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Facilities, no resources, no food, no medicine. how do these people live and survive? >> well, at the moment i think their very survival, brooke, is hanging in the balance because what we're seeing now is rockets essentially raining down on aleppo, on that small part of eastern aleppo that is still under rebel-held control and as you said it's an estimated 50,000 people inside that area, it's difficult to know, frankly, it doesn't matter exactly how many there are. there are thousands of people. they don't have electricity. they don't v food. many of them are severely injured. by some reports ...

Neighborhoods? >> reporter: it's an awful situation for the civilians there in aleppo. you're absolutely right, this could be the final hours of the rebels having a foothold in aleppo. you know, even by the standards, the horrible standards, of the syrian civil war, the amount of firepower that was unleashed on aleppo the past couple of days was probably more intense than anything that we've seen in the past five years. of course, you have these civilians that were trapped there in the middle. and the only way for them to get out, wolf, was to go right through the front line. here's what we sa...

Aleppo. we know aleppo could fall at any moment. >> this desensitization to the suffering and the images that are coming out and i, as a journalist, do not know how to present the story any more. in a way that is going to make people care. because the most drastic of images are out there. children lying on a beach dead because they drowned. we have children shell shocked inside buildings. we have image upon image of suffering and devastation. what do we do as journalists at this point in history to make people care? >> and i don't know that it's desensitization, although i hear you, arwa it's ...

>> who won that? >> but we know that people watch the u.s. election like no other election around the world right now. what is the view of the united states right now? what is the view of the future? >> first of all, people are more interested in u.s. politics as the leader of the free world, the u.s. is always sort of the center of interest. particularly with this election i think it took on a whole new life. whether i was in aleppo with syrian rebels and whether i was in france or egypt or africa, everybody wanted to talk about this election. everybody wanted to talk about donald trump. beca...

That sunni muslims have that they are being oppressed backed by the russians and iranians, but also by the west. as long as you have that strong sense that sunni muslims feel they are oppressed and they feel they are marginalized you'll continue to see this pattern repeating it itself over and over again. another thing to consider that the caliphate is moving into a virtual territory right now. there is a virtual caliphate. >> you have been watching these people go from syria to greece to france to belgium and terrific reporting on that. nick, if we can, i want to turn to aleppo because i was ...