the brink of war greg pal cot joins flurries us from the yel. can you see are hear the shelling now? we are about a half a mile away from it and we are leaving. we are on a ship that is being told that it has to go back. it cannot go to the island. in the past 40 minutes here is what we have seen and heard. individuals on the island say that they heard fire artillery fire coming from the north korean coastline. that has not been confirmed. but that was the eyewitness report. others are saying that they saw openings of artillery embankment along the north korean coastline opening up as if to be ready to fire and some even claimed they saw shells being carried to the embankment. we had no confirmation of this but we do have a confirmation that the north korean spokesman in the last two days has been warning against more attacks,