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FBI Obtains Warrant in Email Probe; At Least 20 Injured in Latest Italy Earthquake; Iraqi Forces Continue to Advance Toward Mosul; Mass Starvation Looms as Yemen Crisis Deepens; On the Front Lines of the Mosul Offensive; French Village Welcomes Its First Calais Migrants; Bob Dylan Has Answer for Nobel Prize Committee. Aired 12-1a ET
Aired October 31, 2016 - 00:00 ET
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[00:00:11] CYRIL VANIER, CNN ANCHOR: The Clinton e-mail saga adds another chapter. U.S. Justice Department officials obtain a warrant to search a computer containing e-mails of a top Hillary Clinton aide.
Plus --
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MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'm less than a kilometer away. Firing at Iraqi Special Forces position -- this is a constant day in and day out.
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NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR: At the front line, a CNN team embeds with Iraqi-led forces in the battle for Mosul and gets a close up of the combat.
VANIER: And lucky to be alive -- people in Italy survey the damage after another earthquake strikes the country's center.
ALLEN: Thanks for joining us. We are live in Atlanta. I'm Natalie Allen.
VANIER: And I'm Cyril Vanier. CNN NEWSROOM starts right now.
ALLEN: The renewed controversy over Hillary Clinton's e-mail server will likely persist through the U.S. presidential election, now just over a week away. The FBI now has a search warrant for a computer containing e-mails by Clinton's top aide Huma Abedin. The computer belonged to Abedin's estranged husband, Anthony Weiner, and was being examined in an unrelated criminal case involving him. Investigators believe that computer may contain e-mails deleted from Clinton's server before it was handed over to the FBI.
VANIER: Now, FBI director James Comey is being criticized for bringing up these e-mails on Friday, even though the bureau knew about them weeks ago. The revelation was a bombshell for Clinton's campaign as she'd been surging in the latest polls. Well, the Senate's top Democrat Harry Reid says Comey is playing politics and may have even broken the law with the timing of this news. In a letter, Reid accused Comey of withholding potentially damaging information about Donald Trump while spreading innuendo about Hillary Clinton.
Reid writes the following, "Your highly selective approach to publicizing information along with your timing was intended for the success or failure of a partisan candidate or political group.
And Hillary Clinton for her part has largely ignored the e-mail issue on the campaign trail. She's been hopping around the critical battleground state of Florida.
ALLEN: Recent polls there show it is a toss-up right now between her and Donald Trump. The closes she came to addressing the controversy Sunday was to dismiss it as noise and distraction.
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HILLARY CLINTON (D) PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: There have been ups and downs, and all that we've gone through over the years and even in this campaign. But I want you to know, I am focused on one thing, you -- your lives, your future, the problems that keep you up at night.
That's what I'm interested in. And that's what I'm going to be talking about here today and throughout the next nine days. That's really what this election is about.
You know, there's a lot of noise and distraction, but it really comes down to what kind of future we want.
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VANIER: And Donald Trump on the other hand has been getting plenty of mileage out of this.
DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: We're leading all over the place. And we're leading numerous national polls. And those polls are all before the bombshell of corruption that was additionally exposed or exposed for a second time on Friday. So this was all -- this was all before the big bombshell -- these polls came out. So I don't know what that's going to mean.
I can tell you I wouldn't be voting for her. We can speak for days, for weeks, months about Hillary's many crimes against this country, and its people and her efforts to conceal those crimes by destroying 33,000 e-mails.
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ALLEN: Well, Trump is correct about closing the gap with Clinton in some key polls. A new Washington Post/ABC poll released Sunday shows just one point separating the two White House contenders. The five most recent national polls are averaged into the CNN poll of polls. You are probably used to us talking about that by now. It shows Clinton with a five-point lead over Donald Trump.
VANIER: And the Clinton campaign for its part is livid about the e- mail controversy being revived as Election Day looms.
ALLEN: Yes. Here's what campaign chairman John Podesta said Sunday on CNN.
