on the battlefield meaning all marine -- marines bleed green. do you think that took root immediately, or at what point do you think that was an accepted philosophy within the core ? >> i think corps wide, because of its position of always needing to fight for survival they've always been good at, since world war i, they have been good at their own pr campaign. they are very good at saying when a certain fight comes up they are able to do this. with amphibious landings in world war ii they can get this done. later on, organizing to go to korea. so there is this -- they developed a very clear definition of what a marine is and that it is a brotherhood irrespective of any other issue like color or race. the problem is in world war ii it is the first practical experience in doing this. but because i think they -- the african-americans at montford point did exactly the same training, and that's the thing. people thought they would have to water down training, make it not as long, make it not as rigorous. but because they maintain the same caliber an

, not black marines. there is a difference. now, again, when i talk about any of this integration, for strength here is going to play a major role. when you leave boot camp of the marine corps at this, time when these recruits are leaving to go to their first assignments, the marine coasters very small. one recruit was due to be staged in kavanaugh's bay in hawaii. there is no marine unit there, so to, speak a full unit, a full segregated unit. there is no way segregated unit. so due to the nature of, it they were integrated. and you will find that. he will systematically find that even in larger units as they go island to island in the pacific. to put that into a calm text at the same time, towards the end of world war one in the army, which has been cackling, trying to do -- there is still segregated units. we have the same kind of hint at the integration level when eisenhower organizes the fifth platoons of the battle of bowls. what i mean company level, which you will have is a fully organized black p

marine corps, u.s. army. our knave medal of honor recipient buried just behind the camera here so so many stories to tell, and we're just trying to find ways to make that connection with a visitor who has very limited time at these sites. >> how about the hill 204 chateau-thierry memorial? is that under your direction as well? >> so, yes, at this office here we manage out of cemetery office we manage the battlefield of belleau wood, 200 acres approximately of the originally battle site of belleau wood and hill 204. it's -- we usually call it the chateau-thierry american monument but it's on hill 204 for the -- it's 204 meters high. it's actually a french-american monument the way it commemorates, built and maintained by actually the american battle monuments and if you take a look at the villages, the names of the villages inscribed on the monument and also why it was built, it's commemorating the american soldiers who sfout and side side by side in world war i. it's really an interesting way to show the fran

there were two regiments of marines that fought in this area. the fifth and sixth marines.re part of the second u.s. division. it was an army division. the marines probably had more experience than the army at the time of world war i. marines have been deployed around the world in the caribbean. but general pershing, the commander of the american expeditionary forces didn't want the marines to be part of the eac. it took heavy begin from congress with help from the secretary of the navy. finally they acquiesced and allowed to regiments. the fifth and sixth marines became part of the fifth and sixth divisions. they would make their stand here and suffer heavily were a month of fighting. during that period they lost almost 10,000 wounded and killed. about 1800 of those marines were killed. let's take a look at some of the areas that showus how the marines fought during that period of june 5th through june 26th of 1918. now we are heading towards one of the three isolated german artillery pieces. the weather that i'm approaching as a 1986 model field gun that could fire everyt

, the white marines. that's when you start to see a shift. iwo jima now, there might have been still been tensions but you had the same thing happening. you had ammo depot companies finding themselves very much in the thick of battle. and a montford pointer at the time on iwo jima, he emphatically states that once that flag was raised over iwo jima, both black and whites, marines, army, they stood together. and there was this idea of being an american. so not black, white. it was this idea of being an american. and then obviously okinawa was harrowing as well, the march back to japan was not nice. that's why we get the atomic bombs unfortunately, right? >> still referencing world war ii, audience question, how was the post-war experience for black soldiers who returned home from war, as opposed to or compared with white soldiers? >> so much the same as it had been previously after world war i. a lot of the post-war cuts obviously a lot of african-americans get caught up in this. now, the army had, like i

