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iraqi army has had losses all over the country. now it is retrenching and refocusing and finally after a lot of pushing we got permission to go out with them to the front lines to get a look. they are not as tough as you might expect. reporter: war is drawing closer to the iraqi capital. and this ageing tank is what s helping defend it. these soldiers and the rest of the province are just 35 kilometers, 22 miles, from the center of baghdad. after all their american training and the billions of u.s. dollars in equipment, it s them and their soviet tank that are now lined up to stop isis s advance. that landed just by the trees there, you can see the smoke rising now. we re told there were snipers in the house there. that s how close isis is to the army front lines just a few
serge of children crossing the united states border. thousands and thousands of them are winding up in detention. the homeland security secretary went to arizona today to get a firsthand look at the problem. we have an update. this is the second visit to the southwest border in less than a week. today he toured a detention facility housing some of the thousands of undocumented families. reporter: the brush along the southern border, it s the front line of an urgent crisis. since october tens of thousands of unaccompanied children and families have poured over the rio grand and into the cuss day of border protection. next year more than 150,000 unaccompanied children may attempt to cross our borders. this is a crisis. it s a crisis that s been in the making for years. one that we should have seen coming. a few concrete actions have been
happening now, defending baghdad. cnn is with iraqi troops as they try to stave off isis militants closing in on the capital. life under isis, an exclusive look at the drastic and sometimes deadly changes the militants are bringing to the iraqi towns they have seized. what do ordinary iraqis have to do to survive. rejected, iraq s prime minister shuts the door on the idea of an emergency government. was the secretary of state john kerry s mission to baghdad a foreign policy flop? we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and ornd the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. the worst fears of many appear to be coming true with the new evidence that the crisis in iraq is evolving into a broader conflict. syrian war planes carriieied oun