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Humanitarian community and family. and of course we are reading many states internationally as it affected 35 nations and some of those had dual citizenship, nigeren and canadian, and many others we re still trying to pick through who exactly they were. as you mentioned this a global tragedy. we know that that news conference you referred to has gotten under way. we re monitoring that. i do want to go to our robin creel. earlier you went out to that crash site. talk to us about what you saw and you re intending to head out there again. reporter: rosemary, we re at the crash site right now. it s a lot of clanging as you can watch them sifting through debris. their digging deep into this hole that we can t really see. on the side of the hole, though, is pieces of scrapped metal from ....
we are learning new additional information about what exactly happened in the ambush that left four u.s. soldiers dead, two wounded and five nigeren troops killed. they were conducting a routine patrol when they were asked to investigate a location that had believed to be a one-time location of a terror leader in niger. they never expected to run into any enemy forces. this was not a kinetic aggressive capture or kill operation. they were just collecting intelligence. they did not find any enemy forces and they were on their way back and stopped in a local village to resupply their nigeren allies, and then they learned locals may have tipped off to isis affiliated fighters that staged an ambush using ....