to competing. wolf? >> beyond the potential terror threats out there, we've heard some awful horror stories about hotels not being ready to handle the visitors. turn on the water and disgusting water comes out. what is going on at those hotels? >> reporter: i don't know if these are horror stories. this is kind of the conditions you experience when you travel around the developing world. what i'm surprised at is seeing it quite to this extent here in what is supposed to be an olympic city and we're experiencing this firsthand again and again, our cnn team. i experienced it firsthand again today. we've had a lot of trouble trying to get rooms that we had paid for long ahead of time that were booked. i was carrying around a key for three days to my room and returned from a trip to try to get into my room with my team, with their other two rooms and there were people staying there.