and i'm george howlell. thank you for joining us. militant fighters attacking from three difference have overrun the town and now they're threatening a strategic air because. hundreds of military advisers are stationed there and have been training iraqi troops. >> on friday u.s. helicopters had to be deployed. after the dust settled, as many as 25 militants were killed by iraqi ground forces. the pentagon says the base is secure but also admits that they are close to danger. he's go live to phil black in the northern city of iraq. can you tell us what you're seeing there on the ground? >> reporter: well george the situation here in northern iraq is somewhat different to that situation in the west of iraq. here in the north the situation is more stable, the battle zone more secure in that the kurdish forces have forced the isis forces back from a lot of their territory. they've dug in lines and they're now holding them. isis is still very much on the offensive, on if front foot moving forward capable of taking more territory. as we saw in al baghdadi yesterday. the iraqi security services in their efforts to retake the that town have only got as far as the perimeter. isis still controls the center of the town itself. boosted on line taking the police station and letting all of the prisoners go. isis launched a big attack yesterday, some 20 to 25 people wearing iraqi uniforms. the iraqi security forces dealt with the attack. it involved the u.s. apache helicopters as you mentioned, but only in a support role some media role providing the information of the movement of the forces on the ground. the pentagon has been keen to point out that its 300 or so military trainers located at that base were under no risk. sit a huge sprawl complex, city-like in size and scale. the attack reached the perimeter on one side. but the military personnel we're told were never under any threat because they were located at another point inside the base spom miles away. >> obviously al baghdadi was one of the few towns in the province that was still held by iraqi forces up until this point. what does that suggest about the advance of isis? >> reporter: well linda, it backs up what we really know. in that province and in the west isis has maintained considerable military momentum, that the local sunni tribes have been trying to slow down isis or take back territory, they haven't been able to do so. that's what this event shows, is that isis still has the capacity to launch major operations and claim new territory. they've done it yet again. no doubt the iraqi security forces will attempt to retake this town. but so far the president suggests that they will not be able to do smo in the near term. >> phil black joining us live. there are two battles going on in eastern ukraine. >> a cnn crew is recognizing incoming and outgoing artillery in the coastal city. another team in donetsk say there's been significant shelling there throughout this morning. they haven't stopped exchanging fire since the peace deal was rechd on thursday. poroshenko says that the cease-fire could be in jeopardy. listen. >> this is not just an attack of ukrainian civilian. this is attack of the means and results. and without -- after minsk the offensive operation of russia intensified. and we think -- we still think that the minsk agreement is in danger. >> meanwhile, rebel forces are putting leaflets inside shells demanding that the ukraineian troops surrender. meanwhile, a mother in eastern ukraine is asking what cease-fire after shelling killed her three young children while they took a bath. >> nick payton walsh went to the family's home in donetsk and he shares their story. >> reporter: it was here when this family got their first running water for a week and quickly made the kids a bath. two and a half years, seven and a 14-year-old their god mother explains. then the first shell hit. direct here on the bath itself. all three were killed but their parents were both in the front bedroom whose windows didn't even shatter. this civilian area is still being shelled here 34 hours before a cease-fire. the family is now a shell, numb in mourning. the tiny coffins ready for tomorrow. >> translator: i went to get them a towel in the other room. the lights went out. everything flew into the house. what cease-fire? i curse every day those who killed my children and all those of the country. people who want to live peacefully we lived, grew up, took our children to coolschool. these are not people. >> reporter: the father dennis is alone talking to himself. peeling vegetables for the wake. my grandchildren were killed she says. innocent. mr. poroshenko your cease-fire. any quiet the cease-fire may bring with ring hollow numb and mere hours too late here. >> it's difficult to see the conditions they're dealing with. the u.s. ambassador to ukraine tweeted a short time ago that the separatists are arm. separatists have a large fighting force with more tanks, armored vehicles heavy military and rocket systems than some nato and european countries. photos showing what he says are russian military systems being deployed in eastern ukraine. un secretary of yemen is on the brink of a civil war. >> and as instability grows in the country, more western countries have closed their embassies due to security fears. >> let me be clear, yemen is collapsing before our eyes. we cannot stand by and watch. >> his statement to the security council on thursday came as al qaeda linked fighters seized an army base in yemen housing 1,000 troops. the united states is one of those countries suspending operations at its embassy in 'em men. >> specifically against al qaeda in the arabian peninsula which calls yemen home. brian todd looks into it. >> reporter: documents and weapons were destroyed and all americans inside, even the marines evacuated from the country. analysts say before the pullout this embassy was often buzzing with intelligence operations now -- >> you can't put officer ons the ground can't go out to meetings. you can't go in the country. so we are, again i'll say it effectively blind there. this was a huge set back. bob booer says now that the embassy has by most measures closed dozens of