Iraqi Forces On The Verge Of Driving ISIS From Mosul.
CAMEROTA: Iraqi forces are calling this a turning point as the effort to drive ISIS from Mosul is on the verge of completion. After weeks of fighting, Iraqi troops are locked in a very fierce battle for last few blocks of Western Mosul that ISIS still controls. So we're getting a closer look at a Brazilian photographer embedded with Iraqi Security Forces has shared his extraordinary footage, exclusively with CNN. Our Nick Paton Walsh has more from Iraq.</s>NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): From here to the river is all ISIS has left of Mosul and this is the story of how it fell on the streets around the mosque, they once held sacred but then destroyed. Brazilian photographer, Gabriel Chaim (ph), is on foot with Iraqi Special Forces. Every foot fall could hit a booby trap. An eerie silence holds in just about everything endless soot. Streets empty, and each human they meet is either desperate to escape or the enemy. In the alley ways, two men approached them. One is carrying a bomb. They rush in to help their wounded. The second man carrying a much larger device. Gabriel struggles to breathe. The dust also means they can't see if there are any other bombers or if there are three dead and a dozen wounded colleagues lie. The advance continues up to and around the mosque, and civilians, human shields for weeks, stoop on the gunfire or are oblivious to it. Some never leave the underground. Loud constant blasts in the darkness. Unable to walk, first man faints, ignorance, but admits ISIS were on the roof and have mined the entire street. The interrogator later tell his team the man is himself ISIS. For the past week, the desperate rush to life that continued. The U.N. estimated 150,000 people were trapped here, but in the end nobody had any idea or how many are left behind them in the rubble. Water, water, I'm dying, she screams. In crippling heat and panic, pray you never know thirst like this or what it is like to carry your family out lifeless on a cart. This is his mother. For God sake, help me carry him, he cries. They try running to the closest point in the narrow street a vehicle can reach. Stop the blood loss, they plead. It is unclear if the boy survived. Even when this dust is cleared of ISIS, the killing won't stop. The private hell of memories won't suddenly be washed away.</s>CAMEROTA: My gosh, you don't often think of the children until you see their faces and how much they're struggling and what the people there are faced with every single day.</s>BERMAN: Look, this is an important reminder, Mosul may fall, may leave ISIS hands, but the struggles and the tribulations of the people there, they will not end today, tomorrow, or the next day, and they're going to need help, a lot of help going forward.</s>CAMEROTA: Our thanks to Nick Paton Walsh from bringing us all of that. Our thanks to our international viewers for watching, for you "CNN NEWSROOM" is next. For our U.S. viewers, we are talking to lawmakers on both sides of the aisle about today's biggest headlines. NEW DAY continues right now.</s>DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: The fake media tried to stop us from going to the White House, but I'm president and they're not.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The first amendment is the beating heart of the American experiment.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The president in no way form or fashion has ever promoted or encouraged violence.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're looking at all forms of election irregularities, voter fraud, registration fraud.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This isn't about party, this is about personal privacy of voters.</s>BERMAN: President Trump working the phones ahead of this week's G20 Summit.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The potentially historic meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Trump has chosen to focus on Ukraine and Syria instead of the Russian hacking allegations.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: These two leaders have an awful lot to discuss.</s>CAMEROTA: Good morning, everyone. Welcome to your NEW DAY. Chris is off this morning. John Berman joins me. Great to have you.</s>BERMAN: Great to be here.</s>CAMEROTA: So we begin with President Trump, targeting CNN in his escalating war on the media. The president posting a weird wrestling video that has been widely criticized as juvenile, and leaving many of his members of his own party in disbelief. This as the president prepares for the G20 Summit in Germany and his first face-to-face encounter with Russian President Vladimir Putin.