>> reporter: one came right at me. [ gunfire ] >> reporter: what are they shooting at? let's move, yeah? >> let's move, he says. nick paton walsh is live near mosul. what happened and what's the status of the fight? >> reporter: well, at that stage we were on the main road, basically the key objective in the first part of this assault, with the peshmerga, kurdish iraqis were leading. the small arms fire, from the remnants of isis fighters, many hiding around that particular road and village area. outside of that particular exchange of fire there was a separate incident what we saw the peshmerga kmasing into tcha hills one isis fighter. he came out of the ground, maybe