baba amr used to be home to one hundred thousand people now we're driving through area people have left military almost the only human beings left in this area this is you can see behind me the city cemetery almost untouched actually while the rest of the city looks completely like a cemetery buildings schools mosques all in ruins and no sign of life while many signs of this is one of the tallest buildings in the area and we can see from this balcony two completely different pictures two completely different realities look they're beautiful calm pictures peaceful city while over there well we can see war homes the opposition hotbed has always been at the heart of the uprising against president assad was a badge of baba amr if you could have been the epicenter of the clashes between the rebels and the army once it's been shelled heavily now so you can see it's quiet here but just steps away just meters away another district sometimes and this is where the things are happening right now it's standing behind these raised strange rice quite safe but from time to time missiles reach this are

was a badge of baba amr that is to have been the epicenter of the questions between the rebels and the army since it's been shelled heavily now so you can see it's quiet here but just steps away just meters away. sometime here and this is where the things are happening right now it's standing behind these rays strange phrase quite safe but from time to time missiles reach this area to this is why would hurry up. but with the bar and other homes the district as you can see also almost completely destroyed everything shops building schools even mosques we were told that this district was cleaned from turkey months ago but as you can hear not far from here question still continue so we were actually told not to go any further i just simply dangerous soldiers come to our location tell us the rebels woke up so when the. party homs syria. after a turbulent national election yesterday marred by violence and boycott vote counting is now underway in libya so far the country's liberal islamic coalition is claiming in overall lead contradicting predictions that hardline islamist parties would swe

was a badge of baba amr that is to have been the epicenter of the clashes between the rebels and the army once it's been shelled heavily now so you can see it's quiet here but just steps away just meters away another big. from crimea and this is where the things are happening right now it's standing behind these raised strange rice quite safe but from time to time missiles reach this area to this is why would a hurry up. but with the bar in other homes the district as you can see also most completely destroyed everything shops building schools even mosques we were told that this district was cleaned from turkey months ago but as you can hear not far from here questions still continue so we were actually told not to go any further as it simply dangerous. soldiers come to our location tell us the rebels walk up so we leave. just a fifteen minute drive takes us to use another which of homs the people here aren't taking their bags at least the wrong people you see the. very good and it's very serious if we leave it coming this is talking to this man at a coffee on the street full of peop

>> if you look at baba amr and what it looks like now it's hard to imagine anyone could have survived it's totally destroyed. the buildings are collapsed. the cliche is an earthquake zone. this looks much worse. if you're in that and trying to tell the story of human suffering in there. >> i actually helped get her out of -- it was indonesia when she got in trouble before. her family got in touch with me and i got in touch with people at the state department. i met her briefly in new york one time and she said thank you. this was systemic with her. >> i have known her for years. we were always running into places. the last time was with in libya. qaddafi was falling and nobody had power or water. we found a little hotel we managed to force open. we had plenty of food. word got out that nbc had set up a great safehouse with food, water. we were actually quite in a good position. then all these other reporters came with tin cups saying, hey, can can we have a little bit? she was one of them. >> shared. >> yes, we did. >> she was so optimistic. everyone says she would get into a place li