First, an update from Baltimore, Maryland. The city's mayor is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to get involved and conduct a civil rights investigation in the Baltimore's police department. The U.S. government says it's considering the request.  

 

It was made after six policies were charged in the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray. He was fatally injured while in police custody last month. Peaceful protests and riots followed.  

 

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake also promised yesterday that Baltimore's police officers would have body cameras by the end of the year. These can cost the department tens of thousands of dollars for the equipment and especially the fees to store their video data. But supporters of cameras say they help protect both the public and the police.

 

Kobani is in ruins. The city was a battleground of the U.S.-led war against ISIS. What's left of it is located in northern Syria, in view of the country's border with Turkey. 

 

The terrorist group took over most of the city last year, but Kurdish Peshmerga forces, supported by U.S.-led airstrikes eventually pushed ISIS fighters out. A Syrian human rights organization says roughly 1,000 terrorists were killed in the fighting. Those fighting them lost several hundred of their own.  

 

And today, with the bakery and two schools open, along with a hospital that's operational, people who'd fled the fighting in Kobani are returning home. The recovery challenges they face are enormous. For one thing, Syria is still at civil war, with Syrian government forces, rebels and terrorists all wrestling for control. For another thing, most of the city is in ruins.

 

When you see images like this, you can see the greatest cost, and simply how homes, ordinary life were being destroyed by those consistent airstrikes. You can so easily see. But it's only the drone's eye view that really opens up that level of damage. 

 

We saw ourselves on the hills around this, these constant airstrikes, car bombings as well. But that street level view, we also saw, which was remarkable to behold. 

 

Hundreds of people still trying to live their lives there and you can see there in that video, people have started to return. Officials there talked about 6,000 in one week, in fact, in the city, but also the countryside around it, bringing the total to tens of thousands now living there.  

 

But simply as that drone flies through those streets, it's absolutely obvious that there's a massive task ahead of anyone living in Kobani, or trying to go back there, and they say that that is not assisted by the Turkish government. They're not opening the main border gates close to Kobani, nor allowing in the influx of heavy machinery that you can see there surely is badly needed to begin the excavation, to even allow reconstruction to occur.  

 

They say that 70 percent of that city is completely destroyed and the areas you're seeing are pretty much where much of the most intense airstrikes or fighting occurred. They called it Kobani-grad when the attack was underway because the Kurdish fighters looking to try and defend it knew that they'd sustain so much damage, that they'd be few spoils for victory left.  

 

But right now, as you can see from those drone shots, nearly every building has failed to escape unscathed, the devastating impact on that one town alone in the fight against ISIS.