telling people to stay in their houses. it's really hard to predict when fighting will break out, where the russians are, when they are going to come. people are told to stay in the house and for the most part it does look like a ghost town. you'll see somebody walking their dog but mostly people if they have not left, they are staying put. griff? >> griff: one more follow-up. are we starting to see any patterns in the last 24 hours as you take notice of what you are hearing and seeing around there in terms of the attack because we are hearing from you is officials, steve, that perhaps things aren't going as quickly as they thought. >> i'm really hesitant to make predictions. we've heard so many in this crisis about when the attack is going to come, where it's going to come and how effective it's going to be and a lot of people are saying the russians are bogged down. that worries me pair the russians are holding back considerable amounts of force. which most people hope they