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Calling through to the international desk to get the story on the air. and i was -- my cell phones were dead because the government cut those services off. i was trying to use the hotel phone, and then i realized i still had internet in my room so i could skype. so i was connecting here to atlanta through skype. got put through to the show, and then i think you were saying, well, let us hear what's going on and i think by that stage i'd opened my balcony doors, i'd taken my laptop on the balcony because it was wireless internet, so my computer was open and you could hear the noise of everythin...

Forces launched their first airstrikes against gadhafi, nic covered those moments live on this show. you were among the first, if not the first, to report on the airstrikes and to bring that to the american public. live. >> that's our job. i mean, i'd gone to bed and i heard the anti-aircraft gunfire start and the cameraman was in another room. >> who's your photographer again? >> haleil abdullah. >> he did a great job. >> he was incredible. he speaks arabic, he's got an excellent editorial head on his shoulders. a great guy, a great asset. he was in his room setting up, he heard this, he got ...