matt, i know you have moved around as i understand the situation is changing by the hour. tell me what you have seen today and tonight. >> reporter: yeah, well, actually, nicole, we started the day up north in northeast in kharkiv, the second largest city in ukraine, a russian speaking majority city. we started and i was going on msnbc this morning, midnight your time, telling ayman mohyeldin how quiet and tranquil everything was, how the streets were empty, and then as i was talking, we heard very, very close bombardment, and it was really stunning, just really rapid succession bombardment that we later learned were these sort of grad style rockets, one of which landed straight into one of the streets not so far away from the center of this huge city. and then after that, we started hearing sort of the rat a tat response of these anti-aircraft weapons. so we threw on our gear and