the marine corps is a good case study, but the marine corps has always had aanen smaller force different issues that make it an easiera venue to institute something like this. the army had been playing around with this for a certain time. sincee 1876 and the reorganization of the army where it. afforded african-american units, right? so they had been doing this a lot longer. okay? so executive order of arc a2, the employment practices commission basicallyir forced t marines' hand. aspa part of the war department the a military itself had no choice, but to acquiesce to accepting african-americans some had beenex doing that. so whileth the army to a large extent or to some extent the navy had done a little bit more, the marine corps was the holdout. to that end, the commander at the time testifiedpo saying tha the african-american has had ample opportunity to explore combat in other services in the larger service of the army to bringen them into the marine cos ishe putting them into an environment that doesn't accept them. he was not mincing any words when he was tasked to bringing integra

marines run forward as the enemy opens fire. a wounded marine runs back for aid.eal his flank and main position. despite north korean tanks, mortars and automatic weapons, the assault continues. this counterattack along the southern participant of the river is -- part of the river is almost of a repeat launched two weeks previous when they took this same hill. the high ground in this sector has changed hands at least five times in two weeks. [gunfire] >> the marines form a base of fire the drive the enemy off. the line builds up and so does the firepower. [gunfire] >> meanwhile, overhead air force and marine corps planes support the ground troops. [background sounds] ♪ ♪ >> carrier planes are readied for another strike on inland targets. rockets are of particular interest at this time. three different types are being used. one of the first super explosive types to see service in korea was the a 5-inch holy book. later, the 11.75-inch tiny tim proved highly effective on bridges and similar large targets. the most recent arrival is the navy's 6.5-inch ram. constant

marines. one of those marines sent to perhaps the most dangerous place in afghanistan, at one of the most dangerous times in the war, one of those marines was this man. his name was dr. thomas schulman. you see him there on the left. over the course of his long service in afghanistan, he served seven astonishingly difficult and intense months in sangin. he says during his seven months in sangin, 25 marines he served with died there in that one town. more than 200 others were wounded. he recounted one particularly brutal day in sangin to "the chicago sun-times" a day in which he earned a purple heart. he said my squad leader stepped on an improvised explosive device and he lost his leg. i was blown up. my platoon sergeant was blown up in that same blast on that same day. it was one of a couple of times i was blown up on that deployment. another marine who served in sangin says they put up a map of the city when they got there and that one marine's vivid description, he said it looked like someb

marine rylee mccollum, marine kareem nikoui. his father said he loved what he was doing and always wanted to be a marine. and u.s. marine corporal hunter lopez from california. he was just 22. he wanted to work back home in the riverside county sheriff's department where his mother and father work and marine david espinoza from texas who graduated from high school just two years ago. president biden today acknowledging their bravery, their sacrifice calling this a worthy mission, saying we will complete this mission. in fact, flights were seen taking off from the kabul airport all day long. but tonight with that threat of another terror attack, what is being done differently as we now learn new details of what actually happened at that gate. abc's senior foreign correspondent ian pannell leading us off again tonight. >> reporter: tonight, continuing chaos and danger at kabul airport. flash-bang grenades fired to disperse increasingly desperate crowds as the urgency grows to evacuate americans and afghan allies from the country.

marines. jennifer, you have been covering this since day one. your thoughts at this moment? we know that the president has been huddled in the situation room. we are waiting. the press secretary at the white house, we have not yet heard from her. that was also on the schedule, that has been postponed and delayed. we are waiting for an update from the pentagon. your thoughts? >> reporter: what strikes me most is that we know this was the day and as they secured the perimeter and you have marines helping and screening passengers coming into the airport. somehow by a miracle got 100 americans air lifted. this is the day they were worried about. the state department put out that warning last night. they had threats on those gates. they told americans to leave those gates. the marines were responsible for standing on either side of that razor wire that was put around the airport. you have thousands of americans half a mile deep trying to get through these 3 or 4 gates into the kabul airport. it was

