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Not too long ago. you can see the aftermath of the u.s. air strike. >> it's very likely that we are seeing what they want us to see. we were getting clips of video of what was, i would imagine, pieces of the air field, right? >> do you get a sense that's the result of a tomahawk cruise missile? >> no. it has a warhead of 1,000 pounds. >> looks like a mortar round. >> looks like a hand grenade, an 81 or 82 millimeter mortar round. >> cal brings up a really good point. we're looking at these images for the first time along with our viewers. our assessment of it is preliminary. but you could clea...

Their rule. but the most chilling story we heard was how isis was, in some instances, taking women as brides. forcing them nool live with them for more than two years now. the children we've been speaking to, some of them very visibly traumatized. one group was wounded as they were walking towards the iraqi security forces. they say isis fired a mortar round that wounded a little girl. she and her family are so traumatized they could barely even speak to us. others have that remarkable ability that children often do, to still smile and wave and talk about how all they want to do at this stage ...

Helicopter came to evacuate the wounded and a mortar round went off nearby that helicopter. the concern being that that mortar round damaged the helicopter, may have damaged the rotor blades so they're checking its ability to fly. u.s. military making clear that helicopter was not shot down. no one injured on board the helicopter, but prior to that there was a fire fight and one u.s. service member was killed in that fire fight. it's a reminder, john and kate, there is still a war going on in afghanistan. there are still thousands of u.s. troops there and they are still going on counterterror ...

Very consistently, that we believe it was an opportunistic attack on our mission, that did not involve significant preplanning. >> reporter: but those with extensive military experience with mortars strongly disagreed. >> this was the one piece of evidence that convinces me, and certainly convinces others with experience with mortars or attacks that this was pre-planned, well laid out, well thought-out and reasonably well executed. >> reporter: in most cases, mortar crews can't see the target, so they're trained to rely on complex maps. the first two missed, but the next three were direct hits...

And that it may have hit the helicopter. the question tonight is did any of those troops actually survive the helicopter crash, did this mortar round impact, were they all killed in the crash, what exactly happened here. that is the question and that, wolf, is the question to which right now, there are no answers. this has gotten the attention at the highest levels of the pentagon. there have been meetings about it throughout the day, even defense secretary chuck hagel, very aware of the uncertainty of this situation, and looking for answers about what happened. but the bottom line here, of co...