blocked an attempted rushing to strike and rejoin now from odessa by laurence sheets, a former n t r. moscow bureau chief and head of the consulting group, the ration international analytics, is cover the soviet union and russia for over 3 days and is now in the port city where he's been reporting on the military situation for the past 2 weeks. lawrence, thanks for joining us. what happened overnight at about 4 30 am local, which would be 3 30 am further in time. we were open to alert on our cell phones throw to desa as to a warranty, which usually means an imminent strike of some sort. at 6 am precisely, there were enormous explosions. obviously large caliber rockets, landing in the port area of the city about one kilometer from the port i can see black smoke emitting from the port. the target appeared to be fuel depos and other places within the port, which is heavily fortified from the outside and blockaded from the outside by the russian forces no accounts as casualties. but this is the 1st direct attack on the city over death itself. so the 1st attack, how people been reacting well, predictabl