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JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST: Have you asked Huma Abedin what is on that computer and why she didn't turn it over when she --
JOHN PODESTA, CLINTON CAMPAIGN CHAIRMAN: We don't know what computer Mr. Comey is talking about. You're assuming a lot of facts that we don't know. So I think that, as I said, she's been fully cooperative with the authorities and they have recognized that. And, you know, I think that the -- you know, we can sit here and speculate and put facts into the record based on --
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[00:05:04] TAPPER: I'm not speculating, sir. Our reporting is that it was a laptop computer that belonged to Anthony Weiner and they found State Department e-mails on that laptop. That's reporting. That's not speculation.
You have access to Huma Abedin; I don't. Have you asked her how this happened?
PODESTA: I don't think she knows anything more than what we've seen in the press today.
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ALLEN: Larry Sabato is the director for the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. He joins us now via Skype. Hi -- Larry. Thanks for being with us.
LARRY SABATO, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: Thank you -- Natalie.
ALLEN: Well, we've learned in the past few hours that investigators have known about these new e-mails by -- allegedly by Hillary Clinton's right-hand woman Huma Abedin for weeks. And now they have just gotten a warrant to look at them. What do you think of the timing of all of this?
SABATO: It's very strange. It's more than passing odd and, of course, Republicans are thrilled and are congratulating the FBI director Mr. Comey. Democrats are furious, and denouncing him.
And pretty clearly, he has violated the usual protocols of the FBI. You do not take actions like this in an ongoing investigation and certainly not 11 days prior to an election.
But it's -- the cat's out of the bag. There's simply no way for people not to consider this. And I think the remaining question is -- will director Comey qualify anything that he has said or explain it further? Give people more information before about 60 percent of America votes on November 8th.
ALLEN: Right. How can he stay mute at this point with the Clinton team, as you say, letting their anger be known. They've gone on the offensive toward this and his name keeps coming up.
SABATO: He can do whatever he likes. Essentially, he's in that position for a fixed term. Although there may be, once the election is over and depending on what happens, some calls for his resignation. That's certainly percolating among Democrats.
We'll just have to see what he does. He's been, obviously, unpredictable, and what he did last Friday, perhaps he thought it wouldn't have this kind of major reaction. I don't know how he could have thought that. But it's been a bombshell or an earthquake, or whatever metaphor you want to pick.
ALLEN: Right. And it seems, Larry, surreal that it is cutthroat, down and dirty, long election campaign that it has winded back to Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin's estranged husband, doesn't it? I mean it couldn't get any stranger, or could it?
SABATO: Well, I'm afraid it might. I doubt this is the end of the October/November surprises. Usually campaigns save something for the end. So if this is the last subject, I will be surprised, as I say. But we'll see.
As far as Mr. Weiner is concerned, I think that's one thing on which everybody is united. We hope we never see him again. But you just never know what's going to happen.
ALLEN: I know.
Well, of course, Donald Trump seizing on this news about these new e- mails. But at a rally a few hours ago he was back to talking about his claims the system is rigged. Here he is.
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TRUMP: Who has sent their ballots in? Now do you think those ballots are properly counted? Do you think? So when you send them in, do you think they're properly counted? You can check on your ballot to make sure it's counted properly. I know they're all saying, oh, of course, everything is so legitimate. Everything is so -- perhaps I'm a more skeptical person. Ok.
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ALLEN: He keeps doubting the election process even though those that watch the election process say he doesn't have any basis for his claims. Now he's continuing to say it's rigged. What if he started inching up in the polls? Might he change his tune about whether this election is rigged?
SABATO: Oh, of course -- Natalie. He's very flexible on these things. It's irresponsible, of course, and he doesn't have a smidgeon of proof. This is something we've learned about Donald Trump. He will say essentially anything, and it's very difficult for the fact- checkers to catch up with all of the misstatements that he makes even in a single day.
He's also saying -- and I need to add this -- that the Clinton, quote, "scandal about e-mails is worse than Watergate". He has said that over and over. Well, anyone who lived through Watergate or, as I have, interviewed some of the principals or read a number of books about Watergate knows that however serious this e-mail matter is, it isn't even one-hundredth Watergate. Watergate was a constitutional crisis, and it was an octopus with arms reaching everywhere.
[00:10:00] ALLEN: But it's been kind of his tactic to use superlatives a lot -- this is the worst thing ever, never seen anything like this -- it's kind of how he does it and he's devoted voters rally him on and cheer him on.
