Humvees and bunkers in iraq and syria. Joins are retired Major General. And at the Brookings Institution for cms policy. Thank you for being with us. As you are there at the border. Where that fierce battle has been going on between isis militants and syrian kurds. Are you seeing any fighting going on now . What its been like in the last couple hours. Caller rig reporter right now were hearing small arms fire out of eyesight. The Kurdish Forces have managed to push isis back. Gaining key territory towards kobani. This is the effect liually the t town standing against isis. It does appear so from the cheering that perhaps the kurds have made more gains. Whatever the crowd thats been here since this fighting first broke out this close to the Turkish Border yesterday they cheer whenever the kurds manage to make significant gains. Now what the kurds are telling us is that they do want to see more Coalition Air strikes. They want to see more support here because they are barely holding isis
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just give me a sense of the number of people you have on the ground here helping with the search operations. well, today i ve got over 400 firefighter and ems personnel in the search and recovery portion of this. i ve also got 200 other volunteers that are out helping the fire and ems crews with the search. soo so i ve got a little over 600. and on top of that i ve got the different tasks forces from around the area. i had missouri task force one, oklaho oklaho oklahoma task force one, and yesterday we had another task force here. we really appreciate those groups and members of teams here to assist us. without them, we couldn t be as far as we are, and i can t tell you how much we appreciate the outpouring and support for our department and city.
chief, we appreciate your time tonight on a busy day. we appreciate you spending time with us. we certainly wish you the best in the hours and days ahead. thank you, sir. we re going to shift from joplin, missouri and go back to the breaking news in oklahoma. on the phone we have sheriff randall edwards. he s with the oklahoma county sheriff s department. you had a tornado touch down in your county. what s the latest, sir? we actually had several tornadoes touch down. we ve got at least two confirmed fatalities here in canadian county, multiple homes destroyed, we ve got multiple injured as well as missing. right now we re conducting search and rescue operations to try to determine exactly how many are missing and how many are injured as well as any other fatalities. it s a tough question to ask, but when you say you have search