reporter: i love harry potter, she said. he s strong and brave and he kills bad people. what do you want to do when you grow up? teacher. reporter: you want to be a teacher? yes. reporter: qulierk mlike your? yes. reporter: as bana and fatima begged for help on twitter how are you? i am sick. reporter: syria s president bashar al assad called their internet posts a game and propaganda. others then claimed the account was somehow a fake. they want to blind the truth and not show the world what happened. reporter: bana and her mother did show the world what happened in aleppo and made it out alive. though to the world s shame even a little girl s pleas for help didn t stop the carnage. holly williams, cbs news, ankara, turkey. we ve been reporting extensively on russian hacking in the presidential campaign and last night we showed you how russian hackers shut down part of ukraine s power grid. well, now david martin reports the hacking has led to
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if you think your plans are held up look at that guy. he s in a worse situation. good friday morning, i m kendis gibson. and i m mara schiavocampo in for diane macedo. we begin this morning with president-elect donald trump triggering fears of a nuclear arms race with a tweet about expanding america s nuclear capability. it does appear to be a major break from long-standing u.s. policy. his team scrambling overnight to clarify that he s not advocating the use of nukes but it follows a similar statement from vladimir putin about his country s own nuclear arsenal. abc s maggie rulli has the latest live for us from washington. maggie, good morning. reporter: good morning. the president-elect might be staying out of sight in his south florida estate at mar-a-lago but has twitter to keep him busy and in the headlines. the president-elect might not be in the white house just yet but he s already taking a jab at tweeting out, the united states must greatly strengthen and expan
inside when their mother was shot in the head and she died minutes later in the hospital and the second murder in that very unit in months. that is the first thing that came to my mind. not number 7 again. i don t know what is going on. the 27-year-old man died of stab wounds he sustained on the second floor that apartment. darryl townsend is charged in his death and police are not say first degree the incidents are related. it has to stop and it has to stop. it s crazy people don t realize there are kidded out here and innocent people. this community has seen its share of violence recently. this woman s child, sean johnson was gunned down on east state street. the city of camden saw 44 homicides a 29% increase. for each grieving family, the numbers can t measure the loss. my son had three kids and it s christmas time and instead of celebrating christmas we are planning a funeral, it s not right, it s not fair. the name of last night s victim has not been released