Going toward the city. Although the peshmerga would not have allowed isis militants to capture that city. But this comes as isis is trying to relieve pressure on mosul. Peshmerga are strangling it on three different fronts isis is probing their lines, looking for weaknesses to exploit. And really to show you how, how continues the fighting was, we know that 40 isis fighters were killed in it. And several peshmerga fighters were killed as well. Although the peshmerga have been fairly vague in the number of fatalities they had. But what is most surprising is how it shaped up with their weapons, you have the peshmerga, who are using small arms they do not have heavy artillery and you have the isis fighters who have american equipment. Theyre going against them. Alisyn . Thanks for spelling all of that out this morning for us ian, lee, well check back in with you. Theres information about the suspected gunman in the deadly shootings in copenhagen and emerging evidence that the paris terror attacks were coordinated. Cnns Nic Robertson well get to him as soon as we can. We see the problem is everywhere the question is what to do about it today brings day two of the white house summit on violent extremism. Day one got hung up on basics. What to call the enemy and even if theres a war going on. Cnn White House CorrespondentMichelle Kosinski joins us. Do we have that right . Thats right, chris. Today well hear from the president on this on the question how do you prevent the kind of violent extremism weve seen in europe and they call themselves islamic, but the white house isnt using that word. They say they want to draw from International Experience of fighting extremism of all kinds. They say those kinds of attackers are not islamic, but are simply terrorists so the summit wants to look at communitybased pilot programs in three different cities. L. A. Boston and minneapolis. But theyve only been in existence for about a year. It will be interesting during the public sections of this summit to hear whether there are any concrete examples of these programs actually working. Actually doing something. Theyre going to be looking at what works and what doesnt. It was also interesting in a completely different setting to hear the attorney general, eric holder tell reporters that the country is not at a time of war. Listen. Were not in a time of war and i said this is an extreme example. Okay so he was making a comparison to world war ii when there was a normal declaration of war. But this raised some eyebrows especially since the administration did agree a few months ago that yes, the u. S. Is currently at war against isis. Chris . All right, michelle thank you very much. Alisyn over to you. Developing overnight, cbs news obtaining a photo of the rarely seen leader of Isis Abu Bakr albaghdadi. Its the closest, most defined, welldefined photo that weve seen yet of him. This as a huge new indepth cover story in the atlantic explains in great detail what motivates isis and exactly how they accomplish that barbaric goals. Lets bring in the author of the article, graham wood this is such a comprehensive and compelling piece, i think its 38 pages long and it describes isis in a way that certainly i have never read before. How did you get all this information on isis . I asked. Thats really all it takes, there are questions you can ask isis and its supporters that it will not answer such as where is your next attack going to be but if you ask them about islam, what they believe, they believe its their sacred duty to tell you. Lets start with some of the categories that you defense into. One of them is their doctrine. You write the reality is is that the Islamic State is islamic. Very islamic. Yes, it is attracted psychopaths and adventure seekers drawn largely from the disaffected populations of the middle east and europe but the religion preached by its most ardest followers derives from coherent and learned interpretations of islam. Thats fascinating, graeme because where is it in the koran to burn someone live in a cage . Theres a good argument to be made it should be made among muslims about whether their interpretations are correct. The question is whether they emerge from the texts of islam and the practices of people who have called themselves muslims in in the last 1300 years is not open to doubt. The way that they speak to each other, wait that they justify what they do it all emerges from discussion within traditions of islam about what is proper to do. Now, the burning of the jordanian pilot, this is a really exceptional act and it was one of the things they had to reach particularly far and many would say into very tendentious reasoning to justify. They did go into the history of early islam and into their interpretations of islam. What basis are they using that you burn a nonbeliever . How far back do you go where you find that this could even be justified . If you watch the video itself which i dont recommend, you will see in the moment of the man being burned alive theres actually a freezeframe and a quote comes up that essentially says you can do mutilation which is usually completely unacceptable within the norms of war in islam. If by doing that youre calling others to to islam or if by doing that you are causing, causing attackers to cease attacking. So they go directly into early scholarship of islam and actually in the last issue