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thanks for joining us. tonight the u.s. military launching an unmanned air strike against an islamic state planner in afghanistan. u.s. central command confirmed the strike killed one individual and they know of no civilian casualties. the individual kills in the drone strike was involved in possibly planning additional attacks but the officials say there's nothing linking him to yesterday's suicide bomber at the kabul airport. now names and faces and stories of the 13 service members lost in the line of duty helping to evacuate americans and their afghan allies. >> he knew he'd be there his whole life. >> 20-year-old krz ryan mccullough wanted nothing more but to serve his country. >> he had a immense love for country very patriotic.

>> this morning they got the news no military family wants to receive. riley was one of the 13 u.s. service members tragically killed in the kabul airport attack yesterday. >> i'd like his legacy to be who he was, he was a hero. this is who he was. this is how he was. and -- and -- now the kid is is left. >> in less than a month riley was to become a father himself. >> he would have been a great father. he was ready. he was happy. >> tonight we're learning more about some of riley's fellow servicemen who were also killed in the isis-k attack. navy medic from ohio and marine and hunter lopez of california. david lee of texas. and jared schmidt of missouri and ryan from tennessee. cording to w.h.o. regional

headquarters at least 170 afghans also lost their lives. initial reports said there were two bombings but the pentagon believe it was one explosion from one suicide bomber in abbey gate. >> we do not believe there was a second explosion at or near the baron hotel. >> american and allied forces remain on high alert for another possible attack. this morning the president and national security team met. >> this morning they advised the president and vice president that another terror attack in kabul is likely. our troops are still in danger. >> my colleague stephanie pressed jen psaki about safety measures, given the threat. >> can you say the protocols on the ground have changed to >> certainly.evacuations.- they adjust and make adjustments on the ground. >> they're being very quiet for obvious security reasons, you

don't want to tip-off the taliban or isis-k as to what you changed. it's going to be a very dangerous job when you have to pat down everybody who comes through the gate. >> satellite images from today show significant crowds still gathering at the airport, desperate to make it out before the august 31st deadline. >> what do you think it says about the level of desperation there? >> it's -- it's -- it's sad. i mean, it says something about the level of desperation but also says something about just how haphazard this exit was that this is what we have for these people? this is what we're doing? we're having a mob auction at the gate of people just screaming at you to look at their documents and hopefully they get the right one. >> jericho denman former army ranger has been working in kabul long side other retired special forces to get afghan operatives and families out of the country and has personally helped nearly

200 people escape. >> for that many people that i or anyone pulled out there's probably five times that many i just couldn't get to. >> describe the sort of conditions that the american military men and women there are facing. >> they've never been trained for this. it's not it's not what they do. they're trained to do infantry tactics. and they're out there as basically department of state official/riot control/humanitarian aid workers, there wasn't enough. every decision they make, hey, you don't have the right stage in your visa process, you have to leave. well, you just sentenced that family to who knows what. >> he said scenes like these from the last several days of thousands of afghans desperate to flee standing in knee-deep

waste water. >> they're the absolute worse conditions i've seen soldiers, marines or anyone face in a combat environment. >> so far 109,000 people have been safely evacuated from afghanistan of but u.s. state department said still 500 u.s. citizens they're working to evacuate. >> it's a really dicey situation, getting closer to 31st there's a lot of room for bad things to highway patrol. >> state department bad things to happen. >> state department declined to say how many estimated to be left in afghanistan. a former interpreter for u.s. marine corps is one of the lucky ones who got out. >> a of a harrowing escape at the airport past taliban checkpoints. zack and his family are now safe in an american army base in

qatar we've been following his story for two weeks as his friend and former colleague thomas schumacher worked feverishly to help him escape. >> the two in 2010 when zack then 19 was acting as major shoeman's interpreter. >> there's amygdala bushes . >> there's ambushes and casualties, you name it, zack was there. >> when afghanistan fell to the taliban both men felt a renewed sense of urgency, zack feared the taliban would kill him know the work he did for american troops. >> the taliban knows the numbers. they say you're an infidel because you worked for the americans, you have to be killed. >> it's a tough situation.

