As I said, I am working here in Rome for the first German Television Network, ARD, as Technical Executive Director and SNG-Operator at the studio. And when there's been the earthquakes we where naturally obliged to go there at once and report the situation to the German public. It's been kind of an Easter, I can tell you... The situation is really bad. Never seen anything similar before! It's like walking into a warzone. Really bad, indeed.
It'll take them years to rebuild everything, if ever they are going to it at all. Rumors have it, that they wanted to tear down the whole place, and start from scratch somewhere else. But the city of L'Aquila has quite a symbolic meaning to the Italian people. So...