this is the first time that we're getting to see the devastation really close up. you see those faces of people trying to rush to get on those planes. what else did you hear and see while you were there? >> reporter: well, we were going in during that window that saudi arabian air force provided for us to come in and evacuate. we were going in and the only period of quiet that so many of those residents have every day and only time they know shelling and aerial bombardment will stop and yet the streets were completely empty as we were coming in. it felt like flying into the eye of the storm. we knew that there was so much chaos around us but you almost couldn't feel it because it was just like a no man's land. deserted. you come into the airport, an international airport, and there's one houthi military police car going around and around keeping an eye on the plane and watching to see that