friends and colleagues and family around the world, as i'm sure you can imagine. >> absolutely. it must be such a shock because didn't you just receive an e-mail from him yesterday about where they were moving, what their positions were in libya? >> yeah. i was in libya with chris and tim just a little over a week ago. and chris and i have maintained e-mail contact every day since then. in fact, yesterday morning he sent me an e-mail from misrata basically saying that everything was fine and stable and he was enjoying his assignment and getting some photographs and certainly giving no indication of any danger or threat to his safety. it was quite a shock shortly thereafter to receive the news. >> i imagine it is. and especially trying to sort of piece together the details. what do you know about what happened? >> you know, all i know really is what has been published.