It will be an interesting week ahead, won't it Larry. We'll leave it at that.
SABATO: It certainly will be. Hopefully we'll make it through it.
ALLEN: We always appreciate your time -- Larry Sabato, director of Politics at the University of Virginia -- thank you.
SABATO: Thank you -- Natalie.
VANIER: A powerful earthquake has hit central Italy injuring at least 20 people and leveling homes and historic sites.
ALLEN: The 6.6 magnitude tremor is the strongest in the country in more than three decades. CNN contributor Barbie Nadeau has more about it.
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BARBIE NADEAU, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: The devastating earthquake that struck central Italy on Sunday morning may not have caused any loss of life, but it certainly ruined communities and people's daily lives.
These villages in central Italy which were hit by twin earthquakes last week and in a region that was struck by a deadly earthquake that killed nearly 300 people in August are devastated. People have nowhere to stay. Their homes are unsafe. The Civil Protection Agency is urging anyone that still thinks they can sleep in their homes in this area to leave for a safer place until the aftershocks stop and until the earth settles back down.
Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi vowed that the Italian government will rebuild the communities that have been destroyed. Let's listen to what he had to say.
MATTEO RENZI, ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER (through translator): We will rebuild everything -- houses, churches, shops. They are beautiful landscapes, territories whose identities are tied to beauty and the sense of welcoming.
NADEAU: But it really is going to be up to the people who have lost everything to see whether they have the courage and the will to return to an area that they've called home for so long that's no longer there.
This is Barbie Latza Nadeau for CNN in Rome.
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ALLEN: Let's get the latest on the quake's aftershocks. Our meteorologist Karen Maginnis is following that for us. Hi there -- Karen.
KAREN MAGINNIS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Yes. We have seen literally hundreds of aftershocks. Most of them wouldn't have even been felt. But because this area has been on such high alert with such seismic activity over the last three months or so and it's been devastating, it has shaken everyone up terribly.
There you saw the before picture of the basilica. This one -- Norcia, Italy; this after that 6.6 magnitude earthquake that struck during the early morning hours.
We're going to also look at the weather across this region because they're saying tens of thousands of people are left homeless. Now this was an area that had been previously evacuated -- at least one of the colleges there had also been evacuated just because this seismic activity had been picking up.
Take a look at the level of devastation here. It is remarkable. But we don't have any fatalities reported just yet. But they are saying that dozens were injured.
This is a very seismically active area. You can see the red just kind of outline the region from top to bottom of Italy along the Apennines. And an area that typically sees mountainous regions, you might typically see, especially in Europe, we see very active seismic activity.
So the magnitude on this as I mentioned happened during the early morning hours -- 6.6 magnitude. The initial magnitude was measured about 7.1; but then they assess and re-evaluate. This was a relatively shallow earthquake so it's going to be felt fairly substantially. It was about ten kilometers deep or about ten miles deep.
Right at the epicenter, that's where we felt the most violent shaking. But they're saying even as far away as Rome, they were feeling it. They have closed schools in Rome for the day so that they can assess whether there has been any damage to schools.
But right around the epicenter in this mountainous region, they're saying that some of the highways have been damaged and in some cases whole pieces have broken off. There have been some mud slides, even a landslide that occurred on a river that prohibited the river from navigating its normal route.
So in the forecast, we're keeping temperatures on the chilly side -- high temperatures only in the teens. And overnight lows are going to be hovering right around the freezing mark.
So Natalie and Cyril, it's going to be very difficult for those folks who are left homeless. But we can count on the government. They are sending lots of people, lots of effort into this region to help secure it and take care of the folks who have nothing to go back home to.
Back to you guys.
ALLEN: All right. Thanks so much.
Karen, while you're here, we want to welcome our newest member of CNN International, Cyril Vanier.
MAGINNIS: Welcome.
ALLEN: And I felt I know you and I want to give him some American hospitality. He's fresh from France. So he adds to our global news team here.
[00:15:01] VANIER: Thank you very much. I appreciate it.
ALLEN: We're glad to have you.
VANIER: Pleasure to be with the whole CNN family. Thanks a lot.
