we also -- cnn has spoken to witnesses who heard gunfire. i spoke to an american yesterday who also heard gunfire. not clear what that gunfire was. yesterday it appeared that it was essentially trying to disperse the crowd because they were becoming so huge, it was getting too chaotic. and so they were trying to disperse the crowd. the u.s. has now sort of taken charge of the airport, they have laid out a new perimeter with razor wire to try to prevent ordinary people from flooding in on to the airfields. and then here on the streets of kabul, it is a completely different story. it is eerily different story. it is taliban on every single checkpoint. the minute you leave our com pound, taliban everywhere. they are jubilant, relaxed, smiling. they want to be talking on c camera even. i've never seen anything quite like it in my life and they are saying their primary task right now now is to protect the capital, to stop chaos, to stop