like you're seeing. what is happening? >> reporter: nicole, let me put it in terms that your viewers will immediately recognize. what i saw today was the second day of turkey's shock and awe campaign. i saw turkish artillery and planes bombarding the syrian kurdish areas just on the other side of the border. you know, we can wring our hands about how president trump has let down the kurds, america's allies, but the genie is out of the bottle. this now has a momentum. we did see some pushback from the kurds, mortars being fired. they did kill some people here on the turkish side. and actually, one mortar threw right over us, right over our team's head and landed in a field close by, which is a point of which we decided to move away from that place. but that is not the kind of retaliation that is, i think, going to have a huge impact. mortars aren't much against turkish f-16s. and to continue the analogy, i