today, when tragedy stuck in afghanistan and 13 marines, 18 marines were injured, president biden said this. >> i bear responsibility for fundamentally all of that is happened of late. >> the pentagon estimates that at least 60 afghans were killed in a suicide bombing outside the airport in kabul. president biden's first message today was one of condolence to the family, and to the loved ones of the marines who were killed. >> my heart aches for you. but i know this. we have a continued obligation, a sacred obligation to all of you families of those heroes, that obligation is not temporary. it lasts forever. the lives we lost today were lives given in the service of liberty, service of security, the service of others. in the service of america. >> the presidents second message was to the people who carried out the attack. >> to those who carried out this attack, as well as anyone who wishes america harm, no this, we will not forgive. we will not forget. we will hunt you down and make you pay. i will defend our interest in people with every measure in my command. >> the president then e

marine corporal humberto sanchez, 22. marine lance corporal jared schmitz, 20. told him to be safe. he said, "don't worry, mom, my guys got me. they won't let anything happen to me." she now realizes that they all just went together. >> a grateful nation paying tribut it's another day. and anything could happen. it could be the day you welcome 1,200 guests and all their devices. or it could be the day there's a cyberthreat.

tw it wasn't a gate with marines on one side, and afghans on the other. forward, out yards with their horse whips to find our people and to give them a ticket to freedom. so they were putting themselves at tremendous risk and saving thousands, thousands of lives in the process. it was -- it was actually -- it was absolutely extraordinary, and chi've seen a lot, chris, i have been through a lot, and i have never been more proud to be an american than i was that day at abbey gate, seeing what these marines were doing for us, for our values, upholding what america stands for these afghans trying to get to freedom. so everybody needs to know that these marines and sailors died as absolute heroes, and their legacy will be the thousands of afghans, little girls and little boys, who are alive today because these u.s. marines put their lives on the line for them. >> what is the hardest thing for you emotionally, and knowing that while these marines were willing to do it that they were put in that position despite the threat. >> just thinking that as a member of c

she was married to a fellow marine.fore her death, she was featured in a photo released by the defense department cradling an afghan baby at the kabul airport. a friend posting on facebook that she was a light in this dark world. and we have lost marine corps corporal hunter lopez, 22 years old, from california, the son of two local sheriff's department employees. the sheriffs association says he was planning to join the same department when he returned from deployment. and marine corps corporal deacon william tyler page, 23 years old from omaha, nebraska. his family saying he had a tough outer shell and a giant heart. the family says he planned to go to trade school and possibly become an electrical lineman after his enlistment ended. and marine corps lance corporal david espinoza from laredo, texas, also just 20 years old. he enlisted in the marines after graduating from high school. his mother saying it was his calling and he died a hero. marine corps corporal humberto sanchez, 22 years old, from logansport, indiana.

this is already a mandate for marin private schools. when it comes to public schools and the leaders they will discuss that later today. right now though, they are waiting to hear from the marin public health officials to see what their recommendation is at that webinar later this afternoon. about 96% of the staff with in the marin county office of education verified they have been vaccinated. marin previously announced an indoor mask mandate for all 8 to 12 students and staff regardless of their vaccination status. health leaders here are disturbed by the delta variant transmission to children. >> i'm also quite worried about transmission the other way and that is adults who aren't vaccinated giving it to children. if you look at texas and florida the number of child patients being admitted to icu's with severe coronavirus is starting to climb. it's becoming a crisis. it is -- the responsibility of everybody who can be vaccinated to be vaccinated to protect these children. >> after that 1:00 meeting we should know if marin public schoo

he could touch the marine. screaming to the marine about who i was, marine was told not to answer, i heard him say, sir, i'm not taking the phone, all i wanted to do was take the phone let me talk to him, he could not, the anaguy -- i was on the phone when he was getting beat, that is traumatic to know this guy, family, two kids, the wife. and that is a constant story we almost -- we may have lost a baby on the same thing that was taliban taking people off of the back of the group. >> would your brother who works with u.s. forces, would he have made it out this network. >> no, impossible. we know that there are other -- habibs that are -- they see nothing but a closed gate. and all of the hopes are shattered. in front of their eyes, and face, a team to reaching out to them, doing what we did with habib to do is safer with less getting beat up on the way, but mike is right, we have to record ourselves and voice, where marines on other side could refuse to take phone, we asked habib to play it for them, put us on

