new york times" reporter ben hubbard joins me now via skype from gaziantep, turkey, with the latest on the conflict and the kidnappings. we have a couple of hundred people that are essentially missing right now. any word on what's happening to the women or children? isis has patterns of taking these people in the past. >> well, the picture is still very unclear. the town is very far away and we've had everybody watching this and just said the communications are completely gone with the towns. it's very hard to get good information. you have had a lot of people fleeing from the towns to other areas. there has been fighting in other communities that are somewhat nearby. but what we know is that there are somewhere around 200, 230 people that are just out of contact so this has raised a lot of worries with the syrian orthodox church and other conflict monitors. this is one of a town that has a substantial christian population. and nobody really knows what's happening with them. there were reports yesterday that some had been actually arrestd and detained and others were put under a form o