were in the eye of it. we were in the ring road. we weren t seeing much inside the city. that changed dramatcally. this is what you re seeing in this battlefield. we started hearing bombardments and a rat-a-tat-tat of guns sounding from like pretty near to where we were. this lasted several minutes. this is par for the course in this conflict but we had thought and we put ourselves there because it wasn t too close to the action. and so we decided after we took shelter in an underground parking garage under the hotel for a little while, we decided we were going to be back here to dniepro, an industrial city in the east center part of ukraine. and here things are a little quieter and we felt we could operate from here a little better. that s where you find us now. matt, i know you can t really stand by. i m going to ask the others to stand by. you ve got to get yourself to a secure location.
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you may still hear the constant rat a tat of gunfire here. you can hear in the green zone just streets away from this highly protected enclave right in the heart of kabul. you can see it s still happening, this attack is still going on. it s been hours since we heard the first loud blast of that truck bomb, the car bomb exploding outside the defence minister s house. he and his family were not there at the time. that was later followed by the sound of suicide vests exploding. we know the attackers also entered the home of the defence minister, mortars were also fired. special forces were rushed to the area, we could hear helicopters flying overhead. the government is now saying that they have the situation under control, but you can keep hearing this certainly isn t completely under control, this is still a very tense situation.
washington thinks like courage, nobility, honor and character. these are all values that were very important to john mccain s approach to politics and one reason why he was able to create relationships across the aisle. these are values that i think are they have been diminished. i think they come from john mccain s experience in the u.s. military. this week besides being about john mccain there were days i want to put up the president s thursday tweet storm because that was the one where you were like is this just more of the same from him or is there something big? it was a rat-a-tat tat. lester holt got caught fudging my tape on russia, fake books, collusion and people said is he acting rattled? or it just the walls are always closing in or it s trump. what is it? it s about keeping that energy up. all the time of people who are on his team to say never ever take your eye off the ball
it is a large area that they are searching. i feel that the rat a tat tat could have been anything. what any of us heard was the sense of mass panic and screams in a crowded area. diana, thank you so much. we will take a short break and look into new developments about what is being described in many ways of an incident there in oxford circus. a very popular part of downtown london. we ll be right back. [vo] quickbooks introduces rodney.