[ gunfire ] >> and nick joins us now live near mosul. you okay? first of all. what exactly happened that made you duck down? >> reporter: well, that stage we had just joined the peshmerga on the main road to mosul where that gunfight took place. now, they cleaned out the road, but obviously not the hills and village and houses around it. isis fighters kept popping out it seemed, of tunnels or hiding places. at that instant we appeared to be taking fire from both sides. one bullet rushed over my head and peshmerga not knowing where that shot had come from. earlier we watched peshmerga chase down one isis fighter and another popped up from a tunnel, opened fire on them and when they shot back, he blew himself up right in front of us. that's the tenacity of the fighters they're facing here as