i have cnn's ivan watson and jim clancy joining me. ivan, i want to begin with you in istanbul. i'll get to you, jim, i know you definitely knew marie very well. ivan, you met her a few times. you were also just recently in syria, days ago in syria. what did you see? tell me about the shelling. >> i was in a different part of the country that wasn't being pummelled the way that the city of homs is under such fierce bombardment. we were hearing periodic clashes and hearing heavy arms, and there were periodic bombardments of villages in the area. very intense, according to our sources in iblib province in the last few hours. certainly much more terrifying the scenes we've seen in homs where, according to marie colvin herself, in her last interview with anderson cooper last night, she said, every house in her neighborhood in homs had been damaged by artillery. and if you consider the amount of civilians living in that densely populated community, it's just terrifying what's been taking place there. >> yeah, she's covered many, many complicates around the wor -- conflicts around the

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