and joining us from turkey this morning, ben as usual is off camera seeing these pictures get throughyou very much for what you're doing, clarissa, and welcome back to the world here. where there times when you thought you might not get out of there? >> certainly there were many times when we had very serious concerns about how we would be able to get out not just out of the country but out of the city where we were. it's been one of the hot beds of the resistance since this uprising began nearly a year ago. while we were there, we saw tanks coming in and around the city making it very difficult to move in and out. but then beyond that, of course, you have to actually cross the border from syria into turkey. it is a pretty dangerous endeavor. it's also physically very demanding. it had been raining a lot the week before we made our exit. which meant that the terrain was incredibly muddy. we were literally wading through canals in the dead of night. so certainly it was a very difficult exercise. >> schieffer: you were with these rebels. how long do you think they can keep this up? >> i