u.s. intelligence operatives have left yemen when with them human intelligence. the cia won't comment. it's drawing major concern because al qaeda's dangerous branch operates out of yemen. al qaeda in the arabian peninsula claimed responsibility for the "charlie hebdo" attack and the tempt to place bombs in printer cartridges. both of those attacks targeted the united states. both almost succeeded. the master bomb maker behind those plots is still at large, still believed to be operational. and with the u.s. embassy evacuation analysts say that al qaeda branch is emboldened. >> they're taking advantage of the vacuum. we saw an attempt on one of the military bases in yemen. they entered the base stole the weapons and left and vacated. the base is controlled by tribes not the yemen military. >> reporter: and they just overrun a prison in yemen and freed six of their militants. their counterterrorism capabilities have been impacted by the chaos. but they insist they still have assets in place to counter al qaeda >> we do have some number of special operations forces that are still operating in yemen. >> reporter: and u.s. officials say they're still training the yemen forces. there are been drone strikes. but there is still a major void with few if any american intelligence officers on the ground to work with their ya men any counter parts. that was always seen as crucial. brian todd cnn washington. the news continues here on cnn. allegations that more than 200 women and girls were rand by sunni soldiers. >> this difficult yet important story to tell the coming up after the break. eh, you don't want that one. yea, actually i do. it's mucinex fast-max night time and it's got a nasal decongestant. is that really a thing? it sounds 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on super bowl sunday february 1st. >> despite the positive record breaking news, there has been and uptick of shooting incidents compared with the same time period of last year. the un refugee group said fighters arrived by boat and started setting houses on fire. >> the humanitarian vehicle full of people was attacked as it tried to escape. the village was home to thousands of refugees fleeing boko haram. >> one advocacy group says these nightmares are not far in the past. >> human rights watch says the sunni soldiers raped more than 200 girls. >> the officials are denying these allegations. jessica king has more on the story. and we need to warn you, the details in this piece are graphic and disturbing. >> reporter: these women are being questioned about allegations of a nightmare, the brutal rape of more than 200 women and young girls by soldiers. the accounts reported by human rights watch this week are horrific. it happened in darfur. a bloody conflict there has killed hundreds of thousands. but reports of this mass rape constitute a quote, new low even for darfur. victims allege that the soldiered entered their villages looking for one of their own. soldiers came into homes, beat the men and took them away. and in the absans of many husbands brothers sons and friends, the soldiers raped the women and girls. they raped my three daughters and me a victim says. two of her daughters are under 11 years old. she continues. some of them were holding the girl down while another was raping her. they did it one by one. they beat the young children and they raped my older daughters another witness recounted. they put clothes in their mouths so you could not hear them screaming. these anonymous accounts are horrifying. yet many people aren't talking. human rights watch says it's due to a climate of fear that they could face beatings or even death. the un peacekeeping mission was allowed to investigate just once. a >> the one time the peace keepers were permitted to reach the city the firnls refused to let them interview alleged rape victims in private. to this day the government of sudan has shamefully denied the un the ability to properly investigate this incident. >> sudan denies this. >> translator: the statement is being made in a flagrant attempt to level accusations once again in a security council. >> it calls all allegations baseless and unfounded. the latest denial of major allegations against sudan. its leader is wanted for crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide. he's yet to face the international criminal courts. there are calls to toughen sanctions and to increase aid. but many aid groups are been kicked out or chosen to leave. but it's those left behind whose future remains uncertain, countless have lost their homes, some their innocence and many their hope. jessica king cnn. >> very difficult, sobering an important story to get out there. >> absolutely horrific. needs to be told. the u.s. supreme court justices scalia and ruth ginsberg often finds themselves on different sides of a ruling. but they have not stopped them from forming a lasting friendship. that's next here on cnn. looks like cupid will need a snow plow this valentine's day in boston massachusetts. another blizzard on the way. >> it's not good news for them. meteorologist derek van damn who will be leaving the cnn center here in atlanta to go to cnn new york to cover the cold weather up there. >> i think cupid is going to need a few snow plows. we're talking about a lot of snow. so much snow so far this season in boston that you know that 70,000 seater gill let stadium joutd out of boston massachusetts. they could fill that 90 times with all of the snow they've cleared so far this season. unbelievable statistic. right now across the united states we have roughly 34 million people under some sort of winter weather advisory, winter storm warning or blizzard warning. we focus on the northeast even those there are some advisories across the great lakes. blizzard warning in effect for the new england coast. you can see that even parts of long island just now included within that blizzard warning. remember a certain criteria need to be met for a blizzard to be in effect. 