from the
force. we are seeing the air force and land force offered if that is necessary. we know there is a blockade around yemen. no supplies to go to the houthis rebels. from the ambassador he detailed the objectives are. we are preparing for all eventuality in the kingdom and outside the kingdom. we are determined to defend yemen and the government of yemen and degrade and destroy the houthis. reporter: this will be very difficult to do. to destroy and degrade the houthis without some sort of ground invasion. i can tell you egyptian generals are watching this closely. in the 60s, egypt was involved in the civil war in yemen. they don t want this to happen again.
it does the same thing as the deadbolt. it renders the door innoperative. the door operated the way it was designed to do and it kept the good guy out this time. reporter: christine, back to you. thank you, stephanie. he was the father of the ipad genius behind apple, but who was the late steve jobs really and the public fascination about this man just growing. a closer look next. [ male announcer ] you wouldn t leave your car unprotected. but a lot of us leave our identities unprotected. nearly half a million cars were stolen in 2012. but for every car stolen 34 people had their identities stolen. identity thieves can steal your money damage your credit and wreak havoc on your life. why risk it when you can help protect yourself from identity theft with one call to lifelock,
given that code. it changes periodically. i can t tell you how often. you put the code in and you have 30 seconds to enter when that code if something happens and you don t get in, it locks itself back out. reporter: you cannot get back in. the pilot on the inside if she or he wanted to make it possible so you cannot get in with a code. correct. there are two other buttons and the lock. it does the same thing as the deadbolt. reporter: the question is based on what we know so far about the germanwings crash do you believe the door operated correctly? it was operating the way it was supposed to but it kept the good guy out this time. reporter: sobering. christine. designed to keep somebody out. not someone inside of the
pilot of germanwings flight 9525 can be heard banging hard on the door people have been asking how they have not found a way to smash into the door. since 9/11 doors have been drastically reinforced. we sent stephanie elam to find out. reporter: we have given you the vantage point. the cockpit door here is a slim door. don t let that fool you. you have the peep hole. more security to the door. i hope want to take you outside and introfantentroduce you to the captain. what would it take to break down this door? probably more than a grenade. it has been tested with a grenade against it and it did not open it. reporter: it is a fortified