spoken to who were in that immediate area. now, this is a part of town where there's high security and this is a part of iraq erbil, where the kurds take security very seriously. and rarely are there such occurrences in erbil itself. fortunately it was fry.iday. that's the day when the u.s. consulate is closed. of course all u.s. diplomatic personnel actually live in the consular compound there. but we understand from cnn's jim sciutto who has been speaking with officials in washington that they're all u.s. personnel at the consulate are safe and accounted for. wolf? >> there are hundreds of americans there in erbil. there are diplomats, military personnel, private u.s. citizens. this is the regional headquarters of kurdistan. >> yes. it's very -- it's basically the capital of kurdistan and