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That these civilian populations are going through. not just when it comes to what life under isis is like, but when it comes to the battle raging around you. >> arwa, we can't remember a more vivid depiction of what people live there than what you have just given us. so many chilling moments of your video and everything that you just lived through. when you had to wait, why did you have to wait 20 hours for backup to come? >> backup couldn't get to the unit to put it very simply. isis had very carefully planned this, it would seem. they lured the troops in. there was very little resistance in ...

Who could walk to come up to the roof and defend this position. the reason why backup couldn't arrive. based on what we were told, the units that were supposed to be coming at reinforcements also got bogged down because of classes that they were undergoing with isis. this illustrates the challenges that the iraqis are going to be facing as they try to clear iraq's second largest city. >> the family, arwa, in those notes that you send back in the midst of all this. you talk about the family with their children. do you know what happened to them. the family we were went that we spent the night w...

Basically, shrinking the area that the iraqis and us were located. and this was done by small arm fire, rpgs, car bombs. they managed to precisely target these vehicles, eventually targeting ours. and we could hear the hiss of the tires going out. it was a fairly chaotic situation. we, too, had to basically leave the vehicle behind. it was immobilized. we couldn't move in any direction and take cover from a house. from there, we were moved from one house to another and the core group we were with -- and this is what is quite striking in all of this, most of them were wounded. we were with abou...

Were there. at one point isis fighters at the rooftop throwing grenades in the courtyard that wounded soldiers we were with. they were screaming for poem who could walk. even people wounded in one arm and coming up to the roof to defend this position. the reason why backup couldn't arrive, based on what we were told, the units that were supposed to be coming as reinforcements also got bogged down because of clashes they were undergoing with isis. this really illustrates the challenges that the iraqis are going to be facing as they try to clear iraq's second largest city. >> the family, arwa, i...