monitoring the aftermath from the situation room alongside the defense secretary and joint chief chairman. cnn is deployed at the moment. we want to start with sam kylie in qatar just outside the gate a day ago at the airport. sam, let's talk about the latest on this. what is the latest you're hearing? >> well, anderson, as you say, it's been a complex attack. two explosions. one on the abbey gate or close to the abbey gate on a road that is bounded on both sides by blast walls and at some stages of it, a sewage canal. it's not clear whether the bomb or device was on the canal or inside that concentrated area. and then the second blast just outside they're saying the baron hotel. it had until recently been the central operations space for british troops based there. that was a clearing area for