his, about 50 eyes us fighters. how did they not know isis was there? the intelligence not accurate. they had been told, according to all the sources we talked to, that it was unlikely they would run into any kind of on opposition force and of course they did. once they did, a firefight breaks out. they are in a country, niger, in west africa. that country, u.s. officials say, does not allow air strikes. when french aircraft rolled to to try and help, all they could do is fly low to try to scare isis fighters off. nothing kinetic to help out the troops on the ground. all of that is some of the key questions now being looked at. new fact today. we have learned that there was a civilian aircraft that came in to conduct evacuation of the dead and the wounded along with french military aircraft. so a big question is was there sufficient communication?