i don't know if my microphone is picking up on that artillery, but it is a steady stream of thuds that have been ongoing since we got here, john. >> constant shelling. and the scene, clarissa, i have to tell you, it's hard to make sense of it. it looks like an etch a sketch, everything twisted there. theme piece, where are they trying to go, and the people trying to help them in uniform, who are those people helping them in. >> reporter: so the people helping them are primarily the ukrainian military, and they're obviously wanting us to stay a little bit out of the way here because we don't want to obstruct in any way, shape, or form the passage, the safe passage of people. it does look like they're bringing somebody or something out in some kind of a stretcher here. it may be a body. we're not entirely sure. we want to be mindful and respectful and not show you anything that might be too