there is a symbolic victory that they want to take sinjar from isis. the yizidis fled to the mountains. and sinjar is vitally important. it runs route 47. that as you said is the artery between mosul and iraq and syria. they can cut that off, but that could significantly damage, even the pentagon admits it could harm the oil trade. now here further away from me, there is heavy fighting. we heard small arms, mortars and clearly isis don t want to give up this vital road or the areas around it. there are peshmerga here in such number that we think they may have a chance to prevail on this major highway here, but they
a deportation force to move out 11 million undocumented immigrants. but is that possible? we ll ask the head of u.s. customs and border protection. he s joining us. hello, i m kate bolduan. i m john berman. a key moment in the battle against isis. a major assault in northern iraq. u.s. coalition warplanes, providing cover in this new intense fight to reclaim a strategic city? this centers on the town of sinjar. kurdish soldiers are attacking isis there from three sides. nick paton walsh is near the front lines of this battle with more. reporter: the key fight for sinjar seems to be what you can t really see behind me along the main road known as route 47. now, that is vital because it heads from mosul in iraq, in
brutalized by the isis. the minorities there in northern iraq, many of whom were kapt i. the taking of sinjar does occur in the days ahead will be a symbolic reversal. the other hope is that they are partially gone already. this morning, depriving isis of a vital route between the city of mosul and iraq, and raqqa and syria. raqqa being the capital of the caliphate. american central commands have released a statement in which they echo the support. we can hear it above us, drones and jet planes, the support in the air, and also describing how taking route 47 is important because it enables them to cut off the funding for isis by sending oil to the black market.
that sunny spring day, he s in for a shock. captured on his bus equipped with eight security cameras. it all starts when this young mother and her 2-year-old son get on the route 47 bus and run into another passenger, lafanus pickett. i got on near seventh and market. as the bus winds its way through the philadelphia streets, pickett notices the little boy. he was running up and down the aisle. pickett says he hears the mom tell her son to sit down. and she begins spanking him like he was some sort of animal. pickett leans forward and reprimands the young mom and i said, he s a child. let him be a child. you shouldn t be spanking him like that. if you continue to do it, i m going to turn you in for child endangerment. she was like, you don t know me. this is my son. i will deal with him any way i choose to.
captured on his bus equipped with eight security cameras. it all starts when this young mother and her 2-year-old son get on the route 47 bus and run into another passenger, lafanus pickett. i got on near seventh and market. as the bus winds its way through the philadelphia streets, pickett notices the little boy. he was running up and down the aisle. pickett says he hears the mom tell her son to sit down. and she begins spanking him like he was some sort of animal. pickett leans forward and reprimands the young mom i said, he s a child. let him be a child. you shouldn t be spanking him like that. if you continue to do it, i m going to turn you in for child endangerment. she was like, you don t know me. this is my son. i will deal with him any way i choose to. for whatever reason, he