of their magazine they have a very long discussion of whether you can do Something Like burning a man alive, which is as they say, normally strictly prohibited within islam, if it is an act of retribution for burning alive. That is can you have tit for tat, they say yes, can you. You looked into their recruiting methods which have been wildly successful thus far, how do they do it . Well i spoke to recruiters who are outside the Islamic State. There is this class of people who have lost their passports, they have been confiscated by the british and australian governments because theyre suspected of bringing people in from the outside. And what their role is is to teach people to teach people the doctrine of the Islamic State and to call them to islam in the form that the Islamic State preaches it. And these people they have Youtube Channels they have facebook pages and active twitter accounts. All of these things are existing to tell people what they believe islam is and eventually to call them to an obligation to move to the Islamic State. Lets talk about the apocalypse. You say on earth how important the apocalypse to their ideology. You write much of what they do appears nonsensical, except in the light of a sincere considered commitment to returning civilization to a seventh century Legal Environment and ult may bringing about the apocalypse. If we look at their propaganda and videos its laced with references to the apocalypse its completely filled with rhetoric and allusion to apocalyptic literature. There will be an annihilation on earth and everyone meets their make centre is that what theyre talking about . Its actually a very specific thing. They believe there will be a meeting between the armies of rome which is widely believed to be cree saiders or western armies and the armies of islam and they believe it will happen in a particular city in syria called dabik. And after the victory of the armies of islam there they will continue to conquer until eventually theres a showdown in jerusalem. And at that point jesus, who is regarded as a prophet within islam will return will lead the armies of islam to victory and after that there is a very specific choreography that happens that could last thousands of years. But it is part of what of what isis believes it is bringing about by its actions now. In the meantime before the epoch lips theyre interested in this caliphate. What did you learn about that in terms of their geographics, what theyre looking for geographically. Their view of what a caliphate is is a piece of territory, in which a caliph can apply islamic law. That is a person who fulfills particular criteria. Albaghdadi is their caliph yes . Hes a muslim man, from the tribe of the prophet, and hes fulfilling islamic law. They believe if you fulfill this criteria that its cup bent upon muslims to blej a s tos to pledge allegiance to him. Are they a force to be inkrebablyinkreb incredibly feared or a ragtag band. Theyre a group that can be understood and can be studied and it matters what they actually think because this is the mode of their propaganda. Its how they attract people. And its what they value. So the most important thing i would say from this investigation is that we can study them. We can know our enemy and our enemy is actually very eager to tell us about itself. Well you have do that incredibly well and everyone can read it in the atlantic this month. Graeme wood thank you so much for coming on. Over to chris. Breaking news eastern ukraine, theres supposed to be a ceasefire. But word that some pro Government Forces are pulling out of a strategic city after clashes with rebels. Cnn International CorrespondentNick Paton Walsh joins with us more. Were hearing now from the Ukrainian Government the admission that theyve withdrawn 18 of their forces from a the strategy city of debaltseve. This is going to be the key flashpoint. Clearly the forces have prevailed and weve seeing bedraggledlooking Ukrainian Forces coming out. Its happening because its day four of a ceasefire. It doesnt feel like a ceasefire when we hear the shelling. The question is what happens next . Does it mean the end of the ceasefire or do some on the separatist side do they continue to take more territory. The question is does this slow down the violence or do we see yet another econgratulation. Back to you. Nick paton walsh, thank you for scrambling your report for us. 11. 4 million, thats how Many Americans have signed up for private Health Insurance through 2015 through obamacare exchange. The white house says the number beat their own projections for the year. People who had trouble because of technical glitches or long wait times now have until february 22nd to sign up. Remember the civil rights probe into the shooting death of Michael Brown in ferguson, missouri . Were told its reportedly winding down. Attorney general eric holder says the results of the investigation, as well as a broader investigation into the Ferguson Police department itself will be revealed before he steps down. That is expected in the next few weeks. New developments in an apparent road rage case that ended in murder. Investigators say tammy myers went looking for the man who had confronted her. Myers was gunned down in front of her home last week. Police say myers returned home from the initial could be frontation picked up her son had a gun and went looking