the marines and u.s. military are still conducting these searches even today as we speak despite there. and there still are evacuation flights coming and going. general mckenzie and others are stressing to us, despite this horrible attack and deadly attack, despite that the evacuation mission continues. and, you know, it -- there's -- something else. you played a little bit of the sound from president biden vowing to retaliate here. that's something that i've been talking to defense officials, of course, ever since this happened because one of the big questions immediately after an attack like this is the u.s. going to respond? i think that our viewers may be surprised to find out that ever since the u.s. military began the withdrawal, which really began in april or may of this year, with the military withdrawal comes a withdrawal of a lot of intelligence assets. so the u.s. military has much less of a clear picture of where some of these fighters, potential isis fighters may be and the potential to strik

marine staff sgt.or hoover, 31 salt lake city utah, former football player national natural born leader. mental corporal riley, 20 of them recently by three weeks from becoming a father. marine corporal david espinoza, 20 in texas. second deployment to the middle east. marine lance corporal jared schmidt, 20 of st. charles, missouri, his mother said his lifelong dream was to become a soldier and serve the country. foreman maxton, honorable student in high school. nicole g, in sacrament of california, a technician, pictured here holding and afghan baby days before her death. lance corporal dylan, 20 of california. he was honored by high school students at his alma mater who are more red, bright and blue during friday night's football game. marine sgt. giovanni, massachusetts honor for exceptional student by her dunes. lance corporal following deployment he planned to follow his parent footsteps and become a sheriff's deputy. marine corporal roberto, he's from indiana. state officials amended the 2017 hi

fellow marine.th the chain of commands but it's not social media. one last question for you, on this marine as you said he put it all on the line and he was relieved of his command he did this, i agree with you he's a patriot and data for the right reasons, do you think it'll actually accomplish something, do you think heads will roll that somebody will have to pay for what happened this week with her 13 marines in the hundreds of others who died in that suicide attack? >> i think the elites expect nothing to habit something only happens when we americans, people just like this patriot this lieutenant colonel do exactly what we just did, this does not and this corruption does not stop until every day americans are willing to become uncomfortable for what they actually believed in what they value, we have an obligation to hold our leaders accountable they are not immune, we put them there to be our voice and our representatives and the people that we trust and they obviously failed this is a complete

process, is for the marines. there used to be afghan special forces doing the filter and the initial search of people and bringing them in. now it was marines, and there will be -- 82nd airborne will be at other gates. they have to go forward and engage directly with the people that they're searching. in the words of general mckenzie, to feel their breath. they've got to get that close. they've got to frisk people. they've got to go through their luggage. by the way, they're probably within 6, 10 feet of the last line of taliban security also trying to control these crowds. that is the point at which at least one of the suicide bombers struck in this very dense environment in which local afghan health authorities are saying at least 60 afghans were killed, and we know of course we've had this mass casualty among u.s. forces. so it is a kind of a horror story waiting to happen. those of us who have been covering afghanistan for a long time, i took one look at that before i even got there and realized that this wou

leader in marine research for 60 years. he has 30 years of multidisciplinary research, teaching in science management and leadership experience. our final witness is dr. robert d. ballard, president, ocean exploration trust, explorer-at-large, national geographic society. he is best known for his discoveries of hydrothermal vents, the sunken are messed -- rms titanic and numerous shipwrecks. he has been a pioneer in advanced exploration technology and was awarded the national endowment for the humanities medal by president george bush in 2003 and is a retired navy officer. as our witnesses should note you will each have five minutes for your spoken testimony and your written testimony will be included in the record for the hearing. when you have completed your spoken testimony we will begin with questions and each member will have five minutes to question the panel and we will start with mr. maclean. mr. mclean: thank you. thank you for the opportunity to testify today. i speak here today as the acting chief scientist of no

