Several weeks to serve in noncombat roles. U. S. President barack obama is requesting more money to fund the mission. Jim shuto has details. Reporter iraqi portions in battle against isis. Encouraged by recent iraqi successes against the group, including the retaking of a k key border crossing, they are recommending to double the u. S. Forces on the ground. And the orders will put them closer to the front lines. Two Operation Centers in volatile centers beyond baghdad and erbil. And in several more sites to train iraqi and kurdish brigades. Their role is not changing, advise, assist and train, but it is a major expansion of u. S. Boots on the ground. Theres no intent to put the trainers out in the field with these units once theyre trained. Reporter to finance the expansion, the president is asking congress for 6 billion to support the fight against isis. Including 1. 5 billion to train kurdish forces. He was briefed ahead of his meeting today with congressional leaders. We have to make sure our efforts against isil are funded. And thats an opportunity for secretary of defense hagel to brief us. Reporter today the air campaign has already totalled more than 700 million. The price tag of more than 800 air strikes and 2,000 bombs and rockets. Republicans not ready to sign a check sight unseen. They were going to make a proposal. We will have proportions look at it and present to members. Tim reporting there. Training for a major offensive against isis in the spring. Senior Administration Officials wont say if this is the final deployment. But there are no current plans to extend the commitment beyond 3,000 troops. The press secretary spoke to cnn about how deeply the u. S. Is getting involved in iraq again. Its not Mission Creep at all. It changes or morphs into something it didnt start out to be. This is very much in keeping with the missions we have been keeping in iraq since june. Security assistance for our people and facilities. Advising, assisting capability for the Iraqi Security forces to get better in the battle field and battle space. And supporting humanitarian missions. They are doing exactly the same thing the advising teams are doing right now. Theyre doing it in different places. Yeah. Admiral john kirby reporting there. The administration wont say if this is the final deployment of u. S. Forces to the area, but there are no current plans to extend the commitment beyond 3,000 troops. Mexican Officials Say a gang burned and killed 43 students who disappeared in september. Searchers may have found their charred remains in a river. The students were betrayed by the people who should have protected them. Rafael romo is in mexico city with more. Reporter badly burnt human remains, teeth and bone fragments. A gruesome discovery in a river in southern mexico. The mexican attorney general said authorities are dealing with a massive homicide. The victims, he said, could be 43 students who disappeared in late september. The students from a Rural Teachers College are in their late teens or early 20s. An order of the citys mayor, the top officials said friday, Police Abducted the students and turned them over to a gang. The gang, which allegedly has deep ties to the mayor reportedly killed the students and burnt the bodies before throwing them in the river. Identifying the bodies will be a huge challenge. He said the remains are so badly burnt that obtaining reliable dna samples to identify the victims will be extremely difficult. As a result, he said, officials have not been able to determine for certain that those are the students remains. The mexican attorney general said so far 74 suspects have been arrested and police are looking for at least ten more. This investigation, he said, its still wide open and no effort will be spared to punish those responsible. Among those arrested are the mayor and his wife. Authorities suspected they ordered it stopped because they would disrupt an event for his wife. The president promised swift justice. Translator the findings presented outrage and offend all of mexican society. With full cooperation, the government will bring them to account. We will arrest everyone who participated in these crimes. Reporter but they dont trust the governments investigation. To publish that kind of news without any scientific proof is highly irresponsible, the parents said by phone. The Mexican Government said dna samples will be sent to a university in austria in an effort to identify the remains. Rafael romo, mexico city. Protests ever since the students went missing six weeks ago. Nato is looking into reports that are russian tanks have crossed into eastern ukraine. And raising new fears about what may happen next. Matthew chance reports from moscow. Reporter concerns are growing that the conflict in ukraine may resume in earnest. With reports from the countrys Defense Ministry that dozens of tanks and military vehicles have crossed from russia into ukrainian territory controlled by separatist rebels. 