for the driver. The man that police are looking for has not yet been apprehended or identified. A little confusing but very terrible. Obviously because of the end. Its also how these situations build on themselves right . He did something to her. That seems wrong, she went back home her son had a gun, now you have two people are angry. Son very motivated to help the mother. They go back out. She winds up dead. Road rage incidents are real. Everybody has experienced it. At least mildly. You have to figure out a way to deescalate that. Usually assume theyre spontaneous, im mad at you for what you just did, it happens here and we move on. Not always. Another story is the dangerous cold in the northeast. Take a look at this. It led to a frontic rescue in new jersey. What were looking at here a 14yearold trapped on the frozen waters of this bay, climbed on to a pipe. Slipped off. Luckily rescued. Treated for hypothermia. Horrible situation. As multiple deaths have been blamed on this deep freeze thats why you worry about kids or anybody in this situation. Lets get to meteorologist chad myers, not just about the numbers, chad these conditions cause problems on the roads, for our homes and pipes and obviously personal safety. A lot of black ice on the road even in atlanta. Down to 23 i was driving and im looking at it all over the place, going wow, you want to go straight over the top of it you start turning, theres black ice everywhere. Look at the wind chill factors. It fields like 19 feels like 10 in washington, d. C. But it feels cold all the way down to orlando. This cold front is all the way down into florida. And its not changing. This is the next three days heres monday tuesday, wednesday, thursday theres friday of next week and the cold is in the east and it doesnt go away. It warms up slightly in new york city for saturday into sunday. But theres also a chance of some ice coming in on sunday night. Buffalo, you would never get above 10 for the next three days and look at the lows new york city down to 4. Boston 4, new york city on saturday 9 and the warmup on sunday to 27. Talking about the cold air in the midwest. Chicago, it just feels unbearable out there and all the way down to the deep south, orlando, tomorrow morning all the way down to 34 for friday morning. 30. Theyll be covering up all the plants. Look at atlanta, we dont get that cold here 14 degrees there will be record lows set all across the country on friday morning. Guys back to you. My feelings that its wrong to blame chad for the weather are over . Theyre wavering i find it more convenient to focus my anger on a person. I understand. And theres chad. Chad thank you so much. All right, a federal judge halting the president s executive action on immigration. President obama says hes ready for a legal fight. Which side will prevail . And boy, this is a provocative question antisemitism. Is it on the rise in france. This man, he put it to the test. Well show you what he did and the results on the video. Denver international is one of the busiest airports in the country. We operate just like a city and that takes a lot of energy. 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Which is he does not have the authority to take this action so legislatively, this puts us in the place, were back right where we started. I think as a republican one of my big worries is that while this is maybe come as welcome news for many folks on capitol hill who are fighting with the president on this i do worry that this is one of those issues that we continue to define ourselves by what were against, instead of what were for. As we head into 2016 we have to do a better job of defining ourselves by what were for, what a modernized immigration system would look like and how it would serve our economy and how it would serve our National Security interests. Kevin, why isnt the ruling making the republicans back off on the threats to close down parts of Homeland Security . Well thats a much larger fight thats taking place up on capitol hill. It goes specifically to your point about tactic. I think this ruling will actually help broker a deal. Now that that many folks on capitol hill see that the issue is not going to go forward as the president planned and instead they have to come back to the bargaining table and see how theyre going to fund dhs. Paul let me show you a new cnn poll that shows how the American Public thinks the president is handling illegal immigration 40 approve. 59 disapprove. What do you make of that . Thats entirely consistent with where our cnn poll was in november. In the main, people support the president s position. Which is we should set priorities in deporting people. We should focus our attention on deporting gangbangers not grandmothers. But they dont want him to do it by executive order. They Want Congress to fix this problem. The president is doing all can he with the powers he can to win the court case. How do you know hes going to win the court case . Because mr. Fordham law, i went to the university of texas school of law. Because seriously, hes got precedent, five president s have done this. All hes doing, hes supposed to faithfully execute the law. As executing the law hes saying im telling my Law Enforcement people to make these priorities. Focus on people who are real threat. Not on people who are no threat. Beyond that this iS Immigration, the st