BALDWIN: Got a major piece of news for you now in the war against this terror group ISIS. This contingent of Kurdish fighters has left northern Iraq with the aim of joining the battle for the Syrian city of Kobani. They will be battling ISIS which has failed to capture Kobani after five weeks of fighting. This claimed the lives of several hundred is terrorists. And our senior international correspondent Ivan Watson joins me now from the Iraqi city of Erbil where those fighters have left. So Ivan, when will they get there? Do we know?</s>IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, they say tomorrow, but the fact is, this deal was announced more than a week ago and it's taken more than a week of negotiations and some open disagreements before this relatively small contingent of Iraqi Kurds departed. It's just 161 Iraqi Kurdish fighters that Turkey has said will be allowed to transit through Turkey to help reinforce the Kurdish fighters in that Syrian border town of Kobani. The Syrian Kurds have said they don't need men. They need weapons. And that's part of the deal. Iraqi Kurds are supposed to be bringing heavy weapons as part of this convoy to help their Kurdish brothers battle the jihadi militants in that border town.</s>BALDWIN: We have been watching so closely the status of this town, this symbolic significance of this battle. Ivan Watson, thank you so much for me from Iraq. I want you to look at this now. Video of red hot lava in Hawaii creeping dangerously close to a number of homes there. Live picture obviously on the right side, obviously from the skies looking down and some of the smoke. We will talk to correspondent Martin Savidge. He is live in a helicopter above all of this. We'll check in with him next.
Kurdish Fighters Leave Northern Iraq To Join Battle For Kobani