they are searched by marines and there was a suicide bomber there. he also mentioned gunmen demises gunmen involved in this vicious attack this morning. also telling us that we expect these attacks to continue. a lot of interesting detail that we have learned this morning let's bring in our senior koren for respondent -- foreign correspondent. you spent an enormous amount of time in afghanistan. i know you've been to that airpr diyou learfrom ththcurity of ou u.s. troops and ans mention that in the past few moments, isis has claimed responsibility for the attack, showing the alleged bomber on their website. there were two things that the general said that really struck me. one of them, the taliban is providing the outer security field. the outer security field and the taliban has been conducting sturges. i know from our colleagues on the ground, they say nobody is getting searched as they get to the airport. and it points out two things. the suggestion, first of all, that u.s. forces are reliant on the taliban who are known enemies to the united stat

marine corporal humberto sanchez. marine lance corporal jared schmitz. %-p in the last facetime with their son, when his mother told him to be safe, he said, "don't worry, mom, my guys got me. they won't let anything happen to me." today she realized that they all just went together. >> martha raddatz with us tonight. an incredibly solemn day. we were watching you on the air with this today, and it's impossible to imagine what these families are going through, and what they'll go through for years to come. i know the question now, how to protect the u.s. service members still in kabul with just two days before the august 31st deadline to get afghans and u.s. servicemen and women out. >> reporter: david, the priority right now is keeping the service members who remain in kabul safe, even while they evacuate more americans and afghan allies. but there's no question, this withdrawal continues to be very dangerous. david? >> martha, thanks. >>> when we come back, we remember a beloved american actor. don't settle for products that give you a sort of white sm

marines one navy met or killed today in a dual suicide bomb attack. isis a cake claiming responsibility. what does this mean for the deadline to evacuate americans in afghanistan? we are told that help at the main gate to the airport one suicide bomber detonating explosives in a crowd of people trying to get through a checkpoint. another blew himself up at a nearby hotel where americans have reported being in gatherings. scores of afghan said to be dead or wounded. earlier tonight president biden addressed the nation, finally, had strong words or whoever planned the attack, watch for. >> those who carried out that attack, as well as anyone who wishes america harm, no this. we will not forgive. we will not forget. we will hunt you down to make you pay. >> the president said the evacuation operations will continue. >> i've been in constant contact with their senior military leaders that i mean constant, around-the-clock. and our commanders on the ground throughout today. they made it clear we can and we must complete this mission and we will. that is wh

marine called kareem.deo from afghanistan could be the last taken of him lbefore his death. >> say hi to the camera. hi. >> hi. we friends? friends? friend? yeah? friend. friend. >> tucker: his father is steve and he joins us tonight. i appreciate you coming on. ourns hearts break for you. i'm sorry. so -- >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: it's hard to know what to ask you other than to extend our sincere for-real heart-felt sympathies. how are you doing 24 hours later? >> well, i'm going on about 36 hours, i believe, that i've been up. i still in shock. the family is devastated. his mother, who is an excellent mom, you know, is doing the best that she can considering the circumstances. >> tucker: yeah. so the reason that we wanted to talk to you, just to remind everybody watching and people know this, these are real people serving our country and dying because they've beenkn asked to put their lives at risk. so were you concerned your boy is over there in the final days of our occupation, were you worried