32 tanks and 30 trucks have crossed carrying mercenaries from russia and arms and ammunition. Theres no independent confirmati confirmation. And the kremlin has yet to comment. But the nato military alliance said if its true, its further evidence of russias support for the separatists. The fragile troops in t s of th conflict thats cost more than 4,000 lives has been in force since september. The truce. The latest bloodletting has been taking the lives of several people, including two teenage boys in donetsk, killed by shelling playing football at their school. Fears were raised after rebels staged a leadership election last weekend. The vote has been welcomed by moscow but condemned by kiev and its western supporters. Matthew chance, cnn, moscow. And the u. S. Implemented a number of sanctions against russia since it an exed crimea in march. They worry its not influencing putins behavior. Iran is not fully cooperating with its nuclear program. The International AtomicEnergy Agency says its particularly concerned about whether iran is trying to develop a Nuclear Payload for a missile. It wants to provide access to all of its nuclear sites. It comes as the u. S. Ask trying to open channels of communication with iran regarding the fight against isis. Israeli authorities are on alert after a week of violent protests in jerusalem and the west bank. They say at least 30 people are wounded after the latest street battles with israeli Security Forces on friday. Nic robertson has details. Reporter clashes continuing after night fall. This one in east jerusalem. Palestinians burning tires, throwing fire crackers at Israeli Police. Earlier, riots reverberating through the neighborhood, a Palestinian Refugee camp. According to palestinian medical sources, at least 30 people were hit by Israeli Police rubber bullets. This neighborhood, home to a member of hamas, the man whos actions this week helped spike tensions when he drove his van into Israeli Border guards at a tram spot. He was shot and killed wednesday when he attacked police with an iron bar. Friday, a second person dying of injuries sustained in that attack. A 17yearold religion student. Security tight all day. Much focusing on the lightning rod of the current violence. The mosque and the noble sanctuary revered by jews as the temple mount. Pushing rights for jews to pray there, the man now reported to be regaining consciousness and communicating with them. Across the west bank, protests rumbled on. Repercussions of the rabbis shooting. And the van attack. Each event fueling the next. Apparently unconnected to that chain of discontent, disorder among leading palestinian political factions. Ten homes of Party Officials destroyed by bombs in gaza where hamas is dominant. So far unexplained. Nic robertson, cnn, jerusalem. And with the violence clashes, people believe this could be the beginning of another intifada. And a former navy s. E. A. L. Says he killed Osama Bin Laden. Why he said he died afraid. Thats coming up. Plus, going live to germanys capital. Now celebrating 25 years without the berlin wall. You can see live pictures right there. Look back at cnns coverage of the fall of the fall as it happened back in 1989. Thats coming up. A very special weekend is under way in germany. The 25th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall. Now, fred joins us in berlin. Its 11 15 in the morning. Fred, i know that a lot of celebrations are taking place. I know that Angela Merkel gave an emotional speech, gorbachev was there. And take us back in time to 1989, november. What was it like when that wall came down . Oh, it was an absolutely special moment. I was 13 when the berlin wall came down. It was a big moment for me as well. Because i lived behind the berlin wall for five years. The interesting thing was people couldnt believe it when the wall was open. A lot of people were coming over. A lot of people thought it might be open for a couple of days and things would go back to normal. No one could fathom that something that was so big and dangerous like are the berlin wall could go away that quickly. One of the channels many people were watching was cnn. It had major coverage of the event. Lets look back at what the coverage was like on november 9th, 1989. [ applause ] it was the largest demonstration in east german history. The main square was carpeted with a half million people. The city virtually came to a standstill. Our top story, the iron curtain between east germany and west berlin has come tumbling down. East germany is opening the borders, allowing the citizens to go anywhere they wish. The future of the berlin wall is now up in the air. East germanys communist leaders have take a symbolic sledge hammer to the wall. Its conceivable that real sledge hammers will be brought out. Theres no point of it being there. Prospect that no one could have predicted a year or a month ago. This has been a city physically divided for 28 years, now coing together, east and west, in a spontaneous outburst of emotion. Reporter this could be the first move to dismantling the berlin wall that has stood as the most painful symbol of a divided germany since it was built in 1961. One after another, drivers and passengers alike plan to spend their new freedom to spend a weekend in west germany to take a look at how the other half lives. Every east german coming to the west receive 100 marks, about 50. Any west german businesses are giving them a chance to spend their money and pick up goods to take home. Around the clock. Hundreds of thousz swarm eed streets of west berlin. A new hole, yesterday, it was the bridge that opened up to many of us, these are just place names. But what signal do these places send to the german people . It was the times square of berlin before the war. I was there yesterday, i have never seen more grown men with tears in their eyes than on that bridge. East germans dont want to leave jobs, homes and families to go to the west. Its wetted the appetite for not just a little more change, but a lot. They hope that by dismantling those things that have become symbols of their past, they can encourage the return of the doctors, scientists and engineers needed to rebuild the countrys future. Reporter so as you can see, zane, there was a lot of hope, but a lot of uncertainty as to what all of this actually meant. A lot of people thought what was going to happen is the german democratic problem, or east germany, as it was known in the west, would become a different