ALLEN: Ok. We're glad to have him here.
I told him you and I have been here awhile --
MAGINNIS: A long time.
ALLEN: -- so any questions, you just -- what to eat in the cafeteria, we've got you covered.
VANIER: I have a few. I have a few.
ALLEN: Ok.
MAGINNIS: Good luck to you.
ALLEN: Thanks -- Karen.
MAGINNIS: Bye.
ALLEN: What would you think is happening right now in Chicago? Because the Chicago Cubs are staying alive -- so we want to give you this live picture of Wrigley Field, home of the Cubs. They have just beaten the Cleveland Indians in game five of baseball's World Series right there at Wrigley Field in Chicago. And some people were saying there was a good chance that no one would even sit down for the game but the Cubs fans were so loving this -- there goes one right there. VANIER: And that 3-2 victory means they're headed back to Cleveland,
of course. Now, the Indians still hold that 3-2 lead in the best of seven years. And they have not won a title since 1948. So you can bet they're going to be hungry for that victory. And for the Cubs, it's been even longer and guess how long -- over a century, 108-year long drought.
ALLEN: Love that they're both in the hunt. We still don't know what's going to happen, but we'll be watching.
All right. We'll be right back. More CNN NEWSROOM in just a moment.
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MAGINNIS: Hello, everyone. I'm CNN meteorologist Karen Maginnis.
This is a look at your weather.
We take a look in North America. We've got quite a bit of unsettled weather all the way from British Columbia down across northern California -- wind, rain, lowering snow levels. It may not be winter just yet but it's going to feel fairly brisk. Much-needed rainfall expected for California.
Then those near record or record-setting temperatures from the Central Plains to the southeast; already the past week, we saw exceptionally warm temperatures running 10 to 30 degrees above where it should be for this time of year. We'll keep the unsettled weather across the U.S./Canada border.
In New York City, high temperature expected about 12 degrees as we go through the afternoon. That should be really comfortable. Los Angeles, sunshine, 19; San Francisco, some rain on the way; but Dallas, 31; Atlanta, 30; and for Miami, look for 28 with partly cloudy skies.
We look at the next four days. Washington, D.C., the temperature bumps up every day, should be about 25 by Thursday; about 20 in New York City on Thursday and about 28 in Atlanta and for Charlotte. Guatemala City, we look at 26 degrees; Havana some early morning thunderstorms and 28 for a high.
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VANIER: Paramilitary forces are battling ISIS militants in Iraq. Officials say 20 villages west of Mosul have been liberated.
ALLEN: Meantime, Iraqi forces are making advances in their push to reclaim Mosul from ISIS. One town south of the city was completely cleared of ISIS.
CNN's Michael Holmes is there. He's inside northern Iraq with the latest.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: There are signs of growing pressure on ISIS on a number of fronts. Witnesses in Mosul say the city's main morgue received the bodies of more than 130 militants in just one 24-hour period.
Meanwhile, air strikes continue to take out targets in the city and munition dumps also we're told, ISIS mortar positions. And to the west of the city, the predominantly Shia-led military the Hashd al- Shaabi, have been making rapid progress across open land. The mission is to block any possible escape by ISIS fighters stopping their routes across the desert into Syria.
A number of villages have already been taken but the Hashd operation very controversial -- the ultimate aim is the town of Tal Afar. That's an ISIS stronghold but it is also a place where thousands of ethnic Turkmen live and the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, he's been warning if the paramilitaries attack Tal Afar, Turkey will not stand by. So there you have the risk of potentially another confrontation even as the campaign for Mosul continues.
We were on a Peshmerga front line today about 15 kilometer from Mosul, about a kilometer from a town called Al Samaqia (ph) and mortar fire and shots were being exchanged there -- so an active front there as well.
Inside Mosul, meanwhile, reports of arrests. More arrests by ISIS in areas where their fighters have been killed by a budding resistance movement inside the city. After exactly two weeks now of this offensive pressure clearly intensifying on Mosul but the real fighting still to come and with it, the risk that hundreds of thousands of civilians will try to flee.
Michael Holmes, CNN -- Erbil, Iraq.