kpix 5's john ramos reports on marin city's hesitancy to take the shot. >> marin city is marin county's only black dominated community, and they're being hit hard by covid-19's delta variant. we came here to find out why and what could be done to get people vaccinated. >> reporter: marin county has a nearly 90% vaccination rate, but in marin city it's less than 60%, and with covid cases occurring at an all-time high here, community activist paul austin thinks he knows why. >> we are such an isolated community and we are like one of the last communities that really enjoy being around one so that the reason why we saw some of the spikes here in marin city. >> reporter: austin says residents here have enjoyed a return to social gathering, but the more contagious delta variant is taking its toll. most of the older guys sitting out at the street have gotten vaccinated, but pete bailey says there are those who just won't consider it. >> a lot of these people don't trust the system as a whole. if they're feeling well then they won't get anything. >> reporter: jesse poeltl is 88 years old and h

it was a failure, or they were able to somehow evade them and make it to the marines and. well, clearly if they were able to get up to the marines at the screening at the at the entry point of the base because a failure somewhere it was a failure by uh, you know taliban operate with varying degrees of confidence some of those guys are very scrupulously good some of them are not. i just don't know the answer to that question uh but we will. you can be assured we're going to continue to take a look at it and try to make all our all our practices better as we afford. okay general general, sir we're going to let the general we're going to let the general close out, general sir, for any closing thoughts you might have, sir john thanks again. i would just like to say today is a hard day. but but the thing i come back to is remarkable professionalism that the force on the ground is showing. as i've noted before, ultimately at the screening points in particular you've got to get very up close and personal to the people that you're bringing out. there's no way to do that safely fro

one of the dark and shameful days in american history and certainly marine corps history. 11 marines, one sailor are dead. but they are dead because of the incompetence of the withdrawal. the shameful manner in which we have completely surrendered to the taliban. earlier this week i had to be on the house floor, that not allowed the president biden to withdraw until we got every american that wanted to get out of the country. required them to report to us every day on the number of americans left in country and the number of afghan allies seeking refuge. although democrats were very critical in a classified group briefing of the arbitrary augusn it came time to vote on that on the home's floor, voted against it so as not to jeopardize the $5 trillion rule to make possible the bernie sanders budget. that's where we are right now. that's where the cats priorities are. of >> jesse: doing everything possibility to pass. but not doing the minimum necessary to make sure we do not leave the citizens behind. we will see american hostages, we will see thousands of allies trance behind enemy li

marines at the gate. were there any other u.s. citizens killed in the attack and why were the marines so close together that so many were killed in one strike? >> we think one suicide bomb at abbey gate. i don't know if it was male or female. don't have that information. don't know much about the second be bomb except one went off in the vicinity of the baron hotel, which is a deeply bunkered structure. as far as i know, there were no u.k. military casualties as a result of that. may have been afghan casualties. but it will take us time to actually learn how many afghan casualties. we took some aboard the installation. many were taken to hospitals in town. what i see is get i get open open source reporting about the nature of the casualties. we're trying to gather more information about it. so the last point, i would tell you, i don't know that -- i don't know the size of the bomb and the size of the bomb is directly related to how many people are affected by the blast radius. we're going to investigate that. as i noted before, yo

s of the marine layer keeps doing its thing. it will be the wet blanket for just about everybody and there are subtle differences here as well. we will see the clouds get a little bit farther inland tomorrow and they have been zero it attempted to 7:40, there are a few clouds, they will get over into concord as well. and it will all melt back. more clouds are signed. we are going to a little bit. we will see that the seven-day atur and there, slightly thunderstorms and the sierra against when you look at it on the big picture, it is kind of cool to watch the pattern. thunderstorms, on the east, healthy marine layer on the west, and we are kind of sandwiched in between and that is what california should really look like for late july. one other thing, where watching the smoke is coming off of a new fire that started in the coastal range to the north. so not only the dixie fire now but there is another one out from the mountains that have started. thankfully, the floor you are still taking the smoke away from us. but we will keep

