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60 MINUTES [UPDATED]
Air Date: Sunday, October 25, 2015
Time Slot: 7:00 PM-8:00 PM EST on CBS
Episode Title: "TBA"
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"60 MINUTES" CAMERAS TAKE VIEWERS INSIDE THE COMMAND CENTER FOR THE AIR WAR AGAINST ISIS - SUNDAY ON CBS

Unprecedented Access Includes Video of a B-1 Bomber's Mission

On the Combat Operations floor of the nerve center for the air war against ISIS, David Martin and 60 MINUTES cameras watch as a B-1 bomber zeroes in on its target. On one wall, they can see a map tracking all the planes - including those from Russia - over Iraq and Syria. On another wall, they watch a live video feed from an unmanned drone orbiting the target - a cluster of buildings which U.S. intelligence believes is hiding an ISIS car bomb factory. Lt. Gen. Charles Brown, the commander of the air war, joins them on the Operations floor and describes the strike as it unfolds in real-time. This is the first-ever look inside the command center, located in a bunker-like building in the Persian Gulf country of Qatar, for the 14-month-old air campaign against ISIS. Martin's report from inside the air war will be broadcast on 60 MINUTES, Sunday Oct. 25 (7:00-8:00 PM ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

The air war costs the U.S. $10 million a day, and Lt. Gen. Brown describes for Martin the amount of work that single B-1 strike entailed. "Scheduling wise [its] about a three-day process, and some of those targets we've looked at for... days, weeks and sometimes months," he tells Martin. Watch an excerpt.

The mission 60 MINUTES follows results in the destruction of the buildings with secondary explosions indicating that explosives were stored inside. It is one of 47 such facilities the U.S. and allied planes have hit over the past six weeks. Brown acknowledges that ISIS will probably set up another factory elsewhere, but that, he says, is the nature of this war.

"Our goal is to halt them wherever they are and take those kinds of things out... Every day we go out and strike it, it's one step closer. I can't tell you how many steps it's going to take," Brown says.

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