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VANIER: And also coming up later in the show, we'll have a report from our own Nick Paton Walsh who was embedded with Iraqi Special Forces near the Mosul front line.
ALLEN: Very near the front line. So stay with us for that. It's compelling.
Fierce fighting is reported as well in the Syrian city of Aleppo. There, rebels now taking aim at the government-held western part of the city in an offensive to break the regime's siege of rebel-held eastern Aleppo. Shelling has been reported on both sides.
VANIER: Meanwhile, concern grows for the civilians inside the city. The U.N. special envoy for Syria says he was appalled by the number of rockets launched by the opposition on western Aleppo suburbs. Steffan de Mistura, that's his name went on to say, quote, "Those who argue that this is meant to relieve the siege of eastern Aleppo should be reminded that nothing justifies the use of disproportionate and indiscriminate weapons, including heavy ones, on civilian areas. And it could amount to war crimes." Turkey's government has fired more than 10,000 public servants,
allegedly connected to Fethullah Gulen, the U.S.-based cleric, Turkish authorities blamed for a failed coup attempt in July.
ALLEN: His action was taken under a new legislative decree designed to fight terrorism. Officials also shut down 15 Kurdish media companies and gave the president authority to appoint all university heads. This comes after authorities detained two elected Kurdish mayors on Tuesday.
VANIER: At least 68 people, including inmates, are dead after two air strikes on a prison in western Yemen. The Houthi defense ministry says the coalition led by Saudi Arabia targeted the coastal city of Hodeida on Saturday.
ALLEN: The Saudis claim their raid hit a building that the Houthi rebels were using for their military operations. The death toll is expected to rise as more bodies are found.
The Arab world's poorest country has been embroiled in a devastating conflict since 2015.
VANIER: And caught in the crosshairs are millions of innocent men, women and children, many of them on the brink of starvation.
CNN's Muhammad Lila filed this report and we would like to warn you, some of the images you are about to see are graphic.
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MUHAMMAD LILA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: They are the shocking images showing what life is like in parts of Yemen. This is 18-year-old Saida Bagiri (ph), so malnourished, she can't even stand on her own.
(on camera): Mr. Goldrick -- thank you for taking the time to talk to us today.
(voice over): James Goldrick is the U.N.'s humanitarian coordinator for Yemen. We spoke to him about the crisis getting worse by the day.
[00:25:05] (on camera): On a scale of one to ten, how bad is this crisis right now?
JAMES GOLDRICK, U.N. HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR FOR YEMEN: I mean it must be up there at 9 because we're seeing every single day things getting worse. The fact that (inaudible) are not working; the fact that the health and social services have collapsed. We have a cholera outbreak. We have a massive malnutrition problem here.
(voice over): That malnutrition has now left nearly 1.5 million children in danger of starving according to the U.N.'s latest figures. And in a country of 26 million, nearly half can't survive without some kind of outside assistance.
It's all the result of this -- 19 months of air strikes that have crippled the economy and infrastructure. The Saudi-led coalition behind the air strikes says their goal is to reinstall the internationally recognized government of Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi who fled when Houthi militias overran most of the country.
Over the weekend, an air strike targeted this prison, killing more than 68 people. The coalition saying it was being used as a military command center, something the Houthis deny.
And like with so many world conflicts, as these two sides fight, it's innocent civilians like Saida who are suffering the most.
(on camera): If you had a chance to broadcast one message to the entire world, what would you say right now?
GOLDRICK: The people (inaudible) in terms of funding, and our ability to address those -- there's going to be a lot more Saidas throughout this country.
LILA: And that's why the U.N. is now sounding the alarm, warning that much of the damage that's already been done is irreversible and pleading for the international community to start paying attention.
GOLDRICK: It's not going to be easy. It's not going to be quick but we have to do this because the people of Yemen have suffered long enough over the last 19 months. We cannot forgive ourselves. We have to obligation to make sure that we address those needs better.
LILA (on camera): And speaking of addressing those needs, the U.N. says they're able to provide minimal assistance to about 8.5 million people, but their real concern are the many more millions who still need help.
Muhammad Lila, CNN -- Abu Dhabi.
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ALLEN: And you know, we haven't given enough attention to Yemen because that is another war that keeps going on.