marines ready for you. he sent back a picture writing, stay there, do you see the marine. they could reach his friend, the bomb went off. he and his wife were killed. his two young sons were further back with a relative. they survived. darlington's marine friend was injured, but was later safely evacuated and over the weekend arrived at walter reed for treatment. joining me is andrew darlingtonwho served in afghanistan and is a purple heart recipient. andrew, this is heartbreaking, obviously. i don't know how to convey our condolences. tell us about his family, your relationship to them and how the boys are doing. >> sure. thanks for having me. i first met him in 2012. i was deployed with first battalion marine regimen. at the time he was not my interpreter. i just got to know him. truthfully, interpreters had the best food, so i hung out with them a lot. i got to know him and i did get to observe him working with marines and our afghan army partners. he was always very motivated, very happy to serve in whatever capacity. he was constantly going on patrol, sitting in, assi

aiken is a marine veteran.e talked to his fellow marines by cell phone. >> i told them i was a marine that served in 2010. that the family was very close with a close friend of mine; that they were in grave danger and essentially asked, marine to marine, if there was any way they could get them out of there safely. >> if they were not there, i wouldn't be able. and the whole family, including myself, give them a new life. >> reporter: all of them are being processed in germany. she expects them to come to the u.s. to live with them in dublin. she's not sure when they'll arrive but they'll be celebrate wlg they do. >>> a touching scene tonight. the 13 u.s. service members killed in the bombing, honored with a candlelight vigil near the nation's capitol. and here are photos of all the troops killed in the blast. four of these service members, called california home. and among those lives lost a marine corps sergeant from sacramento, nicole g was 23 years old. these are pictures of herself in uniform holding a bab

in the meantime we have that marine stratus working in. you can see the foggy conditions on the roof camera this morning and the temperatures are running in the mid to upper 50's. as we head through the an, after highs yesterday inland in to the 80's and 90's we are talking 70's and 80's. 77 san jose, concord at 86 and 77 for the napa valley. around the bay in the 60's some some clearing. 63 in san francisco, upper 60's in oakland with that ocean breeze and cool, cloudy and breezy in the low 60's. let's check in with gianna. >>> if you are getting ready to get out and about early this morning, not a bad time to be on the east shore freeway, westbound 80, 14 minutes, no brake lights on highway 4 and that commute out of san jose. looking good, just a little crowds as you approach that connector. where we are starting to see the brake lights. the super commuters making that trek over in to the pass. 42 minutes. there was a broken down vehicle near grant line. hopefully they cleared that out of the right lane. no metering lights just yet. traf

and he said he was about ten meters, 20, 30 feet away from the marines. and in the crush of people, he kind of tripped and lost his footing, and then there was this blast. and total chaos, people were on the ground, marines were shooting. people were running over bodies. it was just blood everywhere. his cousin was wounded. he thinks, the guy told me he thought at least four or five marines were killed on the spot. we now hear it's at least a dozen. so the bomber managed to get -- the first bomber managed to get up quite close to the american soldiers. >> it sounds like from what the military has said thus far and they said they're still gathering more details that the marines actually have to physically search the individuals who are trying to -- before they get access inside the airport, and it sounds like that is where the detonation may have occurred. i hadn't realized that we have seen images of marines, soldiers on top of a wall bringing people up, but to have them out exposed like that obviously maybe was unexpected for a lot of people. >> yeah, an

marine riley mccollum. a native of wisconsin who had always dreamed of being in the marines and being infantry and on his first deployment deployed just as the evacuation was ramping up. i'm not going to try to starten this statement in any way. i'll read this statement in full from his family. riley was an amazing man with a passion for the marines. he was a son, a brother and a husband with a baby due in three weeks. he wanted to be a marine for his whole life. he was determined to be in infantry and this was his first deployment. he was sent to iraq when the evacuation began. he wanted to be a history teacher and wrestling coach when he was done serving. he is a tough, kind kid that made an impact on everybody he met. his joke and whit brought so much joy. he was family. riley will always be a hero not just for the sacrifice he made for the country but impacted every life around him for the better making us stronger, kinder, teaching us to love deeper. we love you, riley. i think there is a little more i

