Following up on Fox News Channel's Shep Smith and Jennifer Griffin providing analysis from the floor during a "Studio B" segment that abruptly began with both of them hitting the deck due to incoming Katyusha rockets nearby, check out part of the transcript, that really gives you an idea of what it's like for reporters in the war zone right now:
SMITH: Back, live now. And we have incoming at this moment. Bring the microphone down to bring Jennifer Griffin over here with us. We’re at a broadcast facility and now the air raid sirens have just gone off.
GRIFFIN: They’re calling everyone to go into a shelter right now, Shep. We were just down in Kiryat Shmona, and what’s interesting is that tonight of all nights, there were more people on the street tonight. We saw people up in their windows, they clearly were not in the shelters. And now, you hear, this is the PA system that they broadcast when there is incoming, and as you just saw, there were at least three Katyushas fired into this area.
SMITH: Before you got up here, Jennifer, and before our commercial break, we actually watched three or four different ones land three or four hundred yards from that direction and explode. But they didn’t land on any buildings. They just landed in a field, which is often the case, and then you don’t even know about them, unless you see and hear them....
GRIFFIN: ...They call this place Kiryat Katyusha because so many Katyusha over the years have fallen here. The population here does get a little blasé about this at times. But when I saw your cameraman falling to the ground, that’s when I hit the ground because we knew it was serious.
SMITH: This particular cameraman, the one who’s lived here all his life, and been in the army and understands all of this better than we ever will and doesn’t get rattled by, well, anything, as far as I’ve been able to tell. This one had him hitting the deck. The thing about these Katyushas is they don’t do a lot of damage over a wide area. They make a hole in the ceiling, and they cause great damage within 10-15 feet. If you’re within 10-15 feet, then you’re in big trouble, as two people were killed down the road.
GRIFFIN: It almost feels, Shep, like you’re on a dartboard, and you sort of feel you have this little bit of security. You feel like it’s like getting struck by lightning. It’s not going to happen to you, but as we’ve seen, there have been more wounded and more killed in this area than Israel has seen for a long, long time.
SMITH: We haven't had any more incoming recently. We heard the sirens go off only for a short period of time and then over a public address system throughout town. Their warning systems are such that they're able to broadcast to people in their houses.
GRIFFIN: That's right. And people listen for those cues. And these communities, again, are used to this. But I think there's another interesting development we should talk about tonight. And first of all, you've seen these brazen rocket attacks into Israel. But Israel is now saying they struck a truck carrying Zilzao-2 missiles -- get down.
SMITH: We're using a very unidirectional, omnidirectional mike... so you may not hear the explosions, but they're nearby. At any rate, Jennifer, go ahead...