35-mile-per-hour winds sustained for three hours, reducing viseabilities below a quarter are of a mile. we're expecting those conditions for boston and portland. and we're breaking all kinds of records. we've received more snow this season to date than any other season before this in boston. we're one inch away from the snowiest month ever on record. and you can see so far we've received just shy of 80 inches of snow. this is the top five snowfalls we've had in boston and we're going to easily catapult ourself into that with the next storm. look at what it looks like when you have four-foot snow drifts covering your car. dude where's my car. boston has a great way to handle the snow event. they hire what is called snow melting machines. i actually didn't know they existed. $600,000 for two of these. that melts 350 tons per hour. that's about $4,000 an hour just to melt the snowfall. >> and they're going to need a lot of snow -- a little salt. >> they're going to need a lot of salt more snow melting machines. did you guys know they existed. >> well funny things yes. only because i covered the snow up there. >> we learn something new every day. >> aefr very clever to mix in dude where's my car. >> the movie reference. you got it. i'm so glad you got that. they don't call me dvd for nothing. >> van damn dvd thank you so much. >> now u.s. spekt courtupreme court court juice ys scalia and ginsberg would seem to be polar opposites. but they're friends. >> as pamela brown tells us neither of them is showing any signs of slowing down. >> why don't you call us the odd couple. >> justices scalia and ruth ginsberg two polar opposites with the closest friendship on the bench. >> what's not to like? except her views of the law, of course. >> sharing a laugh about ginsburg's sleeping habits at the state of the union. >> the audience for the most part is awake because they're bobbing up and down all the time. and we sit there, stone faced, sober junls.dges. at least i wasn't 100% sober because before we went to the state of the union we had dinner together and justice kennedy brought in -- >> that's the first intelligent thing you've done. >> so i got a call when i came home from one of my grandmothers who said you were sleeping at the state of the union. >> the sharp as a tack 81-year-old even admitted she's had some occasional help staying awake from now retired justice david suitor. >> he would give me a pinch. >> ginsberg nicknamed notorious rbg and scalia known as knee no has long vacationed together with their families. scalia admiring his partner's taste for adventure. >> ruth honest to goodness went up behind a motor boat in -- >> parra sail. >> i mean she's so light. you would think she would never come down >> their 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>> we're still looking at this and it's hard to say whether they breached the perimeter or not. but they got to the perimeter level at the very least. and they were immediately engaged, i think it's important to note by iraqi security forces right away. >> u.s. forces stationed at the base were kilometers away from the assault and clear not under any threat. isn't it fair to say that these military personnel are in combat if not in combat troops considering the threat that's around them in >> there's no question that they're close to danger. no question about that. but there's not going to be a return to a combat mission on the ground. and these individuals are not in a combat mission on the ground. they have the right to defend themselves and should they feel under threat they certainly have the right, the responsibility and obligation to shoot back. >> but rear admiral told us that the u.s. has con tintingency plans to evacuate if necessary. in the north, the terror group parading what it claims are kurdish forces in cages after capturing them in battle. a female isis supporter in syria has officials in canada on high alert. before she had access to isis she was living in toronto. and all paula newton has more on this. >> reporter: from the streets of toronto in november to the treacherous isis battleground outside kobani just a few weeks later. a young canadian woman identified as l.a. is gio tracked, her journey traced by her mobile phone every time she posts on twitter. >> why is a female there. the only thing we can come up in terms of an explanation is she's doing spying activities for isis. >> jeff wires is a researcher with an intelligence research group tracking those at risk of violent extremism. if he cease sending the tweets to be the ground she's covered, the access she's had to the front lines is unprecedented for a woman, even moving through isis enemy territory. >> after arriving in iraq she starts traveling all over syria. this is something we've never seen in a female profile before. >> she arrived in the so-called isis capital, moves to alep po and then all the way to mosul in iraq with stops in between. she then pops up on twitter on another isis front line near kobani. her twitter posts are in arabic. quote she she writes they treated me as a sister and i have seen no kindness like theirs. >> even online you're seeing women engaging with isis engaging with the etiology of isis to an extent we've never seen before. >> what is the attraction? from the social media posts you see, what makes them grave tate toward isis? >> there's never been a group like isis. there's never been a group that's engaged in the amount of propaganda the amount of recruiting. >> researchers know her name but are not releasing it and toronto jane is under investigation here by police in canada where new proposed laws mean she would likely be arrested the minute she tried to return. >> the only evidence they would have is twitter posts. that's speech. now in this case she's gone to syria and i would suspect that they will have additional evidence about the connections she has, who arranged her travel, who financed her travel what was the purpose of her travel and which group is she supporting on the ground. >> they also want to learn about her toronto connections. >> what information is she passing along to isis and did she have any supporters while she was here in toronto. that would be the greater question to try and figure out. >> definitely a possibility that she could have been a threat? >> definitely? >> one of her last posts she defends the savage burning of