to talk more about the crisis let's bring in anna therese day who just returned from syria.ing us from norman oklahoma. great can i to have you with us. >> thank you. >> great to be here. >> ms. day you said syria for me everything, you said it's the most important story now. what was it that the world did not grasp at that moment? >> i guess i would move back to 2012 when i began covering the crisis and really, i started the first time i went to aleppo was with university students. they had picked up arms after their school had been bombed, after their nonviolent protest for the right to vote in their country had been met with bloodshed throughout the country. so that's the syrian revolution that i witnessed early on and to see how it has deteriorated in a very terrifying but also predictable way. i would say it has been predictable to see how it has gone out of control. >> did you realize that this would be such a significant humanitarian crisis? >> i couldn't have ever imagined how the international community would have allowed it to get to this point. one little anecdote