Welcome to Home of the Brave. I'm Scott Carrier and I'm in Beirut, Lebanon. I just got here.

Now I'm at my hotel in the Hamra neighborhood of Northern Beirut. Pretty close to the beach, sort of in between American University and the beach.

It's a neighborhood that is,

has been relatively safe from being bombed.

So far there haven't been any bombs dropped on this neighborhood.

And it's a fairly liberal part of town.

And it's about, I don't know, I'm guessing it's about 9 o'clock at night here.

People are on the streets, there's a lot of cafes on the streets. There's still a lot of people out eating and drinking coffee.

I'm a little tired from, it was an 18 hour trip from Salt Lake City to here.

Beirut, so far what I've seen driving him from the airport.

It's crowded, it's cramped.

The streets are kind of narrow.

And I asked a taxi cab driver

if he feels safe from the bombing,

and he said yes, because they don't bomb here in this neighborhood.

He was a Shiite Muslim who lives in the Dahlia neighborhood,

which is the neighborhood that they've,

Israeli's been bombing quite heavily.

He said he works at night, he works all night,

and then goes home to his house

in the daia neighborhood in the morning. So far I got in at the airport

without a visa, you get a visa at the airport, I told the guy guy the customs guy that I was a journalist and I gave

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