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  • Hi, I'm Carla Zeus.

  • It's always great to have you watching CNN antennas.

  • We get you up to speed on world events.

  • This'll March 7th.

  • We're following up on a story we reported on February 12th.

  • It concerns what's being called the last stand of the Isis terrorist group in the Middle Eastern nation of Syria.

  • Isis, an acronym for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, once controlled a large amount of territory in those two countries.

  • But fighting by those nations, military's local militias and international teams, including a coalition led by the U.

  • S, have almost completely driven Isis out of its strongholds.

  • The battle in the eastern Syrian village of Bodh who's has been raging since mid February, there are signs it's coming to an end.

  • Within the past couple days, hundreds of Isis fighters have surrendered to Syrian Democratic Forces, a group supported by the United States and its fighting Isis.

  • On the ground, the Isis terrorists were part of a wave of thousands of people who are fleeing back, who's when the village is finally recaptured from Isis, and a commander says that could happen within a few days.

  • It will signal the end of Isis is territorial control, which once included seven and 1/2 1,000,000 people over an area the size of Portugal.

  • Still, even with civilians and terrorists flowing out of booze, a United Nations committee estimates that tens of thousands of ISIS members air still scattered across Iraq and Syria that they're not part of this battle final battle to take that last slice of territory occupied by Isis.

  • Now what you're seeing behind me right now is trucks with ISIS members and their families and others who are leaving that encampment that last encampment those airmen in the back of that truck, according to officials at the Syrian dammit with the Syrian Democratic Forces.

  • Since this morning alone, more than 800 people have left that area that includes Isis fighters and others.

  • And anyone left behind is going to be coming has been, in fact, under constant bombardment.

  • Airstrikes, artillery and mortar rounds rained down upon the so called Islamic state's miserable room, reduced to a ragged cluster of tents, wrecked cars and trucks, perhaps just 1/2 square mile.

  • Despite the onslaught, people, man, it appears, can be seen walking on the tents.

  • US back Syrian Democratic forces have given up trying to estimate how many people all fighters, they say are still there.

  • Pounding Carrie Zone around the clock.

  • There is no rest for the last holdouts midnight and the Earth shakes night in today.

  • The onslaught continues.

  • Isis lived by the bullet in the bomb by the bullet in the bomb.

  • It is dying, and that's been 800 people since this morning.

  • But now we're seeing truck after truck of people.

  • It does appear, and many of them, in fact, we saw from the trucks that many are men are inside.

  • So it does appear that their farm or farm or civilians inside that little speck of land 1/2 square mile than anybody thought been almost exactly five years since Malaysian Airlines Flight 3 70 vanished.

  • And international investigators don't look like they're any closer to solving what's become one of aviation's greatest mysteries.

  • Malaysia's prime minister says his country plans to continue searching for the plane, and the families of the missing continue to meet, as they did recently to support each other and to keep international attention focused on the disappearance.

  • There were 239 people aboard the flight from Malaysia's capital to China's.

  • Those two countries plus Australia spent an estimated $150 million in their official search for the plane.

  • They didn't find it.

  • And the second attempt to locate MH 3 70 carried out by a U.

  • S company called Ocean Infinity, wrapped up last year, also without answers.

  • Missing airliner that disappeared on March the 8th 2014 after the flight left Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing, then dropped off radar on our after takeoff.

  • Later, satellite data showed investigators that the plane had continued to fly for upto.

  • Eight hours on finally crashed in the Indian Ocean off the Australian coast.

  • The experts narrowed the crash site around 120,000 square kilometer search zone.

  • An extensive on exhaustive effort, including a deep ocean search, found no sign off the aircraft.

  • Then, over several years, debris confirmed to be from imagery 70 has washed up along the eastern African coast.

  • Still, the main body section the fuse.

  • A large of the plane remains missing.

  • Which of these automobile brands is not manufactured by General Motors Viewing Chevrolet Saturn for GMC, This is a bit tricky.

  • The answer is Saturn.

  • It used to be part of GM, but it was shut down in 2010.

  • The last Chevy Cruze has rolled off the line in a GM plant in Lordstown, Ohio.

  • It's a community located between Cleveland and Pittsburgh, and its economy benefited from having a General Motors plant there.

  • But the company closed the factory this week.

  • It's CEO says Americans aren't buying as many sedans like the cruise, so GM, like other U.

  • S car companies, is shifting toward making more trucks and SUVs, which are also more profitable.

  • The landscape for American auto workers has been changing for decades.

  • There's been increased competition from Japanese carmakers.

  • Some U.

  • S companies have outsourced jobs to Mexico.

  • Whether GM will use its Lordstown facility to make another vehicle or give it up altogether is a highly important question for both the workers and the local economy itself.

  • It be a shame for them to shut it down after 52 years.

  • I would love to see my daughter, one of my other kids, get in out there and follow their grandfather's footsteps, their mother's footsteps, their uncle's footsteps.

  • I'm out here protesting the pending closure of this plan, bless you and empower you on here.

  • These workers that are honking their horns know what's at stake.

  • There's no doubt GM has been really important to the overall economy for the past 40 years.

  • Their potential loss is devastating to the account.

  • A bigger impact is associated with the fact that it's estimated as many as 3 to 4 jobs are directly dependent on each job at an order manufacturer.

  • That's the equivalent of ah 4 to 5% increase in unemployment in a relatively short period of time.

  • As each day goes by, it's more of a reality check knowing that world most done.

  • I've been wearing that badge for 18 years.

  • I am in the trim department.

  • I do love Cy corporate retainers.

  • We do build quality cars.

  • It is surprising it's hard to just get retrained and a new set of skills to be ableto work in other industries that better hiring.

  • And oftentimes those jobs involved less pay and Morse benefits.

  • I don't have a problem going back to school, although I'm a lot older than kind of old.

  • If that's what it's gonna take, then so be it, you know.

  • Oh, I got to do what I gotta do to survive and to support my kids.

  • There are a lot of things that robots are learning to do these days.

  • Take, for instance, watering a plant, watering a cup, giving a fist bump and making it blow up.

  • One of the more impressive feats of this machine that was recently revealed by a Chinese technology company is its ability to thread a needle.

  • It's part of an effort to show that robots are getting more dextrous and more effective at interacting with people.

  • What comes next were hanging by a thread.

  • If robots become Taylor's, what Will Taylor's do instead?

  • In the garment world, things aren't always as they seem.

  • You just can't replace an expert eye with that of a machine.

  • It's not keen.

  • It's too green.

  • It can't drink the perfect jean artificial sense infection sets when sensing had a cream.

  • So if you're in the tailoring and placing perfect stitches, don't be needled or be threatened by something that's got glitches.

  • Azusa on loose.

Hi, I'm Carla Zeus.

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