>> zack was trapped without assurances for the country he fought alongside and risked his life for. >> it's a dangerous situation out here in kabul. >> i don't anticipate the security situation getting better in the morning. i anticipate it getting worse. >> a world away, on a quiet street in rhode island major shoeman commanded his base from his home. >> i have two points of contact at the abbey gate. >> by wednesday of last week after a couple failed attempts, seemingly a miracle, major shoeman tracked down a american soldier at the airport willing to find zack's family and bring them past the check points and he major messaged zack to put his son on his shoulders as a signal. . this little boy, just five years old, his key to safety. 40 minutes later a response from shoeman's contact, got him.

zack his wife and four young kids finally secured precious seats on a plane >> what was it like to finally get your family on that plane? >> it was like really, really not good. because we left our family. we miss my country. i miss my country. i miss it. we lost everything. , you know, we lost everything. >> zack and his family have sacrificed so much for the american cause, but today he says he's thankful to the americans who sacrificed so much for him. now zack and his family are waiting to finally secure their special immigrant visas so they can come to the united states. >> what's the first thing you will say to major shoeman when you see him. >> first thing --

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candyman is back, with sweet revenge, the cult horror classic getting a reboot on the silver screen, drawing influence from real-life evils in our backyard. here's that report. >> this is where it all began, the story of candyman. >> reporter: it's the movie that has audiences too scared to say the title outloud, "candyman". >> if you're out here looking for candyman, if you ask me, stay away. >> reporter: a direct seekwell of 1995 horror film of the same name in which a modern day black serial killer murdered by a white lynch mob is back to stalk

chicago's housing project. today 30 years later at the helm of bringing the slasher back to the big screen is 31-year-old director nia decosta joining the ranks of black filmmakers at the forefront challenging america's racism >> it is story telling the by we create legends out of horror tieing events is how candy man made history. >> as the legend goes kandsyman has summoned when you say his name five times in the mirror. >> say his name. >> candyman. >> no. >> candyman. >> like the original the film takes place in the same chicago neighborhood, only a decade after the last of the tao towers were tore down, guelish take on gentrification, housing project

paved with coffee shops and condos but the ghost of the ghetto remains. >> candyman is based on liverpool, creature was not black, but set it in chicago and the urban jungle gets transported into the film with an eye on blackness. and black lives. and a blackmonster chasing a white woman. and that as the white scary for so many people. >> the original movie scenes taken back to where it began. they imagined the shifts of the origins of the candyman. >> in our story it's story of a black man from the community candyman has been stalking, a very different way into the story. >> joining directing this powerhouse jordan peele who co-wrote and produced the fil filmer. >> after the oscar-winning success of get out, the genre of

black horror film is having a comeback. >> it's under going a renaissance, nothing to open hollywood's eyes than commercial success. >> candyman. >> the film starring abdul ii, characters find themselves caught in the lure of candyman. >> what do you want audiences to take from your performances in this movie? >> i think what really drew me to the project of candyman is the relationship we get to see between this young black couple, this very ambitious, very amazing places in their careers, respectively. you know. we see the return. >> candyman isn't real. >> i saw it. >> candyman isn't real, anthony. >> i would like for this film to inspire audiences to dream, what if conditione candyman was real. >> if we have a blackmonster,

better have a black friend too. >> the genre of black horror was in her life for decades. >> this is momentous time for black horror. the ball has kept rolling. >> the award winning author of horror novels in the department f africanamerican studies in nt ucla she started a course called the sunken place, using jordan's peele's "get out" as a linchpin to discuss black horror and history of film genre. >> over the years we have these horror films and creators that kind of broke through the surface. you know, like a young william crane directing blackula. we had a renaissance in the '90s was incredible, with "tales from the hood". >> and even before that," death by temptation". >> the movie's other release was delayed a year due to the pandemic but to the director and the cast, 2020, summer of

gave renewed voice to this film. >> you use the phrase say her name. it comes in a time in our nation people are using that phrase following the death of breonna taylor. >> it was important to me to have that language in the film. in part because you have to say his name five times, the reason we say say his name, say her name, it's important to keep remembering these are people. >> candyman in our film, you know, even in the other "candyman" it's the entire history of being an unwilling martyr. we hopefully add empathy and understanding to that character. >> i'm struck by your phrasing, unwilling martyr. instantly made me think about george floyd in an age we live in seems like the movie comes at a particular time in which of horror films and horrors of history intersect. >> we tell our horror stories.

people don't believe us. did it really go down like that? did this really happen to you? yes, it does. well, now with the horror genre we say okay i got a horror story to tell >> in the classroom the core of her teaching is developing the next generation of black horror filmmakers. >> because you all are the filmmakers of tomorrow. because we hope as a filmmaker that there's room for me. they're opening doors, breaking down barriers every day and i'm very grateful for them for that. >> i love horror. i want to see different types of black horror. i don't want horror to just sit in traffic in black pain or specific racial violence towards black people. i think we have so much more to say in the horror space in general. >> racy film that explores the horrors of racism, most

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