you know, i trusted farooq. i never would have gone off to meet people by myself, and i was more of a chicken than a lot of reporters over there. so i was safe while i was still able to cover the news. but definitely anytime anything happens to a journalist over there, we all communicate back and forth, and we're all checking in to see what's happening. it effects the entire community. there's a question here, and then we can go back over there. one second. >> i wondered if you could say a few words about being a female journalist in a conflict, postconflict environment. you know there are things that have happened in egypt, but in other things too. >> sure. >> did you have to take special precautions, and how did you deal with those difficult situations? >> a friend and i decided that we wanted to invent something, you know, that we could sort of put bebeneath our ca meese. never quite got around us, how it would shock the person pinching us and not ourselves. yeah, it was a constant problem. when you were in a