As far as the refugee crisis, thousands of migrants have left now the Calais camp they called home.
VANIER: Just ahead, a look at the French village that's welcoming dozens of them.
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[00:31:00] ALLEN: Welcome back to our viewers around the world. We're coming to you live from Atlanta. This is CNN NEWSROOM, I'm Natalie Allen.
VANIER: And I'm Cyril Vanier. Here are the headlines this hour.
The U.S. Senate's top Democrat says FBI Director James Comey may have broken the law by revealing a new batch of e-mails belonging to a close aide of Hillary Clinton. The blistering letter by Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid accuses Comey of deliberately hurting the Clinton campaign. The federal law bars U.S. government employees from all political activity.
ALLEN: Saudi Arabia says it has busted two separate terror cells that were plotting attacks. Authorities arrested four Saudi nationals who had ties to ISIS and four Pakistani nationals from a cell alleged to planning to bomb a World Cup qualifying match earlier this month in Jeddah.
VANIER: Italian authorities are working to get aid to two central regions rocked by a 6.6 magnitude earthquake on Sunday. At least 20 people have been injured. This follows two tremors last week and a quake in August. That one killing almost 300 people.
ALLEN: Paramilitary forces in Iraq are fighting ISIS militants west of Mosul in support of the Iraqi Army. Officials say 20 villages in that area have been liberated. Meantime, Iraqi forces continue their push toward Mosul, but ISIS is putting up strong resistance with reports of civilians being used as human shields.
VANIER: Senior international correspondent Nick Paton Walsh is embedded with Iraqi troops near the front lines.
ALLEN: And of course the team with him to get this dangerous job done, photojournalist Scott McWhinnie and producer Ghazi Baqis (ph) were also with Nick for this report.
Here it is.
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NICK PATON WALSH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The last phase of lifting ISIS' dark curse from Iraq begins here. Trying to hit a specter of fleeting enemy lit only by the glow of Mosul's city limits. Barely two kilometers away. Iraqi Special Forces trained by the U.S. target with a tank here, where they are attacked from during the day, putting us to use Humvees as cover when they move.
The commander Major Salam has fought ISIS in Fallujah, Ramadi, and now the end is near.
"Where did the artillery land," he asked? Just visible in the distant light of Mosul. This is the global tip of the spear in the war on ISIS. Surging forward on a thin strip of land into ISIS territory. And as we see, in the same area in daylight, constant counterattacks.
Here, they can see ISIS just beyond the berms. The incoming is from behind it. A truck that pops out, opens fire and vanishes.
(on-camera): ISIS is less than a kilometer away firing at Iraqi Special Forces position. This is a constant day in, day out.
(voice-over): "Where is it moving," he asks?
As fast as it emerged, the truck vanishes. But here, there are yet tougher hours ahead. Dark has just fallen, and the sky is alight with ferocious firepower. [00:35:00] ISIS have attacked the berms. Suicide bombers, rocket- propelled grenades. It is constant, exhausting, closer and closer to the roof we are on. We simply do not know where in the town around us ISIS may have broken through.
(on-camera): So far toward this Iraqi Special Forces position, now it seemed to try and stop those coming down the road.
(voice-over): ISIS despite being in their end days still able to conjure the terror of omnificence that began their savage rule.
The wounded start coming back, but we cannot film them. A steady stream. The unit we were with earlier on the roof had been hit. Rockets struck, many of them asleep, tightly packed in a room. The blast killed 14 soldiers. Many limbs torn clean off
Major Salam is shown the weapons of the dead. He pauses in emotion.
"You guys are heroes," he says. "And none of you should be affected by this. Those suicide bombers are nothing."
Two kilometers from Mosul City, and seven left to the center to go.
Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, Baswir (ph) near Mosul.
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ALLEN: You know, they didn't know what they were going to see as far as resistance. But ISIS, you know, being their tactics are just brutal and wild and they really kind of have a fight up ahead, but hopefully they'll keep moving toward Mosul.
All right, here. Well, dozens of young migrants gathered at a makeshift church in the French migrant camp known as the jungle for a final service before that camp's complete demolition.
