time now for christi paul and doug blackwell. >>> good morning. so glad to have you with us. i'm christi paul. >> and i'm victor black well. we begin with the fight against isis. a 21-year-old marine is believed to be the first american casualty. >> corporal general spears evacuated out of an osprey. the pentagon says that he's lost at sea. >> coalition strikes killed at least 30 isis members yesterday. kurdish

time now for christi paul and doug blackwell. >>> good morning. so glad to have you with us. i'm christi paul. >> and i'm victor black well. we begin with the fight against isis. a 21-year-old marine is believed to be the first american casualty. >> corporal general spears evacuated out of an osprey. the pentagon says that he's lost at sea. >> coalition strikes killed at least 30 isis members yesterday. kurdish forces are fighting back in the key town of kobani. >> let's bring in cnn's phil black. you were showing us pictures and we can hear them behind of you off of the fighting that is going on. all i could think about is what is the fating to to be for the kurds who have stayed back to fight. we know it's not good. how many kurds have stayed ba being to try to fight isis off and are they making any progress? >> reporter: christi, we're told thousands. there's a mix of men and women who have stayed back to stay and fight and defend their homeland and they are doing -- they are really digging in and we're seeing this being played out behind us just across the border right no