marines were searching civilians. the injured and the dead right there on the scene where so many had gathered just outside the airport, hoping to get out. a second suicide attack at the baron hotel just 200 yards away. isis attackers then opening fire. the frantic rush to get medical help for the wounded. one ambulance after another arriving at the hospitals. this all happened after an urgent security alert went out overnight advising u.s. citizens to avoid the airport and especially those gates. troops setting off flash bangs to disperse the crowd. u.s. intelligence knew this threat was urgent. just 24 hours ago, hundreds of people were gathered in the very spot outside the airport where one of these attacks happened. our ian pannell was there on the scene reporting. you can see just outside the airport wall, the kinds of crowds that were gathering. the president saying for those who carried out this attack, "we will not forgive you, we will not forget. we will hunt you down and make you pay." and he revealed late t

mccollum, a marine lance-corporal from jackson, wyoming. marine lance-corporal dylan r.cho cucamonga, california, was 20. marine lance-corporal kareem m. nikoui of norco, california, was 20. marine corporal deegan w. page, an omaha native, was 23. 25-year-old marine sergeant joanny rosario from lawrence, massachusetts. marine corporal humberto a. sanchez, age 22, of logansport, indiana. marine lance corporal jared m. schmitz, age 20, of sat charles, missouri. and hospitalman maxton w. soviak of the u.s. navy. he was from berlin heights, ohio, and he was 22. >> woodruff: o thanks to each one of these young men and women and the ultimate sacrifice they have made for our country. and that's the newshour for tonit. i'm judy woodruff. thank you, please stay safe, and we'll see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> carnegie corporation of new york. supporting innovations in education, democratic engagement, and the advancement international peace and security. at carnegie.org. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions captioning s

typically, solar sailors and marines that are doing that work. and they're right up close to thousands of people that are flowing through the airfield, see the images, and be able to get them do it. day after day. is remarkable. and this time looks like somebody got close to us. we'll find out why we'll try to improve our procedures. it is 121212 service members, 9. nobody feels that more closely more directly to me and everyone else in the chain of command. and we recognize that we need to continue to evaluate our procedures as we go. for the same time, there's a tension there. we have to continue to let people own the airfield because that is why we are there. we're not there to defend ourselves. we're there to defend ourselves while we process american citizens 1st, but also the other categories of people that i've mentioned. get them to a place where we can fly him out to a safer, better future. so just to be clear this, this suicide bomber was going through the gate being search checked by us service numbers one he detonator disaster david,

i have been shot by the marines at the gate at this point in time. since we're 48 hours, do you have any evidence that the marines or any of the us troops may have shot injure or wounded? we can, we can confirm that and certainly not a position to deny it either. we are investigating this and as we get more information that we can reliably communicate to you about this, and so that we will post a suicide bombing in combo claim. the lives also of 13 american troops. the 1st death of us personnel in afghanistan in 18 months was also one of the highest daily death holes of us troops in a decade. the bodies of those soldiers were transferred back home on sunday to dover air force base among those paying their respects with us president joe biden . however, when later quizzed by the press about the crisis, he refused to answer ultimately, sparking alfredo online. any questions or go ahead on janice and i'm not going to give you that this man runs at the mention of being held accountable. and so the issues the t badge responsibility for joe. no questions,

with the infantry captain fox news contributor retired marine corps bomb tact. i don't know if you heard what the colonel was talking about, if you can react to that you can react to the strike that took out the two isis guys. the floor is yours. >> there are so many angles to attack this. yes i am very concerned with the chinese communist party influence and your intro infuriated me. you heard from this administration so many times a plan for every contingency. maybe a top priority or maybe a top contingency is how you get thousands of americans out of that country and then further, maybe we should entrust those lives to the taliban who play this administration like a fiddle? they say one thing to president biden and another behind his back they are setting up checkpoints and attacking americans. making it impossible to evacuate now this mission the one lone superpower is poised to leave afghanistan leaving thousands of people behind hundreds of american citizens and yes i am tough on joe biden my noncommissioned officers were tough on me. why? because leaders