Witness Describes U.S.-Led Airstrikes against ISIS.
BALDWIN: Welcome back. You're watching CNN. I'm Brooke Baldwin, live at the Ataturk Airport in Istanbul, where we now have an update on the death toll. It is up by one now standing at 44 people. Getting new information from a senior Turkish official here that these three bombers were directed by ISIS leaders. Just in to CNN also, Iraqi military saying it destroyed more than 700 ISIS vehicles and killed hundreds of fighters in airstrikes over the past couple of days. Keep in mind, that's in addition to more than 170 vehicles destroyed by coalition airstrikes. They were carrying as many as 250 ISIS militants. For that, let's go to CNN's senior international correspondent, Ben Wedeman. Ben, this all comes just after what? Just days after -- actually, we're going to go to Jeremy Courtney. We going to Jeremy Courtney right now? Jeremy Courtney is with a humanitarian group. We'll get you to Ben in a second. We have Jeremy here on Skype. He's with a humanitarian group, was right there near Fallujah as missiles were flying over their heads. Barely missed those airstrikes aimed at ISIS. Take a look.</s>BALDWIN: That is video from the group Preemptive Love Coalition. As the airstrikes were happening, they got caught in the middle of this fighting between these coalition forces and ISIS. Mentioned Jeremy Courtney, he is the CEO of this humanitarian group. He joins me from Iraq tonight. Jeremy, my goodness, I am so glad you and your team is OK. Can you talk to me about exactly what happened or what you saw?</s>JEREMY COURTNEY, CEO PREEMPTIVE LOVE COALITION: Yeah, thanks, Brooke. So our team was taking 100,000 pounds of food out to some of the 86,000 people from Fallujah who have been stranded out in these desert camps. On the way out to take our food to them, two of our huge trucks broke down. We were stranded in the desert overnight. Our team did. In the middle of the night an ISIS convoy rolled up on our team. Our team was laying low, flat in the dirt, undressed in their underwear to blend in, hoping to blend in and not be spotted by ISIS. Close enough to hear these ISIS guys talking on their phones. Thankfully, ISIS ended up moving on. Airstrikes started pursuing them, blowing them up. Many eventually, the footage that you've seen. But half of our team was in a different location and those airstrikes ended up hitting our team, hitting the car, causing damage to the car and laying some of our guys flat onto the ground. Everyone survived but it was a very harrowing nightmarish night.</s>BALDWIN: Take me back to part of your team. That is unthinkable. On the ground, in their underwear, trying to blend in with the soil. They're hearing these ISIS militants before they move on. How long were they laying there?</s>COURTNEY: Hours. Throughout the night they were hiding out because we knew that there was this ISIS convoy in the region. And eventually when the ISIS cars started coming down the road at our position where these huge trucks were, they stopped at our huge two semi-trucks, got out and formed a bit of a meeting point. Our team overheard them talking on the phone and said we're here at the trucks. If you see the trucks, that's where we are. They may not have known they had stumbled across 100,000 pounds of food meant for Fallujah survivors. Or they may just have had bigger concerns on their minds running away from these airstrikes that were in hot pursuit.</s>BALDWIN: Jeremy, tell me why you and your team are there. You're risking your lives to help these people. What are you doing?</s>COURTNEY: Well, Brooke, when I was with you a couple of years ago after this ISIS crisis broke out the first time, we talked about this whole concept of going to the hard places, going to the places that no one else will go, to love the people that no one else will love. We talked about even loving our enemies. That's really what's driven up here and keeps us here. But it's not to say everyone here is our enemy. These 86,000 people, men, women and children and elderly who are starving in the desert, they're not our enemies. We're out here trying to get them the food, water and shelter that they desperately need. The same things you and I would want if we were driven from our homes and forced to live in these nightmarish situations.</s>BALDWIN: It is extraordinary. And an extraordinarily close call for your team. Jeremy Courtney, thank you so much, from a location there in Iraq tonight. I appreciate you and your time. Let's go back to Ben Wedeman. Ben, we have you know. Talk to me about we know about the strike.</s>BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, there are airstrikes in two separate convoys between Tuesday and Wednesday, Brooke. We just got a statement from the Iraqi government. The numbers are quite fantastic. They say that the Iraqi armed forces were able to destroy 507 ISIS vehicles in these two strikes, killing tens of ISIS fighters. They go on to say that coalition aircraft destroyed 177 ISIS vehicles, killing 349 militants. Now it's impossible to verify these numbers, but clearly there was a large number of ISIS vehicles with militants trying to leave the vicinity of Fallujah. We understand, having covered that battle for the five weeks that it went on, that in the final stages, the leadership of ISIS fled the city and essentially abandoned the rank and file to the battle. And therefore, there was a lot of unhappiness, a lot of resentment against them. It's understood that it is possibly that the leadership -- and possibly these convoys as well -- were heading west towards Syria, or perhaps to Raqqa, to get as far away as possible, because it was clear, even when we were in Fallujah, that it was only a matter of time before the city would come completely under the control of the government. What we also saw was the government forces don't have a lot of mercy for ISIS -- Brooke?</s>BALDWIN: Ben mentioned Raqqa, the unofficial capitol of ISIS. Bringing it back here to Istanbul, how this is all interconnected, where they were apparently from. Ben Wedeman, thank you for that. At least two strikes here. But back here in Turkey, we are telling the stories of those who managed to survive in this massive attack at the Ataturk Airport. A couple on their honeymoon, trapped inside the airport in the midst of the attack, and lived to tell their emotional story. We will hear exactly what they saw, what happened to them, coming up next.