Boko Haram Kidnap 185 Women & Children
FEYERICK: Three ISIS leaders have been killed in U.S. airstrikes. A senior military official tells CNN two top leaders and one mid-level leader were wiped out. They were killed in multiple strikes last month. This comes as the president signed deployment orders Thursday for 1,300 troops to head to Iraq. The troops are now going farther afield being deployed outside Baghdad and Erbil. But children were found stabbed to death inside a home in Australia. Police were called to the house in Cairns after getting calls about a woman with serious injuries. When they arrived, they found the victims who were young, between 18 months and 15 years old, all of them dead. Their mom is receiving treatment and speaking with police. At this point, no word on the motive or a suspect. And details are emerging this morning about a new attack by Nigerian Boko Haram militants. Local officials claim that the Islamist insurgents kidnapped at least 185 women and children in the village of Gumsuri, killing some 32 people in the process. The officials say that the militants also burned most of the village using gasoline bombs. Well, Nima Elbagir has more for us now live from London. Good morning, Nima.</s>NIMA ELBAGIR, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Deborah. Well, as Nigerians prepare to celebrate Christmas, this is yet another reminder of how helpless they remain in the face of Boko Haram's continuing attacks. We understand, this was part of a series of attacks that begun in Chibok, the time when nearly 300 girls were conducted nearly eight months ago. For there, they moved in to Gumsuri, and that's where they started by attacking the local vigilante groups and more recently, Nigerians feeling they were not getting the support from their military, have been taking up arms and forming civilian defense forces. And that seems to behind a lot of these attacks. Boko Haram retaliating for anyone would dares to take up arms to protect their own communities, their own families, their homes. The message from Boko Haram seems to be, this is what's going to happen to you if you do, and 32 dead, 53 dead in Chibok, and 185 girls and women abducted. For now, authorities say they have absolutely no evidence that could lead them to potentially where the girls and women are being held, Deborah.</s>FEYERICK: Wow, targeted for simply defending your family. All right. Nima, thank you so much. Appreciate that. And in the wake of fence jumping incidents at White House, an independent review has found that the Secret Service is stretched beyond its limits and could use a crucial funding bump. It found a need for more training and more staff and concluded the services too insular and needed direction from outside its ranks. The review also recommended the White House fence be raised, saying it needs to be at least four or five feet taller than it currently is, and also curve outward. Well, inmates at New Mexico's prisons are singing their own version of the "12 Days of Christmas" this holiday season. It's called the "12 prisons of Christmas". Take a listen.</s>BERMAN: Well, it's community give back. It highlights 11 service projects the convicts are doing for their community. But the song isn't just about being festive.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was pleasantly surprising to see normally macho inmates, now willing to sing the community a Christmas song.</s>FEYERICK: Well, the hope is that serving the community, along with singing for them, this Christmas song will help convicts stay out of trouble once they do get back out into the population. And Mark Cuban never wanted to shy away from the deal. He pulled off a whopper last night. Rajon Rondo is heading for Dallas. Will it help put the Mavs over the top in the Western Conference? Andy Scholes has our "Bleacher Report" coming up, straight ahead.