the jordanian pilot by isis. if you were looking by evidence, torturing by fire was exempted by the prophet and reexempt what he exempted. canadian researches have no idea if toronto jane knows she's being followed by the twitter account has now been deactivated. and canadian police claim a 19-year-old canadian mane an 23-year-old american woman plansed a mass shooting at a mall before taking their own lives. the man shot and killed himself after police surrounded him at his parents' home. the women and two others are in custody. gunmen and suicide bombers stormed a mosque in pakistan during friday prayer killing 19 people and wounding dozens more. >> the pakistani taliban claims responsibility. and vows carry out more attacks. >> bloodshed in pakistan an attack at a mosque. police say up to five attackers stormed the mosque firing into the crowd during friday prayer. among them one suicide bomber who blew himself up. police say another was stopped by worshippers and held by the throat before he could detonate his explosives. the pakistani taliban released a video claiming responsibility saying this was a revenge attack zblth the doctor was hanged to death so i am sending these young men ready to give up their lives as suicide bombers and dare you to try to stop them. >> a militant affiliated with the pakistani taliban was hanged in december for his role on an attack on pakistani headquarters in 2009. the group ear commander is believed to be responsible for organizing the attack as well as the school massacre in december that killed 134 children. this latest sectarian attack comes a day after the government released new findings in that school massacre including the arrests of 12 militants authorities they have linked to it. as the country tries to make stronger measures to stop islamist militant groups. next we'll take you to a secret location where some of hollywood's most iconic props are kept. plus, tastes are changing in china and two beer brewers in beijing are cashes in it on. we've got that story straight ahead. my advice for healthy looking radiant skin. a good night's sleep... and aveeno®. 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prosecutor's unsolved death continue to trouble argentina's president. >> now a junl is to decide if an investigation with continue sbo her alleged role of the bombing incident. >> the formal accusation jens the president is the latest in the story. they're accusing her and other top officials of hatching a plan to protect iran anies believed responsible for the 1994 deadly bombing of a jewish community center in exchange for iranian oil. the judge filed the excellent against her and her foreign minister. it is only first step. the accusation must be confirmed by a judge. authorities have yet to confirm his death as a suicide or murder. argentina's top prosecutor on friday named a new team that will be in charge of the investigation into the bombing. 85 people were killed. attorney general says her country has a debt with the families of the jewish community center bombing. >> translator: the circumstances demand that the attorney general's office give an answer to the victims, their relatives and society, which all together a have been waiting for truth and justice for 20 years. those 20 years of impunity are a debt that the judicial system must pay by strength thenning the attorney general. >> the case against her is a clear maneuver to destabilize democracy in the south american country. argentine law gives president's immunity from prosecution but congress can take that away. cnn atlanta. hidden away in a secret london location lies treasures usually seen only on the big screen. the most famous props from some of the biggest films of the last few decades are stored in a secret vault. >> cnn's max foster was the first reporter inside with a camera crew. here is his exclusive report. >> a very ordinary reception to a very ordinary warehouse somehow on the outskirts of long dp. we're not allowed to reveal the location. look at the size of it. ♪ more than 10,000 props, 3,000 costumes, iconic objects from some of the world's favorite films, all meticulously sorted and stored here in the warner brothers archive. so in this action rail upon rail of costumes. let's take a look. the dark knight rises, christian bale and bruce wain. the harry potter tran erter franchise is one of the most successful. once the cameras stop rolled many of the props and costumes are moved here. you'll recognize the hogwarts uniform there and you'll see a sense of how daniel radcliffe aged over the years, this from the first movie and this from the last. more harry potters items. >> there's no magic to be used between the classes of the corridors. >> and then we move on to the "dark knight" series thrchlts is the gun that i recognize. >> indeed. >> it's heavy, feels like a real gun. >> you wouldn't be interested in that. >> check out the tumbler, all two and a half tons of it fully functioning from the wind screen wipe tore the 5.7 liter engine. some of the props were stored so they could be repurposed later on. but above all warner brothers say it's about preserving the shared history >> the value of memorabilia is huge. people love and connect with the assets in the television shows and feature films. >> the advances in special effects mean that much of what we see in movies today is done with computers. but even the most high-tech film still needs some props. george clooney's space suit from "gravity" and the capsule that falls into the water. but in order to film the seens inside of that they built this. the detail really is incredible. for the final leg of the secret tour a chance to try for myself what it feels like to be an action hero. like tom cruise in "the edge of tomorrow." it's incredibly heavy and to think they spent hours in this is just amazing. there we are. i'm ready. my task is complete. max foster cnn. i can't tell you where i am. >> i think he would like a role in one of those films. >> he fit. the suit fits. >> i was looking at the batman. >> i was looking at the willie won ka. those things must be worth a floor chun. >> very ooh 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