state. But still around. No one imagined a unified germany, and less than a year after the berlin wall came down. Thats why we have the big celebrations 25 years after the fact. One of the cool things i have seen around here, not only people around back then, but younger people who werent around when the wall informs place celebrating the moment and grasp what that moment means nor us and our freedom today. What i found interesting watching that piece was there were a lot of people in east berlin who didnt want to leave to the west. To me, thats remarkable. But lets talk about this weekend. Celebrations, 25 years since the end of the iron curtain. What celebrations do they have with former president gorbachev and Angela Merkel . Merkel gave a speech yesterday in parliament. Gorbachev is popular here. Hes one of the most popular here. Many in the east and the west know it was his policies and the fact that the soviet union troops, there were over 100,000 here, they didnt intervene back then and stop that peaceful revolution from happening. Whats going on is one of the things you see behind me, the lights you see here. Which is the light border thats set up across where the berlin wall used to be, at least across a stretch of it. They are illuminated in the night and released into the sky at precisely 7 20 p. M. Local time tomorrow. Which is exactly the moment that the announcement was made that the berlin wall would be open. Theres a big fest cival at the Brandenburg Gate. The symbol of german unity. A festival and bands. And the mayor of berlin, possibly with Angela Merkel is going to start in motion the balloons being released. Thats the big moment when germany celebrates 25 years since the fall of the berlin wall that led to german unity and where we are today. Very exciting and emotional thinking about all those people who tried to cross from east berlin to the west and didnt make it. Fred, for us there in east berlin. Its just gone 11 20 in the morning. Thank you. Appreciate it. And lone wolf attacks, and theyre happening more frequently. Everywhere from israel to canada. What Law Enforcement authorities think is behind the trend. And one year ago today, Supertyphoon Haiyan slammed into the philippines. One survivors heartbreaking story. Thats coming up. Great rates and safety working in harmony. Open an optimizer plus account from synchrony bank. Visit myoptimizerplus. Com to open an account. Service. Security. Savings. Synchrony bank engage with us. All around the world the dedicated people of United Airlines are there to support you. Thats got your back friendly. Im spending too much time hiring and not enough time in my kitchen. [ female announcer ] need to hire fast . Go to ziprecruiter. 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So everybody was caught offguard, including the International Media who were here to cover the event. All of us were trapped inside inside our buildings and hotels. And nobody was able to to go out and actually cover what was going on. As the water came in, immediately, and nobody could move. I was with my mom on the phone when the water hit. She said were okay. Were safe. The last thing she said, she could hear people banging, banging at the door. I know now they were not people. It was the water rushing in. The phone was cut. That was the last time i heard from my mom. When the phone went off, the water rose. I couldnt find the bodies of my parents. I ended up trying to validate everything that happened to us. We were all in shock. When we got out, the devastation that was just too much for all of us. We didnt know where to begin. It was the it was also the first time we saw bodies out in the streets. It was it was a very difficult day to shoot. In tragedies of this scale, something kicks in. Human nature takes over. I could see thousands of people walking in both directions. Stunned. Not knowing where to go. And i could i could see it in in their eyes that they were all dazed. We were all basically trying to stay alive, look for water, for food. For our families, for our children. We simply have no time to grieve in the first ten days. I decided i am going home. I am holding a memorial not only for my parents, but for all of us who lost families and relatives to this storm. I designed the candlelight memorial to allow everybody to do it on the same day at the same time. Its not every day that we lose family members all at the same time. The documentaries that we did were were a commitment to the community. Despite everything we had to go out and document our people. We had a shared experience. And the collective experience we had galvanized galvanized our community, galvanized our people. Yeah, heartbreaking how many people lost their entire families. That typhoon really catching a lot of people offguard. Time for a check of the Global Weather forecast. Derrick vann dam is in the weather. And theres flooding in venice, right . Yeah, but interestingly enough, this flooding in venice is not a direct cause of heavy rain. Ill explain in just a moment. Venice, also known as the noting city, or the city of water or even the queen of the adriatic, saw this, this is st. Marks square under water on friday. Making the best of whats available, interesting gum boots, made out of trash bags. Basically what happened here, a high tide was coupled with a phenomenon of local winds. Its a dry wind off of the sahara desert, the northeastern sections of africa. As a low pressure system like this ones moves across the mediterranean, we get a compounding effect on the adriatic, including the venice area, allowing for the flooding that took place there on friday. This is the storm system responsible for hefty weather across italy, sicily, wind gusts