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>> and ben is joining us now live from baghdad. ben, really an incredible story. you were there on the edge of tikrit in a hospital earlier. tell us what happened there. fortunately you got back safely to baghdad. >> reporter: what happened is we showed up at this hospital. its just south of tikrit. as we came in we saw staff were mopping up blood from the entrance. we went inside and saw several doctors working on a man who had been wounded, shot in the head, shot in the chest, shot in the leg....

These muzzle flashes were probably about 125 yards away. >> thats about 375 feet farther than the length of a football field. could the shots have come from that far away? our cnn law enforcement analyst, former assistant fbi director, tom fuentes, joins us from ferguson. youre there on the scene where these shots apparently came from. walk us through the scene and what distance were actually talking about. >> wolf im standing at about the distance that the shots were fired from, the location on...

Best known to westerners as the birthplace of the former dictator, saddam hussein. but retaking tikrit is an important step for the iraqi government and the iraqi military. isis has occupied that city since last year. its close proximity to baghdad threatens iraqs security. cnns ben wedeman shows us what its like to be on the front lines of the fighting. >> reporter: this is what victory looks like in the war against isis. iraqi police soldiers and paramilitaries flash the sign but there is no f...

Shes a "st. louis post dispatch" reporter she was on site that night and said before the shooting happened the police as the crowd was starting to dwindle, the police moved them out of the way. so some of the crowd was to my left in this parking lot. some were to the right in this parking lot over here by a tire store. and really there were no protesters in the street. so the shooter would have had a clear line of fire at the police officers without having to worry about hitting a protester in t...