VANIER: Thousands of refugees have been sent from Calais to shelters across the country, but hundreds of minors are still living in temporary housing in the camp, and aid workers are concerned about the welfare of those young people.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): We know that there are more than 1500 minors at the CAP, temporary reception centers. But we also know that there are a few in the jungle. Yesterday around ten people had to sleep outside the CAP, unaccompanied minors. And we also know that there were some security problems inside the CAP and it would be worth investigating that.
There are still people who are hiding out in the area and who come back here during the day to have access to food, water, things like that.
(END VIDEO CLIP) VANIER: And so migrants are now facing the reality of life outside of Calais. 40 refugees were sent to a welcome center in Southeastern France.
ALLEN: But as CNN's Zain Asher explains, their arrival is making some of the locals uncomfortable.
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ZAIN ASHER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: From the squalid camp in Calais to Champtercier, a picturesque village at the foot of the French Alps nearly 1,000 kilometers away. 40 migrants, mostly men from Sudan, Afghanistan and Pakistan, arrived here in the middle of the night. Welcomed by aid workers and a few of the town's residents, the men sat down for hot coffee and tea after their long journey.
Zarif (ph) who recently fled Afghanistan said leaving Calais was a nightmare.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Last night, all the jungle is finished. People do fire and the house is all finished.
ASHER: Zarif (ph) and the others are now settling in at this empty lunch while they apply for asylum in France or elsewhere.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Maybe I stay here. Maybe I'm going back to Afghanistan. I don't know.
ASHER: Champtercier is small. Home to about 700 people. Some of them welcomed the refugees with open arms, but some are uncomfortable with the influx of new arrivals.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): My house is 400 meters away from the holiday resort where the migrants will be housed and where I go past on my morning walks. And I don't know if I'll be able to continue this in the future because I don't feel safe.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): I can understand that people are afraid. People are always afraid of what they don't know, afraid of strangers, but you have to be able to control these emotions.
ASHER: It's not clear how long the refugees will stay, but more are due to arrive. Up to 100 will make Champtercier their home, while authorities consider the applications for asylum.
Zain Asher, CNN, Atlanta.
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VANIER: All right. We've got a lot more coming up on the show. Namely, everyone has been waiting to hear whether Bob Dylan would show up to accept his Nobel Prize.
ALLEN: (INAUDIBLE) there for a while. Well, now we have an answer from the songwriter. We'll have that for you -- next.
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ALLEN: Well, he famously sang "It Ain't Me You're Looking for Babe." But the Nobel Prize Committee has absolutely been looking for Bob Dylan.
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ALLEN: Well, after recently awarding the legendary songwriter with a Nobel Prize for Literature, kind of shock the world, the committee tried in vain to hunt Dylan down and tell him he had won.
VANIER: But weeks went by without a word, not a word, from the man often described as the voice of a generation. Now, speaking to "The Telegraph Newspaper," Dylan says, wait for it, that he will absolutely be at the ceremony in Stockholm to receive the award, quote, "If possible."
Let's hope a simple twist of fate for those of you who know the song doesn't prevent him from showing up.
ALLEN: I think he might have just been completely surprised that he won and needed to let it set in.
VANIER: I don't know. It seems to be a deliberate policy to not reference it at all.
All right now, this next story honestly, it has Natalie and I a little, a little puzzled. We're scratching our heads of this one.
There's a man, this is a story. A man jumps into a panda exhibit. True story. This happens in China. And he got a little more than what he bargained for.
ALLEN: This usually happens when you jump into a cage at a zoo. Well, showing off to female friends apparently at the Nanchang Zoo. He entered the enclosure -- that's him right there -- with an adult panda.
The panda was sleeping. But Mei Ling the panda woke up and playfully, as pandas can do, grabbed the man's leg and wrestled him to the ground. After a struggle, the man freed himself and fled.
So, man, I'm just saying, if you want to get the attention of women, that's not the way to show off, OK? Just be normal.
VANIER: I could have taken the panda. I could have done it.
ALLEN: All right. That wraps up this hour. I'm Natalie Allen.
VANIER: And I'm Cyril Vanier. "World Sport" is up next. And we'll be back with another hour of news from around the world. You're watching CNN. (COMMERCIAL BREAK)
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